Gaza
- Adolf Hitler (Date of genocide: 1941 - 1945)
- Pol Pot (Date of genocide: 1975 - 1979)
- Benjamin Netanyahu (Date of genocide: 2023 - present)
Gaza starvation could amount to war crime, UN human rights chief tells BBC
After months of warnings, a recent UN-backed report offered hard statistical evidence that the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is turning into a man-made famine.
It has increased the pressure on Israel to fulfil its legal responsibilities to protect Palestinian civilians, and to allow adequate supplies of humanitarian aid to reach the people who need it.
According to Volker Türk, the UN’s most senior human rights official, there is a “plausible” case that Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza.
‘Ecocide in Gaza’: does scale of environmental destruction amount to a war crime? | The Guardian
Satellite analysis revealed to the Guardian shows farms devastated and nearly half of the territory’s trees razed. Alongside mounting air and water pollution, experts says Israel’s onslaught on Gaza’s ecosystems has made the area unlivable
ICJ orders Israel to take action to address famine in Gaza:
Judges at the International Court of Justice have unanimously ordered Israel to take all the necessary and effective action to ensure basic food supplies arrive without delay to Gaza’s hunger-ravaged population.
Mustafa Barghouti, the secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative party, tells Al Jazeera that the move is an “important step” that should be followed by another resolution enforcing a “complete cessation of all military activities by Israel”.
The US and Israel continue partnership in war crimes.
Despite a U.N.-backed report sounding the alarm on imminent famine in northern Gaza, Israeli authorities announced Sunday they will no longer approve the passage of any UNRWA food convoys into northern Gaza. “Our ability to adequately continue saving lives is really being obstructed,” says UNRWA… The decision came as President Biden signed a $1.2 trillion appropriations bill that strips funding to UNRWA for the next year.
I Could Not Stay Silent: Annelle Sheline Resigns from State Dept. over U.S. Gaza Policy - YouTube
A State Department official working on human rights issues in the Middle East resigned Wednesday in protest of U.S. support for Israel’s assault on Gaza. Annelle Sheline, who worked as a foreign affairs officer in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, was not planning on publicly resigning, but her colleagues asked her to “please speak out” against the Biden administration’s unconditional support for Israel. “At the end of the day, many people inside [the State Department] know that this is a horrific policy, and can’t believe that the United States government is engaged in such actions that contravene American values so directly, but the leadership is not listening,” says Sheline. “I’m trying to speak on behalf of those many, many people who feel so betrayed by our government’s stance.” Sheline describes being moved by the words of Aaron Bushnell, the active-duty U.S. airman who set himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in protest of the war on Gaza, who implored everyone to take a stand against genocide. “I have a young daughter, and I thought about, in the future, if she were to ask me, ‘What were you doing when this was happening? You were at the State Department.’ I want to be able to tell her that I didn’t stay silent.”
Israel: Above the law? | Featured Documentary - YouTube
A look into how and why international laws and principles are being applied and ignored in the Israel-Gaza conflict…
This documentary will explore whether Israel is breaking international law and, if so, why are Western powers, in particular the United States, silent.
This is the kind of response I get when I email or call "my" representatives in congress:
Meanwhile...
Videos of malnourished children show Gaza’s forced starvation crisis | Al Jazeera Newsfeed - YouTube
Starvation is getting worse in north Gaza where 31% of children under the age of 2 are suffering from acute malnutrition, a percentage which has doubled since January.
The tide of public opinion in the US has finally turned against Israel and it only took the deaths of 32,000 civilians, countless war crimes, a declaration by the ICJ of plausible genocide and a deliberate campaign by Israel to starve over a million humans.
Majority in U.S. Now Disapprove of Israeli Action in Gaza
WASHINGTON, D.C. – After narrowly backing Israel’s military action in Gaza in November, Americans now oppose the campaign by a solid margin. Fifty-five percent currently disapprove of Israel’s actions, while 36% approve.
Listening to the current episode of the Politically Depressed Podcast: Who pays for your silence? and while the whole episode is excellent, this unspoken truth gave me pause:
Palestinians are paying the price of European anti-semitism.
It’s generally a good podcast by a young Lebanese activist living outside his country. Often meandering and sad, his effort to share and process his thoughts and observations of the state of the world.
