Amnesty International calls for halt to Rafah attack after ICJ ruling

Any further Israeli attacks on Rafah could constitute underlying acts of genocide, Amnesty International warned, commenting on the ICJ’s ruling against Israel.

“With this order the International Court of Justice...has made it crystal clear: the Israeli authorities must completely halt military operations in Rafah, as any ongoing military action could constitute an underlying act of genocide,” Heba Morayef, Amnesty’s regional director for the Middle East and North Africa said in a statement on Friday. 

“The ground incursion and the associated mass forced displacement it has caused, pose further irreparable risk to the rights of the Palestinian people protected under the Genocide Convention,” she added.