No place is safe. Israel has intensified attacks including in the central and southern Gaza Strip.
On Friday, the United Nations Office for Human Rights (OHCHR) warned that Israel’s “collective punishment of the entire Gaza population” constitutes a war crime that must be immediately stopped.
“For nearly three weeks, Palestinian civilians have endured relentless Israeli airstrikes by air, land, and sea; thousands of them have perished, some amidst the ruins of destroyed homes, mosques, or bakeries,” OHCHR spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani said, and revealed that the families of two organization workers had perished in the attacks.
“We have received harrowing accounts of parents writing their children’s names on their arms to identify the bodies in the future,” she emphasized, adding that 57 UN workers have lost their lives in the hostilities that began on October 7.
The spokesperson for the office led by Volker Türk also deemed Israel’s forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of Gazans, through evacuation orders, a war crime. This comes at a time when “no place is safe” in Gaza.
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People complain about the UN doing nothing, but it’s also important to remember it was literally designed to not be able to do anything if one of the security council nations – USA, UK, France, Russia, or China – vetoes it. And USA always vetoes anything against the Israeli government.
Considering the UN’s hands are tied, I’m very glad they’re at least using their figurative microphone and international influence to call attention to how fucked up the treatment of Palestinians is.
I don’t know for others, but growing up American, Israel and its friends in Washington had done a terrific job of conflating any criticism of Israel with anti-semitism. What finally got me to re-evaluate my stance on the Israeli government a few years back was when well-known, respectable organizations like the Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International started using the word “apartheid” to describe the situation of Palestinians.
Hearing sources like the UN Office for Human Rights, the UN Secretary General, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International calling out the Israeli government’s actions in strong, unequivocal terms like “war crime” and “apartheid” is a start. I wish they could do more, and I sure as heck am angry with US foreign policy in this, but I’m just glad the UN has the balls to actually call this a war crime.
No what’s worse is they used the attack as an excuse to go to war. I’d argue that 9/11 was just incompetence but this is too nefarious. They had a warning multiple times including by Hamas. Israel is a terrorist state and will always be one after these events.
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You got one thing right, Israel ignored multiple warnings by Hamas that they plan to destroy Israel and kill civilians.
Never again.
You might say Israel is implementing a final solution to their problem…
Oh how the turntables.
Israel has the military might to solve this issue right now with no risk to their soldiers, and had this capability for the better part of this 70 year old conflict, but you know why it doesn’t use that military might to spare its own people?
Because we’re not fucking terrorists! We care about human lives, even those who fucking vowed to kill us and elected a terrorist organization as their government to accomplish this task for them
That’s how you imagine yourself as. Realistically it just feels like a mask has slipped of your face and a lot of people in the world realised you aren’t the oppressed anymore.
That’s a disingenuous statement designed to manipulate people, you never in your life sincerely thought Israel is oppressed and you’re trying to make it seem like you did.
It’s hard to imagine one self in Israel’s shoes, but I can say with high certainty you never tried.
Yes, you’re an occupying, child-killing, war-crime-comitting illegal state.
You care about human lives? Tell that to the thousands of dead women and children.
They wouldn’t condemn Hamas or the Oct 7th attacks, however.
Hamas isn’t a state.
Aren’t they the leading political “party” if you will in Gaza? Weren’t they elected like over a decade ago? (Before they got rid of elections.) Or maybe I’m not remembering correctly.
Gaza isn’t a country either
Israel is one unending war crime, they don’t give a shit what anyone says. Neither do the owner/operators of most nations, which support them no matter what they do.
I think it’s mainly the US that supports them unconditionally, often with UK and sometimes Canada. The rest of the world just don’t want to be in a trade war (or worse) with the US.
For example, look at the different nations voting records on these resolutions passed by the UN General Assembly last year.
And my compatriots get indignant about, absolutely * can not fathom why we’re known as The Great Satan.
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Like so many other people on the internet you seem to have very little information about what you’re talking about, but that doesn’t stops you from expressing your opinion.
See this and let me know if you still feel the same https://youtu.be/XNf40sBcvKk?si=_s_U6po5Jvpb_byU
You’re right a 30 minute YouTube video by travelingisrael.com completely addressed all of my concerns, damn, thank you so much. I fucking love Zionism now, let’s go kill some brown babies my dude
Insipid fucking moron
Like so many other people on the internet you seem to have very little information about what you’re talking about, but that doesn’t stops you from expressing your opinion.
The guy in your link like so many people on the internet seems to have very little information about what they’re talking about, but that hasn’t stopped them from expressing their opinion. Here’s someone who does actually have a lot of information on what they’re talking about who has a response to their video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXF5C2c0UYs
See this and let me know if you still feel the same way
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Consider yourself warned, mister!
Tut-tut, tut-tut old chap
They know. They openly brag about it.
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So is slaughtering hundreds of people at a music festival. Did the UN warn Hamas about that…? Oh sorry I mean the freedom fighters of palestine.
I don’t care for either side, nor do I care for UN bias. If they’re going to stand for anything, they should stand for everyone, unfortunately it falls very far short of that ideal.
Uh, yes. The UN has condemned Hamas’ acts of terror. Does that clarify things for you?
Hamas: terrorism. Israel: war crime. There, not too hard is it?
