Jonathan Whittall
@_jwhittall
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Head of Office OCHA oPt // #Gaza & #WestBank // Former Humanitarian Analysis Director MSF // PhD Humanitarian Studies from LSTM // Views=my own //RT≠endorsement
Joined August 2010
1/6 First responders should never be a target. Yet today @UNOCHA supported @PalestineRCS and Civil Defense to retrieve colleagues from a mass grave in #Rafah #Gaza that was marked with the emergency light from one of their crushed ambulances.
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RT @antonioguterres: Israel, as the occupying Power, has clear obligations. It must ensure the provision of food, water, medicine, and oth….
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Mariam was one of the journalists killed today in Nasser Hospital in #Gaza.
Today, we mourn photojournalist Mariam Abu Dagga, killed with others in an Israeli strike on a hospital. We were honored to worked with her. We honor all who risk their lives to expose #Gaza's harsh reality to the world. Here, she reflects on one of her photos. Listen to her.
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Injured are not a legitimate target. Journalists are not a legitimate target. First responders are not a legitimate target. Civilians are not a legitimate target. Israeli forces killed all four - inside a hospital. It was broadcast live. No one can say: “We didn’t know.” #Gaza
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“What can you do and why haven’t you done it until now?”. #Gaza.
@IndrikaRatwatte Calls from the humanitarian frontlines, number 5. Spoke to my colleague Dr. Sara Alsaqqa, who faces immense personal risk as she works to save lives. She has a question for all of us.
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Journalists and first responders killed and wounded in two Israeli forces drone strikes inside a hospital compound in #KhanYounis #Gaza.
An Israeli suicide drone targeted the “Al-Yassin” building inside the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, killing journalist Hossam Al-Masri along with another civilian. Hossam is a cameraman for Reuters. According to local sources, as rescue teams worked to recover the
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Deprivation by design, engineered scarcity, starvation as a weapon of war, and conditions created to kill. We’ve been warning about it, while the people of #Gaza have been experiencing it. Now it’s confirmed: famine in Gaza. Preventable, yet continuing.
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[8/8] Bottom line: the E1 project again violates inter’l law, entrenches illegal settlements, further fragments Palestinian land, & risks forcible transfer. It has long been a “red-line” for many governments. But a lack of accountability fuels impunity from Gaza to the West Bank.
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[7/8] The court also found that Israel’s legislation & measures maintaining a separation between settler and Palestinian communities breached Article 3 of the Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, which obliges states to eliminate racial segregation & apartheid.
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[6/8] The ICJ found that the regime of comprehensive restrictions imposed by Israel on Palestinians constitutes systemic discrimination based on race, religion or ethnic origin, in violation of international law.
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[5/8] The E1 plan also goes against the advisory opinion of the #ICJ, which found the occupation to be unlawful and called for it to end and for settlements to be dismantled, not expanded.
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[4/8] Within the E1 area are Bedouin communities at risk of forcible transfer, which is a war crime. These communities are already under extreme pressure to leave their land through demolitions and skyrocketing rates of settler violence that generates humanitarian need.
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[3/8] These settlement housing units would sever the West Bank into two, splitting the north from the south. Movement for Palestinians would become even more obstructed. There are already over 800 movement restrictions in the West Bank.
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[2/8] E1 is an area of the West Bank between #EastJerusalem and the illegal Ma’ale Adumim settlement where Israeli authorities plan to build thousands of new housing & commercial units, linked into a continuous corridor. It’s another deliberate death blow to a Palestinian state.
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In a joint statement, more than 100 NGOs are calling “for an end to Israel’s weaponisation of aid”.
NGOs are vital for humanitarian action, in OPT and around the world. But they are being systematically blocked from saving lives. These restrictions must be lifted immediately and their work must be facilitated.
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