Tag: war crimes

Rights Groups List 50+ Calls for Gaza Genocide on Israel’s Channel 14

Since the October 7 attack, Israel’s right-wing Channel 14 has broadcast over 50 statements by presenters, panelists, and guests advocating or defending genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and more than 150 calls for war crimes and crimes against humanity, according to a report published Tuesday by an Israeli newspaper.

Haaretzreported that the Israeli human rights groups—Zulat for Equality and Human Rights, Hatzlacha: Movement for the Promotion of a Fair Society, and the Democratic Bloc—have compiled a list of genocidal statements and incitements to war crimes made by individuals appearing on Channel 14 since October 7.

Rights Groups List 50+ Calls for Gaza Genocide on Israel’s Channel 14

Aiding and abetting and war crimes


The participation of four Israeli arms companies in the Land Forces International Land Defence Exposition in Melbourne is a clear instance of the Australian Government aiding and abetting the commission of an ongoing war crime in Gaza.

Aiding and abetting and war crimes

The Australian Government has grudgingly admitted that Australian companies are supplying parts to Israel for its F-35 Lightning jets which are systematically destroying human life and buildings in Gaza.

The Australian Government has at last grudgingly admitted that Australian-based companies are supplying parts and components to Israel for its F-35 Lightning jets which are systematically destroying human life and buildings in Gaza. But it has not yet admitted that the supply of such components contravenes the Arms Trade Treaty of 2014, which Australia has ratified

Australia supplies Israel with weapons of genocide, breaches law

Campaign to expose Australian war crimes met with silence

Campaign to expose Australian war crimes met with silence

Information regarding war crimes committed by Australians against prisoners of war in Iraq has been ignored for over a decade.

Campaign to expose Australian war crimes met with silence

WAR CRIMES |

Israeli Forces have killed or Separated from their Families 35,000 Palestinian Children in Gaza

Hamas didn’t do this

(Informed Comment) – Save the Children said Monday that in addition to the some 14,000 children killed by the Israeli military according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, another 4,000 are estimated dead under rubble, and 17,000 are wandering around on their own, unaccompanied and separated from their parents (who may have been killed by Israeli fire).

Source: Israeli Forces have killed or Separated from their Families 35,000 Palestinian Children in Gaza

Richard Marles concealed war crimes report, denying justice for David McBride – Michael West

Whistleblower

Et tu, Mark Dreyfus

If Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus’ refusal to drop the McBride prosecution wasn’t bad enough, his cabinet colleague Marles’ concealment of the Afghanistan oversight report is a new low for the Albanese government.

Not only does Marles’ repeated defiance of Senate orders based on non-existent “advice” constitute contempt of Parliament, his obfuscation to the Royal Commission shows a similarly contemptuous attitude towards the ultimate avenue of government transparency available under the Australian democratic model.

All this with the aim of perverting the outcome of a criminal trial that jailed the only person yet to be held accountable for Afghanistan war crimes – the whistleblower.

McBride’s lawyer, Mark Davis, announced an appeal against Mossop’s rulings “on the meaning of duty” moments after his client was marched out of court to jail. According to Davis, “This is an issue of national importance, indeed international importance, that a Western nation has such a narrow definition of duty.”

We can only speculate at this stage what role the Defence Minister’s handling of the Afghanistan war crimes oversight report might play in that appeal.

 

Source: Richard Marles concealed war crimes report, denying justice for David McBride – Michael West

Chris Hedges: Revolt in the Universities

There are many shameful periods in American history. The genocide we carried out against indigenous peoples. Slavery. The violent suppression of the labor movement that saw hundreds of workers killed. Lynching. Jim and Jane Crow. Vietnam. Iraq. Afghanistan. Libya.

The genocide in Gaza, which we fund and support, is of such monstrous proportions that it will achieve a prominent place in this pantheon of crimes.

History will not be kind to most of us. But it will bless and revere these students.

Source: Chris Hedges: Revolt in the Universities

Mass Graves In Gaza Reveal Mass Executions | – IMEMC News

“Workers have recovered 180 bodies so far from a mass grave found after Israeli forces withdrew from the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.”

