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freediver wrote on May 21 st, 2024 at 12:53pm: greggerypeccary wrote on May 21 st, 2024 at 12:14pm: MattE wrote on May 21 st, 2024 at 5:14am: Israel has done everything humanely possible to avoid harming civilians. If by "everything humanely possible" you mean they've intentionally targeted hospitals, maternity wards, pregnant women, babies, and children then ... yeah. What makes you think they are doing that Greg? You quibbling over the meaning of the word "intentionally... If you are going to conduct war in a densely populated residential zone, you intend to commit genocide, because you know genocide will result. That's why Netayahu is being examined as a war criminal by the ICC. (microsoft news) Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney served as a special adviser in the international criminal court prosecutor’s investigation that led him to seek arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders, it has emerged.
The court’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, thanked Clooney in his statement announcing the move, describing her as part of “a panel of experts in international law” whom he had turned to for advice and to review the evidence in the case. Many of the named experts are British.
“The panel is composed of experts of immense standing in international humanitarian law and international criminal law,” Khan wrote.
In a statement put out by her Clooney Foundation for Justice, the lawyer elaborated on how she came to be involved in the ICC case, which has triggered arrest warrant requests for the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his defence minister, Yoav Gallant, as well as Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh and Mohammad Deif for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity. “More than four months ago, the prosecutor of the international criminal court asked me to assist him with evaluating evidence of suspected war crimes and crimes against humanity in Israel and Gaza. I agreed and joined a panel of international legal experts to undertake this task. Together we have engaged in an extensive process of evidence review and legal analysis including at the international criminal court in The Hague,” she said. Of course individual sovereignty ideologues like the US and Israel (and Hamas - and you) don't believe in international law....they refuse to ratify the ICC. (China doesn't either, but China isn't a warmonger like the US who is spending more on the miltary than the rest of the world combined).
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