"Say the word ‘genocide’. The UN has called it a genocide. The ICJ has called it a genocide."
Activists in the Netherlands have interrupted the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in protest of the organisation including two Israeli-funded films in this year's Palestine pathway programme.
Last year, over 20 filmmakers withdrew from the festival due to its condemnation of liberatory Palestinian speech and its refusal to take a stand against Israel's genocidal assault on Gaza.
humanity is doomed, we are freaks of nature, allowed a genocidal bunch to destroy the basic concepts of human rights.
It won’t stop at Gaza.. be assured
The US gave Israel 30 days to improve conditions in Gaza. 30 days later, US says it won't hold Israel accountable because it "took steps."
But in those 30 days, Israel banned UNRWA; invaded a hospital & detained medical staff; bombed refugee camps; attacked a UNICEF car; and—
We have all the evidence that the israelis are deliberately targeting medical staff & our fellow doctors in Gaza are waiting to die, says British Dr Talbot
This isn’t the result of a war.
It’s the outcome of a barbaric, punitive, medieval style raid against the people of Gaza which has been ongoing now for a year. Supported by our government.
Silence is complicity.
Why a father needs to endure this?
And it did not start 13 months ago. While the violence against the Palestinians has since then escalated at unprecedented fast pace, Israel has globally killed, maimed, made orphans and homeless, kidnapped and held hostage, tortured and raped, tormented and persecuted millions of Palestinians since its inception as a State and more forcefully since 1967.
Palestinians are a nation of Nakba survivors, who have never ceded sovereignty over their land, and who have been forced to live with, or at the conditions set by, their oppressor for decades.
May the current tragedy lead to much needed reckoning with the Past and Justice.
This is Beirut 🇱🇧tonight.
Beirut is nowhere near the border with Israel 🇮🇱
This has nothing to do with Israel 🇮🇱 seeking border security.
This is bringing terror. This is Netanyahu determined to plunge the whole region into war.
🚨The Israeli army has abducted five orthopedic surgeons from #Gaza, whose fate remains unknown:
Dr. Murad Al-Qouqa
Dr. Mohammed Obaid
Dr. Ghassan Abu Zahri
Dr. Mahmoud Abu Shahada
During this war, they also abducted Dr. Adnan Al-Barsh and killed him under torture in detention.
This is Céline Haidar, a Lebanese national team footballer.
Céline now lies in intensive care, critically injured after being struck in the head by Israeli shrapnel in Beirut.
If she were Ukrainian, her story would be everywhere. But because she’s Lebanese, the world is silent.