15, April 2018 GAZA
In the wake of the massacre at Gaza, Israeli leaders are guilty of mass murder. Sharp shooters were positioned to kill or maim unarmed Palestinians who were protesting their suffocating, inhumane, living conditions in the world’s largest prison. The Israeli leaders who ordered the massacre are in clear violation of international law and should be prosecuted for war crimes.
The use of deadly force against the peaceful protesters was clearly premeditated. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) deployed 100 snipers to the border fence between Gaza and Israel. The injuries and deaths were no accidents. In a damning tweet, later deleted, the IDF boasted, “Nothing was carried out uncontrolled; everything was accurate and measured, and we know where every bullet landed.”
B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights organization, described military orders as “shoot-to-kill unarmed Palestinians taking part in these demonstrations.”
Eric Goldstein of Human Rights Watch severely censured Israel accusing it of using excessive force “on orders that all but ensured a bloody military response to the Palestinian demonstrations.”
B’Tselem urged Israeli soldiers to disobey patently illegal orders.
Under the Fourth Geneva Convention, an occupying power has a legal duty to protect the occupied. Grave breaches of the convention constitute war crimes. Israeli leaders responsible for the deaths and injuries on should be prosecuted in the International Criminal Court (ICC).
It is time US taxpayers demand an immediate halt to propping up Israel – a criminal enterprise
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