Tag Archive for war crimes

Fatah: Palestinians are ready to charge Israel in The Hague

Fatah official says PA president Abbas is presenting his diplomatic plan to the international community and applying for International Criminal Court membership.

The U.S. is apparently not on board.

By i24news

 

The Palestinians are ready to go ahead and apply for International Criminal Court membership and take Israel to the court, Senior Fatah official Mohammed Ashtiya declared Thursday, Israeli daily Haaretz reported.

US Secretary of State John Kerry (left) shakes hands with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas during their meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on July 23, 2014 – Photo: Pool/AFP

“The indictment against Israel at the International Criminal Court and all the accompanying documents are ready,” Ashtiya, a Fatah Central Committee member, said at a press conference in Ramallah. Continue Reading »

WATCH: Israel presents evidence of Hamas rocket fire from Gaza schools

Evidence provided by IDF includes details of ranges & number of rockets fired by Islamic Jihad and Hamas, photos displaying how rocket launchers were hidden in graveyards and a school playground.

By Reuters

The Israeli military has provided its most detailed assessment yet of the conduct and impact of the Gaza war, including photographs indicating that militants stored and fired rockets from schools and a breakdown of the toll inflicted on Hamas.

Hamas Rockets

Hamas Rockets

In a briefing at its HQ in Tel Aviv, the Israel Defense Forces presented a minute picture of the structure and capability of Hamas and other militant groups operating in Gaza, an effort to explain the severity of the threat Israel faced and justify Israel’s heavy tank shelling and air strikes during the 50-day conflict – tactics that drew international criticism. Continue Reading »

Criminal Suit Filed Against Hamas’ Khaled Mashal at the ICC for War Crimes

Israel Law Center charges Hamas’ chief  with war crimes at the Hague court for executing 38 Palestinian civilians without trial for allegedly being Israeli collaborators in Gaza. 

By Aviel Magnezi

 

The Shurat Hadin Israel Law Center has filed a criminal suit with the International Criminal Court in The Hague against Hamas’ political leader Khaled Mashal for the execution of some 38 Palestinians during the Gaza conflict.

Hamas' executions

Hamas’ executions

The suit was made possible due to Mashal’s Jordanian citizenship. Jordan is a member of the court.

The organizations chairwoman, lawyer Nitsana Darshan-Leitner explained that “the (ICC) is required to exercise its authority in any case in which a citizens of a member nation has allegedly committed a war crime.” Continue Reading »

Captured Hamas Militants Tell All on Hamas’ War Crimes

Israel’s Shin Bet released the names of captured Hamas militants & their damning testimonies against Gaza’s leaders

By Israel Today Staff

 

During the summer’s Gaza war, hundreds of Hamas militants surrendered to or were otherwise captured by Israeli forces. In the course of interrogation, many of these prisoners were candid regarding the unlawful tactics of their leaders.

150 Hamas gunmen surrender to Israeli forces during battles in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis. – IDF

A statement released by the Shin Bet, or Israel Security Agency (the local equivalent of the American FBI) noted that the investigation of these prisoners confirmed that “prominent use was made of mosques and hospitals [in Gaza] as meeting points and hideouts. Continue Reading »

Politicians, the UN’s & Mainstream Media’s Egregious Misrepresentations in the Gaza Conflict

 

Getting the law right on the Israel-Gaza conflict is not the problem. Like most laws, it’s quite clear. Unfortunately, most of the journalists covering the current conflict are either threatened/intimidated from reporting the truth, emotionally invested in one side or the other, or will simply explain away Hamas’ daily war-crimes as rightful ‘resistance’.

By Laurie R. Blank, THE HILL/contributor

 

International law has quite a lot to say about the latest violence that has flared up between Israel and Hamas. So do the media. Unfortunately, they rarely match, leading to unfortunate — and sometimes egregious — misrepresentations. In an age when both real and perceived violations of international law have a substantial effect on the legitimacy of state action, getting it wrong is way more than just bad journalism. Continue Reading »

Hamas pledges to back Palestinian bid for International Criminal Court membership

Abbas gets Hamas backing to sign Rome Statute; ICC membership would allow both Israel & Hamas to war crimes investigations.

By i24news

 

Hamas has signed a proposal for the Palestinians to apply to join the International Criminal Court at which legal action could be taken against Israel, a senior official of the Islamist movement said Saturday.

