Nicola Perugini
@PeruginiNic
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Associate professor, politics and IR, Edinburgh. “The Human Right to Dominate” (OUP 2015). “Human Shields” (UCP 2020). RT and likes are not endorsements.
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Joined May 2013
In this new article @millennjournal I examine how anticolonial self-emancipatory violence challenges the legal principle of distinction between civilians and combatants, and the tension between the register of justice of decolonisation and IHL
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The Israeli military just blew up the University of Palestine in Gaza City with 315 mines. All the universities in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed. We need a full academic boycott.
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When you cut all the communications of 2.3 million people you are carpet bombing in the dark, that’s another clear indication of your genocidal intent.
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Polio had been eradicated from Gaza. In fact Gaza has been polio-free for 25 year. Israel’s destruction of all infrastructures of life—making Gaza uninhabitable—and the forced displacement of the Palestinian population in overcrowded areas have created a public health emergency.
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No water. No food. Rafah completely closed. Gaza made uninhabitable by Israel. Babies reduced to skeletal bodies. A policy of starvation and devastation that subjects Palestinians as a group to conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction.
'Mothers in Gaza are so malnourished themselves that they cannot breastfeed, and so babies are dying, literally starving to death, because they cannot get the vital nutrition that newborns need.'. Sky's Middle East correspondent @AliBunkallSky reports ⬇️
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All what this humiliation will inspire is resistance
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The US administration refuses to confirm that the Geneva Conventions apply to Palestinians.
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Almost all the universities in Gaza destroyed or damaged. A huge amount of students and academic staff killed. The erasure of Palestinian higher education is part of the genocide and does not stop. Universities abroad must act and cut their ties with Israeli academic institutions.
🚨Breaking: Dr. Said Al-Zubda, the president of the University College of Applied Sciences in #Gaza, along with his wife and children, killed by an Israeli airstrike targeting their home. #Gaza_Genocide
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Now openly confirmed by the Israeli military. This is part of the crime of genocide since it destroys the conditions of life in Gaza. It will devastate the agriculture and leave Gaza with no drinkable water, as hydrologists and experts have warned.
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The killing of Shireen Abu Aqla isn’t an "incident.” It is part of Israel’s systematic targeting of journalists (55 killed since 2000) to silence those who tell Palestinian experiences of colonial dispossession. This is the Gaza media tower exactly 1yr ago
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Al Jazeera Arabic chief correspondent in Gaza Wael Dahdouh. His family was just exterminated.
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Rounding up civilians, the elderly and the children. Testimonies of executions happening in the proximity of the hospital.
Israeli occupation forces stormed displaced persons’ schools near the Indonesian hospital, resulting in the arrest and injury of several civilians.
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Another huge massacre. Deliberate annihilation of starving people. Monstrous.
The Israeli military has targeted Palestinians waiting for flour trucks near the Kuwaiti roundabout in Gaza City. The health ministry says dozens of people have been killed and injured, reports Al Jazeera's Tareq Abu Azzoum. 🔴 LIVE updates:
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Shifa Hospital, built in Gaza in 1946, is now completely destroyed and inoperable. This level of brutality has been normalised also as a result of the international political and media parroting of the "medical shielding" lie (that Palestinian hospitals are military headquarters)
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The names of 15,000 children killed in Gaza will be read aloud in Berlin tomorrow. “The uninterrupted public reading on International Day for Protection of Children is expected to last 14 hours accompanied by a display of more than 10,000 children’s shoes”
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This is genocidal. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant: . "I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we act accordingly.".
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Judith Butler: “If calling for an end of genocide is understood as making a Jewish student feel unsafe, then the safety of the situation has been oddly co-opted by that particular Jewish student. Palestinians are the one in need of safety [from genocide]”
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Expelling babies in incubators under the threat of annihilation
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This is the queue of humanitarian aid trucks stuck on the Egyptian side of the Gaza border, blocked by the Israeli military. This is the day after the head of UN Food Programme stated there is “full blown famine in Northern Gaza moving its way South”
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According to the Washington Post Israel should not be investigated by the ICC because Hamas is “human shielding” and Israel is a democracy fighting barbarians. ICC is not for civilized colonial powers.
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Universities are asking us to teach students critical thinking, human rights and justice. Universities also want to protect settler colonial genocide in Gaza and their investments in the dispossession of Palestinians. The contradiction has exploded. No way to go back to normal.
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Amnesty International just suspended the Israel branch over its rejection of the apartheid and genocide reports, and “endemic anti-Palestinian racism.” The national branch of the most prominent global human rights organisation suspended for structural racism.
