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09/09/2009
Københavns biskop i strid med Luther!
Af: Henning
Sørensen
Biskop Peter Skov-Jakobsen har sendt sognepræst Per Ramsdal,
der har erklæret sig villig til at hjælpe flygtninge,
på tre ugers tvungen ferie, og indskærpet, at
præsten skal holde loven.
Allerede ved denne sin første offentlige fremtræden
som biskop har Peter Skov-Jakobsen afsløret, at han er mere
præget af det autoritære og kulturnedbrydende
militærvæsen, i hvilket han har virket som
feltpræst, end af luthersk kristendom. Biskoppens opmuntrende
ord til Per Ramsdal burde have været at repetere Luthers
modige udsagn: "Det er ikke rådeligt for mennesket at handle
mod dets samvittighed", og derefter have sendt præsten
tilbage til sit arbejde.
09/09/2009
B'Tselem publishes complete fatality figures from Operation Cast
Lead
http://www.btselem.org/English/Press_Releases/20090909.asp
Today (Wed. Sept 9th) Israeli human rights group B'Tselem published
its findings on the number of Palestinians and Israelis killed in
Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip. According to
B’Tselem’s research, Israeli security forces killed
1,387 Palestinians during the course of the three-week operation.
Of these, 773 did not take part in the hostilities, including 320
minors and 109 women over the age of 18. Of those killed, 330 took
part in the hostilities, and 248 were Palestinian police officers,
most of whom were killed in aerial bombings of police stations on
the first day of the operation. For 36 people, B’Tselem could
not determine whether they participated in the hostilities or
not.
Palestinians killed 9 Israelis during the operation: 3 civilians
and one member of the security forces by rockets fired into
southern Israel, and 5 soldiers in the Gaza Strip. Another 4
soldiers were killed by friendly fire.
B'Tselem’s figures, the result of months of meticulous
investigation and cross-checks with numerous sources, sharply
contradict those published by the Israeli military. Israel stated
that 1,166 Palestinians were killed in the operation and that 60%
of them were members of Hamas and other armed groups. According to
the military, a total of 295 Palestinians who were “not
involved” in the fighting were killed. As the military
refused to provide B'Tselem its list of fatalities, a comparison of
names was not possible. However, the blatant discrepancy between
the numbers is intolerable. For example, the military claims that
altogether 89 minors under the age of 16 died in the operation.
However, B'Tselem visited homes and gathered death certificates,
photos, and testimonies relating to all 252 children under 16, and
has the details of 111 women over 16 killed.
Behind the dry statistics lie shocking individual stories. Whole
families were killed; parents saw their children shot before their
very eyes; relatives watched their loved ones bleed to death; and
entire neighborhoods were obliterated.
The extremely heavy civilian casualties and the massive damage to
civilian property require serious introspection on the part of
Israeli society. B'Tselem recognizes the complexity of combat in a
densely populated area against armed groups that do not hesitate to
use illegal means and find refuge within the civilian population.
However, illegal and immoral actions by these organizations cannot
legitimize such extensive harm to civilians by a state committed to
the rule of law.
The extent of civilian fatalities does not, in itself, prove that
Israeli violated the laws of war. However, the figures must be
considered within the context of the numerous testimonies given by
soldiers and Palestinians during and after the operation, which
raise grave concerns that Israel breached fundamental principles of
international humanitarian law and caused excessive harm to
civilians. The magnitude of this harm requires Israel to conduct an
independent and credible investigation, and not make do with
military debriefings. Shortly after the operation, B'Tselem
published guidelines for such an investigation and sent the Judge
Advocate General’s Office some twenty illustrative cases, in
which a total of about 90 Palestinian civilians were killed,
demanding that they be investigated.
B’Tselem’s list of fatalities in Operation Cast Lead
has been sent to the IDF Spokesperson’s Office for
comment.
Organizations that participated in the statement: The Association
for Civil Rights in Israel, Bimkom, B’Tselem, Gisha,
Physicians for Human Rights, Adalah , Yesh Din, HaMoked,Center for
the Defence of the Individual, Public Committee Against Torture in
Israel, Rabbis for Human Rights
09/09/2009
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