Category: Israel Crimes
Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories is illegal, a form of apartheid, and must end, says the U.N.’s high court at The Hague.
The ICJ Ruling Confirms What Palestinians Have Been Saying for 57 Years
Buried under rubble, lost in the chaos, decomposed beyond recognition: the desperate struggle to find thousands amid Israel’s ongoing war.
Searching for Gaza’s missing children
Israel using water as weapon of war as Gaza supply plummets by 94%, creating deadly health catastrophe: Oxfam
Oxfam analysis also found:
- Israeli military attacks have damaged or destroyed five water and sanitation infrastructure sites every three days since the start of the war.
- The destruction of water and electricity infrastructure and restrictions on entry of spare parts and fuel (on average a fifth of the required amount is allowed in) saw water production drop by 84% in Gaza. External supply from Israel’s national water company Mekorot fell by 78%.
- Israel has destroyed 70% of all sewage pumps and 100% of all wastewater treatment plants, as well as the main water quality testing laboratories in Gaza, and restricted the entry of Oxfam water testing equipment.
- Gaza City has lost nearly all its water production capacity, with 88% of its water wells and 100% of its desalination plants damaged or destroyed.
The Zionism Observer collective took down an IDF extortion website, reverse-engineered the site’s data, and released it to the public
Here’s how a collective of tech professionals shut down the Israeli army’s extortion website — twice
Israel’s legalization of settlements in the northern West Bank, explained
Israel is launching a political and military assault on the West Bank. Its legalization of settlements in the north is a crucial part of the story.
Most people probably don’t know this, but Wikipedia has a page called “List of Israeli assassinations”. It begins in July 1956 and stretches over 68 years until today. The majority on the list are Palestinians; among them are famous Palestinian leaders including Ghassan Kanafani of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine; Fatah’s Khalil Ibrahim al-Wazir – also known as Abu Jihad; Hamas’s Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s Fathi Shaqaqi.
When looking at the long list, it is impossible not to notice that the number of assassinations and assassination attempts Israel has carried out over the years has increased exponentially: from 14 in the 1970s to well over 150 in the first decade of the new millennium and 24 since January 2020.
The Jewish settler colonial project is protean. It changes its shape but not its essence. Its tactics vary. Its intensity comes in waves of severe repression and less repression. Its rhetoric about peace masks its intent. It grinds forward with its deadly, perverted, racist logic. And yet, the Palestinians endure, refusing to submit, resisting despite the overwhelming odds, grasping at tiny kernels of hope from bottomless wells of despair. There is a word for this. Heroic.
A missile struck a children’s hospital in Kyiv on Monday during the heaviest Russian bombardment on Ukraine in months, which stretched across five regions and reportedly killed some forty people.
After the inhuman destruction of Gaza’s health system, looks like bombing hospitals is bad again
By Caitlin JohnstoneJul 11, 2024
The directive means the Israeli military could use any means to prevent Israelis from being taken captive even if it puts their life in danger.
A report published by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz on Sunday confirmed that the Israeli military implemented a secretive procedure known as the “Hannibal directive” during the response to the October 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel.
The directive allows Israeli forces to prevent Israelis from being taken hostage, even if that means putting their lives in danger. The directive had historically only applied to soldiers, but it was also used on Israeli civilians during the October 7 response.
Report Confirms Israel Ordered ‘Hannibal Directive’ During October 7 Response
Boy witnessed killing of his brother.
Israelis laughed after shooting me, says survivor of 8 June massacre
Fedaa al-Qedra 8 July 2024
What might the consequences be for future generations?
Why Gazans’ Extreme Hunger Could Leave Its Mark on Subsequent Generations
Escaping Gaza has left me with mixed feelings. On the one hand, I had managed to survive a genocide that had starved and almost killed me and my family. But I was also saying goodbye to a place I had loved for my entire life. The moment we crossed into Egypt, we were destined for a life as exiles—refugees with no clear destination, searching for a place to feel at home again. Leaving behind everything we had built—every dream and ambition—was dreadful. We were forced to start a new life from scratch.