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Biden resumed shipments of 500-pound bombs to Israel two days ago. Here is how they are used.
So far 71 confirmed dead in the Israel air-raid on the humanitarian safe-zone in Mawasi, Khan Younis. Israel dropped ×6 half tonne bombs on tents.
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Perhaps they can invite some of the soldiers who carried out mass killing and maiming, or detonated entire neighbourhoods, or burned entire hospitals, so that students can listen to both sides.
Harvard Medical school cancels an optional session for students to hear from evacuated Gazan patients, because it is one-sided. What is the other side?.
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The huge amount of trucks carrying food, medicines, fuel and aid, blocked by the Israeli military at the Rafah crossing while Palestinians in Gaza are dying of hunger, diseases and lack of healthcare. Genocide.
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What remains of Al Quds Hospital, Gaza City. The second largest hospital in the Gaza Strip.
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This is how Palestinian faculty are treated in Israeli universities if they express criticism against the annihilation of their people.
The Hebrew University in Jerusalem has suspended Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian following her expression of criticism towards the Israeli occupation's brutal offensive in Gaza.
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Few buildings are standing in northern Gaza in the midst of rubble, and they’re systematically being detonated by the Israeli military with the aim of not leaving intact anything the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians it has been expelling can return to
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ICC prosecutor says the claims of Gaza hospitals used as human shields—Israel’s legal justification for the destruction of healthcare—“have been grossly exaggerated” and “we’ve been misled about that in the press. There are lies being spoken.” Fabrication.
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More than half of Gaza’s vegetation land has been damaged or destroyed, preventing the Strip’s ability to feed itself.
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The bombardment and siege of hospitals accusing the colonised of shielding behind medical facilities has a long history. This is the Italian fascist propaganda trying to justify the targeting of the medical structures of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Ethiopia.
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What has been bombarded by the Israeli military in Gaza since Oct (source UN Satellite Centre, updated Jul 6)
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One month after spreading allegations which are leading to the dismantlement of UNRWA and the life saving services it provides to refugees and genocide survivors in the midst of starvation: zero evidence.
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After being persecuted and suspended by the Hebrew University for her opposition to the annihilation of her people in Gaza, Palestinian Professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian now arrested. Israeli unis and settler state are part of the same complex of elimination, silencing, repression.
The silencing continues. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian arrested and being investigated for incitement to violence and terrorism.
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The US Dod spokesperson is really saying that burning alive in his tent a 19 year old multiple times displaced person who survived previous Israeli bombardments is not a crime because he thinks he was a “Hamas human shield.” Little Eichmann.
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Jabalia: Palestinian men separated from women and children and transferred to torture camps by the Israeli military as part of the ethnic cleansing of northern Gaza.
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ICJ hearing: the Israeli argument that everything is human shielding in Gaza transforms the entire civilian population into a legitimate military target, the core feature of genocide.
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Announced today. The largest settler colonial appropriation of Palestinian land transformed into Israeli state land since the Oslo Accords. Make no mistake. This is not an affront to the US. The US is supporting settler colonial genocide, the settler government expands the colony.
🚨 BREAKING: Israeli Govt Declares 8,000 Dunams in Jordan Valley as State Lands 🚨. As Secretary of State Blinken meets with PM Netanyahu, Minister Smotrich announces a significant declaration of state lands. It's the largest since the Oslo Accords, with 2024 setting a record.
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“I got so tired of writing about dead kids. Just constantly having to prove to Washington that these children actually died and then watching nothing happen.” US state department’s deputy political counselor on Gaza about why he resigned.
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The attempt to shut down UNRWA is clearly an attempt to shift the attention away from the ICJ genocide order. But what ultimately Israel's attempt to destroy UNRWA reveals is precisely genocidal intent: Israel's calculated efforts to intensify starvation in Gaza.
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The Israeli army using an injured Palestinian civilian as a human shield tied to the front of a military jeep in Jabriyat (Jenin, WB) this morning. The same army which is justifying its war of annihilation in Gaza based on the human shielding argument.
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Balfour’s visit in Jerusalem, 1925. Palestinian general strike. Shops closed.
When Balfour came to Jerusalem in March 1925 on the eve of Ramadan to inaugurate the Hebrew University, the colonized population initiated a general strike. Jerusalem was made a ghost town and Palestinian dailies published English editions condemning and British colonialism.
