On June 5, 2024, an Israeli airstrike targeted a UN school in the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza, killing 27-30 people, including many women and children.
The attack, which sheltered thousands of displaced Palestinians, has sparked international outrage and condemnation, being labeled a massacre and an act of terrorism.
Israeli forces are besieging al-Awda hospital in Jabalia, north of the #Gaza Strip, and treatment services cannot be provided to the injured and sick, medical sources told Wafa, the Palestinian news agency. https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/144203#israelpalestine
Since POTUS loves tailoring policy & elections to listening to Republicans and MORNING JOE:
"Former Condoleezza Rice advisor & NSC spokesperson Elise Jordan erupts at President Biden’s unwillingness to condition weapons aid to #israel"
"Morning Joe guest Richard Haass calls for sanctions on Israel, criticizes Biden: "At some point, the words become empty...there has to be trade sanctions.”
@ World Central Kitchen @WCKitchen We are aware of reports that members of the World Central Kitchen team have been killed in an IDF attack while working to support our humanitarian food delivery efforts in Gaza. This is a tragedy. Humanitarian aid workers and civilians should NEVER be a target. EVER. 418 PM - Apr 1,2024 - 1.8M Views
reminder that if Netanyahu & the US gets away with this in #Gaza — targeting journalists, targeting hospitals and schools and refugee camps, starving millions of children, mass murder on the scale of tens of thousands, shutting down press, internet and information, killing humanitarian workers, preventing crucial aid convoy, firing on people receiving aid, and planning resettlement of regions based on ethnic identity — these methods will be normalized & advanced by other western nations & govts
In 2018 #Netanyahu's govt "pushed through Parliament a new law calling Israel the 'nation-state of the Jewish people'…its primary function is to build a formal foundation for Israel’s annexation of the West Bank—& for a Jewish state eventually to stretch over the whole of Palestine"…In 1948, the Declaration of Independence…created a Jewish state that would ensure 'complete equality of social & political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex'" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/opinion/israel-law-jewish-democracy-apartheid-palestinian.html
"Which means that the return of Palestinian refugees—far from necessitating Jewish exile—could be a kind of return for us as well, a return to traditions of memory & justice that the #Nakba has evicted from organized Jewish life.
“The occupier & myself—both of us suffer from exile,” Mahmoud Darwish once declared. “He is an exile in me & I am the victim of his exile.”
Today, at least one staff member of the UNRWA humanitarian aid organization was killed and 22 were injured in an Israeli air strike on a food and basic resources distribution center in Gaza.
“[...] food supplies are running out, hunger is widespread and, in some areas, turning into famine.”
“The Israeli Army received the coordinates including of this facility yesterday.”
— Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA Commissioner-General [1]
This comes four days after UNRWA members accused the Israeli military of torturing them to make false allegations about a supposed cooperation between the UNRWA and Hamas terrorists. [2] [3]
I rarely block or mute people on Mastodon because posts like this one from @nathaliaassaad remind me that apologists for the abduction, rape, and murder of Supernova festival goers really do exist.
This week on CounterSpin: International human rights lawyer Craig Mokhiber told Electronic Intifada recently that the International Court of Justice hearings on the legality of Israel’s 56-year occupation of Palestinian land are
the largest case in history—more than 50 countries are taking part in this, and the US is virt
#Israël en procès ?
Ce n'est pas ce qu'organise la #CIJ. Sa fonction est de dire le droit.
Un arrêt de l'invasion ?
La CIJ a condamné en 2022 l'invasion par la Russie, sans conséquence.
Kate Ferguson (cofondatrice de "Protection Approaches") : "Cela suffira-t-il à endiguer la vague de crimes d'atrocité ? Non, bien sûr."
I know Mastodon is designed to keep everything nice and to shield us from the horrors of the world, and that it is good for us to only look at cat pictures all day and cheer each other up, but honestly: sometimes i also think that that is just a lot of crap and everyone who turns away and continues with their nice privileged life as if all is ok is complicit #Gaza
@pvonhellermannn
The text pointed below may help. Sarah Aziza, through a stirring mix of personal reflection and philosophical reckoning, disabuses the Western witness of its self-gratifying power, instead – amid Israel’s openly broadcast yet unimpeded march towards genocide in Gaza – unmasking the impotence, deceit and hollowness that witnessing currently entails. More than a collective indictment or last-gasp scream of defiance into the void, Aziza’s own testimony guides the reader towards a form of witness no longer elevated in angelic, uncompromised distance, but instead manifest in the embodied, intimate, ego-displacing position of “sacrifice, mourning and resisting.” https://jewishcurrents.org/the-work-of-the-witness
"In this conversation, Said addresses comparatively his years of experience during #ForeignPolicy briefings, notably on Palestine, at the #USStateDepartment and #WhiteHouse, with focus on the current war on #Gaza."
"Palestinians across the West Bank describe how Israeli settlers, with military backing, are intensifying their takeover of land for illegal construction."
Amjad #Iraqi explains why Palestinians identify with Khader #Adnan, a prisoner who died on hunger strike, for his struggle against #israel#prisons.
"Those trying to undermine public anger over the hunger striker's death don't want to talk about the violent carceral regime that he struggled against."
"Despite their narrow focus, recent international sanctions against settlers are laying the foundations to turn verbal condemnations into tangible action."