"Israeli use of white phosphorus 'undeniable': Amnesty
AMNESTY International has said that Israel's use during the Gaza offensive of white phosphorus — banned under international law for use near civilians — was "clear and undeniable".
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Time for some TRIALS at the HAGUE!!!
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The slowness of the cover-up, 'er, whitwash, 'er, investigation shows just how much the world is under Israel's thumb.
"Israel balks at UN war crimes investigation of Gaza war" by Diaa Hadid, Associated Press | April 16, 2009
JERUSALEM - Israel is unlikely to cooperate with a Gaza war crimes investigation because it distrusts the UN agency sponsoring the inquiry, an Israeli government official said yesterday.
What chutzpah!
Gaza's Hamas rulers said they would work with investigators from the UN Human Rights Council, which ordered the investigation in January shortly after Israel's three-week military offensive in Gaza.
The Israeli government official said Israel sent its response concerning cooperation to the UN agency a week ago. He said Israel is "very unlikely" to cooperate. He spoke on condition of anonymity and said he could not elaborate because it is not clear whether the head of the investigation, Richard Goldstone, has been briefed. Israel has long complained that the council is biased against Israel.
The world is sick of their whining, especially since it sees the U.N as just another Jewish tool.
International and local human rights groups have said there is strong suspicion both sides violated the rules of war.
Pffft!
Isn't the one-sidedness enough already. I'm tired of Zionist lies and relativism!
In New York, a leading human rights group on Tuesday urged both sides to cooperate with the investigation because it will be led by Goldstone, a widely respected South African judge and former chief UN prosecutor of war crimes in Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
Yup, they get like a top guy on it and Israel objects.
The group, Human Rights Watch, noted that it has criticized the UN rights council in the past "for its exclusive focus on Israeli rights violations."
So you have to ask permission and suck Zionist cheek if you want to criticize them? Fuck that.
However, Goldstone has the "experience and proven commitment to ensure that this inquiry will demonstrate the highest standards of impartiality," the group wrote to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and 27 European foreign ministers.
Human rights groups have said Hamas should be investigated for firing rockets indiscriminately at Israeli civilians and for allegedly using Gaza civilians as human shields.
Which human rights groups said that, Zionist MSM?
Investigators must also look at the Israeli military's practices, such as firing imprecise artillery and white phosphorous shells in densely populated Gaza, the groups have said.
Yeah, just touch on the actual crimes, MSM. If it were Muslims they would be citing the stuff in paragraphs every day and twice on Sundays.
Israel's likely refusal to work with Goldstone raises questions about whether he will be able to carry out his mission. Investigators have not said when they will visit the region, but without Israeli cooperation they would be denied access to crucial information from the military.
Why? You are the WORLD!! GO IN THERE and FIND IT! The Gazans are waiting.
Israeli diplomats said their opposition has nothing to do with who heads the inquiry.
In one ear out the other mean anything to you, NaZionist?
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JERUSALEM - The Israeli military yesterday presented the conclusions of several internal investigations into its conduct during the recent war in Gaza and stated that it operated in accordance with international law throughout the fighting, countering widespread international criticism over its actions and continuing accusations of possible war crimes....
Are murderers allowed to investigate themselves? Thieves?
Yes, yes, I know, governments are allowed, but in any other case? Think fox guarding the hen house, folks. He gonna come clean on what he's done in there?
Would you believe a proven liar? Then why believe Israel?
The offensive sparked international outrage and condemnation as the Palestinian death toll grew, as UN facilities and medical teams came under fire and as allegations emerged of improper use of white phosphorous.
Earlier this month, the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council appointed an internationally renowned judge, Richard J. Goldstone, to lead a high-level mission to investigate allegations of war crimes during the Gaza war.
Though Goldstone, a former judge of the South African Constitutional Court and the former UN chief prosecutor for war crimes in Yugoslavia and Rwanda, has said he will investigate possible violations by both Israel and Hamas, officials in Jerusalem have said it is highly unlikely that Israel will cooperate with the mission.
General Dan Harel, the Israeli military's deputy chief of staff, told reporters yesterday that the army "discovered a small number of mistakes, not many, among the dozens of incidents we investigated, and we have already examined them and learned lessons from them."
I don't know what is worse; using the WMD or lying about it after!
All I know is I'm feeling ill after reading this far.
Harel added that the army had "not found a single case of an Israeli soldier deliberately hurting innocent Palestinian civilians, whether from the land, air or sea." If any such case was discovered, he said, it would be treated with the full severity of the law.
Of course, they WERE NOT LOOKING FOR THEM and if they did find them they want to COVER IT UP because IT WAS APPROVED POLICY!!
Describing the mistakes as "unfortunate" and ascribing them to "intelligence or operational errors," the military said such incidents "were unavoidable and occur in all combat situations, in particular of the type which Hamas forced" on the army "by choosing to fight from within the civilian population."
Typical NaZionists: blame the victims!
Three separate investigations whose conclusions were presented yesterday dealt with specific events that were brought to the army's attention by the news media or other means. Two others examined general subjects, namely the use of weapons containing phosphorous and the destruction of infrastructure and buildings by ground forces.
In one now notorious case where Israeli shells killed up to 40 Palestinians outside a UN school in the Jabaliya refugee camp, north of Gaza City, on Jan. 6, the soldiers were responding, according to the military, to mortar shells fired by militants in the vicinity of the school. Israel says that between 12 and 17 Palestinians were killed, five of whom were militants.
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Soon after the shelling, however, Palestinian hospital officials in the Jabaliya area told a reporter that 40 people had been killed, among them 10 children and five women. At a mass funeral in Jabaliya the next day, a reporter was unable to count the bodies in the press of the mourning crowd, but described seeing the bodies of the children laid out in a long row on the ground.
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