Genocide
- Israeli forces have bombed a tent camp housing displaced people in a designated safe zone in Rafah, killing 45 Palestinians, most of them women and children. The attack has triggered an international outcry, leading to calls for a ceasefire.
- The attack on the camp in Tal as-Sultan came after Israeli forces bombed shelters housing displaced Palestinians in other areas including Jabalia, Nuseirat and Gaza City, killing at least 160 others, according to Palestinian officials.
- 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).
- Joe Biden continues to arm Israel in the face of war crimes and genocide.
- ICC seeks arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu for Gaza ‘war crimes’.
As Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara highlights, Netanyahu’s deflection and Biden’s complicity in Israel’s invasion of Rafah present a stark contrast to the humanitarian principles they claim to uphold. He emphasizes that if the United States were in Gaza’s position, the nation would be mourning the death of 2 million American children after eight months of relentless warfare.
Seems appropriate to post this again.
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Because allowing humanitarian aid is counterproductive to their genocide Israel continues its efforts to destroy UNRWA.
Israel’s parliament has voted to approve a bill that would designate the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees as a terrorist organisation. The bill also calls for a complete severing of ties from UNRWA. Israel previously said UNRWA employees took part in the October 7 attacks, but an independent review concluded there’s no evidence to back the claim.
While Americans enjoy our long holiday weekend our government is burning Palestinian children in tents and generally committing war crime and genocide.
Well done America. Well done.
Palestinians search charred remains of Rafah tent camp
Emergency crews in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah have worked through the night to recover the remains of Palestinians killed in an Israeli strike… Many of the dead and injured are women and children. The Palestinian Red Crescent says people were ‘burned alive’ in their tents. The injured are being treated in overwhelmed and under-equipped hospitals.
FUCK YOU JOE BIDEN.
Israel’s war on Gaza live news: ‘People burned alive’ in attack on Rafah | Al Jazeera
As reported by The Forward, the background story of Theodor Meron one of eight legal and academic experts convened in January by ICC prosecutor Karim Khan in the investigation of possible crimes by Israel and Hamas.
By the age of 14, he had survived the Holocaust; by 44, he was an Israeli diplomat; now, at the age of 94, Theodor Meron recommended the International Criminal Court seek arrest warrants of Israeli and Hamas leaders for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
A serious, qualified person who has served the US, Israel and the international community his entire life.
In violation of international law Israel will continue the war and the US will continue to support Israel. Both believe they are above the law.
ICJ rules Israel must stop Rafah operation, what’s next? | Al Jazeera
The court was not convinced that Israel had taken sufficient measures to protect civilian life and voted – 13 judges to two – that Israel must take effective measures to enable any UN-backed commission of inquiry to enter Gaza and probe genocide allegations.
The court also reaffirmed its previous January 26 ruling that Israel must scale up aid to Palestinians in Gaza.
The US and Israel continue war cimes, ordered to stop by ICJ.
ICJ orders Israel to halt Rafah offensive in new ruling
Judges at the top United Nations court ordered Israel on Friday to halt its military assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah, reports Reuters.
Reading out a ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) or World Court, the body’s president Nawaf Salam said provisional measures ordered by the court in March did not fully address the situation in Gaza now, and conditions had been met for a new emergency order.
“Israel must immediately halt its military offensive” in Rafah, he said.
Damnnnnnn.
Video posted by Nando161 on Mastodon, Original source: Aamer Rahman culture war standup comedy mix tape
“Everything in Palestine is what happened, and what’s going to happen - it’s the past and the future at the same time…”
Democracy Now! interview with Lily Greenberg Call, First Jewish Biden Appointee to Publicly Resign over Gaza
She was a special assistant to the chief of staff at the Interior Department. She quit on May 15 in a four-page letter that slammed Biden’s “disastrous, continued support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza.” Greenberg Call is at least the fifth high-profile resignation from the Biden administration since October 7.
“I am so angry at the president that he is using my community as justification for this slaughter, making us the face of the American war machine.”
