Israeli attacks unlawfull

[Urbanguerrilla]

3. Attacks by Israeli forces on government buildings and persons of the Gaza authorities, including police

32. Israeli armed forces launched numerous attacks against buildings and persons of the Gaza
authorities. As far as attacks on buildings are concerned, the Mission examined the Israeli strikes
against the Palestinian Legislative Council and the Gaza main prison (Chapter VII). Both
buildings were destroyed to an extent that puts them out of use. Statements by Israeli
Government and armed forces representatives justified the attacks arguing that political and
administrative institutions in Gaza are part of the “Hamas terrorist infrastructure”. The Mission
rejects this position. It finds that there is no evidence that the Legislative Council building and
the Gaza main prison made an effective contribution to military action. On the information
available to it, the Mission finds that the attacks on these buildings constituted deliberate attacks
on civilian objects in violation of the rule of customary international humanitarian law whereby
attacks must be strictly limited to military objectives. These facts further indicate the
commission of the grave breach of extensive destruction of property, not justified by military
necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly.
Full UN report on Gaza war

 

[Marc39]

Colonel Richard Kemp, decorated war hero who led British forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, on why the Israeli military is the most moral in the world...

I am the former commander of the British forces in Afghanistan. I served with NATO and the United Nations; commanded troops in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Macedonia; and participated in the Gulf War. I spent considerable time in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, and worked on international terrorism for the UK Government’s Joint Intelligence Committee.

Mr. President, based on my knowledge and experience, I can say this: During Operation Cast Lead, the Israeli Defence Forces did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than any other army in the history of warfare.Israel did so while facing an enemy that deliberately positioned its military capability behind the human shield of the civilian population.
Hamas, like Hizballah, are expert at driving the media agenda. Both will always have people ready to give interviews condemning Israeli forces for war crimes. They are adept at staging and distorting incidents.

The IDF faces a challenge that we British do not have to face to the same extent. It is the automatic, Pavlovian presumption by many in the international media, and international human rights groups, that the IDF are in the wrong, that they are abusing human rights.

The truth is that the IDF took extraordinary measures to give Gaza civilians notice of targeted areas, dropping over 2 million leaflets, and making over 100,000 phone calls. Many missions that could have taken out Hamas military capability were aborted to prevent civilian casualties. During the conflict, the IDF allowed huge amounts of humanitarian aid into Gaza. To deliver aid virtually into your enemy's hands is, to the military tactician, normally quite unthinkable. But the IDF took on those risks.
Despite all of this, of course innocent civilians were killed. War is chaos and full of mistakes. There have been mistakes by the British, American and other forces in Afghanistan and in Iraq, many of which can be put down to human error. But mistakes are not war crimes.

More than anything, the civilian casualties were a consequence of Hamas’ way of fighting. Hamas deliberately tried to sacrifice their own civilians.

Mr. President, Israel had no choice apart from defending its people, to stop Hamas from attacking them with rockets.

And I say this again: the IDF did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than any other army in the history of warfare.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX6vyT8RzMo]YouTube - Goldstone Gaza Report: Col. Richard Kemp Testifies at U.N. Emergency Session[/ame]

 

[Urbanguerrilla]

Colonel Richard Kemp, decorated war hero who led British forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, on why the Israeli military is the most moral in the world...

One British colonel Blimp does not a UN Human Rights report make, the facts certainly belie what this poor man has been paid to say...

 

[Urbanguerrilla]

7. Deliberate attacks against the civilian population

43. The Mission investigated eleven incidents in which Israeli forces launched direct attacks
against civilians with lethal outcome (Chapter XI). The cases examined in this part of the report
are, with one exception, all cases in which the facts indicate no justifiable military objective
pursued by the attack. The first two incidents are attacks against houses in the Samouni
neighbourhood south of Gaza City, including the shelling of a house in which Palestinian
civilians had been forced to assemble by the Israeli forces. The following group of seven
incidents concern the shooting of civilians while they were trying to leave their homes to walk to
a safer place, waving white flags and, in some of the cases, following an injunction from the
Israeli forces to do so. The facts gathered by the Mission indicate that all the attacks occurred
under circumstances in which the Israeli forces were in control of the area and had previously
entered into contact with or at least observed the persons they subsequently attacked, so that they
must have been aware of their civilian status. In the majority of these incidents, the consequences of the Israeli attacks against civilians were aggravated by their subsequent refusal to allow the evacuation of the wounded or to permit access to ambulances.

