crime against humanity

A statement endorsing the plan stressed "the categorical rejection of any form of displacement of the Palestinian people", describing such an idea as "a gross violation of international law, a crime against humanity and ethnic cleansing".

Siobhan described the bombing as "a crime against humanity" which had destroyed the "simple, quiet and normal family life of a woman, a mother and her family".

That language was just a tiny bit provocative seeing as ethnic cleansing is considered a crime against humanity.

Two weeks later, on the same day the lawsuit was filed in federal district court in San Francisco, Human Rights Watch released new findings that “Israeli authorities are responsible for the crime against humanity of extermination and for acts of genocide.”

The campaign group says this has probably caused thousands of deaths, which it says is also tantamount to "committing the crime against humanity of extermination".