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Israel repeatedly violated international law and justified it “in the name of its military objective“, without protecting civilians as established by Geneva ConventionThe secretary general of the human rights organization told EFE. Amnesty International (IA), Agnes Callamard.
“Israel has repeatedly violated international law through indiscriminate and selective killings of civilians, through collective punishment, through engineering”And these violations were justified by“Israeli authorities in the name of their military objective, that is, to empty the Geneva Convention than it should be, the protection of civilians“, said Callamard in an interview with EFE.
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The NGO board presented in London its 2023 annual report on the situation of human rights in 155 countries, in which it warns that current armed conflicts are bringing international law closer to collapse.
“We saw once again the same process with Russia in Ukrainewhere Russia violated the United Nations Charter through this act of aggression and justified this aggression. And then they violated international law by bombing civilians and civilian targets, torturing prisoners of war and committing a series of crimes, including the forced transfer of populations. And once again, they also justified these violations” he added.
Amnesty’s secretary general expressed her concern about the scope of justifications for violations, along with the weakness of international organizations to act.
“These justifications for violations are something we have never seen before to such an extent, and, coupled with the lack of will on the part of security advice (UN) acting in accordance with its mandate, are making us conclude that the international system is on the verge of collapse”, he stressed.
The council insisted that the Geneva Convention (which consists of a series of treaties on the treatment of civilians in war) “They involve a balancing act between military objectives and the protection of civilians”.
Likewise, he highlighted that the world observes that military objectives, or the so-called military necessity, “They consider themselves a kind of God, to whom everything, every rule, every norm, must be submitted. That wasn’t what it was about in 1948.″, in reference to Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Callamard regretted that the members of the Security Council had used their right of veto and weakened its actions, so Amnesty International calls on all governments to ratify the statute of International Criminal Court and respect the flaws of the International Court of Justice.
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Regarding the possibility of the Palestinian population of Gaza strip is a victim of genocide by Israel, Callamard indicated that the NGO did not reach that conclusion.
However, “The Genocide Convention establishes that the threshold for proving genocide It’s too high. Some scholars, jurists and organizations have already reached these conclusions“, he said.
AI will assess whether there is genocide”very, very carefully”, he highlighted.
Source: Elcomercio
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