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International Lawyer| Senior Legal Researcher and Advocacy Officer @alhaq_org | Research Fellow @issnl / @erasmusuni | RT/♡≠(necessarily) endorsement.
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“NEVER AGAIN IS NOW”
I was honoured to deliver a statement on behalf of
@alhaq_org
@pchrgaza
@AlMezanCenter
@DCIPalestine
@fidh_en
at the general debate of the
@IntlCrimCourt
#ASP22
held at the
@UN
in New York.
Full statement:
#GazaGenocide
#EndImpunity
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🚨 This is
#Gaza
tonight. I literally don’t know if my family would still be alive tomorrow.
This insanity must stop. This is a stain on humanity.
Innocent civilian (50% are children) have been left alone to face
#Genocide
.
We need a
#CeaseFireNOW
.
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🚨Breaking: Egyptian humanitarian aid trucks (fuel & goods) retreat from the Egyptian border with Gaza after the Israeli bombing of the Rafah land crossing.
Israel threatened to target any trucks attempting to enter Gaza from Egypt.
This is insane & inhumane!
#GazaUnderAttack
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🚨BREAKING: The South African Parliament passes a historic resolution to downgrade South Africa's embassy in Israel.
“This is a moment Madiba [Nelson Mandela] would be proud of. He always said our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of Palestinians."
#EndIsraeliApartheid
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So Israel plans to delay the repatriation of 'unfriendly' States' citizens such as South Africa, Brazil and Ireland because they call for a
#ceasefire
.
#IsraeliApartheid
is acting like a rogue regime blackmailing States with the safety of their citizens for political expediency.
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I woke up today to learn that Israel killed my cousin Rami Abofoul, his wife & his little daughter, & another daughter in critical condition after she lost her leg.
Alongside 13 members of my family's inlaws (Abu Obeid family) who were bombed in their home.
I woke up today to learn that Israel killed my cousin Dr. Raafat Abofoul & his wife, his brother & his wife, & his son whose wife is in critical condition as she lost her limbs.
They were murdered in their home in the Beit Lahia area, north of Gaza, which was bombed last night.
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🚨BREAKING, South Africa invoked Article 9 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide) instituting proceedings against
#IsraeliApartheid
at the International Court of Justice & requesting the Court to indicate provisional measures.
#GazaGenocide
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I woke up today to learn that Israel killed my cousin Dr. Raafat Abofoul & his wife, his brother & his wife, & his son whose wife is in critical condition as she lost her limbs.
They were murdered in their home in the Beit Lahia area, north of Gaza, which was bombed last night.
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🚨 BREAKING: Apartheid and de facto annexation in practice
1. Israel changes its policy of entry and residence of foreigners into the West Bank to further complicates entry restrictions. Even among foreign nationality holders, Israel racially discriminates against Palestinians🧵
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"Palestinians have been telling us for decades that they've been living under a system of
#apartheid
[...] Now we have all the details. We can no longer pretend we didn't know, or we didn't understand."
-
@frances_black
👏
#EndIsraelsApartheid
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“Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination”
- UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 (1975), was revoked in 1991, not because it wasn't accurate, but because its revocation was Israel's condition to participate in the Madrid Peace Conference.
#EndIsraeliApartheid
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I just learned that Israel killed my cousin the paramedic Ahmed Abofoul, alongside 15 members of his family in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip.
This happened while I’m in Washington DC talking to congress members about the urgent need to call for a ceasefire.
Will they listen?
I woke up today to learn that Israel killed my cousin Rami Abofoul, his wife & his little daughter, & another daughter in critical condition after she lost her leg.
Alongside 13 members of my family's inlaws (Abu Obeid family) who were bombed in their home.
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"They will not receive a drop of water or a single battery until they leave the world."
"until they leave the world", said Israel's Minister of Energy & Infrastructure.
Another genocidal statement by another Israeli official & the civilised world is watching!
#GazaUnderAttack
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This
@IntlCrimCourt
Prosecutor
@KarimKhanQC
imbalanced statement makes it impossible to find any reasonable justification for his alarming approach.
This is outrageous & reveals a distorted understanding of the Rome Statute's basic principles.