A woman walks up to the offices of the International Criminal Court in the Hague on July 1, 2002 ( Robin Utrecht (ANP/AFP/File) )

the International Criminal Court in the Hague – Photo: Robin Utrecht (ANP/AFP/File)

“Hamas signed the document which (Palestinian) president (Mahmud Abbas) put forth as a condition that all factions approve, before he goes to sign the Rome Statute, which paves the way for Palestine’s membership in the International Criminal Court (ICC),” Hamas deputy leader Mussa Abu Marzuq wrote on his Facebook page. Continue Reading »

‘The Guardian’: U.S. pressuring ICC to not open war crimes probe against Israel

‘The Guardian’ quotes lawyers & former court officials reporting western pressure has influenced the decision to not open probe.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

The US and other western powers have exerted pressure on the International Criminal Court at the Hague to prevent a war crimes probe of Israel’s operation in the Gaza Strip, The Guardian reported on Monday, quoting former court officials.

The Hague, International Criminal Court. – Photo courtesy: Wikimedia Commons

The Hague, International Criminal Court. – Photo courtesy: Wikimedia Commons

During Operation Protective Edge, the Palestinian Authority has threatened to request that the court look into allegations that the civilian deaths in Gaza during the IDF’s operation constitute a war crime. Continue Reading »

Foreign Reporters Compilation Reveals Profundity of Hamas Depravity

Foreign media correspondents in Gaza, corroborated that Hamas used them and others as human shields, dressed as civilian women to conceal their weapons and confined reporters in war zones.

By Yossi Aloni

 

Terrorists disguised as women, a gunman hiding his weapon under a baby blanket close to his chest as though it were a child, and a Hamas spokesman giving an interview against the backdrop of destruction while sitting comfortably in a hospital commandeered as a war-time headquarters.

Foreign Reporters Reveal Depths of Hamas Depravity – Israel Today

These are just a few of the examples of Hamas’ depravity as reported by foreign media correspondents doing their best to report from terrorist-ruled, war-torn Gaza. Continue Reading »

Hamas beats Palestinians with clubs to prevent them from reaching urgent medical assistance.

WAR CRIMES: Hamas Police caught beating Palestinians with clubs that try to leave the areas Israel warned would be bombed.

By The Shoebat Foundation

 

We’ve heard the reports. Below is some video that seems to corroborate those reports. It’s bad enough that Hamas launches rockets from civilian locations like schools, hospitals and neighborhoods in the interest of garnering international sympathy when civilians are killed.

What happens when civilians attempt to heed the IDF warnings to evacuate so the locations can be bombed without civilian deaths, is far worse. These civilians are beaten by Hamas to force them back into the buildings they know have been targeted for destruction. Continue Reading »

Nazi from Philly Arrested on German arrest warrant for death of 216,000 Jews

Johann Breyer of Philadelphia, faces extradition to Germany after being arrested in what could be the last legal battle against an American accused of Nazi war crimes.

By Arutz Sheva

 

Johann “Hans” Breyer, 89, of Philadelphia, was ordered held without bail Wednesday on a German arrest warrant charging him with aiding and abetting the killing of 216,000 Jewish men, women and children while he was a guard at the Auschwitz death camp.

Liberation from Auschwitz

Liberation from Auschwitz – Screenshot

Breyer was arrested by U.S. authorities Tuesday night and spent the night in custody.

Legal filings unsealed Wednesday in the U.S. indicate the district court in Weiden, Germany, issued a warrant for Breyer’s arrest the day before, charging him with 158 counts of complicity in the commission of murder. Continue Reading »

Britain Grants Livni Temporary ‘War Crimes’ Immunity

Special immunity from ‘ideological legal stunts’ ahead of Livni’s London visit has been guaranteed, whereas Abbas visits freely despite Hamas unity.

By Ari Yashar

 

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni (Hatnua) has been given temporary diplomatic immunity by the British government ahead of her visit to London later in the week, in an attempt to shield her from “war crimes” prosecution.

Despite her push for peace talks, opposition to “settlers,” and opposition to a Basic Law enshrining Israel legally as the Jewish state, Livni has been threatened with British arrest warrants over her role as Foreign Minister during the counter-terror Operation Cast Lead. Continue Reading »

Human Rights Watch: Israel committed war crimes during offensive on Gaza

New HRW report says Israel mounted multiple airstrikes on civilian targets & used disproportionate force during Operation Pillar of Defense against Gaza’s rocket attacks, which claimed the lives of over 40 non-combatant Gazans.

 

A U.S.-based rights group said Israel violated laws of war in a series of airstrikes it conducted during an eight-day military operation last November against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip.

A Palestinian girl stands next to a relative's house after it was destroyed

A Palestinian girl stands next to a relative’s house after it was destroyed in what witnesses said was an Israeli air strike in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, Nov.

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