Genocide was first recognised as a crime under international law in 1946 by the United Nations General Assembly (A/RES/96-I). It was codified as an independent crime in the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (the Genocide Convention). The Convention has been ratified by 153 States (as of April 2022). The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has repeatedly stated that the Convention embodies principles that are part of general customary international law. This means that whether or not States have ratified the Genocide Convention, they are all bound as a matter of law by the principle that genocide is a crime prohibited under international law. The ICJ has also stated that the prohibition of genocide is a peremptory norm of international law (or ius cogens) and consequently, no derogation from it is allowed. Genocide is defined in the same terms as in the Genocide Convention in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Article 6), as well as in the statutes of other international and hybrid jurisdictions. |
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20240607 - news - Mass grave of bulldozed executed civilians found in Jabaliyah refugee camp
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20240527 - Tel As Sultan, Rafah - news - Israeli air strikes that killed 44 civilians further evidence of war crimes
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20240527 - Aftermath Israeli incendiary attack kills 40 people
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20240526 - Tel As Sultan, Rafah - More than 40 people killed after Israelis bombed tent camp.
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20240510 - unknown place, Northern Gaza - Street littered with dead bodies in video of 2023
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20240421 - Khan Younis, Southern Gaza - Mass grave at Nasser Hospital discovered
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20231113 - North Rimal, Gaza - Dead bodies at the compound of the Al Shifa Hospital.
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20231110 - news - Death toll in Israeli attack on al-Buraq school rises to 50
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20231031 - Jabaliyah refugees camp - Israeli airstrike leads to a massacre.
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