Today I$rael tried to kill me in a targeted airstrike in southern Lebanon as I was reporting on was the targeting of bridges and the forced displacement of 1 million people, an ethnic cleansing operation on a larger scale than the Nakba
I have absolutely no doubt that this was deliberate. Despite claims there were no warnings ahead of the strike and no notifications sent to the Lebanese Army who allowed us to film
As we have seen in Gaza they want to silence journalists who document and report their war crimes
It is the western powers who provide political and military support for I$rael, arming it to the teeth to carry out genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing here in Lebanon. They are not simply complicit, but active participants and should be held accountable for their actions.
But if I$rael thinks today’s strike will silence us and keep us out of the field they are very, very mistaken
@KatieMiller Greenlandic citizen here.
Shame on you. I hope you are left with a bitter taste in your mouth.
This will not happen.
The United States has long been regarded as an ally — but America’s reputation is in free fall when American citizens like you express this kind of mindset.
I write as former Head of Maritime Section of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
and Alternate Head of UK Delegation to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea Prepcom.
1) The flotilla is on the High Seas and not in Israel's 12 mile territorial sea. Israel has no jurisdiction.
2) The Israeli maritime blockade has been in place for 17 years and is an intrinsic part of the long term occupation found illegal in the ICJ advisory opinion
3) It is therefore not a short term measure in time of armed conflict as specified in the San Remo manual
4) In any event the San Remo rules explicitly state that humanitarian supplies may not be blockaded
5) The UN Commission of Inquiry has already determined that Israel is committing genocide. The blockade is plainly a part of the machinery of such genocide.
For reasons 1 to 5 the Israeli attack on the flotilla is plainly illegal.
6) On the High Seas, the law applying on each ship is the law of its flag state. An attack by a state military warship on a vessel on the High Seas is an attack on the flag state of the vessel attacked.
7) Acts of illegal possession of vessels or abduction of crew on the High Seas should be pursued by each flag state as crimes within their domestic jurisdiction, not only in international law.
8) So the Metropolitan Police and DPP have an obligation to investigate and act over the abduction of persons from UK flagged vessels on the High Seas.
This applies to each flag state mutatis mutandi.
I hope you find this helpful.
🚨Freedom Flotilla Official Update🚨
It's time for our governments to do their jobs and sanction Israel whose illegal attack on 'Madleen' while sailing in international waters is a small extension of their war crimes in Gaza.
Governments, institutions, media, and corporations must stop protecting Israel, now. They must stop prioritising profit over human lives, now. Protect our volunteers while protecting Palestinians in Gaza and wider Palestine.
#BreakIsraelsSiege #EndTheBlockade #Madleen #FreedomFlotilla #Volunteers #IOF #StandWithGaza #StandWithPalestine
Context that must be included in news reports: The Madleen is a civilian vessel, it is UK-flagged, it is carrying humanitarian aid, everyone on board is unarmed, and it was sailing in international waters.
Það má ekki myrða heilu þjóðina, ræna ríkisborgurum annara landa í alþjóðlegu hafsvæði og stoppa mannúðlega aðstoð @thorgkatrin@KristrunFrosta@HallaTomas
Alveg sorry en nú er komið nóg. Ísland þarf virkilega að skilja sig frá öllu tengt Ísrael @thorgkatrin við þurfum að segja það sem þetta er augljóslega, því þetta er ekkert annað en þjóðarmorð