Omar Shakir
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Israel and Palestine Director, Human Rights Watch ( @hrw ). Formerly @theccr & @slshumanrights .
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It's not just Gaza—Israeli forces are unlawfully killing Palestinians in the West Bank, including executing those who posed no apparent threat. Israel killed 2X more Palestinians in 2023 than in 18+ years & is on pace to kill more in 2024. New
@hrw
report🧵
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"If I die, remember that I, we, were individuals, humans, we had names, dreams and achievements and our only fault was that we were classified as inferior."
Powerful
@nytimes
ad published today
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Breaking:
@hrw
has confirmed—based on verified video & witness accounts—that Israel used white phosphorus in Gaza & Lebanon. White phosphorus causes excruciating burns—causing lifelong suffering—& can set homes afire. Its use in populated areas is unlawful
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In 10+ years as a human rights defender, I've been to morgues after mass killings & the cells of Guantanamo. Seen lots of anguish & cruelty. But the scenes I'm seeing of the aftermath of the strike on Al-Ahli Hospital have left me at a loss for words. Abject horror. THIS MUST END
The Gaza Health Ministry says an Israeli airstrike has killed at least 500 people at Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza City:
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This would amount to displacing 1 million+ Palestinians—displacement on a scale we have not seen since the Nakba. The international community must act to prevent a calamity. History will not be kind to those who remain silent.
SCOOP: Israel tells UN to evacuate the northern Gaza Strip within 24 hours. My story on
@axios
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30 Israeli orgs issue urgent warning: "Settlers.. exploiting lack of public attention to the West Bank..to escalate their campaign of violent attacks in an attempt to forcibly transfer Palestinians" 13 communities displaced since Oct 7. Israeli army often looks on. World must act
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This is a war crime
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A Meta-commissioned report finds that
@Facebook
/
@Instagram
censor social media posts by Palestinians & their allies, including on rights abuse, as Palestinians have long said &
@7amleh
,
@hrw
& others have documented.
@meta
should stop muzzling voices challenging Israeli apartheid
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Breaking:
@hrw
finds that Israeli authorities are committing crimes against humanity of apartheid & persecution. Thread w findings in 213pg report on Israel's rule of Palestinians. Time to recognize reality for what it is, find
#Courage2FightApartheid
1/27
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Dire warning from
@UNReliefChief
: "I fear that the worst is yet to come... The past week has been a test for humanity & humanity is failing."
World leaders must act to protect civilians from large scale atrocities before it's too late.
It’s been a dreadful week. Humanity must prevail.
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Israeli authorities are signaling their intent to commit mass atrocities. They must be stopped. A thread 1/10
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Israel rules millions of Palestinians under separate legal regime, holds 2000+ in admin detention w/o trial/charge, routinely tortures, & abuses kids in detention—part of its apartheid. My comments on the hostage/prisoners exchange on
@CNN
@wolfblitzer
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Breaking:
@hrw
report finds that Israeli forces apparently deliberately killed Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah in Lebanon on Oct 13. Those responsible for this apparent war crime should be held to account. Unprecedented
#s
of journalists have been killed since Oct 7—it must end
Israel: Strikes on Journalists in Lebanon Apparently Deliberate
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South Africa's Foreign Minister today in Parliament: "We're considering further measures to indicate our significant dismay at continued apartheid practices of Israel against long-suffering people of Palestine."
She knows something about apartheid. Listen
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Denied Entry by Israel:
Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Maguire
MIT Prof Noam Chomsky
UN Special Rapporteurs Richard Falk, Michael Lynk
Human rights lawyers
@ProfKFranke
,
@VinceWarren
@amnesty
,
@hrw
staff
You're in good company
@RashidaTlaib
&
@IlhanMN
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"There is no instance since the second world war in which an entire population has been reduced to extreme hunger and destitution with such speed. And there’s no case in which the international obligation to stop it has been so clear."
