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Collective Punishment is a War Crime, OHCHR Warns Israel (www.telesurenglish.net)

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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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[-] idoubledo@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] sfgifz@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] idoubledo@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

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.