View: https://twitter.com/jeremyscahill/status/1789721986525979027
I mean if the US actually had that info, wouldnt they have shared it anyways?
View: https://twitter.com/jeremyscahill/status/1789721986525979027
I mean if the US actually had that info, wouldnt they have shared it anyways?
The parents have a 5 and 3 year old and a 7 month old.Deborah Graves: Hi everyone, I wanted to share this opportunity to take action on behalf of one of our own classmate's parents, [Removed Student's Name], who was attending Tales and Trails with her dad a few times and her sweet mom and newborn until just before Ramadan. Both of her parents are medical professionals and were helping at a hospital in Gaza but are now unable to safely leave due to Israel closing that border. This info was forwarded to me from one of my coworkers at Redwood Raven campus.
"Twenty American doctors, who Traveled with their respective organizations in collaboration with the WHO, are being denied safe return by Israel to the United States.
Contact the Biden Administration and urge them to demand the Israeli government establish a safe humanitarian aid corridor, ensuring US and other aid workers can carry out their work without fear of attack and have the ability to return home safely.
Please take the following actions:
- go to bit.ly/letourdocsgo & follow the steps listed
- tag @potus and the @statedept in your shares and posts on social media
- if you are in CA or TX, please call your senator: bit.ly/senatefordocs
#LetOurDocsGo"
This shit is making it real easy to not want to be part of this site any longer.It seems that Nola has just been banned again for dubious reasons on another New York Times related post.
Vague enough that it can be applied to any post. It can really only be understood to mean "this post made me mad". Based on what happened in this thread a few weeks ago I think it's related to their criticism of the New York Times's biased coverage of the genocide.
- Inflammatory Commentary
This is referring to this part of Nola's post.
- Conflating Populations with Governments
Nola's comment here is fair and backed by numerous polls posted and discussed in this very thread. Stating this should not get someone a 2 month ban.
This is hard to take seriously when Nola's last ban for "Inflammatory commentary" was for criticizing the New York Times for manufacturing consent for American support of Israel's genocide in Palestine. When asked for clarification the justification given was they sounded like an "alt right / conservative".
- Numerous Recent and Serious Bans for Inflammatory Commentary
Within a couple weeks there was a thread about how the NYT chairman was pushing for anti-Biden coverage because he didn't get an interview. Naturally the thread was full of criticism for the NYT but the only person in that thread who got banned was decrying this incident with Nola.
Last month was a challenging time for this thread and especially so for Palestinian users who have been all but forced out through bans and a hostile moderation environment. I felt like we were starting to turn a corner but then the exact same thing that started it all happens again.
I'm extremely disappointed in Era's moderation.
What the fuck is this bullshit. Especially THIS part. There are PLENTY of polls showing otherwise. The Israeli state DEPENDS on the propaganda and child to soldier pipeline that is the IDF and it's birthright funding of Jewish people with ZERO roots to Israel to help establish a greater "force".It seems that Nola has just been banned again for dubious reasons on another New York Times related post.
Vague enough that it can be applied to any post. It can really only be understood to mean "this post made me mad". Based on what happened in this thread a few weeks ago I think it's related to their criticism of the New York Times's biased coverage of the genocide.
- Inflammatory Commentary
This is referring to this part of Nola's post.
- Conflating Populations with Governments
Nola's comment here is fair and backed by numerous polls posted and discussed in this very thread. Stating this should not get someone a 2 month ban.
This is hard to take seriously when Nola's last ban for "Inflammatory commentary" was for criticizing the New York Times for manufacturing consent for American support of Israel's genocide in Palestine. When asked for clarification the justification given was they sounded like an "alt right / conservative".
- Numerous Recent and Serious Bans for Inflammatory Commentary
Within a couple weeks there was a thread about how the NYT chairman was pushing for anti-Biden coverage because he didn't get an interview. Naturally the thread was full of criticism for the NYT but the only person in that thread who got banned was decrying this incident with Nola.
Last month was a challenging time for this thread and especially so for Palestinian users who have been all but forced out through bans and a hostile moderation environment. I felt like we were starting to turn a corner but then the exact same thing that started it all happens again.
I'm extremely disappointed in Era's moderation.
