War crimes in Gaza

Jerusalem Post:

Armed Palestinian groups have committed serious violations of international humanitarian law during recent fighting in the Gaza Strip, in some cases amounting to war crimes, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday morning.

In internal Palestinian fighting over the last three days, both Fatah and Hamas armed forces have summarily executed captives, killed people not involved in hostilities, and engaged in gun battles with one another inside and near Palestinian hospitals.

"These attacks by both Hamas and Fatah constitute brutal assaults on the most fundamental humanitarian principles," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director for Human Rights Watch. "The murder of civilians not engaged in hostilities and the willful killing of captives are war crimes, pure and simple."

On Saturday, Palestinian terrorists from Islamic Jihad and the Fatah-affiliated Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigade used a vehicle with a "TV" insignia to attack an Israeli military position on the border with Gaza.

"Using a vehicle with press markings to carry out a military attack is a serious violation of the laws of war, and it also puts journalists at risk," said Whitson.

Customary international humanitarian law provides that journalists not taking direct part in hostilities in armed conflict zones "shall be considered as civilians." The deliberate abuse of this protected status in order to breach the confidence of an adversary in an attempt to kill, injure or capture them, would amount to an act of perfidy, a serious violation of international humanitarian law.

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Well they are only a few days behind PrairiePundit in making that last analysis. However, the first three paragraphs describe more than just what the Palestinians are doing to each other in Gaza. The same description would fit what the enemy in Iraq does on a daily basis and the media never describes those events as war crimes.