The United Nations General Assembly should support a resolution that calls for exploring measures to guarantee the protection of Palestinians in Gaza, and a UN inquiry mandated to investigate all violations and abuses should identify Israeli officials responsible for issuing unlawful open-fire orders. The killings also highlight the need for the International Criminal Court to open a formal investigation into the situation in Palestine. Third countries should impose targeted sanctions against officials responsible for ongoing serious human rights violations.
“Israel’s use of lethal force when there was no imminent threat to life has taken a heavy toll in life and limb,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. “The international community needs to rip up the old playbook, where Israel conducts investigations that mainly whitewash the conduct of its troops and the US blocks international accountability with its Security Council veto, and instead impose real costs for such blatant disregard for Palestinian lives.”
Full Report
https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/06/13/israel-apparent-war-crimes-gaza
Adalah: Israeli Supreme Court gives green light to continued use of live fire, snipers against Gaza protesters
https://www.adalah.org/en/content/view/9522
Al Haq: 95 civil society organizations call for a ‘Commission of Inquiry’ to investigate violence against Gaza protesters
Al Haq: IOF Commit Egregious Killings of 59 Palestinians as Protests Culminate Ahead of 70th Nakba Commemoration
Al Haq: Documentation of the Shoot-to-kill, Egregious Killings Committed by the Israel Occupying Force (IOF) on 14 May 2017
Al Haq: Sham Investigation by Israel’s Military Advocate General into IOF Killing of Razan Al-Najjar
Amnesty: Arms embargo needed as military unlawfully kills and maims Gaza protesters
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/04/israel-arms-embargo-needed-as-military-unlawfully-kills-and-maims-gaza-protesters/
Amnesty: Israeli forces must end the use of excessive force in response to “Great March of Return” protests
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/04/israelopt-israeli-forces-must-end-the-use-of-excessive-force-in-response-to-great-march-of-return-protests/
B'Tselem: Israeli soldiers deliberately and fatally shot Palestinian paramedic Razan al-Najjar in the Gaza Strip https://www.btselem.org/gaza_strip/20180718_paramedic_rozan_a_najar_killed_by_deliberate_fire
B'Tselem: If the heart be not callous: On the unlawful shooting of unarmed demonstrators in Gaza https://www.btselem.org/sites/default/files/publications/201804_if_the_heart_be_not_callous_eng.pdf
B'Tselem: Why Israeli soldiers must refuse to fire at unarmed Palestinian protesters
https://www.btselem.org/firearms/20180404_why_soldiers_must_refuse_to_fire_at_unarmed_protesters
PCHR: Palestinian Medical Personnel under Fire
https://pchrgaza.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Palestinian-Medical-Personnel-under-Fire.pdf
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