NGOs Call IDF Rocket Warning System Discriminatory Toward Gazans

Israel’s exclusive use of the system to protect its citizens, and not those of an enemy entity, is “racist and discriminatory.”

Geneva, October 23 – Human Rights groups and United Nations officials demanded today that Israel use its radar alert system to help the residents of the Gaza Strip avoid Islamist-launched missiles aimed at Israeli civilians that fall short and explode inside the Palestinian-controlled territory.

Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the United Nations International Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF) criticized Israel today for not sharing its rocket warning system with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, upon whom rockets from Hamas and allied terrorist groups fall about in about a quarter of the launches.

A joint statement by the three humanitarian organizations characterized Israel’s exclusive use of the system to protect its citizens, and not those of an enemy entity, as “racist and discriminatory.”

“Israel has a duty under International Humanitarian Law to cripple its defensive abilities and operations lest a Palestinian suffer so much as a broken toenail,” the statement read. “In fact even a broken toenail is disproportionate. Israel must allow Palestinians to capture and destroy everything Israel has built. One of the axioms of the human rights movement of the last thirty years is that Jews do not have human rights.”

“Were not saying that the al-Ahli Hospital that Israel bombed last week was actually hit by a misfired Islamic Jihad rocket,” explained Agnes Callamard of Amnesty International, “but, hypothetically, were that the case, Israel would be guilty of not warning the people in and around the hospital that a Gaza-launched rocket was incoming.” She neglected to state whether, under any international law, either International Humanitarian Law or the Laws of Armed Conflict, the Palestinian factions launching rockets at Israel were themselves obligated to issue warnings either to Israel or to Gaza residents.

“Stop implying that Palestinians have any moral agency or legal responsibility for anything,” snapped Ken Roth, former head of Human Rights Watch. “That’s a racist approach that upholds Apartheid and colonialism. The only solution to this conflict is to wield the language of human rights and international law as weapons to neutralize Israel’s capacity to defend its people, regardless of the meaning the terms actually carry in military parlance or international law. Remember, my father survived the Holocaust, and that gives me special authority over other people whose families survived or didn’t survive and I forgot where I was going with this. The point is, Israel bad, and anything good Israel does is to cover up for Israel bad.”

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