The UN Security Council has endorsed a ceasefire plan aimed at ending the eight-month war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
The resolution was supported by 14 of the 15 council members, with Russia abstaining.
Category: Israel Crimes
“The street was filled with civilian body parts and many injuries bleeding out without ambulances being able to reach them.”
Source: Nuseirat Massacre: Insid1e the Carnage of Israel’s Hostage Rescue
I think the only answer is transcending war!! War begins with — and is not possible without — dehumanization. “These are human animals,” as Yoav Gallant said.
See more at https://english.pravda.ru/opinion/159801-leaders-war-humanity/
The American-Israeli collaborative war on Gaza and its immediate consequences made the Western world and all of its institutions shamefully redundant and void in the 21st century global norms of civility, human rights, freedom
Anti-refugeeism, Anti- Aid, is pure Zionist Ideology and has been for since the beginning of the doctrine. They opposed any Red Cross assistance given to Jews during WW2 and promoted deals with the Nazis and Mussolini to betray the British in Palestine in exchange for the forced transference of Jews from labour camps to Palestine. Aid delays any project and today it does the same. Its why UNRWA the UN and any other volunteer agencies are so fiercely attacked. Ben Gvir was a terrorist at 16 and still remains an unashamed terrorist today.
“In our opinion Israel should withhold fuel from Gaza and reduce the humanitarian [aid] that enters,” Ben-Gvir said on social media, adding that he would not support a cease-fire deal put forward by Israel because it “would endanger the future of the state of Israel.”
Source: As Gaza Starves, Israeli Minister Ben-Gvir Calls to Reduce Humanitarian Aid | Common Dreams
The Flag March on Jerusalem Day is an accurate thermometer of the condition of Israeli society. It measures the levels of hatred, racism and violence in the religious Zionist society and the tolerance of the police and the rest of society to these traits. This year’s diagnosis is terminal. Wednesday’s march was one of the most violent and ugliest I have seen – and I have witnessed every single one over the past 16 years.
Fifty-seven years after Jerusalem was united and eight months since the outbreak of the war, the Israeli leadership that passed through Damascus Gate on Wednesday has no relevant answer for the future and for the people of Jerusalem and Israel. They have no plan, no solution and no hope to offer. Instead, they hope we will make do with revenge.
“It took a genocide that killed 15,000 children and maimed and scarred thousands more but the U.N. has finally and rightly added Israel to its List of Shame,” said one Palestinian observer.
Source: ‘Historic, But So, So Late’: Israel Added to UN’s Child-Killing ‘List of Shame’ | Common Dreams
Parts recovered from an Israeli attack on Thursday, which killed 40 Palestinians, made by US manufacturer.
Collective punishment
Eyewitnesses say the attack on the Nuseirat school was horrific, with Israeli forces releasing two bombs on the building that was sheltering 6,000 Palestinians who had been displaced multiple times over the course of Israel’s genocide. At the site of the attack, the smell of blood hangs heavy in the air, reported Palestinian journalist Hind Khoudary.
“We were inside the school and suddenly we were bombed, people here turned to pieces on a harsh night … this building housed families and young people, and the shelling took place without warning,” survivor Anas al-Dahouk told Al Jazeera.
The school is one of the many UNRWA facilities that have been targeted by Israeli forces since October. According to Lazzarini, 180 UNRWA buildings have been attacked, killing at least 450 Palestinians in UN facilities alone.
Source: US Bombs Used in Israeli Massacre of 40 in Gaza Refugee Camp – ScheerPost
Israel doesn’t even know if any of the 40 killed were Hamas. Yet they are prepared to make the excuse that it was a legitimate precision strike because the 30 Hamas militants they were targeting were holding 6000 Gazans hostage. (Old Dog)
On T hursday, Israel hit a Gaza school building with what it said was a targeted airstrike on up to 30 Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters inside, and a Hamas official said 40 people were killed including women and children sheltering at the UN site.
Israel’s military said it had identified nine of 30 militants targeted in the strike. The UN Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) said its school was being used as a shelter for 6000 displaced people at the time.
