by Joe Stork, published in Al-Sijjil, September 2009
Over the past few months, international and local human rights groups have documented numerous serious violations of the laws of war, some of them amounting to war crimes, before, during, and since Israel’s military offensive in Gaza last December and January. My own organization, Human Rights Watch, strongly criticized Israel for the shooting deaths of Palestinian civilians carrying white flags and the illegal use of white phosphorus munitions, and Hamas for firing rockets indiscriminately into civilian areas of Israel.
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Tags: attack on Gaza, Gen. Peter Chiarelli, Hamas, Human Rights Watch, Iraq, Israel, Joe Stork, Justice Richard Goldstone, Palestinian civilians, violations of laws of war, war crimes, white phosphorus munitions
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Any chance for justice for victims of the Gaza war?
by Joe Stork, published in Al-Sijjil, September 2009
Over the past few months, international and local human rights groups have documented numerous serious violations of the laws of war, some of them amounting to war crimes, before, during, and since Israel’s military offensive in Gaza last December and January. My own organization, Human Rights Watch, strongly criticized Israel for the shooting deaths of Palestinian civilians carrying white flags and the illegal use of white phosphorus munitions, and Hamas for firing rockets indiscriminately into civilian areas of Israel.
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Tags: attack on Gaza, Gen. Peter Chiarelli, Hamas, Human Rights Watch, Iraq, Israel, Joe Stork, Justice Richard Goldstone, Palestinian civilians, violations of laws of war, war crimes, white phosphorus munitions
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