| LurkerJ said: Can we at least ask these ultra far right radicals to tone down their atrocities and stop airing their dirty laundry? if not for the sake of civilian lives that they obviously think have no value there, let it be for our sake and safety here, a bunch of idiots unconditionally gobbling our tax money. The IDF now claims only 10% of those people belong to Hamas. Blimey, I actually somehow fell for their initial propaganda and believed all these men were militias or tied to Hamas one way or another, now it's down 10%, and I am expected to believe them again. |
Same with the claims of 'only' 2 civilian casualties per Hamas soldier killed. As if that somehow excuses over 21,000 deaths.
https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/gaza-death-toll-has-increased-40-percent-compared-temporary-humanitarian-truce
Euro-Med Monitor said preliminary statistics show that the daily death toll prior to the humanitarian truce ranged between 300 and 350 deaths per day, but has now risen to more than 500 since Israel resumed its attacks for the sixth consecutive day.
This brings the total number of Palestinian deaths in the Gaza Strip since 7 October to 21,731, including 8,697 children and 4,410 women as well as those missing and trapped under the rubble who are now presumed dead. The number of injured people has also increased to 4,016.
According to Euro-Med Monitor, Israel has increased the shocking extent of its targeting of civilians since the humanitarian truce collapsed, intensifying its complete destruction of residential areas and targeting schools that house thousands of displaced individuals in an apparent effort to increase the number of civilian victims.
That ratio makes no sense, 7,244 Hamas fighters killed, 8,697 children killed, 4,410 women killed, leaves 1,380 civilian men killed. So the IDF is targeting women and children specifically? Plus the claimed number of Hamas fighters killed fluctuates daily, currently from 5,000 to 7,000, and if the IDF gets asked directly they say we don't really know yet. (But it's 2:1 ratio!)
40% more daily casualties is also the opposite of Biden and Blinken's nonsense.
An apology of course doesn't absolve war crimes, but feel free to plead guilty IDF, makes the work of the ICC a lot easier. Not that they'll do much as Israel has been stalling their investigation for the past 9 years.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2023/12/11/the-hague-court-wants-to-probe-war-crimes-in-israel-and-gaza-where-does-europe-stand
The ICC ruled in 2021 that its criminal jurisdiction extended to the Palestinian territories of Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and opened a formal investigation into the endemic violence in the region since 2014.
This gives Khan a mandate to probe war crimes committed both in Palestine and by Palestinians - including Hamas’ deadly incursion into Israel on October 7th - and Israel’s military response in Gaza. He has vowed to make full use of the force of the law to bring justice to both Israeli and Palestinian victims.
But efforts to delegitimise Khan’s mandate threaten to stymie the investigation and perpetuate impunity.
Israel is not a state party to the court and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has continuously attempted to undermine its work, denouncing the Palestine investigation as "pure anti-Semitism." The US also rejects the ICC’s legitimacy.
The European Union, a staunch supporter of the court on paper, could also face opposition to an ICC-led probe from within its own ranks due to the bloc's fragmented position on the Israelo-Palestinian conflict.
The Netherlands is also pretty pro Israel and supporting the Israeli war machine
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/4/court-to-hear-case-against-the-netherlands-over-israeli-jet-parts-shipments
https://www.timesofisrael.com/far-right-dutch-election-victor-geert-wilders-elicits-sympathy-and-fear-in-jewish-voters/
The Dutch elections in November sent shockwaves through Europe, as voters delivered victory to Geert Wilders, a hard-right populist known for crusading against Islam, immigrants and the European Union — along with professing support for Israel.
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The firebrand politician, whose “Netherlands first” rhetoric and blond-dyed bouffant hair earned him comparisons to Donald Trump, has long made anti-Islam policies a centerpiece of his agenda. Along with demanding a halt to the country’s “asylum tsunami,” he has called for a ban on Islamic schools, Qurans and mosques. A court found him guilty on insult charges after he led supporters in a chant for “fewer” Moroccans in the Netherlands at a 2016 campaign rally. In 2009, he was refused entry to the United Kingdom on the way to screen his film “Fitna,” which associated the Quran with terrorism and sparked international protests.
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Although he is not Jewish, Wilders volunteered on an Israeli kibbutz as a young man and is married to a Hungarian-Jewish former diplomat. He has also advocated for Israel’s settlements in the West Bank and suggested that all Palestinians should be relocated to Jordan.
Some Jewish organizations, including the Jewish news website Joods.nl, celebrated Wilders’ win as a victory for both Israel and Dutch Jews. On election day, the outlet posted a “Mazel tov” to Wilders alongside an Instagram post that read, “Hamas lost the elections.”
Good luck to the ICC getting any support in that climate to investigate Israeli war crimes... I'm glad I don't live there anymore. Not that Canada is doing much of anything to stop the war and is also complicit in war crimes with continuing weapon shipments.
https://www.jurist.org/news/2023/11/rights-group-warns-canada-officials-of-prosecution-referral-for-complicity-in-alleged-israel-war-crimes/
I signed the petition,
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