Alana Goodman reports in the Washington Free Beacon story “Human Rights Groups Refuse To Condemn Iran’s Strike on Israeli Hospital” (links omitted):
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Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and other prominent human rights groups that frequently launch baseless attacks against Israel have so far declined to condemn Iran’s strike on an Israeli hospital that injured at least 80 people.
The Washington Free Beacon reached out to over a dozen self-proclaimed human rights groups that are some of the loudest and most frequent critics of Israel to ask for comment on Iran’s airstrike on the Soroka Medical Center in southern Israel on Thursday. The bombing destroyed the hospital’s surgical ward and was one of many Iranian airstrikes to hit civilian targets since the conflict between Israel and Iran turned hot earlier this month.
Amnesty International told the Free Beacon that it was “unable to comment at present as our research team is still looking into this incident.” It has not taken the same sort of caution with Israel, continuing to denounce it on social media and accusing the Jewish state of deliberately imposing “genocidal conditions against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza strip.”
When Israel raided Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza—a Hamas command center—Amnesty International described the operation as “a devastating attack on human rights.”
Amnesty International criticized Israel’s military action in Iran earlier this week, saying the “world must not allow Israel to use this military escalation to divert attention away from its ongoing genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip, its illegal occupation of the whole Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) and its system of apartheid against Palestinians.”
Two other human rights groups, Nonviolence International and PAX for Peace, told the Free Beacon they were unable to comment because of staff holidays. Earlier this week, PAX condemned Israel “for this illegal military action” in Iran and submitted a petition to lawmakers calling for a “complete arms embargo against Israel.”
Whole thing here.
