Amnesty International has said Israel committed a “live-streamed genocide” against Palestinians in Gaza by forcibly displacing most of the population and deliberately creating a humanitarian catastrophe, reports AFP.

“Since 7 October 2023 — when Hamas perpetrated horrific crimes against Israeli citizens and others and captured more than 250 hostages — the world has been made audience to a live-streamed genocide,” Amnesty said in its recent report, titled ‘The State of the World’s Human Rights’.

“States watched on as if powerless, as Israel killed thousands upon thousands of Palestinians, wiping out entire multigenerational families, destroying homes, livelihoods, hospitals and schools,” Amnesty’s secretary general Agnes Callamard said in the report.

Amnesty said that throughout 2024 it had “documented multiple war crimes by Israel, including direct attacks on civilians and civilian objects, and indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks”.

It said Israel’s actions forcibly displaced 1.9 million Palestinians, around 90 per cent of Gaza’s population, and “deliberately engineered an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe”.