The ICC is being domesticated. A🧵
#ICC
Prosecutor
@KarimKhanQC
concludes first visit to
#Israel
and State of
#Palestine
by an ICC Prosecutor: “We must show that the law is there, on the front lines, and that it is capable of protecting all”. ⤵️
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Having started my day with
@CIJ_ICJ
's momentous ruling that SA’s genocide claim against IS is “plausible” & its order of PM, I'll now head to the US Federal Court to testify against defendants
@POTUS
,
@SecBlinken
&
@SecDef
for their failure to prevent & complicity in
#Genocide
.
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🚨BREAKING: Over 100 UK MPs and Lords from 11 Parties signed a letter urging the UK Government to support the
@IntlCrimCourt
& condemn any threats & attempts to undermine the independence & impartiality of the
#ICC
in its investigations into crimes in the situation in
#Palestine
.
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I just learned that Israel killed my eldest uncle Fathi Abofoul this morning.
He was in his house when a shrapnel of a nearby bombing entered and hit him minutes before the truce started.
Israel cut telecommunications in Northern Gaza and we can’t reach the rest of the family.
I woke up today to learn that Israel killed my cousin Rami Abofoul, his wife & his little daughter, & another daughter in critical condition after she lost her leg.
Alongside 13 members of my family's inlaws (Abu Obeid family) who were bombed in their home.
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🚨BREAKING:
#Ireland
and
#Spain
have jointly written to
@vonderleyen
seeking an ‘urgent review’ of Israel trade over the
#EU
deal’s human rights obligations and asking for ‘appropriate measures’ to be taken if conditions of agreement have been broken.
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🚨 BREAKING: UN experts say Israel’s housing policies in occupied Palestinian territory, including in East Jerusalem, amount to racial segregation.
#EndIsraeliApartheid
#EndImpunity
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My response to
@Nieuwsuur
's request for an interview to "show the personal side" of the family I lost.
We refuse to be reduced to mere victims absent of any context of Israel's settler colonial/apartheid regime that made us refugees & its 56-year occupation dominating our lives.
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I just managed to reach my family again and they confirmed that the number of our family members killed in this strike is over 50, including entire families of our cousins who were displaced & sought refuge in our cousin's multi-story house, many of whole remain under the rubble.
I just learned that Israel killed my cousin the paramedic Ahmed Abofoul, alongside 15 members of his family in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip.
This happened while I’m in Washington DC talking to congress members about the urgent need to call for a ceasefire.
Will they listen?
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🚨BREAKING: UN experts say “Arms exports to Israel must stop immediately”
“Any transfer of weapons or ammunition to Israel that would be used in
#Gaza
is likely to violate int'l humanitarian law & must cease immediately.”
@UN_SPExperts
#GazaGenocide
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🚨Really shocked by int'l law colleagues passionately sharing this as great news about the US potentially supporting the ICC investigation in Ukraine, while the very same bill pledges that no US aid should be made to the Palestinians if they seek to advance ICC investigation🧵1/7
President Biden has quietly ordered the U.S. government to begin sharing evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine with the International Criminal Court in The Hague, officials familiar with the matter said, signaling a major shift in American policy.
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🚨 BREAKING: Israel's Colonisation of Palestinian Land and Skyline in East Jerusalem.
1. Israel's High Court unanimously upheld the government's plan to construct a cable car that runs through occupied East Jerusalem, including Silwan and the Old City. 🧵
#EndIsraeliApartheid
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Shame on all states that voted against or abstained from voting for the UN General Assembly Resolution on the “Protection of civilians and upholdina legal and humanitarian obligations.”
Shame on those who want to allow the
#GazaGenicide
.
#CeaseFireInGazaNOW
#EndIsraeliApartheid
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Fatima Al-Masry, 19 months old, from Gaza died after Israel's
#Apartheid
regime denied her access to a hospital a few km away. In case you wonder how this regime operates; cruelly against everything Palestinian, including children. 1/4
#EndIsraeliApartheid
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A landmark legal win for Palestinian solidarity activists concerning the right to freedom of speech and expression. South Africa’s constitutional court rejected the allegation that criticisms of Israel amount to hate speech and anti-Semitism.