Example here:I would like to make it clear that this is very very much not me saying that all Israeli citizens are bloodthirsty or hate Palestinians or something in that vein, in fact, we have seen on numerous occasions that there are Israelis suffering from state violence because they are trying to protest the violence of the government towards Palestinians
Do mods have a time limit for how long they can be a mod so that new people can be brought into the moderation pool instead of having the same people for years?I have zero confidence in them after how it went with AsianEra and what happened here.
Heads up I would edit out the students' name out of respect for their confidentiality (unless this is something that was released 100% publicly).The irony in discrediting the entity that gave you a state.
EDIT:
My sister was just contacted by her daughter's teacher. The mom and dad of a student in her daughter's class is stuck in Gaza and can't get out.
The parents have a 5 and 3 year old and a 7 month old.
It's admittedly funny seeing the New York Times report on how college students dislike them over the Israel coverage lol. It's good that they highlighted this disparity at least.
This has always been a highly problematic element of moderation on this site. If the mods ungenerously interpret something you say then that is further justification to not give you the benefit of the doubt in the future. Meanwhile, certain people are always interpreted as acting in good faith, so they rarely face any consequences for the things they write. It creates a tiered structure which is never a good thing.
I hope the moderation team can see how highly troubling their behavior is here, but I sincerely doubt they will. In the past their response has always been to dig in their heels and then vaguely gesture at the idea of being better in the future.
I have zero confidence in them after how it went with AsianEra and what happened here.
Good call. I'm not sure if it was or not.Heads up I would edit out the students' name out of respect for their confidentiality (unless this is something that was released 100% publicly).
Al Jazeera's Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Deir el-Balah in the Gaza Strip, says medical staff at the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah have received an evacuation order from Israeli forces.
He said although the situation in the area has been "dire", until today, the Israeli forces had not placed a call to the hospital's director.
Medics based at the hospital fear that an attack on the hospital would mean a "complete collapse" of the limited medical system in Rafah, he added.
The enclave's Health Ministry says without fuel for hospital generators, the health system across Gaza could collapse in "a few hours".
"A few hours separate us from the collapse of the health system in the Gaza Strip as a result of the failure to bring in the fuel necessary to operate electricity generators in hospitals, ambulances, and transport employees," the ministry said in a post on social media.
Israeli tanks, under cover of heavy fire from air and ground, pushed further into Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday, residents and Hamas media said, while tanks and troops crossed a key highway on the outskirts of Rafah in the south.
In Jabalia, tanks were trying to advance towards the heart of the camp, the biggest of Gaza's eight historic refugee camps. Residents said tank shells were landing at the centre of the camp and that air strikes had destroyed clusters of houses.
Residents and medics said several people were killed and wounded in a series of air strikes on the camp overnight. Medics said they have been unable to send teams to some of the bombed areas because of the intensity of the Israeli bombardment but they have reports of fatalities.
In Rafah, near the border with Egypt, Israel stepped up aerial and ground bombardments on the eastern areas of the city, killing people in an air strike on a house in the Brazil neighbourhood.
Residents said Israeli tanks have cut off the Salahuddin Road that bisects the eastern part of the city, while the eastern part of Rafah remained a "ghost town".
Intense fighting was reported and Israeli forces and tanks were seen in the southeast area of Rafah, residents said.
Jack Lew, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, signalled on Sunday that the Rafah incursion was still on a scale acceptable to Washington.
The tweet is there if you click on the link, but here what it says:
Extremely painful scenes as Palestine Red Crescent teams evacuate four martyrs and 10 injured individuals, all of whom are children, including a baby, due to the Israeli occupation's shelling of a home in the Al-Zawaida area in the middle of the Gaza Strip.
Ah, my bad. Thank you! Also for providing us with all this information.The tweet is there if you click on the link, but here what it says:
Yeah I have seen how tough it is to criticize Israel in Germany. The media and the government are pro-Israel to the bone, probably more so than any other western country.Ah, my bad. Thank you! Also for providing us with all this information.
I live in Germany and I am trying to contribute to the conversation, but it's tough. Too many people are so quick to label any criticism "antisemitism", it's frankly disgusting how so many are taking the easy way out instead of critically engaging with the human rights violations in Palestine/Israel.
Not only attack but methodically target, and then go back and attack again.Feels like a century ago when we were told Israel will never attack a hospital, now it is a a norm and does not even register anymore
Not only attack but methodically target, and then go back and attack again.
Rafah should be the last straw for Egypt but I'm not getting my hopes up. I just want some kind of accountability for all this.
