- US-backed Israeli forces and private contractors have put in place a flawed, militarized aid distribution system that has turned aid distributions into regular bloodbaths.
- The dire humanitarian situation is a direct result of Israel’s use of starvation of civilians as a weapon of war—a war crime—as well as Israel’s continued intentional deprivation of aid and basic services, which amounts to the crime against humanity of extermination, and acts of genocide.
- States should press Israeli authorities to immediately stop using lethal force as crowd control against Palestinian civilians, lift Israel’s unlawful sweeping restrictions on the entry of aid, and for the United States and Israel to suspend this flawed distribution system.
Do they qualify as war crimes? I am really asking here; I’m not sure the conflict in Gaza qualifies as a war, per se- heinous acts of cruelty, no doubt, but war crimes?
Targeting civilians is the poster child of war crimes.
You can bomb soldiers. You can bomb soldiers mixed with civilians. You can even bomb civilians making weapons in a factory. But you can’t just starve and bomb civilians for no reason. And you can’t bomb 100 civilians because there is 1 suspected fighter. Has to be proportional.
Genocide