By Alessandro Spinillo and Paulina Guerrero
- Background
On 5th December, Amnesty International published a report entitled “´You feel like you are subhuman´ Israel´s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza.” Amnesty argues that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza.[1]
[1] https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde15/8668/2024/en/
In order to make its case, Amnesty both distorts the factual narrative of what has happened in Gaza, as well advocates changing the definition of genocide..
Genocide was defined in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Genocide Convention) in 1948. Israel was among the first countries to sign that convention – only months after its establishment and three years after the holocaust, which was the very reason for defining and criminalising genocide.
Read the whole response to Amnesty International here:
