Israel and Hamas human rights violations: new HRW reports
Human Rights Watch publicou recentemente dous informes sobre violacións dos Direitos Humanos perpetradas polo exército de Israel e por grupos armados palestinos.
O primeiro saíu a semana pasada e leva por título “Rockets from Gaza: Harm to Civilians from Palestinian Armed Groups’ Rocket Attacks”. Copio un extracto da súa introducción:
Since 2001, Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups in Gaza have fired thousands of rockets deliberately or indiscriminately at civilian areas in Israel. Such attacks virtually stopped during a ceasefire that began in June 2008 but escalated in November 2008 after an Israeli military incursion into Gaza. The rocket attacks continued during and since Israel’s three-week-long military offensive in Gaza that began on December 27.
Palestinian rocket attacks –which have killed three Israeli civilians and wounded dozens of others since November– are an ongoing threat to the nearly 800,000 Israeli civilians who live and work in range of the rockets. Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups have sought to justify the attacks as appropriate reprisals for Israeli military operations and the ongoing blockade against Gaza, and as a lawful response to the Israeli occupation of Gaza. As noted below, international humanitarian law (the “laws of war”) does not support these asserted justifications.
While Hamas has at times significantly decreased the level of rocket fire from Gaza, including by pressuring other armed groups to stop unauthorized attacks, it has taken no apparent action to prosecute or otherwise hold accountable Hamas forces or other Palestinian armed groups for launching unlawful rocket attacks against Israeli civilian areas. [...]
O segundo saíu antonte e leva por título “White Flag Deaths: Killings of Palestinian Civilians during Operation Cast Lead”. Copio un extracto da súa introducción:
This report documents seven incidents where Israeli soldiers fired on civilians with small arms during Israel’s major military operations in Gaza in December 2008 and January 2009. These attacks killed 11 civilians —including five women and four children— and wounded at least another eight.
These casualties comprise a small fraction of the Palestinian civilians killed and wounded during what Israel called Operation Cast Lead, but they stand out because of the circumstances of the attacks. In each case, the victims were standing, walking, or in a slowly moving vehicle with other unarmed civilians who were trying to convey their non-combatant status by waving a white flag.
All available evidence indicates that Israeli forces had control of the areas in question, no fighting was taking place there at the time, and Palestinian fighters were not hiding among the civilians who were shot. Whether waving a white flag or not, these people were civilians not taking an active part in hostilities, and therefore should not have been attacked, according to international humanitarian law (the laws of war). [...]
MuseScore 0.9.5
Xa saíu unha nova versión estable (a 0.9.5) do MuseScore, software libre de composición e notación musical desenvolvido por Werner Schweer (e outros, como é natural tratándose de software libre). Copio a súa presentación en inglés (tamén hai versión en galego)…
MuseScore is a free cross platform WYSIWYG music notation program, licensed under GNU GPL. Some highlights:
- WYSIWYG, notes are entered on a “virtual note sheet”
- Unlimited number of staves
- Up to four voices per staff
- Easy and fast note entry with mouse, keyboard or MIDI
- Integrated sequencer and FluidSynth software synthesizer
- Import and export of MusicXML and Standard MIDI Files (SMF)
- Platform independent code, binaries available for Windows, Mac and Linux
- Available in 19 languages
- GNU GPL licensed
Top new features
- With the release of MuseScore 0.9.5 comes the first stable release for Mac OS X 10.4 and above
- Create sound files of your scores via File → Save As... (WAV, OGG, and FLAC)
- Use and create plugins
- Know the pitch range of instruments (MuseScore marks out-of-range notes, for amateurs in yellow, and for professionals in red)
- Double-click to open a MuseScore file
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