Israel's War Crimes
Juan Cole and As'ad Abu-Khalil discuss the report of US-based Human Rights Watch.
"The pattern of attacks in more than 20 cases investigated by Human Rights Watch researchers in Lebanon indicates that the failures cannot be dismissed as mere accidents and cannot be blamed on wrongful Hezbollah practices. In some cases, [Israel's] attacks constitute war crimes....
"Of the 153 dead civilians named in the report, 63 are children. More than 500 people have been killed in Lebanon by Israeli fire since fighting began on July 12, most of them civilians....
"On July 16, an Israeli aircraft fired on a civilian home in the village of Aitaroun, killing 11 members of the al-Akhrass family, among them seven Canadian-Lebanese dual nationals who were vacationing in the village when the war began. Human Rights Watch independently interviewed three villagers who vigorously denied that the family had any connection to Hezbollah. Among the victims were children aged one, three, five and seven....
"[I]n none of the cases of civilian deaths documented in the report is there evidence to suggest that Hezbollah was operating in or around the area during or prior to the attack."
Sign the petition: SHAME ON YOU, MR. HARPER.
Video: John Pilger's Palestine is Still the Issue.
Hezbollah kills 7 Israelis in most recent attack
Lebanon death toll 'exceeds 900'
"The pattern of attacks in more than 20 cases investigated by Human Rights Watch researchers in Lebanon indicates that the failures cannot be dismissed as mere accidents and cannot be blamed on wrongful Hezbollah practices. In some cases, [Israel's] attacks constitute war crimes....
"Of the 153 dead civilians named in the report, 63 are children. More than 500 people have been killed in Lebanon by Israeli fire since fighting began on July 12, most of them civilians....
"On July 16, an Israeli aircraft fired on a civilian home in the village of Aitaroun, killing 11 members of the al-Akhrass family, among them seven Canadian-Lebanese dual nationals who were vacationing in the village when the war began. Human Rights Watch independently interviewed three villagers who vigorously denied that the family had any connection to Hezbollah. Among the victims were children aged one, three, five and seven....
"[I]n none of the cases of civilian deaths documented in the report is there evidence to suggest that Hezbollah was operating in or around the area during or prior to the attack."
Sign the petition: SHAME ON YOU, MR. HARPER.
Video: John Pilger's Palestine is Still the Issue.
Hezbollah kills 7 Israelis in most recent attack
Lebanon death toll 'exceeds 900'
Comments