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2024-02-10 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israeli targeting terrorists in Jenin hospital may be war crime, Gaza buffer zone ditto, UN experts say
But given that nobody else was harmed, probably not.
[IsraelTimes] Special rapporteurs say Israel appears to have attacked a defenseless injured person in hospital, while practicing deceit
“How dare you uppity juices defend themselves against vicious attackers! If you want our approval, you will politely bare your necks and sit quietly with folded hands until it’s your turn to be killed, just like Mahatma Gandhi advised back when it was the Nazis’ turn to wipe you out.”
The killing of three Paleostinian men in a hospital in the West Bank last month by Israeli commandos disguised as medical workers and Moslem women may amount to war crimes, a group of UN experts said on Friday. The three wanted bad boyz were potted on January 29 in a joint undercover operation by the army, Shin Bet security service and Border Police in the Ibn Sina hospital in Jenin, one of the most volatile cities in the West Bank, Israel’s military said.

Paleostinian media published extraordinary surveillance camera footage of the operation, showing many undercover forces dressed as doctors, nurses and Paleostinian women, scouring the hospital corridors while carrying guns.

"Under international humanitarian law, killing a defenseless injured patient who is being treated in a hospital amounts to a war crime," the UN experts said in a statement, referring to Basel Ghazawi, a patient being treated for injuries he said were caused by an Israeli air strike.

Israel said Ghazawi was a member of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
terror group, and that he and the two others killed were terror operatives planning imminent terror attacks, inspired by the October 7 Hamas
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
onslaught in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
-adjacent Israeli communities.

"By disguising themselves as seemingly harmless, protected medical personnel and civilians, the Israeli forces also prima facie committed the war crime of perfidy, which is prohibited in all circumstances," they added, calling for Israel to conduct an investigation.

The experts concerned are special rapporteurs engaged by the UN to examine a specific human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
issue.

Israel’s military was not immediately available for comment.
"I can say no more!"
on their statement.

CCTV footage from the hospital showed a group of about 10 people, dressed variously in civilian clothes and medical garb, including three in headscarves and women’s clothing, pacing through a corridor, armed with assault rifles.

Israel’s military has said that one of the men killed in the hospital, 27-year-old Muhammad Jalamneh, was a terrorist from Hamas, which governs Gaza, and the others were brothers, Muhammad and Basel Ghazawi, who worked for Jenin Brigade and the armed wing of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad.

Many wanted Paleostinians have long been staying in the hospital to plan and carry out terror attacks, hoping the medical center would provide protection from Israeli counter-terror operations, the military said, in "another example of the cynical use by terror groups of civilian spaces and hospitals as cover and as human shields." The comment was an apparent reference to the same tactic used by Gaza terrorists.

The IDF, Shin Bet and police accused Jalamneh of using the hospital as a hideout while planning attacks to be carried out in "the immediate time frame."

Israeli troops have carried out dozens of raids in and around Jenin in recent months. Israel says that the PA has lost control of areas of the northern West Bank, allowing terror groups to entrench themselves and launch attacks on Israelis on both sides of the Green Line.

UN rights chief says Israeli effort to create a Gaza ‘buffer zone’ is a ‘war crime’
We seem to have a theme.
[IsraelTimes] Volker Turk accuses IDF of needlessly destroying civilian infrastructure, attempting to prevent Gazans’ return to homes; army has confirmed demolishing buildings throughout the area

Israel’s reported ongoing destruction of all buildings along the border inside Gaza with the aim of creating a “buffer zone” is a war crime, the United Nations rights chief warned on Thursday.

In a statement, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk pointed to reports that the Israeli military is working inside the Gaza Strip to destroy all buildings within a kilometer of the border fence with Israel with the objective of creating a “buffer zone.”

“I stress to the Israeli authorities that Article 53 of the Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits destruction by the occupying power of property belonging to private persons, except where such destruction is rendered absolutely necessary by military operations,'” he said.

Turk warned that the objective of creating a buffer zone for general security purposes did “not appear consistent with the narrow ‘military operations’ exception set out in international humanitarian law.”

He added that such “extensive destruction of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly, amounts to a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention, and a war crime.”

Israeli officials have repeatedly said that they seek to have only a temporary security presence in Gaza following the end of the war, with no civilian control of the population.
Posted by trailing wife 2024-02-10 2024-02-10 00:32|| || Front Page|| [39 views ]  Top
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#1 According to UN, Israel's very existance is a crime against Humanity.
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-02-10 02:40||   2024-02-10 02:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Isn't Iran chair of the UNHRC? That defines the extent of the UN's commitment to humanity.
Posted by Dron66046 2024-02-10 02:45||   2024-02-10 02:45|| Front Page Top

#3 The Conventions stipulate using the hospital as cover is the war crime.
Posted by Procopius2k 2024-02-10 06:39||   2024-02-10 06:39|| Front Page Top

#4 eff the UN.
Posted by irish rage boy 2024-02-10 11:33||   2024-02-10 11:33|| Front Page Top

#5 The UN has run the training camp in Jenin for decades.
Posted by Sninemble Flaviting1731 2024-02-10 21:27||   2024-02-10 21:27|| Front Page Top

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