For more than a year, Israel has been trying to convince its allies and most of the world that its efforts to annihilate the Gaza Strip are legitimate acts of self-defense, and it is launching a brutal and relentless military offensive against the occupied Strip.

Amnesty International’s Secretary General, Agnes Callamard, opened an article in Newsweek magazine in which she said that the claim that Israel’s war on Gaza aims not only to dismantle Hamas, but also to physically destroy Palestinians as a national and ethnic group, at least partially, does not stand up to scrutiny, as her organization recently published conclusive evidence that Israel committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and continues to do so.

Israeli forces have devastated Gaza quickly and on a scale not seen in any other conflict in this century, demolishing entire cities and destroying vital infrastructure, agricultural land, cultural and religious sites, and the killing of tens of thousands of Palestinians in one year, and the toll of famine and disease, is a stunning tragedy.