The Education Above All ( EAA) foundation has described "the direct air attack on the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza that killed nearly 500 people as a flagrant breach of the Geneva Convention and a war crime".
This attack on a hospital follows the direct bombing of two UNRWA school shelters in which six people were killed, a statement said. "On the 11th day of the bombing of Gaza, it is clear that hospitals and schools which are providing lifesaving medicine and sheltering innocent civilians, are being deliberately targeted. The siege of Gaza continues with no access to clean water, food, energy, medicine and emergency services. Nowhere is safe in Gaza.
"EAA deplores these deliberate, intentional, systematic war crimes designed to kill and starve civilians, thereby causing the violent displacement of Palestinians from their homes.
"EAA and its partners call for immediate unimpeded humanitarian access to provide clean water, food and emergency services to the people of Gaza.
"We call on the ICC and the Member States of the UN to act collectively to preserve the sanctity of the rule of law and human dignity. We demand the use of the legal mechanisms that were designed to ensure accountability for these very war crimes.
"We specifically call upon the Prosecutor of the ICC to expand its present investigation on the situation in Palestine to extend to any past and present allegations of war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide committed on any part of the territory of Gaza, by any person, during the period starting from 07 October 2023 onwards.”
