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Blog Entry 2025-MAR-30
WAR CRIMES and CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY: Denial of Care, deadly forced evacuations, destruction of medical facilities — Israeli military forces caused deaths and unnecessary suffering of Palestinian patients while occupying hospitals in the Gaza Strip during the current hostilities, amounting to war crimes, Human Rights Watch said on March-30th. Witnesses at three hospitals told Human Rights Watch that ISR forces denied electricity, water, food, and medicines to patients; shot civilians; mistreated health workers; and deliberately destroyed medical facilities and equipment. Unlawful forced evacuations put patients at grave risk and left desperately needed hospitals nonfunctional.
REPORT HRW (Human Rights Watch)
Blog Entry 2025-MAR-12
On 12 March 2025, four independent experts appointed by the Human Rights Council spoke to the press at the United Nations Office at Geneva on the human rights situation across the occupied Palestinian territory. • Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967 (remote participation) • Ben Saul, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism (in-person) • Margaret Satterthwaite, Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers (remote participation) • Michael Fakhri, Special Rapporteur on the right to food (in-person)
Blog Entry 2025-MAR-10
Israel and the occupied territories: ICRC warns of worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza — DIRECT LINK ICRC
Blog Entry 2025-MAR-03
DOCUMENTATION: Killings Beatings and Prohibited Access – Israeli Systematic Denial of Palestinian Farmers From their Land during the 2024 Olive Harvest Season — DIRECT LINK AL-HAQ
Blog Entry 2025-MAR-01
From Gaza to the West Bank: The Expanding Genocide, the Eradication of Palestine Cause, and the Defiance of International Justice — DIRECT LINK LAW4PALESTINE
Jurists for Palestine Forum – Season 3 (Panel 3)
Palestinian Territory, FEB-26 2025 – The Israeli Defence Minister has ordered the army to take control of three Palestinian refugee camps in the northern West Bank and block residents’ return. Euro-Med Monitor strongly condemns the move, which reveals a serious escalation of Israel’s apartheid and forced displacement practices against the Palestinian people, beginning with the 1948 Nakba. Statement: DIRECT LINK EURO-MED MONITOR
Children Of Gaza 2024
Photo credit: AFP, Al Mayadeen, Al Jazeera, private 2024
Blog Entry 2024-MAR-30
‘Scholasticide’: How Israel is systematically destroying Palestinian education in Gaza
There is ‘total annihilation of Palestinian education’ in Gaza, says Abdel Razzaq Takriti of Scholars Against the War on Palestine
Blog Entry 2024-MAR-18
Since the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, Israel has stepped up its efforts to drive dozens of Palestinian shepherding communities in the northern Jordan Valley out of their homes and lands. Through cooperation and collaboration among the military, police, settlers and the Jordan Valley Regional Council, Israel has reduced grazing areas available to Palestinians, blocked regular water supply and took measures to isolate the Jordan Valley from the rest of the West Bank. Read more: ORIGINAL SOURCE: B’TSELEM
What lies ahead?
After more than fifty years, it is impossible to continue viewing the occupation as a temporary situation.
The half century that has gone by, Israel’s conduct, and the official positions expressed openly by increasing numbers of Israeli leaders, all come together to make Israel’s goals clear: promoting Israeli interests and establishing ever more facts on the ground, while seeking to minimize the cost this ought to exact in the international arena; taking over ever more land and developing settlements while continuing to drive out and dispossess the Palestinians; continuing to control millions of Palestinian subjects bereft of rights, while maintaining democratic appearances; and weakening the resistance – in Palestine, Israel and around the world – to a continued state of occupation.
Given this state of affairs, the implications of standing idly by are well understood. What is now needed is not just more words and analysis. What is needed is decisive action to end international cooperation with Israel’s policy, in pursuit of ending the occupation and ushering in a future based on the realization of human rights, including political rights, for all people living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
The project Conquer and Devide is the result of a collaboration between B’Tselem and Forensic Architecture (2018)
The War on Civilians: Crimes Against Humanity
++ The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor confirmed that Israeli tanks deliberately ran over dozens of Palestinians alive in the Gaza Strip ++ Land-grabbing strategy will never achieve peace, says Nadia Nasser-Najjab ++ Children die of hunger in northern Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital ++ UN Palestinian refugee agency: Gaza war has recorded a higher number of deaths for aid workers and journalists than any other conflict ++ General director at Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says ‘nowhere in Gaza is safe’, calls for ceasefire ++
Israel Not Complying with World Court Order in Genocide Case
“The Israeli government has simply ignored the court’s ruling, and in some ways even intensified its repression, including further blocking lifesaving aid.”