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My family struggled to get my grandfather out of his home -after his neighbourhood was targeted- only to come to ours (still in Gaza).
They told him, it's temporary until things calm down.
He replied: "That's what they told me in 1948, I've not been able to go back ever since!"
I told my family in
#Gaza
to get out when I heard reports the US is coordinating a plan to offer safe passage for civilians out of Gaza into Egypt. My aunty said 'Do you guarantee we would be allowed to return?' I couldn't. I know ethnic cleansing when I see it. She refuses to
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🚨“Dutch Diplomat Angelique Eijpe resigns in protest of Dutch government's Gaza policy.”
@AJEnglish
“Some civil servants in the US & Europe are taking a stand against their governments' support for Israel's
#genocide
in Gaza.”
#GazaGenocide
#CeasfireNOW
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🚨BREAKING:
@UN_SPExperts
report shows that Palestinian women & girls in Israeli detention have been subjected to "multiple forms of sexual assault" including "rape", "torture, ill-treatment/degrading treatment" & threats "with rape & sexual violence."
”
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🚨BREAKING: Israel is targeting the vicinity of the Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City with white phosphorus.
#GazaGenocide
#CeasfireNOW
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🚨 1. Today marks 6 months since Israel's apartheid regime brazenly and calumny designated 6 Palestinian civil society and human rights organisations as "terrorist organisations" without presenting a shred of evidence to states, let alone the organisations. 🧵
#StandWithThe6
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🚨 BREAKING: UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the OPT, Prof.
@MichaelLynk5
's report is out (A/HRC/49/87). It concludes that Israel has been imposing an apartheid regime over the Palestinian people. 1/3
#EndIsraeliApartheid
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🇿🇦 South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa
@CyrilRamaphosa
announces that, jointly with several other countries, they have referred the situation in Palestine and Israel's violations in the
#Gaza
Strip to the
@IntlCrimCourt
.
#GazaGenocide
#CeasfireNOW
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🚨BREAKING:
#Chile
and
#Mexico
just referred the situation in
#Palestine
to
@IntlCrimCourt
's Prosecutor
@KarimKhanQC
.
This raises the number of referrals to 7 from (global South) States after South Africa, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Comoros and Djibouti's joint referral last November.
📄 El día de hoy, México y Chile, remitieron al fiscal de la Corte Penal Internacional la situación del Estado de Palestina, a fin de que investigue la probable comisión de crímenes de su competencia.
La acción de México y Chile obedece a la creciente preocupación por la última
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Help me save my family!
Desperate time calls for desperate measures.
I’ve never, in my most terrifying nightmares, imagined that I would recourse to asking for help in such a manner. But the situation in Gaza is worse than the most terrifying nightmares.
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🚨Now in
#Gaza
: brutal and indiscriminate bombardment in Al-Shati refugee camp, northwest of
#Gaza
City.
There is no first aid or civil defence after Israel cut off telecommunications in
#Gaza
.
People are heard crying for help, for rescue from this
#GazaGenocide
.
#CeasefireNOW
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🚨Today at the
#UN
General Assembly:
"Chile will promptly present a referral of the situation in
#Palestine
to the Prosecutor's office of the
@IntlCrimCourt
to investigate the crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territories."
#GazaGenocide
#EndIsraeliImpunity
Hoy en Asamblea General de la ONU: "Chile presentará prontamente la remisión de la situación en Palestina a la fiscalía de la Corte Penal Internacional para que se investiguen los crímenes que se cometen en los territorios palestinos ocupado”.
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🚨 BREAKING: UN experts call on governments to resume funding for six Palestinian CSOs designated by Israel as ‘terrorist organisations’
“Israel has had six months to substantiate its accusations and it has failed to deliver”
@UN_SPExperts
#StandWithThe6
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🚨 BREAKING: The Human Rights Committee issues its concluding observation on Israel's 5th periodic report, expressing its deep concerns about Israel's discriminatory laws, policies & practices, including structural discrimination & racial segregation, i.e., APARTHIED.
THREAD 🧵
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🚨BREAKING: Al-Haq awarded the prestigious Bruno Kreisky Prize for Human Rights 2022.
Extremely honoured to be part of
@alhaq_org
's inspiring team.
