P F Tinmore, montelatici, et al,
Wrong question.
montelatici, et al,
Or --- there is another way to view this.
This is what happens when you attack a stronger nation, you get your butt kicked. As for the concentration camps they are Palestinian created, not Isreali.
I think it's sick and disrespectful of our resident morons to post pictures of Auschwitz and the like. Which were death camps, not concentration camps.
It merely goes to show where their preoccupations and fantasies really lie:
Holocaust porn.
In a matter of a couple of weeks about 500 children were killed by the Israelis in Gaza, is not that a death camp?
(COMMENT)
In a matter of a few weeks, the Islamic Resistance Movement sacrifice 500 children by using them as human shields (
Rule #97) with the intention of maintaining that regime; and in an attempt to render certain launch pads and hostile operating areas immune from Israeli military interdiction operations.
There is no form of government more cowardly than the government that fails to take every reasonable measure to protect its own. The Israelis took more safety precautions to protect Gaza civilians than did their own government. It is the duty of the Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS), to the extent feasible, to remove civilian persons and objects under its control from the vicinity of military objectives (
Rule 24) and (
Article 58 of Additional Protocol I).
Article 58 [ Link ] -- Precautions against the effects of attacks
The Parties to the conflict shall, to the maximum extent feasible:
(a) without prejudice to Article 49 [ Link ] of the Fourth Convention, endeavour to remove the civilian population, individual civilians and civilian objects under their control from the vicinity of military objectives;
(b) avoid locating military objectives within or near densely populated areas;
(c) take the other necessary precautions to protect the civilian population, individual civilians and civilian objects under their control against the dangers resulting from military operations
In deliberately using populate areas to launch attacks from, or to hide C3I
(Command, Control, Communications and intelligence) activities from attack legitimate engagement by the Israelis, is a war crime.
Most Respectfully,
R
It was Israel's war zones and Palestinian neighborhoods. Should the Palestinians move their neighborhoods out of Israel's war zones?
(COMMENT)
The Summer 2014 Conflict started as a result of acts of war initiated by the Palestinians. This is consistent with their covenant, charter, pledge and policy statements dating from February '48 to the present. The Palestinians are the aggressors.
If the Palestinian Government (eg the Islamic Resistance Movement)(AKA HAMAS) bases it strategy on setting up launch points from within built-up areas to make them immune from counter-battery fire, to defeat the Palestinian indirect fire from Rocket launchers and Mortars, including their target acquisition, command and control components; THEN, they are in violation of (
Rule 23 and
Rule 24) and (
Article 58 of Additional Protocol I). There is no question of that; I don't care what Judge McGowen Davis says.
Rule 23. HAMAS, to the extent feasible, avoid locating military objectives within or near densely populated areas.
Rule 24. HAMAS, to the extent feasible, remove civilian persons and objects under its control from the vicinity of military objectives.
The problem here is that the UN Activities (Shelters) were purposely placed in the vicinity of military objectives; and used --- with the UNRWA's knowledge that the Palestinians were using them to shield launch sites operating in close proximity.
John Ging the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the United Nations
confirmed on Radio-Canada July 30, 2014 that "Hamas and other terrorist groups in Gaza firing their rockets from the vicinity of UN shelters and residential areas." "Absolutely!" Yet the Commission failed to address this at all.
The UN does not want to raise the political complications in addressing the UN putting civilians into harms way. It makes them culpable as well. The UN COMMISSION OF INQUIRY RELATED TO MILITARY OPERATIONS IN THE GAZA STRIP was side-stepping the issue. Further, the question of UNRWA workers providing material support to the Islamic Resistance Movement is unanswered.
But for the actions of HAMAS using the firing positions inside residential areas, the death and injury of so many civilians would not have happened.
But for HAMAS using residential lodgings to house HAMAS personnel, so family deaths and injuries would not have happened.
HAMAS deliberately using civilians to shield their military launch facilities is contrary to the principle of distinction and violates the obligation to take feasible precautions to separate civilians and military objectives. HAMAS and Palestinians involved lacks the courage to do or endure dangerous operations outside the immediate vicinity of civilian residences and shelters.
Most Respectfully,
R
