UN: Israel’s Refusal to Share Iron Dome with Hamas a War Crime

[ronscarpa]

UN: Israel’s Refusal to Share Iron Dome with Hamas a War Crime

 

By Lea Speyer  August 3, 2014 , 12:33 pm

 

 

 

“Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet words of knowledge.” (Proverbs 14:7)

The Iron Dome Missile Defense battery near the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, July 14, 2014. Operation Protective Edge has entered its 6th day with about 1470 IDF attacks on targets in Gaza and 980 rockets fired at Israel from Gaza and about 200 of them intercepted by the Iron Dome so far. (Photo: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

As if things couldn’t be any more ridiculous, the UN’s top human rights official slammed Israel on Thursday for not sharing its Iron Dome technology with Hamas, Breitbart reported.

Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay condemned Israel for its offensive in Gaza, telling reporters that any military action against Hamas rockets was “deliberately defying international law…in a way that may constitute war crimes.”

“There is a strong possibility that international law has been violated, in a manner that could amount to war crime,”Breitbart quoted Pillay following a meeting of the UN Human Rights Council on Gaza.

Among the war crimes being attributed to Israel is its refusal to share the Iron Dome missile defense system with the “governing authority” in Gaza, also known as Hamas.

Pillay said that the people of Gaza are indefensible from the IDF’s airstrikes, refusing the mention that Hamas and other terror organizations in the Strip have made it a policy to operate out of civilian areas.

Pillay also made no mention of recent confirmed reports that Hamas is killing its own people in Gaza for speaking out against the terror organizations actions upon Israel.

Leaving no stone unturned, the commissioner also criticized the United States for helping Israel fund and build the Iron Dome.

UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay (Photo: UN)

“They have not only provided the heavy weaponry which is not being used by Israel in Gaza but they’ve also provided almost $1 billion in providing the Iron Domes to protect the Israels from rockets attacks,” Pillay said. “But no such protection has been provided to Gazans against the shelling.”

Despite the fact that Hamas fires rockets into Israel indiscriminately, Pillay said that Israel’s actions in Gaza do not “absolve” Israel from what she deems legal violations.

Iron Dome was created due to the indiscriminate and deadly rocket fire upon Israeli cities and innocent civilians from terrorists in Gaza. As of 2012, Iron Dome has a 90 percent success rate. Pillay made no mention of the millions of Israelis currently living under fire from the constant barrage of rocket fire upon Israel.

Pillay’s comments are no surprise. Known to be anti-Israel, Pillay opened up an emergency UN debate on Gaza last week by stating there is a “strong possibility” that Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza.

Over 3,000 rockets have been fired at Israel over the last three weeks, since the start of Operation Protective Edge. On Friday night, the House of Representatives voted to provide Israel with an additional $225 million in funding for the Iron Dome.

http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/19462/un-israels-refusal-share-iron-dome-hamas-war-crime/?utm_source=Breaking+Israel+News&utm_campaign=76f9c1a98d-BIN+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b6d3627f72-76f9c1a98d-86348769

 

It never ceases to amaze me how the UN continues to look for reasons to accuse and attack Israel (a founding member of the UN) in every sphere...leaning towards the Islamic agenda, and openly supporting terrorist organizations...! Ignorance supporting evil...the way of the global one world agenda, and the powers of darkness...!   

Edited August 3, 2014 by ronscarpa

[Maggie123]

Your Article Is Incorrect Ron... This Is From The UN's Website And This Is What They Said.

 

As civilian casualties rise in Gaza, UN Rights Council agrees probe into alleged ‘war crimes’

 

A boy looks through a schoolbook as he sits in the rubble of a home destroyed during an Israeli air strike on the city of Khan Yunis. Photo: UNICEF/NYHQ2014-0894/El Baba

 

23 July 2014 – The United Nations Human Rights Council today decided to launch an independent inquiry into purported violations of international humanitarian and human rights laws in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem.

 

Meeting in an emergency session today, the Council adopted a resolution agreeing to send the investigative team by a vote of 29 countries in favour, with 17 abstentions and a sole negative vote by the United States, in which it strongly condemned the failure of Israel to end its prolonged occupation of the area.

