The first sighting of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, the Kamal Adwan hospital director arrested 54 days ago after weeks of refusing to abandon his staff and patients despite Israeli attacks on the hospital – the occupation army subsequently destroyed the hospital after burning to death seriously ill patients and the staff caring for them – has emerged from Israel’s Ofer ‘torture camp’ prison:
Archiv: (Macht)Missbrauch / abuse (of power)
Mehrheit der EU-Staaten beharrt auf verpflichtender Chatkontrolle
(February 12, 2025)
Die Kommission will Internet-Dienste verpflichten, die Inhalte ihrer Nutzer auf Straftaten zu durchsuchen und diese bei Verdacht an Behörden zu schicken. (….)
Um das zu legalisieren, gibt es eine vorübergehende Ausnahme der Vertraulichkeit der Kommunikation . Die wurde vor vier Jahren beschlossen und letztes Jahr verlängert. Sie soll nächstes Jahr auslaufen.
Mitglied der Hamas? Terror-Razzia gegen Sohn von Nobelpreisträgern
(February 8, 2025)
Medhursts Mutter und Vater hatten 1988 als Teil eines UN-Kontingents symbolisch den Friedensnobelpreis für die Blauhelme bekommen. Jetzt der brisante Verdacht gegen ihn nach Paragraf 278b: Mitgliedschaft in einer terroristischen Vereinigung! Dafür drohen bis zu zehn Jahre Haft.
Austrian Police Detain Richard Medhurst; Accuse Him of Being Hamas Member; UK Extends Probe Against Him
(February 7, 2025)
“I categorically deny all of these accusations by the Austrian and British governments, I’m a journalist, not a terrorist, and they bloody-well know it,” Medhurst said in his video. He added that he was a Christian being accused of belonging to Hamas, an Islamist organization resisting Israel’s occupation of Gaza.
Medhurst said the allegations by both countries were similar, but there has now been a “massive escalation” to accuse him of being a “member of a proscribed organization.” The British only accuse him of supporting the proscribed organization, Hamas, through his journalism.
“This is insanity,” he said. “This is an attack on the entire profession, on freedom of speech, on democracy itself.”
Medhurst said he could face up to 14 years of prison in Britain, plus 2-5 years if he doesn’t give them the passwords to his devices and perhaps 10 years in Austria.
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights: STATE/ENTITY – United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
04 Dec 2024
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
JAL
GBR 15/2024
– terrorism
– freedom of opinion and expression
– freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
– privacy
Information received concerning the potentially inappropriate use of provisions of the Terrorism Act 2000, the Terrorism Act 2006, and the Anti-Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019. These provisions appear to have been employed to investigate, detain, collect data, and prosecute political activists and journalists, raising concerns about potential infringements of their fundamental
rights.
Alleged victims: 6
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According to the information received:
Powers under counter-terrorism legislation have been used on multiple occasions to examine, detain, and arrest journalists and activists, particularly at the UK border. It is alleged that journalists and activists who are critical of Western foreign policy in the context of the conflict in the Middle East and the Russia-Ukraine war are especially affected by the reported misuse of these powers. In particular, schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000, and schedule 3 of the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019, have been used to examine and obtain data from journalists and activists, including Johanna Ross (Ganyukova), John Laughland, Kit Klarenberg, Craig Murray and Richard Medhurst in circumstances where they appear to have no credible connection to “terrorist” or “hostile” activity. Furthermore, section 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000 has been used to charge journalists and activists, including Richard Barnard and Richard Medhurst, for allegedly expressing support for a “proscribed organisation” in the course of activism and media reporting.
Without having knowledge of the material that may have substantiated the investigations or charges, we raise concern about an alleged pattern of overuse, or other misuse, of counter-terrorism legislation to target legitimate freedom of expression and opinion, including public interest media reporting, and related freedoms of peaceful assembly and association, and political
dissent or activism.
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Ben Saul
Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism
Irene Khan
Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
Gina Romero
Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
Ana Brian Nougrères
Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy
United Nations Censures UK Over Abuse of Terrorism Act Against Journalists and Activists
(February 6, 2025)
Four UN Special Rapporteurs have written jointly to the UK government demanding explanation of its inappropriate persecution of journalists and political activists under the Terrorism Act. They state that those persecuted:
appear to have no credible connection to “terrorist” or “hostile” activity
The cases taken up by the United Nations are those of Johanna Ross (Ganyukova), John Laughland, Kit Klarenberg, Craig Murray (yes, me), Richard Barnard and Richard Medhurst.
Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya‘s life in danger due to torture: Immediate international intervention needed for his release
According to testimonies gathered by Euro-Med Monitor, the Israeli army subsequently transferred Dr. Abu Safiya to a field interrogation site in the Al-Fakhura area of Jabalia Refugee Camp. There, he was forced to strip off his clothes and was subjected to severe beatings, including being whipped with a thick wire commonly used for street electrical wiring. Soldiers deliberately humiliated him in front of other detainees, including fellow medical staff. He was later taken to an undisclosed location before being transferred to the Sde Teyman military camp under Israeli army control.
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has also received information from recently released detainees at the Sde Teyman military camp, confirming that Dr. Abu Safiya was subjected to severe torture, leading to a significant deterioration in his health. This occurred despite him already being injured by Israeli air strikes on the hospital, where he worked tirelessly until the facility was stormed and set ablaze by Israeli forces.