This is why I go to protests and rallies in my state when I can. As an American, I feel like it's my duty to protest my government making this genocidal state invincible. Where is the "red line?" What will it take to stop blindly supporting Israel and parroting their propaganda? It feels like screaming into the air at this point.That is the most mindboggling part, the whole world can see what is going on and still Israel cannot be held accountable because of the U.S . I have lost what little faith i had in any international institutions. this is beyond fucked up, none of this shouldn't have occurred in the first place.
I'd love to be surprised.Sure feels like a full scale invasion of Rafah at this point. Is Biden actually gonna stick to his red line? Does he still have any leverage over Netanyahu at this point?
This is why I go to protests and rallies in my state when I can. As an American, I feel like it's my duty to protest my government making this genocidal state invincible. Where is the "red line?" What will it take to stop blindly supporting Israel and parroting their propaganda? It feels like screaming into the air at this point.
there was never a red line ... the sooner people realize that the better. One would say Biden's administration keeps on moving the goalpost, but the reality is there was never a goal post. He is fully behind the ethnic cleansing and genocide we are all witnessing... anything else coming from him/his administration is just diversionSure feels like a full scale invasion of Rafah at this point. Is Biden actually gonna stick to his red line? Does he still have any leverage over Netanyahu at this point?
Frustrated by Gaza Coverage, Student Protesters Turn to Al Jazeera
It's admittedly funny seeing the New York Times report on how college students dislike them over the Israel coverage lol. It's good that they highlighted this disparity at least.
Someone needs to ask the Biden admin about where are all the Gaza civilians supposed to go to now? The entire area looks like Grozny after Russia leveled it.
Gaza is completely obliterated judging by recent aerial photos.
Sure feels like a full scale invasion of Rafah at this point. Is Biden actually gonna stick to his red line? Does he still have any leverage over Netanyahu at this point?
I mean, what happened last time mostly was that although some problematic bans get get reversed and the mod in question stopped posting, there was no in thread followup comment and afaik nothing really changed on that front. I had a feeling things would continue bc of that unfortunately.It seems that Nola has just been banned again for dubious reasons on another New York Times related post.
Vague enough that it can be applied to any post. It can really only be understood to mean "this post made me mad". Based on what happened in this thread a few weeks ago I think it's related to their criticism of the New York Times's biased coverage of the genocide.
- Inflammatory Commentary
This is referring to this part of Nola's post.
- Conflating Populations with Governments
Nola's comment here is fair and backed by numerous polls posted and discussed in this very thread. Stating this should not get someone a 2 month ban.
This is hard to take seriously when Nola's last ban for "Inflammatory commentary" was for criticizing the New York Times for manufacturing consent for American support of Israel's genocide in Palestine. When asked for clarification the justification given was they sounded like an "alt right / conservative".
- Numerous Recent and Serious Bans for Inflammatory Commentary
Within a couple weeks there was a thread about how the NYT chairman was pushing for anti-Biden coverage because he didn't get an interview. Naturally the thread was full of criticism for the NYT but the only person in that thread who got banned was decrying this incident with Nola.
Last month was a challenging time for this thread and especially so for Palestinian users who have been all but forced out through bans and a hostile moderation environment. I felt like we were starting to turn a corner but then the exact same thing that started it all happens again.
I'm extremely disappointed in Era's moderation.
View: https://twitter.com/BarakRavid/status/1790015282490101762
Just a normal day in Israel. A group of losers destroying Palestinian aid and the IDF does nothing. Got any of them hollow sanction threats there Biden you useless sack of shit?
The thing with the war crime of using starvation as a weapon against a population is that it's usually hard to prove. The usual trick is just "inspections" that take an indefinite amount of time, that give cover to plausible deniability. But openly destroying supplies makes it pretty obvious what they're doing (or condoning).
"The whole world is watching. (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu is starving the children of Gaza. We cannot be complicit in this atrocity," Sanders said in a video message on his X social account.
This Hasan quote is 100% spot on:Traditional MSM has been absolutely dogshit, especially with their student protest coverage. Its also led to Twitch streams becoming the go-to place for a lot of young people to get news updates.
Mainstream media are pretty much useless on this sort of stuff."[The media] loves talking to PR people when it comes to corporations," Piker said. "They have no problem talking to the media liaison when it comes to the NYPD or the LAPD and writing down everything they say without even asking remotely contentious questions. But when it comes to students, they don't treat these students as an organized entity at all."
