Israel - Palestine Conflict. **Mod note in OP - updated 1st August**

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

I wonder did Ishmael order IDF tanks to repeatedly shell the Al Aqsa hospital in Gaza?



The IDF has a disgracefully track record for being involved in such incidents. Most people have long since moved past coincidence. The Gaza strip is one of the most surveilled & monitored strips of land on the planet. The IDF are pioneers of surveillance drone technology and have closely collaborated with the US & shared such technology. So I find it hard to swallow when fire support/suppression is being called in, that it's a case of "Oh we didn't realise that hospital had five stories and got in the way of an incoming rounds trajectory."

The IDF has well established previous form for attacking critical civilian infrastructure, food warehouses, schools, hospitals and UN facilities.The IDF also has an impressive record for repeated breaches of The Geneva Convention and War Crimes.The recent incident where a UN school gave it's GPS coordinates to the IDF on 17 occasions. Yet still suffered a devastating attack doesn't surprises me, or those who can remember not only how they've previously conducted themselves in Gaza, but also in Lebanon.

The IDF bombing and destruction of UN PATROL BASE KHIAM, SOUTHERN LEBANON.JULY 25, 2006, being another infamous incident in their impressive legacy of war crimes. 4 UN onservers were wiped out at that observer base. Bravely and while under IDF fire, they logged and cataloged IDF breaches





Then how could we forget the infamous Qana massacre in Southern Lebanon, in April 1996, where 106 Lebanese civilians were killed in a direct IDF attack on a UN compound that was sheltering refugees.
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Maniac, I can appreciate you trying to use logic as to why some of these shocking incidents may have occurred. But I think it's a pointless exercise. You operate in an Army that generally tries to adhere to the rules of engagement and the Geneva Convention. The IDF are a rogue army that operates outside the rules of war. So I think there is no point in trying to rationalise their brutal actions. Throughout their various military crusades, they have consistently shown that they have no regard for the lives of UN personnel, or especially the lives of innocent Palestinian/Lebaneese civilians.

And this morning I awoke to the news, that another UN compound sheltering civilians was hit. Ten more innocent civilians were killed and 35 wounded. The IDF were conducting strikes in the area and UN staff on the scene & eye witnesses have blamed them. The UNRWA spokesman Christopher Guinness, said earlier that they always give the IDF specific coordinates of their buildings. He also strongly emphasised that they always notify the IDF well in advance. Regarding the movements of all their UN vehicles and the areas they will be operating in. Unfortunately that didn't save Dr Bashir al-Hajjar, who was travelling in a UN vehicle when he was blown apart. You know, sometimes we just have to call a spade a spade. Sadly the brutal & savage behaviour of the IDF, has repeatedly spoken for itself down the years and continues to do so today. As far as a lot of people are concerned, they ran out of excuses a long, long time ago.

Awkward Badger wrote: »

Gaza school attack denounced as 'criminal act' by UN chief.



Seems this latest attack on a school isn't going to be so easily brushed aside.

Tuisceanch wrote: »

In relation to a post critical of the reporting on RTE ..I wonder if anybody has access to any resources that describe the role of news wires in this reporting and to what extent they have journalists active in the field providing independent reporting?

darkpagandeath wrote: »

I highly doubt the US would Veto if war crimes are declared.

Dan_Solo wrote: »

I am 100% seriously in favour of withdrawal from the UN if no Israeli can be convicted of war crimes. It is an institution unfit for purpose.