War Crimes

War crimes are violations of the ethics of war and vary from one nation to another. Broadly conceived, however, war crimes are the wanton infliction of pain and suffering on non-combatants or prisoners of war.

Though war crimes may refer to the destruction of cities and townships, it is more broadly discussed in relation to the deliberate attempt to violate the human rights of non-combatants and prisoners of war.

Even within war there are rules of engagement, and there are circumstances that differentiate a just from an unjust war. War crimes are always a violation of human rights and always a violation of individual civil liberties.

 

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “War Crimes”

• The American-Israeli War on Gaza

  
  Nasir Khan blog — Authority: 142
  Foreign Policy Journal, December 27, 2009 by Jeremy R. Hammond An Israeli attack on a U.N. school in Beit Lahiya with white phosphorus munitions on January 17, 2009. Such attacks constitute war crimes under international law. (Photo: Muhammad al-Baba) One year ago today, Israel launched ...
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• The American-Israeli War on Gaza

  
  Dr Nasir Khan — Authority: 441
  Foreign Policy Journal, December 27, 2009 by Jeremy R. Hammond An Israeli attack on a U.N. school in Beit Lahiya with white phosphorus munitions on January 17, 2009. Such attacks constitute war crimes under international law. (Photo: Muhammad al-Baba) One year ago today, Israel launched “Operation ...
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• What is the Aim of the Gaza Freedom March? By Bianca Zammit

  
  Creative-i — Authority: 145
  As the days of December 2009 draw in, two events which each have a role to play in world peace draw closer. The first is on the 27th and is commemorating the start of the 22 day attacks on Gaza, an operation which targeted unarmed civilians, schools, hospitals, journalists and emergency staff. The second, The Gaza ...
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• Viva Palestina Update

  
  Creative-i — Authority: 145
  Yesterday was a great day. We went down to a major bridge across the Nile and tied cards of rememberance and flowers to the bridge railings. These were removed almost immediately by the police who follow us everywhere. It is evident that there are spies at our meetings. The police challenged us to move on, but in a ...
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• Viva Palestina: Urgent Action Needed

  
  Creative-i — Authority: 145
  Viva Palestina is a UK charity; some the supplies are rotting at the Aqaba crossing. Please write urgently (in addition to the Egyptian embassies in London and Dublin) to the British embassy in Cairo, David Miliband etc.
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• An International Crime Called Gaza

  
  Sabbah — Authority: 143
  By Dr. Elias Akleh * | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz A fully pre-meditated international crime of genocide has been taking place during the last 62 years in the heart of the Arab World. The victims are the Palestinian people especially those in the Gaza Strip. The assassin is the worst ever terrorist group ...
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• George Galloway, a UK politician who is leading the convoy, tells Al Jazeera why the group must be allowed to proceed

  
  Creative-i — Authority: 145
  George Galloway, a UK politician who is leading the convoy, tells Al Jazeera why the group must be allowed to proceed: It was Christmas Day but there was no room at the Inn for the weary travellers. Turned away by the Arab Republic of Egypt, the 500 members of the Viva Palestina Convoy to Gaza spent Christmas in a car ...
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• Gaza aid held-up in Jordan

  
  Creative-i — Authority: 145
  Since June 2007 Gaza has been under a crippling blockade with few essential goods making it through.Now an aid convoy of 250 trucks and ambulances is attempting to reach the Strip to deliver much needed supplies.But a bureaucratic argument with Egypt is holding it back in Aqaba in southwest Jordan.
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• Total racism, total war By Saleh Al-Naami

  
  Creative-i — Authority: 145
  According to Palestinian medical sources, the number of patients with cancerous tumours residing in areas that the Israeli army targeted during its war on Gaza is on the rise. As the first anniversary of the war on Gaza approaches, the Palestinians are shocked to discover more of its damaging effects. A Palestinian ...
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• Hunger strike of activists in Egypt for Gaza, Palestine By John Hurson

  
  Creative-i — Authority: 145
  At 11 35 am, the time of the first attack, a group of humanitarians on the “Viva Palestina Convoy” will embark on an International Hunger Strike in the main square in Aqaba, Jordan.The International Hunger Strike will aim to highlight the ongoing illegal siege imposed on Gaza, and to remember the victims of the ...
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• Boycott Israel and British Lives Will Be Lost

  
  Pajamas Media — Authority: 793
  Why does the UK want to distance itself from the country best positioned to help protect British troops from IEDs?
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• WHERE WAS GOLDSTONE A YEAR AGO?

  
  Desertpeace — Authority: 545
  Why did it take almost a year for the crimes committed by Israel against the people of Gaza to come to light? As can be seen in the following video, they have been documented for all to see from day one…. that is, for all that CHOSE TO SEE! WHY DIDN’T GOLDSTONE SEE IT THEN? ...
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• GAZA ~~ RELIVING THE HORRORS OF THE WAR DAILY

  
  Desertpeace — Authority: 545
  One year and a day later….. Gaza is still suffering as if the bombing just stopped. The siege has not allowed the people to rebuild…. the sanctions have not allowed the International volunteers access to participate. The bombing might have stopped, but life in Gaza remains unchanged one year ...
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• "The Joys of Airstrikes and Anonymity"

  
  HOWIEINSEATTLE — Authority: 491
  Glenn Greenwald: Each time the U.S. bombs a new location in the Muslim world, the same pattern emerges. First, officials from the U.S. or allied governments run to their favorite media outlet to claim -- anonymously -- that some big, bad, notorious, "top" Al Qaeda leader "may have been" or "likely was" killed in ...
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• Gaza lives on

  
  Filasteen — Authority: 109
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• Gaza one year ago: ‘I prayed to my god to be the first in my family to die’

  
  International Solidarity Movement — Authority: 566
  Khulood Ghanem | Mondoweiss 27 December 2009 Khulood Ghanem, 27, kept a Gaza diary a year ago. What follows is Ghanem’s entry from the first day of the war, 27 December 2008. I finished my work in Khan Younis at 10 o’clock, and rode a car to Gaza City. I reached there at 11. I decided to drink some coffee ...
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• Israeli Ammunition ‘Causes Birth Defects

  
  Qwaider Planet — Authority: 168
  Israeli bombings of the Gaza Strip in 2006 and in the war this year have left a high concentration of toxic metals in its soil, according to the findings of a study by a weapons research group made up Read More......( read more )
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• Gaza Lives On

  
  Creative-i — Authority: 145
  On 27 December 2009, after a year and a half of total siege, the brutal war on Gaza was launched. It was carnage, a disgrace to humanity and civilization, and indictment of the free world. One year later, the siege continues, the disgrace has not been lifted, and the Palestinian people still endure, resist and live. ...
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• Video: The Children of Gaza share their experiences of “Cast Lead”

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 518
  Video: The Children of Gaza share their experiences of “Cast Lead” Aljazeera.English December 27, 2009 The first Israeli airstrikes of “Operation Cast Lead” took the people of Gaza by surprise. School children were among those going about their ordinary lives on the day of ...
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• Arrest of Farouk Umar Abdul Mutallab Raises Serious Questions Over Delta Airline Incident in Detroit

  
  freedetainees.org — Authority: 141
  By Abayomi Azikiwe Arrest of Farouk Umar Abdul Mutallab Raises Serious Questions Over Airplane Attack Abdul Farouk Umar Mutallab. PANW Editor’s Note: On December 25 the United States authorities arrested a 23-year-old Nigerian Farouk Umar Abdul Mutallab aboard a Delta Airline flight from Amsterdam that landed in ...
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