Unless Israel changes course, it could be legally culpable for mass starvation | Alex de Waal
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Israel held 1000s of Gaza laborers w/o charge in incommunicado detention for weeks after Oct 7, where some were stripped naked & photographed, put in diapers, attacked by dogs, dragged face down in gravel & cuffed for days. Many remain w/o legal status in West Bank. New from
@hrw
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Thanks
@IlhanMN
for raising Israel's deportation order against me. This isn't about me, her,
@RashidaTlaib
or the many others who Israel has denied entry, but its efforts to hide its systematic repression & discrimination of Palestinians & muzzle criticism. We won't be silenced.
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In a new United Nations report, UN Special Rapporteur
@MichaelLynk5
has concluded of Israeli rule over millions of Palestinians: “This is apartheid."
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Let’s be clear: Relatives of combatants that are not involved in the fighting are civilians. Even political leaders—if uninvolved in military ops—are not legitimate targets under laws of war. Deliberate attacks on civilians are heinous war crimes that have no justification. Ever.
Hamas chief Haniyeh confirms the killing of his sons Hazem, Amir, and Mohammad in an Israeli attack while visiting relatives for Eid at Shati Camp in northern Gaza.
🔴 LIVE updates:
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Reports coming out of south Israel are appalling—civilians shot en masse, homes set on fire, kids & older ppl taken as hostages. We're investigating. Nothing can justify such atrocities, nor can they justify committing atrocities in Gaza. New
@hrw
dispatch
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Breaking:
@hrw
calls for arms embargo on Israel, cutting arms to Palestinian armed groups. States risk complicity in grave abuses if they continue to provide arms amid atrocities. How many more civilians must be killed before the US & others pull the plug?
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Make no mistake: Israel killed Khader Adnan. He valiantly struggled against injustice—multiple months-long hunger strikes against administrative detention—until his last breath. He never enjoyed a minute of freedom but dies w his head raised high. His resilience wont be forgotten
Palestinian prisoner dies in Israeli detention after 86-day hunger strike
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Israel claims it made the desert bloom, but they're turning green agricultural land in Gaza into wasteland. Satellite imagery reviewed by
@hrw
show how Israel is systematically razing orchards, greenhouses & farmland—heightening concerns about starvation. A🧵w/ the stark imagery.
NEW: Satellite imagery reviewed by HRW shows that orchards, greenhouses and farmland in northern Gaza have been razed since the beginning of Israel’s ground invasion, compounding concerns of dire food insecurity and loss of livelihood. 1/14 🧵⤵️
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No electricity. No internet. No clean water. No aid. Bombs raining down. Closure. Occupation. Refugees for generations. Persecution. Apartheid.
Unfathomable what Palestinians of Gaza facing—& worst may be to come. My
@CNNSitRoom
interview w/
@wolfblitzer
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Wrong. Israel hasn't put forward evidence that justifies stripping alShifa of its protections, its warning is ineffective as there's no safe place to go in Gaza & hospitals cannot be free-fire zones. But bookmark that page
@EylonALevy
, lest you need it in a court of law one day.
Your daily reminder that Hamas HQ is located in the basement of the Shifa Hospital, and that under international law, this exposes it to lose its protected status and become a legitimate target.
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Front page of
@haaretzcom
, one of the most respected Israeli newspapers, tomorrow: powerful statement by 16 Israeli rights group in solidarity with
@hrw
. The human rights community will not be divided.
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Breaking:
@washingtonpost
investigation exposes massive Israeli facial recognition program—Blue Wolf—that matches exclusively Palestinian faces to database & flashes color-coded instructions on whether to detain them. "Facebook for Palestinians." Apartheid
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Ex Israeli negotiator Daniel Levy
@EP_ForeignAff
ystdy: "If Europe wants to be taken seriously as a normative actor standing for rules-based intl order.. it must act w consistency on a most egregious intl law violation—a regime of apartheid [that
@hrw
/
@amnesty
find] prevails" 1/2
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It’s not 2002 anymore,
@JoeBiden
. You’re on wrong side of history. Democratic Party is beginning to come to terms with the reality of apartheid & Israeli war crimes. Your fossilized position on Israel/Palestine will soon join those of your predecessor in the dustbin of history.
