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Gaza civilian deaths may amount to war crimes, UN human rights chief says


Gaza civilian deaths may amount to war crimes, UN human rights chief says
Navi Pillay condemns Israel, Hamas for attacks; Kerry says some progress in cease-fire talks; FAA lifts flight ban
July 23, 2014 8:02AM ET |Updated 3:00PM ET http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/7/23/israel-gaza-hamasun.html
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Israeli tanks and warplanes continued the offensive in Gaza Thursday, hitting the Jabaliya refugee camp where police said an infant boy was among the dead.
Most of the casualties were reported in the southeast Gaza town of Khan Younis. Ambulances struggled to enter the area amid intense fighting between Israeli troops and Hama fighters, according to Al Jazeera’s correspondent.

The new toll came after the U.S.’s Federal Aviation Administration lifted its flight ban on American airlines for Israel’s main airport late Wednesday and the U.N.’s top human rights official warned that the killing of Gazan civilians and children in Israeli airstrikes may amount to war crimes.

Navi Pillay, the international body’s high commissioner for human rights, on Wednesdsay told an emergency debate on the crisis that there was “a strong possibility that international law had been violated” during the weeks-long conflict, citing the shelling of homes and hospitals in the coastal enclave. She also condemned the indiscriminate firing of rockets and mortars into Israel by Palestinian fighters. The U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) later agreed to launch an independent inquiry into allegations that international law had been violated in the course of the Gaza airstrikes.

Israel blasted the UNHRC’s call, saying it’s decision was a “travesty and should be rejected by decent people everywhere.”
“Rather than investigate Hamas, which is committing a double war crime by firing rockets at Israeli civilians while hiding behind Palestinian civilians, the UNHRC calls for an investigation of Israel, which has gone to unprecedented lengths to keep Palestinian civilians out of harm’s way,” a statement from the Israeli Prime Minister’s office read.
The remarks come a day after Israel received a psychological blow in its ongoing military operation in the shape of a decision by the U.S.’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to ban all American airlines from flying in and out of Israel’s main airport for 24 hours. The move, extended on Wednesday for an additional 24 hours, was prompted by security fears following a Hamas rocket attack near Ben Gurion International Airport on Tuesday. The flight ban has been echoed in Europe, where airlines likewise grounded planes headed to the country.

Mindful of the potential economic impact of the move, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly appealed to the United States to rethink the cancellation of flights.
The FAA lifted the ban late Wednesday night. “Before making this decision, the FAA worked with its U.S. government counterparts to assess the security situation in Israel and carefully reviewed both significant new information and measures the Government of Israel is taking to mitigate potential risks to civil aviation,” the FAA said in a press release.
Air France said it was suspending its flights “until further notice” and Germany’s two largest airlines — Lufthansa and Air Berlin —on Wednesday cancelled more flights to Tel Aviv.

Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry flew to Israel on Wednesday in the latest push to broker a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas.
America’s top diplomat indicated that the negotiations were making some progress despite the ongoing violence on the ground, offering a glimmer of hope that more than two weeks of bloodshed could be ended.

“We have certainly made some steps forward,” Kerry said in Jerusalem, where he was meeting for the second time this week with U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon. “There’s still work to be done.”
Ban said he and Kerry were jointly lobbying officials in the region to push Hamas and Israel to a cease-fire as soon as possible. “We do not have much time to wait and lose,” Ban told reporters before the meeting with Kerry.

Kerry then headed to Ramallah in the West Bank, where he retierated his call for a cease-fire.
Speaking alongside Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after their meeting, Kerry said, “I can tell you that we have, in the last 24 hours, made some progress in moving towards that goal.”

Kerry also met with Netanyahu on Wednesday, and will return to Cairo before the day’s end.
U.S. officials have downplayed expectations for an immediate, lasting truce between Israel and Hamas, which controls Gaza. Instead, Kerry’s mission seems more focused on defining the limits of what each side would accept in a potential cease-fire.

