cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/13664088
After five months of military operations, Israel has destroyed Gaza. Over 30,000 Palestinians have been killed, including more than 13,000 children. Over 12,000 are presumed dead and 71,000 injured, many with life-changing mutilations. Seventy percent of residential areas have been destroyed. Eighty percent of the whole population has been forcibly displaced. Thousands of families have lost loved ones or have been wiped out. Many could not bury and mourn their relatives, forced instead to leave their bodies decomposing in homes, in the street or under the rubble. Thousands have been detained and systematically subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment. The incalculable collective trauma will be experienced for generations to come.
By analysing the patterns of violence and Israel’s policies in its onslaught on Gaza, this report concludes that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating Israel’s commission of genocide is met. One of the key findings is that Israel’s executive and military leadership and soldiers have intentionally distorted jus in bello principles, subverting their protective functions, in an attempt to legitimize genocidal violence against the Palestinian people.
It’s amazing to me as a legal scholar myself to see how the reporter does the very twisting of words and intentions that she accused Israel of doing.
If there’s have a Hamas commander and a bunch of his soldiers holed up, along with hostages, inside a building, it’s not relevant how many people are in the building if they’ve been warned to evacuate. If people ignore the warnings and stay put, that’s on them. The special reporter feels otherwise. She supports Hamas’s indiscriminate use of human shields and hiding behind “martyrdom.” Plenty of people disagree with her on both points.
Where are you certified as a legal scholar?
The back of a cereal box
Just your average Zionist lawyer from the US.