Israeli Govt Pressed to Reveal Location of Detained Gaza Hospital Director
In response to an official request submitted by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) Israel on behalf of his family to arrange a lawyer’s visit for him, “Mashlat” – the body responsible for coordinating with the army regarding the location of detainees and prisoners from the occupied Gaza Strip – stated that they have no indication of his arrest or detention of the Kamal Adwan Hospital director, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya. Despite clear documentation of his arrest, the Israeli army officially stated on Thursday, January 3, that “it has no indication of the arrest or detention of the Kamal Adwan Hospital Director.”
Happy New Year. Our Society Is Every Bit As Diseased As You Suspect It Is.
The public is becoming more and more restless and agitated because they can sense that something’s wrong but can’t say what it is, like a dementia patient with a urinary tract infection. This agitation is erupting in ways which range from the crazy to the very lucid, from hate crimes and racist movements to mass protests against genocide and an expanding awareness that a better world is possible.
Our job at this point in history is to try to steer this growing restlessness toward health and clarity. To help people understand where the real bad guys are, to highlight the manipulations and abusive systems at play here, to assure everyone that their growing sense that something is very wrong is absolutely correct, and to help them see exactly what’s causing it.
MK Cassif: Hussam Abu Safiya is the Symbol of the Gaza Genocide
According to Hadash-Ta’al MK Ofer Cassif, “We must not allow the Israeli government to kill this noble man [Abu Safiya]. His life and liberty, like those of all Palestinians, must be protected.” “In human history, every genocide has had its own martyrs and symbols. Those who faced barbaric power and humanitarian calamity with resilient, stoic virtue. Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya and his unlawful abduction is the symbol of the Gaza genocide. We must not allow him to perish in captivity. I filed an official query for the Minister of Defense, like habeas corpus, demanding to know of his whereabouts. But this isn’t enough. I urge all to demand his immediate release from Israeli captivity.”
MK Ahmed Tibi (Hadash-Ta’al) called in the Knesset plenum on Monday, December 30, for the release of the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital. Tibi stated that “Dr. Abu Safiya has become an international icon in the last 24 hours. With a systematic destruction of hospitals in Gaza, and all health infrastructure, to render life impossible after the conflict – Israel is the country that has destroyed the most hospitals globally.” “This brave doctor, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, whose 15-year-old child was killed, and later had his hospital shot at and was wounded, remained with his team and patients – it’s a brave decision.” He added: “Ultimately, he came out to the tank and was arrested. Today, he’s in the detention facility at Sde Teiman and there is an international demand to release him. Why? Because doctors are killed in Sde Teiman. Dr. Albatsh, an orthopedist, was detained, tortured, and died. I called on the Defense Minister to release him today.”
According to Hadash-Ta’al MK Aida Touma-Sliman, “Dozens of Palestinians who were held at some point by the Israeli Army are nowhere to be found. The fact is extremely concerning given that according to Bt’selem, more than 60 Palestinians have died while imprisoned by Israel since the beginning of the war – some with clear indications of violence and torture. Like the darkest regimes, Israel is creating, under the cover of war, a parallel world of torture and violence where people are being disappeared.”
If You Want To Help The World, Focus On Fighting The Empire
(November 23, 2024)
We live in a civilization built of lies and abuse, powered by lies and abuse, and defended using lies and abuse. Even the most kindhearted and well-intentioned among us struggle to bring about positive change, because the very fabric of our society is stacked against truth and kindness.
How Israel’s Army Uses Palestinians as Human Shields in Gaza
An investigation by The New York Times found that Israeli soldiers and intelligence agents, throughout the war in Gaza, have regularly forced captured Palestinians like Mr. Shubeir to conduct life-threatening reconnaissance missions to avoid putting Israeli soldiers at risk on the battlefield.
Bundesverfassungsgericht: BKA-Gesetz erneut in Teilen verfassungswidrig
(heute)
Das Gesetz zur Neustrukturierung des Bundeskriminalamtgesetzes stammt noch von der schwarz-schwarz-roten Vorgängerregierung. Der vorher existierende Informationsverbund aller Polizeibehörden änderte sich dadurch von Grund auf: Die gesamte Informationsordnung des Bundeskriminalamts (BKA) wurde neu strukturiert, mit sehr weitreichenden neuen Speicherungen in der Verbunddatenbank INPOL, auf die neben der Bundespolizei und der Zollverwaltung alle Polizeibehörden für alle erdenklichen Auswertungszwecke zugreifen können. Eine massive und anwachsende Bevorratung der personenbezogenen Daten zum Zweck der Terrorismusabwehr war die Folge.
BKA soll heimlich Wohnungen durchsuchen dürfen
(August 14, 2024)
Der Entwurf zur Reform des BKA-Gesetzes, der dem ARD-Hauptstadtstudio vorliegt, umfasst „die Befugnis zum verdeckten Betreten von Wohnungen als Begleitmaßnahme für die Online-Durchsuchung und Quellen-Telekommunikationsüberwachung“, also das Anbringen von Spähsoftware auf Desktops oder Smartphones, sowie die Befugnis „zur verdeckten Durchsuchung von Wohnungen“.
Der stellvertretende Vorsitzende der Grünen-Bundestagsfraktion, Konstantin von Notz, sprach gegenüber den RND-Zeitungen von „ernsten Zeiten“. Das BKA brauche „moderne Ermittlungsbefugnisse und -mittel“.
