Amnesty's Long-Overdue Reckoning: Hamas's October 7 Atrocities Finally Labeled Crimes Against Humanity—But Two Years Late Exposes Deep Bias
Amnesty's Long-Overdue Reckoning: Hamas's October 7 Atrocities Finally Labeled Crimes Against Humanity—But Two Years Late Exposes Deep Bias. Two years, two months, and four days after Hamas's barbaric October 7, 2023, rampage through southern Israel—leaving 1,221 dead, including over 800 civilians slaughtered in their homes, at a music festival, and in bomb shelters—Amnesty International has finally mustered the courage (or the PR savvy) to classify it as what it always was: 'crimes against humanity' In a 173-page report released today, December 11, 2025, the self-proclaimed human rights watchdog details a litany of horrors orchestrated by Hamas and allied Palestinian armed groups, including murder, extermination, torture, enforced disappearance, rape, and other sexual violence. This isn't just "war crimes"—it's systematic extermination, with Hamas's leadership explicitly directing fighters to hunt civilians, abduct 251 hostages (mostly women, ...