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Rights group: Israeli troops broke medical ethics
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Published: 23.03.09, 07:52
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1. what they forgot to mention...
ghostq   (03.23.09)
the red crescent ambulances smuggle Hamas men, and help them to escape, so tough deal with it, Israel should't bother with so call poor gazans, they desrved what they got and more, and the report worthless, really don't wast your paper and help save the trees.
2. "War Crimes"
NYC Girl   (03.23.09)
The IDF may as well call a halt to any further investigations since Reuters and the so-called human rights organizations have already found them guilty.
3. If Israel had let medical physicians through...
Aaron ,   SF, USA   (03.23.09)
Hamas would have kidnapped them and held them ransom against the world. Release would only be granted once all Islamic terrorists in every prison in the world are let free.
4. Another thing not mentioned
Pninah ,   in Israel   (03.23.09)
is that PHR-Israel has a shameful record of false reports and outright deceit. For only one example, it publically accused Israel of causing the death of a man in Gaza by "security checks" that delayed bringing him to a hospital in Israel. It turned out that the man was in fact still alive and doing well.
5. Principles of war
Meir ,   Arad   (03.23.09)
Better their dead than ours. Better their widows than ours. Better their orphans than ours. Better their houses burning than ours. Better their economy destroyed than ours. Better their suffering than ours. I do not feel sorry or pain for what the gazans brought upon themselves and have no moral dilemma in regards of destroying the enemy. Good job Jewish fighters! Next time go all the way and bring peace and tranquility to our Jewish Land.
6. innaccuracy
Israel Israeli ,   Tel Aviv   (03.23.09)
The article says that last week Gaza war veterans gave accounts of killing of civilians. This is not true. The media reported that the headmaster of a certain military college alleged that two graduates gave these accounts, but refused to identify the graduates making it impossible to confirm these stories. There are unsubstantiated rumors that soldiers from the military college were total failures in the war, so the IDF wanted to close the college. The headmaster invented these stories so that he would not lose his job.
7. #5 Fully Agree
hakim ,   usa   (03.23.09)
Better your dead than ours. Better your widows than ours. Better your orphans than ours. Better your suffering than ours. MEIR YOU WILL ALWAYS LIVE IN FEAR. AND THE JEWISH END IS NEAR!!!!! SO WATCH YOUR REAR AND I DONT WANT TO SEE NO TEAR.....
8. its not new to such army
jimy ,   jerusalem   (03.23.09)
the israeli army has always been unethical and not only in medical side , soldiers are always steeling money and gold from palestenian houses under the threat of arms , so its nothing new , i bet everyone here will say its ok by the army because its a corrupted country and corupted ethical measures , what they call terorists never attaced medical teams like the IDF
9. INHUMAN RIGHTS GROUP: .OK. ISRAELIS KILLED& WOUNDE
ROLAND SEENER ,   LONDON ENGLAND   (03.23.09)
10. Gazans voted for the rocket men
Allen Hoban ,   USA   (03.23.09)
Gazans dont try to stop the rocket launchers - They must suffer the same fate as the rocket men.
11. Vile human rights groups
Peter Cain ,   Canada   (03.23.09)
Why does one know right at the outset, that these vile human rights groups are going to be anti-Israel? Why these outfits are even given an ear is beyond me!!!
12. Who needs Hamas when we have PHR to finish with Israel ???
israelit   (03.23.09)
13. Field Hospital
Dabosshog   (03.23.09)
Was is not mentioned but very well documented is that Israel built a very modern field hospital ready to treat any of the wounded from the civilian populous of Gaza right on the border. It was empty throughout the offensive. OK haters check that facts.
14. Stop feeling so guilty!
Mike ,   Raanana   (03.23.09)
What is it with us Jews. The world loves us when we don't fight back and we are killed and maimed. Poor Jews. But, as soon as we defend ourselves, and by the way, we have the most moral army in the world (I'd like to see an objective study comparing us to the the other nations at war around the world), everyone jumps on the criticize Israel band wagon. That doesn't bother me so much, but what does, is our need to question ourselves. We have lived through 'hell' and believe me, no country's response would have been as tempered and long overdue than what the IDF did and did brilliantly in GAZA. Thank G-d for the IDF, and Ashem love for the Jewish people. Let's live up to Ashem's word-to save life-, don't let the terrorists rain missiles on our people any longer!
15. When are you all going to admit that
(03.23.09)
you have no ethics whatsoever?? Katsav and Olmert are good example!!
16. #10 And you voted for the butcher G.W.Bush
(03.23.09)
17. Where are Gilad Shalit's human rights. Doctors?
David ,   Karmiel, Israel   (03.23.09)
Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, with the other "rights" leftists, are so concerned for the well being of those who want to destroy our country and our people but have done absolutely nothing to help secure the release of Gilad Shalit! There is one thing worse than an ant-Semite. That is a Jewish Jew hater! These people are so ashamed to be Jews that they condemn Israel for surviving in the face of odd never before faced by any other country. Theses Jewish Jew haters seem to have forgotten that Hitler did not discriminate. A Jew was a Jew and did not deserve to live. The fact is that if there was no State of Israel where they can feel safe to criticize the country that educated them, feeds them and protects them, they would land up in someone else's concentration camp and go up their chimneys! They are a disgrace!
18. #7 Hakim
Joseph ,   Israel   (03.23.09)
Hey Hakim, What is your take is on the heroic assault against the Hatuel family? And what about Shalhevet Pass?
