Gaza’s hospitals have been relying on generators powered by humanitarian fuel deliveries to run oxygen machines and other services since all electricity was cut off to the Gaza Strip in October [Mousa Salem/Anadolu images]
The 10-bed stabilisation centre at Kamal Adwan Hospital, the only facility treating severe acute malnutrition in northern Gaza, was evacuated last week.
Health workers killed in the Gaza war have included 55 highly qualified specialists who were seeking to create a healthcare system for a Palestinian state.
‘Palestine is a European issue’: European Parliament candidate Rima Hassan. “Europe should recognise Palestine as a state.., impose economic sanctions by suspending the EU-Israel Association Agreement, enforce an arms export embargo .. & implement sanctions on Israel akin to those on apartheid South Africa” - I agree! @palestine
@palestine@kiki_mwai_mwai
“claims genocide without proof”?
If 36,000 dead, bombings of hospitals, doctors, ambulances, enforced starvation and torture don’t constitute genocide in YOUR definition .. they do according to international law.
The emergency committee for north Gaza has declared Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, a disaster area.
Palestinians returning to Jabalia after Israeli forces withdrew have found homes and infrastructure destroyed.
Palestinians are struggling to meet their basic needs, including safe drinking water, after Israeli forces destroyed dozens of wells as well as sewage systems and other basic infrastructure.
Statement by Richard Goldstone on behalf of the Members of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict before the Human Rights Council
Human Rights Council 12th Session – 29 September 2009 #gaza#westbank@palestine
The Israeli Knesset’s preliminary bill to designate UNRWA as a terrorist organisation is an outrageous attack on humanitarian assistance, and an act of collective punishment against the Palestinian people.
Israel’s allies, which are all members of the United Nations, must stand against this move to criminalise humanitarian assistance and ensure that #UNRWA can continue its essential work.
Christopher Lockyear, secretary general of Doctors Without Borders (#MSF) International.
In the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of al-Issawiya, Israeli authorities reportedly forced a Palestinian to demolish his own home and displace his family of nine, claiming he lacked a permit to live there.
He was forced to carry out the demolition himself since Israeli authorities charge exorbitant fees if the municipality razes the structure.
The far-right Israeli security minister, Bezalel Smotrich, has threatened that Israel will destroy cities and towns in the occupied West Bank in the same way it has in Gaza.
Addressing residents of the Palestinian areas of Tulkarem, Nur Shams, Qalqilya and Shuweika, Smotrich wrote on X: “We will turn you into ruins like in the Gaza Strip if the terror you are perpetrating on the settlements continues.”
Israeli forces have carried out violent, near daily raids throughout these West Bank areas and others since October 7, regularly storming into homes, rounding up Palestinians en masse and bulldozing roads. During these raids, at least 519 Palestinians have been killed and more than 5,000 injured.
Call to the International Criminal Court to investigate on Ursula von der Leyen for complicity in war crimes and genocide committed by Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and in Gaza (Press Release | Geneva International Peace Research Institute, 2024-05-27)
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“On May 22, 2024, the Geneva International Peace Research Institute (GIPRI), the Collectif de Juristes pour le Respect des Engagements Internationaux de la France (CJRF) and a group of international concerned citizens, submitted a legal brief to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (#ICC) Karim Khan requesting the opening of an investigation against Ursula von der Leyen for complicity in war crimes and genocide against Palestinian civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, including the Gaza Strip.”
Palestinians flee after the Israeli army targeted a tent camp for the displaced in al-Mawasi, which was previously declared a ‘safe zone’ by Israel, near Rafah in southern Gaza, on May 28, 2024 [Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency]
Mexico City: Israeli Embassy Set On Fire Using Molotov Cocktails As Protests Intensify Against Israel’s Massacre In Rafah (Free Press Journal, 2024-05-29)
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“An angry mob, on Wednesday, set ablaze the Israeli embassy in Mexico City as protests intensify against Israel's massacres in Rafah in Gaza…”
A statement from an emergency worker in Rafah:
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"Most of the bodies were charred and burned, while the injured people lost limbs and suffered other injuries due to the use of internationally prohibited weapons that caused the massive fire which erupted. We pulled out approx 50 people and injured people from the area and transported them to field hospitals after official hospitals were forced to evacuate in an attempt to destroy the health system in the Rafah area”
@Mary625@MikeImBack@appassionato@palestine Today I voted in my national, regional and provincial elections. I made sure not to vote for those supporting or excusing this genocide. It might not be much, but that was my single issue and I made it count. Also, the politicians excusing this genocide are about to loses areas they control. Their stance is going to cost them a lot. Good
Israel orders Spain to stop consular services for Palestinians from June 1 (Maybe the Spanish should defy this directive?) israel@a.gup.pe @palestine@spain
Murdering tens of thousands of civilians, most of them women and children. Rendering 1.7 million more homeless. Commanding the refugees to crowd into tents in a designated “humanitarian zone,” then bombing it, killing dozens at a time. The Israeli government has done all of these things on purpose.
Think how many more Palestinians the Israeli military might have already slaughtered if not for the pressure brought to bear against them, chiefly as the result of grassroots protests. This is why we have to keep organizing and taking action in solidarity with Palestinians. If we let this kind of brutality become normalized, the future will be bloodier than we can imagine.
“Speaking at the university's graduation ceremony, [Shruthi] Kumar … criticized the university administration's stance on Gaza.
“Kumar, who is of South Asian origin, noted that their messages of freedom of expression and solidarity with Gaza were penalized shortly before graduation, saying: ‘I am deeply disappointed by the intolerance for freedom of speech and the right to civil disobedience on campus.
“‘The students had spoken. The faculty had spoken.’
"’Harvard, do you hear us?’ she further said, receiving a standing ovation.”
Damn, I have loved this man since I discovered his music in high school and I love him so much more right now. In a lifetime of disappointing former heroes, Paul still shines.
Israeli military has targeted at least 10 displacement centres affiliated with UNRWA in the past 24 hours.
Shelters housing tens of thousands of Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been hit in Jabalia, Nuseirat, Gaza City and Rafah. With the latest strikes on Rafah, the death toll of the attacks stands at over 190.
Recent attack on Rafah was carried out using seven 2,000-pound (one-tonne) bombs, which killed at least 30.
A statement from an emergency worker in Rafah:
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“We received a distress call after the area behind Al Baraksat was targeted, even though the Israeli occupation had marked that particular block as a safe zone and forced citizens to move there. It took us approximately 45 minutes to suppress the fire in the area, and we pulled out a number of dead bodies and injured people."