Many houses are not fit to live in after an Israeli invasion of Nur Shams refugee camp. Read more about
Gloom grips the West Bank
Fayha’ Shalash 6 June 2024
When Palestinians are killed by Israel, they are often referred to by the media as “people” instead of Palestinians and the passive “died” is used instead of “killed.” They do the opposite in the case of the Israelis, referring to “conflict” instead of occupation and terming Israeli-squatter-settlements on Palestinian land “disputed” rather than “illegal” (as they are according to the Geneva Convention). This pattern demonstrates the importance of scrutinizing and challenging the language used to deal with the
Israeli occupation and oppression of the Palestinian people.
This didn’t make mainstream news in America
Source: Jewish US Army Major Explains Why He Resigned Over Gaza | Common Dreams
Palestinian journalist Fatima Abu Nadi who lost her father during the current genocide, said journalists in Gaza “carry their lives in their hands.” Every step they take may be their last in light of an attack that is becoming more ferocious due to persistent attempts by the Israeli military to prevent coverage.A
Source: Journalists under threat, unprotected in covering Gaza genocide | The Electronic Intifada
It was statement of regret aimed not at the Palestinian victims of the attack, but at the U.S. government which continues to bless the Netanyahu government with its support and shield it from international accountability as the bombing continues.
America will allow Rafa to be flattened, allow Israel to occupy Gaza, West Bank and Jerusalem and then probably help Ethnic Cleanse Eretz Israel to bordering Arab States and allow the UNRWA to pay for their aid. That is “for the time being” because the Zionist Project is far larger than that. They want more that just Palestine as we have witnessed with the Golan Heights
Source: Opinion | Israel’s Backhanded Apology for Rafah Massacre Was No Apology at All | Common Dreams
Sounds like a “pitch for show not for dough” rather than any guarantees. Israel once agreed to “reconstruction” before and did nothing for decades. In 1948 the West created Israel without even considering Palestinians or the surrounding Arab Nations. Biden needs a publicity shot in the arm after he blew the $320M bridge that failed.
A President Ignored
Biden “was worried about tanks going into the city, that has already happened,” Rep. Pramila Jayapal said. “He was worried about strikes on dense areas, that has already happened.”
Source: ‘Certainly Crossed’: Israel Pummels Rafah as Dems Aim to Hold Biden to ‘Red Line’ | Common Dreams
At least 17,000 Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip have become unaccompanied or separated from relatives since genocide began
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Israeli forces’ slaughters of Gazans, journalists, doctors, humanitarian aid workers are described by military spokespersons and by Prime minister Netanyahu as tragic mistakes. In retrospect, killings appear an intention conducted by an alleged accident, in which well rehearsed explanations are part of a familiar two faced process of speaking with double tongues.
Source: To Israel’s ‘Tragic Mistakes’, the world’s response is pathetic – Pearls and Irritations
Israel’s prestige newspaper @haaretzcom admits it submitted to regime censorship in 2022 and killed a report on how the Zionist regime threatened and blackmailed the @IntlCrimCourt chief prosecutor. The Only Democracy in the Galaxy
Source: America’s “bounce the rubble” lawmakers want to punish ICC | The Electronic Intifada
Legal thinkers can debate the wording of the ICJ’s latest order, and political leaders can debate the power of the court, but the only thing that can end the war is widespread international pressure for both sides to agree to a ceasefire. This includes from powerful nations such as the US.
Thus, it is not the legitimacy of the ICJ that is most urgently in question at the moment, but rather how deeply the world’s most influential powers believe in the role of international institutions to maintain peace and security.
The backdrop to the plan of troglodytes in Congress to harass the ICC is that Netanyahu’s government in Israel has run a decade-long campaign of spying and intimidation against the judges of the International Criminal Court, according to an investigation of The Guardian and two Israeli magazines, +972 Mag and Local Call, published by journalists Harry Davies, Bethan McKernan, Yuval Abraham, and Meron Rapoport.
