chargrille

chargrille, 1 month ago

@noondlyt

Not to be rude but WTF are "deconfliction mechanisms to avoid targeting aid convoys"? Is that like "having a policy not to attack aid workers"?/s/

"U.S., the UN & many aid organizations have been urging Israel's government for months to do more to improve its deconfliction mechanisms to avoid targeting aid convoys.

The Biden administration raised this issue on a very high level with the Israeli government several times, but there was little change on the ground, U.S. officials say"

chargrille, 1 month ago

@noondlyt

"A military word used since the 1970s to mean preventing “friendly fire” between allied armies[, d]econfliction is now being applied to attempts to stop aid clinics, hospitals, & schools from being bombed by warring parties."

"At best, both NGOs & armies share the same deconfliction objective: to protect civilians & patients. At worst,…armies use it to limit bad publicity & accusations of war crimes."

Ah yes. Now I see. Used by US to "limit bad publicity."

https://newhumanitarian.medium.com/what-is-humanitarian-deconfliction-cce0d672db3e

At the UN Security Council in May 2016, former UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon called attacks on healthcare worldwide “systematic” and, speaking alongside him, MSF President Joanne Liu said there was “an epidemic of attacks on health facilities”. In response, the humanitarian community stepped up systems to share the geographic coordinates of aid operations with warring parties, especially those using air forces. At best, both NGOs and armies share the same deconfliction objective: to protect civilians and patients. At worst, sceptics say, armies use it to limit bad publicity and accusations of war crimes.

chargrille, 1 month ago

"Andres said that he is "heartbroken & grieving" for the workers & driver who Israel killed: "The Israeli government needs to stop this indiscriminate killing. It needs to stop restricting humanitarian aid, stop killing civilians & aid workers, and stop using food as a weapon," he said.

chargrille, 1 month ago

WTF are "deconfliction mechanisms to avoid targeting aid convoys"? Is that kinda like "having a policy not to attack aid workers"?/s/

"U.S., the UN & many aid organizations have been urging Israel's government for months to do more to improve its deconfliction mechanisms to avoid targeting aid convoys.

The Biden administration raised this issue on a very high level with the Israeli government several times, but there was little change on the ground, U.S. officials say"

https://www.axios.com/2024/04/02/gaza-aid-workers-killed-strike-world-central-kitchen

chargrille, 1 month ago

"A military word used since the 1970s to mean preventing “friendly fire” between allied armies[, d]econfliction is now being applied to attempts to stop aid clinics, hospitals, & schools from being bombed by warring parties."

"At best, both NGOs & armies share the same deconfliction objective: to protect civilians & patients. At worst,…armies use it to limit bad publicity & accusations of war crimes."

Ah yes. Now I see. Used by US to "limit bad publicity."

https://newhumanitarian.medium.com/what-is-humanitarian-deconfliction-cce0d672db3e

chargrille, 1 month ago

Light their phones up, people.

#Schumer
#Cardin
#GregMeeks
#Biden
#Warren

#HowToStopAGenocide

#Gaza #IsraelPalestine

chargrille, 1 month ago

@oatmeal

A month ???!! No. Come on. That’s ridiculous. How many people are going to starve to death in a month. They should be required to respond in a week or less.

@israel @palestine

chargrille, 1 month ago

@bifouba @oatmeal @israel @palestine

The reporting is the court’s only official lever for accountability. Enforcement is political. Though of course it shouldn’t be that way, it is.

chargrille, 2 months ago

@inquiline WHAT. THE. FUCK.

I had no idea this monstrosity existed.

chargrille, 2 months ago

"The United States…cannot heedlessly deliver offensive weapons as the Israeli government continues to bombard & starve innocents on a mass scale. These actions have nothing to do with self defense; they are clearly intended as collective punishment & are resulting in the complete devastation of Palestinians as a people."

"It's a falsehood with catastrophic implications to assert otherwise."

"There is no time to spare in pulling back from this outrageous assertion by the State Department."

chargrille, 2 months ago

"Mass starvation attacks the civilian population primarily, & mostly kills the weak, the impoverished & the vulnerable people who cannot fend for themselves, especially children. As a Jewish & democratic state, Israel cannot allow this to happen even if this means fighting Hamas with one hand tied behind its back (at least temporarily)."

chargrille, 2 months ago

"It is particularly disturbing to hear that the internal pressure exacted by religious voters-based parties (such as Religious Zionist Party & Otzma Yehudit) are pushing the government to inflict more damage on Palestinians & to hold back humanitarian aid. Allowing this tragedy to occur would leave an indelible historic stain on Jewish religion."

chargrille, 2 months ago

"The Talmud speaks of certain acts/policies that are unforgivable b/c they are a chillul Hashem, a desecration of God’s name [&] our religion. It defines such an act as one in which people who hear of it would say “I want to have nothing to do with a God or a religion that allows such behaviors.” This is exactly what decent people will say if they hear that Israel, by action or inaction, starved 1000s of Palestinians to death. This sin…would bring shame & an evil reputation on the Jewish people"

chargrille, 2 months ago

"Allowing such a cruel fate to be inflicted on Palestinians also would be a particular violation of Jewish ethics based on memory of Jewish history. The Torah instructs us to be particularly caring of strangers’ lives & of vulnerable people b/c we were oppressed as outsiders & vulnerable people in the land of Egypt.In the past century, Jews were tortured & murdered through mass starvation…We should be doubly sensitive & proactive to assure that “never again” is this fate inflicted on any people"

chargrille, 2 months ago

"This issue is more than a moral one. Throughout the world–& in the US in particular–there is widespread support for Israel…Mass starvation of Palestinians could turn millions of people against the Jewish state. This loss of support could undermine the security of Israel & threaten its existential support among Western powers.

…to urge that [Israel] defy world opinion because it is unfair or biased against us, would be no consolation – or help – in the face of a catastrophic fall in legitimacy"

chargrille, 2 months ago

"Of those who backed Israel [in the weeks after the undefended incursion, t]he US administration went much farther than the rest, promising to provide Israel with all the arms & munitions it required, in addition to moving an American aircraft carrier & forces into the region.

…from the very beginning the US administration insisted that Israel start to plan the “day after,” & present a viable plan for the fighting, w/minimal civilian casualties. [PM] Netanyahu rejected or fudged both requests"

chargrille, 2 months ago

Israel has imposed "a massive destruction of both homes & public buildings in the city of #Gaza, the forced movement of over one million civilians from northern Gaza to the center & southern Strip, creating a vast humanitarian problem of homeless, displaced Palestinians…

The number of persons killed progressively mounted to over 30,00…at least a third of them children…Though Israel denied that it was on a vindictive journey of revenge, the world started to view the situation differently"

chargrille, 2 months ago

"Israel’s original reaction to the demand for the systematic entrance of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip was a categorical “no”…

Both the US administration & other international players are trying to get Israel to avoid a planned attack on Rafah – the last town in the Gaza Strip that Israel has not [demolished] where over one million displaced Gazans are currently living in tents & other provisional forms of shelter.

Israel is adamant in its refusal…

chargrille, 2 months ago

[Israel's] former supporters are starting to threaten it with sanctions, especially in the sphere of arms & munitions sales, & personal sanctions against individual Jewish settlers in…the West Bank… reported to be acting violently against Palestinians – & getting away with it by the Israeli authorities.

However, the worst deterioration concerns Israel’s relations with the American Administration in general, & between President Joe Biden & Netanyahu in particular."