Amnesty International joined a growing chorus of human rights experts who say Israel is carrying out a genocide in Gaza. The group called on states and arms suppliers of Israel to "bring Israel’s atrocities...to an immediate end.”
Leading international human rights organization Amnesty International has concluded, in a report it released on Wednesday, that Israel was responsible for acts of genocide against the Palestinian people in the Gaza strip.
The group said that it had been analyzing events and statements by Israeli officials for months, concluding that the legal threshold for the crime of genocide has been met. It is the first time that Amnesty has reached such a conclusion during an ongoing conflict.
Amnesty’s chief Agnes Callamard said in a statement on Wednesday that “month after month, Israel has treated Palestinians in Gaza as a subhuman group unworthy of human rights and dignity, demonstrating its intent to physically destroy them,” adding that “Our damning findings must serve as a wake-up call to the international community: this is genocide. It must stop now.”
The report comes more than a year after Israel launched its assault on the Gaza Strip following the Hamas-led October 7 attacks. At the time of the report’s release, the death toll in Gaza had surpassed 44,500, including 60% women, children and elderly, according to the Palestinian health ministry. (more...)
Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says
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