It is important to point out that the same cast of cyber-bullies has run an operation against American universities under the rubric of “Canary Mission,” in coordination with the inquisitorial Ministry of Strategic Affairs. headed by the American Ron Dermer. So reported James Bamford in The Nation. Canary Mission smears and doxes students and professors at American universities who stand for Palestinian rights in an attempt to interfere with their careers and for the purpose of intimidating them and others into silence.
Both operations are Israeli government-inspired but aided by local agents. Despite the US federal law, FARA, which requires agents of foreign governments to register, Israeli such agents have been exempted from such requirements for political reasons, including Canary Mission and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
Netanyahu doesn’t believe in the rule of law. After all, he isn’t trying to arrest the leaders of Hamas, he is trying to kill them. Bringing Netanyahu to justice would be a repudiation of his “rule of the jungle” ethos. It would also signal to the sovereignistas that borders are no protection against prosecution for war crimes. His whole life, Netanyahu has fought the law. Let’s hope that, in the end, the law will win.
Source: He Fought the Law: Will the Law Win? | The Smirking Chimp
https://democracynow.cachefly.net/democracynow/360/dn2024-0528.mp4?start=892.0&end=1701.0
Palestinian journalist Shrouq Aila, from Rafah. She explains the bombs set tents made largely of nylon on fire, igniting a deadly blaze, and that Israel’s relentless assault has made three hospitals in the city inoperable. “People are in a total mess and desperate because of this,” she says. Aila has been displaced since the start of the war from Jabaliya, where she had been studying English at the now-destroyed Islamic University of Gaza.
Still, Joe Biden conveys weakness to Netanyahu, to Netanyahu’s Congress and its omnipresent “Israel-can-do-no-wrong” lobby. Being weak on such a high visibility and protested genocide in Gaza is bad for your re-election, Joe. Even though Der Führer Donald is worse. Look at the latest polls in the swing states! A true leader doesn’t zig and zag when innocent people are being killed. “Stop it, stop it now, Joe.”
Source: Joe Biden’s Deceptive-Declaration Zigs & Deadly-Deed Zags – CounterPunch.org
The Israeli military has repeatedly bombed a designated civilian ‘safe zone’ in Rafah, injuring and mutilating many people and causing a rising number of deaths. Medical response capacity, after many months of targeted attacks on healthcare in Gaza, is severely limited; there is one functioning hospital in Rafah. Injured survivors of the attack may only receive the most rudimentary care, and may suffer greatly – now, and for the rest of their lives.
We, an organisation of healthcare workers, deplore this attack and the ongoing bombing of Rafah.
Source: Attack on Rafah ‘safe zone’ is abhorrent – Pearls and Irritations
Israel’s response IDF will Review it. Which means they need sufficient time to put the blame on Hamas
In its barbaric retaliation against the ICJ ruling, Israel has bombarded Rafah with massive intensity and unprecedented brutality.
Source: Israel’s Tents Massacre in Rafah Is a Heinous War Crime – ScheerPost
“How can a zone be safe in a war zone if it is only unilaterally decided by one part of the conflict?” asked Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA); “It can only promote the false feeling that it will be safe.” Furthermore, on several occasions, Israel has bombed al-Mawasi, the area it says is safe.
On Feb. 20, Israel attacked a shelter operated by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières, killing two family members of the organisation’s staff.
On May 13, an international U.N. staff member was killed after the Israeli army opened fire on a U.N. vehicle, one of the nearly 200 U.N. workers killed in Gaza in addition to the targeted assassination of aid workers.
[On May 26, an Israeli airstrike in Rafah killed at least 45 civilians, which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now tries to claim was a “tragic mistake.” The attack, which burned mostly women and children alive, took place two days after the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to stop its Rafah attack.]
Source: Vijay Prashad: Three Evils
Israel has not only completely disregarded the orders of the International Court of Justice to cease its assault on Rafah as we expected it to do, but has actually ramped up its ruthlessness as though trying to make a point. There were reportedly more than 60 Israeli airstrikes on the southernmost city in the Gaza strip in the 48 hours after the ICJ ruling, including a horrifying massacre on a displacement camp full of civilians in tents.
