{"id":317487,"date":"2023-10-25T04:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T04:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularindinews.com\/?p=317487"},"modified":"2023-10-25T04:26:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T04:26:02","slug":"a-lot-of-israeli-soldiers-will-lose-their-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/popularindinews.com\/india\/a-lot-of-israeli-soldiers-will-lose-their-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"‘A lot of Israeli soldiers will lose their lives’"},"content":{"rendered":"

”Hamas is going to be prepared. There will be booby traps and tunnels; it’s going to be door to door fighting.’<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kenneth Roth<\/strong> was the executive director of Human Rights Watch from 1993 to 2022 when during his watch, HRW shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997, for banning of anti-personnel mines, helped to establish the International Criminal Court and ban children in the military.<\/p>\n

Roth has lent his voice to human right violations in Haiti, Myanmar, the Middle East, and Bangladesh and while in office tried, but failed to establish an HRW office in India due to what he says is the ‘Modi government’s hostility toward human rights groups’.<\/p>\n

After quitting HRW last year, he teaches at Princeton University, speaks at college campuses, and writes articles for the press.<\/p>\n

Roth’s father fled Adolf Hitler’s Germany in 1938 just ahead of World War II. Roth was born in the United States and says his opinions on Israel, despite being Jewish, has led to vilification and being called anti-semitic.<\/p>\n

“Hamas is pretty indifferent to the lives of Palestinian civilians. When it launched this attack into southern Israel, it knew that there would be horrible retaliation against Gazan civilians and it did it anyway. Hamas couldn’t care less,” Roth tells Rediff.com<\/strong><\/em>‘s Swarupa Dutt<\/strong> in the concluding segment of an exclusive interview.<\/p>\n