Information first hand Links
Humanitarian Law & Policy BLOG of the ICRC
International Commitee of the Red Cross
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Onewater: As news broke about the Hamas attack in Israel and the ongoing counterattacks by Israel, many parallel reports quickly unfurled about terrorism, colonization, politics, religion, and human rights. Weaving its way through all of these is a story that those of us in the water world were ready for, a story of weaponizing water. DIRECT LINK ONEWATER
Over a century, what began as a small girls’ school in Birzeit town has become the most prestigious Palestinian university, transforming Palestinian higher education through its impact on community awareness, culture and resistance. Birzeit University has been a thorn in the side of the occupation, insisting on playing its role of enlightenment and creating a multicultural Palestinian society on the campus grounds. DIRECT LINK BIRZEIT UNIVERSITY
Forensic Architecture (FA) is a research agency based at Goldsmiths, University of London. Their mandate is to develop, employ, and disseminate new techniques, methods, and concepts for investigating state and corporate violence. The team includes architects, software developers, filmmakers, investigative journalists, scientists, and lawyers. HOMEPAGE
B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories strives for a future in which human rights, liberty and equality are guaranteed to all people, Palestinian and Jewish alike, living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. Such a future will only be possible when the Israeli occupation and apartheid regime end. HOMEPAGE B’TSELEM
Palestine Studies: Israel Destroys Palestinian Cultural Heritage Sites in Gaza – Nearly 30,000 people have been killed, with over 70,000 injured and more than 1.7 million displaced. Civilian infrastructure, including residential and public buildings, hospitals, schools, universities, mosques, and churches have been intentionally targeted. DIRECT LINK PALESTINE STUDIES
Gaza Strip: Damage assessment
UNESCO is conducting a preliminary damage assessment for cultural properties through remote monitoring based on satellite imagery and analysis provided by UNITAR/UNOSAT, as on-the-ground assessments are impossible in the current situation. HOMEPAGE UNESCO
OCHA: Hostilities in Gaza and Israel are ongoing, and violence in the West Bank has surged. Millions of Palestinians struggle to live with dignity under Israeli occupation, facing coercive practices and Palestinian political divisions. DIRECT LINK OCHA – United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Geology – Offshore Gaza: gas in deep-water sedimentary reservoir rocks as another element in the conflict – Analysis by Ramon Lopez for EGU GEOLOG: The control of gas resources adds complexity to the Israel-Palestine conflict. Israel’s gas power, fuelled by discoveries like Tamar and Leviathan, contrasts with Gaza’s challenges. The occupation hinders Palestinian development in the Gaza Marine area, forcing reliance on imported energy. DIRECT LINK GEOLOG
Every-Day Heroes Section
“Millions march for Palestine”: International day of action called for March-02 2024 People around the world will take to the streets for Palestine on March 2 in a day of action called by an international coalition which includes the Palestinian Youth Movement, the International Peoples’ Assembly, Progressive International, ALBA Movimientos, Pan Africanism Today, La Via Campesina, World March of Women – Latin America, the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas, and the International League of People’s Struggle. Full article on Peoples Dispatch: READ PRIME SOURCE
Gaza: His job is to tell their story. Now their pain is his story too. For people caught inside a crisis, even the near future is extremely uncertain. People live each day, each minute, not knowing whether they will make it to the next. Often that’s also the case for people whose job is to help and protect others.
DIRECT LINK IFRC
Crisis report & Journalism
Leaders of more than 30 news organizations around the world, including the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, and Reuters, have joined an open letter on Thursday affirming that they “stand united with Palestinian journalists in their call for safety, protection, and the freedom to report.”
The letter, coordinated by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) with the support of the World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), emphasizes the perilous environment for members of the press covering the Israel-Gaza war, the deadliest conflict for journalists ever documented by CPJ.
Despite the risks, the journalists continue to try to keep the spotlight on the suffering of Palestinian civilians.
Like everyone now in the Gaza Strip, photojournalist Mohammed Zaanoun, journalist Maha Hussaini, and journalist Mohamed Soulaimane have been living breath by breath, in fear of what might fall from the sky, but they continue to send photographs and video and audio clips to keep the spotlight on what people there are experiencing.
Back in December, a group of UN-backed international experts warned that there was a risk of famine in Gaza, with 90% of the population facing acute levels of food insecurity. Now, young children have reportedly begun to die due to malnutrition. Last month, the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to enable the provision of humanitarian assistance to the enclave, which has been under total Israeli siege since 7 October. Since the order, however, the already limited amount of aid entering the enclave has dropped by half. As journalist Maha Hussaini reports, the situation is worst in the north, where hundreds of thousands of people who stayed behind after Israel’s evacuation orders in October are on the brink of starvation.
Prime source: The New Humanitarian 2024
Armed with a camera in Gaza: Who is Yaser Murtaja?
Middle East Monitor interviewed fallen Palestinian journalist Yaser Murtaja before he was killed. His colleagues at Ain Media worked with MEMO’s Jehan Alfarra to complete the feature in tribute to him and all Palestinian journalists.
Read the full report on Middle East Monitor (MEMO) – prime source.
WWW FEEDS
PUBLIC NEWS – WEB FEEDS AND VIDEOS
Aina J Khan (Prime source: MEE UK)
Arts, Literature and music
Film trailer- Palestine Film Festival 2023 published by ICA London (Institute for Contemporary Arts)
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