‘Unjustified’ destruction in Gaza: Amnesty International calls for investigation into Israel for ‘war crimes’

An international investigation must be launched into “war crimes” by Israel’s armed forces for the “unjustified” destruction of entire neighborhoods of the Gaza Strip along the border with Israeli territory to create a buffer zone, a report says to the public Amnesty International. According to the human rights NGO, over 90% of buildings appear to have been “destroyed or severely damaged”, as well as 59% of agricultural crops, between October 2023 and May 2024 in the Strip of Gaza, along a zone 1 to 1.8 km wide, which starts at the wall that separates it from Israeli territory. The destruction in total has an area of ​​up to 58 square kilometers, in other words 16% of the territory of the Palestinian enclave, Amnesty calculates. In four areas thoroughly investigated by the NGO, “buildings were deliberately and systematically demolished” after the Israeli armed forces occupied […]
Source: News Beast

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