Despite Hamas doing their best hiding behind schools and hospitals, the IDF has managed to wage this war with civilian-combatant casual ratios typical of other urban wars which have not been defined as genocide.
There is only one side here consciously avoiding civilian death and it's not Hamas.
I don't think the person should be putting this in solely red. They need to do red green and black to really get the message across because conservatives and genocide denialist are too dumb to understand it.
Israel funded Hamas and used a (stand down let it happen) to justify a genocide in Gaza. Biden admin was complicit and funded the start of it without congress.
I have not done my own research, but I have heard some rational people explain that Bidens continued support via more weapons rather than diplomacy to end the wars in Gaza, Lebanon, Ukraine, etc, is why they voted for trump. It’s hard to rationalize against that except that trump will do worse
Hamas's Charter clearly states that it exists to destroy Israel and murder Jews everywhere in the world. And that, for all of the ignorant people out there, is the definition of genocide.
Which is why the ICC was also calling for the arrest of Hamas leaders. Both Hamas and the Israeli army and government have broken international law and are war criminals.
International law is formed through treaties, customary practices, and principles recognised by nations. States, international organisations, and the courts that shape it.
The law of war / international humanitarian laws have been developed by conventions like the Geneva Conventions, and aims to limit harm to civilians and combatants, guided by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Israel is consistently breaking these rules, and the US, UK govs are complicit
Lets be quite clear here, the assault on Israel on Oct 7 in itself was not illegal.
Actions taken during that time by some individual Hamas members MAY have been under intl law, crimes and THAT is the cause of the charge against Hamas leaders.
Resistance including armed resistance, is not illegal.
The same question to you now regarding 'Benjamin Netanyahu'. The first time he ordered the bombing of Palestinian territories which led to many civilian casualties was 1996. Why did it take the ICC almost 30 years to call for his arrest? 🤔 Seems like the opposite of 'antisemitism'.
I don't know for sure as international law is very complicated, but I do note that was before ICC's 2002 creation and the 1998 Rome Statute to found it, so the reason may well be related to that.
That's a fair point, Naz. This does though beg the question of how ICC expedited the charges against Israel so much when there is such a considerable lag between the evidence bases of the two cases given the timing of how the conflict has unfolded.
Maybe because there is simply just so much evidence against Israel. Even Israeli soldiers are recording themselves committing war crimes and posting it on TikTok.
Actually, most experts agree. In fact, it just so happens that Israel is on trial for genocide and the provisional decision of the ICJ says it's a plausible gnocide.
And a lot of crazy things are being said by a lot of people on both side that at the end you have a lot of context and emotions making it hard to take anything at face value.
Imo there seems to be better arguments on ethnical cleaning rather then genocide. Which is still bad.
Go read the actual ICJ decision instead of using the BBC to interpret it for you. No there aren't two sides here. One side killed 16k children while the other didn't. Like holy shit.
The USA is also allies with Saudi Arabia, you know the one where the prince murdered a journalist and gave 3 billion to Kushner. Not exactly clean hands, clean conscious
The artificial propping up of an ethno state. We shouldn’t be supporting any apartheid. It hasn’t been ok in any other historical context recently. Why is it ok now?
The US standing with Israel is exactly how you know Israel is evil. But the world is turning against Israel's evil, and the ICC warrant is just the latest step in that progress.
The libs in the replies are apparently living on a different planet. Kind of understandable though that they would refuse to hear about Israel's rape and torture and mass murder of babies.
They’ll pretend later that they never had these opinions, or that they were just misinformed. The world largely isn’t letting Israel get away with this atrocity if not for the US. The ICC putting a warrant on Netanyahu is a step in the right direction for the sake of history at least.
I don't particularly care about graffiti, but do the people who do this stuff think it actually helps in some way? Or that it's clever or incisive or something?
Hello, I am Hamdi Al-Shaltawi. My family and I were displaced from the north of the Gaza Strip to the south. We live in a tent. I hope you will help me and my family survive
I dislike this, it infers genocide where the description is inappropriate. It labels a legitimate state as evil when in fact the state is protecting itself against genocide by Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah.
What a mindless statement. It would be like saying victims on Oct 7th should have got out of the way and left. They did this to themselves. Put the blame squarely where it belongs, those doing the killing, not innocent victims.
People that live in Glass houses shouldn’t throw home made rockets into peoples back yards and rape and murder children . When the bombs started falling they should have all left the area instead of wanting to be martyred. They choose their fates .
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There is only one side here consciously avoiding civilian death and it's not Hamas.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/original-party-platform-of-the-likud-party
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hamas-2017-document-full
War is what happens when conflict erupts in the absence of higher authority.
International law is formed through treaties, customary practices, and principles recognised by nations. States, international organisations, and the courts that shape it.
Israel is consistently breaking these rules, and the US, UK govs are complicit
Actions taken during that time by some individual Hamas members MAY have been under intl law, crimes and THAT is the cause of the charge against Hamas leaders.
Resistance including armed resistance, is not illegal.
See for yourself: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hamas-2017-document-full
The average ICC case takes about 27 months. Therefore this was a relatively quick process in comparison to most.
"there was a risk of irreparable harm to the Palestinian right to be protected from genocide"
Regardless I personally don't see it there are actions from israel contradicting genocidal intent e.g evacuating civilians. 1/2
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-middle-east-68906919
Imo there seems to be better arguments on ethnical cleaning rather then genocide. Which is still bad.
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