NEW: In “Gaza v. Blinken,” Palestinians and Palestinian-Americans sue the US Secretary of State.
They accuse him & the Department of refusing to enforce America’s own law on aiding human rights violating units, by essentially exempting Israel from the law.https://t.co/koSvpvvWAy
Watch reporters laugh after Miller says they support the ICC.
@nadia_bilbassy: President said that Assad should be held accountable, will you support his application to stand in front of the ICC as a war criminal
Miller: We support the work of the ICC, obviously we have disagreed—
Matt Lee: You support the work of the ICC until they do something with Israel or the US
Miller: We’ve had a jurisdictional dispute with them as it relates to cases against Israel
Nadia: Do you think the US is undermining the trust in these international orgs by making an exception for Israel
Miller: We have a disagreement with other countries but this has been a longstanding good faith disagreement about where the ICC has jurisdiction and where it does not, based on the fact that there’s no recognized Palestinian state
MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin breaks down Amnesty International’s landmark report, which finds Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. He takes on Israel’s familiar ‘antisemitism’ accusations—this time aimed at the report—by highlighting evidence, backed by Israeli experts, that shows genocide is ongoing.
Assad has fled. A humiliated tyrant who made the honored Syrian people into a global refugee story while murdering hundreds of thousands at home.
Today your joy is our joy oh Syria. May Allah give you just rule and prosperity in the days ahead.
And may every tyrant fall. Ameen
If this isn’t terrorism, there is no such thing.
Here, Israel murdered a large group of starving civilians. Their families came to recover the bodies and were murdered as well. Just disgusting on so many levels.
Israeli soldiers kill 16-year-old Mahmud Abu Al-Aish while being wheeled to the X-ray room
In the courtyard of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, 16-year-old Mahmud Abu Al-Aish was shot dead by Israeli soldiers while being transported in a wheelchair to the X-ray room. According to eyewitnesses, Mahmud was with his family awaiting medical care when he was fatally shot.
Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr. Hussam Abu Safia:
The hospital was heavily bombarded with over 100 projectiles, causing extensive damage to all departments, including surgery rooms and the neonatal ICU. Critical infrastructure, such as water tanks, oxygen generators, and fuel tanks, was destroyed, with one tank catching fire. Three people were injured, and the situation remains deeply concerning. The hospital calls for an immediate halt to the attack and estimates it will take 10-24 hours to conduct urgent repairs, which require swift coordination.
The situation in northern Gaza is beyond catastrophic. Israeli occupation forces have destroyed about 90% of the buildings, leaving displaced families to seek shelter in schools. But over the past few months, these schools have also been targeted and destroyed. Now, thousands of people are sleeping on the streets without any shelter, with women and children forced to sleep on the ground. The end goal is to make northern Gaza uninhabitable in order to ethnically cleanse the remaining population to build settlements.
Electricity has been cut off at Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza due after Israeli gunfire caused its generators to catch fire, the director-general of Gaza's health ministry has told Al Jazeera.
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Essentially the US position is that Americans can go halfway across the world to join a foreign army oppressing Palestinians, but Palestinians have no right to harm these Americans.
Omer Neutra left the United States to join the Israeli military. He was part of a tank unit on the Gaza border on October 7.
It’s weird how the US president infantilizes Americans who chose to serve in a foreign army, especially an army accused of war crimes & ethnic cleansing.
My remarks to the @nytimes. Story by @RajaAbdulrahim who’s always on top of events in the region.
“The rapid shifts over the past three days “serve as a powerful reminder that the Syrian conflict is far from “frozen,” said Mohammed Alaa Ghanem, a senior policy adviser for Citizens for a Secure and Safe America @SecureSafeUSA, a Syrian American advocacy group.
“What remains clear is that these developments expose Assad’s deep vulnerabilities and his regime’s lack of popular legitimacy,” he said.”
https://t.co/T4b7zXEQeY
If your geopolitical analysis includes a whitewashing of the monstrous crimes that Assad has committed against the Syrian people for over a decade, know that pretty much every Palestinian you meet in real life rejects your twisted reasoning.
Moral clarity and consistency are important especially in this moment.
After the first Trump administration, Biden sold his foreign policy as being about human rights and the rule of law. His term ends with the US standing alone in opposition to ceasefires, to the starvation of entire populations, to ethnic cleansing and to prisoner exchanges.