#HumanRights
#StandWithThe6
#EndIsraeliApartheid
#CourageToFightApartheid
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🚨
@alhaq_org
together with 31 Palestinian human rights and humanitarian organisations "sent a letter to
@antonioguterres
,
@UN
Secretary-General, warning that
@UN
aid agencies operating on the ground in Gaza, are aiding Israel’s war objectives, in breach of international law."🧵
As hunger & thirst become a reality for
#Palestinians
in
#Gaza
we write to raise serious concerns about amount of aid entering, its distribution, & consequences of the deference shown by UN agencies to Israel’s unlawful restriction of humanitarian relief
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🚨BREAKING: The Norwegian government issued advice to Norwegian companies against trade and business activities with Israeli settlements.
"The gov. expects 🇳🇴companies to act responsibly & comply with the Openness Act, the [UNGP] & the OECD's guidelines"
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This is the scandalous failure of
@IntlCrimCourt
Prosecutor
@KarimKhanQC
who remains utterly silent on such attacks.
His latest statement never mentioned any nor did he mentioned children even once.
Why some colleagues can’t criticise him? Isn’t it his responsibility to act?
Horrific images from UNRWA school in
#KhanYounis
bombed out by IDF; multiple casualties include kids. This airstrike is a catastrophic failure of humanity and a war crime. States Parties must unequivocally condemn it at
#ASP22
; they must urge and enable ICC OTP to investigate it.
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🚨SCANDAlOUS, if true. To the best of my knowledge, since
@IntlCrimCourt
Prosecutor
@KarimKhanQC
took office, he didn't meet with any of the Palestinian victims or their representatives.
ICC's double standards, especially in relation to Palestine, are outrageous and intolerable.
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🚨So
@IsraelMFA
is saying:
"These aren’t “freedom fighters”. They are Hamas terrorists, but no different than ISIS terrorists."
So who do they refer to, those burned or those who burned/targeted them?
This deceptive and misleading formulation is intentional.
A thread 🧵
We debated whether or not to share these horrific images, but the world needs to know what we are up against.
These aren’t “freedom fighters”. They are Hamas terrorists, but no different than ISIS terrorists.
Same tactics, different names.
Hamas = ISIS
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🚨This is so low even for the
#genocide
enabler
@StateDept
/
@SecBlinken
. Morally corrupt and repugnant!
They falsified a report, against the consensus of their own experts, absolving Israel from responsibility for blocking aid from reaching
#Gaza
. 1/5🧵
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The Israeli occupation is turning Gaza from the world's largest open-air prison to the world's largest mass grave.
The civilised world is watching & reminding us that
#Israeliapartheid
has the "right to defend itself" by burying our children under the rubble.
#GazaUnderaAttack
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2. He refers to Palestinian armed (resistance) groups as "terror organisations", not only the Rome Statute does not recognise "terrorism" as a crime, but the context of this situation is a struggle for self-determination against settler colonialism, occupation and apartheid.
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Today I had the privilege of meeting the great Dr
@GhassanAbuSitt1
, one of Palestine’s heros, in the international city of peace and justice.
Thank you, sir!
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Good morning from the
@IntlCrimCourt
’s
#ASP2
.
#IsraeliApartheid
demands
#ICC
Investigation!
#EndIsraeliApartheid
#EndIsraelImpunity
#StandWithThe6
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I was honoured to deliver a statement on behalf of
@alhaq_org
,
@pchrgaza
and
@AlMezanCenter
as part of civil society interventions at the
#ASP20
of the
@IntlCrimCourt
held at the
@WorldForum_
in
@CityOfTheHague
.
Full statement at 2:02:50:
#StandWithThe6
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🚨Over 800
#EU
staff sent a letter to
@vonderleyen
condemning her “patent show of double standards” on the situation in
#Gaza
, saying that "they don't recognise European values in the Commission’s stance." 1/2
#CeasefireNOW
#Gazagenocide
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8. Also, pay attention to how the Prosecutor describes both victims;
"innocent Israeli civilians" and "Palestinian civilians".
Notably, legally there is no such thing as an "innocent civilian", a civilian is a civilian and enjoys the protection of IHL regardless of nationality.
