The world is against us
A new report by HRW confirms what has been evident for the last three weeks.
The comments came as the Israel Defense Forces released the results of an investigation into an air strike on a building in the southern Lebanese town of Qana, in which at least 55 people were killed. The probe found that the IDF made a mistake, but charges that Hezbollah guerrillas used civilians as shields for their rocket attacks.
HRW said Israel’s contention that Hezbollah fighters were hiding among Lebanese civilians did not justify its “systematic failure” to distinguish between civilians and combatants.
“In some instances, Israeli forces appear to have deliberately targeted civilians,” HRW said in a statement accompanying a report released Thursday.
“The failures cannot be dismissed as mere accidents and cannot be blamed on wrongful Hezbollah practices. In some cases, these attacks constitute war crimes.”
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HRW Executive Director Kenneth Roth said in the many cases of civilian Lebanese deaths investigated by the rights group, the location of Hezbollah members or their weapons stores appeared to have no bearing on the areas attacked.
Unsurprisingly, most in the Haaretz talkback section take a different tack (I don’t even want to know what they are saying in the rightwing rags). Here is one characteristic uttering by one Shmuel Goldstein:
Yeah, why don’t you go do that. Give Dr. Karadžić my regards.