 

The Council condemned in the strongest terms the “widespread, systematic and gross violations of international human rights and fundamental freedoms” arising from the Israeli military operations since 13 June, and called for an immediate ceasefire.

 

“The Council further condemned all violence against civilians wherever it occurred, including the killing of two Israeli civilians as a result of rocket fire,” according to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).

 

In the resolution, the Council also demanded that Israel immediately reopen the occupied Gaza Strip and called upon the international community to provide urgently needed humanitarian assistance and services to the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.

 

Navi Pillay, who opened the special session, said that the current is the third serious escalation of hostilities in the area during the six years that she has been the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. As in 2009 and 2012 “children, women, the elderly and persons with disabilities” suffer the most.

 

 

Meeting in emergency session, the UN Human Rights Council voted to launch an independent inquiry into purported violations of international humanitarian and human rights laws in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem. UN/Violaine Martin

 

Kyung-Wha Kang, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and UN Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, said that since the Israeli military launched operation “Protective Edge” on 7 July, over 600 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip and another 3,504 were injured. In addition, 28 Israelis, including the two civilians cited in the Council’s resolution, were killed.

 

“In Gaza, 443 or 74 per cent of the killed are civilians,” Ms. Kang said. “One third of civilians killed so far are children. One child has been killed each hour in Gaza over the past two days.”

 

Both officials deplored that every seven-year-old girl and boy in Gaza today has lived their entire life under siege, as the most recent fighting is their third major conflict and humanitarian catastrophe, compounding the humanitarian crisis caused by the seven year blockade of the enclave.

 

 

One child has been killed each hour in Gaza over the past two days,” Kyung-Wha Kang, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and UN Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, told the Human Rights Council. UN/Violaine Martin

 

“I unequivocally reiterate to all actors in this conflict that civilians must not be targeted,” Ms. Pillay said. “It is imperative that Israel, Hamas and all Palestinian armed groups strictly abide by applicable norms of international humanitarian law and international human rights law.”

 

She underscored the importance of applying principles of distinction between civilians and combatants and between civilian objects and military objectives, as well as proportionality and precautions in attack.

 

“Not abiding by these principles may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity,” the High Commissioner said.

 

In a refugee camp in the city of Rafah, a Palestinian girl stands in the ruins of her home, destroyed in an airstrike (12 July 2014). Photo: UNICEF/NYHQ2014-0911/El Baba

 

She also called for an end to the culture of impunity and underscored that credible allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity from earlier escalations of hostilities in Gaza must be properly investigated as “so far, they have not been”.

 

Noting that Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was currently in the region hoping to bolster support for a ceasefire, Ms. Pillay said she hoped that the parties will respond positively, but cautioned that a lasting peace can only begin with respect for human rights and human dignity, and in the full realization of the right to self-determination.

 

“All these dead and maimed civilians should weigh heavily on all our consciences. I know that they weigh heavily on mine,” she said, adding that efforts to protect civilians so far have been “abject failures”.

 

A young girl waiting to cross into Egypt with her family cries at the Rafah Border Crossing in southern Gaza. Egypt has opened the crossing to allow injured Palestinians to receive treatment. Photo: UNICEF/NYHQ2014-0902/El Baba

 

“More powerful entities, such as the Security Council, and individual States with serious leverage over the parties to this dreadful and interminable conflict, must do far more than they have done so far to bring this conflict to an end once and for all,” she urged.

 

The Human Rights Commissioner had also reiterated her calls for the blockade on Gaza to be lifted. The blockade, which has destroyed the area’s economy, has resulted in high unemployment rates and a growing dependence on international aid.

 

The latest round of conflict has disrupted water and sanitation services, as well as electricity, including the Gaza Power Plant which was shut down yesterday.

 

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has highlighted the negative impact violence has on children both physically and psychologically. Photo by Shareef Sarhan

 

The Council also heard from Makarim Wibisono, the Special Rapporteur for the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, who spoke on behalf of the Coordination Committee of the Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council.

 

He noted that in addition to killing people, the fighting had destroyed homes leaving several thousand families homeless. At the same time, Mr. Wibisono stressed that the right of the Palestinian people to resist occupation could not justify the launching of thousands of rockets and mortars directed against Israeli civilians.

