The Government Media Office in Gaza has welcomed Amnesty International’s recent report on the Israeli military aggression against the Gaza Strip in last May which claimed the lives of 34 civilians injured many others and caused massive destruction to homes and infrastructure.
In a statement on Wednesday the Media Office described Amnesty’s report as new legal evidence of the Israeli occupation’s criminal nature and its frequent attacks against the Palestinian people.
“This entails taking advanced steps not only to expose the occupation’s crimes and give them the right legal terminology but also to take action at various levels mainly legally to prosecute Israeli war criminals and leaders and hold them accountable for the war crimes they had committed against our people” the Media Office underscored.
The Media Office also stressed that Amnesty’s report needs special attention from the International Criminal Court and its prosecutor affirming that this report can be relied on to open a serious investigation into Israel’s war crimes and take swift legal action in this regard.
Amnesty International said Tuesday that Israeli strikes on Gaza last month could amount to a “war crime.”
The London-based human rights group charged that Israeli strikes carried out “without military necessity” amount to “a form of collective punishment against the civilian population.”
Amnesty said the Israeli military attacks in Gaza damaged 2943 housing units including 103 homes which were completely destroyed.
“Israel also conducted apparently disproportionate airstrikes which killed and injured Palestinian civilians including children” the statement said adding that “intentionally launching disproportionate attacks … is a war crime.”