Israel and the U.S. back an unconditional cease-fire proposal that has been offered by Egypt, which would be followed by talks on a possible new border arrangement for Gaza.
But Hamas has said it was not consulted over Egypt’s truce plan, first launched last week, and indicated that certain conditions would have to be met as part of any cease-fire. Specifically, the group has demanded a lifting of a crippling blockade on the enclave before halting fire.

Hamas political leader Khaled Meshaal reiterated that call on Wednesday, saying the group was prepared to accept a humanitarian truce in Gaza but not until Israel lifted its blockade.

“Everyone wanted us to accept a ceasefire and then negotiate for our rights, we reject this and we reject it again today,” he said at a news conference in Qatar.
The blockade has seen Israel and Egypt severely restrict movement in and out of Gaza since 2007.

In addition to discussions with Egyptian officials, including President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, Kerry spoke several times Tuesday from Cairo with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and Qatari Foreign Minister Khalid al-Attiya. Both Turkey and Qatar have better relations with Hamas, and either could serve as a mediator in any negotiations.
Egypt has also been negotiating with some Hamas officials, but relations between the two sides have been strained since Egypt outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood, which has ties to Hamas, after last year’s overthrow of President Mohamed Morsi.

The diplomatic efforts for a breakthrough take place amid a backdrop of continued violence and rising civilian deaths.
Wednesday’s deaths bring the number of Palestinians killed during the 16-day Israeli assault on Gaza to 718, including scores of children. More than 4,563 people have been injured
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The number of Israelis who have died has climbed to 35 — three civilians and 32 soldiers. One other soldier remains missing but is presumed dead, according to the Israeli army.

Al Jazeera and wire services
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Israel passes law drafting ultra-Orthodox for military service
Israel passes law drafting ultra-Orthodox for military service

Haredi Jews had been exempt from mandatory draft since the country’s establishment in 1948
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Students from Orthodox Jewish academies in the New York area took to the streets of Manhattan in December to protest against efforts by the Israeli government to draft their counterparts into the Israeli army.Kathy Willens/AP

Israel’s Legislature on Wednesday voted to pass a controversial law to end blanket military exemptions for ultra-Orthodox Jews — ending a tradition upheld since the state’s establishment in 1948.

The bill was voted through by 65 to 1 in a poll broadcast on Israel’s parliamentary television channel. The lone dissenting vote was cast by an MP from the far-right Jewish Home party who broke coalition discipline to oppose the law. Opposition parties within the 120-seat parliament had earlier announced they would not participate in the vote.
Military service at the age of 18 is required of all Jewish Israelis, with men serving three years and women serving two years. Mandatory service is required of the country’s Druze and Circassian minorities — but Arab citizens of Israel are exempt and largely refuse to join.

Ultra-Orthodox Israelis, who make up 10 percent of Israel’s population, enrolled in a yeshiva, or religious school, were until now exempt from the draft.
“This is a black day for the state and the government,” ultra-Orthodox lawmaker Moshe Gafni was quoted as saying on the Kikar Hashabat website. “The state of Israel has lost the right to call itself a Jewish and democratic state.”

“The haredi [orthodox] public will not forget or forgive the prime minister and his partners,” said Gafni.
Changing the so-called secular-religious status quo in Israel has carried significant political risk in the past for successive coalition governments, which have often relied on the support of haredi partners for their survival.

But Finance Minister Yair Lapid, whose centrist party pushed to lift the exemptions, said: “Is it too much to expect people who live here and whose lives are defended every day by soldiers … to do their bit, no more or no less than any other Israeli citizen?”
Anti-Zionist beliefs


Haredim say the study of Holy Scriptures is a foundation of Jewish life, and that scholars have a right to devote themselves full time to the tradition. Army service, they say, would deny them fulfillment of that religious edict.


The new legislation stipulates that ultra-Orthodox men must either join the army or perform civilian service, in a law that will go into force in 2017.
The law also includes a clause stipulating sanctions against draft dodgers — including imprisonment — in a move that has enraged the ultra-Orthodox leadership, who said it would be tantamount to jailing people for practicing their faith.

