Human Rights Group Accuses Israel of War Crimes in Lebanon - New York Times.
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Aug. 23 — Amnesty International accused Israel on Wednesday of war crimes in its monthlong battle with Hezbollah, saying its bombing campaign amounted to indiscriminate attacks on Lebanon’s civilian infrastructure and population. “Many of the violations examined in this report are war crimes that give rise to individual criminal responsibility,” Amnesty International, the London-based human rights group, said in a report on the Israeli campaign. “They include directly attacking civilian objects and carrying out indiscriminate or disproportionate attacks.”
“During more than four weeks of ground and aerial bombardment by the Israeli armed forces, the country’s infrastructure suffered destruction on a catastrophic scale,” the report said, contending this was “an integral part of the military strategy.”
“Israeli forces pounded buildings into the ground,” the report went on, “reducing entire neighborhoods to rubble and turning villages and towns into ghost towns as their inhabitants fled the bombardments.
“Main roads, bridges and petrol stations were blown to bits. Entire families were killed in airstrikes on their homes or in their vehicles while fleeing the aerial assaults on their villages. Scores lay buried beneath the rubble of their houses for weeks, as the Red Cross and other rescue workers were prevented from accessing the areas by continuing Israeli strikes.”
It seems about right. Like hasn't anyone noticed the lack of standing buildings? Or the fact that Hezbollah was actually providing food and water and now well, people are dieing of thirst and hunger? And the help the United States sent can't do anything because well, Hezbollah controls everything so it get a little tricky to help the civilians when they want Hezbollah in charge and well, we think they are terrorists? Now when is the United States going to be further accused of Human Rights violations. I think we violate about a thousand or so every few minutes.
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