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Now it is the turn of @MSF to be framed as a targetable medical organisation that uses civilians as human shields. Every life saving and sustaining entity in Gaza is being bombarded and threatened with obliteration, for the eighth consecutive month.
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He killed a Palestinian teen shooting into his back while he was fleeing, Reichman University just gave him a “honorary doctorate for Israeli heroism”
He killed a Palestinian teen, now he's receiving an honorary doctorate for Israeli heroism
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The silence of Israeli academics on the Amnesty apartheid report is quite noisy.
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The Israeli army is denying the entry of water and food for the 34th consecutive day in northern Gaza. Only functioning hospital, Kamal Adwan, out of water (water tanks targeted by the Israeli army) and medical supplies. No rescuing services. Annihilation.
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The WP argues that ICC should not investigate because Israel should be investigated by its own legal system which legalized: land and natural resources grab; land looting; ethnic cleansing; punitive house demolitions; forcible transfer; interrogation of children under torture 1/2.
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"The Israeli occupation forces destroyed all the dialysis machines at al-Shifa Hospital on purpose – 60 machines catering to 350 patients, including children"
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The same genocidal statements used since October for Palestine are now starting to be used by Israeli ministers for Lebanon.
"There is no difference between Hezbollah and Lebanon. Lebanon will be annihilated. It will cease to exist.". — Israel's Minister of Education.
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All 36 UNRWA shelters in Rafah emptied by the aggression of the Israeli army. Ethnic cleansing.
Due to Israeli Forces operations, thousands of families have been forced to flee. All of @UNRWA 36 shelters in Rafah are now empty. 1.7 million people are estimated to be displaced in Khan Younis and #Gaza Middle Areas. The humanitarian space continues to shrink. #CeasefireNOW.
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No Red Cross visits. Nothing to see. At least 40 Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons beaten and tortured since October.
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The Israeli military blowing up the Faculty of Medicine at the Islamic University of Gaza
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Palestinians starved by Israel’s siege scrambling for parachuted food in Gaza. These images will haunt us forever.
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The WP argues that ICC should not investigate because Israel should be investigated by its own legal system which legalized: confiscation of dead bodies; denial of family visits; apartheid planning; deportation; use of white phosphorous; apartheid wall; starvation 2/2.
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The Israeli military is trying to create a 3km “buffer zone” along the border with Lebanon by detonating dozens of villages while depopulating them.
The demolitions clearing Israel’s ‘first belt’ in Lebanon
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They are mocking the world. They put annihilation on pause for a quick WHO mission, then they bombarded the hospital (including the neonatal unit) two seconds after the end of the mission.
Shortly after the @WHO-led mission to Kamal Adwan Hospital yesterday, the facility's third floor was reportedly hit again, injuring six children who are patients there. One child sustained a critical injury. Water tanks were damaged. Heavy bombardment persisted very close to the
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The Israeli military crystal clearly affirming that Gaza journalists who are documenting its annihilation war are legitimate military targets. “Nukhba” has become a synonym for killable and torturable civilians.
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The Israeli army has occupied Kamal Adwan Hospital, expelling doctors and patients. The complete destruction of Palestinian healthcare to depopulate and colonise northern Gaza.
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The World Health Organization has finally been allowed to visit al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza and it found an “empty shell with human graves”. The healthcare spaces turned into killing fields.
.@WHO and partners managed to reach Al-Shifa — once the backbone of the health system in #Gaza, which is now an empty shell with human graves after the latest siege. The team witnessed at least five dead bodies during the mission. Most of the buildings in the hospital complex
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Today Palestinians in West Gaza were waiting for the delivery of food and humanitarian aids when the Israeli military opened fire against them. Starving a population and trying to kill them when they look for means of survival.
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The IHRA definition of antisemitism is weaponised to silence critical conversations on Palestine. Guess who my university has excluded from the “task and finish group” that will discuss the vicious repercussions of the definition? Palestinian staff and scholars of Palestine 🤦♂️.
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Settler pogroms have resulted into the expulsion of 18 communities since October, new colonial outposts built. The genocide in Gaza has reinforced the elimination ethos in the West Bank, where more than 500 Palestinians have been killed in the last 7 months.
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University of Edinburgh students occupying key building to put pressure on the administration to divest from genocide (ICJ) in Palestine. The Uni should immediately stop investing in the largest shareholders in companies which produce weapons for the Israeli army (ie. Blackrock)
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Ooops. We published a legal article in support of colonial dispossession.
