Matej Šebenik

Chess Grandmaster and Coach; sports enthusiast and occasional bettor; history geek. Alea iacta est.

[Matej Šebenik @MSebenik]

#IsraelisaTerroristsState
#IsraeliCrimes

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

An independent U.N. commission said that the Israeli military had deliberately targeted children in Gaza, amounting to genocide.

The commission said it found a pattern of behavior that reflected a strategy to destroy the future of Palestinians. https://t.co/SndPKA1jDL

[Martin Konečný @MartinKonecny]

40+ legal scholars say the EU has a duty to end trade with Israel's illegal settlements and can do so with a qualified majority of member states. No unanimity is needed.

EU Commission must stop dragging its feet and table a proposal @vonderleyen @MarosSefcovic

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

The illegality of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank is one of the most well-established positions in international law, resting on four distinct pillars:

📜 GENEVA CONVENTIONS
Article 49(6) of the Fourth Geneva Convention (1949) explicitly prohibits an occupying power from transferring parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies. Israel ratified the Convention in 1951. The International Committee of the Red Cross, the authoritative interpreter of humanitarian law, has consistently held that this provision applies directly to the settlements.

🌐 UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS
The Security Council has repeatedly affirmed settlement illegality — including in binding resolutions the US did not veto:
• Res. 446 (1979): settlements have "no legal validity"
• Res. 465 (1980): calls on Israel to dismantle existing settlements
• Res. 2334 (2016): passed 14-0 (US abstained), explicitly states settlements constitute "a flagrant violation of international law" and have "no legal validity"

⚖️ ICJ RULINGS
• Advisory Opinion on the Wall (2004): the Court found settlements in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, had been established in breach of international law, and that the wall built to protect them compounded that illegality
• Advisory Opinion on the Occupied Palestinian Territory (2024): the Court went further, ruling that Israel's continued presence in the OPT — including the settlement enterprise — is itself unlawful, and called on all states not to recognise or assist it

🏛️ UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Countless UNGA resolutions have reaffirmed settlement illegality, including Res. 77/247 (2023), which requested the landmark 2024 ICJ opinion.

No serious legal scholar disputes this consensus. The settlements are illegal. The only remaining question is whether the international community will act on it.

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

I condemn any attempt to sell property in the settlements in the West Bank, be that in London or anywhere else in the world.

https://t.co/mYmCNCn0KA

[Matej Šebenik @MSebenik]

@MilenkoZiherl1 @CerarMilos Ta objava naj bi sporočala kaj točno?! Da "Izrael" počne vse našteto, v neprimerno večjem obsegu, pa še marsikaj drugega za povrhu in je potem to kar sprejemljivo?!

[Kilgore Trout @KilgoreSH5]

Polovico ljudi ubitih z takšnim in drugačnim orožjem NA CELEM SVETU ima na vesti Izrael. To podpira SdS!

Izrael po ugotovitvah poročila odgovoren za več kot polovico civilnih žrtev eksplozivnega orožja https://t.co/QHiw4bYyj5 via @SiolNEWS

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

Despite the ceasefire announced 8 months ago, Gaza still faces profound uncertainty & immense human suffering.

It’s time to get serious about the only credible way forward:

An end to the occupation & a two-State solution, where two independent, sovereign, democratic States – Israel & Palestine – live side-by-side in peace & security.

[Dylan Williams @dylanotes]

Israeli troops shot a Palestinian baby in the head in the occupied West Bank.

They stood by as his family pleaded for help, desperately trying to stop the bleeding as the child died.

This is the reality of Israel’s US-armed war on the Palestinian people.
https://t.co/KTTukgtLyY

[Matej Šebenik @MSebenik]

"Judovsko-krščanske vrednote", kajne @vladaRS @TKajzer?

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

Israeli settlers have attacked the historic Christian village of Taybeh in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, setting fields on fire and targeting Palestinian homes.