War on Gaza: UN special rapporteur accuses Israel of acts of ‘genocide’ - YouTube
Francesca Albanese says Israel has violated three of the five acts listed under the UN Genocide Convention Including: Killing members of a specific group, causing serious bodily or mental harm, and deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole and in part. She also found that genocidal acts were approved and given effect after statements of genocidal intent by senior Israeli military and government officials. These acts, Albanese argues, are part of a ‘settler-colonial process of erasure’ - which has been underway for more than 70 years. She recommends - among other things - an immediate arms embargo on Israel. And for member states to support South Africa in its attempt to prosecute Israel at the International Court of Justice.
“Israel has the world record” for violating U.N. resolutions and is certain to violate this ceasefire resolution, as well, even though it expressed “the very broad consensus across the global community against Israel’s onslaught on Gaza.” Israel continued bombing Gaza after Monday’s vote, and top Israeli leaders have vowed to continue the war that has killed over 32,000 Palestinians so far.
Israel’s attempt to destroy Unrwa is part of its starvation strategy in Gaza | The Guardian
Israel’s vendetta against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (Unrwa) illustrates the callousness with which Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government has fought the war in Gaza. It also reflects an effort to use Hamas’s 7 October attack as an opportunity for demographic re-engineering.
UN Security Council passes resolution demanding immediate Gaza ceasefire - YouTube
The United Nations Security Council has called for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas in Gaza and the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages as the United States abstained from the vote. The remaining 14 council members voted for the resolution on Monday.
Yes, and the US is complicit.
Half of Gaza’s population is at risk of famine - Vox
Every resident of Gaza is at risk of crisis levels of food insecurity — and half are at risk of famine.
Yes, you read that right: Nearly six months into the Israeli invasion after the October 7 attacks, every single Gaza resident is at risk of at least crisis-level food insecurity…
It’s a crisis that has unfolded at a speed utterly unprecedented this century — and also one that was repeatedly predicted and entirely avoidable if Israel were not placing severe restrictions on aid.
Does Israel need to be forced by the US to end the war in Gaza? | YouTube
All of Israel’s modern wars have ended with US intervention, but the current war in Gaza has gone on for half a year because “Biden is a slow learner”, argues University of Pennsylvania political scientist Ian Lustick… Lustick and Palestinian politician Mustafa Barghouti talk to host Steve Clemons about the current situation on the ground and the debate within the Democratic Party in the United States.
One of these men has spoken to US Congress and is currently invited to speak again:
The list of historical genocides does not yet list Israel but it will.
“A Failure of Humanity:” IRC’s David Miliband on Impending Famine in Gaza | Amanpour and Company
Israeli military action continues to devastate the civilian population in Gaza. A three-day siege of Al-Shifa Hospital is in progress despite the fact that thousands are sheltering there… The bombardment is pushing Gaza towards a devastating humanitarian crisis: A U.N.-backed organization reports that more than a million people – half the population of Gaza – are on the brink of catastrophic hunger.
What unfolding genocide looks like:
“If you want to know what an unfolding genocide looks like, open your eyes. It looks like the forced famine of 1.1 million innocents. It looks like thousands of children eating grass as their bodies consume themselves, while trucks of food are slowed and halted just miles away.” -Rep. Ocasio-Cortez
Chuck Schumer warned that Israel risks becoming a pariah.
Too late.
As if the genocide, ethnic cleansing and current, deliberately created famine in Gaza were not enough Israeli settlers are actively engaged shooting Palestinian farmers and stealing land in the West Bank | Democracy Now :
Building on an unprecedented wave of settler violence in 2023, Israeli attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have intensified since October 7, with over 400 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces and settlers over the past five months.
Israel has been using violence to forcibly remove Palestinian people from their land for decades.
Israel IS a violent, genocidal apartheid state.
WHY DO THEY GET ANY US AID? WHY IS THE US SUPPORTING ISRAEL AT ALL?
I’ve never been more disgusted and ashamed to be a citizen of the US. We have passively accepted our complicity in ethnic cleansing, genocide and now deliberate famine.
Experts warn of ‘imminent’ famine in Gaza with lack of aid reaching Palestinians - YouTube
More than half of North Gaza’s population is at risk of starvation and in southern Gaza, Rafah is projected to face famine by July.