Amnesty Intl accuses ‘Israel’ of ‘live-streamed genocide’ in Gaza

Amnesty International on Tuesday accused “Israel” of committing a “live-streamed genocide” against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, citing the forced displacement of the majority of the population and the deliberate creation of a humanitarian catastrophe.

In its annual report, Amnesty charged that “Israel” acted with “specific intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza, thus committing genocide”.

The Israeli entity has rejected accusations of genocide from Amnesty, other rights organizations, and various states regarding its war on Gaza.

“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,” Amnesty’s Secretary General Agnes Callamard said in the introduction to the report.

Gaza faces an unprecedented humanitarian Catastrophe
Gaza’s Civil Defense agency reported early Tuesday that four people were killed and others injured in an Israeli air strike targeting forcibly displaced persons’ tents near the al-Iqleem area in Southern Gaza.
The agency had earlier warned that severe fuel shortages had forced the suspension of eight out of 12 emergency vehicles, including ambulances, in southern Gaza. The fuel crisis “threatens the lives of hundreds of thousands of citizens and displaced persons in shelter centres,” the agency said in a statement.

Amnesty International’s report detailed how the Israeli occupation’s war has left most Palestinians in Gaza “displaced, homeless, hungry, at risk of life-threatening diseases and unable to access medical care, power or clean water.”

Throughout 2024, Amnesty documented “multiple war crimes by Israel, including direct attacks on civilians and civilian objects, and indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks.” The organization reported that “Israel” forcibly displaced approximately 1.9 million Palestinians, around 90 percent of Gaza’s population, and “deliberately engineered an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe”.

Israeli occupation’s escalating violence in the West Bank
Amnesty also highlighted the deteriorating situation in the occupied Palestinian territory of the West Bank, accusing “Israel” of implementing an increasingly violent system of apartheid.

“Israel’s system of apartheid became increasingly violent in the occupied West Bank, marked by a sharp increase in unlawful killings and state-backed attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinian civilians,” the report stated.

Despite widespread protests in Western capitals, Amnesty criticized the global community for its failure to act. “The world’s governments individually and multilaterally failed repeatedly to take meaningful action to end the atrocities and were slow even in calling for a ceasefire,” the report noted.

Heba Morayef, Amnesty’s Director for the Middle East and North Africa region, condemned “the extreme levels of suffering that Palestinians in Gaza have been forced to endure on a daily basis over the past year,” along with “the world’s complete inability or lack of political will to put a stop to it.”

Amnesty International’s Gaza report starkly documents the devastating humanitarian toll of the Israeli occupation’s actions and calls for urgent accountability and international intervention.