@troyorleans It's the layering and attention to details. One strap or two straps could be sufficient to secure the bottom. But adding all the other straps and restraints hammer down the point of security, helplessness and the idea of not getting out until you decide.
As I attended the CoI press conference today in Genf, someone asked me if I’m "happy" that they confirmed my findings. Absolutely NOT. I wish I had been wrong. I wish there had be no genocide still ongoing, 18 months after my report, with neither end nor accountability in sight.
There is no more time for excuses: as the evidence of Israel’s genocide continues to mount the international community cannot claim they didn’t know.
As Israeli authorities and forces intensify their brutal campaign of annihilation, particularly in Gaza City, the UN Commission of Inquiry's damning new report provides further confirmation of what Amnesty International and others have been concluding for months: that the Israeli authorities and Israeli forces have committed and are continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
A UN inquiry has confirmed that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
The Foreign Secretary must come to Parliament, now, and explain why the government is still - shamefully - providing military support to Israel.
Saudi FM hits back at reporter’s Gaza refugee question
"Palestinians they don't want to leave their land and we are not going to force to leave their land they have a right to their land and the right to live in safety and security in their land"
Brilliant Answer.
"Every second person in Gaza City is a child. This is a war on children."
UNICEF spokesperson Tess Ingram describes the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza, adding that Palestinians in Gaza have nowhere safe to go amid Israel’s forced displacement orders.
South African politician Dr Mamphela Ramphele disagreed with a TV anchor over calling Israel’s genocide in Gaza as a “Holocaust”.
Dr Ramphele insisted that if people continued to separate the Holocaust from other atrocities, they would fail to learn the lessons of history.
President Michael D Higgins has said the European Union has suffered reputational damage through its "lethargic" response to the daily horror in Gaza
https://t.co/hnxtyUJE0d
A classified Israeli military database shows 83% of Palestinians killed in Gaza are civilians, one of the highest civilian tolls in modern wars https://t.co/ZuLerVlbm5
Water and other necessities of life must not be used as weapons of war.
Right now, though, Israel is deliberately depriving people of water in Gaza, as part of its genocidal campaign:
https://t.co/i7Uax4A02w
JUST PUT THE ZIONIST CNN PUPPET BACK IN HER BOX….‼️
'I don't believe anything the israeli government says about this. They've lied and lied and lied. They buried a whole medical team after denying it and they went and destroyed the evidence'
- lan William (President of the free press association)
Israel intentionally kills journalists in Gaza so as to prevent real-time professional reporting on its crimes; 200 murdered since Oct-2023. Here are their names: https://t.co/wBOILeaCnL.
Shame on the media who stay silent instead of standing for truth, solidarity, press access.
Irish President Urges UN Military Action to Protect Gaza Aid
Calls on UN to invoke Chapter 7 to defend humanitarian corridors: “Are we to watch children starving? Something MUST happen.”