Despite growing international condemnation, Israel has rejected calls for a ceasefire of its continued assault on Gaza. "Israeli forces carried out indiscriminate attacks, killing and injuring civilians, and in some cases that we documented, … entire families were wiped out," says Amnesty International researcher Budour Hassan, who shares testimonies of Gazans from a new report on Israeli war crimes. Meanwhile, Israel continues to attack civilians in the occupied West Bank, and the number of Palestinians held in Israeli jails since October 7 has doubled. "This level of pressure, of coercion, of oppression that Palestinians have been facing in the West Bank … has received such scant attention because all eyes now are on Gaza," says Hassan.
Transcript: https://www.democracynow.org/2023/10/25/palestine_amnesty_international
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It’s only bad if the rockets kill people. Israel is clearly in the wrong here for protecting their citizens.