Notoriously anti-Israel human rights group Amnesty International is set to issue a report accusing the Jewish state of “genocide” next month — a claim experts and Israel alike ripped as “fabricated.”
“Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against the Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip,” the group, which critics say has a long history of anti-Israel bias, said in the report due out Dec. 5.
Israel has long maintained its offensive in Gaza is solely to eliminate Hamas terrorists who killed 1,200 and kidnapped 251 Israelis during the Oct. 7 massacre, and has said it takes great care to avoid civilian casualties with pinpoint strikes.
But genocidal intent can “co-exist” with Israel’s stated military goals, claimed Amnesty, which critics say has a long history of anti-Israel bias.
Experts said Amnesty is confused as to what a genocide really is.
“If Israel’s defense against Hamas constitutes genocide, then American wars from World War II to Obama’s campaign against ISIS do as well,” said George Mason Law Professor Eugene Kontorovich.
“An actual genocide looks completely different: In the early 2000s the Sudanese government armed Arab militias to ethnically cleanse all African groups in the Darfur region through a campaign of mass murder, rape and persecution based on the victims’ race,” said National Jewish Advocacy Center director Mark Geldfeder.
The Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health has claimed more than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed since the war began. At least 17,000 of them were terrorists, according to the Israeli Defense Forces.
“Amnesty cannot point to a single instance in which Israel has purposely targeted a civilian,” Geldfeder said.
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Oren Marmorstein told The Post: “The deplorable and fanatical organization Amnesty International has produced a fabricated report entirely based on lies.”
Amnesty International did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.
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