Rawan Arraf

Lawyer and Executive Director @theACIJ | Justice + Accountability #UniversalJurisdiction. Views are my own. 🍉🥄

[Rawan Arraf @rawanarraf]

Sharing this interview I did with @PaulrGregoire in July 2024, on Australians serving in the Israeli military and @theACIJ’s approach to our investigations and preparation of criminal complaints and referrals of such individuals to Australian authorities.
https://t.co/OikCkDYsLb

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🔴 Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor says it has been forced to shut down its Gaza office after 15 years of operation, citing an escalating Israeli campaign of threats and punitive measures against the organization and its staff that intensified after it published a report documenting sexual violence against Palestinians in Israeli detention facilities.

Euro-Med said Israeli officials, media platforms, and affiliated actors are waging disinformation and defamation campaigns, alongside making direct and indirect threats, including calls for the “physical assassination” of senior staff members.

Euro-Med also said Israeli authorities imposed movement restrictions targeting dozens of staff. The organization described the closure as a precautionary measure rather than a retreat, saying its mission to document human rights violations in Gaza will continue.

[Dr. Ezzideen @ezzingaza]

There are moments in Gaza when suffering becomes so ordinary that people stop asking for solutions.

They begin asking only for the smallest relief. A little less pain.

A child who sleeps through the night.

When I entered the clinic that morning, I noticed a young woman carrying a baby so small that I could not tell whether the child was a newborn or simply made tiny by hardship.

When her turn came, she gently placed the baby on my desk and said:

“I want any cream you have.” Any cream. Not a specific medicine. Not a particular treatment.

Just anything.

She uncovered the baby and showed me the severe rash covering much of the child’s fragile skin.

“I treat the baby with whatever free creams I can find in clinics,” she explained.

“Anything helps.”

As she spoke, I noticed something else. The baby was not wearing a diaper. Only pieces of cloth.

I asked why.

“I can’t afford diapers,” she replied calmly. “I wash these and use them again.”

Then she added that they were living in a tent and that her husband had suffered a serious foot injury and was unable to work.

“I’m not asking for much,” she said.

“I only want a cream.”

But what caught my attention most was not the rash.

It was the malnutrition.

The baby was severely underweight. The kind of malnutrition that is visible before any examination even begins.

So I asked the mother whether she had noticed.

She nodded. “Yes, I know.”

Then she said something I cannot forget: “When the baby gets older, things will get better.”

Not because she truly believed it.

But because hope was cheaper than treatment.

And treatment was something she could no longer afford. That was the moment that broke me.

Not the tent. Not the poverty. Not even the illness.

But the fact that this mother had lowered her expectations so much that she no longer dreamed of proper medical care, diapers, or adequate nutrition.

She came asking for the smallest thing she could imagine. A tube of cream.

Any cream.

Something that might make the baby hurt a little less.

The baby could not have been more than five months old.

Too young to understand war. Too young to understand poverty. Yet already carrying both on that tiny body.

There is something profoundly cruel about a world in which a mother’s greatest hope for her child is no longer a better future.

Only a little less suffering tonight.

#WoundedGaza

[fatima bhutto 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇮🇷 @fbhutto]

They also shot and killed his 12 year old son to punish him for not abandoning his hospital

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya’s message to the court today as relayed by his attorney:

“I am a pediatrician. I provide medical care to patients, the injured, and vulnerable people in the Gaza Strip. I have carried out my work in accordance with international law and humanitarian standards. My detention is unjust and arbitrary.”

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

Imagine you're the mother of this 7-month-old baby!

Your baby is murdered before your eyes, your husband is shot in the head. The shooter is roaming free & will never be held accountable

You can't file a police complaint, you can't go to court, b/c you're Palestinian! The entire Israeli system is rigged against you.

If you turn to the "free" & "civilized" world for help, at most they'll call on Israel to investigate itself. The IDF will close down the case as an accident at best, or they'll say you were using your baby as a "khuman shield".

If you take matters into your own hand, you'll be condemned instantly by that same "free" & "civilized" world as a terrorist. No investigation needed! You'll automatically get the death penalty that Israel applies only to non-Jews.

If you turn to the International Criminal Court, the US will bury you alive under sanctions.

If you speak up, yell & scream your lungs to heavens in futility, you'll be blacklisted as an antisemite.

The only thing you're allowed to do is sit & wait quietly for your turn...

