Amnesty Report Details War Crimes During 22-Day Gaza
By Jason Ditz,
July 01, 2009
Courtesy Of Anti-War News
Amnesty International issued a 105-page report today detailing war crimes committed by the Israeli military during its 22-day military offensive against the Gaza Strip. The attack killed over 1,400 Palestinians and wounded 5,000 others. It also destroyed over 3,000 homes.
The report found that “much of the destruction was wanton and resulted from direct attacks on civilian objects as well as indiscriminate attacks that failed to distinguish between legitimate military targets and civilian objects.”
Amnesty’s investigation also managed to produce no evidence to support repeated claims from the Israeli military that the Hamas government was using civilians as human shields during the war. On the other hand they did cite an instance in which Israeli troops forced multiple families of civilians, including children, to remain in a house they turned into a sniper nest, “effectively using the families, both adults and children, as human shields and putting them at risk.”
Using civilians to shield a military target from attack is internationally recognized as a war crime, and is just one of many claims of war crimes committed by the invading forces, as detailed in this report and past ones. Yesterday Human Rights Watch also issued a report accusing Israel of war crimes over its use of drones to indiscriminately target civilians. The Israeli military publicly condemned the Human Rights Watch report, but has yet to comment on the much longer, more detailed Amnesty report.
1 comment:
That Israel commits war crimes,including using civilians as human shields surprises no-one who bothers to look beyond the Israel friendly mass media.Incredibly though, any literate person,with access to a library or the internet can read nearly countless reports of atrocities from before Israel was a state,up to now.Many of these reports are written by ISRAELI journalists and historians detailing for example the mass rapes and murders of Palestinians,1947 to 1949 to facilitate the ethnic cleansing of areas outside the approved borders of Israel,coveted by the Zionists.Collective punishment,cluster munitions and white phosphorous against densely packed civilian populations,deliberate destruction of civil infrastucture,murder of POWs-no act is too low for "the most moral Army in the world".The REAL CRIME is that none of these murdering scum will ever face a court,because the US provides a shield for any act of war or crime against humanity committed by their nuclear armed land stealing ethnic cleansing "friends" in the Middle East.
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