8/8 The Commission must propose a ban. And if it fails to, or claims unanimity is needed, member states should bring it to the ECJ.
Enough "two-states solution" slogans while bankrolling illegal settlements. The law is clear, @vonderleyen. Deal with it: https://t.co/wzaf9uDTay
🧵 As the 🇪🇺 Commission prepares a "list of options" to restrict EU trade with Israel's illegal settlements, 12 NGOs sent a joint letter making two things clear:
1. The only "option" is a ban
2. It must be adopted by qualified majority (Art. 207 TFEU)
Here is why👇🏽1/8
EU self-respect and internal solidarity on full display.
After Israeli FM freezes contacts with EU High Rep Kallas, the EU just turns the other cheek and an EU Commissioner meets him anyway as if nothing happened.
An incredibly confusing answer today from the @EU_Commission spox team when asked whether the Commission would follow-up on @EUCouncilPress ccls asking for "options" regarding trade with illegal settlements - which sounds first like a no then like a yes.
Truly baffling.
🇫🇷France: Following moves in 🇪🇸🇮🇪🇳🇱🇧🇪🇳🇴 to comply with international law and ban trade with Israel's illegal settlements, a draft law with the same goal will be tabled in the French parliament tomorrow by a trio of Socialist, Green and centrist (MoDem) MPs
https://t.co/0fQTxIEKoT
Here is a picture of the Palestinian home I grew up in. You can see the green gate where a traditional metal key belonging to a Palestinian family is probably kept somewhere.
After talking to two researchers, they have told me this house appears in several Nakba databases, like Bethlehem University one where I got this picture. It once belonged to the Dajani family, which was never compensated for the expropriation.
I grew up in stolen Palestinian land. Literally. What a shameful way to grow up. This is why I take this issue so personally.
I’m not a war correspondent.
Let the real ones in to do their job, freely. If the IDF has been ‘the most moral army in the world’, you should be keen for the world to see the proof.
You shouldn't be composed. Israeli detention facilities have become torture camps for Palestinians. More than 100 Palestinians have died in custody since October 2023. Do you have anything meaningful to say about that?
https://t.co/2gd4kft87l
Settlers driving ATVs provided to them by the Israeli government attempt to steal sheep from Palestinians near Hebron. The Israeli Army comes in and arrests... 6 Palestinians whose sheep the settlers tried to steal. This is the daily reality in the occupied West Bank.
🧵THREAD: The June 18 U.N. Security Council briefing on Gaza was requested by all 10 non-permanent members of the Council and supported by four of its five permanent members. The United States was the only member that did not back the request.
The session included briefings from U.N. humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher and Oxfam’s Bushra Khalidi, who warned that the Gaza ceasefire was failing and that Palestinians were being denied the conditions necessary to survive.
Country after country, alongside the U.N. and Oxfam, warned that Israel is deliberately dismantling the conditions needed for life in Gaza. Speakers described severe restrictions on humanitarian aid despite a nominal ceasefire, and criticized efforts to condition reconstruction and recovery on Palestinian disarmament.
We’re sharing key moments from the session below:
1. Full remarks from U.N. humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher:
The US President made a drawing of him being Jesus. His Ambassador to the US thinks building a Third Temple will bring about the Rapture. His Congressmen say Israel must be supported bc it is in the Bible
Israeli journalist Amit Segal posted this photo two hours ago on his telegram account saying israel’s terr*r forces are pushing the “yellow line” forward in southern Gaza.
What you see is a machine gun mounted on a tank, pointed directly at tents housing displaced families.