Amnesty: ‘Hamas committed war crimes during and after 7 October’

Turin, 11 December (LaPresse) – Amnesty International has published an ‘in-depth investigation’ documenting ‘war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Hamas and other armed groups during and after the attacks of 7 October 2023’. The report comes after the organisation ‘extensively documented how Israel has committed and continues to commit genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, despite the ceasefire, and how its current system of apartheid constitutes a crime against humanity’. The research, Amnesty explains, ‘documents abuses committed by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups during the attacks of 7 October 2023 against southern Israel and the treatment of people kidnapped and held captive in the occupied Gaza Strip’. The report ‘concludes that the vast majority of civilians who died were killed by Palestinian fighters and that all those detained in Gaza were held illegally as hostages’, ‘presents evidence that some of those captured were subjected to physical and sexual violence and others were killed by their captors’, ‘it establishes that many of these violations constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder and torture.’