Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.
This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ
@SenMcCormickPA October 7 was horrific. But pretending it came from nowhere is dishonest. Gaza was caged, starved, blockaded, and bombed for years. Then Israel responded with mass destruction — and politicians called outrage “antisemitism.”
@SenMcCormickPA You skipped the context: October 7 did not happen in a vacuum. Gaza had been turned into an open-air prison for years. And the global outrage that followed was not “antisemitism” — it was horror at Israel’s collective punishment and mass destruction.
@CanadianPM Canada finally says the obvious: E1 is illegal, settlements are illegal, annexation is illegal.
Now the test is simple: will Canada punish violations of international law, or just describe them?
@CanadianPM Good words. Now make them policy.
Sanction the settlers. Ban settlement trade. Stop military exports. Recognize Palestine.
International law without consequences is just theatre.