Israel is guilty of crimes against humanity and genocide against the Palestinian Children in the Gaza Strip
Palestinian News Agency
19 Feb 2009 05:46 GMT
Sergio Tapia International Prosecutor - Fiscal Internacional
International sentence:
“Israel is guilty of crimes against humanity and genocide against the Palestinian Children in the Gaza Strip”
International Prosecutors from 11 countries worldwide on the International Tribunal for Children, issued an initial ruling on crimes against Gaza
The International Tribunal over the Childhood Affected by War and Poverty of the Mission Diplomatique Internationale Humanitaire RWANDA 1994, through its International President, Sergio Tapia and International Human Rights Prosecutor of the International Tribunal of Conscience, reported to the international community to the First ruling against Crimes against Genocide and on Palestinian Children in the Gaza Strip into the largest concentration camp in the world today is the most densely populated place on the planet has only 360 km2, where 1,500,000 people live in which 50 percent are children and 80 percent are below the poverty level, the International Tribunal of Conscience, composed of 14 prosecutors on Human Rights, 11 countries, 9 in Latin America, Africa and Asia denounces heinous crimes and the systematic advancement of infanticide against children in the Gaza Strip by the Israeli army, where he has violated the Geneva Conventions Humanitarian all international declarations on Human Rights, and has as a method of warfare since the attack on civilians.
The International Tribunal of Conscience this integrated presentation of the evidence of attacks on Palestinian children and the violation of international laws and the Rome Statute, with testimony from children, mothers, compiled from the Gaza Strip, the signatures and requests for thousands of people from Latin America, Spain and Europe, Africa and Asia
The International Tribunal on Children Affected by War and Poverty, said that Palestinian children in Gaza have lived under the Genocide of the bombs, the guns, and use as human shields by the children Israeli army, "where there are 700,000 children in Gaza who were subjected to massacres, murders, crimes against humanity, genocide, humanitarian blockade, kidnapping and destruction of their schools, their homes, their families, their homes "with a toll of 6,600 dead and wounded in Gaza during the 22 days that lasted the Israeli military operation against the radical Islamic movement Hamas in the Palestinian territory.
With 1340 deaths of which 492 were children and 106 women, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip.
The wounded, amounting to 5320, among which there are 1855 children and 795 women, in addition to 55,000 other Palestinians have been displaced from their homes by the evidence: perpetrating the worst atrocities that children have lived in Palestine Gaza Strip, a concentration camp, a field of carnage, which added more than 280 children killed and injured over a thousand, a figure that increases every day, a new genocide like the one in Bosnia, Rwanda, the Chechnya may say that Gaza is the new Middle Eastern Rwanda "Acts carried out by Israeli armed forces are also a clear violation of Article 6 of the Statute of the International Criminal Court (" the crime of genocide ") and Article 2 of the 1948 Convention for the prevention and prohibition of genocide.
Indeed, the considerations that lead to declaring the Israeli occupation army guilty not only of war crimes and crimes against humanity, crimes of genocide, are as follows: "The coding of such crime in the Statute of the Court International Criminal taken directly from the Geneva Convention of 1948 and therefore of the Nuremberg Tribunal, allows the issue to many, if not all conflicts of our time, marked a technological level of weapons of war so bad that always end up hitting more civilians than the armed forces. In fact, Article 6 of the Regulations lists a series of events typical of the activity of war, acts such as killing members of a group or cause serious physical injury or mental state of people who belong to a group, they become acts of genocide if carried out "with intent to destroy, in whole or in part a national, ethnical, racial or religious group", definition the latter in which the "intent" is easily demonstrated in the case of the destruction of a "part" of the "national group ..." the extermination of a people until his demise.
" The seriousness of the crimes are listed in Article 5 of
Rome Statute (typifying crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court:
genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes), it is
determine which crimes are serious enough to justify action by the ICC. The seriousness of the crimes should be established taking into account not only the scale of crimes and the number of victims, the nature and the way they were committed, and the psychological, social, affecting the civilian population.
The statute of the International Criminal Court defines crimes
as follows:
Article 6. Genocide
For the purposes of this Statute, "genocide" means any
acts listed below, committed with intent to destroy
whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group as such:
a) Killing group memb;
b) Causing serious fisisca or mental integrity of members of the group;
c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life which have
result of its physical destruction in whole or in part;
d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Article 7. Crimes against humanity
1. For the purposes of this Statute, a "crime against
humanity "any of the following acts when committed as part
of a widespread or systematic attack against any civilian population, with
knowledge of the attack:
a) Murder;
b) Extermination;
c) Enslavement;
d) deportation or forcible transfer of population;
e) Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty
in violation of fundamental rules of international law;
f) Torture;
g) Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy,
enforced sterilization or any other form of sexual violence seriously
comparable;
h) Persecution of a group or community with its own identity based on
based on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender
defined in paragraph 3, or other grounds that are universally recognized as
impermissible under international law, in connection with any
act referred to in this paragraph or any crime within the
jurisdiction of the Court;
i) enforced disappearance of persons;
j) The crime of apartheid;
k) Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing
great suffering, or serious injury to body or health
mental or physical.