Mass graves containing Palestinian bodies found in multiple Gaza locations; released Gazan prisoners report abuse by Israeli forces; humanitarians face “hostile” environment, Israel breaking promise to increase aid; “unprecedented” levels of contamination in northern Gaza; Israel announces tents to be built ahead of attack on Rafah; Israel obstructing UN probe, Israelis obstructing aid; Israel and Iran violated int’l law; West Bank deaths as Israeli settlers and military team up, more

Source: Mass Graves In Gaza Reveal Mass Executions | – IMEMC News

No Justice, No Peace: A List of Israeli War Crimes Since Oct. 7 | Institute for Palestine Studies

A Palestinian mother warms her children during the cold weather at the Beit Lahia area in the northern Gaza Strip. Majority World CIC / Alamy Stock Photo. 27 December 2022.

Source: No Justice, No Peace: A List of Israeli War Crimes Since Oct. 7 | Institute for Palestine Studies

Documenting Six Months of Israeli War Crimes in Gaza

All the evidence I have seen strongly suggests that one of Israel’s objectives has been to ethnically cleanse the Gaza Strip, whether in part or in total.

Systematic Destruction

Ethnic Cleansing

“Apocalyptic Conditions”

Starvation Siege

The Flour Massacre

A War on Civilians

Israeli Hostages

Dehumanization

Source: Documenting Six Months of Israeli War Crimes in Gaza

“I’m Jewish, and I’ve Covered Wars. I Know War Crimes When I See Them”: Reporter Peter Maass on Gaza | Democracy Now!

Peter Maass, Author at The Intercept

“I’m Jewish, and I’ve covered wars. I know war crimes when I see them.” Maass, who was a senior editor at The Intercept until earlier this year, has spent decades covering wars, including the Bosnian genocide in the 1990s that killed about 100,000 people over nearly four years. He says many of the same war crimes he reported then are part of Israel’s current assault, including sniper attacks on civilians, bombing of civilian infrastructure, attacks on bread lines and besieging whole populations by preventing food and other aid from entering. “What seems to be unfolding in Gaza is even worse than what I saw in Bosnia,” says Maass.

Source: “I’m Jewish, and I’ve Covered Wars. I Know War Crimes When I See Them”: Reporter Peter Maass on Gaza | Democracy Now!

Propaganda Blitzkrieg: Israel followed Australia’s textbook on how to respond to war crimes allegations – Michael West

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“The IDF three-day information operation had the same precision, tempo and effectiveness as the initial kinetic attack” of Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom and her 6 World Central Kitchen colleagues, writes Stuart McCarthy, and it channels the ADF propaganda model in Afghanistan.

The Albanese government is now adrift in the whirlwind of Australia’s abject failure to hold its top generals to account for alleged war crimes in Afghanistan.

Source: Propaganda Blitzkrieg: Israel followed Australia’s textbook on how to respond to war crimes allegations – Michael West

Israeli Doctor Blows Whistle on War Crimes

A doctor at an Israeli field hospital inside a notorious detention center where hundreds of Palestinian prisoners are temporarily held is sounding the alarm about torture and horrific conditions at what some human rights defenders — including Israelis — are calling “Israel’s Guantánamo Bay” and even a “concentration camp.”

Source: Israeli Doctor Blows Whistle on War Crimes

Censored: Keir Starmer’s Emails About Israeli War Crimes Case

  • The coalition government changed U.K. law in 2011 to enable Israeli ministers accused of crimes to visit Britain without fear of prosecution.

Tzipi Livni

Livni was the Israeli minister of foreign affairs between 2006 and 2009, and a member of Israel’s war cabinet during the brutal bombing of Gaza between December 2008 and January 2009, known as Operation Cast Lead.

According to a U.N. report, “numerous serious violations of international law… were committed by Israel during the military operations in Gaza”, which killed around 1,400 Palestinians, 333 of whom were children.