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1. It doesn't read like a statement of a prosecutor of a court of law but like those statements of states, in particular those of Israel's Western allies.
@KarimKhanQC
is the Prosecutor of the world's Permanent International Criminal Court, not a Court of the West & its allies!
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I finally got hold of my family in
#Gaza
, who don't know what to do!
It is virtually impossible to leave since there is no safe passage as the bombing is everywhere & most roads have been destroyed.
Israel announced its intention to commit
#GazaGenocide
& the world is watching!
Israel's demand for the UN to evacuate 1.1M (half of Gaza) to the South reaffirms Israel's intention to push Gaza to Sinia-Egypte to liquidate the Palestinian cause & fully realise the Zionist settler-colonial dream of eliminating the indigenous Palestinians &stealing their land.
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South Africa is showing the world as a whole, and the hypocritical West in particular, what true leadership is like.
South Africa is not only fighting to save what’s left of humanity, but also what’s left of credibility of international law and the so called “rules-based order”.
WATCH LIVE: South Africa opens the oral argument on its request for the indication of provisional measures in the case
#SouthAfrica
v.
#Israel
before the
#ICJ
:
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The
@JoeBiden
admin is brazenly anti-Palestinian & complicit in supporting & enabling the
#IsraeliApartheid
#GazaGenocide
.
Now they're attempting to bully Switzerland to prevent a conference on Geneva Conventions violations.
This is not leadership, this is genocide sponsorship!
SCOOP: As the US slowrolls UN action on Gaza, the State Dept is working to block another bid for accountability. Officials are preparing to pressure Switzerland to reject global calls for a conference on Geneva Conventions violations in Israel-Palestine:
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3. Throughout history, imperial and colonial occupying powers have used "terrorism" to delegitimise people's struggle for self-determination.
Even the PLO/PA with whom he met is considered a terrorist by Israel.
Even Nilson Mandela remained on the US terrorist list until 2008.
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7. Alarmingly, they must also state whether they own property or stand to inherit property in the West Bank. No reason is offered for why this information is necessary in order to process the entry application. Dispossession?
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4. Legally speaking, this term has no place at the ICC. The Prosecutor must not forget that he is at the ICC now, not
@UNITAD_Iraq
.
He used this term once before, in the highly controversial decision to "de-prioritise" US personnel crimes in Afghanistan.
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Delighted to share my latest interview with
@AmnestyUK
magazine in London. This is for my beloved beautiful Gaza and its resilient people. When we say "Free Palestine/Gaza", it's not merely a slogan. You are, despite your imprisonment under
#IsraeliApartheid
blockade, ... 1/2
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This is sick.
The Palestinians count the bodies of their children killed by Israel and
@POTUS
keeps bowing for Israeli propaganda and dehumanisation of the Palestinian.
Wake up, this disgusting and irresponsible rhetoric is paving the way for the
#GazaGenocide
.
Shame on you!
Biden doesn't have confidence in the Gaza death toll: "I have no notion if Palestinians are telling the truth...I'm sure innocents have been killed & it is the price of waging war..Israel should be incredibly careful to ensure they're going after the folks propagating this war."
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10. A quota of 150 foreign students may study at Palestinian colleges and universities but only in approved disciplines. YES, Israel's Apartheid regime wants to decide what the Palestinians are/aren't allowed to study! Domination?
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🚨South African President
@CyrilRamaphosa
says that:
"[Israel's] deliberate denial of medicine, fuel, food and water to the residents of
#Gaza
is tantamount to
#genocide
."
@DIRCO_ZA
should consider invoking the genocide convention before the
@CIJ_ICJ
.
#GazaGenocide
#CeasfireNOW
As South Africans, we appreciate the importance and value of international solidarity. As an important voice of the Global South representing a large part of humanity, we believe that BRICS has a vital role in a widespread international effort to achieve a just and lasting peace.
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Israel's demand for the UN to evacuate 1.1M (half of Gaza) to the South reaffirms Israel's intention to push Gaza to Sinia-Egypte to liquidate the Palestinian cause & fully realise the Zionist settler-colonial dream of eliminating the indigenous Palestinians &stealing their land.
