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The Observer reporter, Peter Beaumont, wrote that what happened in Jenin was not a massacre, but that the mass destruction of houses was a war crime, covered by Article 147 of the Fourth Geneva Convention in its prohibition on "the extensive destruction or unlawful appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity committed either ...
The Observer reporter, Peter Beaumont, wrote that what happened in Jenin was not a massacre, but that the mass destruction of houses was a war crime. Some reports noted that Israel's restriction of access to Jenin and refusal to allow the UN investigation access to the area were evidence of a coverup, a charge echoed by Mouin Rabbani , Director ...
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (), Fatou Bensouda, on 20 December 2019 announced an investigation into war crimes allegedly committed in Palestine by members of the Israeli military or Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups since 13 June 2014.
Peter Beaumont (journalist) Peter Beaumont. Occupation. Journalist, author. Employer. The Observer. Peter Beaumont is a British journalist who is the foreign affairs editor of The Observer [1] as well as writing for its sister paper, The Guardian. He has covered wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Gaza and Kosovo. [2]
The 2014 Gaza war beach bombing incidents refers to two incidents that took place during the 2014 Gaza War on 9 and 16 July. In the first incident, Israeli missiles killed nine Palestinian children and young adults while they were following the 2014 FIFA World Cup on TV; in the second, four Palestinian children were killed by Israeli naval fire while playing on a beach.
Siege of Homs. / 34.73083°N 36.70944°E / 34.73083; 36.70944. a The siege of the rebel-held Waer district continued until 21 May 2017, when the rebels evacuated the area. The siege of Homs was a military confrontation between the Syrian military and the Syrian opposition in the city of Homs, a major rebel stronghold during the Syrian ...
Numerous reports during the 2014 Gaza War stated that Hamas used human shields. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay accused Hamas militants of violating international humanitarian law by "locating rockets within schools and hospitals, or even launching these rockets from densely populated areas". [18]
According to an Amnesty International report, 23 Palestinians were executed by Hamas in the course of the 2014 conflict, and 16 of them imprisoned from before the war began. [citation needed] From among the executed, 6 were killed by a firing squad outside a mosque in front of hundreds of spectators including children.