Amnesty accuses Hamas of crimes against humanity, repeats genocide claims against Israel in Gaza war
This aerial view shows displaced Palestinians returning to the war-devastated Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on January 19, 2025. — AFP pic
Friday, 12 Dec 2025 10:45 AM MYT
JERUSALEM, Dec 12 — Amnesty International on Thursday accused Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups for the first time of crimes against humanity during and after the October 7, 2023 attack that sparked the Gaza war, with Hamas rejecting the report as “lies”.
“Palestinian armed groups committed violations of international humanitarian law, war crimes and crimes against humanity during their attacks in southern Israel that started on 7 October 2023,” the human rights watchdog said in the 173-page report.
Amnesty said the mass killing of civilians on October 7 amounted “to the crime against humanity of extermination”.
Hamas rejected the report, saying it contained “inaccuracies and contradictions”.
“The report’s repetition of the lies and allegations promoted by the occupation (Israeli) government concerning rape, sexual violence, and the mistreatment of captives clearly demonstrates that the purpose of this report is incitement and distorting the image of the resistance,” the militant group said in a statement.
It called on Amnesty to retract the “flawed and unprofessional report”.
Amnesty has also accused Israel of committing genocide in its retaliatory campaign in Gaza, an accusation Israel has vehemently denied.
The rights group said Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups in Gaza “continued to commit violations and crimes under international law in their holding and mistreatment of hostages and the withholding of bodies seized”.
“The holding of hostages was done as part of an explicitly stated plan explained by the leadership of Hamas and of other Palestinian armed groups,” the report stated.
Mass killing
Amnesty has previously accused Hamas and other groups of committing war crimes, which are serious violations of international law against civilians and combatants during armed conflict.
Crimes against humanity can occur in peacetime and include torture, rape and discrimination, be it racial, ethnic, cultural, religious or gender-based. They involve “a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population”.
Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel resulted in the deaths of 1,221 people, and 251 people were taken hostage that day, including 44 who were dead.
Of the 207 hostages taken alive, 41 died or were killed in captivity. All have since been returned—mostly under a series of ceasefire agreements—except for the body of one Israeli officer.
Among the acts listed by Amnesty as crimes against humanity were murder, extermination, imprisonment, torture, enforced disappearance, rape and “other forms of sexual violence”.
For the latter crimes, the group said it was not able to interview survivors except for one case, and therefore could not conclude the scope or scale of the sexual violence.
The report concluded that Hamas and its armed wing were “chiefly responsible” for the crimes.
Hamas ally Palestinian Islamic Jihad, as well as the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades and “unaffiliated Palestinian civilians”, were responsible to a lesser extent.
Arrest warrants
In May 2024, the International Criminal Court applied for arrest warrants for Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh, the head of its armed wing Mohammed Deif, and its October 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar, who was then the group’s chief in Gaza.
The ICC withdrew the applications after all three were killed later that year by Israel.
The court also issued a still-active arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant in November 2024 for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the war.
In December 2024, Amnesty accused Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. It warned late last month that Israel was “still committing genocide”, despite the current ceasefire, which came into effect on October 10.
When Amnesty first made the accusation, Israel’s foreign ministry vehemently rejected it as “entirely false” and called the report “fabricated” and “based on lies”.
Israel’s retaliatory assault on Gaza has killed at least 70,373 people, according to figures from the territory’s health ministry that the United Nations considers reliable. — AFP
It took Amnesty more than 2 years after Oct 7, 2023 to declare Harmass committed crimes against humanity.
ReplyDeleteFor IDF It took Amnesty 2 days after they moved into Gaza.
Harmass tried to hide this murder but IDF found her body and there is video evidence.
Hamas doctor murdered 19 year old hostage, Noa Marciano, in Shifa hospital by injecting air into her veins while she begged for her life.
Hamas told western media Israeli bombs killed her, and broadcast her body to terrorize Israel, but the IDF recovered her body in November ‘23 from a nearby building to Shifa and video evidence of her death. Her father is telling the story and
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is livid.
On Non 13, ‘23 Hamas released a video of the IDF Cpl. Noa Marciano speaking on camera. It then cut to showing her body and blaming Israel for her death as a psychological terror tactic. Western media outlets like the BBC and New York times amplified Hamas’s propaganda even though, as they noted, it could not be independently verified.
The harrowing video depicting the moments of Noa’s murder at Hamas’s hands was received by her father Avi Marciano via Telegram. Avi first publicly shared the details of Noa’s murder by a doctor at al-Shifa Hospital in May last year, alongside his wife Adi in statements to Israeli media. He publicly shared additional details of it yesterday, speaking to a small crowd about the doctor who lethally injected air into his daughter’s veins while she begged for her life instead of treating her non-life-threatening wounds. Avi’s remarks were shared in an Instagram video posted by activist Shai Deluca.
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ReplyDeleteEight years after surviving an ISIS genocide (real extermination, not bored Westerners shouting for Gaza), tens of thousands of Yezidis continue to live in miserable conditions in tent camps in northwest Iraq.
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I read Amnesty’s report. The findings are serious. The organization still isn’t. It took them TWO YEARS.
