7-29-2015 ‘Black Friday’ - Carnage in Rafah During 2014 Amnesty International

https://blackfriday.amnesty.org/

 

Executive Summary

There is overwhelming evidence that Israeli forces committed disproportionate, or otherwise indiscriminate, attacks which killed scores of civilians in their homes, on the streets and in vehicles and injured many more. This includes repeatedly firing artillery and other imprecise explosive weapons in densely populated civilian areas during the attacks on Rafah between 1 and 4 August. In some cases, there are indications that they directly fired at and killed civilians, including people fleeing. ..

 

The events need to be independently and impartially investigated. Amnesty International's view is that no official body capable of conducting such investigations currently exists in Israel. It is therefore calling on the Israeli authorities to: co-operate fully with the ongoing preliminary examination by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court into the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and any future investigations or prosecution…

 

[The report mentions in several areas where U.S. made weapons, munitions and/or equipment were used in strikes that killed or injured unarmed civilians, including paramedics, including children and women as they were fleeing.  Include F16 warplanes, Apache helicopters, MK84/GBU-31 bombs, Caterpillar D9 armored bulldozers, Hellfire missiles.]

 

Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

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