The fact that the UN publishes the location of a school does not give them any additional protection over any other civilian building. If Israelis judge that there are military targets inside or in the vicinity, they can legally be acted upon.
We are not talking about other buildings. We are talking about attacks on refugee sites. There were no military targets inside the school. IN the vicinity can mean a lot of things. You're the only who disagrees with the whole world.
Gaza school attack denounced as 'criminal act' by UN chief | World news | theguardian.com
US calls Israeli attack on UN school 'disgraceful' - Yahoo News
If proper procedures are followed to create a "Protective Area" according to the Fourth Geneva Convention"
then it has a HIGHER level of protection than a civilian building.
Cite these documents you're taking about. So you're claiming this is some kind of super duper protection status. And exactly what? I don't get where you're going with this.
I have stated that for each incident where civilians are killed, hospitals or schools are attacked,
only a proper investigation involving Israel, Palestinians as well as credible unbiased representatives
from the international community must be allowed to run its course, before judgement is passed.
You don't need to investigate an official Israeli military policy. Targeted attacks on civilian homes(not due to firing or weapons, due to a family having a member in a Resistance faction) requires no investigation. Whole families were wiped out during attacks like these. Thousands of attacks took place like that. Almost all times the members were active in the battlefield, the attacks were intended to terrorize other Palestinians from joining resistance factions.
It is quite obvious that there is a lot of people involved in International Organisations
making public announcements, that know a lot less than I do.
You are biased, human rights watch/amnesty aren't biased and they study international law. And cite exact references to international law supporting their claims.
Is Israel obstructing ? - Yes, and so is Hamas.
No, Hamas isn't. Israel is preventing human rights organizations from getting into Gaza to investigate Israeli war crimes.
Is attacking houses of Hamas members a war crime? Not neccessarily.
Each soldier of Hamas is a military target. If all Hamas soldiers sleep at home,
during hot conflict, then for sure the homes are military targets.
Yes they are war crimes. In the same way you categorise Palestinain rocket firing.THis is an early example to clarify. The remainder of the assault saw thousands more homes of families being targeted.
Israel/Palestine: Unlawful Israeli Airstrikes Kill Civilians | Human Rights Watch
On July 11, an Israeli attack on the Fun Time Beach café near the city of Khan Yunis killed nine civilians, including two 15-year-old children, and wounded three, including a 13-year-old boy. An Israeli military spokesman said the attack was “targeting a terrorist” but presented no evidence that any of those at the café, who had gathered to watch a World Cup match, were participating in military operations, or that the killing of one alleged “terrorist” in a crowded café would justify the expected civilian casualties.
In another July 11 attack, an Israeli missile struck a vehicle in the Bureij refugee camp, killing the two municipal workers inside. The men were driving home in a marked municipal vehicle after clearing rubble from a road damaged in an airstrike. Their relatives said that neither man was affiliated with an armed group, and that the driver had followed the same daily routine in the same vehicle every day since July 7. The explosion blew the roof off the vehicle and partly disemboweled a 9-year-old girl and wounded her sister, 8, who were sitting in front of their home nearby. Human Rights Watch found no evidence of a military objective in the vehicle or in the area at the time.
An Israeli airstrike on July 10 on the family home of Mohammed al-Hajj, a tailor, in the densely crowded Khan Yunis refugee camp killed seven civilian family members, including two children, and wounded more than twenty civilians. An eighth fatality, al-Hajj’s 20-year-old son, was a low-ranking member of the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, residents told Human Rights Watch. The Israeli military said the attack was being investigated. Even if the son was the intended target, the nature of the attack appears indiscriminate and would in any case be disproportionate.
“The presence of a single, low-level fighter would hardly justify the appalling obliteration of an entire family,” Whitson said. “Israel would never accept an argument that any Israeli home of an Israel Defense Force member would be a valid military target.”
A fourth Israeli airstrike, on July 9, killed Amal Abed Ghafour, who was 7-months pregnant, and her 1-year-old daughter, and wounded her husband and 3-year-old son. The family lived across the street from an apartment building that was struck with multiple missiles, according to witnesses. Residents of nearby homes said Israeli forces fired a small non-explosive “warning” missile at the apartment building minutes before the main missile strikes. However, the family did not know of the warning or have time to flee. Israeli officials have not said why they targeted the apartment building.
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