I can support my claims regarding Israeli war crimes with references to reputable sources.
Here is an example of IDF soldiers (BTW, some IDF soldiers aren't Jews) using children as human shields:
Israel Defense Forces soldiers used an 11-year-old Palestinian boy as a human shield during the war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, a group of UN human rights experts said Monday. IDF troops ordered the boy to walk in front of soldiers being fired on in the Gaza neighborhood of Tel al-Hawa and enter buildings before them, said the UN secretary-general's envoy for protecting children in armed conflict.
'IDF troops used 11-year-old boy as human shield in Gaza' - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
BTW, the above source is an Israeli Newspaper.
Here's another example of the IDF using children as human shields... (The source is the Israeli Human Rights NGO B'Tselem)
...during an incursion by Israeli forces into Beit Hanun, in the northern Gaza Strip, on 17 July 2006, soldiers seized control of two buildings in the town and used residents as human shield. After seizing control of the buildings, the soldiers held six residents, two of them minors, on the staircases of the two buildings, at the entrance to rooms in which the soldiers positioned themselves, for some twelve hours. During this time, there were intense exchanges of gunfire between the soldiers and armed Palestinians. The soldiers also demanded that one of the occupants walk in front of them during a search of all the apartments in one of the buildings, after which they released her.
20 July 2006: Israeli Soldiers use civilians as Human Shields in Beit Hanun | B'Tselem
That's right "her". The brave IDF soldiers used a grandmother and her two grandchildren as human shields during a shootout.
Here's an example of the IDF threatening an 11 year old girl with prison if she didn't act as a human shield. They forced her to enter a house where they believed Palestinian militants were hiding, so that the militants would have to shoot past her to hit them.
Israeli soldiers use Jihan D'adush, 11, as human shield, Nablus, February 2007 | B'Tselem
The practice of IDF soldiers using Palestinian civilians including children and grandmothers became so common and widespread that the Israeli Supreme Court banned the practice in 2005.
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Israel bans use of human shields
As you can see from the above incidents, the ban has not stopped this practice. Few IDF soldiers ever face charges and those that do, never get more than a wrist slap.
Regarding IDF attacks against UN humanitarian aid depots, hospitals, ambulances and medics evacuating the wounded:
Israeli strikes hit Gaza hospitals and UN aid headquarters - Telegraph
You can see the white phosphorus burning food and medical aid in the accompanying video
Here's another example:
...Medical staff and ambulance drivers who attempted to assist casualties of the Israeli invasion of Gaza have told the Guardian that they were attacked by Israeli forces while trying to carry out their job. The offensive left 16 medics dead. Nearly all of them were killed by Israeli fire while trying to save lives, and many more were wounded. According to the World Health Organisation, more than half of Gaza's 27 hospitals were damaged by Israeli bombs. Two clinics were completely destroyed and 44 others received damage. Dr Moawa Hassenein, the head of Gaza's Red Crescent ambulance teams, said it was the worst assault he had seen on ambulance workers: "I have never seen anything like what happened … Never in all my years have I seen this many health workers and facilities targeted in this way." In a report released yesterday, Physicians for Human Rights Israel said there was "certainty" that Israel had violated international humanitarian law, with attacks on medics, damage to medical buildings, indiscriminate attacks on civilians and delays in medical treatment for the injured.
Under attack: how medics died trying to help Gaza's casualties | World news | guardian.co.uk
Watch the video accompaning the above so you can see and judge the supporting evidence for yourself.
Feel free to demand evidence of additional Israeli war crimes. Sadly, I can reference hundreds more examples, few of which are reported by our MSM. As a result, many Canadians have a very distorted view of this conflict. Both sides have committed war crimes. Palestinian war crimianls fire rockets and mortars at civilian targets. Israeli war criminals do the same thing with greater accuracy and firepower. I'm sure Palestinian war criminals would use Jewish civilians as human shields and Attack Jewish hospitals and ambulances, but they seldom get the chance.
