Nicola Perugini
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The silence of Israeli academics on the Amnesty apartheid report is quite noisy
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The Israeli military blowing up the Faculty of Medicine at the Islamic University of 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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Genocide is also erasing all the documentary and archival traces of a population
The Israeli occupation destroys the central archive of
#Gaza
municipality, executing thousands of historical documents, and deliberately razing all life forms; erasing the city and its
#history
. It is worth noting that the archive holds
#documents
more than a hundred years old.
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Final independent report on UNRWA. After 6 months, Israel has not provided any evidence against UNRWA. $450 millions cut by governments in the midst of a starvation and annihilation war, based on fabricated “confessions” produced under torture.
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“US intelligence casts doubt on Israeli claims of UNRWA-Hamas links, report says”. So basically UNRWA is being defunded and key life sustaining services to genocide survivors cut based on fabrications.
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The definition of settler colonial genocide in one image
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And the museum.
The attack wasn't only on the campus, but it was also against the national museum established by the university, containing more than 3 thousand rare artifacts which the Israeli occupation stole, and then bombed the museum to cover up for the crime.
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This is Jan 4. At the Knesset it is pretty clear that eliminating UNRWA is part of the physical elimination of Palestinians as a group with political rights and the settler erasure of the Palestinian right of return to the lands from which Israel has expelled them since 1948.
"It will be impossible to win the war if we do not destroy Unrwa, and this destruction must begin immediately"
Earlier this month on 4 January, Noga Arbell, a former Israeli official, called for the destruction of Unrwa during a discussion in the Israeli parliament.
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Palestinian and Jewish students at the University of Edinburgh spoke together for the end of the siege, for justice, freedom, and decolonization. A light in the darkness.
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This is Rafah, southern Gaza, the “humanitarian zone” and tent city where the Israeli military is intensifying its bombardments while preparing for an imminent ground attack and expansion of its genocidal war.
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What remains of the Islamic University of Gaza. Almost all the Palestinian academic institutions in Gaza have been deliberately destroyed by the Israeli military. Imagine all the academic institutions in your country reduced to rubbles.
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It’s a systematic practice of detonation and destruction of the Palestinian higher education sector in Gaza. This is the Faculty of Medicine of the Islamic University at the beginning of December.
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Rafah is 63 square km. It hosts 1.4 m Gaza Palestinians, 22,200 per sq km. There's nothing they can evacuate to as their homes have been destroyed. Israel uses the "evacuations" as a tool of settler elimination (bombing where it orders them to flee) and displacement towards Egypt
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A new Israeli Democracy Institute survey shows that 68% of Jewish Israelis oppose “the transfer of humanitarian aid to Gaza residents.” Two thirds are fine with implementing genocidal starvation policies.
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Germany detains Gaza surgeon Ghassan Abu Sittah and 'refuses him entry’. This is what expects other genocide survivors who will try to inform with their testimonies the German and other audiences in complicit countries.
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Michael Walzer, justifying genocide through the logic of human shielding: "It's not easy for me to say such a thing, but if there were almost 10,000 Hamas fighters among the 30,000 Palestinians killed, it’s not a bad ratio for such a war on urban terrain"
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Educide. According to the updated figures of the Palestinian Min of Education, 4,800 students have been killed, more than 8,400 others have been injured, in addition to 240 faculty and teachers killed since Oct 7. In the same period, 43 students have been killed in the West Bank.
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The most exhaustive archive of evidence of human shielding in Palestine during the last two decades is made of hundreds of images and testimonies about Israeli soldiers using Palestinians as human shields in their invasions. This is Qalandia refugee camp this morning. A child
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Israeli settler academia for ethnic cleansing. This is a geographer and geologist from Bar Ilan University advocating for expulsion to Sinai as a humanitarian solution.
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UN Population Fund representative in Gaza while visiting the Emirati hospital in Rafah: doctors no-longer see normal sized babies, more neonatal deaths.
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Palestinian, Jewish and other students and members of staff at the University of Edinburgh in solidarity with Palestine, for ceasefire and Palestinian liberation
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Looks like the US agrees to intensification of genocide in the tent city where Israel has expelled more than a million Gaza Palestinians. The “humanitarian opposition to the Rafah invasion” is a farce and an imperial card
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This is the Israeli military in Hebron, West Bank, this morning. Who is using Palestinian civilians as human shields?
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The level of total destruction in Khan Younis, the second largest urban area in the Gaza Strip, after the partial withdrawal and redeployment of the Israeli army today.
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If many Palestinians living under settler colonial apartheid do not believe in the human rights discourse it is not their problem. It is a problem of the human rights community and how it has been operating in Palestine during the last decades
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The Palestinians--the majority of which are already refugees from previous ethnic cleansing--who are deciding to stay in their homes and support each other under carpet bombing are not human shields. They are rejecting a settler colonial transfer order. They want to remain.
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I have signed this important statement of scholars in defence of UN human rights rapporteur on Palestine
@FranceskAlbs
, who is being targeted in a politically motivated smear campaign “based on disingenuous allegations of antisemitism” – please read & share widely 🧵 1/7
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In this op-ed I try to explain how Israel is mobilising the discourse of "safe zones" and the legal technologies associated with them to organise genocidal violence and justify it. I suspect this argument will be mobilised in the ICJ hearing next week.
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Instead of being arrested for the war crimes she supervised during the 2008-2009 attack on Gaza (1.500 tons of bombs dropped, 1.400 Palestinians killed, thousands of homes, mosques, schools, hospitals damaged and destroyed) she is around in the UK lecturing on settler democracy
“We are not a democracy anymore, we are going to be, I don’t know, a dictatorship?”