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5. Judge Richard R Baxter, a US jurist, wrote an article entitled “A Skeptical Look at the Concept of Terrorism”, & he regretted that the concept of terrorism was ever “Inflicted” on us, as it is “ imprecise, ambiguous & serves no operative legal purpose."
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They were innocent civilians.
Targeting them was a war crime.
They deserve justice.
They are not numbers.
@IntlCrimCourt
@KarimKhanQC
#GazaGenocide
#GazaUnderAtack
#EndIsraeliImpunity
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3. The new, more expansive entry rules represent a clear attempt to restrict, track and trace the travel of foreign nationals to the occupied Palestinian territories, control Palestinian population growth & keep data on the land claims of Palestinians holding foreign nationality.
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Since this began, I’ve been saying goodnight to my family in
#Gaza
not knowing if I'd wake up able to talk to them again or they'd have gone under the rubble.
Families say their last goodbye every night, as Israel continues its indiscriminate bombing of entire residential areas.
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While desperately attempting to defend the indefensible, one could lose their thoughts, their papers, their voice, and perhaps even themselves.
#GazaGenocide
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Today
@alhaq_org
joined
@AmnestyUK
in a stunt in front of
#IsraeliApartheid
embassy in London.
We remind the UK’s government that it’s been two months since the
@CIJ_ICJ
ruled that Israel is plausibly committing genocide in Gaza.
The UK must end its complicity in
#GazaGenocide
.
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UN Special Rapporteur
@FranceskAlbs
's report is a "significant recognition of the accuracy of the Palestinian human rights organisations' decades-long professional legal analysis of the situation in 🇵🇸 using the settler-colonialism framework."
@the_newarab
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6. The information Palestinian travellers (with a foreign passport) must provide on the visa pre-approval application includes the names and national ID numbers of their first-degree relatives, names and ID numbers for others with whom they will stay or may visit.
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“UN Human Rights Commissioner Miloon Kothari explains why Apartheid is not enough to explain the root causes of the Palestinian crisis” and that “settler-colonialism is a more foundational problem.”
-
@Mondoweiss
.
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Better late than never. All states that supported the
@IntlCrimCourt
investigation in Ukraine must now support it in Palestine.
They must unequivocally call on Israel to cooperate & allow Prosecutor
@KarimKhanQC
&his team to access the territory to investigate all alleged crimes.
#ICC
Prosecutor
@KarimKhanQC
was at the Rafah Border Crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip this weekend.
Watch his remarks on the current situation in Israel and the State of Palestine. 👇
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Notably, Israel has a military directive called "The Hannibal Directive."
The Hannibal Directive allows the
#Israeliapartheid
army to literally use any means necessary in order to prevent the capture of an Israeli soldier, even if it means killing the soldier.
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This is a huge disappointment.
Once again, no Palestinians were invited, but
@AsymmetricalH
have a platform for an ex-IDF to present Israel's distorted interpretation of International (Humanitarian) Law.
A thread 🧵
Out now!
#Israel
#Hamas
and the laws of war. We discuss the role of military lawyers and the differing approaches to the law.
With
@janethanderson
,
@vdbergstephanie
,
@SRjudgeslawyers
,
@OriPomson
&
@AdHaque110
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4. The new rules no longer treat the occupied West Bank as a separate geographic unit from Israel. Terminology such as entry to Israel for the purpose of “transit” to the West Bank is dispensed and instead, entry requirements refer to travel to “Judea & Samaria” or the “Area”.
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“Zionist hatred of Palestinians is at the essence and core of Zionist ideology.”
-
@JehadAbusalim
.
Totally agree, because Zionism is truly a “form of racism and racial discrimination.”
This is what needs to be talked about to ensure justice and achieve peace, sooner than later.
A heavily-followed Israeli Telegram page posted a video of cats devouring the body of a dead man in Gaza. The responses were appalling, consisting either of mockery of the situation or pity for the cats, forced by starvation to feed on the corpse of a so-called "terrorist."
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This statement of the
@UN
Secretary-General,
@antonioguterres
is morally abhorrent. He could use some IHL lessons.
