Palestinian fighters of the al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, take part in a military parade to mark the anniversary of the 2014 war with Israel, near the border in the central Gaza Strip on July 19, 2023.
In a 236-page report published Wednesday, Human Rights Watch said Hamas and at least four other Palestinian armed groups committed war crimes by killing, torturing, taking hostages, looting and committing crimes involving sexual and gender-based violence during their attack on Israel.The al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, take part in a military parade to mark the anniversary of the 2014 war with Israel, near the border in the central Gaza Strip, in July 2023.
"This report details numerous incidents of violations of international humanitarian law — the laws of war — by Palestinian armed groups on October 7, 2023; it does not include violations since then," it says. HRW called for an investigation into other alleged crimes against humanity by Hamas fighters, including sexual violence and persecution against an identifiable group on racial, national, ethnic or religious grounds.WARNING: Video contains graphic images | A UN team deployed to Israel says it found ‘reasonable grounds’ to back up allegations that Hamas committed sexual violence during the Oct. 7 attacks, and that such violence is likely ongoing.
The militants committed a crime against humanity when they launched a "widespread attack directed against a civilian population," said Belkis Wille, an HRW associate director who arrived in Israel days after the October attack and spent months researching it with local staff. In Gaza, Muhammad Hamdan, who lives in Khan Younis, told CBC freelance videographer Mohamed El Saife that he doesn't agree with the report's findings.
Hamdan said he has lost 18 family members in Israeli airstrikes on his neighbourhood, and that the blame rests on Israel.Hamdan walked the site of his home, completely destroyed from the fighting. He climbed over rubble and walked streets he no longer recognized.'It's a miracle we survived,' says father of 5 whose home was destroyed in Israeli hostage rescue raidreports on alleged war crimes by Israel during the country's ongoing invasion of the Gaza Strip, including an Oct.
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