On a Saturday morning in mid May 2006, Hamdi Aman, aged 30 from Gaza, had his world turned upside down. Four members of his family died in an Israeli air strike aimed at an Islamic Jihad activist in Gaza.
He is concerned that his daughter, Maria, set to celebrate her sixth birthday next week, will be forced to leave the Israeli hospital where she is being treated for serious injuries sustained in the attack. The authorities want her to go to Ramallah, in the West Bank, but medical workers and Hamdi are worried this will harm Maria.
"It was a Saturday morning. There were eight of us in the vehicle going to visit a relative in hospital. We didn't know about the Israeli plane overhead looking for Ahmed Dahduh [from the Islamic Jihad].
"We were talking and then suddenly something hit us. I didn't know at first what it was.
"My mother, Hannan, died. My wife, Naima, and my eldest son, Muhanned, died. My youngest son Mo'men, who just turned four last week, got shrapnel wounds and so did I. My uncle died a month and 10 days later from his wounds.
"My daughter Maria was thrown out of the window. She became paralysed from the neck down from the injuries to her brain and spinal cord.
"She can only breathe through a ventilator hooked up to her wheelchair. She controls the chair with her chin.
"Her injuries are forever, for the rest of her life."
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Not Israeli terrorism, and nothing new. Legally and morally, the Paleo terrorists are culpable for ALL casualties:
"Palestinian Atrocities, Israeli Retaliations And The Laws Of War", By Professor Louis Rene Beres (Professor Department of Political Science, Purdue University, PhD. Princeton, 1971)
The cycle is familiar. Palestinian terrorists intentionally attack Israeli women and children. Israel, having absolutely no choice, retaliates against PLO infrastructures, aiming exclusively and conscientiously at military targets. But sometimes Israeli fire unavoidably kills and injures Palestinian noncombatants, creating the false impression of lawlessness on both sides. This delusionary view can be compared to an interpretation of current U.S. attacks against al-Qaida fighters which blames this country for harm done to Afghan civilians.
It is important to better understand the profound moral and legal differences between Palestinian terrorism, which is always deliberately barbarous and indiscriminate, and Israeli retaliations, which are always consciously designed to AVOID civilian casualties. From the standpoint of international law, two points must be made. First, the criminal intent of Palestinian terror represents an incontestable violation of humanitarian rules of armed conflict. It is essential, therefore, to distinguish between such terror and Israeli responses to terror, which are never intended to harm innocent parties.
…The recent harm to Arab civilians in PA Area A caused by Israeli reprisals is tragic and deeply regrettable, but the legal responsibility for this tragedy lies entirely with those whose perfidious conduct brought it about. Moreover, Israel has the indisputable right of self-defense against terrorist attacks originating from this territory, both the post-attack right codified at Article 51 of the UN Charter and the customary pre-attack legal right called "anticipatory self-defense." Israel has the right and the obligation under national and international law to protect its citizens from criminal acts of terrorism. Should Prime Minister Sharon ever decide to capitulate to perfidy and restrict essential retaliations accordingly, the State of Israel would surrender this basic right and undermine this basic obligation. The net effect of such capitulation would be to make victors of the terrorists, an effect that would assuredly increase rather than diminish the overall number of civilian victims, in both Israel and in the Palestinian territories.
…International law is not a suicide pact. Faced with a murderous terrorist adversary that persistently follows an announced strategy of unrestrained barbarism, Jerusalem cannot permit egregious Palestinian manipulations of civilian populations to preclude needed uses of Israeli military force. Rather, Israel must now make the entire international community aware that perfidy is a crime under international law, and that it is the Arab practitioners of perfidy, not those who are strategically disadvantaged by such a practice, that must be identified and punished as war criminals.
In the final analysis, Israel has no alternative to maintaining lawful self-defense operations against the Palestinian terrorist forces. Such operations need not be injurious to noncombatant populations so long as the PLO/PA do not seek to hide behind these populations as human shields. Bound by the laws of war of international law, these terrorists, whenever they choose to commit perfidy, are the responsible party for all resultant harms done to Palestinian civilians.
that is just so sad...what the hell is happening to this world...
yes it is heartbreaking mish bas sad.
and then to top it all off you have zionists like assface who say that the "terrorists" are the "responsible party for all resultant harms done to Palestinian civilians"
International law says that.
If you don't like your own civilians getting killed, stop trying to murder others.
international law .. HAHA .. dude do you want me to get you a list of all the UN resolutions and security council resolutions and even international court resolutions that israel is in violation of .. or does international law only applu to palestinians .. please!!!!!!
notice how the article assface posted is called "palestinian atrocities and israeli retaliations" .. typical zionist BS .. twisting everything around
Hahahah! What's REALLY funny is that you Arabs violently rejected UN 181 that would have given you yet another state- a state called "Palestine".
And you claimed that the UN had no authority to issue it.
Now that you lost, you wnt to hide behind the dsame exact resolution- and others like it.
You're like the guy that murders his parents and then whines for mercy because after akk- you're an orphan.
LOL!
You abeds have no shame.
regardless of if what you said is bullshit or not .. which it is .. but regardless .. still doesn't justify the numerous violations of international law that israel continues to commit ever since it was established on arab land.
Of course what I posted is true. "Ignorance" is your name, Abed.
I'll just start calling you "Jahiliyah"; Mohammed al Jahiliyah, because you're much more of that than a jundi.
PS "Arab land"? You chose war instead of it becoming Arab land.
Oh well.
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