Two more #US officials resign over #Biden administration’s #genocide in #Gaza, accusing the administration of lying about Israel’s obstruction of aid to Palestinians
Revealed: Israeli spy chief ‘threatened’ ICC prosecutor over war crimes inquiry
"According to accounts shared with ICC officials, he is alleged to have told her: “You should help us and let us take care of you. You don’t want to be getting into things that could compromise your security or that of your family.”
Now, an investigation by the Guardian and the Israeli-based magazines +972 and Local Call can reveal how Israel has run an almost decade-long secret “war” against the court....
...Israeli intelligence captured the communications of numerous ICC officials, including Khan and his predecessor as prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, intercepting phone calls, messages, emails and documents.
MSF, IRC... say the strike took place in “a designated safe zone” -respected, INDEP orgs undercutting Israeli claims that this wasn’t the case & is pro-Hamas propaganda. The decision to take a strike must account for whether the MIL gain is proportional + what circumstances on the ground show about the likely toll on civilians. "The high concentration of civilians in these zones makes it impossible to avoid significant collateral damage-.
-AS Ahmed, HuffPost
"The Israeli govt tries to excuse itself by saying it used "small munitions" in the attack that killed 45 in a tent camp for displaced ppl, but the point is it was willing to endanger those people by attacking 2 Hamas officials in their midst.
Fl. pier to be repaired: "Rough seas don't impede land deliveries of desperately needed food for starving PA civilians, but IL is obstructing them."
-K Roth
PRESS RELEASE: Mexico, invoking Article 63 of the #ICJ Statute, filed a declaration of intervention in the case concerning Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip
Footage from the scene showed heavy destruction, and a spokesperson with the #Palestine Red Crescent Society said the death toll was likely to increase as search and rescue efforts continued in Rafah's Tal al-Sultan neighborhood
The society asserted that the location had been designated by Israel as a "humanitarian area."
The strike comes two days after the International Court of Justice ordered #Israel to end its military offensive in Rafah.
Israel condemned for bombing Rafah camp as civilians ‘burnt alive’
Eyewitnesses said that tents were “melting” from the bombardment, burning people alive. Scenes of death and devastation were widely reported, with many bodies charred and barely identifiable.
In Brussels, Josep Borrell, the EU’s foreign policy chief, urged #Israel to comply with last week’s ruling by the International Court of Justice to halt its Rafah offensive.
#isreal will not stop pounding #palestine now as the sympathy #terrorists in the #un#icj and around the world try to extract demands using hostage and martyr.
I can't blame Israel for it's actions now. The legacy media world has taken the side of #Hamas. #Israel has nothing to lose and no one will stop them.
As the #IDF continues to attack and murder defenceless Palestinians in #Rafah, ignoring the International Court of Justice, what response can we expect from Starmer?
What would Starmer be saying / doing now if he were Prime Minister?
Would #StarmerChameleon be on the side of the #ICJ or the IDF? Would he just go into hiding as usual, leaving Lammy to address the issue with weasel words in The Daily Mail?
"Israel has a history of blocking UN investigators from entering Palestinian territory".
The ICJ "ruled that Israel must allow the UN & other relevant bodies unimpeded access to the Gaza Strip to investigate allegations of genocide.
"Israel has denied access to similar inquiries in the past. ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan visited Israel & the occupied West Bank in December last year but did not visit the Gaza Strip."