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Definition of the Crime of Extermination |
The Elements of the Crime of Extermination | |
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Extermination is the intentional and massive homicide of an entire group of persons. The international law of armed conflict specifically establishes that it is forbidden to attack civilians (GCIV Art. 32, API Art. 51.2, and APII Art. 13); to murder or exterminate the wounded or sick, the shipwrecked, prisoners of war, and civilians (GCI and GCII Art. 12, GCIII Art. 13, GCIV Art. 32, API Art. 10, and APII Art. 7); or to order that there shall be no survivors (API Art. 40). The Statute of the International Criminal Court, adopted in July 1998 and entered into force in July 2002, includes extermination in the crimes against humanity over which it will have jurisdiction. It defines extermination as “includ[ing] the intentional infliction of conditions of life, inter alia the deprivation of access to food and medicine, calculated to bring about the destruction of part of a population” (Art. 7.2.b). |
The exact meaning of this crime is listed in a separate document adopted by the Assembly of State Parties to the ICC and called the “Elements of Crime.” The crime of extermination requires that:
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- Category: The Giora Eiland's Generals Plan in practice
20241019 - Beit Lahiya, Northern Gaza - Israeli Zionists raiding the Indonesia Hospital; dozens fo civilians captured
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- Parent Category: Crime of extermination
- Category: The Giora Eiland's Generals Plan in practice
20241019 - Beit Lahia, Northern Gaza - Sound of a loud explosion reported as near Al Qassam Mosque
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- Parent Category: erasing references to existence
- Category: education (scholasticide)
20241019 - Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City - Paramedic collects remains of a victim at the Asmaa School
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- Parent Category: Crime of extermination
- Category: The Giora Eiland's Generals Plan in practice
20241019 - Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City - Paramedic collects remains of a victim at the Asmaa School
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- Parent Category: erasing references to existence
- Category: education (scholasticide)
20241019 - Al-Shati refugee camp west of Gaza City - Israelis bombed Asmaa School killing 7 people
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- Parent Category: Crime of extermination
- Category: The Giora Eiland's Generals Plan in practice
20241019 - Al-Shati refugee camp west of Gaza City - Israelis bombed Asmaa School killing 7 people
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- Parent Category: Crime of extermination
- Category: The Giora Eiland's Generals Plan in practice
20241018 - Jabaliya, Gaza City - Israelis bombed Al-Hawajri family home. 30 people killed, incl 20 women and children. 70 wounded
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- Parent Category: Crime of extermination
- Category: The Giora Eiland's Generals Plan in practice
20241018 - Gaza City - View on destruction in Al-Jalaa Street
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- Parent Category: Crime of extermination
- Category: The Giora Eiland's Generals Plan in practice
20241018 - Gaza City - People rush to rescue child shot by Israeli sniper. Israeli drone fires two missiles killing all
