The Geneva based independent human rights group Euro-Med Monitor says it has evidence that Israel has been firing banned white phosphorous in Gaza. Horrible stuff. Prohibited by International Law in populated areas like Gaza.
Ok so who gets prosecuted for this, Israel or perhaps whoever supplied it.
So their website is
https://www.euromedmonitor.org/en
I am not questioning this post, but given the amount of fake news / mis / dis information.
How legit / reliable is the Euro-Med Monitor ?
@zleap @exador23 And it's worth point out that this is the actual quote on their website.
"Additionally, several testimonies which Euro-Med Monitor has yet to verify claim that the Israeli army used tightly controlled white phosphorus munitions in areas in the southern Gaza Strip.'
So it does not have evidence. It has unverified hearsay. So let's go very easy on the suggestion. It's not outside the bounds of possiblity, but it's no more than a claim.
+1 this is why | asked rather than reacting in a certain way.
Once confirmed we can discuss here
Fully agree, it seems we on Mastodon have a huge amount of humanity towards the Palestinian people and we can see the true horror of what is going on, at the same time I see very little suport for Hamas, sympathy for the victims of Saturdays massacre but zero support for the actions of the Isreali governments response.
Lets see what happens and prepare some nice big graphics with the simple words "TOLD YOU SO!!"
LLoyd Austin and the Isreali politician, I can't help thinking they are pointing the finger at Iran over this, and saying they are somehow involved, while offering ZERO actual hard evidence. History is repeating itself here as they pulled the same BS in 2001 with the illigal iraq invasion.
LLoyd Austin seemed to also dodge some of the questions about the illegal actions to say he will let his counterpart answer, which of course he didn't
What I am also fearing is they will find some excuse to bomb Iran, and I mean any excuse, they can plant evidence so they can blame Iran then go in and kill thousands more people, destroy another sovergn UN nation, remove the legit government of a soveign country and possibly destroy important cultural and world heritage sites at the same time.
@zleap @exador23 I disagree. The US is in a very different place from where it was under Bush and Trump, even Obama. It is inconceivable that Blinken and the rest of the Biden administration would push for a wider war, especially with Europe in such a dangerous place, a embers smouldering in the Pacific. And, as you say, the link to Iran is tenuous at best, for all the conspiracist ranting from the Trumpies and Bannonies about how "Biden is funding Iran".
Good point, and I hope you are right in this and also hope that Israel show restraint i n not provoking a wider conflict, either intentionally or by miscalculation.
@zleap @sellathechemist
The much more well known and respected New York based organization Human Rights Watch has now joined Euro-Med Monitor in saying white phosphorous weapons were used by Israel.
They claim to have verified the videos and interviewed witnesses.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/10/12/israel-white-phosphorus-used-gaza-lebanon