Sunday, July 16, 2006

Israeli military actions criticized at first UN Human Rights Council special session

In Gaza, people were without water, food was scarce and medicines were running out, he said, adding that Operation “Summer Rains,” as Israel had “cynically labelled” its siege of Gaza, offended the prohibition on collective punishment. It likewise violated the prohibition on “measures of intimidation and terrorism” contained in Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, while the arrest of Hamas Cabinet ministers and legislators seemed to constitute the “taking of hostages” prohibited in Article 34. (UN News Centre, July 5, 2006)
AP - Sat Jul 15, 6:06 AM ET A Palestinian reacts as he helps carry a wounded man into the emergency room of the Shifa hospital in Gaza City Saturday, July 15, 2006. The man was wounded when Israeli aircraft fired at least one missile at a building Saturday. Palestinian rescue workers said at least one Palestinian was killed and many others wounded. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

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