Human Rights Watch: 'Hizbullah committing War Crimes' (OP)
Hizbullah must immediately stop firing rockets into civilian areas in Israel, Human Rights Watch said Saturday.
"Lobbing rockets blindly into civilian areas is without doubt a war crime," said Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch. "Nothing can justify this assault on the most fundamental standards for sparing civilians the hazards of war."
"Most of the attacks appear to have been directed at civilian areas and have hit pedestrians, hospitals, schools, homes and businesses," the humanitarian organization's website stated.
Since July 12, when Hizbullah captured two IDF soldiers and killed eight, Human Rights Watch researchers have been documenting the war's impact on civilians in Israel and Lebanon, interviewing the witnesses and survivors of attacks, as well as doctors, emergency workers, police, military and government officials.
"Hizbullah must stop using the excuse of Israeli misconduct to justify its own," said Roth.
The organization's Web site recognized that northern Israel had come to a virtual standstill because of Hizbullah's rockets, which were "exacting an enormous human and economic toll."
"Under international humanitarian law - also known as the laws of war - parties to an armed conflict must not make the civilian population the object of attack, or fire indiscriminately into civilian areas. Nor can they launch attacks that they know will cause incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects that exceeds the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated. Such attacks constitute war crimes," the site explained.
"Several medical and educational institutes have sustained damage from Katyusha attacks." Human Rights Watch researchers visited hospitals in Nahariya and Safed after they were hit.
At Nahariya Hospital, rockets had been landing near the hospital since July 12, a hospital spokesperson said. "There are no military bases around here; nothing military at all," he said. "I believe they know perfectly well they are firing at a hospital."
"In the absence of troops or military assets inside, hospitals must never be attacked," Human Rights Watch said. "Deliberately attacking them is a war crime."
Hezbollah needs to be disarmed and they need to stop attacking Israel. That border was peaceful and it could be again. Once Hezbollah gives up the gun.
Actually that was not intended for you. It was intended for the OP.
But anyways, if it wasnt for Hezbollah, southern Lebanon would've been part of Israel.
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No. But I have a problem with placeing blame upon someone who is only recently attacking, whereas the other has been attacking and killing for years. Go figure who is who.
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Re: Human Rights Watch: 'Hizbullah committing War Crimes'
format_quote Originally Posted by Ähmed
No. But I have a problem with placeing blame upon someone who is only recently attacking, whereas the other has been attacking and killing for years. Go figure who is who.
Wait, who started the killing again?
It was Hezbollah's ruthless raid that ended with 8 dead and 2 kidnaped in ISRAELI territory.
Know, I am not sure what kind of reasoning you put to this, and I am sure, the anti-israel crowd has definitly made 'explanations' for this act of war against israel, but I don't buy it.
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According to my understanding palestine was rightfully the property of the arabs before israel "interfered" but thats another whole issue.
If you look back a little farther into history, you may learn that before Arabs settled in the Holy Land another people ruled it for a very long time, and then were unjustly removed from the land by there enemies.
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format_quote Originally Posted by מדינת ישׂראל
Good analogy.
I like the tango one better. lol.
Yeah. But one of the hands has been around oppressing since the late 1960s. Dont think that justifies what it's going through now. Its sad to see people dieing. But i dont feel much for the Isreali's because of what they've done to our people for the past decades.
An anvil on side of the scale does not equal to a coin on the other side.
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format_quote Originally Posted by מדינת ישׂראל
If you look back a little farther into history, you may learn that before Arabs settled in the Holy Land another people ruled it for a very long time, and then were unjustly removed from the land by there enemies.
unjustly? how so? Who removed them? Why were they removed? Plaese explain, you seem to kno :eek:
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format_quote Originally Posted by cheese
er.. just becuase Isreal is committing crimes in lebanon a million times worse than what hizbullah is doing, doesnt make hizbullahs actions right...
i personally have no idea why they are targetting thier missiles at civilians, wouldnt those missiles have had a better effect if they were aimed at the military?
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format_quote Originally Posted by מדינת ישׂראל
Not nessesarily, but it is always good to remember who started the conflict.
who started the war in Lebanon..?
Hezb Allah arrested two soldiers as prisionrs same as israel who have Lebanese prisinors...
it's allways good to remember that as well...
second.. israel have probelems with Hezb Allah, why are they attacking Lebanon..?!?!
Hezb Allah didn't start a war.. they arrested two soldiers... israel can take them back without violence and war...
and if they want war, they can attack Hezb Allah by them selves in the Southern border without attacking the country and kill more than 1000 people or basically they can release Lebanese prisoners and take thier prisoners back...
this conflict isn't about those soldires... israel is a remote control for USA who is giving them orders to proceed with this false war.
israel is done... now it's up to USA to oreder them to stop or not... thats very obvious.
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