Zomi Frankcom went to Gaza to feed the suffering. Oscar Jenkins went to Ukraine to kill. Penny Wong threatens Russian ambassador after the death of Oscar Jenkins. Zomi Frankcom's murder got a "Joint Statement Towards a New Declaration for the Protection of Humanitarian Personnel"
A long Annus Horribilis in a picture.
For the last 14 months millions of decent human beings worldwide have battled between incredulity, rage, frustration, sense of impotence, depression and crude pain over the brutalization of millions of Palestinians by the state which the int'l community has allowed to behave like a spoiled brat for decades. ENOUGH.
Member states must act now and stop the genocide. Then the occupation. And finally the apartheid.
We must collectively restore respect for legality, our trust in common rules and systems, and our capacity to act as humans.
Israel just killed Khaled Nabhan, who called his granddaughter Reem “the soul of his soul” in a viral CNN report after they slaughtered her last year. They shared a birthday - she would’ve turned 5 next week. This isn’t war it’s the erasure of families & histories- with impunity.
In January, Israeli historian Lee Mordechai released a 124 page report with 1,400 footnotes detailing evidence of Israel’s genocide. How many of you heard about it? Did any Western papers cover it?
This was instantaneously my deepest fear as the news of the ICC arrest warrants came in. It is noticeable that as of January, at every move at the int'l justice level, there has been an immediate intensification of lethal violence against the Palestinians in Gaza. This also needs to be thorrougly investigated, Prosecutor @KarimKhanQC.
“So what did go down in Amsterdam? And how should the media have reported it?
Certainly, better than they did because two angry mobs were involved — with violence on both sides — and while antisemitism was an ingredient, the claims of a Nazi pogrom were ridiculous.”
🚨NEWS🚨 Australian coal has just arrived in Israel after being shipped from Australia.
A bulk carrier arrived today from Newcastle to the Hadera port, on the coast near Tel Aviv, likely to supply Israel’s largest power station.
Yemen has banned the passage of all ships en route to Israel, while humanitarian aid, food, medicine are blockaded from Gaza, in compliance with calls from Int’l Court of Justice.
@CIJ_ICJ @MaritimeUnionAU
@MEUA@RisingTideAus@APAN
“Al Jazeera and Anadolu both covered Hassan Hamad’s death. As did several pro-Palestinian sites.
But there has been little or nothing in the mainstream media which is remarkable. Are we now so hardened to journalists being targeted?”
#MediaWatch
every child you see with mangled legs being hopelessly carried, every person you see lit on fire, all the dust covered faces, they were a whole universe. to themselves and everybody they knew. lives as complex, joyful and difficult as yours. it kills me. i’ll never get numb to it