Amnesty International: Israel Carrying Out ‘Live-Streamed Genocide’ in Gaza
The rights organization says Israel is committing
genocide by 'inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about
Palestinians' physical destruction'
by Dave DeCamp April 29, 2025
Amnesty International said in its annual human rights
report that Israel
is carrying out a “live-streamed genocide” as the world looks on.
“Since 7 October 2023 – when Hamas perpetrated
horrific crimes against Israeli citizens and others and captured more than 250
hostages – the world has been made audience to a live-streamed genocide,”
Amnesty Secretary-General Agnes Callamard said in an introduction to the report.
“States watched on as if powerless, as Israel killed
thousands upon thousands of Palestinians, wiping out entire multigenerational
families, destroying homes, livelihoods, hospitals, and schools,” Callamard
added.
The report said that Israel was committing the crime
of genocide by “killing Palestinian civilians, causing serious bodily or mental
harm, and deliberately inciting conditions of life calculated to bring about
Palestinians’ physical destruction by causing mass forced displacement,
obstructing or denying lifesaving aid, and by damaging or destroying
life-sustaining infrastructure.”
Amnesty first concluded Israel was committing genocide in Gaza in a
report published in December 2024. The US has rejected the conclusion and has opposed the genocide case against Israel
at the International Court of Justice since US officials are implicated due to
US military aid and other types of support for Israel.
The new Amnesty report criticized some aspects of the
domestic situation in the US and the US government’s support for Israel. “The
continued supply of munitions to Israel violated US laws and policies regarding
the transfer and sale of arms, intended to prevent arms transfers that risk
contributing to civilian harm and violations of human rights or international
humanitarian law,” Amnesty said.
Amnesty said that it had identified US-made bombs used
in “unlawful deadly airstrikes by the Israeli military on residential homes and
a makeshift camp for displaced people in the occupied Gaza Strip.”
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