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Israeli war crimes are the violations of international criminal law, including war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide, which the Israel Defense Forces, the military branch of the state of Israel, has been accused of committing since the founding of Israel in 1948. These have included murder, intentional targeting of civilians, killing prisoners of war and surrendered ...
Accusations of United States complicity in Israeli war crimes in the Israel–Hamas war. Pro-Palestinian protester in Columbus, Ohio, United States, 18 October 2023. Israel has been accused of committing genocide in the Gaza war and the Biden administration has been accused of complicity in the genocide. The complicity accusation has been made ...
Violent incidents in reaction to the Israel–Hamas war. Since 7 October 2023, numerous violent incidents prompted by the Hamas attack on Israel and the ensuing Israel–Hamas war have been reported worldwide. They have accompanied a sharp increase in global antisemitism and Islamophobia, as well as anti-Israeli sentiment and anti-Palestinian ...
International Criminal Court investigation in Palestine. 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.
On 12 October 2023, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Ahmad Khan, stated that war crimes committed on the territory of Israel by Palestinians or by nationals of other state parties to the Rome Statute were within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court investigation in Palestine.
Open University of Israel professor Yagil Levy said there was "a real gap between the formal rules of engagement and the practice on the battlefield", [4] and Israeli journalist Nahum Barnea called the incident a war crime. [2]
South Africa's genocide case against Israel was brought before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on 29 December 2023 by South Africa regarding Israel 's conduct in the Gaza Strip as part of the Israel–Hamas war. The case is officially known as Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel) .
On 15 May 1948, following the Israeli Declaration of Independence the previous day, the armies of a number of Arab countries invaded what had just ceased to be Mandatory Palestine, turning the conflict into the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The yishuv ( now officially called Israel) suffered between 5,700 and 5,800 casualties. [5]