Those crimes included “the direct targeting and arbitrary killing of Palestinian civilians”, as well as a “deliberate and systematic policy… to target industrial sites and water installations”.

The U.N. report specifically cited Livni as saying:

“Israel is not a country upon which you fire missiles and it does not respond. It is a country that when you fire on its citizens it responds by going wild – and that is a good thing”.

Prior to this, Livni had declared:

“I am a lawyer… But I am against law — international law in particular. Law in general”.

Source: Censored: Keir Starmer’s Emails About Israeli War Crimes Case

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Palestinian Aid Worker Describes 18-Day Siege Inside Gaza Hospital

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Australia’s shame is supporting this insanity while acting against Ben Roberts-Smith. It defies logic or any excuses that might be made. War crimes are war crimes but not so it seems where foreign policy is concerned. VC winner justifiably lost his award for killing the innocent and Australia justifiably applauded. We are now supporting the mass killing of innocents and are applauding

Israeli forces have surrounded Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Yunis for more than two weeks, deepening an already dire humanitarian crisis.

Source: Palestinian Aid Worker Describes 18-Day Siege Inside Gaza Hospital

Joe Biden Isn’t Rescuing Hostages — He’s Enabling War Crimes

He sent hundreds of 2000lb bombs that have a kill radius of 360 meters and a diameter of 720 meters Gaza is only 5000 meters wide. They aren’t called “bunker killers” for nothing they are deep penetration devices. Israelis have dropped over 30,000 bombs on a postage stamp they called a “concentration camp”

Earlier this month, Joe Biden expressed his concern for the Israelis taken hostage in Gaza. But if he really cared about their safety, he wouldn’t be sending Israel weapons for its indiscriminate and criminal bombing campaign.

Source: Joe Biden Isn’t Rescuing Hostages — He’s Enabling War Crimes

The View from Washington: Let the Killing in Gaza Continue – » The Australian Independent Media Network

As this farcical theatre of constipated morality unfolded, the Biden administration was happy to beef up the Israeli war machine by asking Congress to urgently approve the sale of 45,000 shells for the IDF’s Merkava tanks to aid its offensive in Gaza. The sale, worth around $500 million, does not form part of Biden’s $110.5 billion supplemental request that covers funding for both Ukraine and Israel.

In pursuing such a course of action, be it defending Israel’s policies in the Security Council, or via armaments, the US is effectively colluding in the perpetration of crimes against humanity. This was certainly the view of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who said in a statement released by his office that “the American position is aggressive and immoral, a flagrant violation of all humanitarian principles and values, and holds the United States responsible for the bloodshed of Palestinian children, women and elderly people in the Gaza Strip.”

Source: The View from Washington: Let the Killing in Gaza Continue – » The Australian Independent Media Network

On How Israeli/US War Crimes in Gaza are orders of Magnitude Worse than those of Russia in Ukraine

The Biden administration has spent most of its diplomatic energy since the February 24, 2022, Russian invasion of Ukraine marshaling the world to punish the Russian Federation, to boycott its petroleum and gas, to seize assets even of private citizens in Europe and North America, and to make Russia a pariah. Russia certainly violated the UN Charter in attacking Ukraine and formally occupying part of that country, and it has extensively violated International Humanitarian Law with its indiscriminate bombings and drone attacks. So please don’t misunderstand me. Let me repeat that Russia has violated international

Proportionally, Israel’s killing of civilians in Gaza is many, many times that of Russia in Ukraine, and this would be true even if Russia has killed ten times as many civilians as the UN estimates.

As for children, the Israeli killing of minors is so far off the charts compared to Russia in Ukraine that you’d have to move to Mars to do the math.

All this figuring is not intended to in any way diminish the seriousness of Russian war crimes. It is to underline the weirdly monstrous death toll being imposed on noncombatants in Gaza by Israel.

If Blinken is right that “Bucha is not normal. Mariupol is not normal. Irpin is not normal. Bombing schools and hospitals and apartment buildings to rubble is not normal,” then neither are Jabaliya, Gaza City, or Khan Younis normal. Bombing schools and apartment buildings in Gaza is not normal.

