We, the undersigned Israel-based civil society and human rights organizations, call for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and demand the immediate release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip. An immediate ceasefire will prevent further loss of civilian lives and facilitate access to vital aid for Gaza to address the unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe there.
Daily Archives: 9. Februar 2024
Civil Society and Human Rights Organizations in Israel Called for a Ceasefire
Among the civil society and human rights organizations who signed the statement: Akevot – Institute for Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Research, Amnesty International Israel, Bimkom – Planners for Planning Rights, Breaking the Silence, B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, Combatants for Peace, Emek Shaveh, Gisha – Legal Center for Freedom of Movement, Green Olive Collective, HaMoked: Center for the Defence of the Individual, Haqel – In Defense of Human Rights, Ir Amim, Isha L’isha Haifa Feminist Center, Jordan Valley Activists, Looking the Occupation in the Eye, Machsom Watch, Mothers Against Violence, New Profile – The Movement to Demilitarize Israeli Society, Parents Against Child Detention, Peace Now. Physicians for Human Rights PsychoActive – Mental Health Professionals for Human Rights, Rabbis for Human Rights, Rea’cha Kamocha, Social Workers for Peace and Welfare, Standing Together, This Is Not an Ulpan, Torat Tzedek, Yesh Din, Yesh Gvul and Zazim – Community Action.
Biden and Starmer will pay a heavy price for supporting Israel‘s war in Gaza
We can be sure of one thing. History is going to be a much harsher judge of those political leaders who justified and tolerated the ethnic cleansing now going on in Gaza.
Biden and Starmer’s refusal to call for a ceasefire and their refusal to back the ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that Israel should take steps to comply with the Genocide Convention, will produce an indelible stain on their careers.
Neither man sees the danger they are in over Gaza. But then neither did Bush or Blair when they invaded Iraq.
Yesterday children in a Rafah displacement camp were singing as volunteers attempted to relieve them of their anxiety, when a nearby bombing took place.
Tonight Israeli airstrikes: A Palestinian kisses the hand of his mother who is under the rubble, killed in tonight‘s Israeli air strikes in Rafah that targeted residential houses.
A Palestinian mother holds in the sight of God her children who died as a result of the bombing by the Israeli occupation forces in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
Deutsche Rüstungsexporte nach Israel und die Region
Auch Technologien von Rheinmetall, beispielsweise Panzerkanonen, sind in Israel präsent. Die Munition in den in Gaza eingesetzten 155-mm-Panzerhaubitzen werden von General Dynamics in den USA und Rheinmetall hergestellt.[8] Das Unternehmen ist außerdem an der Entwicklung von ferngesteuerter Präzisionsmunition gemeinsam mit dem israelischen Munitionsproduzenten UVision sowie an der Entwicklung und Herstellung von Radhaubitzen gemeinsam mit Israels größten privaten Waffenhersteller, Elbit Systems, beteiligt.[9]
Seit Jahren liefert das Augsburger Unternehmen Renk Schalt-, Wende- und Lenkgetriebe für die aktuelle Version des israelischen Merkava-Kampfpanzers (Mk IV).[10] Das Unternehmen MTU mit Sitz in Friedrichshafen stellt Motoren für israelische Kriegsschiffe und Panzer her, u.a. für den oben genannten Merkava-Panzer Mk IV. Auch der Rüstungs- und Sensorikhersteller Hensoldt mit Hauptsitz in Bayern ist ein wichtiger Liefer- und Handelspartner des israelischen Militärs. Laut einem Bericht der Süddeutschen Zeitung gibt es verschiedene Kooperationen zwischen Hensoldt und der Israel Aerospace Industries sowie dem israelischen Staatsunternehmen Rafael Advanced Defense Systems.
Israel bombs Gaza‘s crowded Rafah city as battlefront nears
Israeli forces stepped up air strikes on Gaza‘s far-southern Rafah on Thursday as fears of ground fighting grew among the more than one million Palestinians crowded into the city.
NRC‘s @YousefHammash in Gaza tells @CNN families are afraid of an expanded Israeli military operation in Rafah as there are no options left for the displaced population in the area to seek safety.
BBC News illustrating how the population of Rafah has grown with over a million displaced Palestinians seeking refuge there. @NRC_Egeland says conditions there are horrific.
The death toll in Gaza is approaching 28,000, with about two-thirds of the dead being women and children
Democrats sound alarm, take action against Biden’s third-party threats
A recent five-way national poll by Quinnipiac University that named Biden, former president Donald Trump, attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr., scholar Cornel West and activist Jill Stein showed the combined third-party candidates drawing nearly 1 in 5 voters.