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<<In the
Gaza Strip, four generations wiped out in seconds...
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October 10- 8, 2024
Food for thought?
Well, any word you'll read below
unveils more proof of netanjahus' never-ending lust for
genociding anyone not agreeing with him |
October 5 - 3, 2024
"The US's
lack of response on the humanitarian conditions for
Palestinians is not only ineffective and
counterproductive, but we are also being
accused of being complicit to potential war crimes by
remaining silent on Israel's actions against civilians,"
..., Bill Russo, usa state dept..
Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, a trauma and critical care surgeon. "Our
bombs are cutting down women and children by the
thousands. Their mutilated bodies are a monument to
cruelty."
"The best medicine is peace." Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,
Director-General of the World Health Organization
Rawya Islim of Gaza: "We will struggle to survive"...
and more actual fact-finding
news
Click here to go throughout
September
and earler, 2024
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When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi
figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da
qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so
called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali.
Al Jazeera - October 12, 2024
<<Israeli strike on northern Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp kills 22
Thousands trapped as Israeli military issues evacuation orders for
residents to move towards the south of the enclave. At least 22 people,
including women and children, have been killed in an Israeli attack on
the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza as Israeli forces press on
with their ground assault in the area. As the death toll mounted on
Saturday, the Israeli military issued evacuation orders for northern
Gaza with instructions for residents near Jabalia to evacuate to the
south of the enclave. The Israel military launched a deadly offensive in
the Jabalia area a week ago which it claims is aimed at stopping
Palestinian group Hamas from regrouping. The attacks have trapped
thousands of Palestinian civilians, international charity Doctors
Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, said. Hamas on
Saturday slammed the Israeli army and said its "massacres are a
continuation of the ongoing criminal genocide against our people,
shielded by American support". The attack that wounded more than 90
people was an attempt to "punish the population for their resilience and
rejection of displacement", the group said in a statement. Palestinian
news agency Wafa reported on Saturday that Israeli fighter jets bombed a
multistorey apartment block in Jabalia on Friday night, hitting four
inhabited homes and killing 22 people. At least 30 people were injured,
and 14 people remain missing and are believed to be buried under the
rubble, according to Wafa.
Reporting from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, Al Jazeera's Hani Mahmoud
said that "powerful explosions were heard in the northern part of the
Gaza Strip", adding that many of the casualties were "arriving at the
hospital either in pieces or soaked in blood". The Kamal Adwan Hospital
in the north was perilously close to running out of fuel and staff said
Israeli soldiers had ordered them to leave. Reporting from the facility,
Al Jazeera's Moath al-Kahlout described the weeklong siege as
"suffocating". The situation is "dire", he reported, as the hospital has
also been ordered by the Israeli military to cease operations. But he
said it continues to treat patients ranging from those severely injured
to newborns.
Food supplies running out
The World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Saturday that the escalating
violence in northern Gaza was "having a disastrous impact on food
security for thousands of Palestinian families". No food aid has entered
since October 1, the United Nations agency said, noting that the main
crossings into the north have been closed. Food distribution points,
kitchens and bakeries have been forced to shut down because of air
strikes, military ground operations and evacuation orders, it said.
Palestinians fleeing Jabalia
"The north is basically cut off and we’re not able to operate there,"
said Antoine Renard, WFP country director for Palestine, adding that
"safe and sustained access, it is virtually impossible to reach the
people in need". WFP said its last remaining supplies in the north -
including canned food, wheat flour, high-energy biscuits, and nutrition
supplements - have been distributed to shelters, health facilities and
kitchens in Gaza City and three shelters. "If the conflict continues to
escalate at the current scale, it is unclear how long these limited food
supplies will last and the consequences for fleeing families will be
dire." In Gaza City, at least three people were killed and several more
injured after a separate strike hit a home in the Tuffah neighbourhood,
according to Palestine Red Crescent Society paramedics. Ibrahim Abu Rish,
a member of the Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza, told Al Jazeera that
its teams were still engaged in rescue operations and were looking for a
missing girl. "The civil defence teams promptly headed to this location
and transported more than 15 injured individuals, including children,
women and elderly, during the night, to the Baptist Hospital," he said.
