Gilad Noam calls case in which Israel is accused of violating Genocide Convention ‘completely divorced from facts’ amid ongoing war in enclave
Amnesty International accuses Israel of committing genocide in the Gaza Strip during its war with Hamas, saying it has sought to deliberately destroy Palestinians by mounting deadly attacks, demolishing vital infrastructure and preventing the delivery of
The situation in Gaza“is a slow genocide that has been turned into a quick genocide”, Dr Salem Gharbia told fellow delegates at the Teachers Union of Ireland (TUI) conference in Killarney on Thursday morning. The conference passed motions condemning the war ...
Amnesty International accused Israel of committing genocide in the Gaza Strip during its war with Hamas, saying it has sought to deliberately destroy Palestinians by mounting deadly attacks, demolishing vital infrastructure, and preventing the delivery of food, medicine and other aid. ...
The seemingly endless UN Security Council debates, General Assembly resolutions and calls for action did little to alter the tragic situation in Gaza in any meaningful way.Overall however, the invocation of “genocide” is always a fraught act, and all the more so when discussing the actio...
Three of the five examples given here are constantly committed by Israel in Gaza. Furthermore, Article II of theGenocide Convention“contains a narrow definition of the crime of genocide, which includes two main elements,” one of which is the “intent to destroy, in whole or in part,...
These are difficult questions, but we are in difficult times. Israeli soldiers have consistently used Jewish symbols during the genocide in Gaza, from erecting menorahs in bombed-out neighbourhoods to underwriting a genocidal subtext into Jewish holidays. ...
A genocide! There, I said it, and I know it is a big word. But if the trajectory of the past week points to one thing, it is that Israel is on a rampage against the very people it occupies and besieges. With all the evils in this conflict, I ...
That reaction came after South Africa insisted Israel committed genocide by design. “Thescale of destruction in Gaza, the targeting of family homes and civilians, the war being a war on children — all make clear that genocidal intent is both understood and has been put into practice. The ...
The ICC is a permanent court created through the Rome Statute of 1998 as the court of last resort to prosecute people – including heads of state and senior government officials – for the world’s most heinous crimes. The offenses include war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and crim...