GAZA, (The Palestinian Information Center) The Hamas Movement has welcomed the resolution adopted by the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), which says that “Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide.”
In a press release on Monday, Hamas said that the IAGS resolution serves as “new legal documentation” reinforcing numerous international reports and testimonies that have documented the genocide Palestinians are facing in full view of the entire world.
Hamas criticized the international community for its reluctance to take action against Israel and the government of Benjamin Netanyahu, calling such international impotence a “stain of shame and a “resounding failure to protect humanity.”
Hamas warned that such continued international inaction “poses a direct threat to global peace and security.”
The Movement called on the UN, the international community and all concerned parties to take urgent action to stop Israel’s “crimes of genocide, displacement and ethnic cleansing” and to hold its leaders accountable for their “fascist and terrorist crimes” in Gaza.
IAGS passed on Monday three-page resolution that outlines a wide range of Israeli actions that it says constitute genocide, including deliberate attacks against civilians, starvation, deprivation of humanitarian aid, sexual violence, and forced displacement of the population.
In addition to the actions of the Israeli military, the resolution also references statements by high-level Israeli government officials as proof of genocidal intent.
Specifically, the resolution cites “Israeli governmental leaders, war cabinet ministers, and senior army officers” who “have made explicit statements of ‘intent to destroy,’ characterizing Palestinians in Gaza as a whole as enemies and ‘human animals’ and stating the intention of inflicting ‘maximum damage’ on Gaza, ‘flattening Gaza,’ and turning Gaza into ‘hell.’”
The scholars also point to Israeli officials’ support for a plan floated by US President Donald Trump to expel all Palestinians from Gaza, which they contend “amounts to ethnic cleansing.”
