Moxie, you post is so full of fail I am going to respond to it, but I refuse to respond to any more of your posts until you at least have the courtesy of actually taking five minutes to just Google your “facts” to confirm they are not only misinformation or just your own delusions. Why should I spend my time trying to educate you when you can’t even be bothered to fact check the drivel you’re writing?
So here goes.
Not sure if serious? What you are quoting does not say that only one party can violate international law in instances of human shield usage.
If Hamas forced 20,000 civilians into a soccer stadium to act as shields, I highly doubt that would automatically allow another party to kill them all.
"Under international humanitarian law even if “human shields” are being used Israel’s obligations to protect these civilians would still apply."
Israel/Gaza conflict: Questions and Answers | Amnesty International
I don't know, you are the one that brought up "international law."
Palestine does not have UN membership status. The USA is one of five countries with veto power on the security council.
Who bought up international law? You’re kidding right. Is it just me who sees the words “Israel are war criminals” on a daily basis? all over the news and all over social media.
The Law of War is very clear that you can’t use civilians as human shields or camouflage otherwise the loss of their life is your legal responsibility, what do you find hard to understand about that.
A quote by Amnesty is purely based on their opinion and interpretation of the law, but it doesn’t make it fact. I content (as do many others) that the law is very clear on who has legal culpability in the situation where one side is using human camouflage and the other side is not. Again, I am talking about legally responsibility here, not moral.
Do not "consider" or do they just not apply that label to any group at all?
The UN has accused them of "war crimes and possible crimes against humanity."
United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Easy to answer that question, just use Google:-
List of designated terrorist organizations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
So clearly the consider other groups terrorists if you can be bothered to look at the table.
They called the local police, which is supposedly in line with their procedures. These are relief workers and not Rambo, correct? They are not going to battle Hamas for control of weapons and I imagine it would be dangerous for them to try to sneak rockets off to somewhere else.
Look at it rationally. Hamas committed a war crime by placing the bombs in a UN building and the UN representatives basically gave Hamas the rockets back (even if they did this indirectly they knew where the rockets would end up). I mean common, how ineffective can the UN actually be.
No modern military operation such as this is based solely on firing indiscriminately at spots from where attacks occurred, especially if it's understood that those doing the firing are no longer likely to be there.
This is not a normal military operation, it is a war with an opponent that is committing war crimes on a daily basis and is hiding amongst civilians. Please tell me what do you think they should be doing?
Plus targeting the location a rocket is being fired from can hardly be considered indiscriminate.
It would appear that Israel relies far more on their overall intelligence to determine various target sites than it does from just looking at rocket launch locations. For one example of many, on July 10 "The homes of more than 40 Hamas commanders were targeted."
They do both. They have targets and they also return fire. Their intelligence is unlikely to be able to warn them when a remote rocket is going to be set up and launched.
According to Israel government, they were fired at from near a UN school, but if they fired back, it is wrong and they will apologise :
Speaking to the BBC's Newsnight, Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev said: "We will investigate that. And if we find that it was errant fire from Israel I'm sure we will apologise.
"It's not clear to us that it was our fire but we know for a fact there was hostile fire on our people from the vicinity of the school."
I know there is a point in there somewhere, but for the life of me I can’t find it.
I think I have done more than enough to try to balance the lies with facts here so I am not going to spend any more time on it. I am just going to leave this video here as I think this guy really sums things up pretty well
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ugsv5u-sW0"]Hypocrisy over Gaza - YouTube[/ame]