Source: Israel massacres children, which the Western Press says is fine – Pearls and Irritations
“We were free. It was the most beautiful life. We had everything — our heritage, our trade, and our sea.” My grandfather, who is now 85, still remembers life in Palestine before 1948. There were no restrictions on travel, no checkpoints, no sieges, and no curfews. He grew up in a small village in Jaffa, where life was bustling with activity during the day, and filled with social gatherings at night. His was a community rich in culture and connection.
Source: Can Palestinians imagine a future with Israelis after this war?
The Israeli air force bombed a refugee tent camp west of Rafah City around 8:45 pm local time on Sunday. The time is important, since +972 Mag reported that the Israeli total war on Gaza is being conducted by AI programs. One of them is called, sadistically, “Daddy’s Home.” The Israelis are tracking Hamas militants through the day but wait to strike at them when they come come at night, ensuring that their wives, children, relatives and friends are also killed. The AI program is set up to allow 15 to 20 noncombatant, civilian deaths for every member of the paramilitary Qassam Brigades killed in the attack. The eight missiles that struck the camp killed 2 Hamas operatives and left others 45 dead, mostly burned up in their flammable tents, the majority women and children.
Source: Burning the Indigenous Population up in their Tents is an old Colonial Technique of Genocide
How many times have you heard Australian political leaders and senior bureaucrats intone our country’s belief in, and strategic reliance on the international community conforming to the ‘rules-based international order’?
But how consistent is a country like Australia likely to be when faced with supporting orders and obligations flowing from last week’s actions of rules-based entities like the International Criminal Court (ICC) and International Court of Justice (ICJ) when it doesn’t suit us or our own domestic values environment? Let alone those espoused by our ally, the United States?
Source: Australia, Israel and the ICC. One rule for Ukraine, another for Palestine – Michael West
‘Charred bodies, dismembered limbs’: Israel bombs Rafah camp killing dozens
Doctors without Borders, known by its acronym MSF, said “dozens of wounded” as well as more than 15 of the dead had been brought to a facility that it supports.
“We are horrified by this deadly event, which shows once again that nowhere is safe,” the group wrote on the social media platform X, reiterating its call for an immediate ceasefire.
Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty Images
Earlier Sunday, dozens of aid trucks entered Gaza from southern Israel under a new agreement to bypass the Rafah crossing with Egypt after Israeli forces seized the Palestinian side of it earlier this month. Israel’s military said 126 aid trucks entered via the nearby Kerem Shalom crossing.
But it was not immediately clear if humanitarian groups could access the aid — including medical supplies — because of fighting. The crossing has been largely inaccessible because of Israel’s offensive in Rafah. United Nations agencies say it is usually too dangerous to retrieve the aid. The World Health Organization last week said an expanded Israeli incursion in Rafah would have “disastrous” impact.”
Source: Israeli Airstrike Kills Dozens Of Palestinians In Rafah | HuffPost Latest News
He added, “A group of soldiers took me to one of the rooms and began interrogating me. When I told them I knew nothing, one of them threatened me in Arabic and said (I’ll smash you if you don’t talk). Then he physically assaulted me for several minutes before handcuffing my hands behind my back with a plastic tie. They then took me outside and asked me to walk in front of the soldiers.”
Geoffrey Robertson
Human rights barrister
Let’s be clear, Peter Dutton: prosecuting Netanyahu is not antisemitism
As everyone who uses the word should know, antisemitism means hatred of Jewish people in general, and it is the vilest and most destructive form of race hatred. It is not constituted by condemning the policy or the war tactics of the Israeli government. Dutton’s attempt to conflate the two, and his call on the Australian government to withhold support from an independent international justice process, is shameful.
And history would note the irony that a law forged at Nuremberg to prevent repetition of the sufferings of millions of Jewish people was, 77 years later, dodged and despised by none other than the leader of Israel.
Her death was added to the dark statistic of more than 140 journalists and medical workers murdered in Gaza by Israel’s genocidal onslaught, per the count maintained by the Gaza Media Office. This year – like last – more journalists have been killed from Palestine than from any other nation.