New evacuation order
The Israeli military posted a map of northern Gaza on social media
platform X on Saturday with instructions for residents in the vicinity
of Jabalia to leave. <The area must be evacuated immediately via [Salah
al-Din Street] to the humanitarian area,> the post said, referring to
so-called Israeli-designated humanitarian safe zones between al-Mawasi
and Deir el-Balah. The <humanitarian area>, already populated by
overcrowded tent camps housing about one million displaced Palestinians,
has been repeatedly attacked by the Israeli military. But Palestinians,
especially those in the northern parts of the enclave, are refusing to
leave their homes, said Al Jazeera's Hind Khoudary, reporting from Deir
el-Balah. "This is not the first ground operation of the Israeli army in
Jabalia. Palestinians say they prefer dying in their homes because they
believe that there is no place safe across the Gaza Strip, so even if
they evacuate they might get killed on the way," she reported. Amid the
evacuation order, MSF project coordinator Sarah Vuylsteke wrote on X
that "nobody is allowed to get in or out" from within Jabalia itself,
adding that “anyone who tries is getting shot”.
Five MSF staff were trapped in Jabalia, she said. Earlier, MSF
criticised Israel's efforts to "forcefully and violently push thousands
of people from northern Gaza to the south". Meanwhile, Gaza-based Al
Jazeera Arabic correspondent Anas al-Sharif wrote on X in the early
hours of Saturday that the condition of Al Jazeera cameraman Fadi al-Wahidi
has "deteriorated seriously". On Wednesday, al-Wahidi was struck with a
live round to his neck while he was covering the Israeli assault on
Jabalia. His colleague Ali al-Attar was also shot and wounded while
covering the condition of displaced Palestinians in Deir el-Balah. Much
of Gaza has been laid to waste since Israel launched its war on the
Palestinian territory in the wake of the Hamas-led attack on southern
Israel on October 7, 2023.
Gaza's Ministry of Health said on Saturday that at least 42,175 people
have been killed and 98,336 wounded in Israeli attacks since October
2023.
The toll includes 49 dead and 219 injured in the previous 24 hours,
according to the ministry.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES>>
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/12/several-killed-in-israeli-strikes-on-northern-gazas-jabalia
France 24 - Oct 11, 2024 - By: NEWS WIRES
<<Western leaders urge Israel to stop harming UN peacekeepers in Lebanon
France's president Emmanuel Macron was among world leaders who condemned
Israel after UN troops in Lebanon were wounded by Israeli attacks for
the second day in a row. Lacron said the "deliberate" attacks were
"absolutely unacceptable". Western leaders urged Israel Friday to stop
harming UN peacekeepers in Lebanon after explosions wounded two of them
near the country's border. The Israeli military (IDF) said its forces on
Friday fired at a threat near a UN peacekeeping mission position. A
spokeswoman for the UNIFIL mission said two Sri Lankan peacekeepers were
hurt in the second such incident in two days.
Here is a roundup of reactions to Friday's incident.
(AFP)>>
Read it here:
Source:
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20241011-western-leaders-urge-israel-to-stop-harming-un-peacekeepers-in-lebanon
Le Monde - Oct 11, 2024
By Ghazal Golshiri (Istanbul, Turkey, special correspondent) and
Clothilde Mraffko (Jerusalem, correspondance)
<<In the Gaza Strip, four generations wiped out in seconds
Israeli bombings have decimated hundreds of families. With one or two
strikes, entire family lineages have been wiped out almost entirely,
from grandparents to great-grandchildren. Such is the case of the Salem
and Elian families, who lost 270 and 50 members respectively. Youssef
Salem arrived at the meeting carrying his computer. At the start of the
weekend, he had chosen a restaurant not far from his home, located in a
modest residential district in the west of Istanbul. "I like this cafe
because you can smoke hookah here," said the 34-year-old Palestinian.
Day after day since the beginning of the war, he had been recording the
names of his close and extended family members who have died in Gaza in
an Excel spreadsheet, along with the dates and circumstances of their
disappearance. To date, his list already contained 270 names, spread
over four generations. The oldest was 90, the youngest just a few months
old. "These were my uncles, my cousins, my aunts, their children and
grandchildren," explained Salem, in a surprisingly calm and detached
tone. "In Gaza, we're all very close. We grow up together. We marry each
other and we support each other." Before the war, the Salem clan
consisted of between 700 and 800 people. "A third of our extended family
was wiped out," said this man whose hair, despite his young age, was
already whitening. With his wife, Nejah, and their daughter, Ayloul, he
now lives in Istanbul, where he works for an NGO. The family left Gaza
in 2021. That year, in May, Israel waged an 11-day war against the
territory, killing over 250 Palestinians. It was the first major
conflict the young couple had experienced since the birth of their
daughter in 2019. "We told ourselves that it wasn't possible to raise
our child in the midst of one war after another. But the one happening
today is nothing like the ones we've experienced," observed Salem, a law
graduate from Al-Azhar University in Gaza.>>
Source:
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/10/11/in-the-gaza-strip-four-generations-wiped-out-in-seconds_6729106_4.html
Al Jazeera - October 11, 2024 - By
<<How has the world changed after a year of genocide in Gaza?
