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When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi
figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da
qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so
called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali.
Al Jazeera - Dec 6 2024
<<Who accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza?
Amnesty International says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. They
aren't the only ones reaching this assessment.
On December 5, Amnesty International declared that Israel is committing
the crime of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
Genocide is criminalised under the Genocide Convention, which Israel
ratified in 1950, a year after it was recognised as a state by the
United Nations. "[T]here is sufficient evidence to believe that Israel's
conduct in Gaza following 7 October 2023 amounts to genocide," Amnesty
stated in its report. Amnesty is not the first organisation to conclude
Israel is committing genocide - here are other organisations who have
made the same assessment.
What made Amnesty's mind up?
Genocide, by definition, constitutes five specific acts. Amnesty
International has found that Israel is committing three of them:
Killing members of a group.
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to individuals from that group.
Deliberately bringing about conditions of life that aim to physically
destroy a group in whole or in part.
Amnesty has specifically condemned Israel for using starvation as a
method of war - act 3 above.
As the occupying power, Israel has a legal obligation to supply the
population in Gaza with all basic provisions and necessities.
But since Israel began its war on Gaza on October 7, 2023 - following a
Hamas-led attack on Israel earlier that day - it has cut off water, fuel
and nearly all humanitarian aid from reaching civilians in Gaza.
Palestinian civil societyIn a damning statement one month after Israel
began its offensive on Gaza, al-Haq, the Palestinian Center for Human
Rights and Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights said Israel intended to wipe
out the Palestinian people "in whole or in part". They sounded the alarm
over the "clear risk of genocide" Palestinians faced in Gaza, focusing
on the dehumanising rhetoric by Israeli officials. These included the
words of then-Defence Minister Yoav Gallant - wanted by the
International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity - who referred
to Palestinians as <human animals>. Israeli President Isaac Herzog also
declared: <There are no innocent civilians in Gaza.>
Center for Constitutional Rights (US)
The CCR is a United States-based legal advocacy fighting for civil
rights since 1966 that has also said Israel is committing genocide in
Gaza.
On October 18, 2023, CCR released a legal analysis on Israel’s
violations of the Genocide Convention and also criticised the US
administration.
The US government has supplied about 69 percent of the weapons Israel
uses to assault Gaza – including large, non-precision bombs that inflict
disproportionate suffering on civilians - fighter jets, and other
artillery. "[T]here is a plausible and credible case to be made that the
United States’ actions to further the Israeli military operation,
closure, and campaign against the Palestinian population in Gaza rise to
the level of complicity," the CCR said in a statement.
UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories
Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the
situation in Palestine, has concluded that Israel is committing genocide
against Palestinians in Gaza. In her March report entitled, Anatomy of a
Genocide, she also found Israel was committing three of the five acts of
genocide.
She noted that beyond denying life-saving aid and food to Palestinians,
Israel was also bringing about the destruction of the people through
systematically destroying hospitals and farmland. "Israel's genocide of
Palestinians in Gaza is an escalatory stage of a long-standing settler
colonial process of erasure," Albanese said.
International Court of Justice
The UN's World Court ruled on January 26 that Palestinians were "at risk
of" genocide. This was a case South Africa raised against Israel for
committing genocide and remains ongoing, as the former continues to
raise requests with the court in an effort to get Israel to end its war
on Gaza.
The hearings in January saw the court issue a binding order for Israel
to stop acts of genocide by scaling up humanitarian aid. Israel is
obligated to report back to the court on a monthly basis to demonstrate
how it has complied with the orders - an ongoing assessment which could
take years.
Until now, Israel has defied the court's orders and has instead killed
relief workers and civil servants in Gaza who are indispensable in
distributing humanitarian relief. Israeli officials have attempted to
smear the court as <anti-Semitic> and claimed South Africa was
<providing legal cover for Hamas>.
What countries accuse Israel of genocide?
So far, 14 countries have joined or signalled their intention to join
South Africa’s genocide case against Israel in the World Court. They
include Belgium, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Egypt, Ireland, Spain,
Libya, Maldives, Mexico, Nicaragua and Turkiye. In addition, Qatar's
Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani accused Israel of committing a
"collective genocide" in Gaza.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/6/who-accuses-israel-of-committing-genocide-in-gaza
Al Jazeera - December 5, 2024 - By Alastair
McCready
<<Amnesty International accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza
A damning new report by the rights group finds Israel's war on Gaza
meets legal threshold for genocide against the Palestinian people.
