- Amnesty International has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to look into possible war crimes committed by Israeli forces.
- A four-year-old boy, a fine arts student and a teenager were among the casualties of Israel’s attacks on Gaza in August.
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 organizations was also under investigation, the organization 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 analyzed 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.
On August 5, Israel conducted airstrikes against the Islamic Jihad organisation in what it claimed were preventative measures. This started the war.
Amnesty International claimed to have pieced together the details of three distinct attacks, two of which were carried out by Israeli forces and one most likely by Palestinian armed groups, using images of weapon fragments, satellite imaging analysis, and testimony from dozens of interviewees.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has begun an investigation into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which is anticipated to include a focus on potential war crimes during the 2014 battle in Gaza. Although Israel is not a member of the ICC and contests its jurisdiction, the Palestinian Authority supports the investigation.
The family of Shireen Abu Akleh, an Al Jazeera journalist, filed a formal case with the ICC last month to seek justice for her passing.
As the “voice of Palestine,” Abu Akleh worked for Al Jazeera for 25 years. On May 11, she was killed by an Israeli bullet to the head while covering an army operation in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.
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