The NGO’s general secretary, Agnès Callamard, has stressed that these “damning” conclusions should be “a wake-up call to the international community.”
An Amnesty International report finds that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians as part of its offensive against the Gaza Strip. As documented in this report, the Palestinian population is ‘deliberately’ subjected to conditions designed to cause ‘their destruction’.
The general secretary of the NGO, Agnes Callamardhas stated that the report, titled ‘It’s as if we are inhuman beings’: Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian population of Gaza’“demonstrates that Israel has carried out acts prohibited by the Genocide Convention, with the specific intent to destroy the Palestinian population of Gaza.”
For example, it specified that these included “killing members of the Palestinian population of Gaza, causing serious harm to their physical or mental integrity” and “intentionally subjecting them to conditions of existence that would lead to their physical destruction.”
“Month after month, Israel has treated the Palestinian population of Gaza as an inhuman group undeserving of human rights or dignity.demonstrating their intention to cause their physical destruction,” said Callamard, who stressed that these “devastating” conclusions should be “a wake-up call to the international community.”
In this sense, he has said that “what is happening is genocide.” ‘We have to end it now’he insisted, warning that “the states do that continue transferring weapons to Israel At this point, they must know that they are failing in their obligation to prevent genocide and risk being complicit in it.
‘Our research shows that Israel continues for months committing genocidal acts, fully aware of the irreparable damage that was done to the Palestinian population of Gaza,” said Callamard, who insisted that Israel is carrying out these acts “despite countless warnings about the catastrophic humanitarian situation.”
Similarly, Amnesty International’s general secretary has explained that it is also doing this ‘against the legally binding rulings of the International Court of Justice (ICJ)ordering Israel to take immediate measures to enable the delivery of humanitarian assistance to the civilian population of Gaza.
For its part, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) said in a statement that “the report published by Amnesty International, which confirms that the enemy is deliberately committing genocide against the Palestinians, sends a new message to the international community, including the United Nations and its institutions, on the need to take action to stop the genocide and overcome this shameful inaction.
For example, he emphasized that the NGO also pointed out “the participation of the United States and other countries in the genocide” and emphasized that “it is a confirmation” of Hamas’s complaints. For this reason, he has asked these countries to “immediately review their biased policies in favor of war criminals,” according to the Filastin newspaper.
Hamas’ response comes hours after the Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Oren Mamorsteincalled the NGO “deplorable and fanatical”, and assured that the report is “totally false and based on lies”.
Source: EITB
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