Letupan semasa
serangan Israel di utara Semenanjung Gaza digambarkan dari sempadan Israel
dengan Gaza (An explosion during an Israeli strike in the northern Gaza Strip
is pictured from the Israeli border with Gaza (Reuters/Ronen Zvulun)
Srikandi - Kumpulan hak asasi manusia
Amnesty International menuduh Israel kemusnahan yg tidak wajar bangunan awam
di Gaza semasa konflik musim panas ini, penjenamaan ia satu bentuk simbolik
"hukuman kolektif." Israel mengatakan bangunan berkhidmat sebagai
pangkalan Hamas.
Kumpulan advokasi telah dipanggil untuk siasatan antarabangsa
kelakuan Israel semasa serangan, di mana lebih 2,100 rakyat Palestin dan 60
Israel mati. Dalam laporan terbarunya ‘latest report’, Amnesty terutamanya berkata di akhir - agak tanpa
pertumpahan darah - hari perang, Angkatan Pertahanan Israel (IDF) sengaja
mengebom beberapa pembinaan awam besar tanpa apa-apa keperluan yang jelas.
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"Walaupun tidak ada yang terbunuh dalam kemusnahan 4
bangunan mercu tanda awam di Semenanjung Gaza dalam tempoh 4hari lepas perang,
serangan adalah amat penting kerana mereka adalah contoh apa yang kelihatan
telah kemusnahan yang disengajakan dan tindakan kepada bangunan awam dan harta
pada skala yang besar, dijalankan tanpa keperluan ketenteraan, "kata
kumpulan itu, merujuk kepada 3 blok pangsapuri dan satu pusat membeli-belah
yang telah dihujani oleh peluru Israel antara 23-26 OGOS, kerana didakwa
melindungi militan.
"Masa ini serangan dan kenyataan oleh pegawai-pegawai
Israel mencadangkan bahawa ini adalah contoh-contoh hukuman kolektif, yang
dengan kesan jangka panjang kepada keadaan ekonomi yang sudah berbahaya
daripada orang awam Palestin di Gaza," kata Amnesty International.
Jika niat Israel terbukti, "ia adalah pelanggaran kubur
larangan terhadap serangan itu dalam undang-undang kemanusiaan antarabangsa
(undang-undang perang), termasuk Konvensyen Geneva yang Ke-4, yang Israel
adalah pihak negeri, dan oleh itu berjumlah peperangan jenayah."
RT bercakap dengan pegawai-pegawai daripada kedua-dua
kerajaan Israel dan Amnesty International, dan meminta mereka untuk cerita pihak
mereka.
‘WAR Crime’: Amnesty Intl Says IDF Destroys GAZA
Blocks As ‘Collective
PUNISHMENT’ . . .
Human rights group Amnesty International accused Israel of
the unjustified destruction of civilian buildings in Gaza during this summer’s
conflict, branding it a symbolic form of “collective punishment.” Israel says
the buildings served as Hamas bases.
The advocacy group has called for an international
investigation of Israel’s behavior during the incursion, in which over 2,100
Palestinians and 60 Israelis died. In its latest report, Amnesty particularly noted that in the last – relatively
bloodless – days of the war, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) deliberately
bombed several large civilian constructions without any apparent necessity.
“While no one was killed during the destruction of the four
landmark civilian buildings in the Gaza Strip during the four last days of the
war, the attacks are of great significance because they are examples of what
appears to have been deliberate destruction and targeting of civilian buildings
and property on a large scale, carried out without military necessity,” the
group said, referring to three apartment blocks and one shopping center which
were bombarded by Israeli shells between August 23-26, for allegedly harboring
militants.
“The timing of these attacks and statements by Israeli
officials suggest that these were instances of collective punishment, ones with
long-term impact on the already perilous economic situation of Palestinian
civilians in Gaza,” Amnesty International said.
If Israel’s intent is proven, “it would be a grave breach of
the prohibition against such attacks in international humanitarian law (the
laws of war), including the Fourth Geneva Convention, to which Israel is a
state party, and therefore amount to a war crime.”
Israel tlh menafikan kandungan laporan itu, berkata ia
adalah Hamas - organisasi terkemuka Gaza politik dan tentera - yang perlu
disiasat, dan bahawa ia sengaja disembunyikan unit pengganas di bangunan awam.
"Kita tahu dgn pasti bahawa bangunan-bangunan telah
digunakan untuk Hamas sebagai pengkalan tentera. Sekarang, kami mempunyai sumber-sumber
kami. Kita tidak boleh mendedahkan sumber perisikan kita kerana kita
menjejaskan penduduk di sana yang menghadapi Hamas, yang cuba untuk mengelakkan
kecederaan dalam awam Palestin, "Alon Melchior, Timbalan jurucakap
Kemente-rian Luar Israel, memberitahu RT.
"Sekarang, persoalannya ialah mengapa Hamas menggunakan
orang, bangunan awam sebagai pangkalan pengganas - itulah yang Amnesty perlu
bertanya, perlu menyiasat mengapa Hamas menggunakan rakyat Palestin sebagai
perisai manusia," kata Melchior.
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Israel telah menolak keterangan penduduk tempatan Gaza dan
penyelidik Amnesty.
"Kita tahu hakikatnya bahwa segala keterangan di dalam
laporan ini adalah berda-sarkan kpd keterangan palsu, tidak ada yg dapat
menyoal umat-keterangan di sana - tidak ada yg dapat memeriksa kredibiliti
mereka. Hanya ada satu bukti yg benar bahawa kita bersetuju mengenai: tidak
ada yang terbunuh dalam serangan orang-orang yang telah diperiksa, "kata
Melchior.
