Amnesty International claims that Israel is “live-streaming a genocide” against Palestinians in Gaza, carrying out illegal acts with the “specific intent” of , destroying all of the population there.
The human rights organization claimed in its annual report that Israeli forces in Gaza have violated the UN Genocide Convention by intentionally inflicting conditions of life that are meant to cause their physical destruction.
Despite warnings from the international community and the International Court of Justice about the “devastating effect it would have on the civilian population,” Israel “denied, obstructed, and failed to allow and facilitate” humanitarian access to Gaza, and invaded Rafah, according to Amnesty International.
The rights group claimed that Israeli forces continued to “arbitrarily detain and, in some cases, forcibly disappear Palestinians” despite Israeli air strikes frequently hitting civilians who were complying evacuation orders.
The world has been subjected to a live-streamed genocide since October 7, 2023, according to Amnesty’s secretary-general Agnes Callamard in the report’s opening statement.
“States watched as if they were powerless as Israel massacred numerous Palestinians, wiped out entire multigenerational families, destroyed homes, livelihoods, hospitals, and schools,” the statement read.
Callamard alleged that Israel and “its powerful allies, first of whom the USA,” acted as though international law did not apply to them.
Israel has vehemently refuted the accusations of genocide, stating instead that it is acting in self-defense against Hamas and that it is taking extraordinary precautions to protect civilians.
Since October 7, 2023, more than 51,300 people have died in Gaza from Israeli forces, including at least 17, 400 children, according to Palestinian health officials.
According to Israeli authorities, Hamas’ attacks on Israel on October 7 resulted in about 1,200 fatalities.
Amnesty also heightened concern about “unprecedented forces,” including the administration of US President Donald Trump, which it claimed posed a threat to human rights on a global scale in its report.
The first 100 days of US President Donald Trump’s “regime” in 2025 included “a multiplicity of assaults against human rights accountability, against international law, and against the UN,” according to Callamard.
“But those reckless and harsh offensives against efforts to end global poverty and undo long-standing racial and gender-based discrimination and violence did not begin this year. Red lines don’t go green overnight.
Amnesty International also expressed concern about Russian-made allegations of human rights violations as well as attacks on gender equality in Afghanistan and Iran.
By passing so-called vice and virtue laws and denying their rights to work and education, the Taliban government “criminally” criminalized women and girls’ public existence. According to Callamard, “dozens of women protesters were arbitrarily detained or forced to disappear”.
Source: Aljazeera
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