View: https://twitter.com/BarakRavid/status/1790015282490101762
Just a normal day in Israel. A group of losers destroying Palestinian aid and the IDF does nothing. Got any of them hollow sanction threats there Biden you useless sack of shit?
Israeli authorities have no problem suppressing and spraying skunk water on anti-Netanyahu protesters (including hostage family members demanding a deal) in Tel Aviv, but they're obviously powerless against these fascist scum.The thing with the war crime of using starvation as a weapon against a population is that it's usually hard to prove. The usual trick is just "inspections" that take an indefinite amount of time, that give cover to plausible deniability. But openly destroying supplies makes it pretty obvious what they're doing (or condoning).
Fighting between Israel and Hamas intensified across the Gaza Strip on Monday, as mediators pushed for a resumption of talks to pause fighting and free hostages held in the strip.
Israel's military conducted ground raids in the northern Gazan areas of Jabalia and Zeitoun, and fought Hamas fighters in the southern city of Rafah. The raids underscored comments by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday that Israel could face a prolonged insurgency even if it routs Hamas in Rafah.
Israel has pushed further into Rafah over the past week in what it calls a targeted operation to pressure the U.S.-designated terrorist group into a deal that releases hostages in return for a temporary cease-fire.
But the tactic so far has brought only more intense fighting, including in parts of Gaza where the Israeli military previously said it cleared militants. Cease-fire negotiations, mediated by Egypt, Qatar and the U.S., also have stalled.
Still, Arab mediators hope to narrow the gaps between the two sides and expect to reconvene in Doha, Qatar, this week, Egyptian officials said.
The conflict is also creating major friction between Israel and Egypt, erstwhile enemies that signed a historic peace deal in 1979. Egypt on Sunday said it would intervene in support of South Africa's case accusing Israel of genocide at the International Court of Justice, citing concerns about the growing scale of Israel's operations in Gaza.
As a result of the fighting in Rafah, the Egyptian crossing at the border city has largely been closed. Military positions near the other important gateway into southern Gaza, Israel's Kerem Shalom terminal, have faced rocket barrages by Hamas. The Health Ministry in Gaza said Monday that a worsening lack of fuel meant it couldn't power generators in hospitals and ambulances.
Egypt is blocking any humanitarian-aid trucks originating in its country from entering Gaza through Kerem Shalom, according to Egyptian officials. Cairo was angered that Israel gave it short notice before seizing the Gaza side of the Rafah border crossing last week, and has threatened to cease acting as a mediator in the negotiations and suspend its peace treaty with Israel, the officials said.
In the podcast Sunday, the Israeli prime minister suggested Israel was bracing for a long insurgency in Gaza. He said the military's first job was to destroy the Hamas battalions at Rafah and "mop up" any other fighters. Israel would then have to demilitarize the strip and enter a period when Hamas would launch periodic attacks, "and that's going to be a while," he said.
Netanyahu in parallel said he hoped that Israel could work with local Gazans to manage civilian affairs with support from other Arab countries, an option Palestinian leaders have dismissed and some within Israel's military have said is unrealistic.
A United States Department of Defense official announced his resignation today, marking a rare public departure from the Pentagon over the Biden administration's Israel policy.
Harrison Mann is an executive officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency, which collects military intelligence. In his letter of resignation, Mann said the government's "nearly unqualified support" for Israel has "enabled and empowered the killing and starvation of tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians," and that he believed his work "unquestionably contributed to that support." "This has caused me incredible shame and guilt," Mann wrote in a redacted version of his resignation letter shared on LinkedIn.
Mann adds to the growing number of government officials who have publicly resigned over the Biden administration's Israel policy, including officials from the State Department, Education Department, and USAID. Many more reportedly resigned quietly. "I have seen a clear uptick in non-public resignations in the past few weeks," a former State Department official who resigned in November told Politico, adding that more will likely follow.
View: https://twitter.com/BarakRavid/status/1790015282490101762
Just a normal day in Israel. A group of losers destroying Palestinian aid and the IDF does nothing. Got any of them hollow sanction threats there Biden you useless sack of shit?
EDIT:
My sister was just contacted by her daughter's teacher. The mom and dad of a student in her daughter's class is stuck in Gaza and can't get out.
The parents have a 5 and 3 year old and a 7 month old.
