Amnesty International accused the state of Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians in the war in the Gaza Strip in a report published on Thursday, an allegation Israeli leaders have repeatedly denied.
The London-based human rights group said it reached the conclusion after months of analyzing incidents and statements of Israeli officials. Amnesty said the legal threshold for the crime had been met, in its first such determination during an active armed conflict.
The 1948 Genocide Convention, enacted in the wake of the mass murder of Jews in the Nazi Holocaust, defines genocide as "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group."
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