What is old is new again because Israel finally wrapped up their investigation in to the killing of Hind Rajab. Here is the most exhaustive investigative report by a UK news organization that make a compelling case that the IDF killed Hind and her entire family in some of the most indefensible and harrowing circumstances I can imagine. As a parent it shocks the senses and I admit, the first response is to try and not think about it or deny it because it is so outrageous.
I doubt anyone here will bother or can stomach reading all of it but here it is anyways:
https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/the-killing-of-hind-rajabIf you can, at least witness the very simple questions that the US is unable to answer about Hind's killing and the IDF investigation into it:
https://x.com/prem_thakker/status/1861104651577237516Remember, the entire premise of why Israel should not be subject to ICC investigation and why the US should continue to supply Israel with weapons of war is that Israel is able to investigate and punish their own war criminals and has an independent justice system capable of overseeing this. They are the self-proclaimed "most moral army in the world."
Feel free to judge the investigation for yourself. And if the only thought that you can muster in defense of this is "well Hamas would do just as bad or worse" then what even is the point of having any rules to protect civilians at all? Why even bother with it? I've already seen more than a fair bit of this attitude with regard to this conflict and it is well documented in the numerous statements by Israeli political and military leaders about their intentions to collectively punish the Palestinian population as a whole.
https://theintercept.com/2024/06/25/israel-hind-rajab-child-killing/In other "old news" the IDF killed more Central World Kitchen workers, without much of an outrage, certainly compared to last time. Wouldn't ya know it? The CWK worker was an Oct 7th terrorist and we should definitely take the IDF's word for it.
CAIRO, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Two aid workers were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza on Saturday, with Israel saying it had killed a militant who took part in the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attacks on Israel and who it said was employed by a U.S.-based charity.
The first was a World Central Kitchen member, who was hit in a vehicle in Khan Younis in Southern Gaza. The Israeli military said that he had taken part in the attack on Kibbutz Nir Oz in southern Israel and was under surveillance but did not offer any evidence.
The Biden admin in its last days after the election loss managed to claim that despite essentially all international human rights groups concluding that Israel did not comply with the US own
30 day deadline to improve their conduct or else.....(actually nothing will happen if they don't change anything at all as everyone already knew)...managed to again provide excuses and deny the very obvious facts that show that Israel's conduct has been consistently criminal and even as we speak they are planning to settle Gaza, with
settlers even being driven through the ruins of Gaza by IDF commanders to plan their settlements If the ICC arrest warrant gets ignored by the western democracies in a bloc, then I really have to ask, what is international law worth anyway? You can surely argue that the US had already failed multiple tests of global moral leadership and respecting international law (it isn't just Tom Cotton that can be blamed for wanting to invade the Hague, it is a real US law on the books to protect Bush/Cheney and future war criminal US admins)...
I bet we miss international laws and institutions when they are totally gone. Especially as China continues to make their case to the rest of the world that it is a more stable and moral leader in world affairs.
Lastly, who the eff was this stunt for?
