Amnesty International published a report on Wednesday accusing Israel of committing war crimes and displaying a "callous indifference" in attacks on family homes during the war in the Gaza Strip over the summer.

Israeli and Palestinian tension flared in the densely populated coastal area after two members of Hamas kidnapped and killed three Israeli teenagers. Israel blamed the attack on the Hamas-controlled government and implemented a crackdown on Hamas in the West Bank before launching an airstrike that killed seven Hamas militants. In turn, Hamas fired missiles and 40 rockets towards Israel.

In July, Israel launched "Operation Protective Edge" in effort to put an end to Hamas' rocket fire strikes. Later, Israel expanded its operation to a ground invasion in Gaza.

Altogether, the seven-week war led to the death of 2,100 Palestinians, including many civilians, while Israel lost just 66 soldiers and six civilians. Eventually, an open-ended cease-fire was announced on Aug. 26.

According to Amnesty, "Israeli forces killed scores of Palestinian civilians in attacks targeting houses full of families, which in some cases have amounted to war crimes," reports Al Jazeera.

The Amnesty report cited eight targeted Israeli attacks killed at least 104 civilians, including entire families and 62 children.

"Israeli forces have brazenly flouted the laws of war by carrying out a series of attacks on civilian homes, displaying callous indifference to the carnage caused," said Philip Luther, director of Amnesty's Middle East and North Africa program, according to USA Today.

However, Israel dismissed the report and issued a threat in October to abort future talks with the Palestinian authority if they took their complaints against Israel to the International Criminal Court.  

Israel's foreign ministry also criticized the human rights group report, saying it "ignores documented war crimes perpetrated by Hamas."

"The report does not mention the word 'terror' in relation to Hamas or other armed Palestinian groups, nor mentions tunnels built by Hamas to infiltrate Israel and perpetrate terror attacks," the ministry said.

However, an Amnesty representative told Al Jazeera that the human rights organization has consistently condemned rocket fire by Palestinian armed groups and label their actions as a war crime.

"Over the coming months Amnesty International plans to release other briefings on Israeli forces' actions in Gaza and on abuses by Palestinian armed groups," the Amnesty rep said.

Israel defended its actions during its 50-day military operation, stating that they tried to avoid civilian casualties by sending out warning strikes before attacking a targeted area.

"This is a gross misuse of international law," wrote Eyal Weizman, a forensics analyst and director of the Forensic Architecture project at the University of London. "It is illegal to fire at civilians, even if the intention is to warn them. It is ridiculous to ask them to understand, in the commotion and chaos of war, that being shot at is a warning -- and it is outrageous to claim that this is undertaken to save their lives."

On Thursday, the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced that it will not prosecute Israel over the 2010 raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla that killed 10 Turkish activists, despite a "reasonable basis" to believe war crimes were committed, reports Yahoo! News.

Although the Israeli military stormed civilian ships en route to deliver aid to the Gaza Strip, chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said that there would be no prosecution because the alleged crimes were not of "sufficient gravity".

In response to the decision, the Israeli ministry said the "politically motivated" complaint was a waste of the court's time.

"Israel believes that it was pointless to initiate a preliminary inquiry in the first place," a foreign ministry statement said.