Article 8. War crimes
1. The Court has jurisdiction over war crimes
particular when committed as part of a plan or policy or as part of
large-scale commission of such crimes.
2. For the purposes of this Statute, "crimes
war ":
a) Grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of August 12
1949, namely, any of the following acts against persons or property
protected under the provisions of the relevant Geneva Convention:
i) Willful killing;
ii) Torture or inhuman treatment, including
biological experiments;
iii) Willfully causing great suffering or serious injury
the physical integrity or health;
iv) Extensive destruction and appropriation of property not justified by the
military necessity, carried out unlawfully and wantonly;
v) Compelling a prisoner of war or other protected person to
serve in the forces of a hostile power;
vi) Willfully depriving a prisoner of war or other person
their rights to a fair and impartial trial;
vii) To submit to deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement;
viii) Taking of hostages;
b) Other serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in conflicts
international armed within the framework of international law, namely
any of the following acts:
i) Intentionally directing attacks against civilian population as such or
civilians not taking direct part in hostilities;
ii) Intentionally directing attacks against civilian objects, ie
objects which are not military objectives;
iii) Intentionally directing attacks against personnel, installations, material,
units or vehicles involved in a mission or peacekeeping
humanitarian assistance in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations,
always entitled to the protection given to civilians or civilian objects
under international law of armed conflict;
iv) Intentionally launching an attack, knowing it will cause losses
of life, injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects or damage
long-term and severe damage to the natural environment which would be clearly excessive
advantage in relation to the concrete and direct overall military to provide;
v) Attacking or bombarding, by whatever means, towns, villages, towns
or buildings which are undefended and which are not military objectives;
Given the evidence presented, testimony, public statements by international agencies of the United Nations, and Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide on Palestinian Children in Gaza, for violations systematic international conventions on international humanitarian law, Human Rights, Rights of the Child, the Rome Statute and by direct and systematic attacks against human life and dignity of a people subjected to the blockade and isolation constantly, unable to escape or refugees, crowded into a concentration camp, the largest in the world, and under the fire power for 22 days of shelling, snipers and bombs banned by the Geneva Conventions and its protocols, leaving 492 children killed and infants more than 1800 injured and maimed, and after hearing the allegation of Prosecutors of International Human Rights and the Special Rapport, the International Tribunal over the Childhood Affected by War and Poverty, International Decision states (in the first its type in the world on the case of crimes against Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip) to the 12 day of February 2009:
Israel guilty of crimes against humanity and genocide against the Palestinian Children's in the Gaza Strip
"The Moral and Ethical Decision in memory of Palestinian children killed in Gaza, at least to restore the dignity that you have stolen these barbaric crimes of the human, together with over 2000 signatures and requests from organizations and citizens from over 50 countries around the world who support the International Tribunal of Conscience, and request the ICC and international justice and human rights in the European Union and Latin America, the opening of the facts and research and condemnation of perpetrators of crimes against children in Gaza, application accompanied by more than two thousand signatures and requests for Latin America, European Union, Africa and Asia violations of international humanitarian law must be investigated and prosecuted by States, especially by the States parties to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 if whatever nationality. Israel is part IV of the 1950 Convention for the protection of civilians, but does not investigate or pursue the facts are brought before military courts and criminal courts fail When Israeli state with jurisdiction over violations of humanitarian law can act the courts of other states (universal jurisdiction), and that all States are obliged to respect and ensure respect for the Conventions to do so, universal jurisdiction may be an appropriate mechanism, but to avoid diplomatic conflicts would be most convenient for the Court International Criminal had jurisdiction on these facts.
However, Israel is not party to the Statute of the International Criminal Court and war crimes (grave breaches of humanitarian law) perpetrated in its territory or its nationals had stayed behind in the most absolute impunity.
Submit before the international justice and human rights in the European Union, Latin America, Africa and Asia and wants to spread across all media, print, radio and television, and available to social organizations, academic cultural and civil society.
Signed by the President of the International Tribunal on Children Affected by War and Poverty, the Argentine Sergio Tapia Prosecutor for Human Rights “we can not combat the crimes against humanity,
at least claim not to be committed in silence” sentence
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Sergio Tapia, argentine, President and International Prosecutor of the International Tribunal for Childhood Affected by War and Poverty, International President of the Mission Diplomatique Internationale Humanitaire RWANDA 1994, 25 years as an international advocate for Human Rights and International Law Humanitarian experience in peace processes of El Salvador, Genocide
Rwanda in 1994, the Western Sahara conflict and the situation of refugee children
Saharans, and the theme of the 30,000 who disappeared in Argentina, the genocide in Darfur,
Sudan among other subjects of international crimes against humanity and rights
humans.
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