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.
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We speak to Ami Dar, an Israeli social entrepreneur based in New York, who supports the exchange of hostages and prisoners and a permanent ceasefire deal. “Let’s get all the hostages back, and if that means that every single detainee and prisoner, Palestinian, is freed, then so be it. Life comes first,” says Dar, the executive director of Idealist.org. We also hear more from Maoz Inon, an Israeli peace activist whose parents, Bilha and Yakovi Inon, were killed in the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel. “We are not going to compromise for anything less than a lasting peace,” he says.
It is probably enough of a knock on the operation that it killed nearly 300 children, women and men and wounded nearly 700. The Biden administration and the US military appear to have been drawn into Netanyahu’s atrocity, which reflects poorly on the US as a superpower and on President Joe Biden’s judgment.
Source: Netanyahu’s Botched Hostage Rescue Killed 270, failed to prevent Collapse of his War Cabinet
“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
How have the international legal institutions addressed complicity in other cases of genocide? Could the complicity provisions apply to the United States and its leaders for assisting Israel in a war on Gaza that has cost so many thousands of civilian lives?
When the time comes for accountability, Biden, Blinken and Austin could find themselves charged with complicity to genocide under the ICC, the ICJ and/or U.S. federal jurisdiction.
The impression I formed then, and which has been confirmed by subsequent events is that there was and is a deep, shared psychosocial illness infecting Israel but not Jews more generally.
gross mismatch between population size/growth rate and sustainability is shared with all the surrounding countries, especially Egypt. There is therefore no solution along Israeli’s suggested line to shift the Gazan population elsewhere. Indeed, there is no solution as long as the world pursues the impossibility of economic growth rather than a sustainable future within the bounds of a finite planet. In the meantime, the human slaughter in Gaza and the enormous waste of resources on armaments to further that genocide could be stopped by refusing any more aid to Israel.
Source: Israel/Palestine: my personal experience and conversion – Pearls and Irritations
Given a population of 2.2 million, one in 10,000 would equal 220 persons. If more than 2 per 10,000 died daily, that would imply at least three. That figure would yield a death toll of 660 per day dying of starvation. That death toll would equal 19,800 per month.
Source: UN: Israel-caused Famine to encompass all Gaza by July, killing as many as 19,800 a Month
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
The National Unity leader delayed his departure due to an Israeli military operation that rescued four hostages but killed at least 274 people in Gaza and wounded 698 others.
Source: Ben-Gvir Sets Sights on Israeli War Cabinet After Gantz Quits | Common Dreams
The number dead has risen to 274. Also, 3 hostages are claimed to have been killed
To rescue four Israeli hostages Israel massacred two hundred and ten or more innocent Palestinian souls to prove that the War on Gaza was worth it, just to prove their machismo.
Hamas’ armed al-Qassam Brigades claims in a video posted on its Telegram channel that three hostages were killed, including a US citizen, in an Israeli military operation in which some hostages were freed.
The group did not release the names of those said to be killed but the video showed what appeared to be three unidentifiable corpses using censor bars over their faces.
Meanwhile, Israeli minister Benny Gantz announced his resignation from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s emergency government on Sunday, withdrawing the only centrist power in the embattled leader’s nationalist-religious coalition
Source: Hamas claims three hostages killed, Gantz quits govt
At least 210 Palestinians were killed and 400 others were injured in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday after Israeli forces carried out a “rescue operation” to retrieve four captives. Reports of U.S. involvement in the operation have sparked backlash.
Al Jazeera quoted Dr Tanya Haj-Hassan with Doctors Without Borders as saying the emergency department at Al-Aqsa Hospital “is a complete bloodbath … It looks like a slaughterhouse.”
“The images and videos that I’ve received show patients lying everywhere in pools of blood … their limbs have been blown off,” she told Al Jazeera, adding “That is what a massacre looks like.”
It is reported that there are 120 captives still held in the Gaza Strip, including 43 who have been killed since October, many reportedly by Israel’s own forces.
Reported U.S. involvement in the attacks on central Gaza on Saturday, and the alleged use of the pier in the operation, has sparked intense criticism and outrage online.
Alas, the coverup has continued for 57 years. The anniversary is tomorrow. Please remember these guys. Support their continued calls for an investigation that is required under U.S. law.