Today the President spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, reaffirmed his strong support for Israel’s right to defend itself against rocket attacks from Hamas and other terrorist groups in Gaza, and condemned these indiscriminate attacks against Israel.
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Israel has killed more Palestinians in the West Bank in last 6 weeks than in any full year since at least 2005 & put more in admin detention wo trial/charge than in 30+ years. Settler violence up 6X w hundreds displaced. My
@hrw
dispatch on escalating repression in the West Bank.
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For 2nd time,
@ColumbiaLaw
cancelled my talk in 30 mins—claiming that security approvals not raised before were required. But we'll hold this talk soon—as we did at Harvard, Yale, Stanford & elsewhere. Those suppressing discussion of Israeli apartheid are on wrong side of history
I'll be speaking (virtually) Monday at
@ColumbiaLaw
School on Israel's apartheid against Palestinians at an event organized by Students for Palestine. Seems this conversation is needed as badly as ever there. Register to join us in-person or virtually:
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Breaking: Ex UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon & UN Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson conclude visit to Israel/Palestine, highlighting the clear "ever-growing evidence" they found "that the situation meets the int'l legal definition of apartheid" (w/o any evidence to the contrary)
MEDIA RELEASE: Elders warn of consequences of “one-state reality” in Israel and Palestine.
Read here:
#Israel
#Palestine
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2000+ Palestinians held without trial or charge. Sham trials with 99%+ conviction rates. Torture. Routine abuse of kids. Apartheid. My
@latimes
explainer on Palestinian prisoners—"Why does Israel have so many Palestinians in detention & available to swap?"
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Breaking: UN Commission of Inquiry formed last May finds in its first report that Israel's "perpetual occupation," "persistent discrimination"/repression of Palestinians & impunity constitute "the underlying root cause" of the conflict
#EndIsraeliApartheid
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Breaking: Israel has ordered me deported after compiling 7-pg intel dossier on me. 1st time in
@hrw
history Israel orders official out. Year ago it denied work permit before reversing, accusing us of 'propaganda'. Now its BDS. Real aim to muzzle dissent.
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Doctor in Gaza: "Everywhere you go.. you see funerals, you see death, buildings collapsing. It's like you're watching a movie about the end of life.. Kids are crying & screaming, there's no electricity, there's no internet.. you feel you could be next"
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Israel’s 2-month+ denial of food/water to Gaza’s population, its destruction of objects indispensable to survival—bakeries, grain mills, water facilities—& razing of agricultural land reflect policy to use of starvation as a weapon of war, an abhorrent war crime. New
@hrw
report.
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With world's attention on Gaza, Israeli settlers & soldiers are literally wiping Palestinian communities off the map. Palestinians displaced from 20 communities—at least 7 entirely uprooted. Large areas of the West Bank depopulated of Palestinians in just months. New
@hrw
report.
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It's called collective punishment, which is war crime.
The Government of Israel has demolished the home of a Palestinian family in response to the actions of their 13-year-old child. An entire family should not lose their home because of the actions of one individual.
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Israel’s jailing of a child for 8 months - for calling for protests & slapping a soldier - reflects endemic discrimination, absence of due process & ill-treatment of kids. Ahed Tamimi is free, but 100s of Palestinian children remain locked up with little attention on their cases.
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On a ✈️ , so it’s official: Israel has expelled me over my
@hrw
advocacy, joining Syria, Egypt & Bahrain in barring me access. But we we won’t be silent- en route to brief six European govts in 8 days & address European Parliament on Israel’s systematic repression of Palestinians
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The
@IDF
published "evidence" it says of Hamas using Rantisi hospital for military purposes—including an alleged list of operatives shifts holding hostages (1:53). But that "list" is a calendar of days of the week in Arabic...
