“… Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups flagrantly violated international law and displayed a chilling disregard for human life by carrying out cruel and brutal crimes including mass summary killings, hostage-taking, and launching indiscriminate rocket attacks into Israel, Amnesty International said today.
With evidence still emerging of the horrors that unfolded in southern Israel, Amnesty International will continue its investigations in order to determine the full range of crimes under international law. …”
(source: amnesty org, 12oct2023)
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during war time it is common for combatants to mass kill
the folks of countries they are invading
often the atrocities were due to isolated combatants or
small groups of combatants, but at times the troops are al-
so ordered to mass kill the population