 

Source: On How Israeli/US War Crimes in Gaza are orders of Magnitude Worse than those of Russia in Ukraine

Russian Roulette: Doctors w/out Borders Demand Immediate Ceasefire as Hospitals turned into “Morgues”

How many war crimes does it take?

 Israeli troops deliberately attacked MSF rescue vehicles and destroyed them with tank fire.

Source: Russian Roulette: Doctors w/out Borders Demand Immediate Ceasefire as Hospitals turned into “Morgues”

Thousands flee Khan Younis on the cusp of Israeli invasion

Palestinians near destroyed buildings after an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, December 2, 2023. (Atia Mohammed/Flash90)

Netanyahu declares there are no “safe zones ” for Israelis ” who want to leave Israel apart from America but declares there are for Palestinians in Gaza and then he bombs the bejeezus out of them. Having done that he sends in the tanks snipers and ground troops who have been told every Palestinian is Hamas because they hate us.

The last days have been the hardest we have experienced since the war began, here in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis. Until last Friday, this area was designated a “safe zone” — a farcical description considering the Israeli army has bombed the city non-stop, but one that nonetheless brought an influx of hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians from the northern parts of the Strip, which Israeli troops have directly occupied for more than a month. Now, the army’s invasion of southern Gaza is underway, and residents have nowhere to run.

Source: Thousands flee Khan Younis on the cusp of Israeli invasion

Gaza: Why all Civilian lives matter Equally, according to a Military Ethicist

By Jessica Wolfendale, Case Western Reserve University | – Some commentators have criticized Israel for causing what is claimed to be disproportionate harm to civilians in its military response to Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack. Others have defended Israel’s actions, claiming that such force – and the risk to civilians involved – is necessary to eliminate Hamas, which some Israelis believe poses an existential threat to Israel. As of Nov. 25, according to health officials in the Gaza Strip, more than 14,000 Palestinians have been killed, the majority of whom are women and children. But one of the arguments given

Source: Gaza: Why all Civilian lives matter Equally, according to a Military Ethicist

Israel’s bombardment of Palestinians: is Australia complicit in war crimes? – Michael West

Hamas, Israel, Gaza

Israel has killed more than 7000 Palestinians since the brutal Hamas attacks of October 7 sparked the war on Gaza. Human rights lawyer Greg Barns SC examines Australia’s complicity in war crimes.

Source: Israel’s bombardment of Palestinians: is Australia complicit in war crimes? – Michael West

In War Crime, Israel is Still Blocking Water, Electricity to Gaza’s Palestinian Civilians

The fact that Palestinian fighters committed unspeakable war crimes against Israeli civilians does not justify Israeli authorities committing war crimes against Palestinian civilians.

Source: In War Crime, Israel is Still Blocking Water, Electricity to Gaza’s Palestinian Civilians

Going All-In for Israel May Make Biden Complicit in Genocide

GAZA CITY, GAZA - OCTOBER 18: Palestinians carry usable items from the heavily damaged Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital building after bombing in Gaza City, Gaza on October 18, 2023. According to the Palestinian authorities, Israeli army is responsible for the deadly bombing. While the number of deaths as a result of the attack on the hospital increased to 471, major damage occurred in the hospital building and its surroundings. (Photo by Belal Khaled/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Human rights lawyers warned Biden that his unconditional support for the war on Gaza may implicate the U.S. in Israel’s crimes.

Source: Going All-In for Israel May Make Biden Complicit in Genocide

Secrecy & Empire

The secrecy surrounding Australian foreign and defence policy protects planners from the public that elected them. The war in Afghanistan offers ample evidence.

