Psy 2,401 Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 New Amnesty International report accuses Israel of committing war crimes in Gaza By Annie Robbins Date: 5th November 2014 Source: Mondoweiss Amnesty International released a report today, “Families Under the Rubble- Israeli attacks on inhabited homes†(pdf) , accusing Israel of committing war crimes by targeting and killing scores of Palestinian civilians with no warning during Operation Protective Edge, last summer’s slaughter in Gaza. Citing the report Amnesty International News quotes Amnesty Director of Middle East and North Africa Programme Philip Luther saying Israeli forces “brazenly†flouted the laws of war and “deliberately flattened entire homes full of civilians†without any warning: “[D]isplaying callous indifference to the carnage caused….The report exposes a pattern of attacks on civilian homes by Israeli forces which have shown a shocking disregard for the lives of Palestinian civilians, who were given no warning and had no chance to flee.â€â€¦. “Even if a fighter had been present in one of these residential homes, it would not absolve Israel of its obligation to take every feasible precaution to protect the lives of civilians caught up in the fighting. The repeated, disproportionate attacks on homes indicate that Israel’s current military tactics are deeply flawed and fundamentally at odds with the principles of international humanitarian law,†said Philip Luther. The report focuses in specific (often gruesome) details of Israeli attacks on 8 multi storied residential homes, where 104 civilians were massacred, including 62 children. Noting Israeli officials have failed to acknowledge any of the attacks detailed in the report, much less justify or explain the rationale behind any of them, Amnesty concludes by recommending Israel cooperate with the Commission of Inquiry set up by the UN Human Rights Council and allow access to relevant personnel and documents as well as provide access to Gaza to facilitate and investigation of international law “by all parties to the conflict.†“The onus in[sic] on the Israeli government to explain what the intended target was in each of these attacks, in what way the target was a lawful military objective, what the means and methods of attack used were and why they were selected.†The Israeli government has responded by saying it is conducting its own investigation of the instances in the report and accusing Amnesty of serving “as a propaganda tool for Hamas and other terror groups.†Israel has also questioned the credibility of Amnesty’s use of field workers to collect the data for the report, a strategy the organization was forced to use because Israel will not allow them to enter Gaza. Amnesty says that ultimately the International Criminal Court should be given the authority to investigate. From Amnesty News: Given the failure of Israeli and Palestinian authorities to independently and impartially investigate allegations of war crimes, it is imperative that the international community support the involvement of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Amnesty International is renewing its calls on Israel and the Palestinian authorities to accede to the Rome Statute and grant the ICC the authority to investigate crimes committed in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). The organization is also calling for the UN Security Council to refer the situation in Israel and the OPT to the ICC so that the prosecutor can investigate allegations of crimes under international law by all parties. Israel has continued to deny access to Gaza for international human rights organizations including Amnesty International and the organization has been forced to conduct its research for this report remotely, supported by two fieldworkers based in Gaza. Israel has also announced that it will not co-operate with the Commission of Inquiry established by the UN Human Rights Council. “Failing to allow independent human rights monitors into Gaza smacks of a deliberately orchestrated attempt to cover up violations or hide from international scrutiny. Israel must cooperate fully with the UN Commission of Inquiry and grant international human rights organizations such as Amnesty International immediate access to Gaza to prove its commitment to human rights,†said Philip Luther. RELEVANT: What is Dahiya Doctrine? The deliberate targeting of civilian areas with excessive force Source: Wikileaks The Untold Story of the Shejaiya Massacre in Gaza: A Former Israel Soldier Speaks Out Date: 12th September 2014 Source: DemocracyNow Background: Former Soldier is a 7th generation Jew of Jerusalem - very rare - who served in the army, and is now an activists against Israeli warcrimes. He's one of the main activists that shaped the campaign called 'Breaking the Silence'. Click the source-link to know more of the nature of Israeli warcrimes. A lot of what you will come across has been censored out to prevent worldwide spread: "... The Israeli army is independent in the way it’s controlling all of Israeli society. The Israeli media, the Israeli court—everybody is working underneath the army censorship. Nobody can publish anything in Israel—of course, not researchers—and I’m not talking only on TV or radio or newspaper; I’m talking on bloggers in the Internet. Nobody can publish anything if it doesn’t go through the IDF censorship, the same IDF censorship that censorship crimes for years under the occupation of the Palestinians in Palestine..... ... So it’s an organization ['Breaking the Silence'] that collect testimonies from soldiers all across the West Bank and Gaza, and trying to publish them to the Israeli public and to the world. The problem is that even Breaking the Silence is under the military censorship, so Breaking the Silence is actually only breaking the silence that the Israeli government