Ex-Human Rights Watch chief - Israel violating humanitarian law in Gaza

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Israel’s decision to deprive Palestinian civilians living in Gaza of access to basic needs violates international law, former Human Rights Watch chief Kenneth Roth said.

“In the realm of humanitarian necessities, the Israeli government has imposed a siege on all of Gaza,” Roth said in an interview with Al Jazeera.

Roth, who now teaches at Princeton University, added that the atrocities committed by the Hamas armed group against Israeli civilians do not justify the “revenge” and “collective punishment” against Palestinian civilians.

“A basic premise of international humanitarian law is that war crimes by one side never justify war crimes by the other. There’s an independent obligation by both sides to respect the laws of war.

“It increasingly does look like the Israel military is proceeding without adequate care to spare civilians. And that kind of indiscriminate and disproportionate attack … is in itself a war crime.”

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    Hirom,

    Do you happen to have any source for these reports?

    Latework,

    There is no source because they made it up. The closest thing I could find is this news.yahoo.com/wagner-mercenaries-involved-traini…Which states wagner group may have trained Hamas fighters according to this report …gov.ua/instruktory-pvk-vagner-gotuvaly-hamas-do-…

    feral_hedgehog,
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    https://pawb.social/pictrs/image/32d886ca-f62c-4923-9e85-652126efcd3a.png

    ram,
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    Uhm…

    alyaza,
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    leave it to Charlie Hebdo to place themselves firmly in the “dumb take” camp

    dangblingus,

    Most Western countries have to be seen as pro-Israel no matter what to deter accusations of anti-semitism or pro-nazism. Charlie Hebdo used to be scathing satire and now is just the magazine for Islamophobic European neolibs or conservatives. Its bush league satire and really low effort and blatant racism to troll Muslims.

    feral_hedgehog,
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    Yeah, what could those out of touch edgelords possibly know about terrorism?

    alyaza,
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    the fact that they were victims of terrorism as a publication does not suddenly exempt them from having dumb takes, and bluntly their “satire” is often far closer to actual islamophobia than humor.

    t3rmit3,

    Given the white coat, that’s pretty accurate to what Palestinian doctors would be experiencing…

    dangblingus,

    Yeah all those kids in Gaza sure do deserve to die of dehydration.

    cupcakezealot,
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    i don’t understand how attacking ambulances and hospitals in gaza achieves anything for israel

    library_napper,
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    Clicked the link and the “article” was 2 bullet points. Downvoted. Please link to actual articles

    ram,
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    • the entire contents of the article is listed in the text description
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    Rapidcreek, (edited )

    There are still over a hundred hostages. Crank down on Gaza…no electricity, etc…and you’ll eventually get some intel on where they are at. It’s war, and they put themselves in this position.

    livus,
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    they put themselves in this position.

    The civillians there did not. The last election in Gaza was held 17 years ago.

    The median age in Gaza is around 18 meaning the leadership was chosen when half the population hadn't even been born yet, let alone able to vote.

    To put that in perspective it's like if the US was still ruled by George Bush and no one had ever had a chance to vote him out.

    Rapidcreek,

    They surely did, by harboring Hamas and not demanding better.

    livus, (edited )
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    @Rapidcreek I suppose you probably blame the citizens of North Korea for "harbouring" Kim Jong Un, too. But that's just not how life actually works.

    Collective punishment of civillians is always a war crime, but blaming people with no access to free and fair elections in order to justify it is particularly cynical, especially when nearly half of them are still children.

    Rapidcreek,

    I do. They let Kim be their ruler do they not?

    TWeaK,

    So it’s the fault of oppressed people for being oppressed?

    Rapidcreek,

    You can take a walk through history and see oppressor and oppressed in every era. A common thread is when people are oppressed by internal forces they either revolt and take power or simply live with the oppression. Even the attempt to revolt is important.

    Gaza has a two fold problem. First they ruled by Hamas who don’t give a shit about them. Plenty of Palestinians hate Hamas, but not enough to make a difference. Secondly, they are oppressed by Israel due to Hamas.

    They can either live with this or revolt. They’ve chosen to live with it.

    rgb3x3,

    Man, it’s a real sign of living the privileged, easy life when someone thinks this way.

    Those people try to revolt and they die. They don’t revolt and still die. What kind of choice is that?

    Rapidcreek,

    Yeah they do. People that stand in front of tanks can get run over.

    Unaware7013,

    It’s war, and they put themselves in this position.

    Did they also put themselves in the inhumane conditions that sparked this war too? Or is decades of inhumane treatment of the Palestinian people immaterial to the situation?

    Because Israel is a good part of the reason Hamas is as powerful as they are, so I guess they put themselves in this position too?

    Rapidcreek,

    Hamas hates everyone even Palestinians. Who knows why they harbor them, but they do.

    Unaware7013,

    Who knows why they harbor them

    Yeah, who could ever know why Palestine harbors the group that Israel funded to delegitimize the more moderate political parties? It's not like the group Israel funded explicitly advocates for aggression against Israel in the name of freeing the Palestinians from the murderous boot of Israel and their decades long campaign of slowly exterminating the Palestinians and stealing all of their land.

    It's a complete mystery....

    Rapidcreek,

    At first I thought this was about a terrorist attack that killed more than a thousand denying their human right to live. Then I remembered those didn’t have the right to exist in the first place.

    Titan,

    And the US will turn a blind eye once again

    snooggums,
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    The US has not turned a blind eye, it has gone all in on supporting the war crimes of Isreal.

    Titan,

    Shit… You’re right. That’s even worse

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