Nut Job's War Crimes against humanity in Gaza

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Contrary to what the Israeli government claims, Israel’s withdrawal of its ground forces from Gaza in 2005 did not end its occupation of Gaza.

That is because, ever since, Israel has maintained effective control over Gaza, including its territorial waters and airspace, the movement of people and goods, except at Gaza’s border with Egypt, and the infrastructure upon which Gaza relies, rendering the Strip an open-air prison.

Under IHL, Israel is required, as the occupying power, to make sure that the basic needs of the population of Gaza, such as food and water, are met.

International human rights law also governs the legal duties of the Israeli authorities towards the population of the OPT, especially given the long duration of the occupation.

In addition, Hamas, and the Palestinian Authority, which are de facto governing authorities over many Palestinians, have responsibilities to protect the human rights of the population they govern. Their functions do not negate Israel’s duties as the occupying power.

War crimes are serious violations of the laws of war committed by individuals with criminal intent, that is, deliberately or recklessly. War crimes include deliberately attacking civilians, taking hostages, and collective punishment.

Airstrikes and rocket attacks by Israel, Hamas and other armed groups that target civilians or are indiscriminate violate the laws of war, and, when committed with criminal intent, are war crimes.

Anyone who commits a war crime is criminally liable, as are those responsible for ordering, assisting in, or facilitating a war crime. Commanders and civilian leaders may be criminally liable under the principle of command responsibility if they knew or should have known about crimes their subordinates committed and failed to adequately prevent the crime or punish those responsible.

Over the course of the past 20 days, multiple war crimes have been and continue to be committed in Israel and Palestine, with grave concerns that Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups are carrying out unlawful indiscriminate attacks harming civilians.

The deliberate killing of Israeli civilians and taking of hundreds of hostages by Hamas and other armed groups are war crimes, as is the launch of rockets indiscriminately at Israeli communities. About 1,400 Israelis have been killed since 7 October, according to the Israeli government.

Israel has continuously bombarded the densely populated Gaza Strip, home to 2.3 million. Over 7,000 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October, including almost 3,000 children, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. In some cases, bombs have turned entire blocks and even large parts of neighborhoods to rubble.

Israeli forces have used white phosphorus, a chemical that ignites when in contact with oxygen, causing horrific and severe burns, on densely populated neighborhoods. White phosphorus can burn down to the bone, and burns to 10% of the human body are often fatal.

Israel has also engaged in the collective punishment of Gaza’s population through cutting off food, water, electricity, and fuel. This is a war crime, as is willfully blocking humanitarian relief from reaching civilians in need.

During prior rounds of hostilities, including in 2021, Human Rights Watch documented serious violations of the laws of war by both Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups.

There’s also concern about Israel ordering the displacement of much of Gaza’s civilian population, which is permitted only if required for the civilians’ security or imperative military reasons. The civilian population needs to be able to return as soon as possible - permanent displacement is a crime.

In addition, the Israeli occupying authorities have committed and continue to commit other international crimes, including with West Bank settlements. If the occupying power transfers any of its civilian population into the occupied territory, either directly or indirectly, it is a war crime.

Human Rights Watch and other rights organizations have also found that Israeli authorities are committing the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution against millions of Palestinians. The systematic oppression of the population of Gaza forms part of these ongoing crimes.

International crimes should lead to accountability. The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague has jurisdiction over war crimes and other serious international crimes committed in or from the OPT (the territory of the State of Palestine, which is an ICC member), and by nationals of Palestine.

The court’s prosecutor has an ongoing investigation, which his predecessor opened in 2021, into possible crimes in Palestine.

Human Rights Watch has urged the prosecutor to make a clear formal statement about how the court’s mandate applies to the current context, which would provide a critical signal that all those responsible for war crimes could face prosecution.

Effective accountability is vital to ending the atrocities.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... t-IDF.html

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Prepare to level scum land!!

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Prepare to level scum land!!

The level of your understanding never ceases to amaze me.

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More evidence of the evil Nut Job's crimes against humanity!

Our founder and president, former CNN international correspondent Arwa Damon has covered war for the last two decades. She has been in Gaza during past bombardments. She fears that what we are seeing in Gaza will eclipse anything that we have seen in recent history. Another of our founding members, Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta is on the ground in Gaza volunteering with Doctors Without Borders and sending us real time updates on the situation and the need. The scale and types of injuries he is seeing are beyond catastrophic. That coupled with the lack of medical supplies, burn dressings, wound cleaning solutions, overcrowding of hospitals means that children who are injured are at an even greater risk since doctors are unable to even provide adequate emergency care.

https://inara.org/gaza/

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More evidence of the evil Nut Job's crimes against humanity!

Our founder and president, former CNN international correspondent Arwa Damon has covered war for the last two decades. She has been in Gaza during past bombardments. She fears that what we are seeing in Gaza will eclipse anything that we have seen in recent history. Another of our founding members, Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta is on the ground in Gaza volunteering with Doctors Without Borders and sending us real time updates on the situation and the need. The scale and types of injuries he is seeing are beyond catastrophic. That coupled with the lack of medical supplies, burn dressings, wound cleaning solutions, overcrowding of hospitals means that children who are injured are at an even greater risk since doctors are unable to even provide adequate emergency care.

https://inara.org/gaza/

Don’t worry too much about..”injuries.”