Amnesty International’s findings must serve as a wake-up call to the international community: this is genocide, and it must stop now. We are releasing this report to help stop the ongoing genocide, prevent further acts of genocide against Palestinians, and reiterate the urgency of a ceasefire.
States that continue to transfer arms to Israel, must know they are violating their obligation to prevent genocide and are at risk of becoming complicit in genocide.
Amnesty calls on Israel to immediately stop its genocide in Gaza and to engage and cooperate fully with the proceedings before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). In particular, we call on Israel to immediately and fully comply with all provisional measures ordered by the ICJ since January 26, 2024, including by taking urgent steps to drastically improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza, granting immediate and unimpeded access to Gaza to independent international investigative bodies, and taking effective measures to ensure that all evidence related to genocide and other crimes under international law is preserved.
Meanwhile, states need to move beyond mere expressions of regret or dismay and take strong action to pressure Israel to stop all acts of genocide in Gaza and implement all provisional measures ordered by the ICJ since January 26, 2024.
States must immediately suspend all arms transfers to Israel and stop the provision of training and other military and security assistance. States must act to ensure justice and accountability for any alleged crimes under international law, including war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, by exercising universal or other forms of extraterritorial criminal jurisdiction.
States must also respond to the atrocities inflicted on Palestinians by pressuring Israel to end its unlawful occupation of Gaza and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory in line with the ICJ’s advisory opinion of July 2024. Israel must lift its unlawful blockade of Gaza which had been slowly inflicting harmful conditions of life on Palestinians for 16 years before October 7, 2023. Such systemic change is imperative to put an end to Israel’s crimes under international law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and prevent the further commission of acts of genocide.