Last week, a group of 30 experts on the haredi community warned that arrests of yeshiva students could lead to civil rebellion and violent protests, the Jerusalem Post reported.
“The criminal sanctions proposal will not achieve [draft] equality but will instead make it more distant, bring about a halt in the integration of Haredim, lead the state to societal division and could bring endless trouble,” the group wrote.

Earlier this month, more than 300,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews took to the streets of Jerusalem in a mass prayer vigil to protest against the impending legislation. An estimated 60,000 Orthodox Jews protested against the legislation in Manhattan Sunday.

A New York group called the True Torah Jews argue that Israel is discriminating against “real” Jews — going so far as to call the government anti-Semitic. Many ultra-Orthodox Jews believe that there is no place in their religious tradition for a Jewish nation-state, and that the return of Jews to Israel would coincide with the coming of the Messiah.
The True Torah Jews say it is not their responsibility to fix the problems created by the establishment of the state of Israel. They are also opposed to the occupation of Palestine.
The new law is seen by many Israelis as amending the historical injustice of an exemption handed to the ultra-Orthodox in 1948, when Israel was created. At that time they were a small segment of society.

Because of their high birth rate, the ultra-Orthodox community is the fastest-growing sector in Israel.
Al Jazeera and wire services
March 12, 2014 8:29AM ET
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VKD. Our Constitution forbids the United States supporting “belligerent” nations! Why is OBAMA supporting this belligerency? These people have been fighting since before Christ.. We have no business involving our Nation.. Of course you will say “but these are God’s most favored!” No! I beg to differ.. these are the ones described in the Bible’s Book of Revelations Ch. 3. vs 9-10 and 11. The ones who claim to be jews but are not. These are most definitely not “Ju’s” but! They are killing the JU’s of Palestine to cover their true identity. The true Ju’s or the Torah Jews are treated like dirt in Israel.

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Iranian FM: “Iran will not allow Israel to continue assault,” Huge al-Quds Day rallies call for ‘Death to Israel’

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Iran is arming Hamas. Hamas is firing Iranian rockets. Iran always agitates and conducts warfare via proxy. Hezb’allah and now Hamas. Snakes.

Obama just released 2.8 billion to these savages. And he has sanctioned their nuclear weapons program.  Apparently Obama is working via proxy as well.
BEIRUT: An Iranian Foreign Affairs Ministry official Saturday said Tehran would prevent Israel from continuing its aggression on Gaza with all means available, saying Hamas has only used a mere 3 percent of its military capability in the 19-day conflict.
“We are exerting and using all available efforts and capabilities to prevent [Israel] from continuing its massacres and crimes against civilians in Gaza,” Deputy Iranian Foreign Minister for Arab Affairs Hossein Amir Abdolahian told reporters in Beirut.
“We will not allow the Zionist entity to continue its barbaric aggression on the Gaza strip or allow it to achieve its ambition.”
His remarks came after meeting Foreign Affairs Minister Gebran Bassil.
Abdolahian arrived in Lebanon Saturday morning and is expected to hold talks with Prime Minister Tammam Salam. (Daily Star )
It speaks to the whole of the religion that their holy day, Friday – Friday prayers are almost always accompanied with calls for slaughter, genocide and hate. Violent protests, acts of aggression almost always follow Friday prayers.
How the non-Muslim living in Muslim countries come to fear Friday. That and Ramadan, of course. The holier, the more violent.
Huge Iran al-Quds Day rallies call for ‘Death to Israel’,” TOI, July 24, 2014
Zionist regime should be demolished ‘by a referendum,’ says Iran’s leader, as Rouhani blasts world’s silence

Iranians rallied nationwide on Friday in a show of support for Palestinians as archfoe Israel pursued its campaign against Hamas and other groups in the Gaza Strip.

