"Israeli officials seized equipment from the #AssociatedPress and shut down its long-standing #video feed of northern #Gaza on Tuesday...
The move was quickly denounced by free #press advocates, who portrayed it as an escalation of an effort to restrict coverage of the Israel-Hamas war...
In a statement, the Associated Press firmly condemned the government’s move...
‘one of the things that we’re also always hearing about being faculty and in community at Morehouse is that this is Dr. King’s alma mater and that we should stand up for social justice and humanitarianism’
‘We also recognize the connection of the Congo to the current situation in the Middle East, the fact that President Biden has tried to strike a deal with Dan Gertler, the noted conflict mineral mining magnate’
Beware of attempts to smear the ICC prosecution by claiming that ICC has "equated Israel & Hamas."
ICC has done no such thing. That's not how law works. The law works by comparing a person's behavior with what the law says is legal & illegal. That's what's happened here. Period.
« … reasonable grounds to believe, on the basis of evidence collected and examined by my office that Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant bear criminal responsibility… »
« Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz has threatened to quit the government if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doesn’t provide a clear plan for what happens after the war on Gaza. »
“Israel took Palestinian life, liberty and freedom as hostage for the past 75 years,” says Hass. “You go to Tel Aviv, you think you are in New York or you are in London — and 40, 50 kilometers away, Palestinians live in cages.”
Dr. Adam Hamawy, a U.S. doctor and former U.S. Army combat surgeon who is currently in Gaza, says he has "never in my career witnessed the level of atrocities and targeting of my medical colleagues as I have in Gaza."
A U.S. doctor in Gaza wants President Biden to know 'we are not safe'
‘The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has announced he is seeking arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and three leaders of Hamas’
‘On Sunday, the U.N.'s top humanitarian chief, Martin Griffiths, said Israel's stranglehold on aid reaching Gaza is having “apocalyptic” consequences.’
‘Biden’s speech came just days after his administration notified Congress of its plans to send another $1 billion in arms to Israel, including tank ammunition, mortars and tactical vehicles.’