GAZA IS HELL ON EARTH: famine, lack of water & fuel, untreated injuries, disease, #domicide..
Rafah has a spiraling HC crisis.
Israel’s MIL ops. have overwhelmed hospitals -already struggling to treat patients suffering from malnutrition & disease.
Bodies lay where they fell, in the “red zone” -few ambulances available could not reach bc of Israeli bombardment. Border crossings remained closed Thurs, stranding critically ill patients-.
I'm livid, I understand #MAGAMike's motive, but Min. Ldr McConnell shouldn't question Pres Biden as he finally limits arms to IL bc of the famine in Gaza & #domicide, meaning, that the Palestinians have nowhere safe to go: their homes, bus'... destroyed💔. It should be bc of credible #warcrimes, #IHL... The #ICC is considering issuing arrest warrants for Netanyahu & other top IL officials for alleged war crimes, incl. genocide, incitement to genocide, & the crime of apartheid123.
"Received new flyers: IL’s demand for PA's to flee Rafah *threatened for months to invade despite warnings -it'd cause a bloodbath.
"Packed up what they could -no place to go.” Reported “increased bombardment” in the area -sounded like they were targeting her civilian neighborhood💔. "Everyone knows in 48-72 hrs, things will turn very grim -if you haven’t left *blanket excuse for the IL army to say ‘You can’t blame us for carpet-bomb-."
Gaza's destruction -IDF can't normalize the extent of the #domicide:
"We're the unit at least until we left that blew up the most amount of houses in Gaza."
"Even if it was not possible to establish genocidal intent, widespread destruction rendering a place uninhabitable could still amount to a crime against humanity.
The “buffer zone” being cleared by the IDF along the border with Gaza doesn’t fit the definition of such zones within the Geneva Con-."
Horror upon horror, where are the Palestinian people supposed to live?
"Gaza’s 37M tonnes of bomb-filled debris could take 14 yrs to clear, says expert. Clearing & rebuilding them will be slow & dangerous work bc of the threat from shells, missiles or other weapons buried in collapsed or damaged buildings. On average ~10% of weapons failed to detonate when they were fired & had to be removed by demining teams."
@rat the problem with JNF (Keren Kayemet) is not “stealing”. Land was bought, technicaly, legally. The purpose and the means are the issue. Land ownership for example, which goes back to Ottoman reforms in the middle of the 19th century. The Ottomans refused to intervene when a land was legaly bought, though the ownership of the landlord was not question or understood until later.
Any ways, Pappe deals extensively with the JNF’s contribution to #domicide of Palestine in “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine”.
[cont’d] He of the #HannibalDirective in Be’eri, #BarakHiram, received a reprimand from the Southern Command General for “not going through the proper channels” to authorize the bombing of the al-Asraa university in Gaza
The order was given around the time of the start of Israel's trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, which drew international criticism. Hiram claimed there were militants in the building and tunnel openings on the premises.
The #IDF stated that during combat operations in the Gaza Strip, there are clear instructions and guidelines that determine who has the authority to approve the bombing and demolition of certain types of buildings, such as government facilities, hospitals, and other public institutions. The demolition of al-Asraa and the process of approving the bombing will be “thoroughly investigated”.
@sellathechemist@pvonhellermannn@RadicalAnthro aaah sorry, but the 'some' finding this #BBC segment biased is me. How the presenter is playing dumb 'didn't #Hamas also commit #domicide on Oct 7th?'" like OK, not everyone speaks Latin, but certainly every BBCService presentor of that caliber actually does: domus, domicile, domicide, it's not hard. Basically wasting the time of the UN Rapporteur and mine. I frankly don't care "some #Israeli will find this hard to stomach'.RIP Hind ✊🏽 🌹 .
#Palestine / This is what ethnocide looks like: Israel deliberate destruction of Palestinian academia.
On January 17th, the last remaining intact university in Gaza, Al-Aqsa University, was bombed and completely destroyed by the Israeli military. The bombing of #Gaza's universities is not collateral damage, but part of Israel's deliberate policy to destroy Palestinian academic and cultural life.
Israeli academic institutions have not spoken out against this destruction and its consequences.