We explore the harrowing impact of Israel's genocide in Gaza the past
year and the world’s response to the ongoing massacre.>>
Read more and view video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-stream/2024/10/11/how-has-the-world-changed-after-a-year-of-genocide-in-gaza
Al Jazeera - October 11, 2024 - By Derek Leebaert Author, editor and
adviser to Episcopal Peace Fellowship
<<Israel's forgotten terror
Past US presidents had condemned and tried to reign in Israeli terror.
Time is overdue for the current administration to follow their examples.
The International Criminal Court's (ICJ) January finding of a "plausible
genocide" in Gaza, and subsequent ruling that Israel is responsible for
an apartheid system in the West Bank and East Jerusalem would not have
surprised former Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Johnson, Carter, or
indeed Reagan, who famously denounced Israel's 1982 levelling of West
Beirut to Prime Minister Menachem Begin as a "holocaust". Israel is the
only US ally that has been exercising such oppression and terror for a
lifetime. For many years, consecutive American administrations, both
Democratic and Republican, condemned Israel's recurring practice of
terror. Today, however, the Biden-Harris administration has been
supporting these practices to the extreme. Harry S Truman recognised
Israel in May 1948, yet once re-elected in November, wrote of his
"disgust" over how "the Jews are approaching the refugee problem". Then
his successor, Dwight Eisenhower, joined Winston Churchill, who'd
returned as the UK's prime minister, to censure Israel in the UN
Security Council in November 1953. Paratroopers under Colonel Ariel
Sharon, a future Israeli prime minister, had "shot every man, woman and
child they could find," in the Jordanian-controlled West Bank village of
Qibya, according to Time magazine, leaving 69 dead. Prime Minister
Ben-Gurion cried <anti-Semitism.> Eisenhower had Israel censured twice
more: In March 1955, after a self-described Israeli "terror unit" bombed
US consulate libraries in Cairo and Alexandria, seeking to blame Egypt,
followed by an attack on Egyptian-controlled Gaza that killed 38; and in
March 1956 over a so-called <retaliation> against Syria that killed 56
soldiers and civilians. "Upward of 2,700 Arab infiltrators, and perhaps
as many as 5,000, were killed by the [Israeli military], police, and
civilians along Israel’s borders between 1949 and 1956," writes Israeli
historian Benny Morris, "the vast majority of those killed were
unarmed." They were shepherds, farmers, Bedouins, and refugees.
Eisenhower was unpersuaded by Israeli ambassador Abba Eban's claims of
self-defence, and Israel would keep inflicting vastly asymmetric
episodes of terror for decades.
In October 1956, after killing some 49 civilians in the village of Kafir
Qasim near Tel Aviv, Israel invaded Egypt and immediately began
massacring refugees in Khan Younis and Rafah. Eisenhower responded by
declaring that the US would "apply sanctions" on Israel. When Israel
still refused to withdraw from Gaza and Sharm El Sheikh, the US
president threatened to block its access to US financial markets. The
Israeli retreat followed.
In November 1966, Lyndon Johnson once again put "the Palestine Question"
on the UN agenda to condemn Israel, this time after a massive attack on
Jordan involving more than 3,000 soldiers. "The Israelis have done a
great deal of damage to our interests and to their own," concluded his
National Security Adviser W W Rostow, adding that "they've wrecked a
good system of tacit cooperation." All-out war followed in 1967, after
which Israel occupied the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem. The
martial law imposed on the Arab population in Israel since the founding
of the state was lifted in 1966, but Jimmy Carter described the
conditions imposed on Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory
after the beginning of illegal Israeli settlement there as "apartheid".