19.  Israeli troops broke medical ethics
Yonatan ,   Jerusalem   (03.23.09)
isn't it just wonderful to know that of all the peoples in this world the arabs are the only ones who do absolutely nothing wrong, such a perfect people, dosn't it make you feel to be arab
20. THE IDF is the BEST , The Human Rights Group PLSE SHUT UP !
Ben ,   singapore   (03.23.09)
21. Joseph # 18
hakim ,   usa   (03.23.09)
I always say violence breeds violence...I think what is happening to both sides are the signs of the times...We have got to the point that only the strong survive and this is what you are seeing Joseph. Israels backbone (AMERICA) is drifting away and she is know left standing alone. The jewish people live by the notion that they are the "chosen people" and have even exceeded gods role in taking away innocent lives with their mighty military power and they prove this over and over again. How can the jewish people who have been persucuted all their lives see theirselves doing the same to other people?? The Palestinians on the other hand have every right to fight for their freedom, so when you end the occupation you will then see that all they were fighting for was there basic human freedoms.. Regarding the Hatuel family and the infant Shalhevet, you do not need to worry about them because they are in the hands of our creator and he knows what you and I dont . (RIP)
22. Rights Group -another distortion
DT ,   TA Israel   (03.23.09)
Strange that you never hear from such people about the atrocities Hamas and Co committed . The HR lot must be made up fo Aryans or Arabs
23. #21
Joseph ,   Israel   (03.23.09)
You have no condemnation for a "hero" who could have killed a solder, but instead aimed his sniper rifle at a little baby in a push car? You have no condemnation for two "heros" who walked up to a car they attacked and then cooly shot pregnant Taly in her belly, and Hila (11), Hadar (9), Roni (7) and Merav (2)? You call these actions "fighting for freedom". This is why you will never have freedom, dignity or honor, but will live in a cesspool of your own creation.
24. Rotten YNet "reports"
Anita ,   Tel Aviv   (03.23.09)
Why does YNet insist on printing these rotten, anti-Israel, damaging, unsubstantiated and downright lying "reports"? Whose side on you on anyway? You are as bad as our Arab enemies.
25. war crimes
mohson   (03.23.09)
let the UN investigate hamas war crimes and bestiality. As far as israel is concerned, it was too nice. The UN is full of crap and cowards, solana of spain, norway and sarkosy of france, belgium and brown of england who is a wus. And of course, for another 14 days, Israel has the mother of oh my god it hurts, the number one coward and weakling in the world, Ehud Olmert, who will be going to jail where barnea and marcus can go visit this filthy crook who sent his son away to france to avoid the idf draft.
26. #21 Hakim from America
Israel Israeli ,   Tel Aviv   (03.23.09)
You write that the "Palestinians" have every right to fight for their freedom. Perhaps this is true, but then you must also agree that the Jews have the same right to fight for their freedom. In fact, that is what has been happening since 1910. A "problem" is that until now, the Jews succeeded in fighting for their freedom and the Arabs lost. A bigger problem is that when the Jews win, the Arabs live. If the Arabs were to win, all the Jews would be exterminated.
27. Medical ethics
I. Barr MD ,   USA   (03.23.09)
Oh, these "rights" groups think that throwing Palestinians from roof tops by Hamas in Gaza was a scientific experiment to proove that Palestinians cannot fly. 200 Palestinians were killed by Hamas in Gaza during Gaza war. They were executed. When Arab kills Arab it is OK, not a human right issue. Besides, it was an administrative act not a medical decision and that it has nothing to do with medical ethics.
28. Hakim
Ilana   (03.23.09)
This Hakim represents the cultured innocent other side with whom we are supposed to negotiate with and live side by side with. All he wants is death for Jews. See the differences between us? He is an abomination to every religion on this planet and universe. Wishing death on innocents! KNow your enemy!
29. PHR is a lobby group, not a human rights group
JPS ,   Efrat   (03.23.09)
Any group that calls itself a "human rights" organization must embrace the concept of universal human rights. PHR does not because it refuses to support human rights in Israel that are attacked by Palestinians. There is decades of not just evidence, but outright claims of responsibility by Palestinian groups that now control the Palestinian Authority. These groups, Fatah and Hamas, are responsible for some of the most vicious human rights crimes including the deliberate bombings of dozens of civilian targets, and over 10 thousand anti-personnel missiles and mortars fired explicitly at Israeli civilians in the past 8 years. I could not find a single statement by PHR on their website either condemning the Palestinian human rights atrocities, nor calling on the Palestinians to obey human rights laws. PHR is obviously not a group that pursues universal human rights. They are just another pro-Palestinian lobby group.
30. Joseph #23
hakim ,   usa   (03.23.09)
YOU HAVE NO CONDEMNATION FOR YOUR IDF WHO DELIBERATLY ATTACKED INNOCENT WOMAN AND CHILDREN IN GAZA? (who are now stepping up and speaking) YOU HAVE NO CONDEMNATION FOR THE ISRAELI ATTACK IN LEBANON THAT KILLED 57 PEOPLE MOSTLY WOMAN AND CHILDREN?? WHAT ABOUT THE ATTACK IN HEBRON THAT KILLED 52 PRAYING INNOCENT PEOPLE YOU FORGOT ABOUT THAT JOSEPH I GUESS BUT IF YOU FORGOT I DIDNT!!! (terrorist) WHAT DO YOU CALL THIS JOSEPH???? THIS IS WHY YOU WILL NEVER HAVE FREEDOM,DIGNITY, OR HONOR, BUT WILL LIVE IN YOUR "ANTI-SEMITIC" WORLD THAT IS CLOSING IN ON YOU AND "YOUR CHOSEN" PEOPLE , so enjoy the CESSPOOL of your own creation...
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