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Originally posted by JudahMaccabbi
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1- The gaping hole in the ambulance where the 'missile' damaged the vehicle was nothing more than a flange for the siren lights.
Possible War Crime: Killing of Tens of Lebanese Civilians in the village of Qana, 30 July 2006
On Sunday, 30 July 2006, the Israeli air force bombed a residential building in the village of Qana, in southern Lebanon , thereby causing the death of tens of Lebanese civilians who were in the building at the time. According to the IDF, multiple rocket attacks had been launched into Israel from this 'area'.
However, information which has since been made public reveals that on the day of the attack no rockets were launched from the village of Qana. It thus appears that the attack constituted a violation of international humanitarian law, and there is reason to suspect that war crimes have been committed by those responsible for the attack. B'Tselem has contacted the Israeli Judge Advocate General demanding that he order a military police investigation into the matter.
The Israeli Center For Human Rights
TONY EASTLEY: The United States has launched an investigation into whether Israel's use of American-made cluster bombs in Lebanon violated an agreement about the use of the weapons.
The United Nations has accused Israel of the "completely immoral" use of cluster bombs during the final days of the conflict.
UN mine clearers have found 100,000 unexploded bomblets at hundreds of sites, as Correspondent Kim Landers reports.
KIM LANDERS: After a month of war, the people of South Lebanon are facing a new danger - unexploded cluster bombs.
The United Nations Mine Action Coordination Centre has just finished checking 85 per cent of the areas of southern Lebanon bombed by the Israelis, and the UN's humanitarian chief, Jan Egeland, says the findings are "shocking".
JAN EGELAND: They identified 359 separate cluster bomb strike locations that are contaminated with as many as 100,000 unexploded bomblets.
KIM LANDERS: Cluster bombs contain dozens or even hundreds of small munitions designed to explode as they scatter across a wide area.
The unexploded bomblets are often picked up by children.
Now Jan Egeland is questioning Israel's decision to use this type of munition in the closing stages of the war with Hezbollah.
JAN EGELAND: What's shocking and I would say to me completely immoral is that 90 per cent of the cluster bomb strikes occurred in the last 72 hours of the conflict, when we knew there would be a resolution when we really knew there would be an end of this.
KIM LANDERS: The use of cluster bombs is opposed by the United Nations and the Red Cross because of the high number of civilians who fall victim.
They were used in Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon and again when the US invaded Iraq in 2003.
In April of that year American Brigadier General Vincent Morris was defending their use.
VINCENT MORRIS: Cluster munitions are available, and they're used by tactical commanders to create a tactical effect on the battlefield, and they, like other things, particularly in this operation, the conditions for people, the conditions for unintended consequences are taken into account before the decision.
KIM LANDERS: Israel has now repeated its previous insistence that the munitions it uses in conflict comply with international law.
The UN's humanitarian chief says several countries, including the US, probably supplied Israel with the cluster bombs.
JAN EGELAND: I hope that the US will talk with the Israelis on that, certainly, because it's an outrage that we have 100,000 unexploded bombs among where children and women and civilians and shopkeepers and farmers are now going to tread.
KIM LANDERS: The US State Department has launched an investigation into whether Israel's use of American-made cluster bombs violated a deal between the two countries - the details of which have never been made public.
www.abc.net.au...
Jan Egeland said civilians were facing "massive problems" returning home because of as many as 100 000 unexploded cluster bombs, most of which were dropped in the last days of the war.
"What's shocking -- and I would say to me completely immoral -- is that 90% of the cluster bomb strikes occurred in the last 72 hours of the conflict, when we knew there would be a resolution," Egeland said. "Every day people are maimed, wounded and are killed by these ordnance."
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Earlier, the UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, called on Israel to end its closure of the Gaza Strip and to halt the fighting that has claimed the lives of more than 200 Palestinians in the past two months.
Israel's military incursions into Gaza have been overshadowed by the conflict in Lebanon. But Palestinian officials say more than half of those killed in the past two months have been civilians -- among them 39 children killed in July alone.
"Over 200 Palestinians have been killed since the end of June. This must stop immediately," Annan said, after meeting Palestinian officials in the occupied West Bank. "I have made my feelings known in talks with Israeli officials. Beyond preserving life, we have to sustain life, the closure of Gaza must be lifted, the crossing points must be opened, not just to allow goods but to allow Palestinian exports out as well."
