The Hamas resistance movement has hailed a resolution issued by the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), confirming that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza.
Hamas said in a statement on Monday night that the resolution affirms that Israel has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity, including genocide, against the Palestinians in Gaza.
Hamas described the resolution as a new legal document, which has been added to previous international reports and testimonies documenting the Israeli genocide against the people of Gaza.
The group also condemned the international community’s failure to act against Israel and its war criminal prime minister, calling it a stain of shame and an unjustifiable failure to protect humanity.
Hamas urged the UN and all other relevant parties to take urgent steps to stop the crimes of genocide, displacement, and ethnic cleansing that Israeli forces are committing in Gaza, and to hold the regime’s terrorist leaders accountable.
Eighty-six percent of voting members of the 500-strong IAGS supported the resolution, which stated that “Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in article II of the United Nations convention for the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide (1948).”
The IAGS said the "deliberate destruction of agricultural fields, food warehouses, and bakeries and other violence that prevents food production, in conjunction with denial and restriction of humanitarian aid, indicate the intentional infliction of unlivable conditions resulting in starvation of Palestinians in Gaza."
This comes as Israel’s actions in Gaza have drawn condemnation from human rights groups and governments worldwide.
Last week, Palestine’s leading human rights group presented further evidence of genocide in Gaza, accusing Israel of seeking to annihilate Palestinians in the besieged strip.
In a 204-page report titled Voices of the Genocide, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) concluded that Israel had committed four of the five acts prohibited under the 1948 Genocide Convention, with the intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza as a group.
PCHR has previously labeled Israel's conduct in Gaza as a genocide, but Thursday's report is the culmination of the organization’s documentation of genocidal evidence over the past 22 months.
At least 340 Palestinians, including 124 children, have died from malnutrition since Israel launched its genocidal war on Gaza.
The Israeli regime continues its campaign of destruction, with Gaza City bearing the brunt of intensified attacks in recent days.
