The War Israel has undertaken against Hamas to avenge what happened Oct. 7, 2023, has seen Indiscriminate Attacks on Palestinian civilians.

Amnesty International has documented unlawful Israeli attacks, including indiscriminate attacks, which caused mass civilian casualties and  demanded that they warrant an investigation  as war crimes.

The organization spoke to survivors and eyewitnesses, analyzed satellite imagery, and verified photos and videos to investigate air bombardments conducted by Israeli forces between 7 and 12 October, which caused horrific destruction, and in some cases wiped out entire families. Here the organization presents an in-depth analysis of its findings in five of these unlawful attacks. In each of these cases, Israeli attacks violated international humanitarian law, including by failing to take feasible precautions to spare civilians, or by conducting indiscriminate attacks that failed to distinguish between civilians and military objectives, or by conducting attacks that may have been directed against civilian objects.

“In their stated intent to use all means to destroy Hamas, Israeli forces have shown a shocking disregard for civilian lives. They have pulverized street after street of residential buildings killing civilians on a mass scale and destroying essential infrastructure, while new restrictions mean Gaza is fast running out of water, medicine, fuel, and electricity. Testimonies from eyewitness and survivors highlighted, repeatedly, how Israeli attacks decimated Palestinian families, causing such destruction that surviving relatives have little but rubble to remember their loved ones by,” said Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s Secretary General.

to justify these attacks Israeli police investigators claim they have found evidence that men as well as woman were raped by Hamas terrorists and suffered sexual violence at their hands, it has been claimed.

Yael Sherer, spokesperson for Israel’s Survivors of Sexual Violence advocacy group, said there was physical evidence as well as eyewitness accounts.

Speaking on BBC Radio Four on Monday, she added: “There was sexual violence and rape in these communities in the south of Israel. We have a few living survivors – not a lot – of all genders. It did not only happen to women, but it also happened to men as well.

“Aside from finding bodies of people who were murdered, a lot of the bodies were mutilated. Terrorists made sure to disgrace these people and dishonor them.”

The same happened when Bush authorised war against Iraq, claiming they had weapons of mass destruction and supported the 911 attacks in the US.

In his urgent arguments during the fall and winter of 1990 for military action against Saddam Hussein, President Bush made much of the Iraqi leader’s cruelty toward the Kuwaiti people. Mr. Bush’s allegations of atrocities by Iraqi forces went unchallenged. Mr. Hussein’s violent disposal of dissident Iraqis was a matter of record, so few politicians, journalists or human rights investigators were prepared to question the President’s campaign to paint his opponent as Adolf Hitler reborn.

Some claims were no doubt true, but the most sensational one — that Iraqi soldiers removed hundreds of Kuwaiti babies from incubators and left them to die on hospital floors — was shown to be certainly false by an ABC reporter, John Martin, in March 1991, directly after the liberation of Kuwait. He interviewed hospital doctors who stayed in Kuwait throughout the occupation.

But before the war, the incubator story seriously distorted the American debate about whether to support military action. Amnesty International believed the tale, and its ill-considered validation of the charges influenced the seven U.S. Senators who cited the story in speeches supporting the Jan. 12 resolution authorizing war. Since the resolution passed the Senate by only six votes, the question of how the incubator story escaped scrutiny — when it really mattered — is all the more important. (Amnesty International later retracted its support of the story.)

A little reportorial investigation would have done a great service to the democratic process. Americans would have been interested to know the identity of “Nayirah,” the 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl who shocked the Congressional Human Rights Caucus on Oct. 10, 1990, when she tearfully asserted that she had watched 15 infants being taken from incubators in Al-Adan Hospital in Kuwait City by Iraqi soldiers who “left the babies on the cold floor to die.” The chairs of the Congressional group, Tom Lantos, a California Democrat, and John Edward Porter, an Illinois Republican, explained that Nayirah’s identify would be kept secret to protect her family from reprisals in occupied Kuwait.

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