The UN’s Human Rights Office said Wednesday that Israeli airstrikes on the Jabalia refugee camp could be a war crime due to the high number of civilian casualties.
“Given the high number of civilian casualties & the scale of destruction following Israeli airstrikes on Jabalia refugee camp, we have serious concerns that these are disproportionate attacks that could amount to war crimes,” the office wrote on X.
Israel struck Jabalia for the second time within two days on Wednesday. The Israeli military said the strikes that hit the densely populated camp killed Muhammad A’sar, the head of Hamas’ anti-tank missile unit, but the Israeli claim is not confirmed.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said scores of people were killed and wounded in the Wednesday airstrikes, but the death toll is not clear. A day earlier, Israeli warplanes hammered Jabalia, killing at least 50 people.
Another phone and internet outage in Gaza on Wednesday made it difficult for media outlets to get a gauge of the death toll in the second Israeli attack on Jabalia.
According to The New York Times, the second strike took place in the Falluja neighborhood of Jabaliya, about half a mile south of where Tuesday’s attack took place. The paper verified video footage of rescue workers and residents digging through the rubble and carrying what appears to be injured and dead people, including children.
After the Tuesday attack, an Israeli military spokesman acknowledged that Jabalia was full of innocent civilians, including women and children. “This is the tragedy of war … we’ve been saying for days, move south,” the spokesman said.
UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths also condemned the Israeli strikes on Jabalia. “This is just the latest atrocity to befall the people of Gaza where the fighting has entered an even more terrifying phase, with increasingly dreadful humanitarian consequences,” he said.
War Crimes?! How entirely refreshing!
Use of rape as a weapon of war-war crime.Roasting babies alive-war crime.
“”Israeli Strikes on Jabalia Refugee Camp Could ‘Amount to War Crimes’””
not so fast; the Israelis say that Hamas are hiding behind hospitals, schools, churches and refugees, which in the Israelis’ opinion makes it A-OK to bomb hospitals, schools, churches AND refugees.
Please ensure to sign and seal your war crime complaint through certified mail and drop it off at the door slot next to the Costco shredder.
That would make a great meme – who do you think should do the mail drop? Biden or Blinken?
UN Secretary. While the lobby laughs on.
He who laughs today may weep tomorrow. Were Man to remember what is his to control and what remains in the hands of the Gods he would never laugh in vain.
Lucky for them, they don’t believe in Gods or the devil for that matter. So it’s smooth sailing all the way to oblivion.
Could be ???? It most definitely is a war crime. The entire israli gov is a geneva code violation
UN is puppet of the West…!
NPR said as much last night, Israel’s bombings are war crimes. Fresh air through the BS should have been the name of the program. Way better than their “debate” earlier that day between two white men who believe Russia started the Ukraine war and we can simply take Russia’s frozen assets to rebuild Ukraine. At least one knew the world won’t let us kill and steal everything forever.
This isn’t a 18th century war.where opposing generals send notes to each other,agree to wait for a sunny day,and then line up to fight at 11:00 Am.Hide among civilians,use them as shields, and sadly,civilians die. Eh.Ham,as started this.
hi straw man. just because there are any rules the world requires combatants to follow, doesnt mean i think every rule that has ever existed must be followed.
COULD? How about OBVIOUSLY ARE?
OFFICIAL RESIGNS OVER UN RESPONSE TO ISRAELI WAR ON GAZA
A ‘Textbook Case Of Genocide.’
Craig Mokhiber called out “the current wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian people, rooted in an ethno-nationalist settler colonial ideology, in continuation of decades of their systematic persecution and purging.”
Human rights attorney Craig Mokhiber left his United Nations post with a resignation letter excoriating the U.N. response to Israel’s devastating war on the Gaza Strip—a four-page document that has been circulating on social media this week.
https://popularresistance.org/official-resigns-over-un-response-to-israeli-war-on-gaza/
There’s a link to the resignation letter in the story. Definitely recommended reading.
[COULD]??? THEY fucking are CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d6f9671da702f7282af0fbd0f5f1ff8ae64143b5c18f06a461f7dda9ee07d7d6.jpg
Every country supporting the Zionists is guilty of war crimes committed by them they are all knee deep in the blood of the INNOCENT CHILDREN .
As is the msm.
Blowing up a shitload of innocent people is ok as long as you have a single target in mind. Hear that Hamas? Your attack would have been justified if you had said you were targeting an Israeli military official.
We are funding war criminals. Not one more DIME for Israel!
It’s a war crime.
“UN Says Israeli Strikes on Jabalia Refugee Camp Could ‘Amount to War Crimes’” Palestinians forced to live under such conditions in the “Jabalia Refugee Camp” rather than their own homeland is also “War Crimes!”
Guess they really didn;t get the big Hamas leader IDF-waz-his-name told Wolf Blitzer they had.
Yes, UN, but there’s a higher authority; and according to his own testimony he’s just following orders: to wit,
“Thus says the Lord of hosts: I will punish the Amalekites for what they did in opposing the Israelites when they came up out of Egypt. 3 Now go and attack Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.”
You didn’t know Bibi was so religous?
Sounds like the Lord of Hosts is a war criminal.
And what’s more, a Zionist.
We will bomb all the hospitals. We kill them all. We are the centre of the world now
“…we’ve been saying for days, move south.”
The spokesman continued :
“To the Sinai peninsula, for example. Or Egypt, Sudan, South Sudan…Mozambique is nice this time of year. Really, move anywhere else. Someplace that isn’t land we want.”
Those who are reviled by the Israeli government and military may come to realize that a worldwide boycott against Israel is highly likely. Israel has already driven off the cliff with its utter madness. Day by day minus US lapdogs the global south, the ME, most of Asia will begin to respond with boycotts, and severing of relations.
Israel will survive boycotts and severing of relationships. They done it before.
“they done it before”
and they will do it again. and again.
Not this time, they have always gone too far, but now they are seem worldwide as merciless and not worthy of being anything but reviled, and ignored.
Well so far other than a token recalling of ambassadors nothing has happen. A lot of talk, but no action. Even Hezbollah is saying since we had nothing to do with the attack on Oct 7, we will just sit this one out.
And the reason is that leaders know that all the destruction and death in Gaza starting Oct 7 is on Hamas. No attack no counter attack.
Well so far other than a token recalling of ambassadors nothing has happen. A lot of talk, but no action. Even Hezbollah is saying since we had nothing to do with the attack on Oct 7, we will just sit this one out.
And the reason is that leaders know that all the destruction and death in Gaza starting Oct 7 is on Hamas. No attack no counter attack.