Amnesty International has called on the International Criminal Court to conduct an investigation into possible war crimes committed in Gaza by both Israeli forces and Palestinian militants during the conflict last August.
The human rights organization said in a new report issued on Tuesday that 31 civilians were among the 49 Palestinians killed during the three-day conflict in the besieged strip by Israel.
The London-based organization called on the International Criminal Court to "urgently investigate any possible war crimes committed during the Israeli offensive in August 2022."
"Amnesty International has collected and analyzed new evidence of unlawful attacks, including possible war crimes, committed by both Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups."
The report detailed a raid targeting the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, killing seven civilians, and the organization said that the bombing was "most likely caused by a missile launched by Palestinian armed groups by mistake."
The fighting erupted in Gaza on the fifth of August when Israeli raids targeted sites of the "Islamic Jihad" movement, which it justified as pre-emptive strikes to avoid attacks.
The Palestinian organization responded by firing a barrage of rockets, causing no casualties among the Israelis.
Amnesty International's research also found that an attack in which five children were killed in a cemetery was "likely to have been carried out by an Israeli guided missile launched by a drone."
In a third incident, which Amnesty International considers may amount to a war crime, an Israeli tank fired on a house in the southern Khan Yunis area, killing a civilian.
The International Criminal Court has opened an investigation into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that is expected to focus in part on possible war crimes committed during the 2014 conflict in Gaza.
The Palestinian Authority supports the investigation, but Israel is not a member of the ICC and rejects its jurisdiction in the Palestinian territories.
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