Verdict of International Citizens Tribunal

Proceedings charged against the Israeli authorities by the victims of the war of July 12-August 24, 2006 with the support of Lebanese civil society, for the acts carried out by them and the amage to the Lebanese nation caused by them.

Brussels, February 22-23-24, 2008
International Associations Center
Jury: Lilia Solano (president), Adolfo Abascal, Claudio Moffa (reporter), Rajindar Sachar.

VERDICT: The International Citizens Tribunal on Lebanon, according to conventional and usual international law, and the imperative standards contained in the 1948 and 1949 Geneva Conventions and Protocol A (1977) and Statute of the International Criminal Court of 1998, noting the enormous crimes committed by Israel (indiscriminate bombardments and destruction, murder of more than a thousand people, among them children, women and elderly men, enormous damage to social and economic life) declare the Israeli authorities responsible for the 2006 war against Lebanon and guilty of the following international crimes:

1. war crimes
2. crimes against humanity
3. genocide

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