Some people on this forum believe one group of war ciminals is morally superior than the other. A reasonable and objective person would be just as outraged by Israeli war crimes as they are of Palestnian war crimes. Yet notice the lack of condemnation of Israeli war crimes. Instead Israeli apologists make accusations of antisemitism or other personal attacks. Another ploy is redirection to worse atrocities elsewhere. In response I'll quote Judy Rebick , Alan Sears and Norman Finklestein:
Statement by Professors Judy Rebick and Alan Sears
"Defenders of Israeli policy routinely attempt to direct our attention to abuses happening in other places and insist that a hidden agenda must underlie any focus on Israeli brutality in this unjust world. This argument would lead to paralysis in human rights activism by claiming that one must address all cases at once, or only the "worst" cases. Should we have told Rosa Parks, who refused to go the back of a segregated bus in Alabama in 1955, to quit whining as conditions were even worse in South Africa, or colonized Kenya, or for that matter for Palestinians in refugee camps? The deployment of anti-Semitism as an accusation to silence criticism of Israel is also a serious setback in genuine struggles against anti-Semitism and other forms of discrimination. It is based on a claim that the State of Israel is the single outcome of the history of the Jewish people, the final end of generations of diasporic existence. It attempts to make the Zionist project of a Jewish nation the only legitimate project for all Jews."
Memo to Minister Kenney: Criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitism | rabble.ca
Jewish academic, author and Israeli critic, Norman Finklestein:
"The 'new anti-Semitism' is a spin-off of the Holocaust industry. Whenever Israel comes under international pressure to resolve its conflict with the Palestinians diplomatically or faces a public relations debacle, its apologists mount a campaign alleging that the world is awash in a new anti-Semitism. … the purpose of these periodic extravaganzas is not hard to find: on the one hand, the perpetrators are turned into the victims, putting the spotlight on the alleged suffering of Jews today and diverting it from the real suffering of Palestinians; on the other hand, they discredit all criticism of Israeli policy as motived by an irrational loathing of Jews."
Yes I am well aware of these tactics. But I refuse to be bullied or intimidated into silence by people who care nothing about "fairness, justice and freedom".
Anonymous@AnonyOps
"Fairness, Justice, and Freedom are more than words, they are perspectives". -V.
The US Government has one perspective, we have another.
BTW, I never said I supported Anonymous. I don't know enough about them to say that.
Here is an example of IDF soldiers (BTW, some IDF soldiers aren't Jews) using children as human shields:
Israel Defense Forces soldiers used an 11-year-old Palestinian boy as a human shield during the war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, a group of UN human rights experts said Monday. IDF troops ordered the boy to walk in front of soldiers being fired on in the Gaza neighborhood of Tel al-Hawa and enter buildings before them, said the UN secretary-general's envoy for protecting children in armed conflict.
'IDF troops used 11-year-old boy as human shield in Gaza' - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
BTW, the above source is an Israeli Newspaper.
Here's another example of the IDF using children as human shields... (The source is the Israeli Human Rights NGO B'Tselem)
...during an incursion by Israeli forces into Beit Hanun, in the northern Gaza Strip, on 17 July 2006, soldiers seized control of two buildings in the town and used residents as human shield. After seizing control of the buildings, the soldiers held six residents, two of them minors, on the staircases of the two buildings, at the entrance to rooms in which the soldiers positioned themselves, for some twelve hours. During this time, there were intense exchanges of gunfire between the soldiers and armed Palestinians. The soldiers also demanded that one of the occupants walk in front of them during a search of all the apartments in one of the buildings, after which they released her.
20 July 2006: Israeli Soldiers use civilians as Human Shields in Beit Hanun | B'Tselem
That's right "her". The brave IDF soldiers used a grandmother and her two grandchildren as human shields during a shootout.
Here's an example of the IDF threatening an 11 year old girl with prison if she didn't act as a human shield. They forced her to enter a house where they believed Palestinian militants were hiding, so that the militants would have to shoot past her to hit them.
Israeli soldiers use Jihan D'adush, 11, as human shield, Nablus, February 2007 | B'Tselem
The practice of IDF soldiers using Palestinian civilians including children and grandmothers became so common and widespread that the Israeli Supreme Court banned the practice in 2005.
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Israel bans use of human shields
As you can see from the above incidents, the ban has not stopped this practice. Few IDF soldiers ever face charges and those that do, never get more than a wrist slap.