44. These incidents indicate that the instructions given to the Israeli forces moving into Gaza
provided for a low threshold for the use of lethal fire against the civilian population. The Mission
found strong corroboration of this trend emerging from its fact-finding in the testimonies of
Israeli soldiers collected in two publications it reviewed.

45. The Mission further examined an incident in which a mosque was targeted with a missile during the early evening prayer, resulting in the death of fifteen, and an attack with flechette munitions on a crowd of family and neighbours at a condolence tent, killing five. The Mission finds that both attacks constitute intentional attacks against the civilian population and civilian objects.

46. From the facts ascertained in all the above cases, the Mission finds that the conduct of the Israeli armed forces constitute grave breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention in respect of wilful killings and wilfully causing great suffering to protected persons and as such give rise to individual criminal responsibility. It also finds that the direct targeting and arbitrary killing of Palestinian civilians is a violation of the right to life.

47. The last incident concerns the launch of a bomb on a house resulting in the killing of 22
family members. Israel’s position in this case is that there was an “operational error” and that the
intended target was a neighbouring house storing weapons. On the basis of its investigation, the
Mission expresses significant doubts about the Israeli authorities’ account of the incident. The
Mission concludes that, if indeed a mistake was made, there could not be said to be a case of
wilful killing. State responsibility of Israel for an internationally wrongful act, however, would
remain.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/20007023/Full-UN-report-on-Gaza-war

 

[Marc39]

Colonel Richard Kemp, decorated war hero who led British forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, on why the Israeli military is the most moral in the world...

One British colonel Blimp does not a UN Human Rights report make, the facts certainly belie what this poor man has been paid to say...

The UN that has Cuba, Egypt, Jordan, Russia, China and Saudi Arabia, which beheaded 6 people in one month, last year, on its UN Human Rights Council.

Thanks for the laugh, joker.

 

[Urbanguerrilla]

7. Deliberate attacks against the civilian population... the shelling of a house in which Palestinian civilians had been forced to assemble by the Israeli forces...the shooting of civilians while they were trying to leave their homes to walk to
a safer place, waving white flags and, in some of the cases, following an injunction from the Israeli forces to do so...all the attacks occurred under circumstances in which the Israeli forces were in control of the area and had previously entered into contact with or at least observed the persons they subsequently attacked, so that they must have been aware of their civilian status...aggravated by their subsequent refusal to allow the evacuation of the wounded or to permit access to ambulances.

Full UN report on Gaza war

This is deliberate mass murder, its indefencible...

 

[Marc39]

7. Deliberate attacks against the civilian population

"Oh, Allah, Kill All Americans And Jews"
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7rls9eRKyo]YouTube - Islam: Oh Allah - Kill all Jews and Americans![/ame]

 

[Marc39]

7. Deliberate attacks against the civilian population... the shelling of a house in which Palestinian civilians had been forced to assemble by the Israeli forces...the shooting of civilians while they were trying to leave their homes to walk to
a safer place, waving white flags and, in some of the cases, following an injunction from the Israeli forces to do so...all the attacks occurred under circumstances in which the Israeli forces were in control of the area and had previously entered into contact with or at least observed the persons they subsequently attacked, so that they must have been aware of their civilian status...aggravated by their subsequent refusal to allow the evacuation of the wounded or to permit access to ambulances.

Full UN report on Gaza war

This is deliberate mass murder, its indefencible...

This is deliberate mass murder, calling for genocide sucka...
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKeAVBYAbn0]YouTube - Hamas Spokesmen calls for genocide of all Jews[/ame]

 

[georgephillip]

"The southern command military court convicted two Israeli soldiers on Sunday of using human shields during Operation Cast Lead, Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip, in the winter of 2008-2009.

"The soldiers were convicted of offenses including inappropriate behavior and overstepping authority for ordering an 11-year-old Palestinian to search bags suspected to have been booby trapped.

"The conviction is the first such conviction for what is termed in the Israel Defense Forces 'neighbor procedure' – the use of human shields during searches and pursuits, which has been outlawed."

IDF Soldiers Convicted

 

[Marc39]

"The southern command military court convicted two Israeli soldiers on Sunday of using human shields during Operation Cast Lead, Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip, in the winter of 2008-2009.

Still, no convictions of your friends in Hezballah for the murder of 300 Marines in Beirut, Georgie.

Georgie, the total fraud.

 

[Tom Clancy]

Yeah and Hamas attacks are lawful right?