I left Gaza because I want to keep talking about it. I want to keep my home—Palestine—in my life and work. To do that, I have to stay alive, and that got harder every day in Gaza. As Palestinian journalists, we are deprived of any protection that international law or press credentials should provide. I have lost many colleagues and loved ones simply because they took on the responsibility of highlighting the struggles of their fellow Palestinians.
“I Heard a Machine Gun Being Loaded”: A Harrowing Escape From Gaza
Members of the Tulkarem resistance in the northern West Bank remain defiant as community members rally around them after an Israeli airstrike assassinated one of their leaders.
‘For the resistance’: Tulkarem residents face Israeli airstrikes and assassinations
before a military review board, an attorney for Guantánamo Bay’s “forever prisoner” revealed that negotiations are underway for his possible release after being tortured and detained without charges for 22 years.
Negotiations Are Underway for Guantánamo’s “Forever Prisoner” From Gaza to Be Released
It was noon on June 26 when the residents of the al-Shuja’iyya neighborhood east of Gaza City — one of the largest neighborhoods in the Gaza Strip inhabited by over 300,000 people — were taken by surprise as Israeli tanks rolled into their neighborhood.
Former detainees say the Israel Prison Service “has significantly reduced their food rations, to the point of starvation, causing them to shed dozens of kilograms.”
Israeli Officials Hiding Data About Forced Starvation of Gaza Prisoners: Report
Jun 27, 2024
At Sde Teiman, Khaled Mahajneh found a detained journalist unrecognizable as he described the facility’s violent and inhumane conditions.
‘More horrific than Abu Ghraib’: Lawyer recounts visit to Israeli detention center
By Baker Zoubi
“They want to erase the Palestinians who are living,” said Rep. Rashida Tlaib, “and now they are trying to erase the Palestinians who are dead.”
‘Genocide Denial’: Tlaib, Lee Slam Bipartisan Effort to Suppress Gaza Death Toll
Bomb, Drone, Tank, Detsroy, kill at will, Shut the Hospitals and bring Starvation = Genocide
Source: Gaza’s Hospitals Are Empty, and Patients Die in Silence – ScheerPost
Israel’s claims to being a “civilised democracy” and having “the most moral army in the world” have come under severe scrutiny by the international community since its disproportionate and dysregulated reaction to the horrific events of 7 October 2023. Whilst the flaming flags of “civilisation versus barbarism” are still being waved in Israel’s favour by some corners of the Albanese government, opposition parties and the media, such advocacy cannot be allowed to undermine Australia’s rule of law responsibility to protect its citizens from complicity in war crimes by foreign military forces, but also to show that the law applies to all, and that it is not antisemitic to state that to be the case.
Source: Protecting our citizens from complicity in Israel’s war crimes – Pearls and Irritations
Since the 1980’s Israel’s biggest fear was the development of a pan-Islamic state military coalition. Libya, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Iran and Yemen. With the help of America bringing down Gadaffi, invading Iraq twice they set themselves on a course of civil war invasion and any means to not let that happen. They have used the kingdoms and dictators to help that end. An Israeli psychosis has always been present. To say they were surprised by Oct 7th belies the reality that they with the blessing of America they actually encouraged the Hamas foray to capture hostages and gain both a bargaining chip and world attention. After all America warned them of what was coming down the pipeline and they claimed “We knew nothing” Their second most important export is SECURITY
If reelected in November, Trump is likely to renew his unqualified support for Israeli expansionism, not only when it comes to annexing the West Bank and resettling Gaza but also for a broader regional conflict that could unleash Israel against Iran and its allies in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen.
Source: Opinion | Biden’s Middle East Policy Is Horrific. Trump’s Would Be Even Worse | Common Dreams
An especially bizarre example of propaganda has been published by the Israeli military over the past few days.
Despite how it is perpetrating a genocide in Gaza, the army boasted of conducting “humanitarian aid efforts” throughout the current war.
Palestinians have not witnessed any work by Israel that could accurately be categorized as “humanitarian.”