ReplyDeleteAmnesty has finally published a detailed account of the atrocities of Oct. 7. It confirms that Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups carried out deliberate mass murder, torture, hostage taking and sexual violence. It goes further than any previous Amnesty document and classifies these actions as crimes against humanity, including extermination. The evidence is overwhelming and the legal conclusion is correct.
None of this restores Amnesty’s credibility. The report opens by returning to Amnesty’s political narrative about Israel before it even describes a single Hamas crime. That choice signals priority. Shape the reader first. Cushion the findings. Reframe the context. This is not what a neutral fact-finding body does when documenting one of the worst mass atrocities against civilians in the region in decades.
The most important finding, extermination, appears deep inside the text (pp. 18–19 and 151) instead of standing at the forefront of the Executive Summary. To my knowledge, this is the first time Amnesty has ever accused a Palestinian armed group of a crime against humanity of extermination. Amnesty knows how significant this is. It also knows how politically inconvenient it is for a movement that spent two years casting doubt on survivor testimony and minimizing the scale of the violence. Burying the central crime reveals Amnesty’s discomfort with stating it plainly.
Amnesty also acknowledges that its own evidence collection was severely limited. It lacked access to most survivors of sexual violence. Witnesses were reluctant to speak to an organization that had already cast doubt on them. These limitations only highlight how irresponsible Amnesty was when it spent two years questioning survivor accounts. The problem is Amnesty’s double standard, not the survivors who refused to engage with an organization that had belittled their testimonies for nearly two years.
Survivors, therapists and first responders have been consistent since the earliest days. Amnesty was not. It demanded verification. It treated reports with suspicion. It amplified doubt. And now it uses its own investigative failures as a way to narrow and hedge its own findings.
The report further acknowledges that Hamas leadership intended attacks on civilians and hostages. The patterns are explicit. Coordinated killings. Systematic abductions. Messaging from senior figures. Yet Amnesty cushions these findings with language designed to preserve a political narrative of spontaneity and chaos. The evidence contradicts that narrative, but the organization cannot let it go. Phrases like “Israel’s prolonged occupation,” “apartheid” and “blockade” function as contextual mitigation for the perpetrators.
The structure of the report tells the rest of the story. Political framing dominates the front. The most damning material is placed later. On p. 8 of the Executive Summary, before recounting a single Hamas crime, Amnesty repeats its own 2024 conclusion that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. This ensures that supporters can cite the opening while ignoring the findings that follow. That is advocacy. That is intentional.
Even in the conclusion, a section that could have been dedicated exclusively to accountability for Oct. 7, Amnesty has to pivot back to its accusations against Israel and calls for pressure, sanctions and international action. The report becomes a pretext to restate its general political program. A credible human rights body separates findings from advocacy. Amnesty blends them.
Amnesty did not suddenly become rigorous. It was cornered. The evidence was too strong, the testimonies too many, the footage too clear. It may have finally documented some of these atrocities, but it did nothing to repair its credibility.
https://amnestyusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Targeting-Civilians-Murder-Hostage-taking-and-Other-Violations-by-Palestinian-Armed-Groups-in-Israel-and-Gaza.pdf
did u truly combed through the Amnesty’s report?
DeleteOr as usual, just picked & chose ur selected farts!
Such a lengthy write of inconsequential rant, just for ur zionist oneupmanship of fart!
It took Amnesty two years to investigate what happened in one day. It took Amnesty two days to conclude IDF was committing war crimes when the fighting had just started and would last two years.
ReplyDeleteSo?
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Venezuela's National Guard committed crimes against humanity over decade, UN report says
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/venezuelas-national-guard-committed-crimes-against-humanity-over-decade-un-2025-12-11/
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ReplyDeleteAmnesty International now officially concludes that Hamas committed crimes against humanity on October 7.
Their new investigation confirms:
• More than 3,000 Hamas and PIJ fighters invaded Israel by land, air and sea
• Over 800 civilians murdered in their homes, safe rooms, bomb shelters and public areas
• Civilians were hunted down on roads and in open fields
• Communities like Be’eri, Holit, Kfar Azza, Nahal Oz, Netiv HaAsara suffered mass slaughter
• Hostage taking, executions, abuses verified through testimony and forensic evidence
• Participation not only by Hamas, but by PIJ, Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, and even local Palestinian civilians who crossed the fence to join killings and abductions
Amnesty concludes these were systematic, intentional attacks on a civilian population planned and directed by Hamas leadership.
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CCP should not be so jealous when Han Chinese, wherever they may be prosper. Instead they should celebrate and prosper together.
ReplyDeleteAfter all this visit is only by a "de facto" foreign minister, why get so upset. The Official one is yours.
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China has “firmly objected” to reported Israeli contact with Taiwan after a secret visit by Taipei’s deputy foreign minister to Israel.
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Beijing is demanding Israel
🔴“Correct the erroneous actions”
🔴Stop “sending wrong signals” to Taiwan independence forces
🔴Recommit clearly to the One-China policy
All this reportedly as Taiwan seeks closer defense cooperation with Israel behind the scenes. How far should Israel go in working with Taiwan given China’s pressure?
mfer, zionist state officially announced its total support of ONE CHINA POLICY.
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