The Hague, Netherlands (AP) – The largest specialized organization of scholars studying genocide said on Monday that Israel is committed to genocide In Gaza.
The decision by the International Association of Genocide Scholars, which has around 500 members worldwide, including many Holocaust experts, has helped to further segregate Israel with global public opinion. Growing chorus of organizations using the terminology of Israeli behavior in Gaza. Israel refused to file accusations and called the resolution “embarrassment of the legal profession.”
“Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide,” according to the group’s resolution, 86% of those who voted for it were supporting. The organization did not release details of the vote.
“People who are experts in genocide research can see what this situation is,” Melanie O’Brien, president of the University of Western Australia’s organization and professor of international law, told The Associated Press.
On October 7, 2023, in the war-initiated attack, Hamas-led militants killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and sought 251. 48 hostages Stay in Gaza, where Israel believes to be alive.
Israel’s offensive attacks have levelled the large strip of Gaza, displaced over two million people most of its territory. More than 63,000 Palestinians have died, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health.
The ministry is part of the Hamas-run government and is staffed by medical professionals. The United Nations and independent experts consider it the most reliable source of information on victims of war. Israel challenges the numbers, but does not provide its own.
The scholar’s resolution condemned Israel’s crimes, including “indiscriminate and deliberate attacks on civilians and civil infrastructure,” and called on Israel to “quickly halt all actions that constituted crimes against Gaza’s genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.”
It starts with acknowledging it Hamas Attack “It constitutes international crime.”
Genocide has been codified It was a 1948 convention created after the horrors of the Holocaust, which defined it as “committed with the intention of destroying national, ethnic, racial or religious groups.” The United Nations and many Western countries say that they can control only the courts whether a crime has been committed or not. The case against Israel lies before the UN Supreme Court.
Israel, partially established as a shelter in the wake of the Holocaust when around six million European Jews were killed, vehemently denied that they were committing genocide.
“The IAGS has set a historic precedent – for the first time, genocide scholars denounce the victims of genocide despite Hamas’ attempts to genocide against Jews,” Israel’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement. “Strange.”
Israel says Hamas It’s extending the war By surrendering and not releasing the hostages. Recently, it has begun an early stage of a new attack, Gaza city has declared it a combat zone.
A group of scholars, founded in 1994, previously held it Treatment of Uyghur minority Muslims in China And crackdown on Myanmar Rohingya Muslims Meets the genocide threshold.
In 2006, the organization said a statement by then-Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for Israel to have “genocide intent” to be “swept from the map.”
In July, two prominent Israeli rights groups (B’tselem and Human Rights – Israeli doctors) said their country was violating genocide in Gaza. The organization does not reflect mainstream Israeli thinking, but it was the first time a local Jewish-led organization has filed such a charge.
International Human Rights Organizations It is also leveled Appeal.
Meanwhile, it is in South Africa He accused Israel of violating the Genocide Treaty In the International Court of Justice – claims that Israel would reject it.
court There is no police to carry out that verdictwhich can take years, but if the country believes another member has not complied with the ICJ order, it can be reported to the UN Security Council.
The council can impose sanctions and even approve military action, but each of the five permanent members holds a veto, including the United States, Israel’s most solid ally. President Donald Trump said he doesn’t think genocide is happening.
