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British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been questioned over an ITV News video which shows a civilian being shot dead while waving a white flag in Gaza. The shocking images have sparked war crime accusations, and Sunak was challenged to give his reaction on Wednesday. ITV News at ten.
A children’s clothes seller Ramzi Abu Sahloul, from Gaza, standing unarmed among a group of Palestinian men holding a white flag, was shot dead minutes after speaking to an ITV cameraman. A report aired by the British public service broadcaster showed the events unfolding as the group of five Palestinian men tried to reach family members stranded in a house inside an active combat zone. Source
The Israeli army had instructed the group to evacuate Khan Younis, which has been encircled by IDF forces, but Sahloul’s mother and brother were unable to get out from a house nearby. According to John Irvine, the foreign correspondent for ITV news who presented Tuesday evening’s report, the five men were “doing their utmost to appear non-threatening” to Israeli soldiers nearby. They were “trying to proceed with care”.
Minutes before being shot dead, the middle-aged, English-speaking Palestinian man told ITV: “Nowhere is safe in Gaza. Everywhere you find the Israeli Army. They shoot at us at home, in any building, and in the street. “The Israelis came to us and told us to evacuate but they didn’t let my brother out. We want to go and try to get them, God willing.”
As smoke billowed and gunfire echoed in the background, signaling nearby combat, the ITV cameraman concluded the interview and walked away. ITV said the cameraman “turned to get one last picture of the group” when gunfire rang out again. The broadcaster aired footage which showed the group ducking for cover and moving away as the shots ring out. The footage then shows the group huddled around a member who had fallen to the ground.
“The interviewee had been shot and fatally wounded,” Irvine says. “As they tried to carry him to safety, there was the sound of more gunfire and the whoosh of a bullet passing nearby,” his voiceover adds, “suggesting the group was still being targeted”.
The IDF claimed ignorance of the specific incident, stating that the video was “clearly edited”. Source
The ITV News at Ten Report on the Murder.
“No place safe in Gaza everywhere you are going you will find the Israelian army they shoot us at home, any building in the street, everywhere you are they will give you a chance sometimes just for 5 minutes sometimes do not give you a chance to take your clothes to take your children to take your family and to get out of the building this is our life in Gaza”
The video below taken the previous day by Mohammed Abu Safia, an ITV News cameraman, showed a group of civilians in the enclave holding a white flag.
The Israel Defense Forces dismissed the video in a statement to ITV News, calling it a “despicable accusation” that “can only be deemed as an extension of Hamas’ propaganda effort to defame the IDF.”
Waving a White Flag.
However, the Independent also reported in December 2023, that an Israeli hostage was waving a makeshift white flag and another called for help in Hebrew when they were shot dead by Israeli soldiers in Gaza who “mistook them for militants”, a military official has said.
According to a preliminary investigation, three male hostages, all shirtless, appeared in Shejaiya in northern Gaza, holding a long stick with white fabric attached to it. Yet, still, a soldier nearby opened fire, the military said, hitting two hostages while the third, who was wounded, managed to escape to a nearby building where other troops heard him crying for help in Hebrew. He was killed by a second soldier before a commander, concerned by the incident, issued a ceasefire order.
The Israeli military officials said that they believed that the hostages – who were named by the military as Samer Fuad El-Talalka, Yotam Haim and Alon Shamriz – had either been let go or had escaped.
Israeli rights group B’tselem wrote on X that International Humanitarian Law prohibits the shooting of people who have surrendered and are carrying a white flag, “regardless [of] whether they’re combatants or not, regardless of their nationality and religion”.Source
The international Humanitarian Law has definitelly been ignored.
The Act Constitutes a War Crime
During Wednesday’s prime minister’s questions, Scottish National Party MP Stephen Flynn challenged Sunak over the incident, asking him if “such an act constitutes a war crime?”
In response, Sunak said “international humanitarian law should be respected, and civilians should be protected.” But Flynn pushed him further, saying: “I don’t think it’s unreasonable to ask the prime minister of the United Kingdom to rise to that dispatch box and tell the people of these isles and elsewhere, that shooting an unarmed man walking under a white flag is a war crime.” Source
Labour MP Tahir Ali also bitterly criticized the prime minister over the Israel-Gaza conflict, saying he had “the blood of thousands of innocent people on his hands,” and asking him if it was time to commit “to demanding an immediate ceasefire and an ending of the UK’s arms trade with Israel.” Source
In December, Human Rights Watch said selling weapons to Israel could make the UK complicit in war crimes. Since 2015, Britain has licensed at least £474 million ($600 million) worth of military exports to the Jewish state, including components for combat aircraft, tanks, missiles, and ammunition.
