Israel appointed a team of international-law experts led by the nation’s justice minister to defend its soldiers against any war-crime charges that may follow its 22-day battle against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
“Officers and soldiers sent on the mission in Gaza must know that they are safe from various tribunals and that Israel will help and defend them just as they protected us with their bodies during the military operation,” Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in remarks before the weekly Cabinet meeting today.
Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the Gaza-based Palestinian Centre for Human Rights and B’tselem, the Israeli Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, have said Israel should be investigated for possible war crimes after the military actions in Gaza, which killed more than 1,300 Palestinians.
The number is more like 700 animalstinians. This is war. The muslims want every Jew out of that part of the world.
During the offensive, Israel deployed lawyers to advise commanders on the front lines, dropped leaflets and made phone calls in steps intended to save civilian lives and avoid war- crime charges. Attorney General Menachem Mazuz said Jan. 11 that officials were preparing for a wave of international litigation following the offensive.
The government “will give its soldiers and officers full backing against any accusations from abroad and all self- flagellations from within,” Defense Minister Ehud Barak said at the Cabinet meeting, according to a statement from his office.
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