One of the world’s most prominent human rights groups concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza in a bombshell report released Thursday.

In a 296-page investigation, Amnesty International found that the breadth of Israel’s military assault on Gaza — including mass civilian killings, forced displacement, the blocking of humanitarian aid, and many other alleged violations of the Genocide Convention — combined with Israeli officials’ clear intent to destroy Gaza means that their campaign amounts to genocide.

Amnesty is the first major international human rights organization to formally label Israel’s assault a genocide. Numerous UN agencies and groups have also found evidence that Israel is committing genocide.

The sprawling report details some of the most inhumane parts of Israel’s assault and invasion up until the end of November, highlighting the “unprecedented magnitude” of Israel’s military incursions and starvation campaign, as well as dozens of statements by Israeli officials and soldiers indicating their intent to wipe out Gaza.

The report cites numerous Israeli massacres investigated by Amnesty that targeted civilian structures in densely populated areas, including 15 attacks between October 2023 and April 2024 that killed 334 people, 141 of whom were children. It also points to statements by Israeli officials, like when President Isaac Herzog claimed that there were no Palestinian civilians who were “not involved” in the attack on October 7, 2023.

The human rights group found Israel guilty of three of five acts prohibited in the Genocide Convention, including killing members of the group, causing physical or mental harm to members of the group, and deliberately inflicting conditions of life........

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