The UN vehicle that got hit a few hours ago was apparently on a mission to rescue the doctors.UPWARD OF 20 American doctors are trapped in Gaza as a result of Israel's post-invasion closure of the Rafah border crossing into Egypt, according to sources with knowledge of the plight of two ill-fated medical missions.
Israel has blocked fuel, food, and water from entering Rafah for over a week, leading to severe dehydration among the general population, as well as among the doctors on mission.
Relatives of the doctors were told by the State Department that rescue efforts were underway, including through coordination with the United Nations and the Israel Defense Forces. Yet on Monday, the Israeli military fired on a United Nations vehicle that was traveling to the European Hospital in Khan Younis, near Rafah, killing a U.N. employee and injuring another.
A family member of one of the doctors stranded at the European Hospital said that he suspected the vehicle was part of the rescue mission, but was uncertain. "We are aware that a car that is similarly supposed to be their rescue passage was shot at and UN employees were killed and injured and we fear for their ability to have a safe passage and exit," said the relative. "We are aware that there is active shelling around the hospital and that staff has been told to stay away from windows."
The doctors are rationing water and at least one physician is in poor health and is on an IV drip to combat dehydration. The dire state of the medical mission underscores how difficult the conditions are for average Palestinians, who have spent seven months enduring the Israeli siege, whereas the medical mission arrived only recently. More than 1 million Palestinians are trapped in Rafah, which is at the southernmost end of the Gaza Strip. As Israel threatens a full-scale invasion of Rafah, Israeli troops entered the area last week and took over the crossing into Egypt.
The doctors are part of two medical missions, one of which was organized by FAJR Scientific, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment. It was not immediately clear which organization set up the second mission.
The Intercept asked about the stranded doctors during the State Department's daily briefing on Monday. "We're aware of these reports of U.S. citizen doctors and medical professionals currently unable to leave Gaza," said spokesperson Vedant Patel. "We don't control this border crossing and this is an incredibly complex situation that has very serious implications for the safety and security of U.S. citizens. But we're continuing to work around the clock with the government of Israel and with the government of Egypt to work on this issue."
Wow, the latest ban against Nola is outright disgusting. The administration might as well come out and say they just want opinions pre-approved by White liberals. What a joke of a forum! Is it the problem that we're too brown for your tastes? Y'all haven't even had the decency to show up your faces around here to apologize after your latest pathetic stunt and here we are again with the same BS...
I've seen polls that show the overwhelming majority of Israelis support the genocide in Gaza... White liberal genocide apologists are trying to silence people like Nola for speaking the truth.So listened on the way home and like a lot of The Daily coverage it comes 80% of the way to being a great piece but then contains about 20% that taints almost everything and borders on misinformation peddling(and is hard to catch if you aren't engrossed in the topic in detail), including the way they use active/passive voice and selectively encourage trust and skepticism based on which side is making an allegation.
They seem to pretty accurately frame everything(albeit noting they carry through the entire piece a subtle and unchallenged US imperialist view) right up until they get to the end where they begin doing what I suspected which was the both sides dance when the facts would seemingly paint Israel as the monster and problem here.
They accurately frame the Israeli domestic aversion to a ceasefire and discussed Palestinian statehood deal as not just a far right view, but a consensus Israeli public view. As are most of Bibi's views. But of course to balance the scales the reporter switches to editorializing when the host asks what Hamas's position toward this framework of a deal would be. First prefacing(paraphrasing), well, it's hard to say what they want, we don't really know BUT: [INSERT]two minute diatribe repeating every Israeli anti Hamas talking point about all Hamas will accept is Jewish blood and genocide(despite the Hamas leadership spokesman stating their position in contradiction of the reporter's editorializing, which even if you doubt, which would be fair, should be noted). Editorializing that even goes against what their own reporting has touched on as Hamas's goals and diverging views amongst leadership. Then despite starting the segment stating, accurately, only Israel has refused to sign a ceasefire deal with a long-term contingency, they then start framing that too as both sides based on that editorializing. Like, what?
Felt obvious by the end that The Daily couldn't dare to let the piece reach the conclusion the evidence pointed to which is: despite everything, there is more motivation in a generation from the US, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, and the Arab world to see not just an end to this conflict but a real Palestinian state and the problem is that Israel's bloodthirsty government and population are dead set against that. Which they've done that manufactured both-sides or misinformation pump by my count now 4 times with coverage of Gaza on The Daily(and probably more but I've stopped listening): Their reporters not actually coming away with evidence of command centers under hospitals where they just sort of ended the show giving the IDF the benefit of the doubt, the passive voice they used to talk about Israel's bombing of WCK, their water carrying for the UNRWA accusations show, or when they suddenly pivoted on an episode about the UN genocide claim to evoke IDF talking points and frame Israel as the victim and JAQ'ing off about how maybe it's really equally Hamas's fault, maybe?
