According to Tasnim News Agency, the UN Special Rapporteur, after 2 years, declared that the deadly attack by the Israeli apartheid regime on southern Lebanon, which resulted in the death of a Reuters journalist and the injury of several other journalists, including two AFP journalists, was a “war crime”.
Since its establishment in 1948, the Israeli regime has been formed and continues to exist in a context of violence, displacement and systematic violations of human rights. The Nakba, during which hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were driven from their homeland, was the starting point of this regime, which was accompanied by ethnic cleansing and the destruction of Palestinian villages and cities. Since then, the regime has left a record of war crimes through its occupation policies, including illegal settlements in the West Bank, the inhumane blockade of the Gaza Strip, and repeated military attacks on civilians.
Numerous reports by the United Nations, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch have documented these actions, including Amnesty International’s 2022 report accusing the Israeli regime of committing apartheid. The relentless bombing of hospitals, schools, and residential areas, the targeted killing of children and civilians, and the destruction of vital Palestinian infrastructure are not only violations of the Geneva Conventions, but also demonstrate the oppressive and aggressive nature on which the regime was founded. This bloody history, rooted in occupation and dispossession, has made the Israeli regime a symbol of injustice in the world. Therefore, the revelation of new crimes by this regime, from the deliberate destruction of civilian infrastructure to mass murder, should come as no surprise.