 

At least 2,000 rockets and mortars have reportedly been fired towards Israel since earlier this month, according to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

 

Two children stand in front of a house that police said was destroyed in an Israeli air strike in Maghazi refugee camp in Center Gaza Strip. UN Photo/Shareef Sarhan

 

Meanwhile, over 2,900 targets in Palestine were struck during the same period, the UN agency confirmed.

 

The fighting has forced approximately 118,000 Palestinians to seek refuge in 77 schools run by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, UNRWA’s Director of Legal Affairs, Lance Bartholomeusz, told the Council.

 

This figure is about 6 per cent of Gaza’s population, and double the peak in UNRWA shelters during the 2008 to 2009 conflict, Mr. Bartholomeusz said.

 

Civilians in Gaza have no safe place to go with 44 per cent of the land declared a ‘no-go zone’ by the Israeli army, according to OCHA.

 

The UNRWA facilities are not immune to destruction. At least 18 medical facilities, include five UNRWA health clinics have been hit by airstrikes and shelling. In addition, at least one school was hit on Monday alone, then a second time on Tuesday when UN humanitarian workers went to survey the damage.

 

The UN agency is appealing for $115 million and humanitarian agencies are expected to issue a full Flash Appeal in the coming days, Ms. Kagan said.

 

http://www.un.org/ap...sp?NewsID=48330

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[chess]

 THEY ARE ONLY INNOCENT TERRORISTS??......AND, THEIR SYMPATHIZER UN DUMB BIT*CHHH IS TOTALLY ON THEIR SIDE!!!!!!

[rothsdad]

[Djorgie]

Well, that is one of the stupidest things I have ever heard honestly...

 

When do you ever share your technology/secrets with your enemy and especially when you are at war with them?

 

I don't condone ANY murdering, but come on, why would she even say something like this?

 

It's a horrific situation all the way around and we know that Israel WILL sadly and eventually at some point be turned on by ALL of the world. It's just a matter of when.

[chess]

HAMAS HAS NO COMPUNCTION AS FAR AS SACRIFICING THEIR BRETHERN, JUST TO GET ISRAEL BAD PRESS!!.............

[10 YEARS LATER]

HAMAS HAS NO COMPUNCTION AS FAR AS SACRIFICING THEIR BRETHERN, JUST TO GET ISRAEL BAD PRESS!!.............

True, very true . . . it's what they do best . . . then Blame Israel for everything. Doesn't help that the UN is Chock full of Hamas Sympathizers. Everything goes to hell when the USA does not LEAD. The Celebrity in Chief is more concerned w/his golf game or Fund Raising than world affairs. This is all by design, don't be fooled. Remember . . . never waste a good Crisis. Pretty insidious to deliberately allow the world to descend into Chaos just to further the Liberal agenda; but there it is.

[chess]

10....

 

COULD NOT AGREE WITH YOU MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Sparta]

Rothsdad, so far as I can see from reading this thread, nobody else has yet bothered to look at your link.  My 2-cents-worth, ... this thread has a lot of posts that are derived from sources that are presumed to be the "truth".  Winners of wars "produce" the truth.  Scholars call things into question, and ultimately, history does get corrected (or altered/affirmed/uncorrected) --- depending on who wins the next war.  This link certainly does call some things into question ... especially that little scene where the Director pops into the scene with his "Cut" banner in hand.  Is that "errata-scene" a "re-production", or was it really in Spielberg's movie?  Was it edited into there by the maker of "Spielberg's Hoax - The Big Lie" ?  Just askin' ... but now my 3-cents-worth.  If you can answer the 3-cent question, I will give you a silver dollar ... the question is, do we believe the truth, or do we believe what we believe is the truth?  As for me, that question cannot be answered until we meet our Maker, at which time, I will be delighted to hand over my silver coin to you, as I shall not need it.  Great link, Rothsdad ... you often make me think, and this link is no exception.  Thanks from someone who lays no claim to be a truth-detector.  God will let me know someday.

[Sparta]

Mods - please consider combining this thread with Umbertino's "Who broke the ceasefire" -- very similar statements and views. Thanks.