An Israeli soldier weeps at the marker for a loved one kidnapped on Oct. 7 in a cross-border attack by Hamas at the Nova music festival, after a press conference at the site in Re'im, southern Israel, Jan. 5, 2024.
Posted on 01/09/2024 4:05:42 PM PST by SJackson
An Israeli soldier weeps at the marker for a loved one kidnapped on Oct. 7 in a cross-border attack by Hamas at the Nova music festival, after a press conference at the site in Re'im, southern Israel, Jan. 5, 2024.
Two United Nations rights experts demanded Monday that Hamas be held accountable for a multitude of alleged crimes, including sexual torture, during its terror attack on Israel October 7.
Alice Jill Edwards, U.N. special rapporteur on torture, and Morris Tidball-Binz, special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings, are independent experts appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council but do not speak on behalf of the United Nations.
Both said that a growing body of evidence points to such disturbing, grave acts of “sexual torture (including) rapes and gang rapes, sexual assaults, mutilations and gunshots to genital areas."
"These acts constitute gross violations of international law, amounting to war crimes which, given the number of victims and the extensive premeditation and planning of the attacks, may also qualify as crimes against humanity," they said in a statement.
The experts pointed to evidence of individuals burned alive and bodies found decapitated, mutilated or with trauma consistent with executions.
“Each and every victim deserves to be recognized, regardless of their ethnicity, religion or sex, and our role is to be their voice,” they added.
Israel has previously criticized the U.N. for not doing enough to address such acts of violence that occurred during Hamas’ terror attack, which triggered the war raging in Gaza and resulted in about 1,140 deaths in Israel, according to an Agence France-Presse tally based on official Israeli figures.
Hamas, considered a terrorist group by the United States and the European Union, also took around 250 hostages, 132 of whom remain captive, Israel says. At least 24 are believed to have been killed.
Israel has responded with relentless bombardment of the Gaza Strip and a ground invasion that has killed more than 23,000 people, most of them women and children, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
U.N. special rapporteur on torture and special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings both recognize war crimes. Even is rapporteur is a high ranking position, still, it's 2, two, at the UN that see it.
Victims were Jews. American feminists couldn’t care less about that, just as our own US Catholic dioceses are silent on the murder of 300 Christians in Nigeria on Christmas.
Accountability = total annihilation of Hamas.
rapporteur /răp″ôr-tûr′, -tœr′/
noun
One who is designated to give a report, as at a meeting.
(politics) a person appointed by a deliberative body to investigate an issue or a situation, and report back to that body.
A recorder appointed by a committee to prepare reports of the meeting
Useless Ne’erdowells
UN?
Then they are just looking for new sexual torture techniques to use themselves.
They don’t care what muslims do to Jews.
Israel is holding Hamas accountable and in the process of rendering justice.
The accountability will be measured by the number of Hamas people that are killed.
UN Experts. Now there’s a great oxymoron for you.
By “accountability”, I’m sure they are asking for video.
Accountability = total annihilation of Hamas.
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The UN will do nothing whatever except this useless exercise in virtue signaling intended to weaken the resolve of those calling for the total annihilation of the terrorists. IDF, take no prisoners.
Israel is holding Hamas accountable and in the process of rendering justice.
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Which is exactly what it should be doing, and it should totally ignore all advice and appeals to abandon those righteous objectives. IDF take no prisoners.
“We, the UN, strongly condemn Israel for forcing the occupied people of Hamas to rape Israeli women.”
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