Tuesday 2 April 2024

Once, Twice, Three Times A War Crime

If a country broke one International Convention then you would expect an outcry, if they broke two in the same day then you would expect the howls to reach fever-point so we wait with bated breath to see what is going to happen to Israel after it broke three on the same day.
First up was the news that Israel had finished its 'operation' at Gaza’s Al Ahifa hospital and even made a claim that the IDF didn’t kill any civilians during it's two-week long attack.
Obviously anything Israel claims should be taken with the whole salt shaker and not just a pinch of it, especially as it claimed it attacked the Al-Shifa hospital previously due to Hamas using it as a military headquarters and showed the 'evidence' as a handful of guns and tunnels, tunnels which Israel had built themselves in the 1980's and analysis of IDF footage by CNN found that Israeli forces may have moved or rearranged weapons within the Hospital before providing international news organizations access to the scene which prompted questions of just how authentic the 'evidence' actually was.
Still got hold of that salt because the claim that no civilians were killed was questioned by the WHO and immediately asked if that was the case, who were the hundreds of bodies, including 'entire families dead and their bodies decomposing in houses around the hospital' were but this was overtaken by the breaking of International Convention two with the bombing of a Consulate in Syria.
Israeli forces attacked the Iranian Consular building in Damascus killing 11 people including seven members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard which is a violation of the Vienna Convention, and nations stepped up to condemn the attack on a 'diplomatic institutions' but while they were queuing up to condemn the first two, Israel went and broke a third one with the bombing and killing of World Central Kitchen aid workers, killing seven.
Obviously mistakes happen but the car containing the aid workers were travelling in a de-conflicted zone in cars branded with the WCK logo in movements coordinated with the IDF and was leaving a well know food warehouse and Western Governments were quick to respond just in case the Israeli's did something else atrocious.
The EU said they condemned the attack despite all the demands to protect civilians and humanitarian workers and after refusing to comment, Israel said they would investigate which if the murder of over 100 people at a an aide convoy last month is anything to go by, means it will be filed under the carpet where it will hopefully be forgotten so over to you United Nations and International Court of Justice, how much more Genocide and how many war crimes can you take before actually doing something to stop it?