Amnesty Says Israel Response to Soldier's Gaza Capture Was War Crime

Source: The Jewish Daily Forward

The response of Israel’s military to the capture of an Israeli soldier during last summer’s Gaza conflict amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Amnesty International said in a new report.

Following the capture into a terror tunnel of Lt. Hadar Goldin, who later was declared dead based on evidence at the scene of his capture, the IDF bombarded the southern Gaza city of Rahat for four days, killing at least 135 people, injuring hundreds and destroying homes.

According to the report released on Wednesday, “there is overwhelming evidence that Israeli forces committed disproportionate, or otherwise indiscriminate, attacks which killed scores of civilians in their homes, on the streets and in vehicles and injured many more.”

“There is consequently strong evidence that many such attacks in Rafah between 1 and 4 August were serious violations of international humanitarian law and constituted grave breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention or other war crimes,” according to the report.

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Link to the Amnesty web page about the report: https://www.amnesty.org/latest/news/2015/07/gaza-cutting-edge-investigation-rafah/