I've said it before but I'll say it again.
If we think back to the Royal Air Force campaign of area bombing in World War II, we must ask serious questions about that campaign's effectiveness and ethics. Thousands of innocent people, including a multitude of children, were killed.
Nevertheless, it wasn't genocide.
"#CarpetBombing [#AreaBombing] of cities, towns, villages, or other areas containing a concentration of #civilians is considered a #WarCrime as of Article 51 of the 1977 Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions."
THIS is the is exact terminology I'm expecting to hear from @AuswaertigesAmt !
You know it's true. You just prefer to not say it loud.
Schon vor dem jüngsten Gewaltausbruch war die Situation im Gazastreifen angespannt. Jetzt droht die Bevölkerung ihre gesamte Lebensgrundlage zu verlieren. Analysen auf der Basis von Satellitendaten zeigen das ganze Ausmaß der Zerstörung in der Region.
Jonathan Emmesedi
BerlinFokus