Special footage from the Rantisi hospital in Gaza - on the basement floor, a room was found with signs indicating hostages were held there, underground headquarters and a room full of weapons inside the hospital:
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"A 25 year-old Jewish resident of Israeli-only Beit El settlement can get vaccinated, but her 85 year-old Palestinian neighbor living across the street cannot... In a system of apartheid, we don’t get to choose our place in the ethnic hierarchy"
@saribashi
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Breaking:
@hrw
&
@amnesty
in joint statement deem Israel's move to effectively outlaw 6 Palestinian NGOs "an attack on the int'l human rights movement" & warn that intl community's response will be "true test of its resolve to protect rights defenders." We proudly stand with them
Israel DM, Benny Gantz, Classifies 6 Palestinian Institutions as "Terrorist Institutions": Addameer, AlHaq, the Defense for Children -Palestine branch, Union of Agricultural Work Committees, Bisan Center for Research and Development and Union of Palestinian Women Committees
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Breaking: 60 Israeli, Palestinian & global rights orgs— including
@btselem
,
@alhaq_org
,
@hrw
&
@aclu
—pen joint call on UNSG
@antonioguterres
to not adopt IHRA definition of antisemitism, which has been used to suppress criticism of Israel & advocacy for Palestinian rights.
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Killing 100 UN workers & blaming them for their own deaths at the UN… a depth of depravity that knows no bounds!
"Many
@UNRWA
workers in Gaza are themselves members of Hamas. The time has come to bust the myth of UN supplied facts"
The Israeli representative at the United Nations launches a tirade against the UN, UN agencies, UN workers and UN officials
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"You cant cut food, water, electricity that are vital for the lives of 2.3 million people who have been living in a blockade for 16 years. You cant wipe out entire innocent families, let a health system be destroyed, raze entire districts to the ground"
@HRW
's Executive Director
"When double standards are exposed, the motives of the EU are questioned, and its credibility is eroded."
@TiranaHassan
addresses
@EP_HumanRights
on Israel, Palestine, and international humanitarian law ⤵️
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Actually
@Israel
, it is you that literally "lives rent free" on millions of dunams of land stolen from Palestinians
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"We haven't seen this before. Humanity is facing a test of its underlying principles & the rules-based international order. We're failing & the ramifications will be felt for civilians far beyond Israel & Palestine."
My interview this hour with
@BeckyCNN
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Israel’s move to demolish the family homes of Palestinians who attacked Israelis is textbook collective punishment, a war crime. It's a basic tenet of law that one person shouldnt be punished for another’s crime.
@hrw
on the latest horrors in the West Bank
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Breaking: US federal court finds "undisputed evidence" that Israel's actions in Gaza "may plausibly constitute a genocide"—a siege intended "to eradicate a whole people"—& "implores" US gov "to examine the results of their unflagging support" for Israel. Biden admin put on notice
In the historic lawsuit brought by Palestinians against Biden, a U.S. federal court finds that Israel’s assault & siege on Gaza plausibly constitutes genocide and “implores” Biden admin to examine its unwavering support of Israel, determining it lacks power to resolve the case.
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Breaking: 5 UN Special Rapporteurs endorse recent UN report finding that Israeli authorities are committing apartheid & say that Israeli housing policies towards Palestinians "amount to racial segregation." There's consensus on Israel's apartheid within the human rights movement.
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Israeli settlers openly rampaged in Hawara because years of experience showed them that they do so without consequences. Nothing's more terrifying than knowing that people can do anything to you & get away with it. That's life for Palestinians living under Israel's apartheid
@hrw
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Israel vaccinating at world's fastest rate, yet excludes 4.5 mill Palestinians living under its control. In parts of West Bank, receipt of vaccine depends on if you're Jewish or Palestinian.
@hrw
on Israel's duty to provide vaccine to occupied Palestinians
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“As a proud Jew & someone who comes from a family of [Holocaust] survivors, I find the suggestion that following int'l law to make a designation of apartheid are somehow based on animus towards Jewish people to be insulting, inappropriate, irresponsible political behavior." 2/2
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“The team saw a mass grave at the entrance of the hospital and were told more than 80 people were buried there.”
