Amnesty: Israel repeatedly violated rules of war in Gaza - Haaretz - Israel News »
Posted By dissent 5 months, 2 weeks ago in News
A new Amnesty International report has accused Israel of repeatedly violating the laws of armed conflict during the three-week Israel Defense Forces offensive in the Gaza Strip in December 2008 and January 2009.
The report claims that 1400 Palestinians died in the offensive - including 300 children - and that 5000 people were wounded.
The Amnesty report accuses IDF soldiers of violating the laws of armed conflict over and over again by directly attacking civilians and civilian structures and by causing an immeasurable number of civilian casualties when attacking Palestinian fighters.
It also mentions Israel's justification for the offensive: that it attacked Gaza to prevent war and to stop armed Palestinians from shelling cities and towns in southern Israel with rockets. The report goes on to detail that three Israeli civilians were killed during the Gaza operation, adding to seven Israeli civilians killed by home-made rockets and other Palestinian attacks launched from Gaza in 2008.
According to the Amnesty International report, the sudden conflict came following a period of a year-and-a-half in which the IDF imposed an uncompromising blockade on the residents of Gaza, which almost completely prevented the movement of people and goods into the Gaza Strip and led to a humanitarian crisis.
The blockade almost completely strangled economic life, the report goes on to accuse, claiming that even those on their death bed were not permitted to leave the Strip for medical attention.
The report also accuses Israeli security forces of destroying many Palestinian homes in the West Bank on the pretext that they were built illegally.
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we live in a culture of war.
let's make it a culture of peace.
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BB645 months, 2 weeks ago
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Rules of War? You're kidding right? We're not talking about a traditional war. We're talking about a terrorist war where your enemy more often than not, wears civilian cloths, targets only soft targets and considers woman & children as legitimate targets. They hide among their safe housed and weapons labs in civilian neighborhoods. That way their own people act as human shields, they can exploit their bodies to the press when they're attacked by the IDF. There have been rumors of the terrorists killing their own human shields to increase the media claims.
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This article is little more than an anti-Israel blast piece. How about asking the PLO, Hammas, and other terrorist groups why they refuse to stand and fight like men, instead of hiding behind the skirts of woman?-
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dissent5 months, 2 weeks ago
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you forgot to mention that the "enemy" doesn't have an army, an air force or a navy, that they're not gifted with the world's most advanced weaponry, that they don't receive 3 billion a year in aid, that they don't even have.... a country.
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all they've got is israel to ride their asses every single day of their pitiful lives while the rest of the world either looks away or spits on them
how dare they, huh? what cowards, right?
oh, and those poor people they "terrorize"? the ones they throw their ineffectual home-made rockets at who now live in towns that used to be theirs? the ones who hit back with our f16s, our apache helicopters, our dime munitions, our white phosphorous killing all and destroying all?
they control every waking and sleeping moment of their lives without regard for their dignity or their humanity.
btw... this "anti-israel blast piece" as you call it ... is from an israeli newspaper. try reading it.
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Candida5 months, 2 weeks ago
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BB64: "How about asking the PLO, Hammas, and other terrorist groups why they refuse to stand and fight like men, instead of hiding behind the skirts of woman?"
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Perhaps because they can't hide behind airplanes, tanks and long-range missiles. -
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dissent5 months, 2 weeks ago
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btw... i'll agree with one thing in your diatribe. it's true, we're not talking about a traditional war. we're talking about a traditional massacre.
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1400+ dead, mostly civilians, many of them women, the aged, and the weak, 300 children and 5000 injured. a massacre in which israeli soldiers boasted and gloated of their ability to murder with impunity.
perhaps you'd like to order the t-shirt?
http://imeu.net/news/article0016292.shtml
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Candida5 months, 2 weeks ago
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My apologies for the sloppy translation to the dead poet who wrote this little poem, but I think it's as valid today as it was in the 19th century when it was written:
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In the old days in a war
Princilples were for the fools
The strong took from the weak
All or anything it could
Things have changed a lot these days
Councils rule the world for us
Which simply gather and approve
Any mischief by the stong-
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AnteUp5 months, 2 weeks ago
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FTA:
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According to NGO Monitor, Amnesty International published more than 20 declarations during the Gaza offensive, most of them critical of Israel, even while violations of human rights included a massacre of more than 600 villagers by Ugandan rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo to which Amnesty devoted minimal attention.
And we all understand how sincere Israeli officials are
about their concerns for the people of Africa - right?
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ur-land-is-my-land5 months, 2 weeks ago
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Those Israelis who participated in Gaza massacre and perpetrated these war crimes are not some sane Jews who would go by civilized norms and rules as opposed by the barbaric rules laid down by the book of all horror Talmud and in some cases Torah.
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The foot soldiers of Zionism are the Jewish fanatics and Jewish extremists who get their inspiration from Torah and Talmud. They could care less to what the civilized world is thinking of them.
For those Israeli savages who perpetrate these crimes, what gives them hope, dream and inspires them and gives a meaning to their empty lives is the following truly satanic verse from Torah:
Numbers 33:50 And the LORD spoke unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan (near) Jericho, saying
Numbers 33:51 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan, into the land of Cannan,
Numbers 33:52 Then ye shall drive out all inhabitants of the land from before you,and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their higher places,
Numbers 33:53 And ye shall dispossess (the inhabitants) of the land dwell therein, for I have given you the land to possess it.