With nothing resolved by 1982, Prime Minister Begin, a former Irgun
terrorist against British authorities, vowed to <destroy> the Palestine
Liberation Organization (PLO). He oversaw then-Defence Minister Ariel
Sharon's killing of some 18,000 Palestinians and Lebanese,
overwhelmingly civilians, in Beirut. Belatedly, Reagan stopped the
slaughter with a phone call, given Israel's dependence. It was then that
he described the Israeli onslaught as a "holocaust". Despite using a
word with such weight, however, the White House did not demand the UN
censure Israel. The US had not attempted to sanction Israel even over
its illegal settlements which spawned from the 1967 war. Israeli
Ambassador to the US Michael Oren explained why in his 2007 book, Power,
Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East 1776 to the Present. In
the mid-1970s, he wrote, Israel's supporters began to achieve <the
financial and political clout necessary to sway congressional opinion> -
meaning that they had acquired enough power to impede US official
opposition to Israel at the UN or elsewhere. Ever since, Israel has
taken US backing for granted, no matter the record of wildly
disproportionate atrocities. In 1991, Israeli Prime Minister Itzhak
Shamir, who had approved the murder of UN negotiator Folke Bernadotte,
tried to explain why terrorism was <acceptable> for Jews, but not Arabs:
Palestinians are <fighting for land that is not theirs. This is the land
of the people of Israel.> Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel was
distinct. It was the only time that Palestinian resistance groups were
able to react to decades of Israeli terror on a similar scale. In
response to the attack, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu simply
doubled down on Israel's recurring massacre-making, now backed by
starvation and disease. The US administration took no meaningful action
to stop <plausible genocide.> At this time, Israel has also become the
only entity in the world that Washington allows to kill US citizens with
impunity. The ever-growing list from the West Bank includes Aysenur Ezgi
Eygi, Mohammad Khdour, and Shireen Abu Akleh - each killed with a shot
to the head. No sanctions or renditions followed their deaths. The White
House simply suggested the sniper-killings were "not acceptable" and
asked Israel to "investigate" itself. The issue was swiftly dismissed.
As Gaza's torment enters its second year, Israel's killing has reached
unprecedented levels in the West Bank, and Lebanon once again becomes a
target of Israel's self-described retaliation. More is needed from
Israel's patron than mutterings to perhaps halt some arms shipments.
Washington should not only stop upholding Israeli brutality, which
includes apartheid but, like the UK, it can support the pending
International Criminal Court indictments which are to, finally, include
an Israeli prime minister. Past US presidents had tried to reign in
Israeli behaviour of the sort that statesman Abba Eban came to describe,
during Israel's previous bombing of Beirut, as "wantonly inflicting
every possible measure of death and anguish on civilian populations."
Time is overdue for Washington's decisionmakers to follow those
presidents' examples, and to rescind diplomatic protection as well as
weapons exports for Israel.
The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not
necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial stance.>>
Source:
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/10/11/israels-forgotten-terror
health services???
Jinha - Womens News Agency - Oct. 11 , 2024
<<'North Gaza has barely any health services left'
Two WHO missions to northern Gaza were denied or impeded on Thursday,
the World Health Organization announced on Thursday, stressing that
North Gaza has barely "any health services left".
News Center- Since Israel started a war in the Gaza Strip on October 7,
2023, Israeli attacks have targeted women and children, forcing them to
be displaced multiple times. At least 400,000 people are trapped in the
area, Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General of the United Nations
Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA),
said Wednesday in a post on X. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,
Director-General of the World Health Organization, announced in a post
on X that two WHO missions to northern Gaza were denied or impeded on
Thursday.
In the post, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said:
We urge Israel to:
- Stop evacuation orders, and protect hospitals. North Gaza has barely
any health services left.
- Facilitate humanitarian missions. Lives depend on it.