It is outrageous to call on Palestinian resistance (permitted by international law) to CEASE its attacks while asking the occupying power ONLY to respect IHL.🧵
I recognize the legitimate grievances of the Palestinian people. But nothing can justify acts of terror & the killing, maiming & abduction of civilians.
I reiterate my call to immediately cease these attacks & release all hostages.
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Delighted to share my latest piece co-authored with
@SJabaren
, General Director of
@alhaq_org
and published on
@opiniojuris
.
“We are Witnessing a Genocide Unfolding in Gaza: To Stop it, the ICC Prosecutor
@KarimKhanQC
Must Apply the Law Without Fear or Favour”
#GazaGenocide
We are Witnessing a Genocide Unfolding in Gaza: To Stop it, the ICC Prosecutor Must Apply the Law Without Fear or Favour
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🚨BREAKING:
#France
has just banned Israeli companies from participating in this year's annual Eurosatory arms and defence industry exhibition in Villepinte near Paris next month.
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8. The new rules differentiate between travellers visiting Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and those visiting Jewish Israeli settlers. Only those visiting Palestinians must obtain pre-approval for their visits and provide the aforementioned information.
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2. The new 97- page ordinance entitled: "Procedure for Entry and Residence for Foreigners in Judea and Samaria Area" replaces the current 4-page Ordinance No. 202, entitled: "Policy of Entry of Foreigners into the West Bank Territories", and will become effective on 22 May 2022.
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Heartwarming to see my GoFundMe campaign has reached 25% of its goal. I'm forever grateful for your kind and generous support.
I wish to approach 50% of the goal soon so I can head to Cairo & start the process of getting part of my family out of Gaza.
Thank you for sharing it🙏
Help me save my family!
Desperate time calls for desperate measures.
I’ve never, in my most terrifying nightmares, imagined that I would recourse to asking for help in such a manner. But the situation in Gaza is worse than the most terrifying nightmares.
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It was great meeting
@RBoydBarrett
yesterday at Palestine Festival in London. A principled MP representing the Irish people’s unwavering support for the Palestinian people’s struggle for freedom & justice.
Together until we dismantle
#IsraeliApartheid
& settler colonialism.🇮🇪🇵🇸
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The IDF press conference was an announcement of starting a carnage tonight, including targeting hospitals.
Pray for Gaza 🙏
The world has abandoned its people. The civilised world is just watching the
#GazaGenocide
unfolding with utter despicable silence.
#CeasefireNOW
Al-Jazeera correspondent describes the current wave of bombardment as unprecedented.
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🚨The number of civilian casualties caused by Israel's
#GazaGenocide
in 3 weeks is extensively greater than that caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in over 1,5 years.
The contrast between most Western states' reactions to both situations is disgusting and scandalous.🧵
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South Africa is teaching the world as a whole, and the hypocritical West in particular, what true leadership is like.
South Africa is not only fighting to save what’s left of humanity, but also what’s left of credibility of international law and the so called “rules-based order”
International Court of Justice holds its 1st hearing in South Africa's genocide case against Israel
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7. Also, the Prosecutor didn't visit the field as he did in Israel, he didn't visit any location, including those of Israeli settlements.
Rather he allowed himself to strictly follow the instructions of the colonial occupying power and fully complied with what Israel dictated.
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Wasn't he the one who said: "We got it wrong on
#apartheid
" after being a supporter of
#apartheid
SA & after SAns' desire for freedom prevailed, he shed crocodile tears & called them heroes?
The audacity of
@David_Cameron
& the
#UK
to think they're in a position to criticise SA!
"I think the South African action is wrong, I think it is unhelpful and I think it shouldn't be happening."
Foreign Secretary
@David_Cameron
adds that "to say that (Israel) have the intent to commit genocide is nonsense".
#TrevorPhillips
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Pandor added: "What is a great concern is that the world is allowing Israel to ignore the rulings of the
@CIJ_ICJ
and no one is taking any measure to place a force in Palestine that would be a peace enforcement force to protect the Innocent civilians." 2/4
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I hope this helps
@KarimKhanQC
understand that it isn't only about individual Israelis "armed with an extreme ideology and a gun", it's about the State armed with Zionism (a racist, settler-colonial & exceptionalist ideology) and its army of fanatics. 1/2
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