What atrocities has Israel committed against the Palestinians?

Answer 1

Answer 1

The question is one-sided. Israel has certainly made mistakes and civilians have been killed. Israel is defending itself against the terrorists of the nationality named in your question; and collateral incidents do sometimes occur, just as by the hands of the U.S. forces in Afghanistan and elsewhere.

Unlike Palestinian terrorists, Israel never deliberately targets innocent people.

Answer 2

The question is appalling. It asks the responding contributor to spend time and thought, and come up with a list of charges that can be used to condemn.

One can only reiterate the statement in Answer 1, and urge you to think about it: Unlike many of its neighbors, Israel never deliberately targets innocent people.

Answer 3

While agreeing with Answers 1 & 2 that the question is biased and written in a way so as to avoid mentioning of the numerous Palestinian atrocities against Israelis, there are several particular atrocities committed by Israelis (mostly without government sanction) against Palestinians that are commonly mentioned as actual atrocities (see below). However, most people who use the term "atrocity against the Palestinians" use it to refer to anything that Israelis do regardless of whether it is considered an atrocity when Lebanese, Syrians, Jordanians, and Egyptians do the exact same things.

Deir Yassin (1947): This is probably the best-known Israeli atrocity. The Irgun, a Jewish terrorist organization entered the Palestinian town of Deir Yassin and massacred 107 non-combatant Palestinians. The Israeli leadership under Ben Gurion made it clear that such activities would not be tolerated and forcibly disbanded the Irgun.

Qibya Massacre (1953): Called Operation Shoshana by the Israeli Defense forces, Israeli troops under Ariel Sharon attacked the village of Qibya in the West Bank. 69 Palestinian Arabs, two thirds of them women and children, were killed and 45 houses, a school, and a mosque were destroyed. The attack followed cross-border raids from the Jordanian occupied West Bank in which Israeli civilians were killed. The U.S. State Department and Jewish communities around the world condemned the attack.

Kafr Qasim Massacre (1956): On October 29, 1956, Israeli border police (MAGAV) conducted a raid in the Arab-Israeli town, resulting in 48 Arab civilians dead, including 6 women and 23 children. Arab sources usually give the death toll as 49, as they include the unborn child of one of the women. The Israeli court found that the command to kill civilians was "blatantly illegal", and sentenced the border police responsible to lengthy jail terms which were later pardoned by the government. In December 2007, President of Israel Shimon Peres formally apologised for the massacre.

Cave of the Patriarchs Massacre (1994): American-born Israeli Baruch Goldstein, a member of the far-right Israeli Kach movement, opened fire on unarmed Palestinian Muslims praying inside the Abraham Mosque at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, West Bank. The attack left 29 male worshippers dead and 125 wounded. The attack only ended after Goldstein had expended his ammunition and was beaten to death by survivors. Within 48 hours of the massacre, riots all across the West Bank led to altercations between Palestinians and Israeli Defense forces, leading to the deaths of another 19 Palestinians. The Israeli government condemned the massacre and responded by arresting members of the Kach movement, forbidding certain settlers from entering Arab towns and demanding that those settlers turn in their army-issued rifles. Goldstein was denounced by mainstream Orthodox Judaism and was widely described as insane by Israelis.