How Amnesty International concluded Israel has genocidal intent in Gaza

Amnesty International established in its report on Thursday that Israel has the intent to destroy Palestinians, a necessary threshold that led the world’s leading human rights group to conclude that Israel is guilty of genocide.

Proving a special intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group is what distinguishes genocide from other international crimes, such as crimes against humanity or war crimes.

The legal framework for the definition and interpretation of the crime of genocide is derived from the 1948 Genocide Convention, as well as the international criminal law jurisprudence that followed, particularly cases before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the ad hoc tribunals for Rwanda (ICTR) and the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

Determining the existence of genocidal intent is crucial for establishing the resulting individual criminal responsibility and state responsibility for the crime.

In order to come up with a conclusion that genocide has been committed, Amnesty’s methodology involved three steps.

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How Amnesty International concluded that Israel has genocidal intent in Gaza