2023-10-10 11:25:59
The headline’s question is easily answered. None. It is a residential building in Khan Yunis, Gaza, after an airstrike by Israeli aviation this Monday. The exterior walls of the building have been destroyed by the explosion. Several people try to rescue a bloodied wounded man who has been left on the edge.
More Israeli massacres were carried out by the most ethical army in the world.
Footage for the bombardment of residential buildings west of Khan Younis city pic.twitter.com/fZOnKQTU73– Ramy Abdu| Rami Abdu (@RamAbdu) October 9, 2023
For a year now, the Russians have attacked several residential buildings in kyiv, Kharkiv and other Ukrainian cities with missiles. The facade has been blown away. The building has been exposed. The inhabitants of some of those apartments have died. It is an example of direct attacks against the civilian population, objectives that have no military value, but serve to provoke terror among those who live in those cities.
European and North American governments have declared time and time again that these attacks may be war crimes, as reflected in the Geneva Conventions. Added to this is the fact that it is Russia that has invaded Ukrainian territory. But even if this were different, it would make no difference to the basic issue. Killing non-combatant civilians is a war crime and is stipulated as such. Bombing civilian areas is a war crime. Taking civilians hostage is a war crime.
A country, any country in the world, has the right to defend itself from aggression. For the topic at hand, the how is essential.
The image above the article is from this week, but it is not new. In the massive military operations of the Israeli Armed Forces against Gaza over the last decade, residential buildings, factories, mosques, power plants and all types of civilian infrastructure have been attacked.
No European government even raised the suspicion that Israel had committed a war crime in Gaza. And now it happens again.
This was the central market in the Jabalia refugee camp. At least 50 civilians were killed here by Israeli bombing. Let that sink in pic.twitter.com/igPRrD2Mgs
— Nour Odeh ???????? #NojusticeNopeace (@nour_odeh) October 9, 2023
Now these images are repeated in Gaza and irremediably evoke what was seen in Ukraine in the last year. We’ll see more in the coming weeks. Even after Hamas’ massive assault on nearby Israeli towns in which hundreds of civilians were killed, which is also a war crime, the attacks on residential areas continue to have the same characteristic: they are a war crime.
But this time, since the victims are in Gaza, European governments do not want to admit that indubitable fact.
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