On Thursday, Amnesty International said Israel’s creation of a “buffer zone” in Gaza should be investigated as war crimes since it has involved the “wanton destruction” of all buildings and agricultural land in those areas.
“Using bulldozers and manually laid explosives, the Israeli military has unlawfully destroyed agricultural land and civilian buildings, razing entire neighborhoods, including homes, schools and mosques,” Amnesty said.
“By analyzing satellite imagery and videos posted by Israeli soldiers on social media between October 2023 and May 2024, Amnesty International’s Crisis Evidence Lab identified newly cleared land along Gaza’s eastern boundary, ranging from approximately 1km to 1.8km wide. In some videos, Israeli soldiers are seen posing for pictures or toasting in celebration as buildings are demolished in the background,” the group added.
Amnesty also said the destruction should be investigated for the war crime of collective punishment. “Systematically destroying civilian objects in retaliation for actions by armed groups may constitute collective punishment and should be investigated as a war crime,” the group said.
Israel’s “buffer zone,” which runs along Gaza’s border with Israel, accounts for 16% of the besieged enclave’s territory. The Israeli military has carried out a similar campaign of destruction in the Netzarim Corridor, which separates northern Gaza from the rest of the Strip. Combining the two areas accounts for about 26% of the Strip.
Many Israeli ministers and lawmakers have called for the re-establishment of Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip. Settlements used to be located in the Netzarim Corridor, including where the Turkish hospital now stands, which has been taken over by Israeli forces and is now used as a military base.
I seriously have no idea why we are having a conversation about any one particular act being a war crime. The entire enterprise has been one long war crime from the beginning. By the beginning I mean since Israel's founding in 1948.
It is exhausting, outrage exhaustion. They rely on that.
As a lawyer, I sometimes encountered liars who would replace one blatant lie with another just as blatent, endlessly, until we tired of listening and thinking about it. They tried to wear us down. That is what Israel is doing.
The difference is that Israel is getting away with the result, because there is no objective check on their lies and manipulation.
That tactic is called the "Gish Gallop", named after an anti-evolution idiot named Duane Gish who would do exactly that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop
And there's your trivia lesson for the day…
Investigating Israeli crimes would take an army of lawyers and investigators..
Screw Amnesty International…! They don't condemn the massacre…! but they labeled buffer zones war crime…!
The US hegemon has destroyed the credibility of all international institutions, including the UN. The US hegemon monster HAS LEFT A TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION across the entire globe.
The world needs to conquer its fear and stand against the evil empire…!
No, Amesty Internation has greatly condenmed Israel..
But I still agree with the 2nd part of the post.
"Amnesty International Calls for War Crimes Probe Into Israel’s ‘Buffer Zone’" and "The Peace Process."
And what took them so long? That is what I want to know from all the Western democracies. The killings and terrorizing of Palestinians is going on for almost a century. The USA has vetoed every word of critic of the Israeli sadism, torture of the Palestinian people and the US vassal so-called democracies stood by silently. All of them combined against an unarmed Palestine nation. What monsters the civilized western people are, they have no shame, no conscience no decency, greedy madmen is what the ruling morally bankrupt elite are. Yes they are wealthy, but they are human garbage.
Who votes for such trash?
LOL. Here’s the answer: Human garbage or in other words, TRASH.
My post from a different discussion:
It's time to burn the two major parties to the ground and start over. When the best they can do is offer us two candidates who both endorse genocide and nuclear brinkmanship then the system is irrevocably broken. It's so bad here now that the political discussion has devolved to:
Republicans: "If Harris wins the election it will be the end of democracy!"
Democrats: "If Trump wins the election it will be the end of democracy!"
I fully agree, you said it well. ******
Yeah, I agree. Why do you need a "Buffer Zone" if you genocide all people who live on the other side of the "Buffer Zone?"
This shit is as stale as the cease fire talk. Been hearing it for months but the killing continues unabated.
"but the killing continues unabated" Want the killing to stop? Have Hamas surrendered. Hamas won't because they like killing Israelis more than the like their own people. As Sinwar said "Civilians deaths are necessary sacrifices."
So, if the designated terrorists don't "surrendered" then the undesignated terrorists can continue killing innocents with impunity? Do you ever tire of being a moron?
He was born a moron and he will die a moron…!
Christ is the answer to the problem!
The buffer zone and the lost of the land is the price Gaza is paying for starting the war.
Yes, the "lost" of land is on Hamas. Sticking electrified steel rods up people's asses is on Hamas. Bombing tent cities that people were told to evacuate to is on Hamas. Any barbaric action by Israel can be written off as being the blame of Hamas. Again, do you ever tire of being a moron?
Either he is mad or gets paid for being a liar. He can't be as ignorant as he pretends to be.
He is a Zionist troll and does not belong here…!
Anyone who wants to be here belongs here as long as their comments don’t violate the guidelines.
can i, when referring to Russia, say the "Orcs of Mordor Federation"
Have you no shame, no decency?
Gaza has no army, it was a prison break, not a war. The IDF terrorists massacre a an unarmed population, more than 60% women and children. The terrorists are breaking every international law, starting with bombing and destroying the civilian structures including hospitals, schools and churches and infrastructure, all war crimes supported and funded by the Biden war criminals. It is genocide, not a war since Hamas has no military facilities except home made tunnels and weapons, no tanks, helicopter, and planes. They lack food and medical supplies and resist with everything they have against two nuclear military powers ganging up on them. The Irgun, Zionist terrorists started the brutal war against Palestinians before WW II, you are ignorant of the roots of the brutal genocide, it started long before there was a Hamas, there is no Hamas on the WB and look what the Israeli mad dogs are doing.
You have no excuse to not know the history of the brutality the Palestinians have been suffering for at least 4 generations, in the land" Where olive trees weep."
What is wrong with you?
october 7th was an excuse
I forgot who it was, but someone likened it to the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Gaza is a getto that the occupying force can lift at any moment but chooses not to.
NEVER STOP FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM
But the Palestinians better not do that, Freedom is not meant for them.
Yeah because american/israëli exceptionalism
like cmon
if u say otherwise ur an antisemitic jew hating nazi
sarcasm
Tim get real. The war started almost a century ago. Palestine was a British mandate.
"The Balfour Declaration in 1917 pledged to establish a Jewish national home in Palestine.
Britain also carved Jordan out of Palestine in 1921."
The IRGUN, Jewish terrorists, terrorized the Palestinians, driving from their homeland.
It is time to inform yourself about the history of Palestine. Palestinian refugees live in Jordan and Lebanon.
Yisrael is a pathetic excuse for a nation
If they were the 51st state of you guys they'd end up gettin less money than they do now
They ARE the 51rst state of US guys.
And we ARE absentee landlords!
More like the USA is the 2ed state of Israel. Without the status of being co equality.
That's hard to argue with. But dependency wise, I'll stick with what I said.
The Israelis have destroyed all civilian Gaza institution including Hospitals, schools and infrastructure. There is no army and there are no military targets and our mad, insane politicians support the war-crimes, relentlessly more weapons and bombs to keep on killing. What kind of people are they? The massacre of the Palestinians of all ages does not perturb them at all. They are despicably mad people.
""Israeli soldiers are seen posing for pictures or toasting in celebration….""