Tag: Collective punishment

Israel

Defunding UNRWA Is Collective Punishment

The US and Israel crowned Hamas as a “terrorist” organization. In 2006 it wasn’t Hamas the military brigade that democratically won the right to govern Gaza. It was an election verified by Jimmy Carter to be fair and legitimate. Hands tied unable to do anything because that election was at the suggestion of America and agreed to by Israel they did a TRUMP. They called foul and labeled all of Hamas and Gazans terrorists. Since then Israel has been breaking the peace or forcing the agreed-on peace to be broken.

The Russians haven’t killed the number of civilians in the Ukraine as Israel has Gaza in the shortest period. There is no moral justification for the criminal and genocidal actions the world is witnessing. Israel is making a mockery of America and its allies in supporting them.

Reeling from the ICJ’s genocide ruling, Israel attacked the credibility of UNRWA, the UN agency that provides food and health care to Palestinian refugees. Now Joe Biden and other Western leaders are cutting funding for the vital humanitarian aid agency.

Source: Defunding UNRWA Is Collective Punishment

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Australia’s withholding of aid to Gaza a human rights disgrace

Has this decision been foisted on them by the Australian Israeli Lobby, the LNP, Murdoch, or IPA? It’s certainly not a decision ALP voters would expect of their government. If Palestinian refugees came by boat would they find themselves in forced detention in open-air offshore concentration camps again? We know what Peter Dutton’s position is on that score Yes. While telling Australia it’s a holiday resort compared to where they are now. Israel will be the people smugglers and supply the boats with the foreign aid they already get from us no doubt.

There can be little more morally degenerate than the enabling of and cooperation with what the ICJ has warned is Israel’s “plausible genocide” in Gaza. Wong and Albanese have lost all moral authority and should prepare themselves for their every public utterance to be greeted with contempt, derision and scorn.

The Australian Government has paused contributing to the distribution of aid to Gaza, a decision likely influenced by our toxic allegiance to the USA. Dr Jennifer Wilson reports.

Source: Australia’s withholding of aid to Gaza a human rights disgrace

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Israel releases ‘proof’ of ‘terror’ HQ at Al Shifa hospital

Israel’s propaganda team proves themselves to be not just fraudsters but real failures at what they do. Their military snipers are free to kill people leaving the hospital yet they order people to evacuate assuming terrorists won’t? On one particular video tour lights, camera, and action, a military spokesperson points to the evidence that the hospital was a terrorist hive, a list of terrorist names on a wall, that happens not to be names at all but an everyday Arabic Calendar. All this performance to justify their destruction and mitigate their killing of babies and critically ill patients by cutting the power to the hospital. Then demanding the evacuation of everybody under the threat of death expecting the terrorists will stay. All theater of the absurd

Israel’s history has been one of lying to its citizens, its allies, and the world and it continues lying by spending as much on media control of the narrative as they do on weaponry.

The Israeli Defence Force has released “proof” that Hamas was using Gaza’s main hospital as a command centre after raiding the compound.

Source: Israel releases ‘proof’ of ‘terror’ HQ at Al Shifa hospital

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Israel’s Punitive Home Demolition Policy, Explained – scheerpost.com

Did the Nazis apply these policies against entire areas and communities based on the actions of a few? They certainly did.

Human Rights Watch says: “various types of collective punishment, such as punitive home demolitions and sweeping movement restrictions against entire areas or communities based on the actions of a few people, are among the policies that Israeli authorities have relied on to systematically oppress Palestinians.”

Source: Israel’s Punitive Home Demolition Policy, Explained – scheerpost.com

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The brutality of “Bulldozer Justice” in India – » The Australian Independent Media Network

India has moved away from British to Israeli Justice of “collective punishment”

It looks all too eerily similar as a method: the expulsion of individuals from their home, the demolition of said home and the punishing of entire families. All excused by a harsh reading of local regulations. But this method, used by Israeli authorities for years against vulnerable Palestinians, has become a weapon of choice for the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Gujarat.

