Amnesty International (AI) Israel today rejected the report of the headquarters of that international human rights organization, which accuses Israel of committing genocide in the Gaza Strip.
The press release stated that some members of AI Israel accused the report's authors of reaching "predetermined conclusions."
The Israeli branch of the international human rights organization also said that it was not involved in the research, funding, or writing of the report published today, and that it "does not accept the claim that it has been proven that genocide is taking place in the Gaza Strip and does not accept the operational findings of the report ".
AI Israel states that while "the level of killing and destruction perpetrated by Israel in Gaza has reached appalling proportions and must be stopped immediately," the organization does not believe these events meet the definition of genocide as set forth in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
Despite rejecting the allegation of genocide, Amnesty Israel claims that Israel's actions in Gaza "raise suspicions of widespread and serious violations of international law and crimes against humanity" and calls for steps to be taken to end the war in Gaza immediately.
In addition, as it seems, the double standard of AI in relation to Israel and Hamas is being criticized.
"There have been accusations that both massacres carried out by Hamas on October 7 (last year) and in the Israeli attack after that massacre were genocide or attempted genocide. It is important to properly investigate these accusations to ensure that the standard required for proof of intent to commit genocide is universal and consistent for all parties as in no other case in the world where similar concerns have been raised," Amnesty Israel said.
In a separate statement seen by the Haaretz newspaper, several members of the organization in Israel and Jewish members of AI went a step further and assessed that the report produced an artificial finding of the situation in the Gaza Strip.
They stated that from the very beginning the report was alluded to as a genocide report even though the investigation was still in its initial stages.
"This is a strong indication of bias and also a factor that causes additional bias," the statement said, questioning how difficult it is for a researcher to work for months on a report called a genocide report and then conclude that it is 'only' about a crime against humanity.
"Predetermined conclusions of this kind are not common in other Amnesty International investigations," Israel's AI said.
In addition, it is requested that AI critically review the working procedures and methodology that led to the publication of what was judged to be an erroneous report.
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