#BelgiumUN🇧🇪 #JordanUN_NY🇯🇴 #EUatUN🇪🇺 co-launched today a Call to Action for Palestinian #children in #WestBank & #Gaza: an immediate #ceasefire, respect for IHL, safe/unrestricted hum. access & release of all hostages & detained children. We call on all States to join the Call.
« … the requirement to select means and methods of warfare to minimize civilian casualties appeared to have been consistently violated during the bombing campaign… »
« … for the first time the Secretary General included Israel's military and security forces in the report and what is commonly known as the list of shame… »
Rep #JamaalBowman of #NewYork, one of #Congress’s most outspoken progressives, suffered a stinging #primary defeat Tues, brought down by a record-shattering onslaught from pro-#Israel groups & a slate of self-inflicted blunders.
#Bowman was defeated by #GeorgeLatimer, the Westchester County exec, in a race that became the year’s ugliest intraparty brawl & the most expensive #House primary in history.
It began last fall when #Bowman stepped forward as one of the leading critics of #Israel’s #war w/ #Hamas. But the contest grew into a broader proxy fight around the future of the #Democratic Party, exposing painful fractures over #race, #class & #ideology in a diverse district that includes parts of #Westchester & the #Bronx.
The district’s 1st #Black congressperson & a committed democratic #socialist, never wavered from his calls for a #CeaseFire in #Gaza or #left-wing economic priorities.
« A Dutch foundation prepared a memorial for more than 16,000 children that have been killed in Gaza since 7 October by placing 16,000 pairs of shoes on a square in the city of Breda on Saturday. »
Tel Aviv publication +972 on a possible shift from Hamas.
Blinken is knowingly lying about Israel accepting Biden's ceasefire and Hamas may no longer think the hostages are a viable bargaining chip.
Hamas looks like "a guerrilla force whose capabilities are gradually improving. The continuation of the war may even help Hamas, just as Hezbollah was ultimately strengthened by the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon"
Interesting take
"The viability of a U.S.-backed proposal to wind down the 8-month-long war in Gaza was cast into doubt on Monday after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would only be willing to agree to a 'partial' cease-fire deal that would not end the war, comments that sparked an uproar from families of hostages held by Hamas."
Up to 21,000 children missing in chaos of Gaza war
Save the Children said thousands of missing Palestinian children are believed to be trapped beneath the rubble of destroyed homes, detained by Israeli forces, buried in unmarked graves or lost from their families.
At least 17,000 children are believed to be unaccompanied and separated and approximately 4,000 children are likely missing under the rubble, with an unknown number also in mass graves.
"There must be an independent investigation and those responsible must be held accountable. We desperately need a ceasefire to find and support the missing children who have survived, and to prevent more families from being destroyed.”
« … the American people do not want to see among other things starvation being used as a tool of war, which is what the Netanyahu government is doing right now… »
« “We’re not going down,” said Benoît, a citizen member for Divest for Palestine Collective, about the Pro-Palestinian encampment set up at Victoria Square in Montreal that intends to remain until their demands are met. »
« Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Canada took part in rallies across Toronto and Montreal, carrying banners and chanting pro-Palestine slogans. »
« … reaffirming its commitment to international law and the principles of equality, sovereignty, and peaceful coexistence among nations, the Republic of Armenia recognizes the State of Palestine… »
« … unique level of casualties in the Palestinian population during these months of war that has no precedent in any other situation that I've lived as Secretary General of the UN… »