Following the “unlawful strikes” carried out during Israel’s lethal assault on the Gaza Strip in August, Amnesty International urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) to look into potential war crimes.
According to a recent report from Amnesty International that looks into three individual assaults on civilians, Israeli forces “boasted” of the accuracy of their attacks on Gaza in August.
A four-year-old boy, a teenager who was visiting his mother’s grave, and a fine arts student who was murdered by Israeli tank fire while at home having tea with her mother were among the casualties of Israel’s allegedly “precise” attacks, according to Amnesty International.
An attack that claimed the lives of seven Palestinian civilians and looked to have been caused by an unguided rocket that was most likely launched by Palestinian armed organisations was also under investigation, the organisation added.
The secretary-general of Amnesty International, Agnès Callamard, stated in a statement that was included with the study that although Israel’s most recent onslaught on Gaza lasted only three days, it had enough time to inflict new misery and destruction on the population under siege.
All victims of unlawful assaults and their families deserve justice and recompense, she added. “The three terrible incidents we analysed must be investigated as war crimes,” she said.
The assault by Israeli forces in August was merely the most recent instance of the country’s indiscriminate use of force against Gaza’s “controlled, oppressed, and separated” population, which had endured years of unjustified embargo, Callamard continued.
“The ICC should include the crime against humanity of apartheid within its present inquiry in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, along with looking into war crimes committed in Gaza,” she said.
According to the Palestinian health ministry, Israeli troops have murdered at least 160 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip since the beginning of this year, including 51 Palestinians during Israel’s three-day assault on Gaza in August.
According to the United Nations, 49 Palestinians were murdered during the three-day conflict in the Gaza Strip, including 31 civilians, according to a new study from Amnesty International.
