“Crime of the Century”: Israel’s State Terrorism and International Law Violations in Gaza Strip

Year 2024, , 65 - 95, 11.06.2024

Gökhan Ak

https://doi.org/10.26650/hupej.2024.10.1.1468793

Abstract

The military wing of the Hamas organization executed several assaults that had been planned for many years on different locations in the South-Israel territories on October 7, 2023 at 6:00 LT. Very swiftly and without hesitation, for the first time since the Yom Kippur war declaration in 1973, Israel officially declared war against not only Hamas, but also against all civilian people living in the Gaza Strip. Israel first violently attacked the Northern Gaza Strip in an unrelenting, unpredictable show of force that had not been seen before, carrying on with its violence at an increasing rate and effectiveness to the time of this writing. However, the Israel Defense Force (IDF), as the military of the State of Israel, demonstrated a large-scale disproportionate use of force in the fight against terrorism in the Gaza Strip. Thus, the State of Israel and its army surprised the entire world in their attacks against all of the non-combatants in the Gaza Strip without any target discrimination, not only intentionally, consciously, and unconstrained, but also violently, inhumanely, and without any recognizable pattern. All those wittingly and deliberately executed assaults on the civilians and non-combat infrastructure (such as hospitals, religious sites, schools, etc.) in the Gaza Strip proved that the main aim of Israel was not to fight against terrorism in the region, but to execute a purposeful ethnic cleansing in the whole Gaza territory. Since it can be seen that previous research into Israel’s crimes against humanity concerning brutal and unlawful assaults towards the Palestinian territories were not so extensive in the relates literature, this study will likely contribute in that vein to the field of social science. The aim of this research is to explore and put forth Israel’s possible war crimes against non-combatants in the Gaza Strip in the context of state terrorism and make evaluations on their possible impact on international politics.

Keywords

Israel Gaza Strip, War, War Crimes, State Terrorism, Crimes against Humanity

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