Washington’s Israel Policy Is Just Feigning Ignorance Of Israeli Depravity
A war zone is a collapse in law and order where might makes right and whoever has the guns makes the rules. People who normally wouldn’t risk imprisonment for acting out their fantasies of torture and murder have the opportunity during wartime to become one of the people with the guns who make the rules. They have a helpless population at their fingertips to whom they can do anything they like.
War is the worst thing in the world. It’s the most insane thing humans do. So, so much of the trauma and dysfunction of our species are the lingering reverberations from wars which ended decades ago, passed down from generation to generation by soldiers returning home and by civilians who’ve been subjected to unfathomable abuse by those who found themselves free to do anything they want to them.
Do Something Every Day To Help De-Normalize The Abuses Of The Empire
One very important task we can undertake as citizens of the western empire is to help de-normalize the tyranny, murderousness and savagery that the imperial propagandists work to normalize.
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Denormalize poverty.
Denormalize injustice and inequality.
Denormalize the ruined buildings and ruined bodies in Gaza.
Denormalize the nuclear brinkmanship with Russia.
Denormalize the destruction of our biosphere in the ravages of ecocidal capitalism.
Denormalize the surging authoritarianism we’re experiencing as the empire works frantically to stomp out dissent.
Denormalize the war machinery rolling out around the world, and the increasingly militarized police forces in our streets.
Denormalize the psychopathy of the politicians and government officials who cheerfully serve the empire in facilitation of these horrors.
Denormalize the way media and government institutions controlled by the powerful work to manipulate the way we think and perceive every day of our fucking lives for the benefit of the powerful.
BKA-Gesetz: Wenn Polizisten zu Einbrechern mutieren
Obwohl die Polizei eine ganze Reihe an Trojaner-Produkten besitzt, kann sie nicht alle Geräte erfolgreich aus der Ferne infizieren.
Deshalb will die Bundesinnenministerin jetzt nachschärfen. Damit die Smartphones und Tablets von Verdächtigen mit der staatlichen Spähsoftware infiziert werden können, sollen Polizisten künftig in die Wohnungen der Verdächtigen einbrechen dürfen. Das zumindest sieht die Änderung des BKA-Gesetzes vor, die netzpolitik.org Mitte August veröffentlicht hat. Die Klempner lassen grüßen.
Mit Verve schoss Bundesjustizminister Marco Buschmann (FDP) dagegen. Mit dieser Maßnahme werde es das BKA-Gesetz nicht bis ins Bundeskabinett schaffen, kündigte er an.
Der Liberale hatte seine Rechnung ohne den Messerangriff von Solingen und ohne den Bundespräsidenten gemacht. Denn Frank-Walter Steinmeier mischte sich unmittelbar nach der grausamen Bluttat ins politische Tagesgeschäft ein und brachte die Änderung des BKA-Gesetzes erneut ins Spiel.
Chatkontrolle: „Ein Massenüberwachungsapparat von orwellschem Ausmaß“
(18.06.2024)
Unabhängig von der technischen Umsetzung der Chatkontrolle, hält Threema die mit der Chatkontrolle einhergehende Massenüberwachung für nicht mit der Demokratie vereinbar. Zudem sei sie unwirksam und untergrabe die Datensicherheit.
Der Messenger warnt auch davor, dass es später keinen Weg gäbe um zu überprüfen, ob die Chatkontrolle wirklich nur bei CSAM (Missbrauchsmaterial) Anwendung finde: „Ist der Massenüberwachungsapparat erst einmal implementiert, kann er leicht für das Erkennen anderer Inhalte als CSAM erweitert werden, ohne dass dies jemand merkt“, so Threema. Aus Sicht eines Dienstbetreibers sei der Erkennungsmechanismus, der von Dritten entwickelt und unterhalten würde, nichts anderes als eine Blackbox.
Sollte die EU-Verordnung zur Chatkontrolle in einer Form durchkommen, die verschlüsselte Kommunikation untergräbt, möchte Threema zuerst alle Optionen wie rechtliche Schritte und technische Workarounds prüfen. Sollte es keinen anderen Weg geben „werden wir andere Kommunikationsdienste aufrufen, die EU mit uns zu verlassen.“
Auch Signal-Messenger gegen Chatkontrolle
Am Montag hatte auch Meredith Whittaker, die Chefin des Signal-Messengers, den belgischen „Kompromissvorschlag“ kritisiert. Mit dem Begriff „Upload Moderation“ hätte die belgische Ratspräsidentschaft der Technologie des Client-Side-Scannings nur einen neuen Namen verpasst, das Scannen bleibe aber das gleiche. Es sei letztlich egal, ob man das Untergraben von Verschlüsselung nun Hintertür, Vordertür oder „Upload Moderation“ nenne, der Effekt bleibe gleich, so Whittaker. Sie warnt vor einer „gefährlichen Schwachstelle in der Kerninfrastruktur“, die außerdem über Europa hinaus globale Auswirkungen hätte.
Rat der EU: Abstimmung über Chatkontrolle vertagt
(20.06.2024)
Die Verhandlungen zwischen den EU-Staaten über die umstrittene Chatkontrolle sind nun unter anderem wegen der deutschen Bedenken vorerst gescheitert. Eine Abstimmung im Rat, die am Donnerstag angesetzt war, wurde vertragt. Es habe sich abgezeichnet, dass keine ausreichende Mehrheit erreicht werden würde, hieß es am Donnerstag von der belgischen Ratspräsidentschaft. Der Vorsitz beschloss daher, den Punkt von der Tagesordnung zu nehmen.