Demonstrations were held in Tehran and more than 700 towns and cities across the country on the last day of prayer and rest of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, state television reported.
In the capital, footage showed demonstrators, carrying placards proclaiming “Death to Israel” and “Death to America,” converging from nine different points on Tehran University in the city center.

Iran holds al-Quds Day (Jerusalem Day) rallies in support of the Palestinians every year on the last Friday of Ramadan, but this year’s demonstrations came on the 18th day of Israel’s campaign against rocket-firing and tunnel-digging Hamas extremists in Gaza. Hamas has fired over 2,000 rockets into Israel. It has also built dozens of “attack tunnels” under the border, and attempted five attacks from the tunnels in the past two weeks, killing six Israeli soldiers; Israel killed 20 gunmen emerging from the tunnels.
According to figures from the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza, more than 800 Palestinians have been killed in the assault on Gaza and the Islamist Hamas movement that dominates it and has long been supported by Iran.
Rockets and mortar rounds fired into Israel have killed three civilians — two Israelis and a Thai farm worker — and fighting in and around Gaza has killed 33 Israeli soldiers in all.
“The Islamic world must in unison declare this day one of anger, hatred, unity and resistance against Israel,” President Hassan Rouhani said at the Tehran demonstration.




 In this Tuesday, February 11, 2014 file photo, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, delivers a speech during an annual rally commemorating anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution, at the Azadi 'Freedom' Square in Tehran, Iran.  (photo credit: AP/Vahid Salemi, File)
Rouhani, who has overseen a fledgling rapprochement with the West, condemned “those who stay silent in the face of the Zionist regime’s crimes.
“The world demands an end to the Gaza blockade, opening the Rafah crossing and halting attacks on Gaza so its people can live normally,” he said.
He was referring to the demands of Hamas for any truce with Israel to end the deadly violence. The Rafah Border Crossing between Gaza and Egypt is the territory’s only one not controlled by Israel. The blockade is maintained by Israel and Egypt to prevent Hamas smuggling in weaponry.

‘Continue the struggle’

General Hossein Salami, second in command of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards, struck a defiant tone in a speech broadcast on state television.
“Now no place in the occupied territories is safe for the Zionists. The missiles of Palestinian fighters have a range well beyond what the Zionists believe,” he claimed.
“We will continue, house by house, and avenge the blood of martyrs shed in Palestine.”
Salami’s sentiments were echoed by demonstrators.
“My message to the Palestinians is this: Continue the struggle until your last drop of blood. Islamic countries, especially Iran, are behind you to save you,” a young protester named Hassan told AFP.
Iran does not recognize Israel’s existence, and supports Palestinian terrorist groups that fight it.
On Thursday, the speaker of Iran’s parliament, Ali Larijani, told state television’s Arabic service that Tehran had provided Hamas with the technology it has used to rain down rockets on Israel.
“Today, the fighters in Gaza have good capabilities and can meet their own needs for weapons,” he said.
“But once upon a time, they needed the arms manufacture know-how and we gave it to them.”
During the last major conflict in and around Gaza in November 2012, Larijani said Iran was “proud” to have provided “both financial and military support” to Hamas.
Israel accused Iran of supplying Gaza militants with its Fajr-5 missile, which has a range of 75 kilometers (45 miles), for use during that conflict.
But the commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, General Mohammad Ali Jafari, said at the time it was not the missiles that had been supplied, but their technology.

The statements came after Iran’s Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday night that the “Zionist regime” must be destroyed. This should be achieved “by a referendum of the people living there,” but until that happens, there should be “total armed resistance” against it. That resistance by the Palestinians should be helped by the provision of arms, he added, condemning Israel’s recent “savagery.”
Khamenei’s speech was reported both by Iran’s semi-official FARS news agency and the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).
He said Israel, which he did not refer to by name, had always practiced and taken pride in using “overt violence.
“They perpetrated any violent act they could think of against the (Palestinians),” he told a cheering crowd of Iranian university students in Tehran. “They stop at nothing. This is the reality of the Zionist regime. The only solution is to destroy this regime.”
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