Footage: Israeli soldiers executing two Palestinians
Today (Thursday), during an Israeli military raid on the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank, soldiers were filmed shooting two Palestinians at point-blank range, killing Yusef ’Asa’sah, 39 years old, and al-Muntaser bel-lah ‘Abdallah, 26 years old. The footage shows the two Palestinians, defined by the military as wanted, being brought out of the building by soldiers and surrendering to them. The soldiers then order them to go back inside and sit on the ground – and then execute them, apparently while posing no threat to the forces.
B’Tselem’s Executive Director, Yuli Novak, said:
“The execution documented today is the result of an accelerated process of dehumanization of Palestinians and the complete abandonment of their lives by the Israeli regime. In Israel, there is no mechanism that acts to stop the killing of Palestinians or is capable of prosecuting those responsible. It is therefore the duty of the international community to end Israel’s impunity and hold accountable those responsible for planning and carrying out its criminal policies against the Palestinian people.”
Since October 2023, Israeli forces and settlers have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians in the West Bank. The perpetrators, whether soldiers or settlers, are granted full impunity by Israel’s legal and law-enforcement systems.
Palestinian people face ethnic cleansing in Gaza, Greek Coastguard attacks in Greece
Even as Palestinian people face the completion of being ethnically-cleansed – under threat of genocide – from Gaza by the Israeli government, the Greek Coastguard continues carrying out vicious and illegal acts against Palestinian people in Greek territory.
In the last week, in two similar incidents, the Greek Coastguard, acting under the orders of the Greek government, has broken the law by pushing back 45 Palestinian men, women and children from Greek territory, to prevent them reaching safe places.
On 14 February, the Greek Coastguard pushed back 30 people from Greek waters outside Chios. Of those, 26 people were from Palestine.
The Turkish Coastguard rescued them at 6.55am, adrift in waters off Cesme, Izmir province.
Nor was this the only case last week in which the Greek Coastguard illegally forced Palestinian people from Greek waters. Three days later, on 17 February, the Greek Coastguard pushed back 32 men, women and children, 19 of them Palestinian people, from waters off Kos.
The Turkish Coastguard rescued them adrift in waters off Bodrum, in Mugla province, at 8.10am.
These are men, women and children seeking safety, which is their legal right, just like the tens of thousands of people the Greek government has illegally forced out of Greek territory in the last four years.
They are also people whose fellow countrymen – in some cases their friends, even family members – are being killed, maimed, deprived of food, forced from their homes, and seem extremely likely to be forced from their country altogether in the next few weeks or even days, as the world watches.
More than 1.95 million people have been forced from their homes in Gaza. More than 29,000 people have been killed – more than 13,000 of those people were children. The countries of the world keep demanding a cease-fire, an end to the murder of civilians, and the wounding and torture of those who survive – yet the Israeli government and its US ally block all efforts to enable this to happen.
There is no excuse for any pushback, ever. They are illegal, and a vicious attack on an international legal structure which is designed to ensure the fewest possible number of people have to suffer exploitation, persecution, and death. A system which protects you and your family, as much as it protects everyone else.
But pushing people back when their friends and relatives are being killed in horrifying situations watched by the entire world, and when it is increasingly likely that they will never, ever, be able to return to their homes, or even the ruins that were once their homes, is simply astonishing – a horrifying example of aggression and hatred in action.
The Greek government must cease this disgusting, barbaric, practice immediately. And the EU, which does have the power to end the Greek government's illegal and atrocious acts, must do so, now.
There is no excuse, nor any hiding place. This is an act of callous, cold, illegal aggression, inflicting pain and suffering on people who have already suffered so much of both. The Greek government must end this activity, and if it will not, the EU must make it.
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Actually, what fuels antisemitism is murdering children by the thousands under the banner of the Star of David while adamantly insisting that your actions are inseparable from all Jews and the totality of Judaism.
Επειδή μας έχετε πρήξει με την «ισλαμιστική δικτατορία της Χαμάς στη Γάζα» κι άλλες ανοησίες. Φωτογραφίες από διαδήλωση του PFLP (People’s Front for the Liberation of Palestine) στη Γάζα, σε διαδήλωση στις 2 Ιουνίου 2021.
Keir Starmer has given a speech at Chatham House stating his opposition to a ceasefire of Israel's war on Gaza.
Chatham House is funded by the UK Foreign Office, US State Department, BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin, NATO, Israel lobbyist Trevor Chinn and the Israeli Embassy.
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Διαδήλωση προς τις πρεσβείες ΗΠΑ και Ισραήλ Κυριακή 29/10 11.30πμ, Ευαγγελισμός – Συμμετέχουμε στο μπλοκ της Συνέλευσης Αλληλεγγύης στην Παλαιστινιακή Αντίσταση
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Δεν θα πρέπει να ξεχνάμε ότι το κράτος του Ισραηλ γνωρίζει ποιους κρυφακουσε ο Μητσοτάκης με τις #υποκλοπες και έχει αντίγραφο όλων των αρχείων. Πάλι καλά που δεν πήγε ελληνικός στρατός να εισβάλει στη Γάζα.
Στη Γκουέρνικα η ναζιστική πολεμική αεροπορία σκότωσε 1.500 αμάχους σύμφωνα με την πιο υψηλή εκτίμηση. Στη Γάζα οι ισραηλινές ένοπλες δυνάμεις είχαν σκοτώσει 7.000 ανθρώπους πριν ξεκινήσει το σημερινό carpet bombing κατοικημένων περιοχών.