UK’s Online Safety Bill to be fully enforced next year
(20.08.2024)
The UK‘s new Online Safety Bill, which is set to take effect next year and aims to curb speculative news and online hate speech, has gained renewed attention after far-right groups used social media to incite violence.
U.S. raises treatment of imprisoned Palestinian leader Barghouti with Israel
The State Department has not named Barghouti in public statements, but U.S. officials said they are aware of allegations of abuse. The department said in a statement to The Post that it has informed Israel that it must “thoroughly and transparently investigate credible allegations of and ensure accountability for any abuses or violations.”
Taktik des Terrorkrieges: “Hate Speech” und Kontrolle
(27.01.2018)
Lüge, Betrug, Verrat, Vergewaltigung, Mord, Folter, Ausbeutung, Unterdrückung, Krieg, Genozid und deren strukturelle Manifestation durch Politik, Staat und Kapital zu hassen ist eine ganz normale menschliche Emotion. Sie kann allerdings genau dazu benutzt werden was sie bei Menschen normalerweise hervorruft.
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Des Weiteren gibt die Akzeptanz des politischen, letztlich unweigerlich repressiven Begriff “Hate Speech” (Hass-Sprache) repressiven Organen die Option einer maximal perfiden und zynischen Dialektik: mehr Lüge, mehr Betrug, mehr Verrat, mehr Vergewaltigung, mehr Mord, Folter, Ausbeutung, Unterdrückung und Krieg gegen Ausgelieferte und Hilflose anzuwenden, mit der ganz normalen menschlichen Reaktion der Betroffenen zu rechnen, diese einzukalkulieren, sogar gezielt zu provozieren und diese dann als “hateful” zu bezeichnen und noch mehr entsprechende Maßnahmen gegen diese anzuwenden, da diese ja “hateful” seien, abnormal und gefährlich.
Sexual abuse and beatings: A Palestinian mother‘s ordeal in Israeli custody
The group of women spent 11 days in this facility, during which Hussain was taken for interrogation twice, an experience no less traumatising.
„They asked me many questions about my family, my husband and my siblings,“ Hussain recalled.
„The soldiers kept threatening to hurt my children, shouting at me that if I don‘t tell the truth, they will torture and kill my kids.
„They kept asking about my brothers and sisters. One of my brothers is a lawyer and two others are professors and one is a doctor and one barber. They are working people, they have no connection to anything else. They kept insisting that they were ‚activists‘, and when I asked what they meant, they said I knew the answer.
„During the interrogations, they tied me to a chair and a female soldier stood next to me, kicking me and shoving me with her weapon to answer properly.
„They also asked about my social media accounts and I told them I only had Facebook. They threatened they would keep watching me on it.“
After suffering in this undisclosed detention facility for 11 days, Hussain was then moved again, this time to a prison…….
Israel/oPt: UN experts appalled by reported human rights violations against Palestinian women and girls
(19.02.2024)
Palestinian women and girls have reportedly been arbitrarily executed in Gaza, often together with family members, including their children, according to information received. “We are shocked by reports of the deliberate targeting and extrajudicial killing of Palestinian women and children in places where they sought refuge, or while fleeing. Some of them were reportedly holding white pieces of cloth when they were killed by the Israeli army or affiliated forces,” the experts said.
The experts expressed serious concern about the arbitrary detention of hundreds of Palestinian women and girls, including human rights defenders, journalists and humanitarian workers, in Gaza and the West Bank since 7 October. Many have reportedly been subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment, denied menstruation pads, food and medicine, and severely beaten. On at least one occasion, Palestinian women detained in Gaza were allegedly kept in a cage in the rain and cold, without food.
“We are particularly distressed by reports that Palestinian women and girls in detention have also been subjected to multiple forms of sexual assault, such as being stripped naked and searched by male Israeli army officers. At least two female Palestinian detainees were reportedly raped while others were reportedly threatened with rape and sexual violence,” the experts said. They also noted that photos of female detainees in degrading circumstances were also reportedly taken by the Israeli army and uploaded online.
Gaza in the Minds of Israelis
(20.02.2024)
Since 2005, as Dotan Halevy, one of the anthology’s editors puts it in the introduction, a generation has grown up in Gaza “that knows nothing of Israel” (and in Israel, a generation that “knows nothing of Gaza”). Unfortunately, that generation of Israelis is now getting to know Gaza too well. During the Oct. 7 assault, hundreds or even thousands of the Strip’s civilians streamed into southern Israel. They plundered and, alongside the Hamas fighters, murdered and raped—while their faces shone with profound joy.
IDF Let Israeli Civilians Film Torture of Palestinian Detainees: Report
Israel Defense Forces officers brought Israeli civilians into detention centers and allowed them to watch and film Palestinian prisoners being tortured, according to survivor testimonies published this week by the Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor.
Prisoners held at detention centers in Zikim on the northern border of the Gaza Strip and at a site in southern Israel affiliated with Naqab Prison „told Euro-Med Monitor that the Israeli soldiers had purposefully presented them before Israeli civilians, falsely claiming that they were fighters affiliated with Palestinian armed factions and that they had taken part in the October 7 attack on Israeli towns,“ the group said.
“They brought Israeli civilians to watch our nude torture”: IDF torture of Palestinian prisoners is turned into entertainment for Israeli viewers
Palestinian Omar Abu Mudallala, 43, told the Euro-Med Monitor team: “I was arrested at the checkpoint set up near the Kuwait roundabout, which separates Gaza City from the central region, as part of the Israeli random arrest campaigns. I was subjected to all types of torture and abuse for approximately 52 days,” pointing out that Israeli soldiers “brought Israeli civilians to watch our nude torture.”
