🚨🇮🇱 The following countries have endorsed South Africa’s GENOCIDE CONVENTION LAWSUIT against ISRAEL at the International Court of Justice:
🇲🇾Malaysia
🇹🇷Turkey
🇧🇴Bolivia
🇳🇮Nicaragua
🇲🇻The Maldives
🇻🇪Venezuela
🇳🇦Namibia
🇯🇴Jordan
🇲🇦Morocco
🇮🇷Iran
🇧🇩Bangladesh
🇵🇰Pakistan
🇸🇦Saudi Arabia
We will be marching for a ceasefire on Saturday, not in competition with Remembrance weekend, but as part and parcel of it.
We are remembering all those who have been killed in war, and we are trying to prevent more human life from being destroyed.
Today 500,000 people came together in London to send a message to political leaders in Britain and beyond:
We will not be silent. We will not be complicit. And we will keep demanding a ceasefire until there's an end to the slaughter.
How can calling for a ceasefire be controversial? It’s literally asking people killing civilians to stop. You can ignore the calls, disagree with them or try to explain why the killing ‘must’ continue, but trying to silence calls to end this carnage goes against all our values.
Two weeks ago, we marched in London for a ceasefire.
Last week, we marched for a ceasefire.
Today, we marched for a ceasefire.
This massacre has to end — we need a ceasefire, now.
The UN resolution passed!
…basically: “follow international law and don’t kill innocent people”
We shouldn’t need to be told this!
And the only major country to vote AGAINST it was the USA
Leader of the free world?
People in Gaza are dying in the darkness.
This unthinkable horror cannot be undone — and history will not forgive those who refused to treat Israeli and Palestinian lives with equal worth.
Please, we need a ceasefire, now.
HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of American Jews are holding a sit-in at Congress — and we won’t leave until Congress calls for a ceasefire in Gaza. As thousands of U.S. Jews protest outside, over 350 are inside, including two dozen rabbis, holding prayerful resistance.
Tonight in London, after our vigil and in the pouring rain, thousands are praying together in mourning for those who have been murdered in Gaza.
A powerful moment.
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One of the fundamentals of international law – at the heart of the Geneva Conventions – is a prohibition on collective punishment: that is, retaliating against the enemy’s civilian population, making them pay the price for the acts of their leaders and armies.
Very obviously, Gaza is about as flagrant a violation of this prohibition as can be found. Even in 'quiet' times, its inhabitants – one million of them children – are denied the most basic freedoms, such as the right to movement; access to proper health care because medicines and equipment cannot be brought in; access to drinkable water; and the use of electricity for much of the day because Israel keeps bombing Gaza’s power station.
Israel has never made any bones of the fact that it is punishing the people of Gaza for being ruled by Hamas, which rejects Israel’s right to have dispossessed the Palestinians of their homeland in 1948 and imprisoned them in overcrowded ghettos like Gaza.
What Israel is doing to Gaza is the very definition of collective punishment. It is a war crime: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks of every year, for 16 years.
And yet no one in the so-called international community seems to have noticed.
From my latest:
https://t.co/HK8TsA1ku8
We should condemn the targeting of all civilian life, no matter who does it.
Why can't our politicians uphold this basic moral principle, and defend international law universally and equally?
How many innocent Palestinian lives should be erased in the name of self-defence?
Really quite tired of pharmacy being seen as replacements for other professions. We have our own skill set and job to do. We are not substitute doctors or nurses. And are also underpaid and overworked just like everyone else in the NHS.