Former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni tells
@cathynewman
that Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is going against “Israel’s values”.
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The Israeli bombardment of al-Firas market, one of the oldest in Gaza City. The constant obliteration of all landmarks of Palestinian communal life.
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Meeting in Jerusalem to discuss a military occupation under the mediation of a colonial occupier. 🤦♂️
⚡️Zelensky proposes meeting Putin in Jerusalem.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that he asked Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to act as an intermediary.
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A Palestinian interviewed right now in Sheikh Jarrah: “The Israeli settlers attacked our neighborhood, our stores, our cars, our people. We called the Jerusalem police to protect us but instead of protecting us they joined the settlers and besieged us”
#SettlerState
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According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health there are no functioning hospitals in the northern part of Gaza. This is not a “side effect of the war”. This was part of genocidal design by the Israeli military. The injured and those in need of health care are being left to die.
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"Doctors in Gaza said that children, weakened by lack of food, had died from hypothermia and that several newborn babies with mothers who were undernourished had not survived for more than a few days."
@UNICEF
's spokesperson confirms.
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Giorgio Agamben argues that professors who agree to teach online due to the pandemic are like the Italian professors who openly endorsed fascism in 1931. I am very critical of online teaching and see the huge risks, but Giorgio, what the hell do you smoke?
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Starvation as genocidal policy in Gaza. Phase 5 is "when an area has at least 20% of households facing extreme lack of food, at least 30% of children suffering from acute malnutrition, and 2 people for every 10,000 dying each day." Source
@ochaopt
(IPC)
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10,000 Palestinian cancer patients in Gaza have no access to treatment since Oct. Healthcare has collapsed. This is an Israeli soldier filming himself while destroying the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital, the only treatment facility in the Strip
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Earlier today US Sec of State Blinken had asked the Qatari Prime Minister to silence Al Jazeera.
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After the Hebrew University of Jerusalem suspended Palestinian Prof Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian for her positions against the annihilation war in Gaza, she was detained for several hours at Ben Gurion Airport by the border control. The settler police state.
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After the destruction of all universities in Gaza, the elimination of Palestinian academics and their families continues in the almost complete silence of our academic institutions. When asked to take position and speak up, our Vice Chancellors shrug their shoulders.
Israel killed today Professor Nasser Abu Al Nour, Dean of the Faculty of Nursing at the Islamic University of Gaza, along with 7 members of his family in a strike on his house.
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The Israeli army is now expelling Palestinian refugees from the Jenin refugee camp.
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Kindergartens.
Casualties among civilian following Israeli airstrikes that targeted a kindergarten near the eastern cemetery in the Al-Salam neighborhood, east of Rafah.
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Not sure how many other militaries have been so obsessed with the systematic targeting of medical facilities and the eradication of healthcare infrastructures.
🚨The initial moments of the occupation's bombardment of the PRCS’s headquarters in
#KhanYounis
twice today, resulted in five casualties and three injuries among the displaced individuals who sought refuge in the PRCS 's premises and the nearby Al-Amal Hospital, considering it a…
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The first ever history of human shields is finally out today!
@nevegordon
and I chronicle how the human body is weaponized to justify or resist violence in both international and domestic conflicts. You can read the introduction here
@ucpress
:
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Another night of massacres. The Israeli bombardment of the tents of displaced Palestinian survivors in al-Mawasi, the area designated as “safe humanitarian zone” by Israel, at the border between Gaza and Egypt.
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The witch haunt taking place in the UK against (in particular Palestinian) students and scholars who criticise and produce knowledge about Israel’s settler colonial violence and apartheid regime is reaching disturbing levels. Silence is, more than ever, complicity. Speak up.
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After torturing its employees to make false accusations “Israel has frozen UNRWA's accounts at Israeli banks and is also refusing to transfer goods from its territory, blocking residency visas for UNRWA employees, and rejecting special requests filed by the agency and supporters”
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Israel’s Minister of National Security speaking in support of settler colonial expansion and killing “thousands” of Palestinians today
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“Lavender”, “Where is Daddy” and the use of AI by the Israeli army are not “revelations about the misapplication” of international law. The intelligence officers interviewed in the article simply utter the crystal clear logic of large scale extermination adopted by the army.
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Meanwhile in colonial captivity: “the makeshift cage-like installation is surrounded by improvised fences” and is unsuitable for humans.
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After the destruction of the healthcare system through the debunked lie that medical facilities are shielding the resistance headquarters, Palestinian hospitals have been transformed into mass graves (including “unidentified children”). This is al-Shifa.
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This is the Israeli Minister of Communications, on the eve of the
@CIJ_ICJ
genocide hearing, arguing that the expulsion of the Palestinian population of Gaza through the use of lethal force and starvation “does not in any way harm human rights.”
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Today the Israeli army used Palestinians as human shields to advance in Beit Ummar, West Bank. When it’s a colonial accusation against the resistance, human shielding hits the headlines. When it’s documented colonial warfare technique, it goes unreported.
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Israel’s prime minister deleted this tweet while his military was bombing the Al Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza, killing up to one thousand people
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In Journal of
@PalStudies
,
@nevegordon
and I analyse the emergence and circulation of "medical lawfare" —Israel's discourse of legitimization of its attacks on lifesaving and sustaining infrastructures, from 2007 until the ongoing genocide in Gaza
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Regarding the ICJ hearing and the evacuation argument. In 1904 the Germans issued an evacuation order before killing tens of thousands of Herero in Namibia. The evacuation order does not make the Herero genocide a non-genocide, or an act of self-defense.
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