Gaza’s War Crimes – Israel/Palestine

March 2009 www.guardian.co.uk This powerful report looks at the alleged Israeli war crimes committed during the Gaza War. We show blindfolded children being used as human shields alongside innocent civilians and medics being targeted. Mounir’s eyes search around the old house as he recounts the events of 16th January, when a rocket fired from an unmanned aerial vehicle killed his sister, her husband and four of her children. The scene he says will never leave him. ‘We found Mohammed lying there, cut in half. Ahmed was in three pieces; Wahid was totally burnt his eyes were gone. Wahid’s father was dead. Nour had been decapitated. We couldn’t see her head anywhere.’ The attack on this home in Gaza City is just one of more than a dozen incidents recorded by Amnesty International where Israel’s unmanned aerial vehicles killed civilians. This powerful report looks at the alleged Israeli war crimes committed during the Gaza War. We show blindfolded children being used as human shields alongside innocent civilians and medics being targeted.