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Hamas and other groups committed war crimes on 7 October, says HRW

 

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Hamas and at least four other Palestinian armed groups committed numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity against civilians during the 7 October attack on southern Israel, the campaign group Human Rights Watch says.
A new report accuses the hundreds of gunmen who breached the Gaza border fence of violations including deliberate and indiscriminate attacks on civilians, wilful killing of persons in custody, sexual and gender-based violence, hostage-taking, mutilation of bodies and looting.
It also found the killing of civilians and hostage-taking were “central aims of the planned attack” and not an “afterthought”.

 

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1 hour ago, Cheese said:

Apartheid state.

Today was fairly typical for Israel. The Hague declared them to be practising "racial segregation and apartheid". Meanwhile, they got Bella Hadid cancelled for being Palestinian.

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5 hours ago, Cheese said:

Apartheid state.

Have we started the rugby tours already?

eta, on a serious note.  It's about time sports govern bodies start chucking them out of tournaments.

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On 17/07/2024 at 21:31, MazzyStar said:

What does Human Rights Watch have to say about keeping over 2 million in a prison for years? 

Pretty weird form of whataboutery when you could look it up. A whole report here from 2021, calling it apartheid and persecution and detailing Israel's crimes against humanity in considerable detail. https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/27/threshold-crossed/israeli-authorities-and-crimes-apartheid-and-persecution

If you thought HRW are equivocal because they condemn Hamas' undeniable crimes against humanity, you don't know anything about them. From a letter HRW sent to the EU and its foreign ministers 4 days ago:

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/07/16/letter-eu-and-eu-foreign-ministers-israel-and-palestine

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On 21/07/2024 at 20:02, Venti said:

Bloody hell that was a hard read.

I'm glad Politico published it as they're an outlet with reach into mainstream liberal USA and its that very demographic who need shook into reality regarding Israel. It all hinges on them - American mainstream liberals - getting with the programme in order for this whole nonsense to unravel. It can't be overstated how much USA drives Israeli actions. Much of the funding for West Bank settlement expansion comes from private US donations which are tax deductible in order to incentivise them. Then all the slaughter in Gaza is being done with weapons gifted by the US taxpayer. While you get American liberals like Biden who're just callous racists, for the majority I think genuine ignorance is the problem. We see in this interview with the same doctor from that Politico article, that the CBS reporter is genuinely shocked to learn the IDF deliberately snipe children in the head:

(Full CBS report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqusa-96WLs&ab_channel=CBSSundayMorning).

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12 hours ago, Freedom Farter said:

I'm glad Politico published it as they're an outlet with reach into mainstream liberal USA and its that very demographic who need shook into reality regarding Israel. It all hinges on them - American mainstream liberals - getting with the programme in order for this whole nonsense to unravel. It can't be overstated how much USA drives Israeli actions. Much of the funding for West Bank settlement expansion comes from private US donations which are tax deductible in order to incentivise them. Then all the slaughter in Gaza is being done with weapons gifted by the US taxpayer. While you get American liberals like Biden who're just callous racists, for the majority I think genuine ignorance is the problem. We see in this interview with the same doctor from that Politico article, that the CBS reporter is genuinely shocked to learn the IDF deliberately snipe children in the head:

(Full CBS report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqusa-96WLs&ab_channel=CBSSundayMorning).

It's just pure evil.

Fucking heartbreaking.

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The leader of the ethnic supremacist, genocidal, apartheid entity speaking in front of congress with almost total support. Shame on every single last person that thinks Biden is anything other than an evil geriatric c**t. Even Ronald fucking Reagan was willing to ,and did, stop supplying Israel with arms for crimes far less severe than we are currently witnessing. 

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58 minutes ago, MazzyStar said:

The leader of the ethnic supremacist, genocidal, apartheid entity speaking in front of congress with almost total support. Shame on every single last person that thinks Biden is anything other than an evil geriatric c**t. Even Ronald fucking Reagan was willing to ,and did, stop supplying Israel with arms for crimes far less severe than we are currently witnessing. 

I genuinely find it difficult to watch the way that piece of shit is revered over there. It's absolutely sickening and really highlights how unaligned these people are with the interests of ordinary people.

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Nothing like a bit of genocide to bring some bipartisan healing to the fractured American ruling class.

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https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/netanyahu-faces-boycott-from-nearly-half-of-democrats-during-us-congressional-address/3284901#:~:text=The total of at least,of the lawmakers present Wednesday.

 

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Amid persistent protests during his visit to the US capital, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced an unprecedented boycott from about half of the Democrats in the House of Representatives and Senate as he addressed a joint session of Congress on Wednesday.

Based on an exhaustive analysis of public statements, media reports and video footage, Anadolu determined that a historic number of House representatives and senators skipped Netanyahu's speech. The total of at least 96 lawmakers is nearly double the number of Democrats who boycotted his 2015 address -- 58.

The sweeping volume of holdouts stands in stark contrast to the dozens of standing ovations Netanyahu received from many of the lawmakers present Wednesday.

While many lawmakers had previously announced their intention to boycott the address, Representative Rashida Tlaib, the sole Palestinian-American lawmaker, chose to attend, donning a keffiyeh and holding a sign reading "war criminal" on one side, and "guilty of genocide" on the other in a prominent display of defiance.

After Netanyahu concluded his remarks, Tlaib said the standing ovations for the Israeli premier were "disgusting.”

 

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6 hours ago, MazzyStar said:

The leader of the ethnic supremacist, genocidal, apartheid entity speaking in front of congress with almost total support. Shame on every single last person that thinks Biden is anything other than an evil geriatric c**t. Even Ronald fucking Reagan was willing to ,and did, stop supplying Israel with arms for crimes far less severe than we are currently witnessing. 

Getting a standing ovation for shooting weans.

It's almost like those psycho serial killers that had a traumatic upbringing.

"Holocaust? Well here's a genocide."

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The killing of innocent Israeli children is sad and tragic but the coverage by the MSM of this relatively small number of casualties in an occupied territory compared to the mass slaughter of Palestinian children tells you all you need to know about the relative value placed on the two groups.

 

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