Israel-Hamas War: Day 43, war crimes, Geneva Convention, and the Squad

The fighting continues as rockets are fired into Israel and have been intercepted in the. southern and central part of the country. 

Meanwhile, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) are still searching the tunnels below Al Shifa Hospital looking for terrorists and hostages. They have found clear evidence that Hamas used these tunnels beneath the hospital for military purposes and that hostages had been kept there as they found diapers, rope, and other items that would be used to detain hostages. 

While the anti-Semites of the world blame Israel for war crimes by pursuing them into hospitals, the Geneva Convention of 1949 makes it clear that hospitals and other protected structures no longer have protected status when used by the enemy for purposes outside their humanitarian duties:

Article 19 - Wounded and sick IV. Discontinuance of protection of hospitals

The protection to which civilian hospitals are entitled shall not cease unless they are used to commit, outside their humanitarian duties, acts harmful to the enemy. Protection may, however, cease only after due warning has been given, naming, in all appropriate cases, a reasonable time limit, and after such warning has remained unheeded.

The fact that sick or wounded members of the armed forces are nursed in these hospitals, or the presence of small arms and ammunition taken from such combatants and not yet handed to the proper service, shall not be considered to be acts harmful to the enemy.

The Hamas Ministry of Health, an arm of the terrorist organization, claims that 50 people are dead at a UN school in Gaza. While this may be true [which is doubtful] it isn't known how they died, but the smart money is on the human shield situation.

On the other hand, Hamas is still holding at least 239 hostages, while some have even died in captivity. That's a war crime but it seems like pro-Hamasshole supporters don't see it that way. And using mosques, civilian apartment complexes and schools to fire rockets into Israel is a war crime, and still all we hear is crickets. 

As this is being written, there is a rally in Tel Aviv to bring the hostages home. These hostages are comprised of around 30 children among the men, women and elderly civilians. Some of the hostages saw their loved ones being murdered in front of their eyes, and this is another war crime that we don't hear pro-Hamas supporters speak out against. 

And still the U.S. elects terrorist supporters like Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman, and Ayanna Pressley, along with the others in Congress that stand with these terrorist supporters.

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