(10-17-2023, 07:57 PM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote: Update: IDF Spokesperson, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari says a Hamas rocket hit the hospital:
https://twitter.com/IDFSpokesperson/stat...1335390340
Regardless who did it, no doubt will only spread a lot of hate & anger...which has just spread to the Israeli embassy in Jordan and protest clashing in Instanbul.
ETA: Commence the Blame games...
Al Jezeera news
Let's lay to rest the fiction that hospitals are utterly immune to attack regardless of their status under international law.
The Geneva Conventions - International Law of War
In particular, the relevant sections to the hospital discussion:
Quote:Article 18
Civilian hospitals organized to give care to the wounded and sick, the infirm and maternity cases, may in no circumstances be the object of attack, but shall at all times be respected and protected by the Parties to the conflict.
States which are Parties to a conflict shall provide all civilian hospitals with certificates showing that they are civilian hospitals and that the buildings which they occupy are not used for any purpose which would deprive these hospitals of protection in accordance with Article 19.
Civilian hospitals shall be marked by means of the emblem provided for in Article 38 of the Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field of August 12, 1949, but only if so authorized by the State.
The Parties to the conflict shall, in so far as military considerations permit, take the necessary steps to make the distinctive emblems indicating civilian hospitals clearly visible to the enemy land, air and naval forces in order to obviate the possibility of any hostile action.
In view of the dangers to which hospitals may be exposed by being close to military objectives, it is recommended that such hospitals be situated as far as possible from such objectives.
Article 19
The protection to which civilian hospitals are entitled shall not cease unless they are used to commit, outside their humanitarian duties, acts harmful to the enemy. Protection may, however, cease only after due warning has been given, naming, in all appropriate cases, a reasonable time limit, and after such warning has remained unheeded.
The fact that sick or wounded members of the armed forces are nursed in these hospitals, or the presence of small arms and ammunition taken from such combatants which have not yet been handed to the proper service, shall not be considered to be acts harmful to the enemy.
So hospitals (as well as schools, mosques, and the like) enjoy no absolute immunity to obliteration once the enemy starts using them for military purposes beyond treating the sick and injured. Once Hamas started installing military headquarters into hospitals, and using them for depots to store weapons, their immunity to attack is revoked by article 19.
Regarding Haniyeh's claims of an Israeli "defeat", it looks to me like they are still swinging, and that fits no definition of a "defeat" that I am aware of.
Just more propaganda from Hamas, illustrating their used of words that don't mean what they think they mean... or more to the point, their hope that other folks don't understand the actual meaning of the words they are using and the reality of their falsification... and the fervent hopes of Hamas that other folks are just too dumb to actually look up the relevant international laws.
And let's not forget just who actually violated international law by intentionally targeting civilians in their initial surprise attack...
And "Israeli aggression"? Really? It hasn't been that long ago, so any interested party should be able to think back and realize just who started this mess, just who is the actual "aggressor", just who actually violated international law by intentionally targeting and attacking civilians, and who is actually defending against said aggression.
Just wait until one of their stray rockets takes out The Dome of the Rock or al-Aqsa Mosque, or better yet both of them (both are Muslim occupations of the Temple Mount, where the Jewish temple once stood before the Muslims erased and replaced it during their unprovoked attack on Jewish and Christian lands, Jerusalem specifically)... boy oh boy, will you ever hear some weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth then!
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