If you haven’t already read South Africa’s case submitted to the International Court of Justice for israel’s acts of genocide against the Palestinian people, you should take the time to do so.
But here are some highlighted portions, section by section ⬇️
reading 1000s of pages of history and political theory to figure out which state formation it's OK to root for at the World Cup and boy do I have some bad news
Years ago when airlines actually cared to cater to their customers rather than their bottom line, more than a cup of water would have been offered. A proper place to sleep, a meal voucher, a flight refund, flight credit? Now, you just get told to F off.
Going off private to detail the @united flight from hell: we have been left stranded in IAD, traveling for over 15 hours. Passenger asked the gate agent why they don’t even offer us water. She replied because the delay was due to weather — so United doesn’t owe us water.
All other flights have taken off. They refuse to assign a crew to our plane, which is sitting right in front of us. They won’t let our bags off of the plane. Won’t let us switch flights. Won’t cancel this one. Essentially being held hostage to a plane that won’t ever take off.
Amnesty International’s Agnes Callamard says the ethnic cleansing and annexation of the occupied West Bank are not the actions of a few extremist settlers, but part of a state-backed project.
She’s calling on the international community to boycott Israel as violence escalates.
Israel kills a baby and the response I get is “accidents happen in war”. Israel has killed over 1,500 -yes one thousand five hundred- babies under one year old since 7/10.
🚨Israel’s PM Netanyahu says he has ordered the IDF to seize 70% of the Gaza Strip
Netanyahu: “At this point, we are fully in control of 60% of the territory of the Gaza Strip… and my directive is to get to… 70%”
Audience member: “100! 100!”
Netanyahu: “Wait, let’s go in order. First 70%. Let’s start with that.”
Israel had withdrawn to 53% of Gaza after the ceasefire brokered by the US last October, but has steadily expanded control to over 60%, maps show.
(Footage from Channel 12)
the zone of interest is a film about the idyllic, everyday life of an Auschwitz commandant and his wife, who raise their children in a home located directly adjacent to the concentration camp.
below is an unrelated photo showing Gaza from an israeli settlement.
Today, I met by chance the wife of the martyred Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh, who died under torture in Israeli occupation prisons. She told me about an opportunity she had to leave Gaza, but she absolutely refuses to do so. When I asked her for the reason, surprised, she replied: 'It is impossible for me to leave before I see the doctor, bid him farewell, and bury him. I cannot leave until I give him peace and find my own peace.'"
Today marks four years since my aunt, Shireen Abu Akleh, was killed by an Israeli sniper in Jenin.
An iconic journalist, and one of the most empathetic and sweetest people. This is who they killed. She loved life, but they stole hers from her.
They could barely bring themselves to say her name and when they did used the dog whistle “Hezbollah aligned” in order to dehumanise Amal and justify her killing by I$rael.
Amal Khalil was a friend to me and many others having worked in the field since the 2006 war. What she did was unique, reporting from the south and raising the voices of the people there who are subjected to brutal treatment and attacks from I$rael.
Amal had herself received numerous death threats, some warning her to leave and if she didn’t her head would be removed from her shoulders. It’s a testament to her that she defied those threats and up until the end continued to expose I$raeli war comes.
She was a brave and courageous journalist, a daughter of the south and her mic and her pen was a tribune of the people. This is what made her so dangerous, with I$rael fearing a camera and a pen more than a Hezb0llah fighter.
Her body wasn’t “found under the rubble” as though it had been mysteriously placed there. I$rael targeted a car in front of her, when she sheltered in a building it was struck collapsing it, then the emergency operations were delayed for at least 7 hours as ambulances and civil defence workers were fired on.
This was a deliberate assassination and a war crime. But try as they might they will never stop journalists here from reporting the truth.
Italy supports restrictions on imports from Israeli settlements.
This is a significant shift that should allow the EU to act.
The ICJ has been clear: States are obliged under international law to prevent trade with the illegal settlements.
https://t.co/UA9GtiRIBz
The Lebanese President; the Lebanese Prime minister and the Committee to Protect Journalists all believe Amal Khalil was targeted and killed by Israeli military. A ‘ceasefire’ was in place when this happened…now extended for three weeks. Leb authorities want Israeli troops to pull out and stop destroying homes - and Hezbollah to hold fire - few believe any of that will happen. Good report by @DiMagnaySky