Source: Don’t Forget the USS Liberty’s Dead and Wounded – ScheerPost
Up to 6,000 people were reportedly sheltering at the school. After the assault, many still milled in the courtyard near balconies hung with washing; with nowhere else to go, most plan to remain. Over 450 Palestinians have been killed, and nearly 1,500 injured, in Israeli attacks on about 170 UNRWA buildings, the “vast majority” former schools become shelters; almost every time, Israeli military officials say they’re targeting Hamas and using “precision” weaponry. In this case, they claimed “20 or 30” Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters were using the site as an operations center; they offered no evidence, and both Hamas and UNRWA disputed the claim, noting the IDF is given the coordinates of all U.N. facilities and “knew it was a school.” Still, Israel argues Hamas tries to use UN facilities as “their Iron Dome, and they will not have a safe place.” Despite guerilla warfare” with still-active Hamas units in north and central Gaza, Israel insists, “Any negotiations would be conducted only under fire.”
Germany doesn’t seem to have changed since WW2. Yes, they admitted that an error was made in gassing white European Ashkenazi Jews. Therefore, they feel obliged to support Israel or at least the Europeans in Israel. However, seems they are still racists today and haven’t changed. They are still ready to target people of colour and support the Zionist project of colonizing Palestine, beyond and removing lesser-than-human coloured populations. They did, after all, kill 2M Gypsies with a scant apology or reparation today. Certainly not the kind of apology made for killing white European Jews.
immediately after October 7th, with little public fuss or pushback, Germany began to practise the unthinkable. In the name of combatting ‘anti-semitism’, pro-Palestinian rallies are now regularly broken up by riot police. Commemorations of Nakba, wearing keffiyehs and displays of Palestinian flags and colours are discouraged or prohibited. Gatherings of liberal and leftist Jewish citizens who despise Netanyahu are banned because (police say) they are misused by troublemakers of ‘Palestinian origin’. Springer and other employers enforce oaths of loyalty to Israel. Germany’s dockyards have long supplied Israel with nuclear-tipped U-boats while last year German arms sales to Israel increased ten-fold. Even the Bundeswehr comes to its defence. In early February, without a Bundestag mandate, the warship Hessen sailed from Wilhelmshaven, headed for the Red Sea, carrying an unspecified number of ‘Seebataillon’ naval infantry troops mobilised to deal with the anti-Israel, Yemen-based Houthi ‘terrorist’ militia.
Source: Partners in crime: Germany, Israel and Genocide – Pearls and Irritations
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.
“NSO might be crippled, but the technology it engineered is not.”[3]
ource: Pegasus: The Zero-Click Threat to Democracy and Human Rights from Israel
“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.
Failing to push back against the pro-Palestine narrative, the French government has, on May 31, decided to disinvite Israeli military firms from participating in one of the world’s largest military expos, Eurosatory, scheduled for June 17-21.
Even countries like Canada and Germany, which supported the Israeli genocide against Palestinians until later stages of the mass killings, began changing their language as well.
The change of language is also happening in Israel itself and among pro-Israeli intellectuals and journalists in mainstream media. In a widely read column, New York Times writer Thomas Friedman attacked Netanyahu late last March, accusing him of being the “worst leader in Jewish history, not just in Israeli history”.
Source: End of an Era: Pro-Palestine Language Exposes Israel, Zionism – CounterPunch.org
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
By continuing its military assault on Gaza, massacring civilians in Rafah, and intimidating opponents into submission, Israel is taking rogue action against the International Court of Justice’s Genocide Convention — and the US is enabling it.
