Given all of the attention on Gaza and West Bank I thought it appropriate that I do my part in shedding some light on some of the circumstances surrounding these events.
What is presented below are reports from two of the world’s most respected, highly regarded, mainstream, and highly credible human rights organizations; Amnesty International and B’Tselem (an Israeli human rights organization.) These organizations go around the world documenting human rights violations and violations of international law as established by the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice (at the Hague.) Given the daily atrocities committed by Israel, and oh yeah, the fact that the Israeli occupation of Gaza and the West Bank itself is illegal according to international law, means that these two agencies spend alot of time in Palestine.
Below are links to two reports, one from Amnesty International and one from B’Tselem, on the violations of Palestinian human rights due to the illegal occupation and the illegal separation/apartheid wall Israel is building. Each report gives a pretty thorough analysis of Israel’s illegal actions that incite the Palestinian’s resistance to thier oppression and occupation
Documented, authorative evidence in these reports includes:
*Israeli torture and killing of Palestinian non-violent protesters
*The illegality of Israel occupying Gaza and the West Bank as well as illegality of the separation wall
*Israel’s confiscating and demolishing of Palestinian homes and land to build illegal, Israeli only settlements
*Israeli soldiers using Palestinian civilians as human shields
*The illegality of every settlement built in Palestinian territories (home of the so-called “settlers”)
*The discriminatory practices of Israel toward Palestinians (Jew only settlements, Jew only roads, checkpoints, passes needed to come and go etc.)
*The illegal collective punishments of Palestinian civilians
If you sincerely want to know why Hamas, Hezbollah, the residents of Gaza and the West Bank (and basically all of the muslim world) feels the way they feel about Isreal……just read these unquestioned, thoroughly documented facts about what Isreal is doing every single day. Then, put yourself and your family in their situation.
Then you’ll understand.
Amnesty Intl. Report: Enduring Occupation: Palestinians Under Siege in the West Bank
B’Tselem Report: Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
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