WAR CRIMES?
not when Israel does it!
due to heretical Dispensational/Dual Covenant "Theology" we are told to stand shoulder to shoulder with "our brothers".
we're never really told WHY murderers and unbelievers who hate Jesus are our brothers in the faith.
Gaza Facts Operation Cast Lead
On December 27, 2008, Israel launched Operation Cast Lead, a massive, 22-day military assault on the Gaza Strip. The ferocity of the attack was unprecedented in the more than six-decade-old conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, killing some
1,400 Palestinians, most of them civilians.
According to Israeli authorities, three Israeli civilians and one soldier were killed by rockets fired from Gaza during Cast Lead. Nine Israeli soldiers also died in combat in Gaza, including four killed by friendly fire.In the aftermath of the offensive, UN-appointed fact finding mission found strong evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by both the Israeli military and Palestinian militias. Investigations by human rights groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch came to the same conclusion.
After an investigation of the destruction of civilian infrastructure in Gaza, Human Rights Watch accused the Israeli military of violating the international ban on "wanton destruction" found in the Fourth Geneva Convention.
BACKGROUND
Six months before Cast Lead, Israel negotiated a ceasefire with Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups in Gaza. Under the agreement, which went into effect on June 19, 2008, both sides agreed to stop hostilities across the Green Line, the de facto border between Israel and the Gaza Strip.
Despite a number of violations by both sides, the truce was largely successful.
Hamas negotiators claim that Israel agreed to end its closure of Gaza's border crossings as part of the ceasefire agreement, however Israeli officials dispute this. While Israel did resume operations at one border crossing, the overall policy of closure did not change. Two months after the truce began, the UN reported that the number of goods allowed into Gaza actually decreased.
Nevertheless, overall, a situation of relative quiet prevailed in and around Gaza until November 4, when Israeli soldiers staged a raid into the Strip, killing six members of Hamas. The attack, which took place on the eve of the US presidential elections, ended the ceasefire and led to an escalation of hostilities culminating in Cast Lead the following month.
THE ASSAULT
Cast Lead proceeded in two phases:
a week of intense aerial bombing followed by two weeks of a joint air and land assault and invasion. The surprise attack began at 11:30 a.m. on December 27, 2008, with Israeli F-16 fighter jets, Apache helicopters, and unmanned drones striking more than 100 locations across
the tiny, crowded Gaza Strip within a matter of minutes.
THEY CAN'T LEAVE!
caged in and burned alive and shot and bulldozed.
this sort of barbarism in fallen man is NOT NEW.
unfortunately it's what fallen man does.
what is DISGUSTING is that
so-called Christians think this is OF GOD - His Beloved One of Two Christian Witnesses in the "Christian Era"....just doing what they do.....RIGHT?
and this is all good, and we are supposed to SUPPORT IT!
of course we are! we're THE OTHER WITNESS!
so-called Christians can't even be bothered to GET THE FACTS.