{"id":2667,"date":"2008-03-14T00:39:22","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T00:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/%e2%80%98israel-must-be-tried-for-war-crimes%e2%80%99\/2667\/"},"modified":"2008-03-14T00:39:22","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T00:39:22","slug":"%e2%80%98israel-must-be-tried-for-war-crimes%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/%e2%80%98israel-must-be-tried-for-war-crimes%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Israel must be tried for war crimes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

DAKAR: The head of the world\u2019s biggest Muslim body, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), called yesterday for Israelis to be tried by an international war crimes court for \u201cheinous\u201d attacks against Palestinians.
\n<\/font><\/strong>Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, secretary-general of the 57-nation body – the second largest inter-governmental bloc after the UN – told an OIC summit in Senegal that Israel was repeatedly seeking to undermine foreign-brokered peace plans.<\/font><\/p>\n

\u201cThe situation in Palestine remains deplorable due to the successive crises fabricated by Israel to stall the peace process and to thwart the many peace plans and initiatives proposed by the international community,\u201d he said.<\/font><\/p>\n

\u201cIt has become indispensable that these aggressions and heinous crimes be officially documented and their perpetrators be brought before international justice designed for these kind of acts … such as the International Criminal Court.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s five-day offensive in Gaza last week killed more than 125 Palestinians.<\/font><\/p>\n

An Israeli spokesman dismissed Ihsanoglu\u2019s remarks, saying the source of the problem was rocket fire from Gaza into southern Israeli towns.<\/font><\/p>\n

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the summit that Israel\u2019s \u201cdisproportionate and excessive use of force\u201d had killed and injured many civilians including children and called for the violence to stop.
\n\u201cI condemn these actions and call on Israel to cease such acts. Israel must fully comply with international humanitarian law and exercise utmost restraint,\u201d Ban told the summit.<\/font><\/p>\n

Renewed violence in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, following a week of relative calm, has threatened prospects for an Egyptian-brokered truce.<\/font><\/p>\n

Islamic Jihad fired rockets into Israel from the Gaza Strip yesterday after an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank.<\/font><\/p>\n

No one was injured by the salvo against the border town of Sderot, the first such attack by Islamic Jihad, a Palestinian militant faction, since March 5.<\/font><\/p>\n

Israel, which had not struck in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip in a week, attacked from the air a rocket launcher in the town of Beit Hanoun after Sderot was hit. No one was hurt.<\/font><\/p>\n

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas earlier accused Israel of \u201cethnic cleansing\u201d in Jerusalem by banning the building of Palestinian homes and cutting the city off from the rest of the occupied West Bank.<\/font><\/p>\n

\u201cOur people in the city are facing an ethnic cleansing campaign through a set of Israeli decisions such as imposing heavy taxes, banning construction and closing Palestinian institutions in addition to separating the city from the West Bank by the racist separation wall,\u201d Abbas told the OIC summit.
\nA spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Mark Regev, condemned Abbas\u2019s \u201cinflammatory\u201d comments. \u2014 AFP<\/font><\/p>\n

Gulf Times Newspaper, 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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