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December 10, 2023       Share:    

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/06/hamas-genocide-against-israel/

Hamas Crimes Against Humanity Cannot Be Allowed to Fade

(Washington Post) Qanta A. Ahmed - Hamas committed crimes against humanity in Israel on Oct. 7. That much should be obvious from the terrorists' own mass-murder video recordings, but it is indisputable for anyone who has visited the ravaged sites of their attack, as I have. At Israel's National Center of Forensic Medicine, I inspected the body of an older man. His decaying body was now a quilt of stab wounds and gunshot entries and exits. His wrists remained encircled in plastic zip ties. A CT scanner was required to reveal that a charred mass was actually two humans. Cables bound the bodies together. The orientation of two spinal columns showed one adult and one child had died while locked in an embrace. Now, two months later, much of the discussion has moved on to considering how to achieve peace between Israel and Palestinians. But what happened on Oct. 7 meets the internationally recognized definition of genocide. The world has an obligation to recognize what was done - and to punish the perpetrators. The writer, a British-American Muslim, is Associate Professor of Medicine at the State University of New York.

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