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US says Israel may have breached international law with American weapons in Gaza
BBC ^ | May 10 | BBC

Posted on 05/10/2024 4:50:23 PM PDT by RandFan

The US government says Israel may have breached humanitarian law in Gaza using American weapons.

In a delayed report, the state department says it is "reasonable to assess" that US-supplied arms have been used in ways "inconsistent" with Israel's obligations.

But it says Israel has had to confront an "extraordinary military challenge" fighting Hamas in Gaza.

The report, ordered by the White House, was submitted to Congress on Friday.

While the report was a clear rebuke of some Israeli operations in Gaza, it stopped short of definitively saying that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) campaign had breached international law.

And it said assurances it had received from Israel about adhering to the legal use of US weapons were "credible and reliable", and so weapons shipments could continue.

The document also noted that the US government does not have "complete information" in its assessment and that, because Hamas "uses civilian infrastructure for military purposes and civilians as human shields", it was often "difficult to determine facts on the ground in an active war zone" of what are legitimate targets.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Israel; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: donatefreerepu8blic; israel
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1 posted on 05/10/2024 4:50:23 PM PDT by RandFan
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Article has all the use of used toilet paper. Trash, as usual, from the BBC.


2 posted on 05/10/2024 4:52:00 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: RandFan

AIPAC temp worker surrounded by empty bags of Doritos and Mountain Dew bottles to hit F5 and send out a press release denouncing this 3...2...1


3 posted on 05/10/2024 4:52:07 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: RandFan

Biden has to be making money out of this somehow.


4 posted on 05/10/2024 4:52:24 PM PDT by mware
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To: RandFan

Hmmph...

And people on Gaza are mostly peaceful Protesters


5 posted on 05/10/2024 4:53:18 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: RandFan

White House doing everything they can to save the votes of the Far Leftists Nazis who are vandalizing the universities


6 posted on 05/10/2024 4:53:55 PM PDT by realcleanguy (quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
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To: EinNYC

American weapons in Ukraine are OK.

American weapons in Israel are not OK


7 posted on 05/10/2024 4:54:38 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. (Psalm 33:12))
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To: stars & stripes forever

American weapons on the Southern border are not OK.


8 posted on 05/10/2024 4:56:27 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: RandFan

Didn’t Biden breach international law when he set up the murder of 13 U.S. Marines, left hundreds, if not thousands of American citizens stranded, and left billions of dollars in military weaponry to the terrorist Taliban in Afghanistan? Asking for a friend.


9 posted on 05/10/2024 4:56:45 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: RandFan

Since the report did NOT say Israel violated Intl humanitarian laws— then WHY does the BBC Headline says that it DID say that?

The BBC is a huge lying propaganda wing of the islamofascist now running the UK. Islamofascists have taken over.


10 posted on 05/10/2024 4:57:24 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis )
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To: RandFan

Biden sold out Israel for Michigan’s 15 Electoral Votes.


11 posted on 05/10/2024 4:58:21 PM PDT by Chgogal (To paraphrase Biden: You vote Democrat? You ain't smart.)
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To: RandFan

But it’s okay for the Taliban to use US arms in Afghanistan and selling them as well.


12 posted on 05/10/2024 4:59:10 PM PDT by SkyDancer (~A Bizjet Is Nothing But An Executive Mailing Tube ~)
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I’m sure 10x more people have died in the Ukraine and Biden has no problem sending endless money there. I guess thats less important since its only white people dying.


13 posted on 05/10/2024 4:59:11 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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The US government says...

Valjar? Hussein?

14 posted on 05/10/2024 4:59:16 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: RandFan

There are no innocents in Gsza


15 posted on 05/10/2024 4:59:50 PM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting.)
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To: RandFan

“Israel may have breached humanitarian law in Gaza using American weapons”

I wonder what humanitarian law says about people who invade a land and do unspeakable things to the innocent people living there.


16 posted on 05/10/2024 5:00:33 PM PDT by uptowngirl
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And Hamas breached international law ny attacking civilians and using civilians ability shields.


17 posted on 05/10/2024 5:01:58 PM PDT by Labyrinthos
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Like the cluster bombs Biden sent to Ukraine?


18 posted on 05/10/2024 5:02:26 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: RandFan

I wonder if anybody has looked into whether Hamas leaders and participants violated any international laws when they raided Israel and killed, captured, tortured, and took hostages back on October 7.


19 posted on 05/10/2024 5:04:33 PM PDT by Yogafist
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To: RandFan

Since when did breaking laws mean anything to the out of control Biden Administration? The group controlling Biden has accelerated their daily attacks on America. Cloward-Piven on steriods.


20 posted on 05/10/2024 5:05:25 PM PDT by Metrobank
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