Local sources reported that the settlers opened fire on houses and threw Molotov cocktails

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

This is what the fields of the Christian village of Taybeh look like after Israeli settler terrorists set them on fire yesterday.

An entire mountain was set ablaze. All crops destroyed.
https://t.co/QiOAbofNdn

[Matej Šebenik @MSebenik]

@vladaRS @TKajzer, tole podpiramo?

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Taybeh, the last Palestinian Christian village in the West Bank, is burning right now.

Stop calling them settler, they’re invaders, in violation of the Geneva Convention and article 242 of the United Nations. Slaughtering Palestinians, bombing their houses, bulldozing them, burning their villages, and torching their fields.

[Helena🎗 @majsanom]

A daily reminder that far right @vladaRS @AnzeLog @ostrc @JernejVrtovec @TKajzer have zero respect for international law by supporting genocidal war conducted by Israel

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

Entire Palestinian communities across Area C of the occupied West Bank are being erased from lands they have lived on for generations by Israel's accelerating policy of ethnic cleansing and annexation.

Sign the petition and call on world leaders to halt Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank now and end its unlawful occupation: https://t.co/0AutaRXNx3

#StopIsraelsEthnicCleansing

[Matej Šebenik @MSebenik]

@vladaRS, tovrstnega početja najbrž ne bi smelo biti težko obsoditi? Vsaj s stališča mednarodnega prava, če že ne splošne etike in človečnosti...

[Reuters @Reuters]

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT
Israeli authorities are directly involved in settler attacks that have killed, injured and displaced Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, while Israeli security forces provide protection to settlers, a UN inquiry said https://t.co/mtUK0nycep

[Matej Šebenik @MSebenik]

@TKajzer, Slovenia 🇸🇮 condemning this? 👇

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

🔴 Another Israeli attack on medics:

Lebanese Ministry of Public Health:
Today’s Israeli attack in Tyre in front of the Red Cross center killed five people and wounded eight, including four medics in the Red Cross.

[Miquel Ramos 🥘 @Miquel_R]

El diario neerlandés de @volkskrant ha ganado el European Press Prize 2026 por su detallada investigación sobre los disparos del ejército israelí a niños en Gaza.

El reportaje demostró que numerosos menores de edad habían sido ejecutados deliberadamente de un tiro en la cabeza.

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

Gaza is taking its last breaths, and the situation we have reached is extremely dangerous.

Temperatures are rising to suffocating levels, and the tents where hundreds of thousands live have turned into ovens made of fabric and plastic. There is no electricity, no air conditioning, no fans, no cold water. People try to sleep, but heat, hunger, and fear make sleep seem like an impossible dream.

Clean water is scarce, cleaning supplies are almost nonexistent, and essential medicines are unavailable. Skin diseases are spreading in a terrifying way among children and adults, while garbage piles up and sewage mixes with displacement areas, spreading even more suffering.

Long lines form for food, yet many return empty handed. Aid is decreasing, and most relief centers have stopped or are no longer able to meet even the minimum needs.

At night, rats, insects, snakes, and scorpions crawl into the tents, while during the day people face unbearable heat and endless hunger. There is no safety, no privacy, and nowhere to go. Meanwhile, killings and destruction continue daily, while Gaza’s space shrinks day by day, forcing people into smaller and more overcrowded areas.

This is not life. This is not displacement. This is a complete collapse of everything that allows human beings to live with dignity.

What more is the world waiting for? How many children must go hungry? How many patients must die before the world acts? Do not stay silent. Speak about Gaza. Share what is happening.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

Israeli soldiers inside a home in the city of Bethlehem, the birthplace of Christ; one of them enters a bedroom and puts on a Palestinian women’s underwear.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

How is this man at the heart of the Netanyahu scandal still in place censoring BBC Middle East coverage?

BBC faces questions over board member's links to scandal. Robbie Gibb, who sits on BBC editorial standards committee, published fabricated articles

https://t.co/p6SLKOOq2d

[Matej Šebenik @MSebenik]

@Nuntiuscaesar_ @Lordweb111 Obviously!