Israel Faces Global Condemnation as Analysts Warn of War Crimes in Palestine

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The Israeli government is routinely committing war crimes, according to analysts in Israel and doctors who have worked in Palestine. 


While killings, beatings and the arbitrary arrest of Palestinians are not new to the Israelis, a long process of dehumanisation, the infiltration of far-right ideologies in the Israeli forces and a lack of accountability have led to a scenario where Israeli troops can do as they please without even needing an operational reason, according to various analysts.  

“As far as I can see, this is a new phenomenon,” Dr. Erella Grassiani, Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam, who has written on what she referred to as the moral “numbing” of Israeli soldiers during the second Intifada of 2000. “It’s not as if Israeli soldiers haven’t beaten and arrested children for throwing stones before, but this is new,” she said. “Previously, there were some kind of rules of engagement, even if they were loosely followed, but they were there. What we’re seeing now is completely different,” she said. 


In early August, the BBC investigated the cases of Israeli soldiers killing children in Gaza. Of the 160 cases examined, 95 children had been shot in the head or the chest – shots that could not be claimed as “intended to wound only”. 


Recently, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stepped up his government’s bitter diplomatic dispute with Australia, claiming that the Australian prime minister’s legacy ‘tarnished’ by the decision to recognise a Palestinian state. 


Many countries around the world are strongly condemning Israel and the actions of Benjamin Netanyahu. And a lot of humanitarian activists and even ordinary people are calling Netanyahu a war criminal and even terrorist. 


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