Over the past 40 years, Palestinian universities have faced systematic harassment by #Israel, including campus closures and restrictions on faculty, students and academic cooperation.
Since October 7, the situation has severely intensified. In the occupied West Bank, most studies are online due to restrictions. In Gaza, all academic institutions have been destroyed, along with schools, libraries, archives and other educational sites.
Hundreds of students and faculty members have been killed in the bombings. At least 94 university staff members in Gaza are reported dead. Prominent academics have been specifically targeted and killed.
This represents an almost complete destruction of Palestinian academic life that will take years to rebuild. Surviving students and staff are traumatized, grieving and displaced.
Palestinian intellectual life is critical for society. Israel's systematic targeting of #academia is aimed at erasing not just physical infrastructure but Palestinian cultural and spiritual life.
Dr. Anat Matar (ענת מטר): "As Israeli academics, we must raise our voices against the killing of students and colleagues, mass arrests, and the annihilation of education in Gaza."
Israeli soldiers have begun in recent weeks to set fire to homes in the Gaza Strip, following direct orders from their commanders, without the necessary legal permission to do so, according to information obtained by Haaretz....
Israeli army occupies Gaza homes – then burns them down (Haaretz)
"Information obtained by Haaretz indicates IDF commanders have ordered soldiers to set fire to abandoned Gaza homes without legal approval. Several hundred have already been irreparably damaged"
Alex Karp (#Palantir) / Israel’s biggest supporter in the world: "I want to shame those who are not speaking up."
[…] Karp's support for Israel is not surprising, and possibly even beneficial, for Palantir in the Israeli market. Palantir has a office in Tel Aviv, which is home to many government agencies and security organizations that are potential clients. By positioning itself as an advocate for Israel, Palantir can differentiate itself from its competitors and attract more business. "The advantage of Israel is its ability to respond quickly and effectively to emergencies," Karp said. "Our products know how to give the best response possible in such situations. I am confident that in the near future, we will have more to say about the things that Palantir has done for Israel."
Hebrew (The Marker) https://archive.is/lnFPc
Elsewhere (Bloomberg) https://archive.is/d9Jho
[…] If the West didn’t have “real adversaries,” Karp said he’d be one of the people trying to contain #AI’s use in the military. “But the reality of our life now, as #Israel knows, is our adversaries are real, dangerous and they go so far outside the norms of behavior.
Apparently on going occupation, #ethnocide and #domicide, are within the “norms of behavior”.
Alex Karp is the son of a Jewish immigrant who came to the United States in the 1960s. Palantir is a software company that specializes in data integration and analytics. The company has been involved in several high-profile projects, including working with the US Department of Defense and the #FBI, and faced criticism for its ties to law enforcement and surveillance activities. Palantir has been involved in some controversial projects related to immigration and national security.
Balakrishnan Rajagopal, the UN special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, has said that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) should consider the scale of damaged and destroyed housing in Gaza as part of the genocide case against Israel.
Between 71.1 to 82.7 percent of buildings in the area around Gaza City in northern Gaza were “likely damaged or destroyed”.
#domicide must be recognised as an international crime
The massive, arbitrary destruction of civilian housing in violent conflict should be recognised as a crime under international law, the UN’s independent housing rights expert told the General Assembly today [28 October 2022].
[cont’d] The obliteration of Gaza’s multi-civilizational treasures [Ibtisam Mahdi]
[…] #Israel’s war has brought ruin to thousands of years of rich heritage in #Gaza, with Palestinian experts decrying the destruction as a cultural genocide.
A relatively new word in the lexicon of war is “domicide”. It describes the destruction of houses and other buildings, making the area where they once stood no longer habitable.
"The destruction of more than a third of Gaza’s homes as Israel bombards the territory in pursuit of Hamas is leading international legal experts to raise the concept of “domicide” – the mass destruction of dwellings to make the territory uninhabitable."
Israeli army occupies Gaza homes – then burns them down (www.haaretz.com)
Israeli soldiers have begun in recent weeks to set fire to homes in the Gaza Strip, following direct orders from their commanders, without the necessary legal permission to do so, according to information obtained by Haaretz....