Source: The brutality of “Bulldozer Justice” in India – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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In East Jerusalem, nightly raids leave Palestinian neighborhood reeling | +972 Magazine

Palestinian women look on during a raid by Israeli police in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya, July 1, 2019. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

For the past six weeks, Israel has been sending paramilitary police forces to raid the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya every evening. The raids, a severe form of collective punishment, have left one young Palestinian dead and hundreds wounded.

via In East Jerusalem, nightly raids leave Palestinian neighborhood reeling | +972 Magazine

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The Escalation of Israeli Collective Punishment of Palestinians

via The Escalation of Israeli Collective Punishment of Palestinians

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How did revenge become a military objective? | +972 Magazine

Israeli soldiers near the house of Baraa Ibrahim Sale after it was demolished by the Israeli army in the West Bank village of Deir Abu Mashal, near Ramallah, August 10, 2017. Baraa Ibrahim Sale carried out a terror attack with two other Palestinians, killing Border Police officer Hadas Malkam. (Flash90)

When Israeli military commanders call bereaved families from the field to confirm they’ve gunned down their child’s accused killer, security considerations are not at play — that’s just an army exacting revenge

There is something almost spellbinding about the speed with which the Israeli government is tearing off the masks that once afforded its policies a veneer of decency. From the Jewish Nation-State Law to the cultural loyalty law to the law to legalize settlement outposts, from Prime Minister Netanyahu’s anti-Semitic friends to the blatant racism of his son who publicly yearns for a country cleansed of Palestinians — official Israel is not even pretending anymore. Everything is out in the open now.

via How did revenge become a military objective? | +972 Magazine

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South Sudanese Australians and Andrew Gaze condemn ‘prejudicial’ axing of basketball event | Australia news | The Guardian

NBA player Thon Maker, who played in the Summer Slam basketball tournament as a junior.

Media generated racism and collective punishment isn’t this a case of vilification against the media and the local council? (ODT)

via South Sudanese Australians and Andrew Gaze condemn ‘prejudicial’ axing of basketball event | Australia news | The Guardian

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Israel arrests siblings of alleged settlement shooter | The Electronic Intifada

Israel is implementing collective punishment against the family of a Palestinian suspected of opening fire in a settlement industrial plant on Sunday, killing two Israelis and seriously injuring a third.

via Israel arrests siblings of alleged settlement shooter | The Electronic Intifada

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Gaza children killed by Israeli snipers, air attack | The Electronic Intifada

Men and boys stand or run in front of the Gaza boundary fence with an Israeli military installation on a sand hill behind it

Collective punishment threat

The head of COGAT, the bureaucratic apparatus of Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, said that collective punishment measures would be used against the general population in Gaza.

Under the 1993 Oslo accords signed by Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, Gaza’s fishing zone was supposed to extend 20 nautical miles out from shore. But Israel has never allowed this and the furthest Gaza’s fishers have been able to sail has been 12 nautical miles out.

Over the past decade, Israel has reduced the permitted fishing area to 6 nautical miles, and sometimes less, and has frequently fired on fishing boats.

Israel has killed eight fishers since 2000, according to Al Mezan.

via Gaza children killed by Israeli snipers, air attack | The Electronic Intifada

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Following orders: How the IDF eliminates ‘quiet’ in the West Bank | +972 Magazine

When the occupation seems to becomes a bit too ‘quiet,’ the Israeli military is always there to fully contain and eliminate the threat. By Talal Jabari Israeli intelligence has intercepting would-be suicide bombers down to a fine art. The military is quite adept at quashing demonstrations in the West Bank (they did a very thorough job at leveling entire sections of the Gaza Strip during the 2014 military campaign). And along with every Israeli military action come the right-wing politicians who make their television appearances, patting themselves on the back and talking about eliminating the enemy — all the while reinforcing their fear-mongering…

Source: Following orders: How the IDF eliminates ‘quiet’ in the West Bank | +972 Magazine

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Israel passes ‘minimum sentence’ for stone-throwers – Al Jazeera English

New legislation establishes three-year minimum sentence and will also punish parents of children convicted of offence.

Source: Israel passes ‘minimum sentence’ for stone-throwers – Al Jazeera English

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Israel destroys West Bank house of Palestinian attacker: Collective Punishment

Israeli troops early Tuesday destroyed the West Bank home of a Palestinian jailed for killing a Jewish settler in a knife attack late last year, the army said.Th

Source: Israel destroys West Bank house of Palestinian attacker: army – Your Middle East