crime against humanity

The commission concluded from its investigation that Israel has been guilty of the crime against humanity of extermination.

They are not quite the same as war crimes, since a “crime against humanity can also be committed in peacetime.”

Just as a crime against humanity isn’t necessarily a war crime, extermination, Sidoti explained, is not the same thing as genocide.

Israeli security forces have deliberately killed, wounded, arrested, detained, mistreated and tortured medical personnel and targeted medical vehicles, constituting the war crimes of wilful killing and mistreatment and the crime against humanity of extermination.

The commission said Israeli attacks on Gaza’s healthcare facilities and Israel’s treatment of Palestinian detainees amounted to war crimes, as well as the crime against humanity of “extermination”.