Fustat - Thu, 2009-07-02 14:27 By Ibn ad Dunya
The leading Human Rights organization, Amnesty International launched an extensive report 117 page today, Operation 'Cast Lead': 22 days of death and destruction on the January war on Gaza.
In the report, Amnesty accuses both the Israeli Army and Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups of war crimes.
The use of artillery shells carrying white phosphorous by the israeli army in densely populated areas, hindering paramedics and ambulances, including attacks on them, and the use of human shields by the israeli army, something the israeli authorities blames the Palestinian side of using is but a few examples of israeli actions during the 22 days of the operation.
On the palestinian side, the shelling of Katushas and Grads on the civilian population of southern Israel throughout the 22 days is a war crime , and the use of residential areas to fire rockets from, as well as storing them there, endangered Palestinian civilians.
According to Amnesty Internation 1400 palestinians were killed during 22 days , from Dec 27 - Jan 18th, in the same period 13 isrealis were killed. Among those killed on the palestinian side were approximately 300 chilren, 115 women , 85 men over the age of 50 and 200 civilian men under the age of 50.
The figure are markedly higher than the figure given by the israeli military, claiming 1,166, of whom 295 were "uninvolved" civilians.
I have not yet read through the full report, that can be found here(PDF), this is based on a brief first look of the introduction and the press release, i will try to post more during the weekend, after reading through all of it.
In the report, Amnesty accuses both the Israeli Army and Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups of war crimes.
The use of artillery shells carrying white phosphorous by the israeli army in densely populated areas, hindering paramedics and ambulances, including attacks on them, and the use of human shields by the israeli army, something the israeli authorities blames the Palestinian side of using is but a few examples of israeli actions during the 22 days of the operation.
On the palestinian side, the shelling of Katushas and Grads on the civilian population of southern Israel throughout the 22 days is a war crime , and the use of residential areas to fire rockets from, as well as storing them there, endangered Palestinian civilians.
According to Amnesty Internation 1400 palestinians were killed during 22 days , from Dec 27 - Jan 18th, in the same period 13 isrealis were killed. Among those killed on the palestinian side were approximately 300 chilren, 115 women , 85 men over the age of 50 and 200 civilian men under the age of 50.
The figure are markedly higher than the figure given by the israeli military, claiming 1,166, of whom 295 were "uninvolved" civilians.
I have not yet read through the full report, that can be found here(PDF), this is based on a brief first look of the introduction and the press release, i will try to post more during the weekend, after reading through all of it.
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