Regarding IDF attacks against UN humanitarian aid depots, hospitals, ambulances and medics evacuating the wounded:
Israeli strikes hit Gaza hospitals and UN aid headquarters - Telegraph
You can see the white phosphorus burning food and medical aid in the accompanying video
Here's another example:
...Medical staff and ambulance drivers who attempted to assist casualties of the Israeli invasion of Gaza have told the Guardian that they were attacked by Israeli forces while trying to carry out their job. The offensive left 16 medics dead. Nearly all of them were killed by Israeli fire while trying to save lives, and many more were wounded. According to the World Health Organisation, more than half of Gaza's 27 hospitals were damaged by Israeli bombs. Two clinics were completely destroyed and 44 others received damage. Dr Moawa Hassenein, the head of Gaza's Red Crescent ambulance teams, said it was the worst assault he had seen on ambulance workers: "I have never seen anything like what happened … Never in all my years have I seen this many health workers and facilities targeted in this way." In a report released yesterday, Physicians for Human Rights Israel said there was "certainty" that Israel had violated international humanitarian law, with attacks on medics, damage to medical buildings, indiscriminate attacks on civilians and delays in medical treatment for the injured.
Under attack: how medics died trying to help Gaza's casualties | World news | guardian.co.uk
Watch the video accompaning the above so you can see and judge the supporting evidence for yourself.
Feel free to demand evidence of additional Israeli war crimes. Sadly, I can reference hundreds more examples, few of which are reported by our MSM. As a result, many Canadians have a very distorted view of this conflict. Both sides have committed war crimes. Palestinian war crimianls fire rockets and mortars at civilian targets. Israeli war criminals do the same thing with greater accuracy and firepower. I'm sure Palestinian war criminals would use Jewish civilians as human shields and Attack Jewish hospitals and ambulances, but they seldom get the chance.
Some people on this forum believe one group of war ciminals is morally superior than the other. A reasonable and objective person would be just as outraged by Israeli war crimes as they are of Palestnian war crimes. Yet notice the lack of condemnation of Israeli war crimes. Instead Israeli apologists make accusations of antisemitism or other personal attacks. Another ploy is redirection to worse atrocities elsewhere. In response I'll quote Judy Rebick , Alan Sears and Norman Finklestein:
Statement by Professors Judy Rebick and Alan Sears
"Defenders of Israeli policy routinely attempt to direct our attention to abuses happening in other places and insist that a hidden agenda must underlie any focus on Israeli brutality in this unjust world. This argument would lead to paralysis in human rights activism by claiming that one must address all cases at once, or only the "worst" cases. Should we have told Rosa Parks, who refused to go the back of a segregated bus in Alabama in 1955, to quit whining as conditions were even worse in South Africa, or colonized Kenya, or for that matter for Palestinians in refugee camps? The deployment of anti-Semitism as an accusation to silence criticism of Israel is also a serious setback in genuine struggles against anti-Semitism and other forms of discrimination. It is based on a claim that the State of Israel is the single outcome of the history of the Jewish people, the final end of generations of diasporic existence. It attempts to make the Zionist project of a Jewish nation the only legitimate project for all Jews."
Memo to Minister Kenney: Criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitism | rabble.ca
Jewish academic, author and Israeli critic, Norman Finklestein:
"The 'new anti-Semitism' is a spin-off of the Holocaust industry. Whenever Israel comes under international pressure to resolve its conflict with the Palestinians diplomatically or faces a public relations debacle, its apologists mount a campaign alleging that the world is awash in a new anti-Semitism. … the purpose of these periodic extravaganzas is not hard to find: on the one hand, the perpetrators are turned into the victims, putting the spotlight on the alleged suffering of Jews today and diverting it from the real suffering of Palestinians; on the other hand, they discredit all criticism of Israeli policy as motived by an irrational loathing of Jews."
Yes I am well aware of these tactics. But I refuse to be bullied or intimidated into silence by people who care nothing about "fairness, justice and freedom".
Anonymous@AnonyOps
"Fairness, Justice, and Freedom are more than words, they are perspectives". -V.
The US Government has one perspective, we have another.
BTW, I never said I supported Anonymous. I don't know enough about them to say that.
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