Back during Obama's intervention in Libya, NATO also struck water facilities including the great man made river project which was suppling 70% of Libya with water, depriving millions.
These military decisions are being made by genuine dirtbags.
And Clinton destroyed clean water in Iraq, killing tens of thousands of children due to diseases later.
Albright on 500k children killed - We think the price was worth it. may she rest in flaming piss and shit.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Obama is to libs what Trump is to conservatives: some "charming" war criminal
Nice ceasefire!
Attacking water systems is a violation of the Geneva conventions and a clear UNLAWFUL ORDER of which members of the military are compelled to not follow as they are bound by the Geneva Conventions and trained on it. May the commanders be outted and eliminated.
Protocol I (Article 54) and Protocol II (Article 15) of the Geneva Conventions prohibit attacking, destroying, or rendering useless objects indispensable to civilian survival, such as drinking water installations, dams, and dykes.
Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits collective penalties and all measures of intimidation or terrorism. Threatening to cut off electricity and water to an entire population as a means of coercing political compliance clearly constitutes collective punishment.
International humanitarian law classifies water infrastructure, including drinking water installations, treatment plants and pipelines, as civilian property which is not deemed a legitimate target during war.
After bombing a girls school, i think that the orange scum actually doesnt gives a shit bout war crimes neither human rights 🤬
Trump not caring about dead brown kids places him firmly in the mainstream of American political thought. I don’t remember a single conflict in my lifetime where the US has refrained from bombing civilian infrastructure. We should be mad, but certainly not at just that one guy who’s currently steering the orphan mulching machine
I thought the gulf monarchies would have tried to constrain Trump and the Israelis on striking water infrastructure, given their own obvious vulnerabilities on that front. Maybe they just don't have any sway anymore... or they are willing to play a game of chicken with IRGC, betting on them being unwilling escalate into actual mass atrocities against civilians.
they have no power over the entity. maybe they could've personally bribed trump some more? but israel has enough autonomy to bomb shit anyway
They definitely tried. Their opinion does not count though.
Here's why it's significant: it's a war crime that will kill potentially hundreds of thousands if not millions due to famine, dehydration and the spread of water born disease (which definitely can't start another pandemic. Who ever heard of a cholera pandemic, right?)
water wars getting a little ahead of schedule there
truly are the goats of war crime.
Son crímenes de guerra. Bombardear presas para impedir tener el acceso de agua a la población son crímenes de guerra. Es lo que está haciendo en Cuba. Asfixiar a la población.
Es lo único que saben hacer los Estados Unidos de Israel...
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