@WHO
WHO leads very high-risk joint humanitarian mission to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza
18 November 2023 - Earlier today, a joint UN humanitarian assessment team, led by WHO accessed Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza to assess the situation on the ground and conduct a rapid…
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Breaking: Israeli Supreme Court upholds my deportation over my rights advocacy. Decision now shifts back to Israeli gov; if it proceeds, I have 20 days to leave & it’ll join ranks of Iran, N Korea & Egypt in blocking access for
@hrw
official. We wont stop. And we wont be the last
Countries like Sudan, Iran, North Korea, and Egypt have barred
@HRW
. Is this a club that Israel wants to join?
Former Israeli diplomats, rabbis, activists, and members of Congress have asked Israel not to deport
@omarsshakir
#DeportingRights
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Breaking: Chile & Mexico have referred Palestine situation to
@IntlCrimCourt
Prosecutor
@KarimKhanQC
, following S Africa, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Comoros & Djibouti's November referral. Momentum for justice building—addressing endemic impunity vital to preventing further atrocities.
📄 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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Breaking: The
@StateDept
has withdrawn its nomination of preeminent rights defender & ex
@StanfordLaw
/
@Harvard_Law
prof
@JimCavallaro
to the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights that he served as president of primarily over Israel/Palestine tweets 1/2
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Israel ordered me deported over my criticism of its rights record.
@hrw
& I today sued to challenge unauthorized use of draconian law to monitor speech of foreigners lawfully present in Israel & deport them when they criticize govt
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Breaking:
@hrw
reacts to Israel's gunning down of dozens of Palestinian protesters in Gaza today.
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Major escalation taking place right now in Israel & Palestine, with significant human rights implications.
@hrw
is investigating these events. Some preliminary takeaways based on what we know now & years of our reporting. 1/7
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Text from my
@hrw
colleague from Gaza: "We just want this nightmare to end. I feel every second I'm going to lose my entire family. My family should be protected, not displaced." I can't even begin to fathom what the people of Gaza are going through or what we'd do in their shoes
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Today
@hrw
released its most significant piece of research on rights abuses inside Israel in years, looking at discriminatory land policies that treat Palestinian & Jewish communities in starkly unequal terms. A thread with some highlights 1/11
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Israeli officials have signaled for weeks that they hold ppl of Gaza responsible for Oct 7.
@nytimes
now reports that they've referred to dropping of atomic bombs on Japan in WWII in justifying their plans—what more does the world need to see to act to prevent further atrocities?
Israeli authorities are signaling their intent to commit mass atrocities. They must be stopped. A thread 1/10
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Deadly Israeli strike on ambulance near alShifa Hospital should be investigated as possible war crime.
@hrw
verified video showing woman in stretcher in ambulance & found no evidence of its use militarily. Int'l law protects ambulances in all circumstances
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More incendiary language from Israeli officials calling for the entire population of Gaza—2.2+ million people, half of whom are children—to be collectively punished. This is evidence of criminal intent. World leaders must act to prevent large-scale atrocities before it's too late
Or in other words - Hamas is robbing the "humanitarian aid" to the Palestinian people. There's no reason to give them anything until we eliminate Nazi Hamas.
@UNRWA
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Israeli historian/Oxford Professor Avi Shlaim: "That Israel has become an apartheid state is now beyond doubt. The claim is hotly disputed by Israel's supporters, but it is nevertheless a fact.. the US & EU know that apartheid is the reality on the ground"
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Palestinians in Gaza have the right to return under int'l law—not just to homes they've recently lost in Gaza, but also to the homes they fled or were expelled from 75 years ago in what's now Israel.
