Posted by Wymark on 9/19/2009, 4:19 pm
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From the U.N.'s Goldstone Comission report on war crimes committed by the IDF in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead:
'The chicken farms of Mr. Sameh Sawafeary in the Zeitoun neighbourhood south of Gaza City reportedly supplied over 10 per cent of the Gaza egg market. Armoured bulldozers of the Israeli forces systematically flattened the chicken coops, killing all 31,000 chickens inside, and destroyed the plant and material necessary for the business. The Mission concludes that this was a deliberate act of wanton destruction not justified by any military necessity and draws the same legal conclusions as in the case of the destruction of the flour mill*'.
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/specialsession/9/docs/UNFFMGC_Report.pdf - p.18
*The legal conclusions being that the attack was a 'violation of the grave breaches provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention' and 'amounts to a war crime'.
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