Abu Mudallala added: “The Israeli army brought a number of Israeli civilians into our detention centres while beating us and telling them, ‘These are Hamas terrorists who killed you and raped your women on 7 October,’ while the Israeli civilians were filming us being beaten, abused, and tortured while making fun of us.”
„This happened five times while I was being held. The first time was in Barkasat Zikim, where we were blindfolded. However, one of the detainees who speaks Hebrew told us that the soldiers were interacting with Israeli civilians claiming that we were armed fighters. The other four incidents took place in the Negev detention facility, where successive Israeli groups were taken inside tents to witness our abuse and record the torture methods we were subjected to without allowing us to speak or interact with them. Since we were not wearing blindfolds at the time, I saw them all four times with my own eyes.“
Hamas posts another hostage video showing Israeli women kidnapped on October 7 and taken hostage to Gaza. The three – Doron Steinbrecher, 30,Daniella Gilboa, 19 & Karina Ariev, 19– the latter two IDF soldiers–, apparently filmed 4 days ago.
(26.01.2024)
What is wrong with Israelis? @MaxBlumenthal takes a searing look at the societal sickness that exploded into the open after October 7, as Israelis of all walks of life took to social media to mock the suffering of Palestinians, flaunted war crimes and clamored for genocide
His hands are trembling a lot while eating food after being starved for a long period.. This elderly man was released today along with several detainees through the Kerem Shalom crossing in the southern Gaza Strip
BREAKING: TORTURED CIVILIANS WHO WERE ARRESTED BY ISRAEL AND STRIPPED NAKED ARE RELEASED “Signs of beatings and torture are visible on their bodies”
The occupation releases a number of Gaza detainees through the Kerem Shalom crossing.
Why are they allowed to torture civilians in such manner?
Israel/OPT: Horrifying cases of torture and degrading treatment of Palestinian detainees amid spike in arbitrary arrests
Israeli authorities have dramatically increased their use of administrative detention, a form of arbitrary detention, of Palestinians across the occupied West Bank; extended emergency measures that facilitate inhuman and degrading treatment of prisoners; and failed to investigate incidents of torture and death in custody over the past four weeks, Amnesty International said today.
Since 7 October, Israeli forces have detained more than 2,200 Palestinian men and women, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club. According to Israeli human rights organization HaMoked between 1 October and 1 November, the total number of Palestinians held in administrative detention, without charge or trial, rose from 1,319 to 2,070.
WHO calls for protection of humanitarian space in Gaza following serious incidents in high-risk mission to transfer patients, deliver health supplies
On 9 December 2023, a WHO team, in collaboration with the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), and with support from the United Nations Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS), completed a high-risk mission to Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City to deliver medical supplies, assess the situation in the hospital, and transfer critically-injured patients to a hospital in the south. The mission delivered trauma and surgical supplies, enough to treat 1500 patients, to the hospital, and transferred 19 critical patients with 14 companions to Nasser Medical Complex in south Gaza, where they can receive a higher level of care.
On the way north, the UN convoy was inspected at the Wadi Gaza checkpoint, and ambulance crew members had to leave the vehicles for identification. Two PRCS staff were detained for over an hour, further delaying the mission. WHO staff saw one of them being made to kneel at gunpoint and then taken out of sight, where he was reportedly harassed, beaten, stripped and searched.
Identity Confirmed: Munir Qeshta al-Masry, a small business owner of an aluminium workshop in Beit Lahia. NEVER a Hamas member!
This is depraved on many levels; forcing civilians to strip & stand almost completely naked at gun point & filming/posting this for a victory image
2\ The IDF appears to have done TWO takes of Munir’s video, forcing him to walk forward TWICE with a rifle in the air towards them as the rest of the crowd were forced to stand frightened with their arms & IDs up, fearing to be sprayed with bullets had they made one wrong move!
Israeli propaganda fail, take 100 The Israeli colonial forces are sharing a video where the so-called Hamas fighters are handing over their guns. After the civilians being stripped naked of course, but still with their guns in their hands!
Meanwhile, an Israeli soldier is yelling at them in Arabic: “Khabibi, grab the gun I gave you, but don’t shoot it, we don’t want trouble and march slowly carrying it and put it on the other side on the ground”.
The man forced to carry the gun is Moin Qeshta Al-Masry, owner of an aluminum workshop, who fled to Al-Khalifa school in Beit Lahya, from where he was kidnapped with the others.
Digitale Bürgerrechte sind keine Bürgerrechte zweiter Klasse. Es ist nicht in Ordnung, wenn jede private Kommunikation im Netz staatlich anlasslos überwacht werden soll. Daher lehnen wir eine #Chatkontrolle ab. Wir setzen uns dafür ein, dass digitale Kommunikation privat bleibt.
Verlängerung der freiwilligen Chatkontrolle ist Eingeständnis des Scheiterns von Zensursula!
(01.12.2023)
Am 4. Dezember 2023 will die EU-Kommission die Justiz- und Innenminister informieren.
Chatkontrolle: EU-Kommission zweifelt an Einigung und geht mit Zwischenlösung in die Verlängerung
(01.04.2023)
Die EU-Kommission glaubt offenbar nicht mehr daran, dass die umstrittene Chatkontrolle so schnell kommen wird wie geplant. Sie schlägt vor, die bisher geltende Interimsregelung des freiwilligen Scannens um zwei Jahre zu verlängern.