What is insidious to me about the NYTimes coverage on Israel(and a lot of US foreign policy) is the way they just inject subtle editorial decisions, or how they frame stories, that can drastically change the context you would come away from their stories with if you just went in without a ton of prior knowledge.
Yup, they are among this group.AMERICAN MEDICAL MISSIONS TRAPPED IN GAZA, FACING DEATH BY DEHYDRATION AS POPULATION CLINGS TO LIFE
American Medical Missions Trapped in Gaza, Facing Death by Dehydration as Population Clings to Life
Upward of 20 American doctors are trapped in Gaza, some at the European Hospital, due to Israel’s post-invasion closure of the Rafah border crossing.theintercept.com
The UN vehicle that got hit a few hours ago was apparently on a mission to rescue the doctors.
Really upsetting footage at the start of this report
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98dBYg32UuI
The Biden administration does not see it likely or possible that Israel will achieve "total victory" in defeating Hamas in the Palestinian enclave of Gaza, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell said on Monday.
While U.S. officials have urged Israel to help devise a clear plan for the governance post-war Gaza, Campbell's comments are the clearest to date from a top U.S. official effectively admitting that Israel's current military strategy won't bring the result that it is aiming for.
"In some respects, we are struggling over what the theory of victory is," Campbell said at a NATO Youth Summit in Miami. "Sometimes when we listen closely to Israeli leaders, they talk about mostly the idea of....a sweeping victory on the battlefield, total victory," he said.
"I don't think we believe that that is likely or possible and that this looks a lot like situations that we found ourselves in after 9/11, where, after civilian populations had been moved and lots of violence that...the insurrections continue."
Yeah, but if you can't stomach a vote for Biden, you're as bad as Trump. Don't you know what Trump would do?Biden is so far past plausible deniability in every faucet of this ethnic cleansing. This genocide is a partnership event between the west and Israel.
People do this because they're scared shitless at the possibility of a second Trump term.Yeah, but if you can't stomach a vote for Biden, you're as bad as Trump. Don't you know what Trump would do?
That's how so many people talk, including here. God forbid the people asking for a non-genocide candidate voice their opinion without a bunch of holier than thou liberals show up on your doorstep telling you how it isn't Joe's fault and how much he's privately upset.
Rightfully so.People do this because they're scared shitless at the possibility of a second Trump term.
Malcom X made these statements during his time in the Nation of Islam and he died 60 years ago prior to the to the 'Southern Strategy' being established and utilized, which vastly changed the leanings of Democrats and Republicans and is the point that the GOP squarely became the party that used race as a bullhorn to get votes.
I've seen polls that show the overwhelming majority of Israelis support the genocide in Gaza... White liberal genocide apologists are trying to silence people like Nola for speaking the truth.
Hamas *are* terrorists, including against their own people. The IDF *are* committing war crimes at the behest of Bibi/Likud/Israeli Government.Despite the devastation, 57% of respondents in Gaza and 82% in the West Bank believe Hamas was correct in launching the October attack, the poll indicated. A large majority believed Hamas' claims that it acted to defend a major Islamic shrine in Jerusalem against Jewish extremists and win the release of Palestinian prisoners. Only 10% said they believed Hamas has committed war crimes, with a large majority saying they did not see videos showing the militants committing atrocities.
View: https://twitter.com/jeremyscahill/status/1789721986525979027
I mean if the US actually had that info, wouldnt they have shared it anyways?
ICJ says these are new [issued on March 28] provisional measures in addition to reaffirming the ones from February:
View: https://twitter.com/CIJ_ICJ/status/1773376361362489490
The Court is also of the view that the provisional measures indicated in the Order of 26 January 2024 do not fully address the consequences arising from the changes in the situation explained above, thus justifying the modification of these measures...
The Court also notes the statement of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, according to which "[t]he situation of hunger, starvation and famine is a result of Israel's extensive restrictions on the entry and distribution of humanitarian aid and commercial goods, displacement of most of the population, as well as the destruction of crucial civilian infrastructure" (Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), "Comment by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on the risk of famine in Gaza", press release, 19 March 2024)...