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ur-land-is-my-land5 months, 2 weeks ago
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Murdering Gentile women and children is supposed to make these Jewish fanatic feel bad? Absolutely not, they are doing what Talmud teaches them to do and they are doing what, according to existing Torah, Moses PBUH did himself. They are simply following his foot steps and can there be anything more heavenly and more rewarding than that?. Lets read more from Torah:
Numbers 31:9 And the children of Israel too (all) the women of Midian captives, and their little ones,
And took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks and all their goods.
Numbers 31:12 And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses…….
Numbers 31:15 And Moses said unto them, have ye saved all women alive?
Numbers 31:17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath
known man by lying with him
Numbers 31:18 But all the women, children that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive
For yourselves.
Civilized world can say all they want about the atrocities of the war committed by the Jewish fanatics, these Jewish fanatics won’t give a rat’s tail about it, for they are busy in reliving their Torah teachings and history. What is more important , reliving the Torah or listening to some Gentile humans of the civilized world and human rights who don’t appreciate Torah’s divine!! Teachings?
I am surprised that these Jewish fanatics did not kidnap Palestinian women and children who were still VIRGIN and bring them back for THEMSELVES. Or maybe they did. Has any investigation done on this?
Could it be that some of those women and children who are missing and therefore announced dead are alive and captives hidden somewhere in those stolen lands by these Jewish fanatics and …I hope this is not the case.
I must add that I as a Muslim, can never accept these satanic verses from Torah about Moses PBUH. Moses is god's great messenger and not a sexual predator and a psychopath as depicted in these verses of Torah.-
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Endoscopy5 months, 2 weeks ago
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Another bunch of lies for Islam. Who in the civilized world has as their only solution to a conflict the death of the opposition. Hamas and Hezbollah have as their ONLY ACCEPTABLE SOLUTION to KILL ALL JEWS. Read their charters, they are online.
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TheNewsseeker5 months, 2 weeks ago
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Fortunately, the Amnesty Report is no political statement, but a collection of facts and figures for those who are interested in the observation of Human Rights all over the world. For to grant independence, Amnesty doesn´t take any governmental money and the members try not to be occupied with cases concerning their own country. I tell all this to make clear, why I hold this organization for trustworthy and legitimated for such critique on Israel´s political and military behavior.
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What Israel did in the Gaza Stripe was neither appropriate nor necessary from a strategic point of view. It was a demonstration of force, letal for many innocents on both sides!-
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Thinker225 months, 2 weeks ago
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> What Israel did in the Gaza Stripe was neither appropriate nor necessary from a strategic point of view.
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It's a pity that the Israelis did not ask for your opinion. I'm sure that you would explain to them what WAS necessary to do in order to stop terrorist attacks coming from Gaza. Nevertheless, for the sake of both Israelis and the Palestinians preventing similar actions in the future is of huge value and, therefore, your advice of what IS appropriate and necessary from a strategic point of view would be greatly appreciated.
As I've said it's a pity you've missed this part in your reply.
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Mutainia5 months, 2 weeks ago
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Maybe they wouldn't have violated anything if, instead of trying to use pin-point precision rockets and missiles like they were, Israel, instead, fired missiles and rockets willy nilly BACK at the populated Muhammadan neighborhoods Israel traded for peace that were shooting rockets and mortars willy nilly into Israeli neighorhoods from.
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ur-land-is-my-land5 months, 2 weeks ago
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Since the first time that I posted this comment few zionist apologist tried to drag it in the mud and at least if they could to change the subject I think it is a good idea to post it again here :
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Murdering Gentile women and children is supposed to make these Jewish fanatic feel bad? Absolutely not, they are doing what Talmud teaches them to do and they are doing what, according to existing Torah, Moses PBUH did himself. They are simply following his foot steps and can there be anything more heavenly and more rewarding than that?. Lets read more from Torah:
Numbers 31:9 And the children of Israel too (all) the women of Midian captives, and their little ones,
And took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks and all their goods.
Numbers 31:12 And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses…….
Numbers 31:15 And Moses said unto them, have ye saved all women alive?
Numbers 31:17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath
known man by lying with him
Numbers 31:18 But all the women, children that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive
For yourselves.
Civilized world can say all they want about the atrocities of the war committed by the Jewish fanatics, these Jewish fanatics won’t give a rat’s tail about it, for they are busy in reliving their Torah teachings and history. What is more important , reliving the Torah or listening to some Gentile humans of the civilized world and human rights who don’t appreciate Torah’s divine!! Teachings?
I am surprised that these Jewish fanatics did not kidnap Palestinian women and children who were still VIRGIN and bring them back for THEMSELVES. Or maybe they did. Has any investigation done on this?
Could it be that some of those women and children who are missing and therefore announced dead are alive and captives hidden somewhere in those stolen lands by these Jewish fanatics and …I hope this is not the case.
I must add that I as a Muslim, can never accept these satanic verses from Torah about Moses PBUH. Moses is god's great messenger and not a sexual predator and a psychopath as depicted in these verses of Torah.-
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Mutainia5 months, 1 week ago
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According to the Quran, if you are in doubt about the Quran, the Quran tells you to bring another LIKE it. And, according to the Quran, the Torah (which contains the book of Numbers), is LIKE the Quran. Also, according to the Quran, the Torah is "both guidance and light" and IS Allah's word. And, according to the Quran, Allah's word can't be changed (i.e. corrupted). ALSO, according to the Quran, the Torah is like the Injil (previous scripture), that a Jew can verify the Torah WITH the Quran, and, if you are in doubt about the Quran as a Muhammadan, you can go to those who "have read the previous scriptures (Bible). So, I'm betting that you posed that Numbers stuff to show the Quran is correct when it says it's a "confirmation and a reminder of that which went before it", true?
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