Dima Asfour

🇵🇸 Palestinian diplomat | People over politics. Diplomacy for justice, not privilege.

[Ammar Hijazi 🇵🇸🍉 @ammarhijazi1]

Navi Pillay, a remarkable champion of justice and human rights, wins the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.
Congratulations to this towering figure in international law and the fight for human rights for all. Many politicians could learn from her unwavering, principled efforts — especially those blindly bent on applying double standards and selectivity. 🏆🕊️ #NobelPeacePrize #NaviPillay #HumanRights

[State of Palestine UNOG @PalestineUNOG]

During the Interactive Dialogue with the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, the State of Palestine expressed surprise and regret that Israel received ZERO urgent appeals and ZERO allegation letters during the reporting period - mechanisms that the Working Group can use on its own initiative.

Palestine stressed that it is difficult to reconcile with the scale of detention imposed by Israel, the illegal occupying Power.

Over 9,600 Palestinians are currently detained, including 350 children and 84 women; roughly 3,500 are held administratively without charge, and a further 1,250 are held under Israel’s so-called “Unlawful Combatants Law.” And at least 104 have died in custody.

Since October 2023, UN experts have documented systematic torture and sexual violence against detainees, including rape. These acts amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.

In March 2026, Israel enacted a discriminatory death penalty law that effectively applies only to Palestinians.

UN experts have highlighted the case of Dr. Husam Abu Safiya, who has been detained without charge since December 2024 and whose health is in danger after being subjected to severe torture.

The State of Palestine therefore asked the Working Group to clarify why no urgent appeal or allegation letter concerning Palestinian detainees held by Israel was transmitted during this period, including for detainees in critical states of health.

#HRC63 #arbitrary #detention #Palestine

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Israel’s illegal settlement project in the occupied West Bank has benefited state organisations, banks and multinational corporations for decades.

Al Jazeera’s Um-e-Kulsoom Shariff explains.

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

Este año no estaremos en Eurovisión, pero lo haremos con la convicción de estar en el lado correcto de la historia.

Por coherencia, responsabilidad y humanidad.

[State of Palestine UNOG @PalestineUNOG]

Statement by the State of Palestine during the urgent debate “to discuss the recent military aggression carried out by the State of Israel against the State of Qatar on 9 September 2025"

#HRC60 #Palestine #qatarattack
#genocide

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

A report by the United Nations concludes Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Israel has responded by accusing the authors of being antisemitic and Hamas proxies.

Chris Sidoti, one of the authors of the report, gives his view on Israels response

[+972 Magazine @972mag]

As the world recognizes a Palestinian state, Israel’s E1 plan moves to bury it

The long-frozen settlement project would sever East Jerusalem from the West Bank, fragment Palestinian communities, and advance permanent annexation.

@shathayaish reports.

https://t.co/sp23JWyseN

[Agnes Callamard @AgnesCallamard]

A former Israeli army commander, Herzi Halevi, has confirmed that more than 200,000 Palestinians have been killed or injured in the war in Gaza, and that “not once” in the course of the conflict were military operations inhibited by legal advice. https://t.co/BmDmpsS8XS

[Dima Asfour @dimaasfour86]

Yes it’s on you to act. Instead we get statements & symbolism while 2M are genocided, tortured, starved. Impunity has been turned into law. Spare us the hollow refrain that “action is needed” and start taking real action #sanctions #armsembargo #FreePalestine

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

Today, under the leadership of France and Saudi Arabia, 142 countries have adopted the New York Declaration on the implementation of the Two-State Solution.

Together, we are charting an irreversible path towards peace in the Middle East.

France, Saudi Arabia, and all their partners will be in New York to make this peace plan a reality at the Conference on the Two-State Solution.

Another future is possible. Two peoples, two States : Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security.

It is up to all of us to make it happen!

[FORSEA @officialFORSEA]

On #terrorism In 2 minutes, #chomsky put #USA, #Israel, and genocidal #Nazis in the same league, when it comes to their shared narrative of #SelfDefence. Wait! Didn't Western/European Civilization defend itself against "savages" "heathens" "heretics"? https://t.co/SIBEXGGctF

[‏Martyrs of Gaza @GazaMartyrs]

"I'm not forgiving you, And I will ask My God not to forgive you."

Listen to the words of this young girl from Gaza, sending a message to the world after the massacre by the occupation in the displaced persons' school in the Al-Daraj neighborhood of Gaza a few days ago.

[MoTaz @motazazaiza9]

As long as Palestinians in Gaza, West Bank and Occupied Territories live under Israeli occupation, and we are deprived of the right to self-determination and restricted in every way, no one will have safety or peace. Without a #FreePalestine, there will never be peace!

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

SELF-DEFENSE?
Israel claims that what it is doing in the West Bank is justified under the law of self-defence. This claim has no validity.
Twenty years ago the @CIJ_ICJ determined that Israel could not invoke self-defence under article 51 of the UN Charter to justify its Wall in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). This past July the Court indicated that Israel’s very presence in the oPt is itself unlawful.
As an ongoing unlawful use of force, Israel’s occupation of the OPT cannot be justified by any claim of self-defence.
Israel’s perversion of the law on self-defence must be recognized for what it is: a brazen attempt to provide an imprimatur of ‘legality’ to the maintenance of its unlawful aggression against the territorial integrity and political independence of the State of Palestine.
If Israel truly wants to achieve its claimed security, the best and most obvious way to do that would be to cease its colonization of another people’s land, withdraw from all of it, and make appropriate reparation for damage caused (as requested by the ICJ), while being sure to apologize to its victims on the way out.

[State of Palestine UNOG @PalestineUNOG]

A tremendous victory today! The Human Rights Council adopted a resolution calling for an end to Israeli impunity, and a cessation of arms transfers to Israel.

@UN_HRC
@OHCHR_Palestine
@Palestine_UN

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

May other government officials and diplomats, especially in European and Arab counties, demonstrate the integrity shown by their Dutch counterparts. There couldn't be a more compelling historical moment to do so.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

In the 21st century, people are dying and being starved not due to natural factors, but because there are human monsters besieging them to death with an army claiming to be the most ethical, amid a world watching in silence.
#GazaGenocide #Israel

[MoTaz @motazazaiza9]

I left Gaza with a broken heart and eyes filled with tears.
There was no other option after 108 days of continuous massacres against us.
It’s time to move somewhere else so I can do more work and I pray that I can be a reason to stop this war and help rebuild Gaza again.
I’ve arrived Qatar. Thank you

No time to rest
Keep calling for a ceasefire!

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

Must watch and share.
This is part of the most important investigation I have participated in my life, refuting Israel's claims about the Palestinian resistance using civilians as human shields. The documentary produced by @AJEnglish, and directed by @AshrafMashrawi, proves Israel's use of civilians as human shields and debunks its allegations against the Palestinian resistance.

[MoTaz @motazazaiza9]

So,

I had to evacuate for a lot of reasons you all know some of it but not all of it.

Thank you all

Pray for Gaza.

[European Legal Support Center (ELSC) @elsclegal]

This won’t go without scrutiny and #AccountabilityNow.📢 Calling all advocates, lawyers and jurists! Join us in this crucial cause. Reach out for potential collaborations and partnerships to prosecute European public officials complicity in Israeli crimes. #JusticeForPalestine 3/