CNN, BBC Compile Clear War Crimes perpetrated by Israel in two separate cases:

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/02/middleeast/israeli-precision-guided-munition-maghazi-deaths-intl/index.html

CNN has pressed the Israeli military for details about the strike, which took place on April 16 at about 3:40 p.m., according to video evidence.

Two days after the strike, in response to CNN providing the time and coordinates for the attack, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it struck a “terror target” in Al-Maghazi but declined to provide any additional details.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw07wgrwzywo

In the early afternoon of 29 November last year, several Palestinian boys descended on to their street in the occupied West Bank, where they often played together.

Minutes later, two of them lay dead from gunshots fired by Israeli soldiers - Basil, 15, and eight-year-old Adam.

As part of an investigation into the conduct of Israel's security forces in the West Bank, which has been under military occupation for more than half a century, the BBC has pieced together what happened on the day the two boys were killed.

Mobile phone and CCTV footage, information about the movements of Israel's military, witness testimony and detailed investigation of the scene, including taking measurements, combine to reveal evidence suggesting serious human rights violations.

The evidence we found has prompted Ben Saul, UN special rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism, to say the death of Adam appears to be a "war crime".

#Genocide #Gaza #Israel #WarCrimes #ICC #ICJ

New York Times business editor Andrew Sorkin seeks an economic boycott on anti-genocide students.

He wrote in a column:
- “Many business leaders have told me they are deeply concerned about incidents of harassment against Jewish students that have taken place at and around universities like Columbia”
- “Companies could tell universities that they won’t hire their students”
- “Wall Street, private equity and venture capital firms may uniquely have [a pressure point]: They could threaten to stop managing the endowments” of the universities.
- “Examining D.E.I. policies [Diversity, equity, and inclusion] [...] What would happen if the Wall Street firms also sent such questionnaires to the universities before deciding to work with them as clients?”
- “The most common course of action so far has been to pull back on individual donations.”

#Politics #Fascism #StudentRevolt #Israel #US #Genocide #Capitalism #NYT

When some things end in your life, often there is a certain moment, a certain episode, where you know you cannot do it any longer. You know it's over. I had my final and complete disillusionment with my country the summer they shot and killed 223 and wounded thousands of demonstrators using live fire during the 'The Great March of Return'. Every weekend, from March 2018 until December 2019, Gazans would gather along the border with Israel, with thousands and thousands in attendance. They wanted to break the siege and attract the world's attention to their plight and oppression under so many years of brutal occupation, with no end in sight.

They were quiet demonstrations: no Israeli soldier was hurt in any of them (there may have been one case of counter-violence by Palestinians, and maybe not even that). Israel's murderous overreaction that time was placing tens, or maybe even hundreds of snipers in positions overlooking the border and the adjacent Gaza lands.

Those snipers shot and shot and shot people in unbelievable numbers. on May 14th, 2018, 52 Palestinians were killed in one demonstration. Rouzan al-Najjar, a 20-year-old nurse, was sniped to death two weeks later, on the 1st of June. She was hundreds if meters away from the fence. Her death may have been what broke me. Or maybe it was the complete obedience of everyone in the IDF. No one said: we cannot do that. This is insane. No one felt bad about it. I felt like I was losing my mind. Or maybe it was the big live concert at the center of Tel Aviv that very summer, given by Israel's fresh Eurovision winner, a day or two after one of the bloodiest weekends in The Great March of Return. It was a big deal, and everyone was happy and celebrating and proud.

- On Local Call, the Hebrew version of +972 Magazine, I wrote an article titled "Accept that it is over". In that article, I also wrote that I was not going to vote in Israeli elections again, as there was no point, particularly as so many people who are ruled by Israel cannot vote.

- 2018 seems like so long ago now. It was before Covid, before October 7th, before the genocide. But it was that summer, that year, that I knew I lost my country.

And the absolutely beautiful, angelic face of Rouzan al-Najjar brings tears to my eyes to this day. To this moment. It is such a heartache. Such a loss to this world. Such a stupid, monstrous crime.

There has to be justice for Palestine someday. There simply must be.

- Alon Mizrahi (on X)

#journalism #zionism #death #genocide #gaza #palestine #israel #usa

“#US Will Not #Sanction Israeli Battalions despite Admitting Human Rights Violations – Report”

by Palestine Chronicle Staff @palestinechron

“After determining that three military battalions with the Israeli army committed ‘gross human rights violations’ against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank, the United States decided that they will not be sanctioned, American Broadcasting Company (ABC) reported on Friday.

According to ABC, the battalions will remain eligible for US military aid ‘because of steps Israel says it’s taking to address the problem.’”

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/us-will-not-sanction-israeli-battalions-despite-admitting-human-rights-violations-report/

#HumanRights #Gaza #Rafah #Resistance #ExterminationCamp #Israel #ApartheidIsrael #US #GenocideJoe #Netanyahu #ButcherOfGaza #DahiyaDoctrine #HannibalDirective #IDF #SnuffMovies #Zionism #Racism #Pogrom #Naksa #Genocide #FinalSolution #SettlerColonialism #Liberation #LiberationWar #Dehumanization #Hamas #TerroristIsrael #EthnicCleansing #ChildMurder #ChildTorture #Starvation #Disease #Hasbara #Disinformation #InfoWar #CollectivePunishment #Palestine #TheOccupiedTerritories #WarCrimes #GroundInvasion #BabyMurderers #HospitalDestroyers #CrimesAgainstHumanity #StateSanctionedMurder #OperationAlAqsaFlood #Palestine #FreePalestine #PermanentCeasefireNoW #BDS #GenocideJoe #USComplicity #UKComplicity #EUComplicity #BanIsraelFromOlympics2024

Number of civilian casualties doesn't "prove" it's a genocide. I also think getting hung up on whether the word applies or not isn't the most important thing; it's stopping the horror. Having said that, the imposed famine, seemingly used as a weapon of war, convinced me that this is genocide.