Source: Secrecy & Empire

Israel bombs Civilian Apt. Bldg. in Gaza City, Killing 10, Wounding 55; When Russia does it, it is a War Crime

Israel bombs Civilian Apt. Bldg. in Gaza City, Killing 10, Wounding 55; When Russia does it, it is a War Crime

Israel bombs Civilian Apt. Bldg. in Gaza City, Killing 10, Wounding 55; When Russia does it, it is a War Crime

Horrifying Video Of Russian Soldier Castrating POW Sparks Outrage | Crooks and Liars

PUTIN’s PRIDE

Not much to say about this, really. The video is almost certainly authentic, though the Russians deny that it is, of course. (Admitting to war crimes is something that no country ever does willingly.) Nonetheless, such acts and recordings are made and propagated on social media with the singular intent of spreading fear and terror. That is a major component of Russian strategy in Ukraine.

Horrifying Video Of Russian Soldier Castrating POW Sparks Outrage | Crooks and Liars

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Satellite images contradict Russian claims, show bodies lay in Bucha for weeks

Satellite images provided by Maxar Technologies show Yablonska Street in Bucha, Ukraine, strewn with bodies on March 19, 2022.

Russians prove to be absolute liars and are losing absolutely. Not just the war but their global propaganda efforts to discount what it is they have really done. They will go down in history for being duped by a steroid-riddled madman Vladamir Putin.

In a Telegram post on Sunday, the ministry suggested that the bodies had been recently placed on the streets after “all Russian units withdrew completely from Bucha” around Wednesday.

But a review of videos and satellite imagery by The New York Times shows that many of the civilians were killed more than three weeks ago, when Russia’s military was in control of the town.

Source: Satellite images contradict Russian claims, show bodies lay in Bucha for weeks

Half of Palestinians Killed by Israeli Air Strikes on Gaza in May were Civilians and other War Crimes: HRW

Human Rights Watch conducted a detailed study of military actions by Israel and the Hamas party-militia in Gaza and concluded that both committed war crimes during the Israeli assault on the Palestinian enclave this spring, but that deaths of Palestinians at Israeli hands were 21 times higher than Israeli deaths.Three of the Israeli airstrikes killed 62 Palestinians without any discernible military target in the area, wiping out entire families. HRW concludes that the seriousness of the war crimes justifies referral to the International Criminal Court in the Hague, a step Israel and the United States have resisted. The ICC nevertheless has determined that it has jurisdiction in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Source: Half of Palestinians Killed by Israeli Air Strikes on Gaza in May were Civilians and other War Crimes: HRW

The problem with war crimes law and what needs to be done

Paul Taucher and Dr Dean Aszkielowicz argue that war crimes justice does not work the way commentators generally suggest it does. AFTER THE SECOND World War, the victorious Allies prosecuted German and Japanese civilian leaders and military personnel for war crimes. The decision to hold these trials was based partly on a belief that the decades prior to the war had seen a genuine awakening among nations that some rules should apply to the conduct of wars and that efforts must be made to avoid devastating conflicts.

Source: The problem with war crimes law and what needs to be done

Israel’s big lie: This isn’t self defense — it’s a war crime, aided and abetted by the U.S. | Salon.com

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Nearly all the words and phrases used by the Democrats, Republicans and the talking heads on the media to describe the unrest inside Israel and the heaviest Israeli assault against the Palestinians since the 2014 attacks on Gaza, which lasted 51 days and killed more than 2,200 Palestinians, including 551 children, are a lie. Israel, by employing its military machine against an occupied population that does not have mechanized units, an air force, navy, missiles, heavy artillery and command-and-control, not to mention a U.S. commitment to provide a $38 billion defense aid package for Israel over the next decade, is not exercising “the right to defend itself.” It is carrying out mass murder. It is a war crime.

Source: Israel’s big lie: This isn’t self defense — it’s a war crime, aided and abetted by the U.S. | Salon.com

In Game Changer, Int’l Criminal Court will take up Israeli War Crimes and Apartheid in Palestine

In Game Changer, Int’l Criminal Court will take up Israeli War Crimes and Apartheid in Palestine

International Criminal Court found that it had jurisdiction to consider war crimes and crimes against humanity and the crime of Apartheid in the Palestinian territories. Israeli politician Abba Eban once quipped that Palestinians never lost the opportunity to lose an opportunity. But Palestinians have carefully, methodically created this opportunity to be heard in an international tribunal. It is the ruling Israeli right wing about which one can now quip about missing opportunities. Israel has egregiously violated the 1949 Geneva Convention on the treatment of people in Occupied territories by flooding its own citizens into the Palestinian Territories, by stealing Palestinian land from its owners and building squatter settlements on it, and by using disproportional force against Palestinian demonstrators at the Gaza border. The court will also look into war crimes by Hamas, which was elected in 2006 and retains control of the Gaza Strip.

