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The United Nations announced Israeli air operations had targeted residential towers, buildings, schools, and UNRWA premises, resulting in thousands of civilian casualties in Gaza. [263] Human rights experts described Israel's indiscriminate airstrikes as a war crime, an accusation that Israel has denied.
Main article: Israeli war crimes in the Israel–Hamas war. Numerous charges of war crimes have been levied against Israel for its actions against civilians. These charges have come from Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, B'tselem, and human rights groups and experts, including UN rapporteurs. [ 110 ]
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, on 20 December 2019 announced an investigation into war crimes allegedly committed in Palestine by members of the Israeli military or Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups since 13 June 2014. [1][3]
A United Nations inquiry into the first few months of the war in Gaza has found both Israel and Hamas committed war crimes and grave violations of international law, in the body’s first in-depth ...
An independent United Nations expert said that Israel's widespread bombing of homes and civilian sites in Gaza and the indiscriminate firing of rockets by Hamas are "war crimes". Balakrishnan Rajagopal stated Israeli strikes had destroyed or damaged 45% of homes in the Palestinian territory, causing "enormous cost in human lives".
Pro-Palestinian protester in Columbus, Ohio, United States, 18 October 2023. Israel has been accused of committing genocide in the Israel–Hamas war, and the United States has been accused of complicity in the genocide. The complicity accusation has been made in court, by federal staffers, human rights organizations and academic figures around ...
Hamas' use of indiscriminate rocket attacks on civilians has been widely condemned as a war crime. [24] [25] Palestinian UN Observer Ibrahim Kraishi has equally decried the attacks, stating that "every rocket and mortar fired from Gaza toward Israel is a “crime against humanity.” [26]
The report was the UN's first in-depth investigation of the conflict and covered the period from 7 October to 31 December 2023. [25] [26] In its report (A/HRC/56/26) [27] the Commission affirmed that both Hamas and Israel committed war crimes and that Israel's actions also constituted crimes against humanity.