Some videos started to surface documenting more sophisticated operations against the occupation forces by resistance fighters in the #OccupiedWestBank.
I hope a checkmate for #MahmoudAbbas and his thugs is imminent and that Palestinians are self reorganizing under a new leadership.
"We want to do something that will have impact on the ground but we don't think the Algerian resolution (which calls for an immediate ceasefire) will do that."
US UN Representative on Aljazeera just now
America has tabled its own resolution calling for a "temporary ceasefire" and condemns any military incursion into Rafah. How the fuck is a temporary ceasefire rather than an immediate one likely to be "more effective"?!??
"Palestine’s UN envoy Riyad Mansour was moved to tears in his final remarks at the ICJ’s hearing on Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories as he described how international law has not protected Palestinian children in #Gaza or the #OccupiedWestBank."
Sarwar clearly has no authority to express a concrete opinion about the SNP cease fire motion.
I really hope any discussions that take place between the SNP and Labour on the SNP's motion don't end up in the kind of pointless finessing that's dogged the UN Security Council.
(I fear Starmer et al, having been bounced for a second time by the SNP, will seek to water down the SNP motion in some way.)
The Israelis have deployed IDF troops in disguise to execute three men whom they accused of being members of "Hamas and Islamic Jihad", the three individuals had taken refuge in the hospital in Jenin, in the Occupied West Bank.
"Meta’s policies and practices have been silencing voices in support of Palestine and Palestinian human rights on Instagram and Facebook in a wave of heightened censorship of social media amid the hostilities between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups that began on October 7, 2023."
More than 100 Palestinian journalists and cameramen have been killed in Gaza in less than three months. Journalists are classed as civilians by the Geneva Conventions and are to be protected in times of war. The Israeli state and its military are deliberately targeting journalists in Gaza and the killing is being enabled by its allies.
[…] Extremist settlers, by targeting and killing Palestinian civilians, are undermining security and stability for both Israelis and Palestinians.
Israel must take stronger action to stop settler violence and hold the perpetrators accountable.
We are banning those responsible for settler violence from entering the UK to make sure our country cannot be a home for people who commit these intimidating acts.
#OccupiedWestBank / Left-wing Israeli Activists Attacked While Protecting Settler-targeted West Bank Village
[...] Since the outbreak of the war in Gaza, activists have been sleeping regularly at the village due to settler violence and threats.
[...] The attack occured while the activists were sleeping in the homes of Palestinian residents of the village of Al Farisiya, near the settlement of Rotem in the northeast West Bank. Residents have been suffering repeated harassment and threats from settlers the past several months.
This article contains images of violence some might find disturbing.
Israeli political parties #Hadash (Democratic Front for Peace and Equality) and #Maki (Israeli Communist Party) warn against the implications of including unconvicted civilians in the prisoner exchange deal.
In response to the Israeli government's publication of the list of prisoners #Israel will release in exchange for the release of captives held by #Hamas they say:
"The Israeli government published the names of prisoners it will release as part of the deal to exchange captives, which included the names of Arab civilian women arrested after October 7, during a turbulent wave of political persecution, without any conviction in Israeli courts. "
"What is now required is the immediate cessation of false arrests against Arab citizens as part of the "witch hunt," and the release of the young women to their homes irrespective of any deal."
[…] New York Times analysis of data on the Palestinians released showed that a majority of them had not been convicted of a crime. There were 107 teenagers under 18, including three girls. Another 66 teenagers were 18 years old. The oldest person released was a 64-year-old woman.
[…] Israel detained all of the people on the list for what it said were offenses related to Israel’s security, from throwing stones to more serious accusations like supporting terrorism and attempted murder. More than half of the cases were being prosecuted in Israeli military courts, which try Palestinians in the occupied West Bank but not Israeli settlers who live there.
[…] Nearly all Palestinians tried in Israeli military courts are convicted, and those accused of security offenses can be imprisoned indefinitely without charge or trial. Israel has defended these practices as necessary for maintaining its security, but international human rights groups have widely criticized them as violating international law and said they are used to suppress Palestinian political activity and expression.
1/2 Enraged Israeli spokes people are a very common sight on Western TV these days, but this exchange between Sky's Kay Burley and Israel's Eylon Levy seem to set a new low.
Speaking to Levy about Israel's decision to handover 150 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for 50 Israeli children and babies, Burley said she had spoken “to a hostage negotiator” about the discrepancy in the numbers. He made the comparison between the 50 hostages that Hamas has promised to release as opposed to the 150 prisoners that are Palestinians and Israel has said that it will release, [...] Does Israel not think that Palestinian lives are valued as highly as Israeli lives?"
#BanalityOfEvil [repost] “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story”
About the Palestinian children Israel sent to jail. An edited extract from “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story”, which was recently published by Allen Lane.
“In her work as a doctor with #UNRWA, the UN relief and works agency for Palestinian refugees, Huda saw things that made her afraid for her sons. She had witnessed a soldier shoot a boy who threw a stone at a tank. The soldiers stopped her from going to help him as he fell to the ground. At home in Sawahre, listening to the nightly news of West Bank killings and closures, she had trouble sleeping. She knew Hadi was out throwing stones.”