Israeli attacks on Gaza 'apparently amount to war crimes', Human Rights Watch says

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The international human rights organisation issued its conclusions after investigating three Israeli airstrikes that it said killed 62 Palestinian civilians. 9News

Israel has said it struck more than 1000 targets during the fighting. In all, some 254 people were killed in Gaza, including at least 67 children and 39 women, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

The airstrikes destroyed three apartment buildings and killed a total of 44 civilians, HRW said, including 18 children and 14 women. Twenty-two of the dead were members of a single family, the al-Kawlaks.in the area. The airstrikes unexpectedly caused nearby buildings to coLlapse, leading to "unintended casualties," it said.

It released aerial photos of what it said was the launch site, some 7.5km away, and the landing area. It also said it did not carry out any strikes in the area at the time of the explosion. The New York-based group said Israel refused to allow its investigators to enter Gaza. Instead, it said it relied on a field researcher based in Gaza, along with satellite images, expert reviews of photos of munitions fragments and interviews conducted by video and telephone.destroyed a three-story building in Gaza's Shati refugee campIsrael said the target was a group of senior Hamas officials hiding in an apartment, and that the civilian deaths were unintended and "under review.

 

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How does the Human Rights Commission have time to look so quickly at this issue, when the the issues in China should have the courts back logged for years to come.

Well, I am sure if Palestine didn't fire a constant barrage of missiles across the border. That there wouldn't be an issue. Maybe one day, when the missiles stop, the war might also stop.... I feel sorry for the Palestinian cause, but can also understand Israel retaliating.

Your govt sends troupes to Israel in effort to assist in their apartheid. Now why would they care about the Palestinian

The 'rules based international order' has a long list of UN and HRO concerns it chooses to ignore. Whack it on the list and talk about China instead.

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