Hamas guilty of war crimes says Amnesty

[Praxeas]

HAIFA, Israel – A horrific missile attack that killed 11 children in Gaza during last summer’s war between Israel and Hamas, for which Israel was broadly condemned at the time, was actually caused by a Palestinian missile misfiring and killing its own people, Amnesty International charged in a report released Thursday

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/03...rnatl-charges/

[Jermyn Davidson]

Of course this terrorist organization is guilty of war crimes. It's amazing that some people are just figuring this out.

[shazeep]

i doubt Prax is just figuring that out. Not sure if accidental detonations count as war crimes tho?

[n david]

Originally Posted by shazeep

i doubt Prax is just figuring that out. Not sure if accidental detonations count as war crimes tho?

Per Amnesty's report, it wasn't the misfire which accounts for the war crimes. That was included to clear the IDF of the accusation that it was responsible for that attack.

“Palestinian armed groups, including the armed wing of Hamas, repeatedly launched unlawful attacks during the conflict killing and injuring civilians,” said Philip Luther, director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Amnesty International. “In launching these attacks, they displayed a flagrant disregard for international humanitarian law and for the consequences of their violations on civilians in both Israel and the Gaza Strip.”

Amnesty also made note of “other violations of international humanitarian law by Palestinian armed groups during the conflict, such as storing rockets and other munitions in civilian buildings - including UN schools - and cases where Palestinian armed groups launched attacks or stored munitions very near locations where hundreds of displaced civilians were taking shelter.”

These are the war crimes of which Hamas is guilty.

[Walks_in_islam]

Irony: A story about the crime of keeping rockets for self defense near "hundreds of displaced people taking shelter" that completely fails to address the reason those hundreds of people were there or why they had to flee to shelters.

Thats funny Prax. What's next? A lesson about how wedding bombs are just "collateral damage"?

[Esaias]

"War crimes" appear to just be a propaganda point, as every party to war seems to commit them in one way or another.

There really is no such thing as "civilized war". All war involves destruction of life, logistics, property, and the enemy's will to continue fighting.

Irony: placing munitions in an area inhabited by "non-combatants" is a war crime, but killing all those non-combatants to elimate the munitions isn't a war crime.

War brings out the best - and the worst - in mankind. Noble heroic deeds of bravery and self-sacrifice combined with mind-numbingly horrific atrocities... that's what war is made of.

Always has been, always will be.

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by shazeep

i doubt Prax is just figuring that out. Not sure if accidental detonations count as war crimes tho?

They do if you are launching from a population center, which is Hamas practice. They do it so a retaliation kills civilians and then everyone blames israel

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by Walks_in_islam

Irony: A story about the crime of keeping rockets for self defense near "hundreds of displaced people taking shelter" that completely fails to address the reason those hundreds of people were there or why they had to flee to shelters.

Thats funny Prax. What's next? A lesson about how wedding bombs are just "collateral damage"?

How about out in a field?

[Walks_in_islam]

When the occupying soldiers who are oppressing these people return to their own country and their own borders you will then be free to take the high road. Otherwise, it is my view that as long as their kids are being knocked around by courageous IDF "heroes" in their own neighborhoods then those people have the right to defend themselves by any means necessary.

Deliberately antagonizing these people through their children and by withholding basic necessities is a legitimate cause for war. Expanding for settlers from Eastern Europe is not. There are 4,661 people per square kilometer in Gaza. The reason weapons are around civilian areas there is because there is nothing there but crowded civilian areas. Where else would weapons be? What a laugh. Pack these people as tight as possible then declare "war crime" when they fight back from the area you packed them into? Find a hobby.

[DaveC519]

Originally Posted by Walks_in_islam

When the occupying soldiers who are oppressing these people return to their own country and their own borders you will then be free to take the high road. Otherwise, it is my view that as long as their kids are being knocked around by courageous IDF "heroes" in their own neighborhoods then those people have the right to defend themselves by any means necessary.

Deliberately antagonizing these people through their children and by withholding basic necessities is a legitimate cause for war. Expanding for settlers from Eastern Europe is not. There are 4,661 people per square kilometer in Gaza. The reason weapons are around civilian areas there is because there is nothing there but crowded civilian areas. Where else would weapons be? What a laugh. Pack these people as tight as possible then declare "war crime" when they fight back from the area you packed them into? Find a hobby.

Any day now (+7 years) it will all be over, and there will no longer be a Palestine, only an Israel.