(August 28, 2024)
I appreciate Ms. Harris’s broken heart. What I’d appreciate more is a direct naming of who is killing and starving Palestinians, acts that are neither inevitable nor without a perpetrator. I’d appreciate the upholding of international law through sanctions and an arms embargo.
Israel‘s war on Gaza has killed at least 41,391 Palestinians since 7 October, the Palestinian health ministry said on Saturday.
At least 95,760 others have been wounded in the enclave since then, the ministry added.
The attack, in the southern part of Gaza City, left 30 others injured, with nine children among them suffering amputations.
(8 hours ago)
Amid police threats, hundreds attended Friday afternoon, Sept 20, the Partnership for Peace “Parade against war, for peace and life” alongside route 85 at the Western Galilee near the border with Lebanon, calling for a deal to end the war in Gaza, against a third war in Lebanon and occupation of the Palestinian territories, for a deal with Hamas for the return of hostages, as well as a lasting peace agreement with the Palestinians. Hadash and Communist Party of Israel leading members also participated in the anti-war demonstration close to Kfar Yasif.
(2 hours ago)
Israeli enemy aircraft carried out a series of violent raids on areas in Nabatieh, Iqlim al-Tuffah, and the Western Bekaa thisafternoon, reaching 111 raids between 1:30 p.m. until 2:30 p.m.
The Public Health Ministry‘s Emergency Operations Center issued a new update on the outcome of the Israeli raid on the southern suburb of Beirut yesterday, in which the number of martyrs rose to thirty-seven people.
The Ministry indicated that efforts are still underway to remove the rubbles.
Wenn am nächsten Sonntag Landtagswahl wäre …
Ein „Bürgerrat“ für „Maßnahmen gegen Desinformation“ hat die „Prüfung einer strafrechtlichen Verfolgung und/oder Sanktionierung der Verbreitung von Desinformation“ empfohlen, außerdem solle ein freiwilliges Gütesiegel für „qualitativen Journalismus“ eingeführt werden, wie Medien berichten. Eine „unabhängige Stelle“ solle für das Siegel Kriterien entwickeln und es an Verlage und Medienhäuser vergeben, heißt es im „Bürgergutachten zum Umgang mit Desinformation“, das am Donnerstag Bundesinnenministerin Nancy Faeser übergeben wurde, wie Bertelsmann in einer Mitteilung erklärte.
Weitere Vorschläge des Rates sind unter anderem eine Überprüfung von Beiträgen durch Künstliche Intelligenz (KI), bevor diese veröffentlicht werden; verpflichtende Lektionen zu „Medienkompetenz“ bei Elternabenden; ein („beispielsweise von Correctiv“) erstelltes „Desinformationsranking“ und viele andere
Fahrettin Altun, Head of Communications for the Turkish Presidency, expressed strong condemnation of the ongoing violence in Gaza, describing the situation as a „shameful chapter for humanity.“
In a statement shared via social media, Altun criticized the global silence in the face of what he labeled as genocide, calling for immediate international action.
(August 24, 2024)
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, stressed that the court has jurisdiction to investigate Israelis, urging judges to decide on arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Security Minister Yoav Gallant, which he had requested months ago.
The footage shows three Israeli soldiers standing on the roof of a building, throwing the bodies of the three Palestinians, one by one, from the rooftop.
(September 18, 2024)
At least 20 more Palestinians were killed in relentless Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, pushing up the overall death toll since last Oct. 7, to 41,272, the Health Ministry in the enclave said on Wednesday.
(August 12, 2024)
The bureau said in a statement that Israel’s war on Gaza has killed more than 39,000 Palestinians. “This constitutes around 1.8 percent of the total population in the territory,” PCBS said.
According to the data, approximately 24 percent of those killed by Israel in Gaza are youths.
(January 10, 2024)
With 23,357 killed in Israel‘s military operation in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health, the Gaza Strip population has now lost 1% of its 2.3 million residents. More than 10,000 of those killed were children, and about 7,000 are reported to be still under the rubble, the health ministry said.
(20 May 2024)
On the basis of evidence collected and examined by my Office, I have reasonable grounds to believe that Benjamin NETANYAHU, the Prime Minister of Israel, and Yoav GALLANT, the Minister of Defence of Israel, bear criminal responsibility for the following war crimes and crimes against humanity committed on the territory of the State of Palestine (in the Gaza strip) from at least 8 October 2023:
– Starvation of civilians as a method of warfare as a war crime contrary to article 8(2)(b)(xxv) of the Statute;
– Wilfully causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or health contrary to article 8(2)(a)(iii), or cruel treatment as a war crime contrary to article 8(2)(c)(i);
– Wilful killing contrary to article 8(2)(a)(i), or Murder as a war crime contrary to article 8(2)(c)(i);
– Intentionally directing attacks against a civilian population as a war crime contrary to articles 8(2)(b)(i), or 8(2)(e)(i);
– Extermination and/or murder contrary to articles 7(1)(b) and 7(1)(a), including in the context of deaths caused by starvation, as a crime against humanity;
– Persecution as a crime against humanity contrary to article 7(1)(h);
– Other inhumane acts as crimes against humanity contrary to article 7(1)(k).
(September 16, 2024)
In this essay, I describe and discuss the United States’ view—shared by Germany and others—that arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant would be premature because the Prosecutor did not provide Israel with sufficient notice of the alleged crimes. In my second essay, I’ll discuss the United States’ more fundamental objection that the ICC lacks jurisdiction over Israeli nationals for conduct involving Gaza because (according to the United States) Palestine is not a state that itself would have prescriptive or enforcement jurisdiction over such persons as a matter of international law (an objection that does not depend upon the Oslo Accords).
The United States tends to hail the ICC when it prosecutes American enemies, but assails the court when it goes after U.S. allies.
The Public Health Ministry’s Emergency Operations Center released a statement announcing an updated toll from the Israeli enemy’s airstrike on the Beirut’s southern suburbs.
According to the new updated toll, the number of martyrs has risen to 12, and the number of wounded 66, including nine in critical condition.
The statement added that the rubble removal operations continue.
The Israeli military’s chief spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, said the strike on Beirut’s southern Dahiya district killed Ibrahim Akil, a commander of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force, as well as 10 other Hezbollah operatives.
“We will continue pursuing our enemies in order to defend our citizens, even in Dahiya, in Beirut,” said Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, describing the Israeli strike that targeted Akil as part of “a new phase of war.”