Source: Israel Is Waging Genocide in Open Defiance of the ICJ
Biden’s passive-aggressive approach to Gaza is working against him on two fronts. His unqualified support for Israel alienates many progressive voters in the US (including Jews), who recognize the atrocity at hand. Yet he is so patronizing towards Jews that his policies prompted a Jewish employee of the Interior Dept. to resign in protest. In a column in The Guardian, Lily Greenberg Call said, “The president has weaponized the idea of Jewish safety to justify the atrocity in Gaza. I could no longer stand by. I resigned on Wednesday, 15 May – the 76th anniversary of the Nakba – because I could no longer serve at the pleasure of a president who refuses to stop another catastrophe.” She added, “Each day, I see photos of those displaced in Gaza, and I am reminded of my own family’s memory of loved ones killed in the Shoah – which, in turn, reminds me of the Nakba: the tragedy that occurred in 1948 when . . . 700,000 Palestinians were displaced from their homeland for the formation of today’s modern Israel. Shoah and Nakba mean the same thing in Hebrew and Arabic: catastrophe.” Meanwhile, the current Israeli offensive has displaced over 1 million people. This podcast of Lily Greenberg Call encapsulates many of the objections to Biden’s management of the crisis. She said, “We’ve seen the president continue to express unconditional support for Israel in Gaza, and using my community, the Jewish community as the justification for that – saying, ‘what’s happening to Palestinians in Gaza is necessary to keep the Jewish community safe. . . . It’s also disastrous for the Jewish communities around the world.”
Source: How Trump and Netanyahu are Tag-Teaming Biden on Gaza
“While the world’s attention is rightly focused on the humanitarian catastrophe, the climate consequences of this conflict are also catastrophic,” Ben Neimark, a co-author and lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, toldThe Guardian.
Source: ‘Horrific’: Israel’s War on Gaza Also Destroying the Climate, Study Finds | Common Dreams
Despite a string of foreign policy mishaps, such as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US continues to see itself as the guardian of the global order. But the Gaza crisis may prove different. The US’ unwavering support of Israel’s ruthless war against the Palestinians is galvanising the world. As the UN vote shows, the US is facing growing isolation on this issue and more on the international stage.
Source: Growing pro-Gaza movement is exposing the hypocrisy of US leadership – Pearls and Irritations
“Appellants have moved to disqualify me from participation in this case based on my attendance at a judicial education conference in Israel in March,” Nelson wrote in a brief order. He disputed the merit of plaintiffs’ allegations of potential impartiality.
“They cite no comments I have made about any issues related to this case. Thus, it is far from certain that an objective observer would reasonably question my impartiality,” he wrote. “That said, out of an abundance of caution, the best course in this specific case (which may not apply in other cases) is to recuse.”
Source: Judge Who Went on Israel Junket Recuses Himself From Gaza Case
Spain’s foreign minister announced Thursday that the country had applied to join the genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, just over a week after formally recognizing a Palestinian state alongside other European countries.
Source: Spain Applies to Join ICJ Genocide Case Against Israel
As always, Palestine has, and continues to serve as the litmus test of the international order. For over 15 years, Palestinians have been seeking to enlist the ICC’s help to hold Israel accountable for its military occupation and various crimes in Palestine.
The Palestinians have done so simply because any attempt at establishing a practical mechanism to end the Israeli occupation through the United Nations has been met with a cruel American veto.
When will COGAT assist further than the front door they keep bragging about? When will the IDF snipers and drone operators stop putting volunteers in the cross hairs and then blame them?
According to a food survey conducted by humanitarian aid groups in May, 85 percent of children under 5 were deprived of food at least one day over a three day period. Official death counts reported by Gaza’s government do not include deaths by starvation; at least 30 children have been recorded starving to death in Gaza so far.
Source: Vast Majority of Children Under 5 in Gaza Going Full Days Without Food – ScheerPost
On May 30, the World Health Organization announced that Rafah’s last remaining hospital, the Al-Helal al-Emirati Hospital, had gone out of service. The destruction of the southern Gaza city’s health care system, which comes after more than two dozen hospitals across the Strip have completely shut down as a result of Israel’s assault, encapsulates the human toll of the intensifying Israeli military operation in Rafah.
Far from the “limited” invasion that Israel’s leaders proclaimed, Israeli forces are currently occupying the heart of the city and remain in control of the Rafah Crossing and Philadelphi Corridor, while airstrikes continue to pummel camps for displaced families. Since Israel’s incursion began on May 6, more than 1 million Palestinians have fled Gaza’s last refuge.
Source: ‘We’re all at risk of being targeted’: Doctors evacuate Rafah’s last hospitals
- A food survey by aid agencies in May found that 85 per cent of children did not eat for a whole day at least once in the three days before the survey was conducted, with dietary diversity worsening.
