"...it is striking how silent the international community remains towards Rwanda. Multiple recent United Nations reports have extensively documented direct Rwandan military support for the M23 rebellion – support that Kigali itself denies.
... The comparison with both Ukraine and Israel/Palestine is frequently made in the country: where is the attention to the Congolese crisis?"
Prof Kristof Titeca #Congo#DRC#Rwanda#Africa#Refugees#IDPs
#Gaza / Facts and figures on the humanitarian catastrophe
As of January 10, 2024 #Israel has killed 23,357 people in Gaza, 70% of them women and children and injured 59,410. ~1.9 million are Internally Displaced Persons (#IDPs). Israel also arrested more than 3,000 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, of which its says half are #Hamas operatives.
See full report on Gisha’s web site, “an Israeli not-for-profit organization, founded in 2005, whose goal is to protect the freedom of movement of Palestinians, especially Gaza residents. Gisha promotes rights guaranteed by international and Israeli law.”
"Israel is seeking to permanently alter the composition of Gaza’s population with ever-expanding evacuation orders and widespread and systematic attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure in southern areas of the besieged enclave, a UN expert warned today."
#Israel working to expel civilian population of #Gaza, #UN expert warns
#OPNsense has now become a prized part of my home network and probably my favourite discovery of the last few years. #Firewall + #Unbound#DNS + DNS filtering + #IDPS + VLANs, it all runs great on a repurposed x86 box, and the many hours of tinkering have been valuable learning experiences. #networking#cybersecurity
v Reuters - quotes from the speech of Israel PM Netanyahu :
ONGOING GROUND OPERATION IN #GAZA IS THE SECOND STAGE OF THE #WAR
WE WILL EXERT EVERY EFFORT TO RETURN #HOSTAGES
THOSE ACCUSING US OF WAR CRIMES ARE HYPOCRITS
THE WAR INSIDE THE GAZA STRIP WILL BE DIFFICULT AND LONG
CAN'T SAY #IRAN WAS INVOLVED IN PLANNING OF OCT. 7 ATTACK BUT THEY FUND #HAMAS
Some 55,000 internally displaced people #IDPs are now "occupying each square metre" of Al #Shifa hospital, so Dr Marwan Abusada to #BBC. The dr said the hospital was "overwhelmed" and patients were "invading" its corridors. About 100 patients were moved to other hospitals over the weekend, he said. "But still we are receiving many, many, many cases. Each half an hour, we receive a huge number of injured people." (Cont.)
Ми були знайомі з Сашею до того. Раз на місяць – на книжковому клубі. Ми ніколи не спілкувалися про особисте, але говорили про книги. Я бачила, як вона впізнавала місцевість в «Інтернаті» Жадана і як плакала коли «Мієчка» приїхала до бабусі, до свого літнього шатлу
Frontex, das wohl als eine von der EU eigens zur gnadenlosen Bekämpfung von Menschen in Not eingerichtete Agentur bezeichnet werden kann, baut die Überwachung immer weiter aus.
Mit Millionensummen werden hier neue Überwachungs- und Kontrolltechniken an den Schwächsten und Wehrlosesten erprobt und verfeinert.
Wir sollten nicht zulassen, dass immer mehr sichtbare und unsichtbare Grenzen um uns herum gezogen werden, die uns alle zu Gefangenen machen!
Mauern einreißen! Frontex versenken!
FÄHREN statt Frontex! No Borders No Nations!
"#Libya#ClimateCatastrophe#FloodDisaster#StormDaniel #Refugees#Migrants
Reported To Be Among Thousands Dead Or Feared Dead
According to #UNHCR spokesperson Matthew Saltmarsh (InfoMigrants), "The floods caused a mass displacement, adding to the number of people who were already displaced before Storm Daniel hit the country. However, estimates of flood-induced population displacement are not available yet."
Before the disaster, 46,000 Internally Displaced Persons (#IDPs) lived in the devastated eastern part of the country, where more than 1,000 Refugees are registered with the UNHCR.
However:
"UNHCR is aware that a larger number of forcibly displaced people that are not registered with UNHCR live in the areas hit by the storm and flooding", says UNHCR
30% of the estimated 705,746 Migrants hosted by Libya live in the eastern part.