BREAKING: RELEASED CHILD HOSTAGE AHMED BASHAR RETURNS HOME AND SPEAKS ABOUT ABUSE BY ISRAELIS
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The youth‘s hope is in the resistance. If it wasn‘t for the resistance, no one would have hope. Our hope is only in the resistance. Our trust in the resistance is high.„
BREAKING: CHILD HOSTAGE MUHAMMAD NAZZAL SPEAKS OUT ABOUT ISRAELI ABUSE
“Elderlies died and they were stomped and beaten.
They broke my arm and finger last week.
They beat me again today.
They did not provide any medical treatment.
The Red Cross only today treated my arm.”
#ElonGoToGaza
Gaza: Lack of fuel threatening to shut down ‘entire’ humanitarian operation
In a wide-ranging briefing to journalists in Geneva, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini reiterated calls for a ceasefire and addressed misinformation targeting the agency, including claims that aid is being diverted.
He said he has also received reports of UN schools being used “for military purposes”.
During the briefing, Mr. Lazzarini said he had received reports that Gaza was under a communications blackout due to the lack of fuel.
He repeated his earlier warning that UNRWA is running out of fuel, thus putting lifesaving support to 2.2 million in Gaza at risk. Everything from aid delivery, to water supply, to even accessing cash from ATM machines will be impacted. (…)
While the agency received a “tiny shipment” of fuel – half a truck – on Wednesday, he said “it was delivered with conditionalities”. The fuel can only be used for trucks collecting goods arriving at the Rafah crossing with Egypt, meaning that water desalination plants, sewage pumping systems or bakeries will go without.
“As from yesterday 70 per cent of the population just in the south has no access anymore to clean water, and as of today, we have raw sewage starting to flow in the streets,” he said.
LIVE : I received REPORTS that several @UNRWA schools (in the north) have been used for military purposes, including REPORTS of a recent discovery of weapons in schools (in the north) AND the positioning of Israeli Forces tanks in at least two @UN schools (in the north of Gaza).
The Letter that Outraged Us: The Physicians‘ Letter Calling for the Destruction of Shifa Hospital in Gaza
(06.11.2023)
Dozens of Israeli physicians signed a letter urging the military to destroy the “hornet nests and the hospitals shielding them” in the Gaza Strip. The letter indicates that its authors consider the civilians in these hospitals to be legitimate targets – as if they can choose to leave; as if there’s a safe way out and another hospital able to take them in.
Following their appeal, we drafted the response letter below, undersigned by physicians and health professionals working in hospitals and in the community: (…)
No person with a conscience can remain indifferent to the massacre of civilians, including men, women, and children, carried out on October 7, 2023, by Hamas militants – the scale of which has yet to be fully revealed. However, our deep outrage must not be transformed into a carte blanche for killing civilians in the Gaza Strip, where residents are also counting the wounded and dead – certainly not when physicians are the ones demanding this. Fortunately, the letter’s signatories represent only a small minority of the health community, while the vast majority remains busy saving lives – no matter whose lives it may be.
Ratspräsidentschaft hält an Chatkontrolle fest
Die umstrittene EU-Verordnung zur Prävention und Bekämpfung des sexuellen Missbrauchs von Kindern, von Kritiker:innen „Chatkontrolle“ genannt, könnte schon kommenden Donnerstag im Ministerrat der EU-Staaten eine entscheidende Schwelle nehmen. Auf einer aktuellen Tagesordnung steht der Punkt für die Runde der Justiz- und Innenminister:innen noch als Platzhalter mit dem Hinweis „möglicherweise“. Zuletzt hatte der Rat eine geplante Abstimmung über seine Position verschoben, weil er die nötige Mehrheit nicht erreicht hätte.
Nun hat die spanische Ratspräsidentschaft einen Vorschlag gemacht, der die kritischen EU-Staaten offenbar zur Zustimmung bewegen soll: Die Art des Materials, nach dem Anbieter suchen müssen, soll vorerst eingeschränkt werden – bis die technischen Möglichkeiten sich geändert haben.
Europol will Chatkontrolle-Daten unbegrenzt sammeln
(29.09.2023)
Europol wünscht sich ungefilterten Zugang zu Daten der Chatkontrolle, um KI-Algorithmen zu trainieren. Das geht aus internen Dokumenten hervor, die wir veröffentlichen. Zwei ehemalige Beamte der EU-Polizei wechselten zur US-Organisation Thorn, die massiv für das geplante Gesetz lobbyiert.
World Economic Forum Launches Coalition to Tackle Harmful Online Content
(29 Jun 2021)
· Leaders in Australia, the UK, Indonesia, Ukraine, Bangladesh, Singapore and other public and private sector members have come together to collaborate and share best practices to reduce the spread of child sexual exploitation and abuse online, violent extremist and terrorist content, and health misinformation
OFCOM – UK broadcasting regulator, gained extensive new powers of censorship and news control, under the Online Safety Bill, which it wrote in conjunction with the unelected WEF! The CEO of Ofcom is also a member of the WEF Global coalition for digital safety. Just saying
(29.09.2023)
Signal-Chefin zur Chatkontrolle: Die EU kann diesen Rückschritt bei den Menschenrechten stoppen
Ich komme gerade aus dem Vereinigten Königreich, das an der Spitze der Kampagne gegen Verschlüsselung und das Recht auf Privatsphäre steht. Was ich dort gesehen habe, ist alarmierend. Anti-Intellektualismus und Propaganda bestimmen sowohl die populäre als auch einen Großteil der sogenannten Expertendiskussion. Ein Hauch von Hysterie und Bedrohung liegt über jedem Versuch, eine sinnvolle Diskussion zu führen – einschließlich der Diskussion über bewährte Ansätze zur Unterstützung von Kindern, die sich von der Fixierung auf die Online-Überwachung unterscheiden. Es wird beängstigend und schwierig, die Menschenrechte zu verteidigen, wenn der Eindruck entsteht, dass man damit Dämonen und Monster verteidigt. Unter diesen harten Bedingungen war eine demokratische Beratung über diesen unglaublich schwerwiegenden Verstoß gegen Rechte kaum möglich. Und ich glaube nicht, dass dies ein Zufall war.
