Time for Int'l Commission of Inquiry to investigate Israel’s war crimes ?

[Karmadillo]

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/aug2006/hrwa-a04.shtml

Human Rights Watch catalogues Israeli war crimes in Lebanon

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“The pattern of attacks during the Israeli offensive in Lebanon suggests that the failures cannot be explained or dismissed as mere accidents,” the report explained. “he extent of the pattern and seriousness of the consequences indicate the commission of war crimes.”

HRW called on United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan to establish an International Commission of Inquiry to investigate Israel’s war crimes and to “formulate recommendations with a view to holding accountable those who violated the law”.

The report also produced further evidence that the Israeli military has systematically covered up and lied about its attacks on Lebanese civilians. “Human Rights Watch found no cases in which Hezbollah deliberately used civilians as shields to protect them from retaliatory IDF attack,” it stated, contradicting Israeli claims. “In none of the cases of civilian deaths documented in this report is there evidence to suggest that Hezbollah forces or weapons were in or near the area that the IDF targeted during or just prior to the attack.”

These conclusions were drawn from extensive on-the-ground investigations by HRW staff in Lebanon. Researchers conducted interviews with victims and witnesses of Israeli attacks, and corroborated these reports with their own inspections of attack sites, and information from hospitals, humanitarian groups and government bodies. This process was conducted for a selection of Israeli missile and artillery strikes that killed a total of 153 civilians—more than one-third of the total reported Lebanese deaths in the first two weeks of the war.

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[OneBlueSky]

1. Time for Int'l Commission of Inquiry to investigate U.S. war crimes? (n/t)

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[mom cat]

2. And the war crimes continue ... now bombing the Christian sections

of Lebanon.