Amnesty International has concluded that Hamas committed war crimes during the 2014 Gaza conflict by firing rockets 'indiscriminately ' at civilian areas and using non-combatants as human shields . 'In launching these attacks , [ Palestinian jihadis ] displayed a flagrant disregard for international humanitarian law and for the consequences of their violations on civilians in both Israel and the Gaza Strip , ' said Philip Luther , Amnesty 's director for the Middle East and North Africa . The report concluded that rocket attacks had killed six civilians in Israel , including a child . Other rockets aimed at the Jewish state fell short and killed at least 13 Palestinian civilians , 11 of them children , on the beach in Gaza , in an attack that was wrongly blamed on Israel . Scroll down for video . War crimes : Amnesty International has found that Palestinian militants displayed 'flagrant disregard for international humanitarian law ' by firing rockets from civilian areas into civilian areas . Pain : Family members and relatives of four-year-old Daniel Tregerman , who was killed by shrapnel from a Palestinian rocket , mourn during his funeral in 2014 . Deadly : A rocket is fired from Gaza City towards Israel . Amnesty International described them as 'indiscriminate ' , and said that they killed more Palestinians than Israelis when they misfired . Palestinian witnesses had claimed that an Israeli F-16 warplane had killed Palestinian civilians on the beach . But the Amnesty report has corroborated the Israeli army 's account of events , which said that the deaths occurred when militants misfired their own rockets . 'An independent munitions expert who examined the available evidence ... concluded that the projectile used in the attack was a Palestinian rocket , ' the report said . It confirmed that during the 50-day war , Palestinian terrorists launched unguided rockets and mortars from civilian areas toward other civilian areas , constituting a breach of international law . Figures released by the Israeli army after the war ended on 26 August showed that Gaza militants fired 4,591 projectiles at Israel . Of those , 3,659 struck Israeli territory and 735 were intercepted by the Iron Dome air defence system , leaving another 197 falling short and landing inside the coastal enclave . Militant groups used unguided projectiles which were 'inherently indiscriminate , ' the report said , noting that this is 'prohibited under international law ' and 'constitutes a war crime ' . Luther demanded that Palestinian armed groups 'end all direct attacks on civilians ' , and take all feasible precautions 'to protect civilians in the Gaza Strip from the effects of such attacks ' , including launching attacks 'within or near densely populated areas . ' Other war crimes committed by Palestinian terrorists included storing munitions in civilian buildings and U.N. schools and launching attacks from areas densely populated with civilians , effectively using them as human shields . Luther called on both Israeli and Palestinian authorities to cooperate with U.N. and International Criminal Court probes 'to end decades of impunity that have perpetuated a cycle of violations in which civilians on both sides have paid a heavy price ' . Hamas official Taher al-Nounou denied the allegations in the Amnesty report , saying that Hamas did not target civilians . An Islamic Jihad spokesman , Daud Shihab , said that the rocket fire was in self-defence , and did little damage in comparison to Israel 's weapons . The 50-day Gaza war claimed the lives of about 2,200 Palestinians and 73 Israelis .
Palestinian jihadis fired rockets indiscriminately at civilians , from civilian areas , which constitutes a war crime . An attack on a beach in Gaza that killed 13 Palestinian civilians , which was blamed on Israel , was actually the result of misfired Palestinian rockets . The militants displayed ' a flagrant disregard for international humanitarian law ' , said Philip Luther , Amnesty International 's director for the Middle East .