- Work towards a ceasefire. All people trapped in this conflict need
peace.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/north-gaza-has-barely-any-health-services-left-35807?page=1
Al Jazeera - October 11, 2024 - By Al Jazeera Staff
<<Prominent Palestinian activist slams US sanctions as 'madness'
Majed al-Zeer says the US claim that he is a Hamas representative in
Europe is an attempt to discourage his activism. A prominent
Europe-based Palestinian activist has slammed the United States for
issuing sanctions against him, dismissing the measure as an attempt to
discourage him "from continuing my work for Palestine and advocating for
my people's rights". Majed al-Zeer, a dual British and Jordanian
national, also rejected the accusations cited in the sanctions as
"absolutely false". "It is madness," he told Al Jazeera on Thursday. "It
affects my life socially, my career, for the sake of accusation. There
is no proof whatsoever." Al-Zeer explained that he learned about the
sanctions earlier this week through media reports. On Monday, the US
Department of the Treasury identified al-Zeer as one of three
individuals sanctioned for alleged ties to the Palestinian group Hamas,
which it called a <terrorist> organisation. The Treasury accused al-Zeer,
who lives in the UK and Germany, of being a "senior Hamas
representative" who played "a central role in the terrorist group's
European fundraising". But al-Zeer, the chairman of the
European-Palestinian Council for Political Relations, refuted that
accusation in a press release on Thursday. Speaking to Al Jazeera
afterwards, he explained he never engaged in any financial activities
during his years of activism in Europe, including when he served as
president of the Palestinian Return Centre, a UK-based advocacy group.
"Israel just doesn't want any activists to work for the sake of
Palestine. That's the whole story," he said.
A reflection of US-Israel relations?
For al-Zeer, the US's decision is a reflection of its "broader
alignment" with Israel. The US has been a steadfast ally of Israel ever
since the country was founded in 1948. That support has continued
despite Israel’s current war in Gaza, which has prompted concerns about
civilian casualties and human rights abuses. "I am deeply perplexed by
the approach taken to reach and announce this decision by a country that
supposedly prides itself on legal integrity," al-Zeer said in his press
release. The sanctions were announced on October 7, the anniversary of
Hamas's attack on southern Israel, which killed an estimated 1,139
people. Israel's response in Gaza, meanwhile, has killed nearly 42,000
Palestinians in the year since. <As we mark one year since Hamas's
brutal terrorist attack, [the] Treasury will continue relentlessly
degrading the ability of Hamas and other destabilising Iranian proxies
to finance their operations and carry out additional violent acts,>
Treasury Secretary Janet L Yellen said in a statement. Al-Zeer was
sanctioned along with three other individuals and nine businesses that
the US Treasury claimed <play critical roles in external fundraising for
Hamas, often under the guise of charitable work>. The two other
designated individuals are based in Italy and Austria, where they are
involved with Palestinian advocacy groups. The Treasury Department also
designated a former Yemeni politician living in Turkey and his
businesses.
'Laughable' evidence
The sanctions effectively freeze the four men’s assets in the US and
prevents people in the US from doing business with them. <The Treasury
Department will use all available tools at our disposal to hold Hamas
and its enablers accountable, including those who seek to exploit the
situation to secure additional sources of revenue,> Yellen said. The US
has announced several rounds of sanctions targeting financial support
for Hamas. It has also sanctioned a handful of Israeli settlers and
groups supporting illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian
territories. Monday's sanctions were not the first time al-Zeer was
accused of being a Hamas operative. In 2019, he won a legal case after
World-Check, an influential customer-screening database used by banks,
categorised him as linked to <terrorism>. Al-Zeer said the US sanctions
cited a photograph that showed him with the late Hamas leader Ismail
Haniyeh, whom Israel assassinated in Iran earlier this year. But he
argued the photograph was taken as part of a larger delegations with
several European representatives, including British Labour leader Sir
Gerald Kaufman. "It is almost laughable," he said of the evidence. He
pledged to combat the accusations. "I have already begun, with the
support of a legal team, the necessary legal procedures to challenge
these baseless allegations and defend my rights."
