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Amnesty International accuses Israel of war crimes during recent Gaza war

Given the incidents already widely previously reported by various sources it is hardly surprising that Amnesty International has now found that Israel committed war crimes in its actions in Gaza during the recent war.    Reflect on this too.   Israel criticises Amnesty for not having evidence to support its allegations - BUT, then again, Israel Amnesty denied access to Gaza.  

"Amnesty International has accused the Israeli military of committing war crimes over the summer in its attack on Gaza, noting eight instances in which the army targeted houses full of families without warning.

In its report published Wednesday, Amnesty also called on Israeli and Palestinian officials to give the International Criminal Court (ICC) authority to investigate crimes committed in occupied territories.

The report, Families Under the Rubble: Israeli Attacks on Inhabited Homes,  charges Israeli forces with "callous indifference" to human life for carrying out a series of attacks with large aerial bombs to demolish residential homes without taking necessary precautions to avoid excessive harm to civilians and property, sometimes killing entire families. Those bombings resulted in the deaths of at least 104 civilians, including 62 children—deaths which could have been prevented if the Israeli military had given prior warning to the residents of those homes, Amnesty says.

In one case outlined in the report, Amnesty found that the Israeli army failed to identify a military target before bombing a residential building, which means that it may have "directly and deliberately targeted civilians or civilian objects, which would constitute war crimes."

"Israeli forces have brazenly flouted the laws of war by carrying out a series of attacks on civilian homes, displaying callous indifference to the carnage caused," said Philip Luther, director of Amnesty’s Middle East and North Africa Program."


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