Report: Israel, Hezbollah Violated Law

[DoYouEverWonder]

October 3, 2006

GENEVA -- Four human rights experts have accused both Hezbollah and the Israeli army of violating humanitarian law during their recent conflict, a report released Tuesday said.

In documents circulated prior to the official release of the report on Wednesday, the experts who visited Israel and Lebanon call on international bodies to investigate the conduct of all parties during the month-long conflict.

The 40-page report was drawn up by Philip Alston, Paul Hunt, Walter Kaelin and Miloon Kothari, who act as independent experts to the U.N. Human Rights Council. The four traveled to Israel and Lebanon in September on their own initiative to investigate the impact of the month-long conflict on the civilian population.

A separate report, commissioned by the council, will be published later this year and may draw on some of the findings of the rights experts.

This latest document describes as "serious violations of both human rights and humanitarian law" instances where Israeli forces appear not to have distinguished between civilian and military objectives, failed to have acted proportionality, or didn't taken all feasible precautions to minimize damage to civilians.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-un-mideast-rights,0,3945355.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

[niallmac]

1. I just hate it when people are killing each other and they break the rules

Intent of post to remind that this whole warfare thing is pretty damn stupid.
Not too many here need reminding I suppose.

[razors edge]

3. Same here

Lets see...

Uniform and gun = killing is cool.

no uniform and gun = murder.

hard to keep it all straight.

[bluestateguy]

2. Now that the war is over, it's time to pass out the penalty flags

That's an Off Sides on Hezbollah, and an Unnecessary Roughness on Israel.