Israeli military lawyers were reportedly afraid by the expanding amount of evidence suggesting that Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip could be war crimes, according to information from American intelligence collected in the first year of the conflict, reported Reuters to 5 erstwhile U.S. officials.
Israel began a military run in consequence to the Hamas raid of October 7, 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed.
According to the Gaza sanitary authorities, over 68,000 Palestinians have been killed since then as a consequence of retaliation attacks and land operations.
The UN Commission accused Israel of committing genocide as the country is the subject of 2 global proceedings – 1 before the global Court of Justice (ICT) and the another before the global Criminal Court (ICT).
According to Reuters' study published on Friday, the Israeli army itself had doubts "as to the legality of its tactics, which contrasted sharply with Israel's public stance defending its actions".
Former U.S. president Joe Biden's administration officials, who spoke anonymously, identified the material collected and circulated by American intelligence before the convention briefing in December 2024 as 1 of the "the most amazing that was shared with the top U.S. decision makers during the war".
"There were fears that Israel was deliberately attacking civilians and humanitarian workers" – reported Reuters, without specifying which incidents triggered the alarm.
American officials besides feared that an expanding number of civilian deaths "may violate global legal standards on acceptable side losses" – added the publication.
Washington publically defended Israel throughout the war, even after Biden's administration admitted in a May 2024 study that it had ‘reasoned concerns’that Israel may have violated global humanitarian law.
A formal message that Israel has committed war crimes would require the United States to suspend arms transfers and suspend intelligence cooperation.
For Donald Trump's presidency, Washington began a run of force on the global Criminal Court.
The Intercept website has late described extended US-supported activities to conceal the documentation of alleged Israeli war crimes, noting that hundreds of related films have been removed from YouTube.
Last month, Israel's chief defence force lawyer, Maj-Gen Jifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, confessed to releasing a video showing soldiers bullying a Palestinian prisoner and resigned her post under force to halt investigating the case.
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source:https://www.rt.com/news/627517-israeli-lawyers-gaza-crimes/
