Israeli Military Collective Punishment Headlines

HEADLINES

The Israeli military has repeatedly attacked medical workers and healthcare facilities in Lebanon.

Gaza: Israel’s Northern Offensive Endangering Hundreds of Thousands of Civilians.

International Court Rulings Require EU Action on Israel and Palestine; Sanctions, Trade Measures, Support for ICC Crucial to Comply with International Law.

Lebanon: Israeli Strikes on Financial Group are War Crimes; Hezbollah-Affiliated Civilian Institutions Not Lawful Military Targets.

Lebanon: Israeli Attacks on Medics Apparent War Crimes; Israel’s Allies Should Suspend Arms Sales

“They Destroyed What Was Inside Us”; Children with Disabilities Amid Israel’s Attacks on Gaza

Israel: Palestinian Healthcare Workers Tortured; ICC Prosecutor Should Investigate Attacks on Health Care, Detainee

Joint Statement: Defend UNRWA from Israeli Ban and Prevent Catastrophic Consequences for Palestinians.

Joint Letter Calls on US Senate to Block Arms Sales to Israel.

North Gaza: Between Death and Displacement; As it escalates its attacks on north Gaza, the Israeli army has ordered the entire civilian population to evacuate - and cut off food aid to all who remain.

Israeli armed forces began unlawfully using ground-launched airburst white phosphorus munitions in populated areas of Lebanon and Gaza in October 2023 and have continued since then.

Israel Should End Campaign to Destroy Lifesaving UN Palestinian Aid Agency; New Legislation Would Bar UNRWA from Gaza, West Bank

Collective punishment by targeting civilians, including children, women, the elderly, and disabled individuals, is considered a violation of international humanitarian law.

Collective punishment of innocent civilians is considered a war crime.

The Fourth Geneva Convention (1949) clearly states, collective punishment in Article 33, “No protected person may be punished for an offense he or she has not personally committed. Collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited.” Protected persons is considered the Palestinian civilians.

In the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), war crimes include intentionally directing attacks against babies, toddlers, children, women, elderly, and the disabled.

Article 8 of the Rome Statute criminalizes attacks on civilian populations, indiscriminate attacks that cause excessive civilian harm, and attacks against civilians.

Plus, the targeting of children, elderly, disabled individuals, and non-combatant civilians violates the principles of distinction and proportionality under the International Humanitarian Law.

With the high levels of technology the American military and Israeli military share and use on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Westbank, and in Lebanon and the rest of the Middle East with live camera drones and spy satellites that can view civilians clearly and accurately, it is very clear that the Israeli military know exactly that civilians are targeted and the proportionality is absolutely disproportionate in scale by leveling 100% of all the homes and buildings and schools and hospitals and universities in the Gaza Strip.

All the European nations and Commonwealth countries should be absolutely ashamed of themselves to not voice their humanitarian concern of innocent lives being lost, literally mass murdered, because of American missiles being dropped by Israeli military.