@hrw
's
@saribashi
on this core principle & her family's moving story in
@nybooks
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Breaking:
@OxfamAmerica
&
@hrw
submit memo to US govt showing how Israel is using US weapons & blocking aid in violation of intl & US law. Israel's assurances to respect the law arent credible—the US should suspend its military aid
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Breaking:
@Harvard
reverses course—
@Kennedy_School
dean acknowledges "error" in vetoing
@KenRoth
appointment, says Ken will be reoffered fellowship & hopes Harvard "will be able to benefit from his deep experience." Vital step to combat the Palestine exception to academic freedom
"In an email to the Kennedy School community on Thursday, Elmendorf said his decision had been an 'error' and the school would be extending an invitation to Roth."
#Harvard
Reverses Course on Human Rights Advocate Who Criticized Israel
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Breaking: South Africa requests further provisional measures from world’s court to prevent genocide, reminding ICJ that it declined to issue additional measures in Bosnia Genocide case & 7000+ were slaughtered in ‘safe area’ of Srebrenica & to “act again now—before it’s too late”
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Hostages should not have been in Gaza—hostage-taking is a war crime. But the killings underscore Israel forces' long-standing practice of shooting first/asking later & track record of unlawfully firing at unarmed people who pose no threat w/ impunity—even those waving white flags
One Israeli hostage was waving a makeshift white flag and another called for help in Hebrew when they were shot dead by Israeli soldiers in Gaza - who mistook them fighters - according to the Israeli military official who briefed journalists. They were also reportedly shirtless.
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Joint letter by 5 former European foreign ministers today in
@LeMonde_EN
: "We see no alternative but to acknowledge that Israel’s policies & practices against the Palestinians living in the West Bank, East Jerusalem & Gaza amount to the crime of apartheid"
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Amos Goldberg—Professor of the Holocaust at Hebrew University in Jerusalem—in German newspaper FAZ: "Accusing Israel of apartheid is not antisemitic—it's describing reality. Felix Klein & all decent ppl must decide which side of history they want to be on"
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West Bank
Population: 12% Israeli Jewish Settler, 88% Palestinian
State Land Allocation by Israel: 99.76% Settler, 0.24% Palestinian
This is what entrenched, two-tiered discriminatory regime looks like. No other explanation. Settlements also war crimes.
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From today's
@ochaopt
report:
- Israel reportedly blows up UN school
- 360,000 cases of infectious diseases + spreading. Cases of meningitis, jaundice & smallpox recorded
- Israel raids another hospital, detaining director & taking 70 health care workers
The horrors must end.
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Imagine if foreign power sealed off US or any country from world for 12 yrs, forbidding anyone from leaving 25 by 7 mile territory outside of "exceptional humanitarian cases" & severely restricting entry of goods/electricity. Every candidate needs to weigh in. Go ahead-we'll wait
Imagine if 600 rockets had been fired into the US or any other country besides Israel. What country would not defend itself? Every Presidential candidate needs to weigh in on their thoughts on this attack. Go ahead....we’ll wait. 🇺🇸
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#Nakba73
reminder that, under Israeli law, a Jewish citizen of another country can move to Israel/OPT & gain citizenship, while a Palestinian expelled from his home & languishing for 70+ years in refugee camp in a nearby country cannot. Intl law guarantees their right to return
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Israel cages 2+ million Palestinians in Gaza. While it has vaccinated most of its citizens & primes to return to normal life, it not only isnt providing Gaza w vaccines as intl law requires, but now impedes entry of those procured by Palestinians! Callousness that knows no bounds
Knesset debates Palestinian request to allow COVID vaccines into Gaza
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Breaking:
@hrw
finds Israel's repeated razing of Palestinian schools may be war crime. 44 schools slated for demolition. Condemnation not enough- states should investigate individual criminal liability of Israeli officials & prosecute. cc
@IntlCrimCourt
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New Israeli restrictions on access to the West Bank for foreigners further isolate Palestinians from their loved ones & global civil society—another step by Israel to turn the West Bank into Gaza, which it runs as open-air prison. New
@hrw
report out today
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“
@benandjerrys
on Tuesday sued its parent Unilever Plc to block the sale of its Israeli business to a local licensee, saying it was inconsistent with its values to sell its ice cream in the occupied West Bank.”
