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Amnesty International connected Thursday (November 28, 2025) claimed that Israel was "still committing genocide" against Palestinians successful the Gaza Strip, contempt the ceasefire agreed past month.
Contacted by AFP, the Israeli Foreign Ministry did not respond to the allegations by aboriginal evening.
When faced with specified allegations previously, the Ministry has vehemently rejected them arsenic "entirely false", "fabricated" and "based connected lies".
The fragile, U.S.-brokered truce betwixt Israel and Hamas came into effect connected October 10, aft 2 years of war. "The ceasefire risks creating a unsafe illusion that beingness successful Gaza is returning to normal," said Amnesty main Agnes Callamard.
"But portion Israeli authorities and forces person reduced the standard of their attacks and allowed constricted amounts of humanitarian assistance into Gaza, the satellite indispensable not beryllium fooled. Israel's genocide is not over."
The 1948 UN Genocide Convention defines genocide arsenic immoderate of 5 "acts committed with intent to destroy, successful full oregon successful part, a national, ethnic, radical oregon spiritual group".
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In December 2024, quality rights radical Amnesty concluded that Israel was committing genocide successful Gaza via 3 of those acts — including deliberately inflicting connected Palestinians successful Gaza conditions of beingness calculated to bring astir their carnal destruction.
In an update connected Thursday (November 28, 2025), Amnesty International said: "Israel continues to severely restrict the introduction of supplies and the restoration of services indispensable for the endurance of the civilian population. Despite a simplification successful standard of attacks, and immoderate constricted improvements, determination has been nary meaningful alteration successful the conditions Israel is inflicting connected Palestinians successful Gaza and nary grounds to bespeak that Israel's intent has changed."
Following Amnesty's findings successful December, Israel's Foreign Ministry called the London-based radical a "deplorable and fanatical organisation". "Israel is defending itself... acting afloat successful accordance with planetary law," it said.
Pattern of conduct
Gaza has been devastated by the warfare triggered by Hamas's unprecedented onslaught connected Israel connected October 7, 2023.
Ms. Callamard said: "Israel's signifier of behaviour successful Gaza, including the deliberate, unlawful denial of lifesaving assistance to Palestinians, galore of whom are injured, malnourished and astatine hazard of superior disease, continues to endanger their survival."
In September 2025, the autarkic planetary Commission of Inquiry acceptable up by the United Nations concluded that "genocide is occurring successful Gaza" — thing Israel vehemently denied.
The probe concluded that Israeli authorities and forces had since October 2023 committed "four of the 5 genocidal acts" listed successful the 1948 Genocide Convention.
These 5 acts see sidesplitting members of the group, causing them superior bodily oregon intelligence harm, imposing surviving conditions intended to destruct the group, preventing births and forcibly transferring children retired of the group.
The International Court of Justice past twelvemonth ordered Israel "to forestall and punish the nonstop and nationalist incitement to perpetrate genocide" successful Gaza.
The Gaza warfare was sparked by Hamas's October 7, 2023 onslaught connected Israel, which resulted successful the deaths of 1,221 people.
Israel's retaliatory battle connected Gaza has killed astatine slightest 69,799 people, according to figures from the territory's Health Ministry that the UN considers reliable. The Ministry says that since the ceasefire came into effect, 352 Palestinians person been killed by Israeli fire.
