Israel Dismisses Amnesty International’s Accusations of ‘Live-Streamed Genocide’ in Gaza as ‘Baseless Lies’
Gaza (Quds News Network)- Israel rejected on Tuesday accusations from human rights group Amnesty International that it is carrying out a “live-streamed genocide” against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, dismissing the report as “baseless lies.”
“The radical anti-Israel organisation Amnesty has once again chosen to publish baseless lies against Israel,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement to AFP, arguing that Israel is “fighting to defend itself against Hamas.”
Israeli forces in Gaza have violated the United Nations Genocide Convention with acts that include “causing serious bodily or mental harm to civilians” and “deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction”, the rights group said in its annual report issued on Monday.
Israel has repeatedly “denied, obstructed and failed to allow and facilitate” humanitarian access to Gaza, and invaded the southern city of Rafah, despite warnings by the international community and the International Court of Justice about the “devastating effect it would have on the civilian population”, it said.
Israeli air strikes have also frequently hit civilians who were following evacuation orders, while its forces continued to “arbitrarily detain and, in some cases, forcibly disappear Palestinians”, the human rights group said.
“Since 7 October 2023.. the world has been made audience to a live-streamed genocide,” Amnesty’s secretary-general, Agnes Callamard, said in the 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.”
Israel and “its powerful allies, first among them the USA, claimed that or acted as if international law did not apply to them”, Callamard said.
More than 52,300 people—most of them women and children—have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza since October 7, 2023, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
