Crime of extermination

Definition of the Crime of Extermination

The Elements of the Crime of Extermination

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:

The perpetrator killed one or more persons, including by inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of part of a population;
The conduct constituted, or took place as part of, a mass killing of members of a civilian population;
The conduct was committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against a civilian population;
The perpetrator knew that the conduct was part of or intended the conduct to be part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against a civilian population.

Details: Parent Category: erasing habitability; Category: destruction

Gaza City

20241109 - Gaza City - Video from unknown date shows a car driver filming destruction produced by Israelis

Details: Parent Category: Crime of extermination; Category: the Generals' Plan > Northern Gaza

Gaza City

20241109 - Gaza City - Unknown car driver films destruction produced by Israelis

Details: Parent Category: Crime of extermination; Category: the Generals' Plan > Northern Gaza

20241108 - Jabaliyah, Northern Gaza - Several people wounded during the Generals Plan siege

Details: Parent Category: Crime of extermination; Category: the Generals' Plan > Northern Gaza

20241108 - Jabaliyah, Northern Gaza - Illegal deportation of captured occupied civilians

Details: Parent Category: Crime of extermination; Category: the Generals' Plan > Northern Gaza

20241107 - Jabaliyah, Northern Gaza - People forced to leave durimg the Generals Plan siege

Details: Parent Category: Crime of extermination; Category: the Generals' Plan > Northern Gaza

20241107 - Jabaliya, Northern Gaza - Illegal deportation of civilians to the territory annexed by the war belligerent

Details: Parent Category: Crime of extermination; Category: the Generals' Plan > Northern Gaza

20241106 - unknown place, Northern Gaza - Journalist Hossam Shabat report about forced displace people

Details: Parent Category: erasing habitability; Category: bombardment, shelling, etc.

20241104 - unknown place, Northern Gaza - House or residential building destroyed

Details: Parent Category: erasing references to existence; Category: Palestinian identity

20241104 - United Nations - Franceska Albanese warns for erasure of Palestinian existence in the north

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