from Keeponstalin@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 12 Jun 2024 19:30
https://lemmy.world/post/16460686
In a report released on Wednesday by the UN Commission of Inquiry that covers the period from October 7 to the end of 2023, the commission found that Israel has committed a large range of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
The crimes against humanity that investigators found Israel has committed include the crime of extermination, which is the intentional mass killing of an entire group of people, “including by inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of part of a population.”
The report also lists gender persecution as a crime against humanity, with Israel Defense Forces creating a “culture that allowed – and may have even encouraged – [soldiers] to humiliate and degrade Palestinians on the basis of gender.”
In terms of war crimes and international law violations, the commission concludes that Israel has directly targeted civilians and civilian objects and meted out collective punishment against Palestinians; has been using starvation as a weapon of war; has forcibly displaced at least 1.7 million people in Gaza; has systematically committed sexual violence against Palestinians; and has seen its senior officials inciting numerous calls to extinguish Palestinian civilians and life in Gaza.
“[B]oth the 7 October attack in Israel and Israel’s subsequent military operation in Gaza should not be seen in isolation. The only way to stop the recurring cycles of violence, including aggression and retribution by both sides, is to ensure strict adherence to international law,” the report read. “That includes ending the unlawful Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory, discrimination, oppression and the denial of the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people and guaranteeing peace and security for Jews and Palestinians.”
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14 Israeli Civilians confirmed dead from friendly fire
Is there a rule that says if you’re doing evil shit, you have to pick the most evil sounding names you can think of?
Why is that the only rule Israel seems to follow
This doesn’t even cover what they have done so far in 2024, which is escalating all of those things.
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This is an important finding, coming from a relatively unbiased and credible body. Israel has already been muddying the water by spinning a narrative that the UN has some secret antisemitic agenda, and I expect they will double down in response to this.
This report needs to be backed up by individual nations if its findings are to be accepted. Global citizens must pressure our governments to acknowledge and act on these findings. If we do not, many of them will find ways to downplay or obfuscate them, and the situation will not improve.
Country which has routinely engaged in war crimes for 30 years continues to engage in war crimes…
So what you’re saying is we should bomb another refugee camp?
No no, just round up all the reporters! There can’t be war crimes if nobody is alive to report them!
The US should follow it’s own laws and stop sending weapons to them.
ThAtS AnTi-SeMiTiSm!!!
Blowing up unarmed Palestinians with US-made weaponry is a core tenet of Israeli culture, you can’t just deny them or their basic rights like that! /S