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UN special rapporteur says Israeli army is ‘criminal’ and ‘immoral’
Francesca Albanese, the UN’s special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, has said the Israeli army is “immoral” alongside being “one of the most criminal armies in the world”.
Quoting Chris Sidoti, member of a UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry (COI), who made the original remark about Israeli military criminality, Albanese said there was “no need to be a spiritual authority to arrive at this conclusion”.
“Considering the low standards to which they [and many illegal settlers] have descended,” she added.
The "one of the most criminal armies in the world" is also profoundly immoral. No need to be a spiritual authority to arrive at this conclusion, considering the low standards to which they (and many illegal settlers) have descended. https://t.co/tEcNfLBJDK
— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) June 21, 2024
Investigation shows Israeli tank had ‘clear view’ of car in Hind Rajab case
A joint investigation by NGO Earshot and Al Jazeera into the killing of Palestinian child Hind Rajab and her family in Gaza City on January 29 challenges a claim by the Israeli military that they were not responsible for the attack.
Hind, a six-year-old Palestinian girl, was travelling in a car with her family when they came under fire from an Israeli tank. Six of her family members, including her sister, were killed.
Hind pleaded for help from the Palestine Red Crescent Society for three hours before they lost contact. When rescuers finally reached the scene 12 days later, they found that Hind, her family and two Red Crescent paramedics who had been sent to rescue her had all been killed.
The Israeli military claimed that they didn’t have any troops in the area and denied carrying out the attack.
But a reconstruction of the attack, based on audio of the incident, shows that the Israeli tank from which the shots were fired “would have had a clear view of the car and the two children”, according to Earshot.
Read the thread and watch the footage below:
Taking into account the radius from which the shots were likely fired (13–23m), @ForensicArchi developed a simulation to map the likely position of the tank at the time of the shooting. They concluded that the shooter would have had a clear view of the car and the two children. pic.twitter.com/fIlwBPeB7d
— earshot.ngo (@earshot_ngo) June 21, 2024
