Israeli Group Calls Power Plant Attack a 'War Crime'...

[bridgit]

'The air strike on Gaza's only power station that has left most residents with half their normal electricity supply three months later was a war crime, according to the Israeli human rights group B'tselem.

A 34-page report says the cuts in power are: harming health care; drastically limiting water supplies to three hours a day; plunging sew-age treatment to near crisis levels; limiting the mobility of high-rise dwellers by halting lifts; and threatening residents with food poisoning because of interruptions to refrigeration.

The report, entitled Act of Vengeance, says the cuts in power have also seriously disrupted small businesses in Gaza, deepening an economic crisis already far worse than that faced by Gaza's 1.3 million residents at the peak of the Palestinian uprising three years ago.

B'tselem says the Israeli missile strike, which disabled the US-insured power station by destroying six transformers three days after the abduction of the Israeli corporal Gilad Shalit by Gaza militants, is in breach of international law because it deliberately targeted a "civilian object".' http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0928-04.htm

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Okay, if that claim is validated, then what about Lebanon? n/t

[bridgit]

2. what about it, i can't find an I/L forum, but the extension seems a...

natural one enough, though of course read here: unnatural

[Tom Joad]

3. Just another war crime by Israel/US. or as Condi Rice would say

"the birth pangs of a new Middle East". which must mean making the lives of all those who oppose their oppression miserable and unlivable.

[bridgit]

4. maybe time for a c-section, the baby is in distress...