Photos of shrapnel, an analysis of satellite images and dozens of testimonies prove war crimes, according to the document.
In a press release in August, Israel’s prime minister and defense minister emphasized that their attacks are “precise and responsible” to involve as few civilians as possible. Amnesty International disagrees: Israeli attacks that month killed a four-year-old boy, a teenager who visited his mother’s grave and a 22-year-old student.
On August 5, a projectile from an Israeli tank hit a house, killing the daughter of the family living there. Two days later, a rocket hit a cemetery in Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip. Five children, who lived in the nearby refugee camp, died on the spot. In a third attack, according to Amnesty, caused by a rocket misfired by Palestinians, seven Palestinian civilians were killed in a refugee camp in the same area.
For the investigation, Amnesty deployed a field worker who visited the attack sites. The organization itself has been denied access to the Gaza Strip by Israeli authorities since 2012.