Human Rights Watch
Some Israeli Attacks Amount to War Crimes
(Beirut, August 3, 2006) – Israeli forces have systematically failed to distinguish between combatants and civilians in their military campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon, Human Rights Watch said in report released today. The pattern of attacks in more than 20 cases investigated by Human Rights Watch researchers in Lebanon indicates that the failures cannot be dismissed as mere accidents and cannot be blamed on wrongful Hezbollah practices. In some cases, these attacks constitute war crimes.
The 50-page report, “Fatal Strikes: Israel’s Indiscriminate Attacks Against Civilians in Lebanon,” analyzes almost two dozen cases of Israeli air and artillery attacks on civilian homes and vehicles. Of the 153 dead civilians named in the report, 63 are children. More than 500 people have been killed in Lebanon by Israeli fire since fighting began on July 12, most of them civilians.
“The pattern of attacks shows the Israeli military’s disturbing disregard for the lives of Lebanese civilians,” said Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch. “Our research shows that Israel’s claim that Hezbollah fighters are hiding among civilians does not explain, let alone justify, Israel’s indiscriminate warfare.”
The report is based on extensive interviews with victims and witnesses of attacks, visits to some blast sites, and information obtained from hospitals, humanitarian groups, security forces and government agencies. Human Rights Watch also conducted research in Israel, assessing the weapons used by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
Human Rights Watch researchers found numerous cases in which the IDF launched artillery and air attacks with limited or dubious military objectives but excessive civilian cost. In many cases, Israeli forces struck an area with no apparent military target. In some instances, Israeli forces appear to have deliberately targeted civilians.....
http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2006/08/02/lebano13902.htm
earth_as_one said:This isn't about supporting Israel's right to defend itself. This is about whether or not you support Israel's war crimes. It is a war crime to deliberately target civilians:
Human Rights Watch
Some Israeli Attacks Amount to War Crimes
(Beirut, August 3, 2006) – Israeli forces have systematically failed to distinguish between combatants and civilians in their military campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon
Israels attacks on Hezbollah were legal. But Israel's deliberate attacks on civilians were war crimes.
You would have to be pretty callous or willfully ignorant to support Israel's war crimes.
What Israel did in Lebanon, it has been doing to Palestinians for 58 years.
AspiringStarvingArtist said:We didn't support South African racisim. We have NEVER sided with dictators ourselves..
AspiringStarvingArtist said:and the people who are running the show in Israel are insane. They are not true leaders. They are business men who are in the business of proffiting from war and wars for that matter against people who can not fight back. Not REAL WARS where they are under a SERIOUS THREAT of attack, but just wars for their own personal gain where they make up excuses and lies for the destruction they cause to earn their paycheck.
Hotshot said:Yawn, Israel is just defending themselves. Starving, give it a rest
athabaska said:I support Israel 100%. As a soldier with Canadian UN forces in both Egypt and the Golan heights (Syria) I don't have any optimism about the ability of the Arab culture to improve it's pathetic existence. Abuse of women, children and especially animals, filth and hatred are what I remember most of the culture.
zoofer said:AspiringStarvingArtist said:... We have NEVER sided with dictators ourselves.. not US CANDIANS
Thats as far as I got then puked.
Trudeau was best buddies with Mao, the Communist Ruskies and Castro. Even this week that addlepated moron of a son of his was idolising Castro.
Some letters to the Editor by citizens.
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bluealberta said:Why anyone could be against the only democracy in that area of the world is beyond me. Hizbollah is a terrorist organization, have taken over Lebanon, and is supported by Iran and Syria.
To say that I support Israel is an understatement.
Mogz said:I'm pro-Israel. I cannot stand how people always paint the Israeli's as the bad guys soley because they have bigger weapons that do more damage. People throw out body counts and say "see see, look how many people Israel kills!!!". The sad reality my friends is that Israel has a robust, well trained, and well equipped military. The wrath they unleash is the burden of those who provoke the bear. If Hezbollah wants to fire rockets from a residential area, and Israel fires back with hellfires from an Apache gunship, I feel no, I say again NO pity for any civilians killed. A weapon system, whether it be an AK-47 or an ZSU-III, will draw enemy fire. If Hezbollah cared about it's people, they'd not lauch attacks against ISRAELI CIVILIANS from a residential area. A great example:
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Lastly, before I close on this tired, tired, topic. Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. The Nations surrounding it have tried on NUMEROUS occasions to literally wipe Israel off of the map. To Israel's credit they have staved off said attacks time and time again. If you honestly can sit there in your computer chair and spout off about how Israel is the aggressor, I sugest you pick up a history book and read about how many times Israel has been attacked and just how close they've come to been wiped out i.e. Yom Kippur War.
EastSideScotian said:When I read this post this ios what it came out as.
OOOOH GOD, PLEASE CANADA, DONT USE YOUR NAVY TO STOP HEZBOLLAH FROM GETTING GUNS, SO THIS WAR CAN KEEP GOING.
Uninformed Libreals danceing around....danceing around what.....anything Canada can do to help others... *censored* off
Logic 7 said:EastSideScotian said:When I read this post this ios what it came out as.
OOOOH GOD, PLEASE CANADA, DONT USE YOUR NAVY TO STOP HEZBOLLAH FROM GETTING GUNS, SO THIS WAR CAN KEEP GOING.
Uninformed Libreals danceing around....danceing around what.....anything Canada can do to help others... *censored* off
Canada won't have to do that,the whole "Coalition of the willing" are quite happy with this situation, justifying military budget and so on, look after 5 years of wars in afganisthan, alqueada and taliban are still alive and well, since then friends of "Coalition of the willing"politiciens, which are mainly weapons manufacturers, are making huge profit.
Killing hundreds of civilians and putting checkpoints within Palestine itself so Palestinians have trouble going in between their own towns is a little bit beyond defending itself.Hotshot said:Yawn, Israel is just defending themselves. Starving, give it a rest
:roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:Logic 7 said:EastSideScotian said:When I read this post this ios what it came out as.
OOOOH GOD, PLEASE CANADA, DONT USE YOUR NAVY TO STOP HEZBOLLAH FROM GETTING GUNS, SO THIS WAR CAN KEEP GOING.
Uninformed Libreals danceing around....danceing around what.....anything Canada can do to help others... *censored* off
Canada won't have to do that,the whole "Coalition of the willing" are quite happy with this situation, justifying military budget and so on, look after 5 years of wars in afganisthan, alqueada and taliban are still alive and well, since then friends of "Coalition of the willing"politiciens, which are mainly weapons manufacturers, are making huge profit.