Meanwhile, an Israeli holocaust researcher put out a really good case explaining why this is a genocide (original is in Hebrew and long, but Google did a good job on this chunk):

Holocaust researcher Amos Goldberg on #Gaza and genocide
"In known ways, Palestinian Gaza as a geographical-political-cultural-human complex no longer exists. Genocide is the deliberate extermination of a collective or part of it - not of all its individuals. And this is what is happening in Gaza. The result is undoubtedly genocidal. The numerous declarations of extermination from senior officials in the Israeli government, and the general destructive public atmosphere, which was rightly pointed out by Carolina Landsman, show that this was also the intention."

"Israelis are mistaken in thinking that genocide should look like the Holocaust... However, although each case of genocide has a different character, in terms of the scope of the murder and its characteristics, the common denominator of most of them is that they were committed out of an authentic sense of self-defense. From a legal point of view, an event cannot to be both an event of self-defense and an event of genocide. These two legal categories are mutually exclusive. But historically, self-defense is not at odds with genocide, but is usually one of its central causes."

https://www.mekomit.co.il/ps/134005/
#war #genocide

@porkroll
(3/3)

...do believe that there now is sufficient evidence to pursue criminal charges against the #Netanyahu Regime for #EthnicCleansing and, possibly, #génocide
in the #WarInGaza, despite the savage assault by #Hamas October.

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/111965108855551947

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HistoPol (#HP)

2024-02-20 17:59:38

@Miro_Collas

(6/n) #UN #Legal #LawFedi

#EthnicCleansing

...violent and terror-inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic or religious group from certain geographic areas.”👈

This could constitute the following crimes:

"The Commission of Experts added that these practices can “… constitute 👉crimes against humanity👈 and can be assimilated to specific 👉war crimes.👈 Furthermore, such acts could also fall within the meaning of the Genocide Convention.”

I agree,...

Yes!

…. and it’s Important we don’t forget this ⤵️ too:

“Amazon Is Investing in AI-Assisted Apartheid in Palestine”

by Ahmed Ibsais in The Jacobin @jacobinfeed

“Since 2014, Amazon has been pouring billions into Israel, contributing to illegal settlement programs and the relentless surveillance of Palestinians. Israel’s dystopian end goal: to compile biometric profiles and security ratings for every resident of the West Bank.”

[..]

“The company claims the benefactors of Amazon Web Services (AWS) will be ‘Israeli entrepreneurs and businesses.’ In reality, the primary winner will be the military. AWS will expand ‘Project Nimbus,’ which provides the cloud service ecosystem for Israel, primarily serving the country’s military. (Google also invests in Project Nimbus.)”

https://jacobin.com/2023/08/amazon-ai-israel-palestine-apartheid-surveillance

#Amazon #Google #Nimbus #AmazonWebServices #AWS #Surveillance #WestBank #IsraelAerospaceIndustries #RoboSnipers #Drones #AI #ProjectNimbus #Israel #ApartheidIsrael #Zionism #Racism #Pogrom #Nakba #Naksa #Genocide #SettlerColonialism #TerroristIsrael #EthnicCleansing #ChildMurder #ChildTorture #Starvation #Disease #Hasbara #CollectivePunishment #Palestine #TheOccupiedTerritories #WarCrimes #GroundInvasion #BabyMurderers #HospitalDestroyers #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Gaza #ConcentrationCamp #StateSanctionedMurder #OperationAlAqsaFlood #Palestine #FreePalestine #CeasefireNoW

Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC): *Israel holds over 10,000 Palestinians captive. This Palestinian Prisoners’ Day act to #FreeThemAll*

"Israel is abusing and torturing thousands of Palestinian prisoners. The #BDS movement calls for urgent and meaningful pressure to #FreeThemAll."

https://bdsmovement.net/Israel-Holds-Over-10000-Palestinians-Captive-Act-Now-FreeThemAll

"Today, April 17th, is #PalestinianPrisonersDay. The Palestinian BDS National Committee (#BNC), the largest coalition in Palestinian society, condemns the complicity of silence surrounding Israel's relentless policy of mass arrests and the systematic and horrific infringement of the most basic rights of the Palestinian political prisoners in its prisons and detention centers, as an integral component of #Israel’s genocidal apartheid regime. We commit to intensifying our campaigns with our partners globally to #FreeThemAll.

This year, #Palestinians in #Gaza are enduring an ongoing live-streamed #genocide, and Palestinians everywhere are enduring an ongoing #Nakba. Since the beginning of Israel’s genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, unknown numbers of Palestinians have been rounded up, detained, stripped, severely tortured and taken to numerous locations where their fate remains unknown. ..."

#prisoners #politicalPrisoners #StopTheGenocide #Palestine