one sided know-alls...

I would suggest that the Rights Group open their eyes to reality. Its the Israeli's who have been victimized by thousands of missiles being fired at their civilians, for months on end!!! Israel finally retaliated in order to defend her citizens and before bombing the terrorist hotspots they phoned and dropped leaflets over Gaza, warning the civilians to move away from the Hamas terrorists, who hide between the civilians, in schools and hospitals, like the cowards that they are!

about the suffering of Gaza dogs and cats. These innocent creatures also fell victims during the air raids. Maybe british lawyers will sue Israel in the London Court of Animal rights.

Why doesn't the "Human Rights" "Watch" volunteer its staff to go these terrorists' homes and persuade them to turn themselves in and stop launching rockets from the roof, and so on? If they did that and were successful, not a single Palestinian civilian would ever get killed! Any chance of that happening? Yeah, didn't think so.

Or rather - they are not usefull idiots, they are hypocritical hostile enemies, hiding behind human rights. This World are full of Enemies behind disguises, led by the Evil One,pretending humanity, because as IDF states - " The Israeli army said in a statement that it worked to minimize noncombatant casualties, and civilians were never a target. The army blamed terrorists for using civilian buildings as hideouts." This is true to any sober mind. But the Hypocrits dont say anything when the Israeli civilians in society is targeted. The Human Rights Wathers are only serving the Evil one. Any chosen individual/ people of God should understand this, the human consciousness without the Spirit of God, is only serving evil as in comparizon to the will of God. at best It could be Humanly Good but not Divine Good. Arn.Sweden.

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Human rightists never seem to have a concept of reality, if a bullet goes astray and doesn't hit the bad guy we have broken the rules of war and committed a war crime. War is not surgery where we destroy the terrorist timor with pin point accuracy, they seem to think bad guys wear fluorescent jackets saying shoot me not the civilians Bombs cannot be programmed to kill a single individual or not damage the part of the house where the civilians live. Throughout the seven years of rockets being fired from Gaza how often did we ever hear a human rights group condemn Hamas for targeting Israeli civilians even once, kassams kill as well. I wonder what their opinions would be if they spent a week in Sderot before the war?

The Human Rights Watch seem to be looking at the world through a 1 way mirror. Do they think that firing rockets at Israeli citizens is legal?

As we know them for the liars they are, we shouldn't take this 'breaking news to seriously as they are suspiciously quit on the atrocities in the neighboring countries of Israel. This organisation, as well as the UN parent company, has outdated it's presents among the (few) civilized countries left on this planet.

And what did this group of bleeding hearts call the never ending rockets being launched at Israel?!

WHOSE human rights? what idiots these supposed human rights 'observers.' Not one word about the thousands of Gaza rockets into Israel.

So Jews have no rights... just terrorists?? Buzz off.

Get over it... if we violated the laws of a culture of Jihad and Death... that means they lived. We did not violate THEIR laws one bit... how dare you accuse Israel of violating laws of a very well documented culture of death.. next time you accuse Israel of doing so make sure water balloons are dropping.. that's violating their laws. Clown Criminals must be tried at the Circus!

This is the same (sane?) group who gave Gaddafi a clean bill of health just before the Libyan Civil War. In fact, waxed quite lyrically about him and his family. Thats not to detract from the awefull loss, however, as has been pointed out so many times, Hamas is the democratically elected leadership of Gaza, and as such should be aware that the citiziens of Gaza, who they claim to protect, are going to get caught in the middle of the conflict when Israel retaliates against the rocket attacks, however innocuous they may be.

If you use the logic of these aplogists, all any terrorist has to do is launch attacks from any concentration of civilians to avoid retalliation. any retalliatory attack thus becomes disproportionate. If gazan "civilians" want to stay safe, do what you must to keep the terrorists out of your house. use those aks we see you firing in the air at every opportunity.

Whilst Hamas in Gaza smuggle rockets into the region to fire these random into Israel I will support the IDF for any killings in Gaza that will stop the Rockets if not any deaths in Gaza is on the Palestinians heads for they support the terrorists, personnely the IDF should raise Gaza to groud level Palestinians will have nothing at any time on this planet because they cannot live along side any neighbor with out destroying what their neighbor has acheived and they will never learn.

violated laws of war - making innocents suffer from trauma and destruction. Besides a few lucky hits that killed Israeli's. This has been going on for years, not just now for a couple of weeks. I think that Israel needs to complain to the Human Rights Committee.

Rocket strikes from rogue terrorists kill 5 Israelis. State-sponsored terrorism by the Israeli armed forces kill 170 Palestinians. I think it's pretty obvious which side is committing the most /the worst human rights abuses. Perhaps if Israel stopped resorting to 'sledgehammer to crack a nut' responses, there wouldn't be this needless escalation of violence?

12 civilians killed by the IDF may or may not be unlawful and is worth investigating. The real question is why the fanatic and corrupt HRW attacks Israel, but is silent about far greater crimes. September 4, 2009 the Obama regime massacres 90 civilians in Kunduz. May 2, 2011 US forces under direct control of Obama execute 3 unarmed civilians. 2010 to present. Obama orders his drones to carry out "double tap" attacks in order to kill Pakistanian doctors, medics and nurses to deprive Obama's opponents of medical care.

The argument is the terrorists are to blame because they hide in the house, is not adequate. the real argument should be: the civilians who hide the terrorist and abett the terrorist are equally guilty of harboring and aiding a terrorist.

Seriously Do me a favor....

That in 4 years the new Israeli Government will have legislated all the HRW to obviation, and the ill gotten moneys moneys that were sent by the EU will be taken and given to Israeli terror victims. Go Feingin.

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH. DONT TALK ABOUT ISRAEL, WHY DONT YOU TALK ABOUT GREAT BRITAIN AND OTHER LEADING COUNTRIES KILLING THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE. HUMAN RIGHTS IS A USELESS BODY, LOOK AT ABU KTADA IN ENGLAND, HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN THROWN OUT OF ENGLAND YEARS AGO. OUR HOME OFFICE IN ENGLAND GOING TO JORDAN TO PLEAD WITH THE JORDANIAN GOVERMENT TO GIVE HIM A FAIR TRIAL, AS THOUGH THE ARAB WOULD TAKE ANY NOTICE OF A WOMEN TERESA MAY. WHAT A WASTED JOURNEY AT THE TAX PAYERS EXPENSE, I KNOW HOW THE ARAB MIND WORKS, WOMEN WHO ARE THEY TO TELL US WHAT TO DO. GOD BLESS ISRAEL

How about the strikes on Israeli homes since years? How about the killed and injured by Hamas rockets?

Interesting that they should neglect to mention that terrorists hiding among civilians is a war crime. Israel did not violate any law -- the fact that terrorists conceal themselves in a private home has the effect of making that private home a legitimate military target -- whether or not the homeowner agrees to the use of his home is irrelevant. That's actually a fairly typical "oversight" by the Human Rights Watch.

Wake up naive one. Of course ''there would'nt be this needless escalation of violence'' if every Israeli in Israel rolled over & died. Only then would Hamas be quiet & very happy. They want us dead & they want our land.