[Rawan Arraf @rawanarraf]

Monsters

[Israel Exposed @xIsraelExposedx]

New footage showing closeup of IDF soldier shooting a 7 month baby in the head, for fun.

This footage was obtained by B'Tselem Israeli human rights group.

[Nicola Perugini @PeruginiNic]

Slow death. More than 11,000 surgeries for patients covered by the Palestinian public healthcare system postponed since the start of the year due to Israel’s blockade of essential medical supplies and theft of Palestinian tax revenues, reduced physician working hours, strikes.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨BREAKING: Israel has closed all crossings into Gaza and halted the entry of humanitarian aid following Iran’s retaliatory strikes on Israel, cutting off supplies to roughly 2 million Palestinians in the territory.

Israel has imposed similar blanket closures during previous periods of regional escalation, including immediately after the outbreak of war in late February, collectively punishing Gaza’s civilian population.

[Eye on Palestine @EyeonPalestine]

Heartbreaking farewell moments.. Fahd Abu Heikal carries the body of his infant son, Sam, who was killed yesterday evening in the city of Hebron, as relatives and family members bid him a sorrowful farewell.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Leaked documents show Israeli drones made by Elbit – which has factories in the UK – took a leading a role in the mass slaughter in Gaza, with onboard AI systems selecting targets autonomously, based on algorithms. The drones are integrated into a "Server in the Sky".

Palestine Action was declared a terrorist organisation by the UK government for trying to destroy this drone production.

Israel announced last week its annual defence exports had surged by 30% on the back of showcasing what Israeli tech can do in Gaza, to $20 billion.
https://t.co/njgIZgWMLZ

[Trey Yingst @TreyYingst]

7-month-old Sam Fahd Abu Haykal will never mark his first birthday. The Palestinian baby was killed on Friday by IDF gunfire in Hebron.

“This is barbaric, this is unbelievable!” his grandmother exclaimed.

The IDF expressed “deep sorrow” for the shooting in comment to Fox News.

[Adil Haque @AdHaque110]

"Khalil was killed by the third of three successive Israeli airstrikes."

"The first strike hit a car driving in front of her, the second destroyed her car as she hid nearby, and the third collapsed the building where she had taken shelter with another journalist."

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.

This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

A tenured professor of art therapy was suspended by her university and placed under formal investigation for the crime of using a Palestinian in a hypothetical example for uses of art therapy.

This is not 10th grade. It's a college, for adult students.

https://t.co/EIoWAJU0Bw

[Adil Haque @AdHaque110]

"The mother is in critical condition because there’s shrapnel close to her heart, he said. They haven’t told her yet that her son, who turned seven months old on Friday, was killed."

“What kind of army in the world does this?” asked the baby's grandmother.

[Itay Epshtain @EpshtainItay]

A Jewish lynch mob has raided the Palestinian village of Huwara this morning, assaulting two Palestinians.

This, despite appearances, is not a story of "extremism". To describe it as such is to obscure the legal reality.

Settler violence in the occupied Palestinian territory has long been directed by organs of the State. The perpetrators operate as auxiliary militias, at times in civilian clothes, at times in uniform, but increasingly with functions that blur any meaningful distinction.

From that reality flows a conclusion that is as simple as it is complex. Under international law, responsibility lies not only with the individuals who wield the firearms, but with the occupying Power that supports their actions.

The remedy is not another condemnation. It is compliance with the law. As the International Court of Justice has made clear, Israel's continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territory is unlawful. The obligation is to bring that presence to an end, completely, unconditionally, and without delay.

[Nimer Sultany @NimerSultany]

2. "You could kill, there was no law. No one would say a word to you"

[Nimer Sultany @NimerSultany]

The earlier Killing fields in the Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula:

1. New details from soldiers' testimonies on Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity in the 1967 war: massacring civilians, killing children, executing prisoners, displacing civilians, and looting.

[stranger @strangerous10]

Gotta love Grace Tame’s response to Charlie Pickering’s attack, well said & all correct.

“Charlie Pickering made a direct choice to cosy up to a man found guilty of abusing his wife, while denouncing me as ignorant. Surely I needn’t point out the irony here.”🔥 #auspol

[Laila Al-Arian @LailaAlarian]

It can’t be emphasized enough how little coverage Lebanon has received in proportion to the killing and destruction Israel committed