"Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said Israel’s decision to cut off electricity, water and food supplies into Gaza is “not acceptable”. Mr Varadkar also said that due to Israel “targeting civilians and cutting off civilian infrastructure” they were in “breach of international humanitarian law”.
More than 6,000 bombs have reportedly been dropped on Gaza in the past six days and more than 1,500 civilians have died in the region.
This bombardment and siege of Gaza comes after the deadliest attack in Israeli history when Hamas militants crossed into Israel and killed more than 1,200 civilians while taking hostages back to the Gaza strip.
“Well, I believe Israel has the right to defend itself. But Israel doesn’t have the right to do wrong. What do I mean by that? Israel is a country that is surrounded by enemies, brutal savage groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, countries like Iran, often supported by Islamic fundamentalists and anti Semites around the world. So Israel is under threat.
“They do have a right to defend themselves, but they don’t have the right to breach international humanitarian law. And I’m really concerned about what I’m seeing happening in Gaza at the moment,” Taoiseach Leo Varadkar told RTÉ’s Prime Time."
Not to mention using white phosphorus bombs as well. I’m not for either side but it’s time Israel is held accountable for war crimes.
Yup. Can’t understand why UN weapons inspectors allow Israel to have white phosphorus.
Because of bullshit.
You can use them as a “smoke or flash device”.
Same way cops can throw smoke/flash grenades that are known to start fires into a house. They can’t say they’re throwing them to start a fire, but if there’s a 10% they start a fire, they’ll throw 11 of them.
Gaza is a densely populated as LA, you’re not shooting an artillery/bomb worth of it and not hitting a flammable structure. But it’s really hard to prove it was used to intentionally start fires.
Fire is the least of problems with white phosphorus. Chemical burns, toxic fumes… You don’t care everything is on fire when everything around you is hell.
Source for white phosphorus bombs or it didn’t happen. Israel uses it for smoke and flares, not for burning people.
The link you sent proves you wrong you fucking dimwit.
Below is the main paragraph, that you probably skipped:
It provided links to two videos posted on social media that it said show “155mm white phosphorus artillery projectiles being used, apparently as smokescreens, marking, or signaling”. Both show scenes near the Israel-Lebanon border, it said.
Oh I’m sorry. I didn’t realize Israel would need to fire artillery shells into a civilian population a few kilometers away to mask their troop advancement. Makes total sense now.
It’s called snipers, they are deadly. They fire then into civilian population because Hamas uses them as human shield, just now they prevent civilians from escaping source.
Israel hasn’t started a ground offensive at all. All soldiers are currently staging up on the Gaza border (it’s in the source you posted) waiting for the start of the ground offensive. So what exactly would snipers be shooting at that Israel needs a smoke screen to stop? Sounds like you’re reaching for any reason you can.
Israel didn’t start the ground assult on Gaza City, IDF did raid Gaza Strip.
I don’t know if Israel indeed used white phosphorus. But whether if it is true or not, why would Israel use white phosphorus for smoke covers when there are smoke shells and flares aplenty? Why do I feel like we’re arguing with moral sophistry again, like how how both sides justified using gas chemicals in World War I with “we fired them on open ground not at the troops. It’s not our fault if the wind blows the chemicals onto the enemy trenches.” Are people that naive to think that Israel won’t use white phosphorus on the Palestinian side, if Israel seriously considered the use? Or is there intentional misinformation on this?
Yes, but consider how much money American defense contractors are going to make from this conflict.
I’m glad he made this statement, I don’t believe anything he says is genuine but I’m still glad he made this statement.
As we’ve already seen with #Ruzzia, “International Law” is completely toothless and is certainly not going to stop the 4th largest military in the world from doing exactly what it wants to do.
Don’t hold your breath waiting on The Hague to do a damn thing either.
Where are the public calls of powerful Muslim countries for moderation? I haven’t read anything about them.
This conflict is thousands of years old, and more removed by the day.
Why can’t people just grow up?
Muslims, Christians and Jews lived together without conflict for most of those thousands of years. With a few exceptions like the Crusades, which was mostly the Christians fault.
The idea that the current conflict is complex, ancient and impossible to understand is Israeli propoganda to make most people afraid to be wrong rater than rightfully criticize them.
It’s closer to 80 years old, just after WW2 with the zionist movement.
coughs in Crusades
Ah yes, the infamous Jewish crusades.
Just referring to the notion that the area has been subject to a lot of fighting over the ownership for a long time.
You can say that about every stretch of land around the globe
Europe entered the chat
Do you even history?