Source: Hunger is rapidly getting worse in Gaza | The Electronic Intifada
Australian parliamentarians are responsible for the wellbeing of Australia’s multicultural society but in the last eight months the majority have failed to understand the reaction of those citizens who have experienced colonisation, occupation and war. These Australians are more likely to identify with oppressed people, so they expect their parliamentarians to articulate commitment to international humanitarian law. And of course, as we know many Australians are opposed to militarism as a means to resolve conflict. It is important to recognise those few political representatives who have tried to initiate difficult debate about how Australia should respond when a hitherto trusted ally ignores international law to engage in ethnic cleansing? Australians want to see their representatives and senators engage in informed consideration of complex issues that require sensitivity and courage. Time is running out for many parliamentarians to fulfil their obligations and Australians are watching and waiting for greater responsibility .
Source: Why has the Australian Parliament failed to debate the tragedy of Gaza? – Pearls and Irritations
“We are not guests in our country, this is our country, all of it…” Feiglin said, adding, “As Hitler said, ‘I cannot live if one Jew is left.’ We can’t live here if one ‘Islamo-Nazi’ remains in Gaza.”
Source: Israeli Politician Quotes Hitler to Argue for Resettlement of Gaza | Common Dreams
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is opposed to plans announced by the military to hold daily tactical pauses in fighting along one of the main roads into the besieged and bombarded Gaza Strip to facilitate aid delivery into the Palestinian enclave.
Under UN Security Council Resolutions 2015/2222 and 2006/1738, which denounce international attacks on journalists and media workers in times of armed conflict, targeting journalists is considered to be a war crime and a violation of international law. Additionally, the 1977 Geneva Conventions’ Additional Appendix (Protocol) I, Article 79, emphasises the need to safeguard journalists who work in areas of armed conflict by treating them as civilians.
Source: EuroMed: “Israel Escalates Attacks Against Palestinian Journalists In Gaza” | – IMEMC News
The Israeli military, at times in collaboration with Israel’s Border Police and Israel’s domestic secret police Shin Bet, has continued to conduct deadly raids into the occupied West Bank, wreaking havoc to private Palestinian property and civilian infrastructure in the process.
Source: Israel kills children, damages infrastructure in West Bank | The Electronic Intifada
Last Saturday, Israel massacred hundreds of Palestinian civilians in an operation to rescue four Israeli hostages. American commentators rushed to justify the brutal operation.
Source: Israel Killed Hundreds of Civilians to Save Four of Its Own
Israel joins ISIL, Taliban, Sudan on UN Blacklist of Violators of Children, Killing or Maiming 20,000 last Year
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel issued a report on Wednesday in […]
UN Commission of Inquiry: Israel guilty of Crimes against Humanity, Hamas Guilty of War Crimes
The creation of Israel was tragic mistake but never an accident
As Israel’s atrocities continue to mount in Gaza, the LA Progressive (6/7/24) wrote that though Biden claimed to care about the loss of civilian life in Gaza, and that an Israeli attacked on Rafah would be a “red line,” “events of the past weeks have demonstrated that none of these claims are in fact true.” It added that a month ago, Hamas agreed to an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire agreement “that looked a lot like the ceasefire agreement now being promoted by the Biden administration,” but Israel responded by rejecting that agreement as well.
In addition, Israel closed off the border area between Israel and Egypt, cutting off any aid or supplies from coming into famine-ravaged Gaza. The authors concluded, “What has transpired is a horrifying series of massacres against civilians, which the Biden administration continues to try to downplay, excuse and explain away.”
Over the last eight months, US establishment media have helped Biden “explain away” such atrocities. They have not stopped repeating Israel’s propaganda, and have acted as willing conduits for Israeli disinformation. It is past time they stopped doing so, and started reporting on what is actually happening on the ground in Gaza, not through the eyes of the IDF.
Source: When Israel Burned Refugees Alive, Establishment Media Called It a ‘Tragic Accident’ – ScheerPost
Nearly 20 years after the Second Intifada, the Israeli military has resumed airstrikes in the West Bank — and killed 24 children.