Dieser Hauch von Hysterie verdeckt die unangenehme Tatsache, dass die Technologie für das, was sie vorschreiben wollen, in keiner praktikablen Form existiert. Entgegen den Behauptungen der Organisationen, die sie vermarkten, ist es nicht möglich, die Ende-zu-Ende-verschlüsselte Kommunikation aller sicher und privat zu scannen, um verbotene Äußerungen zu kennzeichnen. Das Gegenteil zu behaupten, ist magisches Denken.
Not only is corporate media like @AP predictably running hit pieces on Rumble for its crime of not obeying censorship orders of the neoliberal establishment, but British media outlets are explicitly threatening that Rumble will be banned from the UK under its repressive new law:
May, Macron und Merkel: Kriegskoalition gegen das World Wide Web
(14.Juni 2017)
Die entsprechenden Pläne von Terror-Theresa, lange vor ihrer Wahlniederlage entworfen, lasen wir bereits vor. Schlüssel dabei ist die praktisch und naturgemäß von allen Regierungen angestrebte Infiltration, Untermininierung und damit das faktische Verbot für 3,7 Milliarden Menschen im Internet – zum überwältigenden Anteil im öffentlich zugänglichen World Wide Web – ihre Telekommunikation, ihren Geschäftsbetrieb, ihr Privatleben, ihre Interaktionen im World Wide Web zu verschlüsseln. (…)
Für meine PappenheimerInnen von Genösschen – wie ich bereits mehrfach bemerkt habe: die dümmsten, miesesten und verlogensten der Welt – gilt diesbezüglich, wie immer: Kopf einziehen und versuchen nicht aufzufallen.
Helfen wird der Nomenklatura, ob international oder in diesem Saftladen von Republik, nichts von alledem. Sie ist fällig.
Und ihre Ehrenlogen vorneweg.
Recherchen decken Netzwerk der Chatkontrolle-Lobby auf
Auch Sicherheitsbehörden seien an der Chatkontrolle interessiert, heißt es in der Recherche. Ein Thema sei dabei die Ausweitung der Chatkontrolle auf andere Kriminalitätsbereiche. Ein internes Dokument zeige, dass Vertreter von Europol dies bei einem Treffen im Juli 2022 anfragten:
„Es gibt andere Kriminalitätsbereiche“, die von der KI-gestützten Erkennung profitieren würden, wird Europol in dem Protokoll zitiert. Das geplante EU-Zentrum könnte doch auch für andere Zwecke genutzt werden als allein für die Suche nach Missbrauchsbildern.
UK urges Meta not to roll out end-to-end encryption on Messenger and Instagram
A Meta spokesperson said: „The overwhelming majority of Brits already rely on apps that use encryption to keep them safe from hackers, fraudsters and criminals.
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„We don‘t think people want us reading their private messages so have spent the last five years developing robust safety measures to prevent, detect and combat abuse while maintaining online security.“
Meta targeted for fresh UK gov’t warning against E2E encryption for Messenger, Instagram
Although friction from policymakers has clearly made the “pivot to privacy” which founder Mark Zuckerberg announced all the way back in 2019, when he said the company would universally apply E2EE on its services, slow going.
Finally, though, this August, Meta announced it would enable E2EE by default for Messenger by the end of the year.
Intelligence Community Feels It Might Be Time To Start Stuffing Surveillance Gear Into People’s Pants
Who among us has not considered shoving a camera into our underwear… but for the greater good… on the public’s dime?
IARPA launches SMART ePANTS
(August 23, 2023)
The Smart Electrically Powered and Networked Textile Systems (SMART ePANTS) program represents the largest single investment to develop Active Smart Textiles (AST) that feel, move, and function like any garment. Resulting innovations stand to provide the Intelligence Community (IC), Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, and other agencies with durable, ready-to-wear clothing that can record audio, video, and geolocation data.
Kids Online Safety Act reviewed by Congress
(August 29, 2023)
The bill is working its way through Congress, and it’s important we understand what it does and doesn’t do.
Influencers Starting To Realize How The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) Will Do Real Damage
(Jul 25th 2023)
„40 Senators have sponsored a bill to make sure you have to upload your driver’s license before you can use your First Amendment on the internet. That’s what they want. That’s what this bill is.
This bill is designed to make sure that they have your home address before you can actually post about ANYTHING on the internet.“
The UK’s Secretive Web Surveillance Program Is Ramping Up
(15.05.2023)
WIRED contacted nine of the UK’s internet service providers and telecom companies asking about their abilities to create and store people’s internet connection records. Eight did not respond to the request for comment. TalkTalk, the only one that did, said it will “meet its obligations” under UK law but couldn’t “confirm or deny” whether ICRs existed.
