Prominent British academic considers Israeli Operation Swords of Iron series of war crimes in Gaza
Date
11/13/2023 7:50:21 AM
(MENAFN) A well-known British academic claims that Israel's Operation Swords of Iron and its activities in the Gaza Strip are "undoubtedly a war crime on so many levels."
“It’s not even one war crime. It is a series of war crimes,” Anas Altikriti, Chief Executive Officer and establisher of UK-based research and advisory organization The Cordoba Foundation, reported to a Turkish news outlet.
He clarified that the absence of differentiation between civilian and non-civilian targets in Israeli attacks represents just one aspect of the war crimes being perpetrated.
“The Israeli occupier has cut off necessities of life on a strip of land where 2.5 million people, half of whom are children under the age of 15, reside,” he declared.
“The fact that people were warned that if they didn’t vacate the northern section of the Gaza Strip they would be targeted, that is a crime of displacement.”
Then there is the bombing of the southern parts of Gaza, which were “supposed to be the safe part, where the occupier told the Palestinians to go,” Altikriti further mentioned.
“The bombing of installations, of civilian installations and hospitals, of schools, the killing of press individuals: How many camera people, how many correspondents, how many have been targeted and killed? The UN (agency) headquarters. That is a war crime.”
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