"Israeli officials fear potential ICC prosecution over #Gaza actions. The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs warned top officials of possible arrest warrants, although the ICC has not confirmed issuing any. What would #ICC arrest warrants mean for #Israel's #WarOnGaza – and for #InternationalLaw?"
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Mark Kersten, Asst Prof of Criminal Justice, Univ of the Fraser Valley
"#Germany will face a fresh call to revoke all #ArmsSalesToIsrael on Thursday in a lawsuit that puts more pressure on Berlin amid a rising outcry about the scale of deaths and destruction in the war on #Gaza."
"#Biden referred to Israeli policy toward the #Gaza Strip as a mistake. A mistake is when you take a wrong turn at a traffic light [..] but when over the course of 6 months you kill 10s of 1000s of people [..] that's not a 'mistake,' that's a deliberate policy and that's why #Israel has been hauled in front of the International Court of Justice on charges of genocide" - #MouinRabbani
"An examination of the more than two hundred #Gaza-related photographs that have appeared on the front pages of the British papers since 7 October 2023 reveals a systematic asymmetry in their treatment of Israelis and Palestinians."
"#Forensic Architecture has documented the mass displacement of Palestinian civilians being carried out by the Israeli #military [… which] has repeatedly abused the humanitarian measures of evacuation orders, ‘safe routes’, and ‘safe zones’, and failed to comply with the laws governing their application within a wartime context. These patterns of systematic violence and destruction have forced Palestinian civilians from one unsafe area to the next." https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/humanitarian-violence-in-gaza@israel
The #IDF ground invasion in #KhanYounis has pushed Nasser and al-Amal hospitals out of service, in addition to al-Khair, the only hospital in the area inside a supposed ‘safe zone’.
In Defense of #AcademicFreedom: Defamation, Intimidation, and Suspension
"In this first installment of a new series, 'In Defense of Academic Freedom,' we host faculty members who have been suspended or placed on administrative leave for their support of #Palestine during #Israel’s ongoing #GenocideInGaza."
In Defense of #AcademicFreedom: Defamation, Intimidation, and Suspension | Part 2
"In this second installment, we host two faculty members who have been suspended/fired for their support of #Palestine during #Israel's ongoing #GenocideInGaza."
Luister naar The day after in Gaza w/ Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta op Makdisi Street, en word weer zo pissig op de Israëlische oorlogsmisdrijven gedogers en verdedigers in de #PvdA en #GroenLinks met hun ge-tut tut over From the river to the sea en hun 'cultuur van het leven' racisme.
Je staat niet voor internationaal (humanitair) recht, mensenrechten en solidariteit, dus wat is je 'links zijn' waard?
Belgique et Espagne ont suspendu leurs livraisons d'armes et de munitions à Israël.
"The Spanish Foreign Minister declared on Tuesday that #Spain has suspended all arms exports to Israel since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza on October 7.
In an interview with Al-Jazeera, José Manuel Albares declared that, since October 7, Madrid suspended all arms export licenses to #Israel, noting that the events of that day “made us realize the importance of a just and permanent solution to the question of the #Palestinian people.”
I know by now many of you have seen the Selina Robinson video but here Sarah Alami helps show just how wrong and ignorant Robinson's comments were. Please watch til the end so you can see the archival footage from the documentary Palestine 1920: The Other Side of the Palestinian Story by @aljazeeraenglish and share.
"The construction of the tunnels has been treated by #Israel and its defenders in the US and Europe as inherently nefarious [..] It’s less often mentioned that the tunnels, some of which predate #Hamas, were dug and expanded as a defensive measure after repeated Israeli attacks on Gaza, and as an attempt to circumvent a blockade. Any administration in #Gaza that didn’t take some such measures would have been negligent."
#Israel on trial?
This is not what the #ICJ organises. Its role is to establish the law.
A halt of invasion?
In 2022, the ICJ issued a condemnation on the #Russia invasion, to no consequence.
Kate Ferguson: “Will it be enough to stem the tide of atrocity crimes? No, of course not.” https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/dr-kate-ferguson@israel
I know Mastodon is designed to keep everything nice and to shield us from the horrors of the world, and that it is good for us to only look at cat pictures all day and cheer each other up, but honestly: sometimes i also think that that is just a lot of crap and everyone who turns away and continues with their nice privileged life as if all is ok is complicit #Gaza
@pvonhellermannn
The text pointed below may help. Sarah Aziza, through a stirring mix of personal reflection and philosophical reckoning, disabuses the Western witness of its self-gratifying power, instead – amid Israel’s openly broadcast yet unimpeded march towards genocide in Gaza – unmasking the impotence, deceit and hollowness that witnessing currently entails. More than a collective indictment or last-gasp scream of defiance into the void, Aziza’s own testimony guides the reader towards a form of witness no longer elevated in angelic, uncompromised distance, but instead manifest in the embodied, intimate, ego-displacing position of “sacrifice, mourning and resisting.” https://jewishcurrents.org/the-work-of-the-witness
Haaretz Editorial: "The freedom from arbitrary arrest marks a line between real, freedom-seeking democracies and 'pseudo democracies.' The police under Ben Gvir’s shadow cannot be relied to give freedom of expression the importance it warrants"
"Haaretz is widely considered Israel's leading liberal news source, but it has published and promoted some of the most harmful propaganda in support of Israel’s genocide in Gaza."
“Israeli long-range missiles and exploding drones known as loitering munitions have made up for Azerbaijan’s small air force, even at times striking deep within #Armenia itself. Meanwhile, #Israel Barak-8 surface-to-air #missiles have protected #Azerbaijan’s airspace in shooting down missiles and #drones,” said Pieter Wezeman, senior researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, which tracks #arms sales.
"With Egypt reportedly preparing for an influx of refugees and UNRWA on the brink of collapse, Israel’s second Nakba fantasies could soon become reality."
"With Egypt reportedly preparing for an influx of refugees and UNRWA on the brink of collapse, Israel’s second Nakba fantasies could soon become reality."
"This includes analysis of the political forces that have brought Israel to the brink of annihilating the last remnants of Gazan habitability, while also touching upon the ways in which our own moral and political entanglements remain complicit in unfolding events" https://vashtimedia.com/2024/02/23/formats/editorial/rafah-reader-gaza-israel/@palestine