Cameron’s internet filter goes far beyond porn – and that was always the plan
(23 December 2013)
Through secretive negotiations with ISPs, the coalition has divided the internet into ‚acceptable‘ and ‚unacceptable‘ categories and cut people off from huge swathes of it at the stroke of a key.
UK Advisor Involved In Britain’s Internet Filter Arrested For Child Porn
(Mar 4, 2014)
Britain has come under fire for its Internet filtering program, which can inadvertently block sensitive culture topics that overlap with common porn terms. The program accidentally “led to the creation of filters that not only cover hardcore pornography, but hate speech, self-harm, drugs, alcohol, tobacco, dating, nudity, violence, gambling, social networking, file-sharing, games and more,” explained Wired UK.
Despite the embarrassing arrest, there is no announced plan to revise the Internet filtering program.
The UK Government Knows How Extreme The Online Safety Bill Is
The bill would empower the U.K. government, in certain situations, to demand that online platforms use government-approved software to search through all users’ photos, files, and messages, scanning for illegal content. Online services that don’t comply can be subject to extreme penalties, including criminal penalties.
Chat control: incompatible with fundamental rights
Authorities can impose so-called „detection orders“ against providers of interpersonal communications services. This means that authorities can, for example, oblige messenger services to monitor the communications of all their users. It is sufficient that the authority has identified a significant risk that the service in question is being used for the dissemination of depictions of sexual violence against children. Detection orders do not have to be limited to monitoring the communications of specific users who are under suspicion. Instead, authorities can order that the content of all communications of all users of the service be monitored preventively.
Chat Control: Your private messages will be scanned
Whan can be done against this proposed law? It is important that more people know about it. Share the link to this page! Chat with others about it and talk with your representatives in the European Parliament about it (or write a nice e-mail to them).
Shin Bet said to join probe into quadruple murder in Abu Snan
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, whose ministry oversees the police, published a post on his Facebook account on Wednesday morning calling Arab armed gangs “terrorist organizations” with “huge budgets and hundreds of thousands of weapons at their disposal, including millions of bullets, explosive charges, and grenade launchers.”
Ben Gvir warned that such “militias” will soon direct their attacks against the State of Israel, and called once again for the establishment of a national guard to prevent local crime.
Knesset Okays ‘Sexual Terrorism’ Racist Law
(03.08.2023)
Sponsored by a group of lawmakers led by MK Limor Son Har Melech, from the racist coalition faction Otzma Yehudit, and MK Yulia Malinovsky from right-wing opposition party Yisrael Beytenu, the new law marked a rare case of cross-Knesset alignment and passed 39 to 7 on its final reading.
Sharp criticism of the law quickly came in from Hadash-Ta’al lawmakers and Israel’s rape crisis center umbrella organization, with both alleging the law improperly creates a ranking of the severity of such crimes. Hadash-Ta’al MK Aida Touma-Sliman, a former head of the Knesset’s Women’s Status Committee, told the Knesset: “Do not punish according to hierarchies and classifications.” “Shame on these laws,” she continued, tweeting after the law passed, “Don’t promote racism on the backs of victims!”
EU-Staaten wollen Verschlüsselung doch nicht schützen
Zwölf weitere Staaten stimmen Irland zu und lehnen den Schutz von Verschlüsselung ab. Laut den Niederlanden „sollten sich Anbieter nicht hinter Verschlüsselung verstecken können“. Frankreich will Verschlüsselung nicht schwächen, aber „unbedingt“ verschlüsselte Inhalte scannen.
Auch die EU-Kommission kritisiert den vorgeschlagenen Schutz von Verschlüsselung deutlich. „Der vorgeschlagene Text würde nicht nur die Aufdeckung von [Material über sexuellen Kindesmissbrauch] verhindern, sondern auch bereits etablierte Maßnahmen wie Spamfilter unmöglich machen.“
Themenwahl 2023: Anlasslose Kontrolle von Chatnachrichten verhindern
Die EU-Kommission plant eine umfassende Überwachung unserer Messenger-Kommunikation (z. B. via WhatsApp, iMessage, facebook Messenger, Telegram und andere) in ganz Europa einzuführen. Durch die Überwachung all unserer Nachrichten hofft die EU-Kommission, Missbrauchsdarstellungen von Kindern und Jugendlichen auf unseren Endgeräten zu finden, um somit gegen die Verbreitung kinderpornographischer Darstellungen vorzugehen (1).
Im Koalitionsvertrag heißt es dazu: „Allgemeine Überwachungspflichten, Maßnahmen zum Scannen privater Kommunikation und eine Identifizierungspflicht lehnen wir ab“ (2).
Entgegen dieser Vereinbarung hat die deutsche Bundesregierung Anfang April entschieden, die Massnahmen zum Scannen der privaten Kommunikation auf EU-Ebene nicht abzulehnen (3).
US-Geheimdienste: Lizenz zur weltweiten Überwachung läuft aus
Dass besagte Section 702 verlängert wird, steht kaum außer Frage.
The FBI abused its surveillance of Americans 278,000 times in 18 months
Section 702 of the FISA Act allows agencies like the NSA to eavesdrop on foreign nationals overseas. It prohibits spying on US citizens or anyone who‘s within the United States. (…)
In practice, then, NSA maintains a huge database of information about the communications of US citizens. Agencies like the FBI are allowed to query this database, but only under strict rules. The primary rule is that queries can only be done if they are related to foreign intelligence or are likely to show evidence of a crime.