The Secretary-General of the United Nations, for his part, referring to the latest IPC Global Initiative report on food insecurity in Gaza, stated that: "Palestinians in Gaza are enduring horrifying levels of hunger and suffering. This is the highest number of people facing catastrophic hunger ever recorded by the Integrated Food Security Classification system -- anywhere, anytime. This is an entirely manmade disaster -- and the report makes clear that it can be halted. Today's report is Exhibit A for the need for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire." (United Nations, Secretary-General's press encounter on Gaza food insecurity report -- Statement, 18 March 2024.)
...For these reasons, THE COURT... Indicates the following provisional measures:
The State of Israel shall, in conformity with its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, and in view of the worsening conditions of life faced by Palestinians in Gaza, in particular the spread of famine and starvation...
Take all necessary and effective measures to ensure, without delay, in full co-operation with the United Nations, the unhindered provision at scale by all concerned of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance, including food, water, electricity, fuel, shelter, clothing, hygiene and sanitation requirements, as well as medical supplies and medical care to Palestinians throughout Gaza, including by increasing the capacity and number of land crossing points and maintaining them open for as long as necessary...
...Israel's military assault and operation are killing the Palestinian people of Gaza, while Israel is simultaneously starving them, and deliberately denying them humanitarian aid and the basic necessities of life. Those who have survived so are facing imminent death now, and an Order from the Court is needed to ensure their survival... Israel has seized control of both the Rafah and the Kerem Shalom (Karem Abu Salem) crossings in Rafah, [19] thereby taking full and direct control of all entry and exit of people and goods to and from the whole of Gaza. It has to date closed both crossings to the movement of goods and people in both directions, [20] blocking the two main arteries for getting life-saving aid to Gaza's starving population. [21] The failure by Israel to allow in the fuel necessary for sustaining humanitarian operations and facilities such as sewage and water plants is throttling the already crippled humanitarian operation. [22]
...In view of the extreme urgency of the situation, South Africa requests that the Court consider this Request without a hearing, insofar as that would be capable of expediting a determination within a week, by 17 May 2024. However, if the Court considers that it cannot accede to South Africa's request for an Order without a hearing, the Court is respectfully requested urgently to schedule an oral hearing for South Africa's Request to be heard on or before 17 May 2024, in accordance with Article 74(1), (2), and (3) of its Rules.
Specifically, South Africa requests that the Court indicate the following provisional measures:
1. The State of Israel shall immediately withdraw and cease its military offensive in the Rafah Governorate.
2. The State of Israel shall immediately take all effective measures to ensure and facilitate the unimpeded access to Gaza of United Nations and other officials engaged in the provision of humanitarian aid and assistance to the population of Gaza, as well as fact-finding missions, internationally mandated bodies or officials, investigators, and journalists, in order to assess and record conditions on the ground in Gaza and enable the effective preservation and retention of evidence, and shall ensure that its military does not act to prevent such access, provision, preservation or retention.
3. The State of Israel shall submit an open report to the Court: (a) on all measures taken to give effect to these provisional measures within one week as from the date of this Order; and (b) on all measures taken to give effect to all previous provisional measures indicated by the Court within one month as from the date of this Order.
...As stated by the United Nations Secretary General on 7 May 2024, "[w]e are at a decisive moment for the Palestinian and Israeli people and for the fate of the entire region". [58] In this moment, South Africa respectfully asks the Court to accede to its request to indicate further and/or modified provisional measures in these proceedings, and to clarify those provisional measures the Court has already ordered.
The extreme gravity of the situation facing Palestinian men, women and children in Rafah, and the existential risk that the Palestinian people in Gaza as a part of the Palestinian national, racial and ethnical group face, demands further action by the Court.
In the words of the spokesperson for UNICEF, "[w]e have pleaded and implored countless times; we do so once more. For the children of Rafah. We need a ceasefire, now." [59]
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...Israel's attack on April 1 on the World Central Kitchen convoy, which killed seven workers, far from being an isolated "mistake," is just one of at least eight incidents that Human Rights Watch identified in which aid organizations and UN agencies had communicated with Israeli authorities the GPS coordinates of an aid convoy or premises and yet Israeli forces attacked the convoy or shelter without any warning.
In these eight incidents, Israeli forces killed at least 15 people, including 2 children, and injured at least 16 others. Five of these attacks were the subject of a recent New York Times investigation that included visual evidence and internal communications between aid organizations and the Israeli military.
