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What I mean is that forensic investigation may help understand whether there were any military objectives involved in mass bombing, particularly in the first weeks of the war. Here is the ICC rule on proportionality: "Pursuant to Article 8(2)(b)(iv) of the 1998 ICC Statute, the following constitutes a war crime in international armed conflicts: Intentionally launching an attack in the knowledge that such attack will cause incidental loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects … which would be clearly excessive in relation to the concrete and direct overall military advantage anticipated." https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v2/rule14 It was Israel's choice to use the Lavender program, apparently a kind of AI, to identify "targets" with such rapidity that humans could not do due diligence to verify the accuracy before the bombs dropped.

Well, I meant that Karim Khan requested warrants for the three Hamas people, but Israel killed two or maybe three of them by the time the Court authorized the warrants.

The problem is not you, but the settlers doing ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, for example.

There are several videos in the links, but CNN did not post the video discussed. As I explained, there are many links referring to videos without posting them. If you google the term "IDF shooting Palestinians video" you can also find YouTube videos and many discussions of IDF atrocities.

I just googled "IDF shooting Palestinians video". A few of the results: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/08/middleeast/gaza-jabalya-idf-shooting-intl/index.html https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/28/israeli-soldiers-shoot-dead-two-unarmed-palestinian-men-in-gaza-video https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2024/jan/10/video-appears-to-show-israeli-army-shooting-palestinians-without-provocation-report https://www.btselem.org/press_releases/20210803_video_footage_proves_israeli_soldiers_shot_and_killed_11_year_old_muhammad_abu_sarah_had_no_reason_to_open_fire There are many many more links making reference to video, which however do not provide the video.

This is more likely to prevent Gazans moving en masse into Egypt. As I commented before, Egypt is not blocking the trucks.

Is it just an hysterical confusion or an intention to make Khan into an Arab Lebanese, i.e. biased, rather than a British man born in Edinburgh? As far as the claim of sexual misconduct is concerned, that happens often enough, and does not change the facts leading to the warrants being issued.

IDF claims that they kill civilians as collateral damage, but the question of proportionality is important here. While the killing already appears very disproportionate, it will only be after the IDF is out of Gaza that the full numbers can be tabulated, for combattants vs civilians. Besides that there are many video clips of wanton shooting of apparent civilians.

The ICC also indicted 3 Hamas leaders.

The Rome Statue is a treaty that obliges the signatories to arrest and supercedes national law, so France and others who use flabby excuses for not doing their duty are violating international law by inaction.

It may be because the current Egyptian gevernment overthrew the government elected in 2011, which was backed by the Muslim Brotherhood. This group and Hamas are ldeologically close. However, public opinion in Egypt stongly backs the Palestinian cause, so Egypt is not making obstacles to food trucks entering Gaza. That is entirely due to the IDF inspections and settlers who block trucks or loot them while the IDF looks on.

That commenter was possibly referring to Karim Khan, but for some reason brought up the nationality of the chief judge of a different court, the ICJ, as being the nationality of K Khan.

So how does that give them claim to all the land to the exclusion of those who have been there just as long as them?

In your previous comment, you made no reference to the "human shields" excuse. It was only to trivialize the deaths in Gaza compared to previous conflicts. But changing the subject is a frequently used evasion tactic in this thread.

The historical treatment of People of the Book, i.e. including Christians & Jews, was nice relative to the apartheid which Palestinians in Israel and the Occupied Territories have experienced. They didn't experience home demolitions and wanton execution.

As I noted before, the "article" is from the Editorial Board of WSJ in the 3-page Opinion section of the print edition. There facts are not obligatory as it is not reporting news.

Just to enlighten readers who don't have time to read these numerous comments, you are implying that the Gazan deaths were small in relation to other conflicts, and I reminded the readers that because Gaza's population is a tenth or less than the countries with conflicts that you mentioned, the Gaza death rate is proportionally similar to the situation in those countries, if not worse.

Correct, and a reasonable motive for supprting the Palestinians!

Reportedly, France made a deal to not act on the warrant if Israel let it participate with the US in monitoring the Lebanese ceasefire. Notwithstanding, the independence of the French judiciary could persuade Netanyahu not to take chances with visiting France.

There was an arrangement with Egypt for Israel to monitor the border remotely.

You are confusing the Chief Judge of the ICJ, a Lebanese, with Karim Khan, the prosecutor of the ICC. He is British, born in Edinburgh.

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have issued extensive reports on Israeli apartheid. Here is Amnesty's short version with a link to download the full report: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2022/02/israels-system-of-apartheid/

No, they were mostly living in the diaspora for millennia. Of course, the Palestinians may well have absorbed part of the Jewish population who preferred to convert to Chistianity or Islam and/or who intermarried.

When we consider proportionality, in terms of populations of the countries that you cite, Gaza is at the same level, if not greater.

Whoever was the ruler over the area called Palestine does not matter. The point is that the people of the area over millenia have developed their distinct culture, different than Syrian, Egyptian, Jordanian.