"Kami berfikir bahawa Amnesty menjadi mangsa propaganda
Hamas," kata pegawai itu mendakwa Israel.
Israel has refuted the contents of the report, saying it is
Hamas – Gaza’s leading political and military organization – which should be
investigated, and that it purposefully concealed terrorist units in civilian
buildings.
“We know for sure that those buildings were used for Hamas as
military bases. Now, we have our sources. We cannot reveal our intelligence
sources because we are compromising people there who face Hamas, who are trying
to avoid the casualties within the civilian Palestinians,” Alon Melchior,
deputy spokesman for Israel’s Foreign Affairs Ministry, told RT.
“Now, the question is why Hamas is using those civilian
buildings as terrorist bases – that’s what Amnesty should ask, should
investigate why Hamas is using the Palestinian people as human shields,”
Melchior said.
Israel has rejected the testimonies of Gaza locals and
Amnesty researchers.
“We know for a fact that all the evidence in the report is
based on false evidence, no one can question those testimonies over there – no
one can check their credibility. There is only one true evidence that we agree
on: that no one was killed during those attacks that were checked,” said
Melchior.
Amnesty Antarabangsa Philip Luther, Program pengarah Timur
Tengah dan Afrika Utara, bertindak balas kepada dakwaan tinggal di RT,
memanggil mereka "benar-benar tidak masuk akal."
"Laporan ini adalah berdasarkan kpd penyelidikan yang
teliti yang telah melihat ke dalam 4 serangan udara khususnya . . . ia tidak
hanya mengambil orang2 dan bangunan, sudah tentu, ia memusnahkan beratus-ratus
rumah & mata pencarian.
Dan realitinya adalah bahawa bukti yang kami telah kumpulkan
dan kita telah dibentangkan adalah terperinci - dan ia adalah berdasarkan bukan
sahaja kepada fakta di atas darat, tetapi pada kenyataan-kenyataan oleh pihak
berkuasa tentera Israel dan lain-lain pada masa konflik, "Luther kepada
RT.
Menurut Luther, "puluhan orang cedera dalam bangunan jiran
akibat serangan" dan mempunyai rumah mereka yang dihapuskan, "dan ini
bagi orang-orang yang telah mempunyai kewujudan yang tidak menentu kerana
sekatan tentera lama Israel ke atas Semenanjung Gaza."
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"Jika Israel adalah serius mahu mempunyai testimoni yang
kami telah kumpulkan, soalan penyelidikan yang kami telah kumpulkan, ianya
harus bermula dengan membenarkan dlm Suruhanjaya Siasatan PBB yg sudah
ditubuhkan utk menyiasat dakwaan jenayah perang semasa konflik, ke Gaza.
Ia
enggan membenarkan mereka masuk, ia menolak untuk membolehkan Amnesty
Antarabangsa ke Gaza, dan ia telah dilaksanakan sejak awal konflik,
"Luther menekankannya.
Pegawai kumpulan hak itu juga menarik perhatian kepada fakta
bahawa laporan terbaru datang sebagai sebahagian dpd siri Amnesty ini
laporan mengenai jenayah perang & pencabulan hak asasi manusia oleh kedua-dua
Israel & kumpulan radikal Palestin, termasuk Hamas.
Luther berkata beliau
percaya bahwa siasatan Mahkamah Jenayah Antarabangsa ke dalam pelanggaran oleh
kedua-dua belah konflik adalah "benar-benar penting."
Amnesty International’s Philip Luther, director of the Middle
East and North Africa Program, responded to the allegations live on RT, calling
them “absolutely nonsense.”
“This report is based on meticulous research that has looked
into these four airstrikes in particular...it didn’t just take out those
buildings, of course, it destroyed hundreds of homes and livelihoods. And the
reality is that the evidence that we’ve gathered and that we’ve presented is
detailed – and it is based not just on the facts on the ground, but on
statements by Israeli military authorities and others at the time of the
conflict,” Luther told RT.
According to Luther, “scores of people were injured in
neighboring buildings as a result of the attack” and had their homes wiped out,
“and this for people who already have a precarious existence because of
Israel’s longstanding military blockade on the Gaza Strip.”
“If Israel was serious about wanting to have the testimonies
that we’ve gathered, question the research that we’ve gathered, it should start
by allowing in the UN Commission of Inquiry that’s been set up to look into
allegations of war crimes during the conflict, into Gaza. It’s refusing to
allow them in, it’s refusing to allow Amnesty International into Gaza, and it
has done so since the beginning of the conflict,” Luther stressed.
The rights group’s official also drew attention to the fact
that the latest report comes as part of Amnesty’s series of reports on war
crimes and human rights violations by both Israel and Palestinian radical
groups, including Hamas. Luther said he believes that an International Criminal
Court investigation into violations by both sides of the conflict is
“absolutely essential.”
Palestin berkumpul di sekeliling mayat daripada pusat
komersil, yang saksi berkata dilanda serangan udara Israel pada hari Sabtu, di
Rafah di selatan Semenanjung Gaza 24 Ogos 2014 (Palestinians gather around the
remains of a commercial center, which witnesses said was hit by an Israeli air
strike on Saturday, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip August 24, 2014 (Reuters/Ibraheem
Abu Mustafa)