- Living conditions are so appalling that in Al-Mawasi, there are just 121 latrines for over 500,000 people – or 4,130 people having to share each toilet.
- Just 19 per cent of the 400,000 litres of fuel a day needed to run the humanitarian operation in Gaza – including transportation, the provision of clean water and sewage removal – is being allowed in and is not delivered every day.
- According to the UN, aid deliveries have dropped by two-thirds since Israel’s invasion of Rafah. Since 6 May, just 216 trucks of humanitarian aid entered via Kerem Shalom and were able to be collected – an average of eight a day
- It’s estimated that hundreds of commercial food trucks are entering daily via the Kerem Shalom crossing. Although important for increasing food availability in Gaza, the consignments include items like non-nutritious energy drinks, chocolate and cookies, and food is often sold at inflated prices that people cannot afford. Lack of dietary diversity is one of the key drivers of acute malnutrition and has been assessed as ‘extremely critical’ in Gaza
- People are paying nearly $700 for the most basic tents and there is so little space left, that some have been forced to set up tents in the cemetery at Deir al-Balah
https://shows.acast.com/f5b64019-68c3-57d4-b70b-043e63e5cbf6/665f80ab46cf460012cfe46d
This week on Intercepted, security expert H. A. Hellyer discusses with co-host Murtaza Hussain the growing hostilities between the two countries, which have resulted in Egypt joining the International Court of Justice genocide case against Israel, threats to annul the Camp David peace accords, and even a fatal shooting incident between Egyptian and Israel troops.
Source: Intercepted: Rafah Clash Exposes Roots of Egypt and Israel Tension
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
In an emergency motion filed Tuesday, the plaintiffs’ lawyers argued they were “ethically compelled” to ask Judge Ryan Nelson of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to recuse himself because the WJC trip was “explicitly designed to influence U.S. judicial opinion regarding the legality of ongoing Israeli military action against Palestinians.”
Source: A Federal Judge Visited Israel on a Junket. Now He’s Hearing a Gaza Case.
The result and work of the Israeli Lobby and AIPAC money over the current American Law Makers
Human rights defenders on Tuesday decried the U.S. House of Representatives’ passage of a bill that would sanction International Criminal Court officials over the Hague tribunal’s pursuit of arrest warrants for Israeli leaders—legislation critics warned would undermine the court’s independence and could be weaponized to silence Americans’ free speech.
Source: 42 House Dems Help GOP Pass Bill Targeting ICC Officials Over Israel | Common Dreams
it is not antisemitic to suggest that the actions of the IDF in corralling Palestinian citizens into ghettos in Gaza, depriving them of food, water, medical supplies and power, and systematically firing shells and rockets into these starving and terrified people is comparable with the treatment handed to Jews by the Nazis in Europe before and during WW2.
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
Ben Gurion did exactly the same pre 1948. Evacuated villages telling the occupants “just for two weeks” Those that didn’t go were left for the Haganagh to “do what they want” but clear the village. Those who returned found their village destroyed. To either reply “it was an accident” or blame your neighbours they resisted and we had to “defend ourselves”
Abu Siraj Al-Bal’awi: “After 20 days, we were able to return home, praying to God that nothing had happened. We returned and found nothing. We don’t even know what to get. What should we try to get a hold of? Nothing. The Israelis displaced us, humiliated us. They starved us and caused a Nakba. We do not know where to go. Where should people go? Nowhere. The north is finished. That is what we returned to. I don’t know what to retrieve. Look. If we get the bedding, we find that it is torn. Whatever we get, it is torn. Where should we go? Here, this is my home. I can’t even find it, I swear. It’s all crushed into pieces. What should we do? God is my suffice and my best disposer.”
The unproved allegations by Israel have continued since Easter and meanwhile, Israel is claiming UNRWA is not fulfilling the charter. Meanwhile, any Independent investigation isn’t allowed while Israel’s Hasbara force is working full-time fighting the reports of any volunteer reports witnessing what’s really happening
Since 1949, the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut has been home to thousands of Palestinians. Visiting the camp last week, Jacobin found its population in dire conditions, with the cutting of Western aid to UNRWA further aggravating its bleak poverty.
Source: In the Shatila Refugee Camp, Palestinians Have Little Hope
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