UN Officials DEBUNK Israeli Lies - No Weapons Found In UN Facilities

[The Magistrate]

66. On One Point, Ma'am, I Think You Are In Error

It is not certainly a crime to fire on a school in which weapons are stored. If it were, this would simply be issuing an invitation to the ruthless to convert schools, etc., into strong-points and depots, from which they could carry on unmolested, with the bonus of calling their foes criminals to boot if they were engaged.

A force confronted with a violation of this sort is required to take reasonable precautions against harm to non-combatants, and must gain a direct military benefit by its action sufficient to outweigh the risk of harm to non-combatants, and the people who established positions for fighting or storage of munitions such that attacks on them must endanger non-combatants bear equal criminal liability for harm to non-combatants.

Personally, in this round of attacks, I do not think the Israelis are meeting the 'direct military benefit' standard, in a great many of their strikes. I also think Hamas has in many instances deliberately placed non-combatants at hazard, and accordingly bears criminal responsibility for a good many of the deaths and injuries.

An even-handed tribunal would put a great many people from both sides in cells.