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Wednesday, July 05, 2023

Despite BBC blood libel, combatants under 18 are legitimate targets in international law

Here is a blood libel from the BBC. In response to Naftali Bennett saying that every single person killed in Jenin was a terrorist, the presenter said, as a fact, "Terrorists but children. The Israeli forces are happy to kill children."Bennett's answer was good, but here is another case where news interviewers are either ignorant or willfully twisting international law.Child...

A dead family in Gaza: The other half of the story

Last year, during the May 2021 fighting in Gaza, an IAF missile destroyed an apartment in Gaza City, killing a mother and two of her children - Rima Telbani(31), Zeid(4) and Maryam(2).Israel was blamed for targeting civilians. The New York Times published a photo of the children. Today, another victim of that attack succumbed to his wounds. His name is Muhammad...

Amnesty report again accusing Israel of war crimes based on nothing but their hate for Israel (update)

Amnesty International has released a report on the August mini-war in Gaza where they say that Israel should be investigated for war crimes. (Unusually, they also accuse Islamic Jihad of possible war crimes for a single rocket misfire.)Amnesty investigated three incidents, two of which are from Israeli fire. The first one:Amnesty International has examined in detail two Israeli...

Amnesty has different interpretations of international law for Israel in Gaza and for everywhere else

Amnesty issued a report yesterday about Ukrainian forces violating international law:Ukrainian forces have put civilians in harm’s way by establishing bases and operating weapons systems in populated residential areas, including in schools and hospitals, as they repelled the Russian invasion that began in February, Amnesty International said today. Such tactics violate...

Israel is not violating international law in Gaza - part 1: Principle of Distinction

I have described how Hamas is violating at least 19 principles of international law in the current fighting. Now, is Israel? The criticism most often given of Israel's actions is that it is violating the "principle of distinction." The Geneva Conventions Additional Protocol 1, article 52, states it this way: 1. Civilian objects shall not be the object of attack or of reprisals. Civilian objects are all objects which are not military objectives...