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA>>
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/11/prominent-palestinian-activist-slams-us-sanctions-as-madness
Al Jazeera - October 10, 2024 - By
<<Dozens killed in Israeli strikes on the displaced in Gaza
An Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza's Deir el-Balah has
killed at least 28 people. Horrific footage has also emerged from a
separate Israeli strike on the al-Remal medical clinic in northern
Gaza.>>
View video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/10/10/dozens-killed-in-israeli-strikes-on-the-displaced-in-gaza
France 24 - Oct 10, 2024 - PERSPECTIVE By: Stuart Norval
<<HRW slams 'war crime' as Israel accused of mistreating Palestinian
prisoners
Amnesty International says there have been horrifying cases of torture
and degrading treatment of Palestinian detainees, with a failure to
investigate incidents in custody. Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch says
Israeli forces have published degrading photographs and videos of
detained Palestinians, including children. To discuss these serious
accusations about the treatment of Palestinian prisoners, we spoke to
Ahmed Benchemsi, Advocacy and Communications Director for the Middle
East at Human Rights Watch.>>
View video here:
https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/perspective/20241010-hrw-slams-war-crime-as-israel-accused-of-mistreating-palestinian-prisoners
France 24 - Oct 10, 2024 - By: NEWS WIRES
<<'Relentless, deliberate' attacks by Israel destroying Gaza's
healthcare, say UN experts
A UN report said that Israel's targeted and "wanton destruction" in Gaza
was destroying the healthcare system in the Palestinian enclave. The
report found evidence that both Palestinian prisoners and Israeli
hostages have been tortured and sexually abused. A U.N. commission on
Thursday accused Israel of destroying Gaza's health care system through
"relentless and deliberate attacks" in its yearlong war with Hamas and
said that Palestinian prisoners and Israeli hostages have been tortured
and sexually abused. The expert panel was commissioned in 2021 by the
U.N.-backed Human Rights Council to look into rights violations and
abuses in Israel and the Palestinian areas it controls. Led by Navi
Pillay, a former U.N. human rights chief, the panel members are
independent experts and do not speak for the world body. There was no
immediate comment from Israel, which has long accused the U.N. of being
biased against it and has not cooperated with the commission. Israeli
forces have raided hospitals in Gaza on several occasions, accusing
militants of sheltering there. Palestinian medical officials have denied
such allegations and accused Israel of recklessly endangering civilians.
Hospitals can lose their protection under international law if they are
used for military purposes. The report accused Israel of deliberately
killing, detaining and torturing Palestinian medical staff, of targeting
their vehicles and of restricting permits for medical evacuations from
Gaza. It said those amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
"Israel must immediately stop its unprecedented wanton destruction of
health care facilities in Gaza," Pillay said in a statement. "By
targeting health care facilities, Israel is targeting the right to
health itself with significant long-term detrimental effects on the
civilian population." The commission said children have borne much of
the cost of such actions, pointing to attacks on medical facilities
offering pediatric and neonatal care. The panel also said it found that
thousands of adults and children detained in Gaza had been subjected to
"widespread and systematic abuse, physical and psychological violence,
and sexual and gender-based violence." It said Israeli security forces
had raped male detainees, attacked their genitals and forced them to
perform humiliating or strenuous acts while stripped naked. It said
children who had been detained had returned to Gaza unaccompanied and
deeply traumatized. The commission further said the abuse had been
institutionalized by Israel's far-right National Security Minister
Itamar Ben Gvir. He has boasted of making conditions in the country's
prisons as harsh as possible under Israeli law in what he says is an
attempt to deter militant attacks. Israel detained nine soldiers in July
over what their defense lawyer said were allegations of sexual abuse of
a detainee being held at a shadowy facility where detainees from Gaza
have been taken since the start of the war. The lawyer denied the
allegations, and their arrest sparked protests by Israeli hard-liners.
The commission also said that hostages held by Palestinian militants in
Gaza were subjected to physical and sexual violence, forced isolation
and threats, and given limited access to water, food and hygiene
facilities. It said Palestinian armed groups were also guilty of war
crimes and crimes against humanity, and called on them to immediately
release all the hostages.
Hamas-led militants stormed into Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing some
1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting around 250 others. They
are still holding around 100 captives, a third of whom are believed to
be dead.
Israel's offensive has killed over 42,000 Palestinians, according to
local health authorities, who do not say how many were fighters but say
women and children make up more than half of the fatalities. The war has
destroyed large areas of Gaza and displaced around 90% of its population
of 2.3 million people.
The International Court of Justice is investigating allegations that
Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, and the International Criminal
Court is considering arrest warrants against Israeli and Hamas leaders.
Israel has adamantly denied the accusations and says it abides by
international law.
(AP)>>
Source:
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20241010-relentless-deliberate-attacks-by-israel-destroying-gaza-s-healthcare-say-un-experts
Al Jazeera - October 10, 2024 - By
<<UN inquiry accuses Israel of crime of 'extermination' in Gaza
The inquiry found that Israel was committing 'war crimes and crimes
against humanity' in its deliberate attacks on hospitals.