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Breaking: An Israeli court has reinstated my deportation, saying
@hrw
’s work calling on businesses to stop facilitating abuses in settlements constitutes boycott. They have given me until May 1 to leave, but we're appealing to Supreme Court. Our statement
Israel ordered me deported over my criticism of its rights record.
@hrw
& I today sued to challenge unauthorized use of draconian law to monitor speech of foreigners lawfully present in Israel & deport them when they criticize govt
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For weeks,
@hrw
has been investigating the bloody events of May across Israel/Palestine. Tomorrow, we release first of our reports on them, assessing Israeli airstrikes that killed civilians in Gaza. The testimonies are some of the most harrowing I've ever come across. Stay tuned
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2 weeks of Israel pounding Gaza:
- 4385 Palestinians killed, 60+% kids (1756) & women (967)—local authorities
-~1.4 million displaced
-~30% of homes destroyed/damaged
- Electricity, water, food, meds cut
Whatever Israel says, it's waging war on ppl of Gaza. When is enough enough?
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Breaking: South Africa has filed case against Israel at
@CIJ_ICJ
, offering the World Court oppty to issue provisional measures to protect the Palestinian people & to ensure compliance with the Genocide Convention—a vital step to propel greater support for impartial justice.
@hrw
SOUTH AFRICA APPROACHES THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE UNDER THE GENOCIDE CONVENTION WITH RESPECT TO ACTS COMMITTED BY ISRAEL IN THE CONTEXT OF ITS ATTACKS ON GAZA
South Africa is gravely concerned with the plight of civilians caught in the present Israeli attacks on the…
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Israeli rights group
@btselem
on Israeli govt's decision to effectively outlaw their Palestinian counterparts: "it is an act characteristic of totalitarian regimes... the current Israeli govt is not one of change, but rather of a continuation of a violent apartheid regime."
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Israel's utter disregard for civilians in Gaza hits people with disabilities especially hard. States should urgently act to prevent further atrocities & suffering, including for people with disabilities
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Filmmaker Walaa Saada told
@hrw
in 2022 that Palestinians "keep imagining what life would be like wo occupation" & repression, as "it's the breath of hope that allows you to keep living" here. An Israeli strike reportedly killed her on Mar 2. Listen to her
"The people of Gaza have no independence in the future, their ambitions, their ideas or even their dreams."
The following film was released in June 2022. On March 2, 2024, an Israeli airstrike reportedly killed Walaa Saada, the videographer who is featured in the film.
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Forcing 1 million+ displaced Palestinians in Rafah to again evacuate would be unlawful & have catastrophic consequences, says
@hrw
. There's nowhere safe to go in Gaza. The ICJ has ordered Israel to prevent genocide. The int'l community should act to prevent further atrocities.
Therefore, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the IDF and the security establishment to submit to the Cabinet a combined plan for evacuating the population and destroying the battalions.
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3 things to know about Israel/Palestine:
1) It's not complicated. It's apartheid
2) It's not a 'conflict'. It's military occupation
3) It's not an anomaly. It's about freedom, human rights & equality
"The Tide is Turning. Why Silence No Longer An Option"
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Israel, w Egypt's help, has turned Gaza into an open-air prison—for 15 yrs barring 2 million Palestinians from moving freely in their homeland/abroad. New
@hrw
report finds closure unlawful, part of Israel's crimes against humanity of apartheid/persecution
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So grateful for outpouring of support here & around the world. Israel & Palestine has become my home. Hope the Supreme Court will allow me to continue to do my job & fight with our partners for future built on human rights & equality for all. My statement today on court steps.
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“By continuing to provide Israel with weapons & diplomatic cover as it commits atrocities, including collectively punishing the Palestinian civilian population in Gaza, the US risks complicity in war crimes.”
@HRW
on shameful US decision to veto UN Security Council resolution.
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