One week ago, 41-year-old Hussain Aman collapsed and died in Jau Prison #Bahrain. #HRW calls on Bahraini authorities to investigate the circumstances of his death, including whether emergency aid was offered in a timely manner. @BirdBahrain_'s report:
https://t.co/b9F8YB5NvD
On this day, Indigenous people and allies confront the settler-colonial narratives of “Thanksgiving,” observing it instead as a National Day of Mourning. The whitewashed story of unity with the Wampanoag people—who have long lived in southeastern Massachusetts and eastern Rhode Island—obscures the true history and ongoing violence against Indigenous life.🧵
There are many ways in which Israel is destroying the Palestinians in Gaza. Creating unsustainable and inhumane conditions of life is the most complex and cruel.
Do not call it "war". It is a genocide. The motives are irrelevant. The intent (ie the determination) to destroy is evident and unequivocal. As unequivocal is the complicity of others states.
"#Gaza is the real-world embodiment of hell on earth for its one million children. And it’s getting worse, day by day, as we see the horrific impact of the daily airstrikes and military operations on Palestinian children." - @1jameselder, @UNICEF
While these scenes are hard to process, it is important to understand that extrajudicial executions of Palestinian civilians—often children—are absolutely not isolated incidents. These events represent a part of the systematic and widespread actions being carried out by Israeli soldiers in Gaza. The rationale? The opportunity to target (and destroy) the Palestinians, which the State of Israel appears determined not to let slip away.
You can be a celebrity or a ordinary person. If you stay SILENT, PASSIVE, INACTIVE while Palestinians trapped in Gaza - human beings who breath, feel and dream exactly like you - get slaughtered by an unchecked army, you are no different from those who continued to go by their lives during past genocides who erased from earth millions.
While all eyes are on the horrors in Lebanon, we need to shine a spotlight on the relentless demolition of homes & civilian infrastructure in the West Bank.
The past 11 months has seen a significant surge in settler violence & forcible transfer of Palestinians:
While at least 50 children have been killed in Lebanon, Gaza: 14 out of 650 pages of identified victims... Of children below 1 year old!
How can this unspeakable monstrosity fail to stop every single argument in our societies, it's beyond me.
29 rights groups urge UN states to call on Bahrain to release unfairly imprisoned activists and defenders and end the use of the death penalty during General Assembly high-level debate (24-28 September) themed ‘leaving no one behind’
See full letter: https://t.co/IrviDy2nt2
The Rafto prize 2024 is awarded to Cuban artist and human rights defender Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, for his fearless opposition to authoritarianism through art. Read the complete Award Statement here. https://t.co/MucQWWPwW4
Photo: María Matienzo
#FreeLuisMa#Patriayvida
If a mass terrorist attack like that perpetrated by Israel in Lebanon occurred in any western country, western leaders would be marching arm-in-arm through the streets of Paris, western media would provide non-stop, tearful coverage, the UK flag would be at half-staff for weeks, and the US Air Force would be bombing the perpetrators (and several other countries). But this is Israel, the country above all law. And the victims are only Arabs, the people designated as unworthy of human rights by the west. The hypocrisy. The racism. The #shame.
The UN General Assembly resolution welcoming the ICJ's advisory opinion, demanding Israel's compliance, and calling on all States to cooperate in its implementation is adopted.
124 in favor
14 against
43 abstain
Applause.