UN Inquiry Finds Israel "Punished and Terrorized" Palestinian Civilians, Committed War Crimes During Gaza Assault

Democracy Now by Amy Goodman, Norman Finkelstein | Sep. 16, 2009 (News Report)

(Video) A United Nations fact-finding mission has found Israel “punished and terrorized” civilians in its three-week assault on Gaza earlier this year and cited strong evidence that Israeli forces committed “grave breaches” of the Geneva Conventions. More than 1,400 Palestinians—about a third of them women and children—were killed in the assault. Full Story »

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Topics: Israel, Gaza, Palestine, United Nations
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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Sep 16, 2009 - 3:30 PM PDT
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 by Dwight Rousu - Sep. 16, 2009

Background on the UN finding and the Gaza Massacre is provided. Good reporting.

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 by alan segal - Sep. 17, 2009

No it is incredibly biased and superficial and taken out of context of the history of Hamas and it's provocations of Israel from Gaza.

Israel did not "assault" Gaza. They went after Hamas, in self defense, after Hamas started and continued to fire rockets into civilian areas of ... More »

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 by James Canning - Sep. 17, 2009

Great reporting on Israel's murderous rampage in Gaza at the end of the Bush administration.

The murderous Israeli rampage in Gaza was driven by calculations of domestic political gain and was encouraged by idiots within the Bush ... More »

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