On the occasion of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide, activists from the NGO Amnesty International spilled fake blood in front of the Israeli embassy in Brussels, last Monday, December 9, to denounce the “genocide » perpetrated by Israel in Gaza.
In images broadcast by Amnesty International on social networks, activists brandish a banner bearing the message “Stop genocide”, while others pour liters of fake blood onto the asphalt. A label replaces the street sign, renaming it “Avenue Génocide”.
In a press release, the director of the French-speaking Belgian section of Amnesty International, Carine Thibaut, believes that “for more than a year, the population of Gaza has been experiencing a daily cataclysm which is sowing death and destruction on an unprecedented scale. Responsible for this cataclysm is the Israeli government, which aims for nothing less than the physical destruction of the Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip. This genocide must stop immediately and all states, including Belgium, must do everything in their power to achieve this goal.”
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“It is also essential that our country makes maximum efforts in the fight against impunity, supporting proceedings before the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court and ensuring that suspected perpetrators of international crimes can also be brought to justice in Belgium,” specifies Carine Thibaut.
This action follows the publication, on December 5, of a damning report for Israel in which Amnesty International concluded that the Jewish state was perpetrating a “genocide” against the Palestinian population of Gaza.
The Israeli branch of the international organization immediately denounced the report as having a “predetermined conclusion”.
From the beginning, the report was referred to as a ‘genocide report’ in international correspondence, even though the research was in its early stages,” Amnesty Israel members say.
“This is a strong indication of bias and also a factor that can lead to further bias: imagine how difficult it is for a researcher to work for months on a report titled ‘genocide report’ and to then have to conclude that these are ‘only’ crimes against humanity,” they added.
The war in Gaza erupted when Hamas sent 3,000 armed terrorists into Israel on October 7 to carry out a brutal attack in which they killed nearly 1,200 people. The terrorists also took 251 people hostage, mostly civilians, and took them to Gaza. Israel responded by launching a military campaign aimed at destroying Hamas, removing it from power in Gaza and freeing the hostages.
Gaza’s health ministry, controlled by Hamas, says more than 40,000 people have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far. This toll, which cannot be verified and which does not distinguish between terrorists and civilians, includes the approximately 17,000 terrorists that Israel claims to have killed in combat and the civilians killed by the hundreds of rockets fired by the terrorist groups which fell inside the Gaza Strip.
Hamas is accused of inflating the number of civilian casualties and including Palestinians killed by rockets fired by terrorist factions that fall back into the strip. Hamas also makes no distinction, in this assessment, between civilians and terrorists.
An estimated 100 of the 251 hostages kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 are still in Gaza. 105 civilians were freed during a week-long truce at the end of November, and four hostages were released before the truce. Eight hostages, including a female soldier, were rescued alive by Israeli forces, and the bodies of 37 hostages were also recovered, at least three of whom were mistakenly killed by the army in a tragic incident in December.
Hamas has also held the bodies of IDF soldiers Oron Shaul and Hadar Goldin since 2014, as well as two Israeli civilians, Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed, both of whom are believed to be alive after entering the Gaza Strip from on their own in 2014 and 2015 respectively.
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