Source: Remembering Palestinian journalist Amna Homaid | Israel-Palestine conflict | Al Jazeera
Yet, just a year ago, when the ICC issued arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and another Russian official for alleged international crimes in the Ukraine war, US officials were full of praise for the court. Biden welcomed the action, calling it “justified”.
Source: Hypocrisy: Washington supports the Int’l Criminal Court only when it suits US Interests
Gideon Levy lives with an armour-plated target on his back
“For 57 years, Israel has been maintaining a regime of wrongdoing and evil, and now, at last, the world is waking up and starting to act against it. Will it also be able to wake up at least some Israelis from their heedless, twisted sense of justice?” writes senior Haaretz journalist Gideon Levy.
According to Mekelberg, a lot has to do with the Israeli government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a key factor being the fact that it is the most far-right in history. “Plus there is the continuous building of settlements and settler violence, which sends the message to the international community that… the government has no interest in peace.”
Source: How Israel’s Shift to the Ultra-Far Right is Leading European Nations to Recognize Palestine
Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor chief of communications Muhammad Shehada noted that “Israeli media is gloating that Israel’s response to the ICJ order to halt its Rafah offensive is a series of unusual ‘belt of fire’ attacks in the heart of Rafah,” explaining that the term means “indiscriminately bombing an area with a huge amount of simultaneous airstrikes.”
There were also reports of Israeli strikes in other parts of the Palestinian territory including Gaza City and the Jabalia refugee camp.
Source: Israel’s Response to ICJ Order to Halt Rafah Assault? More Bombing | Common Dreams
Colonialism failed indigenous Australians who have had a continuous genetic and lived connection to the land for 75 years. Their land rights were usurped and unrecognized from 1778- 1992. Australians recently had the opportunity to recognize and reverse the injustice done in the referendum on the Voice but voted “No”.
Zionists have been Colonizing and voting “No” at the point of a gun continuously for less than 100 years and have been doing it in the 21st Century with the support of America in denial of the majority of nations and peoples of the world
Whether it is through more subtle means, as Biden prefers, or the all-out and blatant assault on the rule of law preferred by Republicans, the end result will be the same. This is a moment of truth for the ICC and for international law in general. The world has already failed Gaza, as it has failed Palestine for a century. If there can at least be some justice after the fact, there might at least be something to build a better world on.
Source: Biden and Congress Are Destroying International Law for Israel – ScheerPost
Such arguments echo an old trope. The two administrations of George W. Bush spilled much ink in justifying the torture, enforced disappearance and renditions of terror suspects to third countries during its declared Global War on Terror. Lawyers in both the White House and Justice Department gave their professional blessing, adopting an expansive definition of executive power in defiance of international laws and protections. Such sacred documents as the Geneva Conventions could be defied when facing Islamist terrorism.
Lurking beneath such justifications is the snobbery of exceptionalism, the conceit of power. Civilised liberal democracies, when battling the forces of a named barbarism, are to be treated as special cases in the world of international humanitarian law. The ICC prosecutor begs to differ.
Twelve Palestinians, including a doctor, a schoolteacher and at least four children, have been killed by Israel during the incursion. Israeli fire has wounded at least 25 Palestinians, with some sustaining severe injuries.
Source: Doctor, teacher and children killed by Israel in Jenin | The Electronic Intifada
Israel’s foreign minister issued a blunt threat of “severe consequences” for the countries of Norway, Ireland, and Spain—and presumably other nations that may follow—after the trio announced their decision Wednesday to formally recognize a Palestinian state.
“Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu is still turning a blind eye and bombing hospitals, schools, andhomes,” Sánchez declared. “He is still using hunger, cold and terror to punish more than a million innocent boys and girls—and things have gone so far that prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have this week sought his arrest for war crimes.”
Source: Israel Threatens ‘Severe Consequences’ for Nations Who Recognize Palestine | Common Dreams
Many Israelis seem willing to sacrifice their own civilians on the altar of Zionism – and sometimes even themselves too.
As The Electronic Intifada has reported in detail since the Palestinian military assault that started on 7 October, Israel that day reactivated its suicidal (and homicidal) “Hannibal Directive.”
https://electronicintifada.net/content/israels-national-murder-suicide-pact/46006
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