Source: Israel’s New Air War in the West Bank: Nearly Half of the Dead are Children
This was intentional. You don’t accidentally kill massive amounts of children and their families over and over again and get to say, “It was a mistake.” Genocidal maniac Netanyahu told us he wants to ethnically cleanse Palestinians.
Since October 7th last year more than 9,500 Palestinians including 635 minors from the West Bank and Occupied Jerusalem have been held in Israeli jails. More than 3,400 Palestinian detainees, including women and children, have also been placed in administrative detention under the pretext of secret evidence. All prisoners and detainees have been subjected to systematic physical and psychological torture, deprivation of basic needs of human life and minimum levels of treatment.
Barghouti was one of the authors of the 2006 Palestinian Prisoners’ Document. The document called for the establishment of two states with resistance to Israeli occupation limited to military targets within the territory seized by Israel in the 1967 war. It was significant in that it recognised Israel and had broad political support among the various Palestinian factions. Should the time come and he were released Marwan Barghouti could well be the Palestinian leader needed to be a partner for a much needed peace in Palestine and Israel.
Source: Palestinian prisoners starved, abused and mistreated – Pearls and Irritations
The Quds News Network claimed that US soldiers were involved in the Israeli assault, sharing footage supposedly showing that US forces used the US-built humanitarian pier in Gaza to sneak American soldiers into the camp. An Israeli source claimed that US soldiers were wounded in the assault.
According to media reports, Israeli forces used two civilian cars carrying humanitarian aid. Survivors related that Special Forces assaulted civilians while disguised as aid workers and displaced persons. “They were in a truck carrying clothes and cooking pans,” a wounded eyewitness described the Israeli forces. “The United States actively coordinated, planned, and supported Israel in deceiving starving Palestinians and carrying out the slaughter of hundreds,” wrote one Palestinian journalist.
Following the assault on Nuseirat, the UN World Food Program halted its aid operations in Gaza through the US-built pier, saying that two of its warehouses were bombed during the attack. Videos of a helicopter leaving the US-built pier on Saturday have also raised questions over the US direct military involvement in Gaza under the guise of humanitarian aid.
The massacre suggests that the Biden administration’s “aid pier” may be something rather different. The $320-million pier, which Palestinians call the “occupation port,” may have been quietly morphing into a military base, as footage from May showed the US
Source: Israel Has Carried Out Another Civilian Massacre in Gaza
But the OHCHR, Laurence said, is “profoundly shocked at the impact on civilians of the Israeli forces’ operation,” which killed at least 274 Palestinians, including 64 children and 57 women, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society.
Source: UN Human Rights Office Says IDF’s Deadly Nuseirat Raid May Amount to War Crime | Common Dreams
Apple employees and shareholders demands the tech giant stop matching employee donations to organizations with ties to the Israeli military assault on the Gaza Strip and ongoing illegal settlement development in the West Bank. The letter, building on a previous demand by Apple employees for a ceasefire in the conflict, calls on the company to “promptly investigate and cease matching donations to all organizations that further illegal settlements in occupied territories and support the IDF.”
organizations on Apple’s matching contribution list appear to include support for religious extremism or back activity in the West Bank deemed illegal under international law. The One Israel Fund, for example, includes on its website a talk titled “The Arab Takeover of Judea and Samaria: Who Is Behind It; What Can Be Done?” — invoking the religious name of the territory that is deemed to be part of a future Palestinian state under international law. HaYovel, a Christian Zionist organization, states on its website that its goal is to help further the “prophetic restoration” of a region that “many incorrectly refer to as the West Bank.” The charitable status of the Jewish National Fund has come under criticism in both the U.S. and European Union due its historic involvement in the “systematic discrimination” against Palestinians since the founding of the state of Israel, as well as ongoing support for dispossession of Palestinians in the West Bank.
Source: Apple Matches Donations to IDF and Illegal Settlements, Employees Allege
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