An unlawful Israeli strike on a family in a car on November 5, 2023, should be investigated as an apparent war crime, Human Rights Watch said today. The attack killed three girls and their grandmother and wounded their mother.“This attack by Israeli military forces that struck a car carrying a family fleeing violence shows a reckless disregard for civilian life,” said Ramzi Kaiss, Lebanon researcher at Human Rights Watch. “Three young girls and their grandmother have lost their lives, our investigations show, as a result of the Israeli military’s failure to distinguish between combatants and civilians. Their killing is a violation of the laws of war, and Israel’s allies, like the US, should respond to this apparent war crime by demanding accountability for this unlawful strike.”
As I showed at the time, the IDF was responding to a Hezbollah rocket attack on Israeli civilians and struck a car it probably thought was the terrorists fleeing the attack site, meaning this was not a war crime but a lawful decision by a military commander to strike a terror target given the best information available at the time.
Last week, there was a different attack on civilians near the Lebanese border. A 76 year old woman and her 48 year old son were killed in a targeted attack where there was no doubt that the targets were civilians. In fact, there is video of the attack - a video made by the attackers themselves, Hezbollah.
There is no question the murders of Mira and Barak Ayalon were deliberate. There is no doubt that Hezbollah was guilty of war crimes by shooting a laser guided anti-tank rocket at their obviously residential house.
Human Right Watch hasn't written a word, even though the attack happened 8 days ago - the same amount of time it took them to falsely accuse Israel of war crimes after the other incident.
In fact, HRW has not written any articles about Hezbollah's firing hundreds of rockets on Israelis' northern civilian communities. It has not written a single story about how a hundred thousand Israeli civilians were forced to flee southward to avoid Hezbollah attacks on their neighborhoods. Their Lebanon page hasn't mentioned Hezbollah for months.
When HRW only accuses the Jewish side of war crimes, that is antisemitism. When the other side publicly announces that they will target civilians and films their own attacks and even then is still ignored by a "human rights" group, that is even more evidence that HRW is institutionally antisemitic.
They don't want you to know about any war crimes in the region that they cannot blame on Israel.
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