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Wednesday, July 01, 2015

UNHRC report tried to justify Hamas firing rockets from civilian areas

The UNHRC Davis report wrote: 473. International humanitarian law prescribes that parties to the conflict should take all feasible precautions to protect the civilian population and civilian objects under their control from the effects of attacks and to the maximum extent feasible avoid locating military objectives within or near densely populated areas.[1] The commission notes that this obligation is not absolute and that even...

HRW more biased against Israel than UNHRC report

As biased as the Davis report was against Israel, Human Rights Watch is worse. The first paragraph of HRW's description of the Davis report says: The commission appropriately highlighted the extensive death and destruction from last year’s fighting, especially in Gaza, where 1,462 Palestinian civilians lost their lives, including 299 women and 551 children. Those figures, that HRW states as fact, came from the UN OCHA-OPT. But the Davis...

An absurd UNHRC commission story and the games that will result

The UNHRC report released this week includes some clearly ridiculous allegations from Gaza "eyewitnesses." Here is one of them: An eyewitness, Raghad Qdeih, told the commission that, on 25 July around 1 p.m., Israeli forces occupied the home of her uncle, Mohamed Tawfiq Qdeih, in Khuza’a. At the time of the attack, the witness, together with her uncle’s extended family and...

UNHRC report ignores Hamas' use of nuclear terrorism

During last summer's Gaza war, Hamas took credit for attacking, and threatened to further attack, Israel's nuclear power plant in Dimona: Hamas remained defiant Thursday, claiming rockets fired at the southern city of Dimona by its military wing the Ezzeddin al-Qassam Brigades showed Israel's weakness. "It [the rockets fired at Dimona] shows the weakness and vulnerability...

Rule 2 of ICRC's Customary IHL is "Acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population are prohibited." It quotes Article 51(2) of Additional Protocol I prohibits “acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population.” During last summer's Gaza war, Hamas explicitly...

UNHRC Gaza report didn't mention how Hamas used Shifa Hospital as headquarters

Further research into the UNHRC report issued yesterday shows plenty of omissions about Hamas crimes. Two in particular stand out as far as Hamas using medical facilities for terror. The report does not mention, even once, that Hamas - and Hamas' Al Qassam Brigades - used Shifa Hospital as a military headquarters, thereby endangering patients. The fact was confirmed by newspaper...

UNHRC explicitly lies on legal basis for calling Gaza "occupied"

The new UNHRC report on the Gaza war says: 27. International law does not require the continuous presence of troops of the occupying forces in all areas of a territory, in order for it to be considered as being occupied. In the Naletelic case, the ICTY held that the law of occupation also applies in areas where a state possesses the “capacity to send troops within a reasonable time to make its power felt.” The size of Gaza and the fact that it...

"Goldstone II" released, bad but not nearly as bad as Goldstone I

An advance version of the UNHRC report on last summer's war (and surrounding events) has been published. On first glance, the (formerly Schabas) commission has done a far better job than the Goldstone commission, which was provably biased throughout its investigation from evidence gathering through report completion, only accepting facts that supported its foregone conclusion and consciously ignoring everything else. This commission is clearly cognizant...