Palestinians mull war crime charges against Israel

[Jazzy]

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is seeking written pledges of support from all political factions, including rival Hamas, before making any attempt to press for possible war crimes charges against Israel, senior officials said Thursday.

Abbas hesitated in the past because such a step would transform his relations with Israel from tense to openly hostile and could put him on a collision course with the United States.

But with nearly 1,400 Palestinians killed in Israel-Hamas fighting in Gaza in the past 24 days, according to health officials, Abbas is under growing domestic pressure to turn to the International Criminal Court to try to make a case against Israel.

Israeli officials have said Israel is acting in self-defense by targeting Hamas' military arsenal and rocking launching sites and have accused Hamas of using Gaza civilians as human shields.

Earlier Thursday, the U.N.'s top human rights official accused both Israel and Hamas of committing war crimes in the current Gaza fighting.

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said Hamas is committing war crimes by firing rockets from heavily populated areas and storing them in schools and hospitals.

She said Israel has defied international law in Gaza by attacking civilian areas with schools, hospitals, homes and U.N. facilities.

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Are they both guilty of committing war crimes? Why / Why not?

 

[DrLeftover]

I'm not aware of the Israelis putting vests full of high explosives on children and sending them to the bus station.

But maybe I missed that.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Gaza that has every terrorist organization in the alphabet and they want to talk about war crimes. What nonsense.

 

[beowulf]

how can it even be classed as 'war' crimes?

a war is a conflict between two nations..............this is a nation against a terrorist organisation

geneva convention certinly dosnt apply either