The other seven attacks are:
As of April 30, the UN reported that 254 aid workers had been killed in Gaza since October 7, 2023, with UNRWA personnel accounting for 188 of these fatalities. On May 13, a UN vehicle was hit on the way to a hospital in Gaza, killing at least one UN staff member and injuring at least one more. According to UNRWA, 169 of its facilities have been affected by the hostilities in 368 incidents and at least 429 displaced people have been killed in UNRWA shelters. Israeli forces have, according to the UN, also shot at and shelled people congregating to collect aid, killing and injuring hundreds. These attacks are having a chilling effect on efforts to provide lifesaving aid in Gaza.
- Attack on a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF or Doctors without Borders) convoy, November 18, 2023
- Attack on a guest house of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), December 9, 2023
- Attack on an MSF shelter, January 8, 2024
- Attack on an International Rescue Committee (IRC) and Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) guest house, January 18, 2024
- Attack on an UNRWA convoy, February 5, 2024
- Attack on an MSF guest house, February 20, 2024
- Attack on a home sheltering an American Near East Refugee Aid Organization (Anera) employee, March 8, 2024
...During a recent trip to Cairo and northern Sinai, near the border between Egypt and Gaza, Human Rights Watch met with staff from 11 humanitarian organizations and UN aid agencies operating in Gaza who said that Israeli attacks on aid workers had forced them to take various measures that for some included suspending activities for a period of time, reducing their staff inside Gaza, or severely restricting their aid activities in other ways.
"I can't risk sending more staff into Gaza because I cannot rely on deconfliction as a way of keeping them safe," a senior employee from one of the organizations whose guest house was attacked told Human Rights Watch. He said this was a key factor in limiting the organization's ability to provide medical services. "You can build docks and send shipments, but without a safe operating environment, you will have a pile up of shipments that people aren't able to deploy safely to help people."
This pattern of attacks despite proper notification of Israeli authorities raises serious questions about Israel's commitment and capacity to comply with international humanitarian law, which some countries, including the UK, rely on to continue to license arms exports that end up in Israel.
Human Rights Watch has found that Israeli authorities are using starvation as a method of warfare in Gaza. Pursuant to a policy set out by Israeli officials and carried out by Israeli forces, the Israeli authorities are deliberately blocking the delivery of water, food, and fuel, willfully impeding humanitarian assistance, apparently razing agricultural areas, and depriving the civilian population of objects indispensable to its survival. Children in Gaza have been dying from starvation-related complications.
Israel has not responded to a Human Rights Watch letter sent on May 1, requesting specific information about the attacks on aid workers documented in this report.
...Israel should make public the findings of investigations into attacks that have killed and injured aid workers, and into all other attacks that caused civilian casualties. The Israeli military's long track record of failing to credibly investigate alleged war crimes underscores the importance of the International Criminal Court's (ICC) inquiry into serious crimes committed by all parties to the conflict. Israeli and Palestinian officials should cooperate with the ICC in their work, Human Rights Watch said. Israel should also provide the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel access to Gaza to conduct its investigations.
Given the pattern of attacks on aid groups that have provided Israeli authorities with proper information about their locations, a group of recognized international experts should conduct an independent review of the humanitarian deconfliction process. Israel should give these experts full access to its processes, including the coordination and communications that occur before, during, and after such attacks as well as information regarding any alleged military target in the vicinity and any precautionary measures taken to mitigate harm.
Israel's allies, including the United States and United Kingdom – both states sending the weapons parts apparently used in at least one of the documented attacks – should suspend military assistance and arms sales to Israel so long as its forces commit systematic and widespread laws-of-war violations against Palestinian civilians with impunity. Governments that continue to provide arms to the Israeli government risk complicity in war crimes.
They should also use their leverage, including through targeted sanctions, to press Israeli authorities to cease committing grave abuses and enable the provision of humanitarian aid and basic services in Gaza, in accordance with Israel's obligations under international law and recent International Court of Justice (ICJ) orders to Israel in the case brought by South Africa concerning alleged violations of the Genocide Convention.
"On one hand, Israel is blocking access to critical lifesaving humanitarian provisions and on the other, attacking convoys that are delivering some of the small amount that they are allowing in," Wille said. "Israeli forces should immediately end their attacks on aid organizations, and there should be accountability for these crimes."