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Related: About this forumAmnesty Says ICC Israel Probe Should Include 'Crime Against Humanity of Apartheid'
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/25/amnesty-says-icc-israel-probe-should-include-crime-against-humanity-apartheidAmnesty Says ICC Israel Probe Should Include 'Crime Against Humanity of Apartheid'
"Israel's apartheid remains the root cause of Palestinians' suffering," said the group.
JULIA CONLEY
October 25, 2022
Calling for the International Criminal Court to open a new investigation into possible war crimes by Israeli military forces in Gaza in August, Amnesty International on Tuesday said the court must also include Israel's illegal apartheid policies against the Occupied Palestinian Territories in its probe.
"As well as investigating war crimes committed in Gaza, the ICC should consider the crime against humanity of apartheid within its current investigation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories."
The organization's call centered on the three-day offensive launched by Israel between August 5-8 in the Gaza Strip, with advocates saying its research suggests three specific attacks could amount to war crimes.
Seventeen civilians were among the 49 Palestinian people who were killed by Israeli forces during the offensive, while seven were determined to have been killed by Palestinian rockets that were likely misfired. The group could not determine which side was responsible for the deaths of seven other civilians.
Amnesty noted that Israel, which claimed the attacks were "preemptive" and targeted the Palestinian Islamic Jihad organization, has set the stage for such deadly assaults on civilians for years by imposing a blockade and other apartheid policies on Gaza.
"These violations were perpetrated in the context of Israel's ongoing illegal blockade on Gaza, which is a key tool of its apartheid regime," said Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International's secretary general, in a statement. "Palestinians in Gaza are dominated, oppressed, and segregated, trapped in a 15-year nightmare where recurrent unlawful attacks punctuate a worsening humanitarian crisis."
"As well as investigating war crimes committed in Gaza, the ICC should consider the crime against humanity of apartheid within its current investigation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories," Callamard added.
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Beastly Boy
(11,147 posts)Obviously, no one connected to this Amnesty statement ever bothered to look up the legal definition of apartheid given in the Rome Statute by International Criminal Court (https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/rome-statute-international-criminal-court , Article 7, Paragraph 2 (h)), or the internationally recognized definition of apartheid contained in UNGA's International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid (https://treaties.un.org/doc/Treaties/1976/07/19760718%2003-04%20AM/Ch_IV_7p.pdf , Article 2, Page 7),
Were anyone at Amnesty curious enough about these authoritative sources, they may have even learned that both of these sources make a clear and deliberate distinction between apartheid and racial, or any other kind of, discrimination.
And were they a bit less zealous in making themselves sound as ominous as possible, they may have even taken a bit more time to compose their accusation in a less grammatically awkward manner.
sabbat hunter
(6,893 posts)Has a whole slew of its own problems. It never has called out the PA for oppressing its own people. Blamed Ukraine for the deaths of their own civilians that Russia targeted. Those are just to name a few.
Israeli
(4,300 posts)Source : https://www.btselem.org/about_btselem
Board Members :
Chair: Orly Noy, left-wing Mizrahi activist, writer and editor on the web-based blog magazine +972, translates Farsi poetry and prose into Hebrew.
Thair Abu Rass, Political science PhD candidate, University of Maryland.
Meir Amor, Professor of Sociology, Concordia University, Canada.
Smadar Ben Natan, attorney and political activist. Specializes in human rights and criminal law. A founding member of Gun-Free Kitchen Tables, a feminist project aimed at minimizing the number of guns in the public sphere.
Ido Blum, attorney, partner at a law firm specializing in administrative and public law.
Ron Dudai, sociologist. His research interests are human rights, political violence and punishment; is co-editor of the Journal of Human Rights Practice.
Elias Khouri, attorney in private practice who specializes in real-estate law and administrative law.
Vered Madar, academic folklorist; teaches at the Keshet School, Jerusalem.
Osama Tanous, pediatrician and public health and health policy researcher.
Attorney Sawsan Zaher, human rights lawyer and former deputy general director at Adalah- The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel.
David Zonsheine, Senior high-tech executive for the past twenty years. Active in business development and works at integrating Arab society into Israeli high-tech. Initiated the iChange plan for increasing the number of Arab faculty members in the scientific disciplines in Israeli universities. Writes op-eds and literary reviews for Israeli daily Haaretz.
Public Council :
Adv. Hussein Abu Hussein
Chava Alberstein
Gila Almagor-Agmon
Nora Grinberg
David Grossman
Prof. Galit Hasan-Rokem
Prof. Ariel Hirschfeld
Rona Kenan
Makram Khoury
Clara Khoury
Miki Kratsman
Prof. Mordechai Kremnitzer
Prof. David Kretzmer
Dr. Alon Liel
Prof. Avishai Margalit
Rivka Michaeli
Amal Murkus
Rabbi David Rosen
Prof. Yigal Schwartz
Prof. Alice Shalvi
Prof. Sammy Smooha
David Tartakover
Prof. Neta Ziv
B'Tselem cherishes the memory of public council members who have passed away :
Ruth Dayan
Aluf Hareven
Ronit Matalon
Prof. Sasson Somekhn
Amos Oz
Dani Karavan
Victor Shem-Tov
Abraham B. Yehoshua
You have to recognize some of these names nu ???
At least David Grossman, Ruth Dayan ,Amos Oz and Abraham B. Yehoshua ???
If you guys think you know better then I suggest you come see for yourselves .