"These actions are War Crimes!"
Garth Hewitt - From The Broken Heart Of Gaza (Father Musallam's Letter)
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Garth Hewitt - From The Broken Heart Of Gaza (Father Musallam's Letter)
On April 3, 2009 the President of the United Nations Human Rights
Council
commissioned a fact-finding mission "to investigate all violations of
international human rights law and international humanitarian law that
might
have been committed at any time in the context of the military
operations that
were conducted in Gaza during the period from 27 December 2008 and 18
January
2009, whether before, during or after."
The Council appointed the Jewish Justice Richard Goldstone, a South
African
Constitutional Court judge and the former chief prosecutor of the United
Nations International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the former
Yugoslavia.
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Justice Goldstone issued the 575-page report on September 29, 2009 and
the
Goldstone Report accused both Israel and Hamas of war crimes perpetuated
during
the 22 days of assault on Gaza which began two days after last Christmas
day,
when the Israeli military launched Operation Cast Lead; a full-scale
attack on
Gaza that killed 13 Israelis and 1,400 Palestinians.
Over 5,000 Palestinians were injured, 400,000 were left without running
water,
4,000 homes were destroyed, rendering tens of thousands who are still
homeless
because of Israel's targeted attacks upon them, their schools,
hospitals,
streets, water wells, sewage system, farms, police stations and UN
buildings.
The 22 days of Israel's attack on the people of Gaza was enabled by
US-supplied
weapons and we the people of the US who pay taxes provide over $3
billion
annually to Israel although Israel has consistently misused U.S. weapons
in
violation of America's Arms Export Control and Foreign Assistance Acts.
America is the worlds largest arms supplier to Israel and under a Bush
negotiated deal with Israel, we the people who pay taxes in America will
also
provide another $30 billion in military aid to Israel over the next
decade.
During the 22 days of Israeli assault on Gaza, "Washington provided F-16
fighter planes, Apache helicopters, tactical missiles, and a wide array
of
munitions, including white phosphorus and DIME. The weapons required for
the
Israeli assault was decided upon in June 2008, and the transfer of 1,000
bunker-buster GPS-guided Small Diameter Guided Bomb Units 39 (GBU-39)
were
approved by Congress in September. The GBU 39 bombs were delivered to
Israel in
November (prior to any claims of Hamas cease fire violation!) for use in
the initial
air raids on Gaza. [1]