Calls mount for Gaza war crimes inquiry

The Israeli military are accused of:
• Using powerful shells in civilian areas which the army knew would cause large numbers of innocent casualties;
• Using banned weapons such as phosphorus bombs;
• Holding Palestinian families as human shields;
• Attacking medical facilities, including the killing of 12 ambulance men in marked vehicles;
• Killing large numbers of police who had no military role.

Gaza Massacre comparable to Sabra and Chatila. And the USA is accomplice in this crime.

UN Human Rights Chief Accuses Israel of War Crimes

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The massacre of Palestinians in Gaza and the continuation of Israeli atrocities

It has been going on for a long time. But it is now that the world may come to realise that this something that has been going on is a daily abomination for Palestinians, an ugly occupation, and a crime against humanity at a scale of time, space, and means, never witnessed in any other occupation history, except maybe the occupation of the American continent by European settlers.

Something to be ranked with Deir Yassin. With the Sabra and Shatila massacres. Something, at last, that Israel's foes can say looks like an atrocity.

This atrocity has become the hallmark and the distinctive signature of Israeli occupation.

Gaza: Deprivation and Irresversible Damage

Impoverished Palestinians on the Gaza Strip are being forced to scavenge for food on rubbish dumps to survive as Israel's economic blockade risks causing irreversible damage, according to international observers.

..."Because Gaza is now operating as a 'tunnel economy' and there is so little coming through via Israeli crossings, it is hitting the most disadvantaged worst." (Chris Gunness, UNRWA)

Could this political crisis with dire humanitarian consequences, consented by Israel and the West, qualify as Crime Against Humanity ? In the absolute sense, definitely YES, because it leads to the starving, deprivation, with death in the end, of hundred thousand people. In the relative sense, depending on the West's moral values of the moment, probably NOT.
Taking Jews to concentration camps was Ok for most people in Germany, most European countries who helped in their deportation, and the West, this is because people were asked to shut down their moral judgment and think in terms of nations, war, and politics. And who were the Jews at that time anyway to shake the moral sense of nations ? However, when the Nazi regime fell and the war ended, humanity retrieved its moral sense, and it judged those who were responsible for the death of million of Jews with crimes against humanity and war crimes, even though most high profile Nazis who were tried at Nuremberg claimed they were doing only their duty, as Israel is claiming now that it is blocking Gaza because of artisanal rockets.
It is our absolute moral sense, our virtue, the one that works beyond our social and political commitments, that made Nuremberg possible, and it will come back to haunt Israel this time when statistics of the occupation and the blockade will pile up and the drama unfolds to the world, and the world will stop turning its eyes from Gaza...