The Khamis Ghaban family, who fled Israeli attacks and took refuge in the Legislative Council building that was destroyed in Israeli attacks due to lack of shelter, struggle to survive under difficult conditions in Gaza City.Mahmoud Issa/AP
In a nearly 300-page report released on Thursday, Amnesty International concluded that Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute genocide.
“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,” Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International, said in a statement. She stressed: “Our damning findings must serve as a wake-up call to the international community: this is genocide. It must stop now.”
Amnesty is repeating its call for the UN Security Council to impose a “comprehensive arms embargo” on Israel and Hamas. It is also supporting targeted sanctions such as freezing the assets of the Israeli officials most implicated in the genocide.
Amnesty’s report, which focused on the period between October 2023 and July 2024, comes as South Africa pursues genocide charges against Israel at the International Court of Justice. The ICJ has deemed South Africa’s case to be plausible and has issued a series of legally binding provisional measures that Israel has largely ignored. The International Criminal Court has also issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant for crimes against humanity and the use of starvation as a weapon of........