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MADRID Dec. 5 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Government of Israel on Thursday rejected Amnesty International’s accusations of its responsibility for a genocide in the Gaza Strip and said that the non-governmental organization’s report “is totally false.”
“The regrettable and fanatical organization Amnesty International has once again produced a fabricated report that is totally false and based on lies,” said Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Oren Mamorstein through his account on the social network X.
Thus, he stressed that “the genocidal massacre of October 7, 2023 was perpetrated by the terrorist organization Hamas against Israeli citizens” and added that “since then, Israeli citizens have been subjected to daily attacks from seven different fronts.”
“Israel defends itself against these attacks by acting entirely in line with International Law,” he concluded, after the NGO stated in its report that the Palestinian population of Gaza is being “deliberately” subjected to conditions intended to cause “their destruction.”
The Secretary General of Amnesty International, Agnès Callamard, has maintained that the report “demonstrates that Israel has carried out acts prohibited by the Genocide Convention, with the specific intention of destroying the Palestinian population of Gaza”, in the midst of a offensive unleashed after the attacks carried out on October 7, 2023 by Hamas and other Palestinian factions.
“Month after month, Israel has treated the Palestinian population of Gaza as a subhuman group that does not deserve human rights or dignity, thus demonstrating its intention to cause their physical destruction,” said Callamard, who highlighted that these “withering” conclusions They should be “a wake-up call to the international community.”
In this sense, he has said that “what is happening is genocide.” “We must put an end to it now,” he insisted, while warning that “States that continue to transfer weapons to Israel at this time must know that they are failing in their obligation to prevent genocide and risk being complicit in it.” .
Callamard stressed that “the atrocious crimes committed on October 7, 2023 by Hamas and other armed groups against Israelis and victims of other nationalities, including deliberate mass killings and hostage-taking, can never justify Israel’s genocide against the population.” Palestine”.
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