Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the militant group Hamas this month of committing a “double war crime” for targeting Israeli civilians with rockets and using the Gaza Strip’s residents as “human shields.” Palestinian officials, meanwhile, argued that Israel should be charged with war crimes for the “crime of apartheid,” ”attacks against civilians,” ”excessive loss of human life” and the “crime of colonization.” And Navi Pillay, the United Nations’ human rights commissioner, said that the downing of a Malaysia Airlines flight over eastern Ukraine may amount to a war crime. But what exactly constitutes a war crime?
As the BBC explains, …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
