"Israeli tank fire kills two boys at UN school in Gaza Strip; About 1,600 had sought shelter in the building" by Luke Baker, Reuters | January 18, 2009
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israeli tank fire killed two boys at a school run by the United Nations in the northern Gaza Strip yesterday, a UN official said.
Adnan Abu Hasna, a spokesman for the UN Relief and Works Agency, said two brothers were killed and 14 wounded, including the boys' mother, when Israeli tank fire hit the school run by the agency in the northern town of Beit Lahiya.
They are absolutely something else, folks! What assholes!!!
One shell struck the top floor of the three-story building. About 1,600 people had sought shelter in the school, officials said. The Israeli army said it was investigating the incident but preliminary information indicated that its troops were returning fire from the vicinity.
BULLSHIT!!!
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UN officials expressed anger after the school was hit. "I condemn in the strongest terms this outrageous attack," UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said from Beirut.
Then DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!!!
John Ging, the Gaza head of the Relief and Works Agency, said yesterday that he was concerned about possible war crimes during the Gaza offensive, a suggestion that Israeli officials rejected out of hand.
What? Those words... in the Zionist MSM.... music to my ears!
"These two little boys are as innocent, indisputably, as they are dead," Ging said as Israel's offensive entered its fourth week. "The question now being asked is: Is this and the killing of all other innocent civilians in Gaza a war crime?"
"These claims of war crimes are not supported by the slightest piece of evidence," Yigal Palmor, an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman, said when asked if there was any chance of a case being brought to the International Criminal Court.
Oh yeah? See, NaZionist prick! Another Photo Collection From Palestine
Earlier this month, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay called for independent investigations into possible war crimes after Israel's shelling of another UN school compound killed 42 people, including women and children, on Jan. 6.
Yeah, HOW MANY U.N. places are they allowed to hit, anyway?
Israel says the area near that compound was being used by militants to fire rockets.
Liars, liars!!!
The sheer number of Palestinian dead in the conflict - 1,200, of whom 410 are children - has also led to calls by human rights groups and aid workers for Israel to face examination under international criminal law, specifically on the issue of "proportionality" in the prosecution of the war.
Palmor said Israel's army had nothing to answer for. "The army has a legal department that advises it and gives its opinion on measures that are taken," he said. "As far as we know, the army has not done anything that is contrary to international law."
In other words, the STINK NaZionists ABSOLVE THEMSELVES of any crime, and since there is no higher earthly power....
Yet Israeli army commanders have acknowledged that they have seldom carried out such a full-throttle assault on an enemy.
"We've used artillery shells, tanks, and helicopters for close-range assistance. I don't remember when we ever fired mortars in Gaza before," a battalion commander told Haaretz newspaper, which described Israel as acting like a steamroller.
Yup, AND WMD!!!! Also see: Israel Drops DIME on Palestinians
A Palestinian rights group on Wednesday urged the International Criminal Court to investigate Israel, producing a 25-page petition alleging that Israel was using "terrorist weapons to conduct crimes against humanity."
YUP!!
The ICC prosecutor in the Hague responded by saying the court had no jurisdiction to investigate in Gaza. The ICC can investigate war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide committed on the territory of, or by a national of, a state. But Gaza is not a state.
Well, it SHOULD BE!
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While Israel has not signed the Rome Statute that enshrined the ICC, it can still be investigated, but it would require the UN Security Council to call for such a move. Any such proposal would probably be vetoed by Israel's ally, the United States.
As the Zionist jism drips from the chin.
And Israel didn't sign on to the criminal court, huh?
Some analysts say Israel and Hamas may have to answer on issues of humanitarian law.
Pfft! What does Hamas have to answer for? 3 Israeli civilians?
Anthony Dworkin, the executive director of the Crimes of War Project and a specialist in international humanitarian law, said Israel's broad approach to what it considered a target in the conflict might expose it to claims under the '49 Geneva Conventions governing noninternational conflict.
Oh would that ever make me happy!
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