According to the former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC for short), the Hamas massacre on October 7, 2023 was genocide.
“What Hamas did was genocide because Hamas intends to destroy the Israelis,” Luis Moreno Ocampo emphasized in an interview with APA. Conversely, Moreno Ocampo also assumes that Israel committed war crimes in response to the massacres. In this context he refers to a report by his successor at the ICC, Karim Ahmad Khan.
It mentions the siege of Gaza, the bombing of hospitals and mosques in the Gaza Strip and also attacks by Israeli forces in the West Bank. The violence coming from militant Jewish settlers in the West Bank is “also extremely bad,” says Moreno Ocampo.
“You cannot fight terrorism with war”
Moreno Ocampo deduces from history and also from the recent war in the Middle East: “You cannot fight terrorism with wars. This is going wrong.” For every terrorist killed, there would be ten new ones: the family and friends of the murdered person. In this context, Moreno Ocampo points to the origins and personal history of Hamas leaders, from which this pattern can be deduced.
Terrorism is a crime and not a war. Whenever terrorism was met with war, the war was always lost. “They only produce their own enemies,” said Moreno Ocampo. As examples he mentions the French war in Algeria (1954 to 1962) or the American ‘war on terror’ in Afghanistan (2001 to 2021). “We didn’t learn anything from it.”
Source: Krone
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