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Originally posted by mrmonsoon
This just goes to show what I said, the hezbolla terrorits won the war of media public opinion.
I wish I could say I was supprised, but the hezbolla have been proven that they use ambulences to carry terrorits/ and their equipment and weapons.
Originally posted by Mdv2
Originally posted by mrmonsoon
This just goes to show what I said, the hezbolla terrorits won the war of media public opinion.
I wish I could say I was supprised, but the hezbolla have been proven that they use ambulences to carry terrorits/ and their equipment and weapons.
Proof it. Give me one reliable news source to justify your claim.
Originally posted by intrepid
Would it be safw to say that you're questioning the validity of the original source of this topic?
www.zombietime.com...
Originally posted by Mdv2
Originally posted by intrepid
Would it be safw to say that you're questioning the validity of the original source of this topic?
www.zombietime.com...
No, my question is in no way related to the initial news source, posted by Judah. Once again, I asked Mr Moonson to show me evidence to justify his claim that neutral ambulance services supplied Hezbollah with military supplies.
Good job at misdirection what was said is as follows Hezbollah used ambulances as transport vechicles not that the ambulance services were arms suppliers.
Originally posted by Mdv2
Originally posted by intrepid
Would it be safw to say that you're questioning the validity of the original source of this topic?
www.zombietime.com...
No, my question is in no way related to the initial news source, posted by Judah. Once again, I asked Mr Moonson to show me evidence to justify his claim that neutral ambulance services supplied Hezbollah with military supplies.
Originally posted by mrmonsoon
Here is a video of hezbolla terrorits using UN ambulences:
Hezbolla uses ambulences to transport Terrorits and arms
Originally posted by mrmonsoon
Slightly off topic, but here is video of armed terrorits using a child as a human shield:
Originally posted by mrmonsoon
The UN yesterday stopped short of accusing Hezbollah of using ambulances as transport vehicles. However, it suggested that the cowardly tactic of blending in with civilians had contributed to the terrible toll taken on communities in the south, where most of the 391 Lebanese have been killed.
"Consistently, from the Hezbollah heartland, my message was that Hezbollah must stop this cowardly blending ... among women and children," UN humanitarian affairs chief Jan Egeland said.
Please visit the link provided for the complete story.
Originally posted by gallopinghordes
Good job at misdirection what was said is as follows Hezbollah used ambulances as transport vechicles not that the ambulance services were arms suppliers.
Originally posted by mrmonsoon
This just goes to show what I said, the hezbolla terrorits won the war of media public opinion.
I wish I could say I was supprised, but the hezbolla have been proven that they use ambulences to carry terrorits/ and their equipment and weapons.
Originally posted by mrmonsoon
Slightly off topic, but here is video of armed terrorits using a child as a human shield:
20 July 2006: Israeli Soldiers use civilians as Human Shields in Beit Hanun
B'Tselem's initial investigation indicates that, during an incursion by Israeli forces into Beit Hanun, in the northern Gaza Strip, on 17 July 2006, soldiers seized control of two buildings in the town and used residents as human shield.
Israeli Information Center For Human Rights
Israel's human shields draw fire
Human rights groups return to court over army's use of Palestinian civilians.
Chris McGreal in Hebron
Thursday January 2, 2003
The Guardian
Basem Maswadeh knew he was in trouble when an Israeli soldier pushed him into the barber's chair and reached for the clippers.
"The soldiers hid behind our backs as they pushed us forward," said Mr Maswadeh. "Then they put their guns on our shoulders and began shooting. We felt our eardrums burning, but when we tried to put our hands over our ears, they beat our hands away. The noise was terrible because the gun was right next to my ear."
The Guardian
Israeli Army Asks Supreme Court to Grant Second Hearing to Re-Consider its Decision Banning the Use of Palestinians as Human Shields
On 17 November 2005, the Attorney General (AG) submitted a motion to the Supreme Court of Israel on behalf of the Defense Minister, Shaul Mofaz, and the Chief of the Israeli Army, Dan Halutz, requesting a second hearing before the Supreme Court in the human shields case.
Adalah
Israel faces human shield claim
Israeli human rights activists have accused border police of using a 13-year-old Palestinian as a human shield.
BBC