"...international human rights groups have accused Israel of war crimes, saying that the IDF fired into populated areas ...But a new report documents ...that Hezbollah stored weapons in Mosques, battled Israelis from inside empty schools and launched rockets near U.N. monitoring posts."
Israels military, which has been accused of abuses in its war against Hezbollah this summer, has declassified photographs, video images and prisoner interrogations to buttress its accusation that Hezbollah systematically fired from civilian neighborhoods in southern Lebanon and took cover in those areas to shield itself from attack...
This is already the second special session of the Human Rights Councili focused on the situation in Israel and the Occupied Territories...
Discussing how Israel should respond to war crimes accusations diverts the agenda away from Hizballah - a terrorist group that committed war crimes in the recent war that far exceed in gravity and quantity all those Israel is accused of. Hizballah launched thousands of rocket and mortar attacks on northern Israel, deliberately targeting civilians in violation of the laws of war...
Wiesenthal Centre to UN Human Rights Commissioner: "Your visit to Israel and the Palestinian Territories excludes the Hezbollah blitzed North. At the very least, include the Sderot victims of Hamas rockets in the South. Otherwise, it will be perceived that Jewish human rights do not count."...
On August 3 - three weeks after a Lebanese Hezbollah raid into Israel set off a war that lasted until August 14 - Human Rights Watch published a report, "Fatal Strikes: Israels Indiscriminate Attacks Against Civilians in Lebanon," that inspired a series of vitriolic attacks on the organizations credibility. According to some of the critics, the organizations executive director, Kenneth Roth, is biased against Israel and an anti-Semite...
This study analyzes two central concepts of Hezbollahs warfare, demonstrated during the second Lebanon war (July-August 2006). The first is the broad use of the Lebanese civilian population as a living shield; the second, viewing the Israeli civilian population as the primary target for the enormous rocket arsenal Hezbollah built up over a period of years. Both acts are considered war crimes under international law...
This presentation by Dr. Jeff Halper was delivered at the KC Sabeel Conference, October 20, 2006 at Village Presbyterian Church, Prairie Village, Kansas
Rather than address the detailed and troubling evidence that Israel recently turned much of southern Lebanon into a free-fire zone, with predictable deadly consequences for civilians, Joshua Muravchik summarily dismisses the evidence as the product of one big leftist conspiracy with origins going back to the Cold War ("Human Rights Watch vs. Human Rights," Sept. 11)...
On Sept. 7, CAMERA posted an article questioning the number of reported civilian casualties in Lebanon. Much of the media had uncritically accepted Lebanese casualty claims while discounting Israeli estimates that suggested a substantial number of the total dead were Hezbollah fighters...
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