The UK provides approximately 15% of the components for the F-35 stealth fighter currently being used in Gaza, according to the organization, which argues that open licenses lack transparency and allow for unlimited quantities of weapons exports.
More than 25,000 people – mostly civilians – have been killed in the Palestinian enclave since the war began, according to Gaza health officials. Source
Sunak cannot ignore the mass slaughter of innocent people and the blatant war crimes that have been consistently carried out, he cannot be seen to be complicit now that the British publc has now been shown the evidence of these war crimes on mainstream TV.
There can be no denying the atrocities, and the deliberate killing of innocent civilians, there MUST be a ceasefire now!
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The silence from the Government and opposition (Keir Starmer) is deafening – all complicit in war crimes. You’ve got to wonder how a soldier is so brainwashed to kill an unarmed citizen waving a white flag.
Universal Soldier, lyrics by Donovan:
Lyrics again:
He’s five foot-two, and he’s six feet-four,
He fights with missiles and with spears.
He’s all of thirty-one, and he’s only seventeen,
He’s been a soldier for a thousand years.
He’s a Catholic, a Hindu, an Atheist, a Jain,
A Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew.
And he knows he shouldn’t kill,
And he knows he always will,
Kill you for me my friend and me for you.
And he’s fighting for Canada,
He’s fighting for France,
He’s fighting for the USA,
And he’s fighting for the Russians,
And he’s fighting for Japan,
And he thinks we’ll put an end to war this way.
And he’s fighting for Democracy,
He’s fighting for the Reds,
He says it’s for the peace of all.
He’s the one who must decide,
Who’s to live and who’s to die,
And he never sees the writing on the wall.
But without him,
How would Hitler have condemned him at Labau?
Without him Caesar would have stood alone,
He’s the one who gives his body
As a weapon of the war,
And without him all this killing can’t go on.
He’s the Universal Soldier and he really is to blame,
His orders come from far away no more,
They come from here and there and you and me,
And brothers can’t you see,
This is not the way we put an end to war.
millions of innocent people were killed in WW1 & WW2
bombed, starved, shot….what makes you think this war is any different?
ALL wars kill the innocent- it’s the innocent that suffer all the time
It’s very sad to see i know – but a ceasefire isn’t going to solve the hatred Israel AND the Palestinians (and Hamas) have for each other.
Hi vaboon,
Palestine does not have an Army, a Navy or an air force.
How can this be a war.
It’s just pure Murder by the Israeli forces.
Oil and Gas has just been found near where the Palestinians live.
The Israelis want it all.
Sunak, is a total idiot and how he became PM is a mystery to me -probably go down in history as UK’s worst PM. He is complicit in Genocide and the bombing of the Yemen. A true traitor and should be take to the Tyburn gallows.
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Was the “civilian” a man or woman?
Civilian is a fiction.
There are ONLY men or women.
STILL NO UNDERSTANDING ABOUT THE WORLD TAKING THIS TRAVESTY OF TYRANNY TO THE TOP OF THE HIERARCHY OF EVIL IN LONDON WITH THE FABIANIST IMPERIAL NAZI MONARCHS/PEERAGE AND CENTRAL BANKER FAMILY CARTEL IN THE CITY OF LONDON WHICH HAS NOW SPREAD TO THE BIS IN BASEL, SWITZERLAND WHERE EVERY WAR IS PLANNED FOR PROFIT AND THE RE-ACQUISTION OF ABSOLUTE POWER LOST WITH THE U.S. CONSTITUTION AFTER THE REVOLUTION.
TIME TO TAKE ALL THE FALSE FLAG WARS FOR PROFIT TO THE TOP AND HOLD THE DEMONS ACCOUNTABLE IN PUNISHMENT.
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The video by Max Igan, is even worse.
Shows dozens of people with Ty Rapped hands, behind their backs, getting Murdered, by the Israeli Army.
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Ha! Waving a white flag at the IDF savages just serves as a better target