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Thread #150703   Message #3642898
Posted By: beardedbruce
17-Jul-14 - 01:23 PM
Thread Name: BS: Small hope for Israel/Palestine
Subject: RE: BS: Small hope for Israel/Palestine
from the ICRC

"In areas where civilians are concentrated, clearly-separated military objectives should n ot be treated as a single military objective. Unless circumstances do not permit it, each party to the conflict shall give an effective advance warning prior to an attack which may affect the civilian population.

In some cases, civilians and prisoners are used as human shields to protect military objectives from attack. In others, the red cross or the red crescent emblem is used to mislead the enemy and conduct military actions. Simulation of protected status by using the red cross, the red crescent, UN or other protective emblems are considered as acts of perfidy, amounting to a grave breach of humanitarian law."


Now tell me again WHICH side is acting according to International Law?


Israel, which is warning about, and even stopping attacks when evidence is available that there are civilians still there,

Or Hamas, which rains antipersonnel rockets over 5 million of the 8 million Israelis without warning, and tells its own people not to evacuate designated military targets?