Biden’s continued statements in support of Israel and his denial of genocide is truly disgusting. He seems to assume that the US and Israel are above the law.
Israel and the United States have both strongly condemned the International Criminal Court’s decision to pursue arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on war crimes charges, calling it “outrageous” and seeking support from other allies in opposing the court’s moves. On Monday, ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan outlined specific charges against Netanyahu and Gallant, including “starvation of civilians as a method of warfare” and “extermination.” The ICC also sought arrest warrants for three leaders of Hamas — Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh and Mohammed Deif — for war crimes including extermination and murder, the taking of captives, torture, rape and other acts of sexual violence. The warrants for Israel’s top leaders, which must still be approved by a panel of ICC judges, is “a watershed event in the history of international justice,” says war crimes prosecutor Reed Brody. “This is the first time that a Western or pro-Western leader is [the] subject of an indictment request.” We also speak with Israeli historian Ilan Pappé, author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, who says Israel’s strident response to the ICC prosecutor is no surprise. “This is the kind of Israel we have in 2024. It doesn’t care about international law. It doesn’t care about international opinion,” says Pappé.
No, they’re not equivalent. Israel has done, is now doing, far worse.
Biden has no credibility on this and he is complicit.
Biden denounces ICC for ‘outrageous’ implication of equivalence between Israel and Hamas | CNN
The Biden administration on Monday forcefully denounced efforts by the International Criminal Court to seek arrest warrants for top Israeli officials and Hamas leaders, saying the court’s efforts put the terrorist organization and a top US ally on equivalent footing.
Arrest warrants sought for Hamas and Israel leadership: Statement of ICC Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan KC: Applications for arrest warrants in the situation in the State of Palestine | International Criminal Court
Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant
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:
Today’s headlines:
Democratic Party: Looks like we have no choice but to run Joe Biden for president.
Biden wants progressives to believe he’s reining in Israel. He isn’t | The Guardian
Biden will be remembered as a president who could have restrained Israel but instead made the US complicit in this war
Meanwhile:
Benjamin Netanyahu arrest warrant sought for Gaza ‘war crimes’
Jewish Biden appointee resigns, accusing US president of having ‘blood on his hands’ - YouTube
Al Jazeera’s Shihab Rattansi reports from Washington, DC, highlighting the recent resignation of Lily Greenberg Call, marking the first departure among Biden appointees due to President Biden’s unwavering support for Israel’s actions in Gaza. Another notable resignation came from a Jewish member of the US administration, a career military officer in the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Israeli Human Rights Lawyer Attacked While Documenting Settler Raid on Gaza Aid Convoy
Aid agencies are running out of food in southern Gaza amid Israel’s ongoing offensive in Rafah and the shutdown of the two main border crossings in the south. Some 1.1 million Palestinians are on the brink of starvation, according to the United Nations, while a “full-blown famine” is taking place in the north. Meanwhile, some Israelis have been blocking aid from reaching the Gaza border, including a violent attack on trucks carrying humanitarian relief through the occupied West Bank earlier this week.”
Joe Biden and those in Congress that continue to support arming Israel are supporting war crimes and genocide. They are war criminals.
Biden Administration Goes Full Genocide Denial For Israel - YouTube
The Majority Report discussion of a clip of Zbigniew Brzezinski discussing American policy in the Middle East 22 years ago in the run up to the Iraq War.
Just a glimpse of the long running violence and the policy failures leading to the violence of the current moment.
…the Israelies are increasingly becoming like the white supremecist South Africans viewing the Palestinians as a lower form of life, not hesitating to kill a great many of them and justifying this on the grounds that they being the objects of terrorism, which is true, but the reactions are all out of proportion.
What This Jewish Professor At Columbia Wants You To Know - YouTube
For over seven months, a dominant conversation in the U.S. news media has been about alleged and increased antisemitism on American campuses - culminating in the coverage around student encampments… In this interview, AJ+ speaks to Dr. Bruce Robbins, a Jewish professor at Columbia University who supported students protesting Columbia University’s investments in companies and programs that uphold Israeli apartheid and the genocide in Gaza.