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The 7 October attack by #Hamas militants that killed over 1,400 people and resulted in more than 220 #hostages was “clearly a crime against humanity”, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the former chief prosector of the International Criminal Court #ICC has said. “Because killings with the intention to strike a group is a #genocide , and Hamas’s official intention is to strike #Israelis,” he told the #BBC.

“It's a war crime, because taking #hostages is a war crime,” he added. (Cont.)