Israel targeting UN relief workers in Gaza: The UN’s move came shortly after it said one person had been killed and two hurt when a fork-lift truck on a UN aid mission came under Israeli tank fire at Gaza’s Erez crossing. The UN’s relief agency Unrwa said it was “with great regret” that it had [...]
40 dead as Israelis bomb two UN schools: Israel’s assault on Gaza has exacted the bloodiest toll of civilian lives yet, when the bombing of UN schools being used as refugee centres and of housing killed more than 50 people, including an entire family of seven young children. Most of those killed were in the [...]
Richard Falk writing for The Nation: The Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip represent severe and massive violations of international humanitarian law as defined in the Geneva Conventions, both in regard to the obligations of an Occupying Power and in the requirements of the laws of war. Those violations include: Collective punishment: The entire 1.5 [...]
Francis A. Boyle, a professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law, argues for the establishment of an Israeli War Crimes Tribunal: The United Nations General Assembly must immediately establish an International Criminal Tribunal for Israel (ICTI) as a “subsidiary organ” under U.N. Charter Article 22. The ICTI would be organized [...]