In Game Changer, Int’l Criminal Court will take up Israeli War Crimes and Apartheid in Palestine

Trump May Face Prosecution but Not for War Crimes

Members of the Irish Anti-War Movement organisation during a protest against Donald Trump's unlawful targeted killing of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani along with six others and the subsequent escalation of pro-war rhetoric including threatening war crimes against Iranian cultural sites.On Thursday, 9 January 2020, Leinster house, Dublin, Ireland. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

For U.S. presidents, the torture and killing of civilians is forgivable but mafia-style accounting and hush money payments are not.

Trump May Face Prosecution but Not for War Crimes

Israel’s self-investigation shields its soldiers | The Electronic Intifada

If the Australian ADF were the sole arbiters on the war crimes of the SAS all crimes would have been found unproved. The IDF’s self -investigation is the States great denier (ODT)

Only one Israeli soldier has been indicted over the use of live fire against unarmed protesters during the Great March of Return demonstrations held along Gaza’s eastern boundary. Israeli forces killed more than 215 Palestinians during those protests, which began in late March 2018 and were suspended last December.

Israel’s self-investigation shields its soldiers | The Electronic Intifada

Seven torn between loyalty and duty in SAS war crimes report

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But the SAS unit has found solace from one source: Seven West chairman Kerry Stokes. Already, Stokes has loaned decorated former SAS soldier Ben Roberts-Smith somewhere between $1 million and $2 million (depending on the source) to aid his — so far not going all that great — defamation case against the Nine papers.

Seven torn between loyalty and duty in SAS war crimes report

US and Israel team up to thwart war crimes probes | The Electronic Intifada

via US and Israel team up to thwart war crimes probes | The Electronic Intifada

A CIA-Backed Militia Targeted Clinics in Afghanistan, Killing Medical Workers and Civilians

via A CIA-Backed Militia Targeted Clinics in Afghanistan, Killing Medical Workers and Civilians

Israeli Eviction Occupied Khan al-Ahmar Residents is a War Crime: Int’l Court

The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, warned, on Wednesday, that transfer of population in an occupied territory constitute war crime.

via Israeli Eviction Occupied Khan al-Ahmar Residents is a War Crime: Int’l Court

Israel normalizing war crimes in Gaza | The Electronic Intifada

via Israel normalizing war crimes in Gaza | The Electronic Intifada

Amid Scathing Accusations of War Crimes, UN Votes 120-8 to Condemn ‘Indiscriminate’ Israeli Violence Against Palestinians

“We cannot remain silent in the face of the most violent crimes and human rights violations being systematically perpetrated against our people,” said the Palestinian envoy to the United Nations

via Amid Scathing Accusations of War Crimes, UN Votes 120-8 to Condemn ‘Indiscriminate’ Israeli Violence Against Palestinians

Former spy chief heads new Defence inquiry into ‘war crimes’

 

One might well ask whether the third investigation commissioned too investigate the other two is intended to be a government whitewash given Irvine was Australia’s former spy chief. (ODT)

SASR sources claim the man with the prosthetic leg was machine-gunned by a soldier that, for legal reasons, Fairfax Media will call “Leonidas”.

Leonidas is also implicated in the killing of a detainee three years later in September 2012 during a SASR mission in the village of Darwan. Leonidas allegedly kicked handcuffed detainee Ali Jan off the edge of a small cliff, badly injuring his face, according to claims of two Defence Force insiders who witnessed the event.

As the detainee lay injured, hands still bound, the two witnesses say Leonidas was party to the decision among soldiers to “get him out of his misery”. The claims have been backed by the relatives of Ali Jan who were interviewed this week by an Afghan journalist on assignment with Fairfax Media.

