text: Gaza: Were war crimes committed by Israel or not? | Cintayati
  While most people have never heard of the Laws of War, it is an instinctual reaction to recoil in horror from the barbaric and savage attacks "Israel" has wrought upon Gaza. Intentional destruction of civil infrastructure, attacking protected civil facilities such as hospitals, schools, banks and mosques, as well as outright targeting of civilians are obviously objectively and morally wrong, laws or no laws. Every parent who sees the images of dead children, injured and terrified children and ponders how many are now homeless and orphaned cannot help but be moved. But there are laws that govern conduct in wars, and all countries and parties to a conflict (in the case of non-state actors, and in this case of a non-sovereign State of Palestine). Violation of these laws are war crimes. But what to the experts say about "Israel's" choice of targets and slaughtering of entire families? As the State of Palestine is poised to accede to the Rome Statute and drag "Israel" to the Hague, their insight, knowledge and opinions are timely and informative.
  29 July, 2014 IMEMC
  "As international and criminal law scholars, human rights defenders, legal experts and individuals who firmly believe in the rule of law and in the necessity for its respect in times of peace and more so in times of war, we feel the intellectual and moral duty to denounce the grave violations, mystification and disrespect of the most basic principles of the laws of armed conflict and of the fundamental human rights of the entire Palestinian population committed during the ongoing Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip.
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