Amnesty International Calls Israeli Attacks on Gaza Homes ‘Deeply Disturbing’
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Pawel Gaul/iStockphoto/Thinkstock(JERUSALEM) — Amnesty International released a report on Tuesday regarding Israeli rockets launched at inhabited homes within Gaza over the summer.
Amnesty called the bombardment “deeply disturbing” and, “incongruent with the binding rules governing the conduct of hostilities in international humanitarian law.” The report further express doubt regarding, “whether a military objective was present” in a number of the attacks.
“In those cases where Amnesty International has been able to determine the possible intended target, it has found either that it was not in fact a military objective, that the devastating toll on civilians and civilian property was out of all proportion to any military advantage from the attack and/or that Israel failed to take necessary precautions to minimize harm to civilians and damage to civilian objects,” the report read.
Further, Amnesty’s report says, “the onus [is] on the Israeli government to explain what the intended target was in each of these attacks.”
The report specifically details eight particular incidents in which family homes in Gaza were attacked without warning. Those attacks, part of Israel’s Operation Protective Edge in July and August, led to the deaths of at least 104 civilians and 62 children, according to Amnesty International.
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