Fairfax Media has confirmed the Irvine inquiry was commissioned by army chiefs earlier this year amid concerns raised in leaked defence reports of an entrenched culture of impunity within the nation’s Special Operations Task Group.

It is the third investigation into the special forces to be launched in two years.

via Former spy chief heads new Defence inquiry into ‘war crimes’

Gaza’s health sector near collapse | The Electronic Intifada

Israel claims it kills and wounds those supported by Hamas only but is full aware what is doing to the uninvolved citizens of Gaza ensuring their Hospitals and Health systems collapse. Basically they are intentionally killing the sick elderly and children and that is  their intent when they use dum dum bullets while pleading they have no other choice (ODT)

The number of injuries resulting from Israeli attacks against unarmed protesters on the eastern boundary of the Gaza Strip nearly broke the back of an overstretched and under-resourced sector, exacerbating the pressure on health professionals and straining provision.

Medics even found themselves in the crosshairs, and two – Razan al-Najjar on 1 June and Mousa Jaber Abu Hassanein on 14 May – were killed while carrying out their duties.

The highest casualty count of the Great March of Return came on 14 May, and was followed by more protests – and more wounded – on 15 May. Both days brought with them shocking scenes at Gaza Strip hospitals.

With a huge number of wounded – more than 3,100 over those two days alone – there were no available beds and people were being treated in hallways or even at hospital entry gates.

There was an acute shortage of medicine and supplies, according to Ashraf al-Qedra, a health ministry spokesperson, who said hospitals had used 80 percent of ministry stores during those days.

“This crisis caused a huge deficit in hospitals in the Gaza Strip. Patients who seek public hospitals for treatment, cannot find the medical care they need due to hospitals overwhelmed with injuries,” al-Qedra told The Electronic Intifada.

via Gaza’s health sector near collapse | The Electronic Intifada

Special forces rookie ‘blooded’ by executing an unarmed man

 

A Special Air Service Regiment trooper on his first deployment to Afghanistan was pressured to execute an elderly, unarmed detainee by fellow higher-ranking soldiers as part of a “blooding” ritual, according to defence insiders who were witnesses at the scene.

Special forces rookie ‘blooded’ by executing an unarmed man

Abdul’s brother went out to buy flour. He never came home

Behind closed doors, the words “war crimes” are being used. Not only specific incidents, but the entire culture and command structure of Australia’s most renowned and trusted fighting force is now under scrutiny in a manner unprecedented in Australian military history.

via Abdul’s brother went out to buy flour. He never came home

Israel: Massacre of Palestinian Protesters in Gaza was a Calculated War Crime (HRW) | Informed Comment

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Both before and after the confrontations, senior officials publicly said that soldiers stationed along the barrier that separates Gaza and Israel had orders to target “instigators” and those who approach the border. However, the Israeli government presented no evidence that rock-throwing and other violence by some demonstrators seriously threatened Israeli soldiers across the border fence. The high number of deaths and injuries was the foreseeable consequence of granting soldiers leeway to use lethal force outside of life-threatening situations in violation of international norms, coupled with the longstanding culture of impunity within the Israeli army for serious abuses.

via Israel: Massacre of Palestinian Protesters in Gaza was a Calculated War Crime (HRW) | Informed Comment

Australia knew U.S. was using white phosphorus in Iraq and Syria

 

CORRECTION: The ADF was well aware white phosphorus had been used by members of the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq and Syria.

Source: Australia knew U.S. was using white phosphorus in Iraq and Syria

Will Israel be put on trial for war crimes? – News from Al Jazeera

An expected visit by ICC delegation could increase the risk of Israeli officials being tried for war crimes.

Source: Will Israel be put on trial for war crimes? – News from Al Jazeera

UK thwarts war crimes probe of former Israeli minister | The Electronic Intifada

Fourth time in seven years that Britain has intervened to protect Tzipi Livni.

Source: UK thwarts war crimes probe of former Israeli minister | The Electronic Intifada