Human rights group Amnesty International has concluded that Israel’s war
on Gaza meets the legal threshold for genocide in a damning new report.
The report published on Thursday, titled, "You Feel Like You Are
Subhuman": Israel's Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza, is the
culmination of months of research by Amnesty, including extensive
witness interviews, analysis of "visual and digital evidence", including
satellite imagery, and statements made by senior Israeli government and
military officials. Amnesty said the Israeli military has committed at
least three of the five acts banned by the 1948 Genocide Convention,
including indiscriminate killings of civilians, causing serious bodily
or mental harm, and "deliberately inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza
conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction".
"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," said Agnes Callamard,
secretary-general of Amnesty International. "Our research reveals that,
for months, Israel has persisted in committing genocidal acts, fully
aware of the irreparable harm it was inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza,"
Callamard said. "It continued to do so in defiance of countless warnings
about the catastrophic humanitarian situation and of legally binding
decisions from the International Court of Justice [ICJ] ordering Israel
to take immediate measures to enable the provision of humanitarian
assistance to civilians in Gaza," she said. "Our damning findings must
serve as a wake-up call to the international community: this is
genocide. It must stop now," she added. Callamard said that taking into
"account the pre-existing context of dispossession, apartheid and
unlawful military occupation" in which the Israeli military's crimes
against the civilian population of Gaza have been committed, "we could
find only one reasonable conclusion: Israel's intent is the physical
destruction of Palestinians in Gaza". Israel dismissed the Amnesty
International report as <entirely false> on Thursday. <The deplorable
and fanatical organisation Amnesty International has once again produced
a fabricated report that is entirely false and based on lies,> Israel’s
foreign ministry said in a statement.
'Seismic, shameful failure'
The Israeli military's argument that it is lawfully targeting Hamas and
other fighters who are located among the civilian population of Gaza -
and that it is not deliberately targeting the Palestinian people - does
not stand up to scrutiny, Amnesty said. "The presence of Hamas fighters
near or within a densely populated area does not absolve Israel from its
obligations to take all feasible precautions to spare civilians and
avoid indiscriminate or disproportionate attacks," the rights group said.
"Regardless of whether Israel sees the destruction of Palestinians as
instrumental to destroying Hamas or as an acceptable by-product of this
goal, this view of Palestinians as disposable and not worthy of
consideration is in itself evidence of genocidal intent," it said.
Amnesty also said that it found “no evidence” that the reported
diversion of humanitarian aid by armed groups in Gaza "could explain
Israel's extreme and deliberate restrictions on life-saving humanitarian
aid" to the civilian population of the war-torn territory. Officials in
Israel have consistently rejected allegations of committing genocide in
Gaza, claiming they are acting in self-defence following the Hamas-led
October 7 attacks and that criticising their war is anti-Semitic. The
Amnesty report, however, also states that the crimes documented in Gaza
were often "preceded by officials urging their implementation". More
than 100 statements by Israeli military and government officials were
reviewed in the report that "dehumanised Palestinians, called for or
justified genocidal acts or other crimes against them". Of those
statements, 22 were made by senior officials in charge of managing the
war on Gaza and <appeared to call for, or justify, genocidal acts,
providing direct evidence of genocidal intent>. This language was
frequently replicated, including by Israeli soldiers on the ground" who
made calls to <erase> Gaza and celebrated "the destruction of
Palestinian homes, mosques, schools and universities", Amnesty said.
Amnesty's Callamard said the international community was also guilty of
a "seismic, shameful failure" in Gaza by failing to "press Israel to end
its atrocities". By delaying calls for a ceasefire in Gaza and
continuing to send weapons to Israel, the international community's
failure "will remain a stain on our collective conscience", Callamard
said. "Governments must stop pretending they are powerless to end this
genocide, which was enabled by decades of impunity for Israel's
violations of international law," she said. "States need to move beyond
mere expressions of regret or dismay and take strong and sustained
international action, however uncomfortable a finding of genocide may be
for some of Israel's allies." >>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/5/amnesty-international-accuses-israel-of-committing-genocide-in-gaza
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