let them... Part 2: Former Israeli Soldier Eran Efrati Speaks Out About Documenting IDF Abuse in Gaza, West Bank Date: 12th September 2014 Source: DemocracyNow On the kidnapping of the 3 Israeli teens that re-ignited the 3rd Gaza massacre: "... And the first day after the young men were kidnapped, a hashtag was coming out. All the buses in Israel was covered by slogans—hashtag of course referring to the social media campaigns— #BringBackTheBoys, not in Hebrew, not in Arabic, but in English, saying, when we’re out there killing hundreds of people in Gaza, you will be our PR people. Everybody here need to work for us. #BringBackOurBoys in English from the first day, after they knew they were killed. Their families didn’t know they were killed. We, the citizens, didn’t know they were killed. But the police and the government did, and they hide this from us...." What life inside Israel became: "... Every night in the center of Jerusalem, we saw hundreds of people, youth, mostly youth, being led by some adults with interest in Israel, going around Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, the south, the north, looking for Palestinians, screaming for Palestinians to get out of the shops, where they work for us as cleaners, as dishwashers, there’s cooks, calling them out of the shops and trying to lynch them..." Understanding Hamas: "... we need to start talking about how Hamas was even born. In the late 1980s, during the First Intifada, Israel was very afraid of the PLO. So, to stop the PLO, what we did was help to create a new group of resistance, that divided the West Bank into two. And the name was Hamas. We gave them weapon. Israel trained some of their people. And we gave them money to work.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIM£ 2,060 Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 There is a thread made for this shit, and you know it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PShell 1,522 Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 tbh send palestinians to jordan and be done with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psy 2,401 Posted November 21, 2014 Author Share Posted November 21, 2014 There is a thread made for this shit, and you know itKnow it too well, and know it for being a thread for discussion, not breaking news. If in doubt, speak to a moderator.If dissatisfied, don't show up to topics about Palestine and Israel at all, which is simple considering that more 99% of this forum is exactly that. In other words, threads about Palestine/Israel will not be treated any differently just because you don't like it. tbh send palestinians to jordan and be done with it.Palestinians are the indigenous of the Holy Land, not the Jews that came from Europe to establish their own Holy Land through slaughter and ethnic cleansing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Really Real Halftomato 1,077 Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 tbh i love how young palestiny people are taking action and killing the israeli people occupying their country.....whenever i see an israeli bitch rammed by a car or something i feel extra good... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psy 2,401 Posted November 23, 2014 Author Share Posted November 23, 2014 tbh i love how young palestiny people are taking action and killing the israeli people occupying their country.....whenever i see an israeli bitch rammed by a car or something i feel extra good...There's nothing to love about the hatred that is instilled onto both sides.How are you any different from the multiple Israeli groups that set up tag-price attacks on innocent Palestinians, and reward extra cash for murder? There has to be justice, especially since the influential powers are pushing forward to a one-state solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Really Real Halftomato 1,077 Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 There's nothing to love about the hatred that is instilled onto both sides. How are you any different from the multiple Israeli groups that set up tag-price attacks on innocent Palestinians, and reward extra cash for murder? There has to be justice, especially since the influential powers are pushing forward to a one-state solution. it seems you havent learned anything from history.......when it comes to israel theres no justice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psy 2,401 Posted November 24, 2014 Author Share Posted November 24, 2014 it seems you havent learned anything from history.......when it comes to israel theres no justice.Israel is on the road to self-destruction. It will lose its Zionist identity. You can even say that it will destroy Judaism. The main question is where will the Palestinians go? They don't have anywhere to go, unless if Israel is taking "to the sea" literally by building a man-made island, which they haven't. So it must be a one-state solution, and it is impossible to continue many more decades functioning on institutionalized racism in the name of a religion that never approved of it.It'll be a long process for equality. It's just terribly unfortunate that Abbas is willing to sacrifice innocent Palestinians to keep his chair of 'leadership'. That will be thrown out immediately along with his pitiful personality when the one-state gets underway. A true Palestinian Leader would head straight to ICC. Honestly, he sickens me and I wouldn't be surprised if he signs agreement to Israel's deal that the Palestinians are allowed to live in the one-state solution only if The Right to Return to their indigenous homes is gone for good. The bottom line is the situation is so tragic that there is nothing to love about it. To even find love or pride in this is psychopathy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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