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🚨Breaking: Israeli army has killed journalist Mohannad Khaled in a strike on #Gaza City.
Israel continues to systematically eliminate Gaza’s journalists, silencing the truth one voice at a time.
Israel has been targeting first responders in #Lebanon and now it has killed the director of a hospital in Baalbek who had refused to shut down despite evacuation orders.
Meanwhile daily bombardment continues - in just one hospital we watched ambulances bring in around 20 strike casualties, many of them children.
Report coming soon @PBS@NewsHour
Ethnic cleansing is unfolding in northern Gaza. We are witnessing an intensification and acceleration of military tactics previously used by the Israeli military throughout the Strip, this time aimed at enforcing large-scale displacement from the north. Analysis of Israeli ground operations reveals a new military corridor slicing through the fabric of northern Gaza from east to west, further isolating northern Gaza from the rest of the Strip. Meanwhile, hospitals in Jabalia are under attack once again, some for the third time, and aid remains obstructed, exacerbating an engineered famine. https://t.co/3AS6hL7JPb
The men who were targeted were Palestinian fishermen from the Rashidieh refugee camp. According to our colleagues, they would come every morning to cast their nets, waiting to catch a few fish, they would then sell to the remaining residents in the town.
🧵After arrest warrants for war criminals Netanyahu & Gallant, Israeli forces escalated mass killings of civilians in Gaza. At least 9 massacres were documented
In Al-Shuja’iya, the entire Abu Asr family was killed, while in Al-Nuseirat, the Al-Hour family suffered the same fate
The response by President Biden and his team to the #ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant is absolutely disgraceful. A fitting end to a generally miserable record on foreign policy and international law. https://t.co/WQIwC12sbv
Key accusations included in the arrest warrants issues for Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza are as follows:
1. War Crime of Starvation as a Method of Warfare
• Intentionally deprived Gaza civilians of food, water, medicine, fuel, and electricity from Oct 8, 2023 – May 20, 2024.
• Blocked or restricted humanitarian aid, disrupting relief efforts.
• Actions led to severe water shortages and crippled hospitals’ ability to provide care.
• Created conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of part of the civilian population in Gaza, which resulted in the death of civilians, including children due to malnutrition and dehydration.
2. Crimes Against Humanity of Murder
• Civilian deaths from malnutrition, dehydration, and lack of medicine, especially children.
• While the ICC has not YET been able to determine that *all* elements of the crime against humanity of extermination were met, it has found evidence to support that the crime against humanity of murder was committed by Israel against the victims.
3. Crimes Against Humanity of Inhumane Acts
• Denied medical supplies, forcing doctors to perform surgeries, including amputations on children, without anesthesia.
• Patients experienced extreme pain and suffering due to Israel’s actions
4. Crimes Against Humanity of Persecution
• Targeted civilians based on political/national grounds, violating their rights to life, health, and survival.
5. Widespread and Systematic Crimes Against Humanity: Intentional Attacks on Civilians
• Evidence found of incidents where attacks were deliberately aimed at Gaza civilians.
“The ICC found that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the lack of food, water, electricity and fuel, and specific medical supplies, created conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of part of the civilian population in Gaza.” (This is the Crime of Genocide but being added as a crime against humanity of murder)
Key Findings:
• No valid military justification for restricting humanitarian aid.
•. Decisions to allow limited aid were conditional, made under pressure from the US or international community, not to meet humanitarian obligations.
The ICC has also found and stated that the alleged crimes against humanity were part of a *widespread and systematic* attack against the civilian population of Gaza.
💥Third MASSACRE
Seven displaced persons have been KILLED and 11 others INJURED in #Israeli_bombing of their tent in Al Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis!
Three decades ago, the world made a commitment to respect & uphold children’s rights by adopting the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Today, the rights of Palestinian children are violated day in, day out.
#Gaza has become a graveyard for children. They are being killed, injured, forced to flee & deprived of safety, learning & play.
They have been robbed of their childhood + are on the verge of becoming a lost generation as they lose another school year.
In the occupied #WestBank, children live in fear & anxiety. Since October last year, more than 170 were killed there while others are losing their childhood in Israeli detention centres.
The occupied Palestinian territory is no place for children.
They deserve better, they deserve peace & justice + a better future.
#WorldChildrensDay
Oh my God. Hossam is one of the few journalists who has been able to get us any information from North Gaza. Israel has been targeting and killing Palestinian (and Lebanese) journalists with impunity - they want to silence whatever information is able to get out. This is horrific & our media here is complicit in this genocide and in the targeting of these heroic journalists.
A frequent tool of dictators is to label political opposition groups as "terrorist groups" and shut them down.
This bill - up for a vote this week - would give Trump the power to do just that. It's disastrous.
And apparently there are House Democrats CONSIDERING VOTING FOR IT!