Amnesty International calls for an investigation into Israeli war crimes in Gaza

Published on May 27, 2024
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Amnesty International announced that three Israeli air strikes in the central and southern Gaza Strip led to the death of 44 Palestinian civilians, including 32 children, last April, calling on the International Criminal Court to open an investigation into “war crimes.”

The organization reported on Monday that these raids took place on April 16, in Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, and on April 19 and 20, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

Amnesty International official Erika Guevara Rosas said in a statement, “These devastating strikes destroyed families and claimed the lives of 32 children,” stressing that the organization’s investigation provides “basic evidence indicating illegal attacks attributed to the Israeli army.”

Amnesty International interviewed 17 survivors and witnesses, visited a hospital where the wounded were being treated, and took photographs of shrapnel.

She added that in the three cases, “the organization did not find any evidence of the presence of military targets in or around the sites targeted by the Israeli army,” noting that it has not yet received responses to its questions from the Israeli army.

According to Amnesty International, the April 16 raid on Al-Maghazi targeted a street where children were playing table football, resulting in the deaths of 10 of them, aged between 4 and 15 years, and five men.

In Rafah, on April 19, an air bomb hit the house of Abu Radwan, a retired employee, killing nine family members, including six children according to the organization.

On April 20, a raid destroyed Abdel-Al family’s home in eastern Rafah, killing 20 people, including 16 children and four women, and wounding two other children. “The International Criminal Court must open a war crimes investigation” into these three strikes, Amnesty International wrote.

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