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The Palestinian resistance group Hamas marked 700 days of Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza on Friday, calling it a “stain on humanity” and urging the international community to take decisive action against the ongoing atrocities.

In a statement, Hamas highlighted its efforts to reach a ceasefire and a prisoner exchange agreement, stressing that it had “shown significant flexibility” in negotiations.

The movement blamed the repeated failure of mediators on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and called him “a war criminal committed to undermining diplomatic initiatives, pursuing indefinite plans of extermination and displacement, and placing the lives of captives at risk to serve his government’s agenda.”

Hamas renewed its call to the international community, including Arab and Islamic countries, the UN, and its organs, particularly the UN Security Council, to “fulfill their responsibilities toward the Palestinian people and intervene to halt the crimes of the fascist occupation government.”

The movement emphasized the need for “punitive measures against Israel,” warning that “mere condemnations are insufficient” and that, without substantial consequences, Israel would “continue its crimes without regard for international protests or positions.”

Hamas also praised global grassroots solidarity with the Palestinian people and welcomed the launch of the Global Sumud Flotilla, an initiative to break the blockade on Gaza.

    • jordanlund@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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      8 hours ago

      By claiming to want to “wipe Israel off the map”, that’s a desire to eliminate Israelis which is the definition of genocide.

      https://iccforum.com/genocide-convention

      ✅ (a)Killing members of the group;

      ✅ (b)Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

      ✅ ©Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

      (d)Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

      (e)Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

      • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
        3·
        7 hours ago

        Damn that’s crazy. I didn’t know Nelson Mandela committed Genocide on Apartheid South Africa. Thanks explaining how genocide works.

        • jordanlund@lemmy.worldMEnglish
          11·
          7 hours ago

          That’s not me, that’s the Article 2 of the Genocide Convention. You’d think someone named “Geneva Convenience” would already know that.

            • jordanlund@lemmy.worldMEnglish
              11·
              2 hours ago

              So you are saying that when Iran says “wipe Israel off the map” they aren’t targeting the Jewish majority of Israel? Because that’s EXACTLY what they are doing.

              Same as when Netanyahu says Israel wants to control all the land from the river to the sea, he’s talking about wiping out all the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza (although he has his eyes on Syria, and Lebanon too).

              Both statements are affirmations of genocide.