This is not so. They are just passing on what they’ve read in the media, and which doesn’t bear scrutiny.
I’ve looked into it direct at the Geneva Conventions. I’m not a lawyer, but have a lawyer spouse and lawyer son and I’m also not stupid. I can read. The Geneva Convention relating to the issue of civilians is The Fourth Geneva convention and nowhere does it require that a country provide water, food and electricity to its enemy. It talks only of how a country must treat the civilians of the enemy that come under its control. The “collective punishment” refereed to the sorts of things done but the Nazis, when one person in a village attacked German troops, and the punishment was to kill the whole village. The situation we have in Gaza was not covererd.
It’s anti-semitic to claim that Israel is “collectively punishing". Because for no other combatant, nowhere else in the known world, does anyone, of any faith, creed, or nationality make the equivalent claim. It’s always about Israel and it’s always because of the Jews. We just have to admit to ourselves, the sad fact that jew-hatred is very much alive and well in our supposed civilised west. In our schools, in our universities, in our civil service, in our very friends and family.
Natasha Hausdorff, an International War Crimes expert makes the case in the video above.
ADDED: Natasha in more detail of the international law issues around Israel. Including discussion of Uti Possidetis Juris in YT: “Jerusalem and the International Settlements”.
