The recent Israeli Occupation of major Palestinian Civilian Towns has been accompanied by the violation of every principle of the Geneva Convention.
“The following acts are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever”
Geneva Convention
Article 1.a : Violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture
In the every incursion, there is always temporary asphyxiation, beating, deliberate bone breaking, and psychological violence upon Palestinian prisoners have been reported.
“Torture [of Palestinian prisoners and detainees]
is indeed an official, sanctioned and concealed Israeli policy”.
Israeli Official Fact Finding Report on Shin Bet
(security services) practices.
Article 1.b: taking of hostages
Confirmed reports from Ramallah and Nablus have documented the use by IDF soldiers
of Palestinian civilians (including women) as human shields in their incursions into
Palestinian homes and towns…
Article 1.c: Outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment
Sick men, women, and children were prevented from accessing critical hospital equipment and vital medical supplies.
People from the land, who were born there were forced to become Refugees, then were made refugees once more… 
Article 1.d: the passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions without previous judgment …
“The army has operationalized a policy of extrajudicial execution against Palestinians”. Official Israeli military officers.
State sponsored assassination policy - No trial.
No Proof. No Defence. No Rights. Only execution
Point of This ArticleThe Geneva Convention of 1949 had the clear aim to protect civilian populations,So that Nazi atrocities during the Second World War are never repeated. As in the motto of Holocaust Survivors: “Never Again”.
ConclusionIsraeli military actions in the occupied territories are in gross violation of every single item of the Geneva Convention. Nothing justifies the mistreatment, humiliation, degradation and abuse of civilian populations.
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The main tenets of the Geneva Convention(1) Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause, shall in all circumstances be treated humanely, without any adverse distinction founded on race, color, religion or faith, sex, birth or wealth, or any other similar criteria.
To this end, the following acts are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever with respect to the above-mentioned persons:
(a) violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture;
(b) taking of hostages;
(c) outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment;
(d) the passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions without previous judgment pronounced by a regularly constituted court, affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples.
(2) The wounded and sick shall be collected and cared for.
Web links and references
Geneva convention text can be found at:
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/91.htm
http://www.asociety.com/geneva1.html
International Human Rights agencies:
International Red Cross (and Red Crescent societies)
Amnesty International:
UN High Commission on Human Rights
Regional Human Rights Sources:
Israeli source:
The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
Palestinian source:
Palestinian center for human rights
See also the electronic intifada at:
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