Almost 90 bombs were dropped in one region in just 24 hours.

Almost 90 bombs were dropped in one region in just 24 hours.

Russia unleashed an unprecedented bombardment in southern Ukraine overnight in what local officials described as a “massive attack” in the conflict which has continued to rage even as the international community’s attention has moved to the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

The Ukrainian Internal Affairs Ministry on Monday morning said Russia dropped at least “87 aerial bombs on populated areas of the Kherson region - the largest number for all time.” At least eight people were also injured in other Russian strikes carried out in the Odessa region further to the west on Sunday night.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    225·
    8 months ago

    If that was true, then I’m sure there’s lots of statements from human rights organizations world wide clarifying how it’s wrong.

    Do you mind linking one?

    Quick edit:

    Also, that doesn’t mean Israel isn’t breaking the Geneva Convention…

    In fact, it seems to be admission that they are…

    • YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.worldEnglish
      520·
      8 months ago

      It will take a bit to pull it from the 1948 archive but Raphael Lemkin used it because it was a loaded word to mean killing millions of people.

      The actual UN definition added any transfer of children from one ethnic group to another in the last week of negotiations in 1948. Even by that definition it doesn’t meet the UN term with what is happening in Gaza.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        144·
        8 months ago

        So to clarify, you agree that Israel is violating the Geneva Convention?

        Your issue is just that the Genocide section is called that?

        If all this is really that pedantic and you understand that human rights abuses are bad, and Israel is committing human rights abuses, I guess I’ll take what I can get.

        But it seems like you’re defending the acts Israel are committing on the basis that the section of the genocide section of the Geneva Convention is more in depth than just saying “don’t exterminate every single person in a group”.

        Because by that logic, there wasn’t a genocide in North America for over a century against the indigenous people…

        Even by that definition it doesn’t meet the UN term with what is happening in Gaza.

        Your still ignoring the majority of what the Geneva Convention says…

        I’ve linked it multiple times, and even quoted it once so you don’t have to click the link…

        https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml

        Specifically

        Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

        And

        Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

        But the link really goes into specifics that you should know, just read the link.

        • YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.worldEnglish
          119·
          8 months ago

          I don’t see anything Israel is doing that is a crime at this time. Governments get a lot of leeway when dealing with terrorism and Israel is dealing with the aftermath of a wide scale terrorist attack against civilians.

          • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
            121·
            8 months ago

            I don’t see anything Israel is doing that is a crime at this time

            https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/10/israeloccupied-palestinian-territory-un-experts-deplore-attacks-civilians

            “We also strongly condemn Israel’s indiscriminate military attacks against the already exhausted Palestinian people of Gaza, comprising over 2.3 million people, nearly half of whom are children. They have lived under unlawful blockade for 16 years, and already gone through five major brutal wars, which remain unaccounted for,” they said.

            “This amounts to collective punishment,” the UN experts said. “There is no justification for violence that indiscriminately targets innocent civilians, whether by Hamas or Israeli forces. This is absolutely prohibited under international law and amounts to a war crime.”

            The experts also expressed concern about reports that journalists and media workers reporting on the conflict had been targeted, with seven Palestinian journalists and media workers reportedly killed in Israeli airstrikes.

            The UN disagrees with you on that too…

            To avoid any confusion:

            This is absolutely prohibited under international law and amounts to a war crime.

            Is this another point you disagree with the UN on?