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Between 10 and 70 massacres occurred during the 1948 war. [22] [23] According to Benny Morris the Yishuv (or later Israeli) soldiers killed roughly 800 Arab civilians and prisoners of war in 24 massacres. [22] Aryeh Yizthaki lists 10 major massacres with more than 50 victims each. [24] Palestinian researcher Salman Abu-Sitta lists 33 massacres ...
South Africa's ICJ casealleging Israel's violation of the Genocide Conventionin Gaza, the Hague, 12 January 2024. Israel has been accused of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza during the war. The Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallantdeclared on 9 October: "we are fighting human animals".
In the context of Israel and Palestine, the ICC has begun the early stages of war crimes prosecution — establishing jurisdiction and opening an investigation — but experts agree that what ...
Bensouda also found "a reasonable basis to believe that members of Hamas and Palestinian armed groups" are guilty of war crimes, but these groups have no mechanism for punishing such violations. [2] Israel is accused of illegally establishing West Bank settlements and violating the laws of war during the 2014 Gaza War , including claims of ...
Conflict between Israel and Palestinian forces since militant group Hamas' weekend assault have created a huge and rising death toll on both sides. Internationally accepted rules of armed conflict ...
The State of Israel has been accused of genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip during the Israel–Hamas war. Various scholars, and the United Nations Special Rapporteurs Francesca Albanese, have cited statements by senior Israeli officials that they argue demonstrate an "intent to destroy" the population of Gaza, a necessary condition for the legal threshold of genocide to be met.
The death penalty was retained for war crimes, crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people, treason and certain crimes under military law during wartime. In 1962, the second execution—and the only civil execution—in Israel took place when Adolf Eichmann was hanged after being convicted in 1961 of participation in Nazi war ...
The attacks were also crimes against humanity and war crimes." [39] On 24 October 2023, Genocide Watch issued a new statement. In the statement, scholars of Holocaust studies and genocide studies and prevention, including Gregory H. Stanton and Israel Charny asserted that Hamas' actions against Israeli civilians qualify as genocide and crimes ...