A human rights group calls on the UK to cease arming Israel as its marketing campaign within the strip continues.
London, United Kingdom – Mass extermination and mass expulsion are “identifiable methods” of Israel’s army marketing campaign within the Gaza Strip, a human rights group warns, because it calls on the UK to impose an arms embargo.
Stressed Beings, which relies within the UK, decried Israel’s “insurance policies of colonialist occupation” on Monday in a report that has received help from Afzal Khan, a member of the UK Parliament with the opposition Labour Celebration.
“Fairly than assembly the acknowledged intention of extracting hostages and dismantling Hamas, the obvious findings on this report spotlight destruction of locations of refuge and accessibility of those that are displaced,” the seven authors of the examine wrote, having reviewed the Israeli military’s actions in Gaza from early October till early February.
“In the entire 753 instances of civilian infrastructure assaults recorded within the report, civilian lack of life and the destruction of civilian society is clearly evidenced,” the report discovered.
The Israeli assault started on October 7, the day Hamas attacked southern Israel.
In the course of the Palestinian group’s assaults, 1,139 folks have been killed and greater than 200 have been taken captive. Some hostages have since been launched, others have died and dozens are nonetheless being held.
Greater than 35,000 Palestinians have been killed, principally ladies and kids.
A lot of the Strip has been decreased to rubble, and nearly all of Palestinians have been displaced, a lot of them a number of occasions.
Throughout 146 days monitored within the report, hospitals in Gaza have been attacked on “65 p.c” of these days, it discovered.
“The assaults on hospitals have been systematic, shifting north to south to render all well being amenities non-operational by the center of February, 2024. Roads round hospitals have been attacked first to stop sufferers from looking for medical help or evacuating,” it mentioned.
“Just below half of Gaza’s hospitals and well being amenities have been attacked a number of occasions by [the] Israeli military, both by air, sea, or floor assaults.”
Israel has lengthy blockaded Gaza and imposed a complete siege on October 9.
On the time, Yoav Gallant, Israel’s minister of defence, mentioned: “I’ve ordered an entire siege on the Gaza Strip. There will likely be no electrical energy, no meals, no gas. Every little thing is closed.”
In a remark that was extensively condemned, he added: “We’re combating human animals, and we’re appearing accordingly.”
A looming ‘dying sentence’
Gaza’s Ministry of Well being warned on Monday that with out an inflow of gas deliveries, the few hospitals which might be nonetheless working may collapse inside hours.
Junaid Sultan, a vascular surgeon who volunteered within the southern space of Rafah, advised Al Jazeera that hospitals would run out of electrical energy and water with out the deliveries.
“[If] that gas doesn’t are available in, that will likely be a dying sentence to not solely lots of, however 1000’s of sufferers,” Sultan mentioned.
Stressed Beings discovered that a lot of Gaza’s inhabitants can be liable to “hunger, pressured displacement to a 3rd nation and of additional assaults” because it blamed worldwide governments for not recognising “the Israeli technique” in Gaza.
It discovered that the patterns of Israel’s army operation point out that it has breached the Geneva Conventions and the Rome Statute of the Worldwide Felony Court docket, which classify assaults on civilian infrastructure as a “struggle crime”.
