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Related: About this forumMedics: Bethlehem youth shot dead with illegal ammunition
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BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Malik Akram Shahin, 19, who was shot dead by Israeli forces in Bethlehem overnight Monday, was killed by an explosive bullet fired at his head, medical sources at the Beit Jala Governmental Hospital told Ma'an.
Medics said the explosive bullet smashed Shahin's skull, and exploded inside his head, with the bullet and skull fragments shattering into "hundreds of pieces."
The sources said the positioning of the shot, as well as the type of bullet used, clearly indicates that Israeli forces shot at Shahin with every intention to kill.
The use of explosive bullets, also called expanding bullets or "dum dum" bullets, is illegal under international law, and considered a crime of war under the 1899 Hague Declaration and the International Criminal Court's Rome Statute, among others.
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Malik Akram Shahin, 19, who was shot dead by Israeli forces in Bethlehem overnight Monday, was killed by an explosive bullet fired at his head, medical sources at the Beit Jala Governmental Hospital told Ma'an.
Medics said the explosive bullet smashed Shahin's skull, and exploded inside his head, with the bullet and skull fragments shattering into "hundreds of pieces."
The sources said the positioning of the shot, as well as the type of bullet used, clearly indicates that Israeli forces shot at Shahin with every intention to kill.
The use of explosive bullets, also called expanding bullets or "dum dum" bullets, is illegal under international law, and considered a crime of war under the 1899 Hague Declaration and the International Criminal Court's Rome Statute, among others.
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Medics: Bethlehem youth shot dead with illegal ammunition (Original Post)
R. Daneel Olivaw
Dec 2015
OP
In the animal kingdom it is kill or be killed if one wants to survive, the human kingdom
AuntPatsy
Dec 2015
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AuntPatsy
(9,904 posts)1. In the animal kingdom it is kill or be killed if one wants to survive, the human kingdom
is far too similar for us that walk on all fours to even remotely believe ourselves above anything or anyone on this earth or beyond with honesty in such conviction.....
krispos42
(49,445 posts)2. The Hague conventions only apply to war
Expanding ammunition is standard issue for every police department in the US. Most people that keep a gun for self-defence also keep it loaded with expanding ammunition.
Except New Jersey. It's illegal there for some bizarre reason.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)6. Not according to the Rome Statutes
The adoption of an amendment to Article 8 at the Review Conference of the Rome Statute in Kampala makes the use of expanding bullets in non-international armed conflict a war crime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanding_bullet
Mosby
(16,168 posts)3. He was a member of the terrorist group PFLP
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)4. Ah the excuses you spin...
Did he deserve an execution style send off on yours or beloved right wing zionist say so?
King_David
(14,851 posts)5. ISIS seems to be making inroads into Israel too..
Same as in USA and France....