PALESTINE: Israeli Officials Call to "Decapitate" Hamas Leaders!
GAZA, June 20, 2006 (IPC + Agencies) - - The array of barbaric statements made by Israeli officials and military generals against the Palestinian people continued today, by demanding to decapitate the heads of the Hamas movement, targeting the infrastructure of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) or considering the killing of civilians legal under international law.
Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz met on Monday with the Foreign and Security Committee at the Israeli Knesset, in order to discuss the steps to be taken against the leaders of Hamas in case the firing of makeshift "Qassam" rockets did not stop.
The online edition of the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth quoted a member of the committee as saying that Peretz had made a basic principle for targeting a number of Hamas leaders, and to use all political means before resolving the issue with force.
On his part, Israeli Knesset member Efi Eitam, representing the extremist Jewish National Union party, criticized Peretz' efforts, and demanded the "decapitation of Hamas leaders, striking the infrastructure and symbols of the [PNA] and create an equation that in case there is no life for the people of Sderot then there will be no life for the Hamas government."
Meanwhile, the Israeli chief of staff Dan Halutz tried to justify the killing of an entire Palestinian family at the beach of Gaza Strip, by considering the killing of civilians "legal" under "certain conditions", pointing out that he learned this side of the law from "an international expert in law."
Halutz quoted a seminar in which Professor Yoram Deinstein, a member of the International Law Institute at Harvard University, who said that international law acknowledges the principle of "standard", in which the death of a "terrorist" might lead to the killing of one or two civilians.
"This law is only applicable to cases where the attacker did not intend to kill civilians, and we must differentiate between the army from one side and civilians to establish this standard," Deinstein claimed.
According to Palestinian rights groups, several files are being prepared against Halutz in order to be filed to international courts for crimes against Palestinians, including the bombing of a car in a crowded street in Nusseirat Refugee Camp in October 2004, which left 14 Palestinians dead, including many civilians, in addition to the failed assassination of Mohammed Seder in Hebron in December 2001, in which a 10-year-old and 16-year-old were killed.
Halutz will also be charged with using lethal missiles to kill innocent civilians, such as the assassination of Hamas leaders in Nablus Jamal Mansour and Jamal Damoni, in which two children, ages 8 and 10, were also killed by the flying window glass of the bombed Hamas office.
Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz met on Monday with the Foreign and Security Committee at the Israeli Knesset, in order to discuss the steps to be taken against the leaders of Hamas in case the firing of makeshift "Qassam" rockets did not stop.
The online edition of the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth quoted a member of the committee as saying that Peretz had made a basic principle for targeting a number of Hamas leaders, and to use all political means before resolving the issue with force.
On his part, Israeli Knesset member Efi Eitam, representing the extremist Jewish National Union party, criticized Peretz' efforts, and demanded the "decapitation of Hamas leaders, striking the infrastructure and symbols of the [PNA] and create an equation that in case there is no life for the people of Sderot then there will be no life for the Hamas government."
Meanwhile, the Israeli chief of staff Dan Halutz tried to justify the killing of an entire Palestinian family at the beach of Gaza Strip, by considering the killing of civilians "legal" under "certain conditions", pointing out that he learned this side of the law from "an international expert in law."
Halutz quoted a seminar in which Professor Yoram Deinstein, a member of the International Law Institute at Harvard University, who said that international law acknowledges the principle of "standard", in which the death of a "terrorist" might lead to the killing of one or two civilians.
"This law is only applicable to cases where the attacker did not intend to kill civilians, and we must differentiate between the army from one side and civilians to establish this standard," Deinstein claimed.
According to Palestinian rights groups, several files are being prepared against Halutz in order to be filed to international courts for crimes against Palestinians, including the bombing of a car in a crowded street in Nusseirat Refugee Camp in October 2004, which left 14 Palestinians dead, including many civilians, in addition to the failed assassination of Mohammed Seder in Hebron in December 2001, in which a 10-year-old and 16-year-old were killed.
Halutz will also be charged with using lethal missiles to kill innocent civilians, such as the assassination of Hamas leaders in Nablus Jamal Mansour and Jamal Damoni, in which two children, ages 8 and 10, were also killed by the flying window glass of the bombed Hamas office.
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