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“There’s no place for violence in American political culture,” said the state which is shipping these heavy ammunitions to a settler colonial state that uses them to eliminate genocide survivors in their tents. (Video:Mawasi “humanitarian area” yesterday)
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The largest settler colonial land theft and annexation in the last thirty years.
Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has announced the annexation of over 24,000 dunams of Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank in favor of expanding Israeli settlements.
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I am not sure how many other countries have designated through parliamentary law a UN agency as a “terrorist organization” and thus a legitimate military target. This is also the agency that keeps Gaza survivors alive, so genocidal intent is being inscribed in national law.
Breaking | The Knesset approves the classification of UNRWA as a "terrorist organization" in a first reading of the proposed law.
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While starving Gaza, destroying part of its population, and eradicating its medical infrastructures, Israel is blocking the following items: “oxygen cylinders, gas-powered generators, tents and medical kits used in delivering babies.”
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94 academics killed in the Gaza Strip. All universities destroyed or damaged. 4,327 students killed and 7,819 others injured. 231 teachers and administrators killed. 281 state-run schools and 65 UNRWA-run schools completely or partially destroyed.
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He is not examining the plan. He is implementing it. Humanitarian aid already sealed off for almost 2 weeks. No access to food, water, healthcare. 400,000 Palestinians are under expulsion order and caged under heavy fire. Hundreds killed in few days.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is examining a plan to seal off humanitarian aid to northern Gaza in an attempt to starve out Hamas militants, a plan that could trap hundreds of thousands of Palestinians without food or water.
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The Israeli navy bombarding this morning the tents of displaced Palestinians in the “humanitarian zone” of al-Mawasi.
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The Israeli army hiding in an ambulance to carry out an operation in Balata refugee camp, Nablus. The same army that destroyed Gaza’s hospitals based on the fabricated accusation that they are a network of military command centres.
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This is what the Israeli military did to the medical staff of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza as part of its total depopulation plan.
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This is the Israeli army Chief of Staff yesterday. Translation: “we do not have a political objective we are bombarding again areas we have already destroyed without destroying the Palestinian resistance.” No military/political victory. It’s massacring for the sake of massacring
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In spite of everything, of all the horrors, annihilation, and uprooting, a Palestinian Dabke group stomps the ground in a school hosting displaced people in Gaza.
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Tortured to death. His hospital turned into a mass grave. Nothing to disclose, the details are well known.
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Entire Lebanese border villages are being detonated and pulverised as part of the Israeli military’s policy of total depopulation. This is a strategy of irreversible transformation, whose ultimate aim is full occupation and annexation.
Israel is bombing more and more houses everyday in the border town of Meis al Jabal south Lebanon
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For Netanyahu's Finance Minister it is legitimate and moral to kill 2 million Palestinians in Gaza by starving them
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In an investigation based on interviews with more than 100 Israeli soldiers and officers, the New York Times confirms what we all knew: in Gaza Israel has adopted an understanding of the laws of war that cancels the category of civilian to serve its war of annihilation.
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Pulverised. Genocidal fury. The buildings of al-Shifa medical complex and surrounding areas in Gaza after the withdrawal of the Israeli troops this morning. Hundreds of Palestinians executed, tortured, injured. Patients. Doctors. Displaced people.
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Pinocchio is back, this time in southern Lebanon, explaining that “every house is a terror base” hence the entirety of the Lebanese population is a legitimate military target. The Gaza doctrine traveling to Lebanon.
Follow IDF spokesperson RAdm. Daniel Hagari inside a Hezbollah terrorist stronghold in southern Lebanon.
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There were 85 cases in the same period last year. The effects of the complete obliteration of conditions of life.
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They sniped Palestinian doctors in the only intensive care unit remaining in northern Gaza. Imagine what is in the snipers’ and their commanders’ mind.
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“Never in post-war history had a population been made to go hungry so quickly and so completely as was the case for the 2.3 million Palestinians living in Gaza.” UN Special Rapporteur right to food @MichaelFakhri on Israel’s starvation policies
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Settler colonial violence in one picture. Escorted by soldiers, yesterday thousands of Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians and their properties in Hebron while raiding the city centre to celebrate Shabbat Chayei Sarah.
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According to the IHRA definition of antisemitism, Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt and other prominent Jewish figures who after the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine sent this letter to the NYT speaking of Jewish fascism and nazism (cit) should be labelled as dangerous antisemites
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There is going to be a lot of this in scholarly journals in coming years: since the Israeli army, Kirby, and Spencer (West Point, hand and glove with IOF) say that IOF used precautions and 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza are shields, genocide is legal. This is the result of 1/
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