United Nations investigators have accused Israel of deliberately
targeting Gaza's health facilities and killing medical personnel during
its war on the besieged enclave. A statement by ex-UN High Commissioner
for Human Rights Navi Pillay released on Thursday in advance of a full
report accused Israel of "committing war crimes and the crime against
humanity of extermination with relentless and deliberate attacks on
medical personnel and facilities" in its assault on Gaza, which it
launched after the Palestinian armed group Hamas led a deadly
cross-border attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023. "Children in
particular have borne the brunt of these attacks, suffering both
directly and indirectly from the collapse of the health system," said
Pillay, whose report will be presented to the UN General Assembly on
October 30. The Israeli government has routinely said that its attacks
on hospitals and schools in Gaza are to target members of Hamas and
other Palestinian armed groups. Hamas has denied it uses the locations
as command centres. The UN inquiry's statement also accused Israeli
forces of deliberately killing and torturing medical personnel,
targeting medical vehicles and restricting patients from leaving Gaza.
The Commission of Inquiry has a broad mandate to collect evidence and
identify suspected perpetrators of international crimes committed in
Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory. It bases its findings on
a range of sources including interviews with victims and witnesses,
submissions and satellite imagery. The COI has previously alleged that
both Israel and Hamas committed war crimes in the early stages of the
Gaza war, and that Israel's actions also constituted crimes against
humanity because of the immense civilian losses. The term is reserved
for the most serious international crimes knowingly committed as part of
a widespread or systematic attack against civilians.
Children deal with 'brunt' of attacks
Pillay called on Israel to "immediately stop" its "wanton destruction of
healthcare facilities in Gaza". "Children in particular have borne the
brunt of these attacks, suffering both directly and indirectly from the
collapse of the health system," Pillay added. The report cited the death
of a six-year-old Palestinian girl, Hind Rajab, who died, along with her
cousins, aunt and uncle, after pleading for help for hours. The COI
referred to Rajab's death as one of "the most egregious cases" of
Israeli attacks on the healthcare system.
'Systemic abuse' of detainees
Within Israeli military camps and detention centres, the report found
that thousands of Palestinians were subjected to "widespread and
systemic abuse, physical and psychological violence and sexual and
gender-based violence". It added that male detainees were subjected to
rape and attacks on their sexual organs. The COI said the "institutional
mistreatment" of Palestinians was under direct order from far-right
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. The statement also found
that many Israeli captives held in Gaza were subjected to "physical pain
and severe mental suffering" and called for the immediate and
unconditional release of those held in the enclave. Israel did not
cooperate with the inquiry after arguing it had an <anti-Israel> bias.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES>>
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/10/un-inquiry-accuses-israel-of-deliberately-hitting-gaza-health-facilities
Suheir Al-Yazji
Jinha - Womens News Agency - Oct. 10 , 2024 - by RAFIF ASLEEM
<<War in Gaza causes many women to lose their jobs
The ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has devastated the economy
in the enclave, causing many women to lose their jobs. Suheir Al-Yazji,
one of the women who lost their jobs, calls for an immediate ceasefire.
Gaza- Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023 have
killed more than 42,000 Palestinians and displaced millions. Palestinian
women struggling to survive have to bear more burden since the beginning
of the war. The women running small businesses in the Gaza Strip are
among those most affected people by this war. "Dozens of women,
including myself, have lost their businesses due to the ongoing
attacks," Suheir Al-Yazji told NuJINHA.
Attacks cause them to lose their jobs
Before Israel started its attacks on the Gaza Strip, women had faced
many obstacles in the labor market, she said. "The taxes taken by
municipalities and high prices of raw materials were only two obstacles
faced by women who started small businesses." The projects started by
Palestinian women included sewing, advertising, beauty salons, homemade
gifts and agriculture, Suheir al-Yazji said; "however, they lost their
jobs when the attacks started."
'All my efforts were in vain'
Suheir Al-Yazji got married when she was just 17. Then, she got a
divorce from her husband and decided to start a new life for herself.
She decided to sell clothes, a family business, to raise her children
and earn a living. After opening her small shop to sew and sell clothes,
she continued her high school education and then graduated from the
media department at a local university. "The war broke out in Gaza when
I started expanding my business. I had made great efforts to expand my
business for 14 years. However, all my efforts were in vain."
'The neighborhood was wiped off the map'
The shop of Suheir Al-Yazji was in Rimal, a neighborhood in Gaza City
located three kilometers from the city center. "The neighborhood was
wiped off the map by the Israeli forces. My house, workshop and shop
were completely destroyed." >>
Source incl. video:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/war-in-gaza-causes-many-women-to-lose-their-jobs-35802?page=1
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