This cat is ridiculously photogenic.
This bear don’t care. Mostly.
This cat is ridiculously photogenic.
Huh… Misconception removed. Thank you for that.
And medicine that would be considered magic, living to ripe old age of beyond 40.
Still doesn’t make up for the fact that all we do is work.
More like “humans controlling humans gone wrong #12 hit that like and smash that substitute button”.
Merry Christmas… Boy.
Yeah, meant that as a reflection on his character, but thanks for being informative! That never hurts.
Not possible in Israeli law. Yet.
Hopefully, it never will.
Massive bias aside, the guardian was at least decent enough to get the Israeli response. However, the IDF isn’t providing a direct answer, which raises suspicion.
Regardless, letting civilians know they should head south and then attacking the designated safe routes is definitely a problem, unless they can prove they didn’t.
Problem is, if the IDF would legally ratify each attack, they’ll kill nothing but civilians.
It’s a shitty situation either way. War in Gaza can’t possibly be clean.
Luckily for Hamas, they don’t have such rules to abide by.
My source is https://ihl-databasrs.icrc.org and https://www.icrc.org (international red cross).
And naturally some wikipedia to help, but I only quote from the red cross. Feel free to check the links.
Hamas is in clear violation of all the articles of the 3rd common article of the Geneva convention. Every single section. However, the law doesn’t apply since they never agreed to be bound by them or sign the accord.
I did not see any article that states that if your enemy isn’t bound by the Geneva convention, then it means you aren’t too.
The 1987 additional to the Geneva protocol at 1977 also states in article 3 section 1 that “nothing in this protocol shall be invoked for the purpose of affecting the sovereignty of a state or the responsibility of the government, by all legitimate means, to maintain or re-establish law and order in the state or to defend the national unity and territorial integrity of the state.”
This would explain the repeating political statement: “Israel has the right to defend itself”, as it matches this section.
Also, during the original signing of the Geneva article 3, France and Britain inserted section C paragraph 1 “Scope of the application of common article”.
And this states verbatim - "Common article 3 does not provide a detailed definition of its scope of application, nor does it contain a list of criteria for identifying the situations in which it is meant to apply. It merely stipulates that ‘[I]n the cas of armed conflict not of an international character occuring in the territory of one of the high contracting parties’, certain provisions must be respected by the parties of the conflict.
So this is quite the rabbit hole in terms of the law.
I will read further into this, but it seems that saying the city is dense makes them guilty is a claim for court, and a guess, not a ruling. It doesn’t also clearly let’s Israel off the hook, as definitions can sway the lettering.
Also, maybe I’m missing some addendums. Don’t know, I’m not a lawyer.
Laws aside though, this is still an awful situation.
Didn’t find that specific truck reference, but I did find. BBC reference from yesterday that people in Khan Younis were bombed after being told to head south of Wadi Gaza. They were bombed because of Hamas presence.
I don’t know if attacking terrorists that hold human hostages as shields is a war crime, but it sure as shit sounds awful. Especially since the civilians can’t always tell they’re being actual human shields.
What a nightmare.
If you’ve talking about the hospital, the IDF provided proof from intelligence footage and al-jazeera showing it was a misfire, and it hit a parking lot, not the actual hospital.
Otherwise, what IDF is doing is bombing where they know there are Hamas terrorists, and they don’t notify the Palestinian civilians to get out of the way.
I don’t know if that’s a war crime, especially since the IDF told Palestinian civilians to go south, but human shields is an issue too. A moral one.
Or maybe I’m misinformed and you know something I don’t, or we disagree on something.
Please elaborate.
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You are correct in that the right wing, as a formal and major part of this current administration, is pushing for genocide and ethnic cleansing. Hands down. No doubt.
But most of the air force is center/left. A lot of the ground soliders are center/left. They were protesting against th government 13 days ago.
It is not a professional army, it is a citizens army There are quotes of soliders, officers and generals in reserves saying “We will do what needs to be done, but we won’t commit the war crimes you’re asking.” Almost verbatim.
Which also garnered facist answers that they are traitors and deserve a traitor’s fate etc…
And even now, during the war, a citizen who’s family was abducted and went to protest the government was struck by regime cultists.
It is not black and white, not good and evil, despite what the crime minister is saying.
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Also, a united military front won’t protest, rebel or put Benjamin Netanyahu in jail.
Removing Hamas is removing a symptom. A tumor.
You need to heal the body after that. Give Gaza hope, order, a reason to cooperate.
If you just destroy Hamas, then purple-jewish-haters party will take it’s place and do the same.
Let me explain Benjamin Netanyahu.
He is a Machiavellian criminal (I repeat this definition because if you read “the Prince” then you know exactly how he will act):
He has 0 issues with behading children. However, if he gets to stay in power for another 4 years, he will let Hamas behead the whole country.
The war crime of ethnically cleansing Gaza will harm him politically and empower his psycho right winged pals.
It is not in his favor, so it will not happen.
P.S. fucker should rot in prison.
I mean there is usually at least one reason. Like curiosity.
He declared himself the only person to declare himself absentee (even if he were to die right now).
That doesn’t mean his term won’t end after 4 years, or that the government can’t disband for elections.
He still hasn’t become Arduan or Putin, which is why most of the violence in the protests was the government vs the people and not a mutual thing.
I felt a slight jolt of adrenaline on that second “right???” After living through something similar…