Sima Bahous, the executive director of UN Women, said more than 10,000 Palestinian women have been killed in the seven months of Israel’s war on Gaza – including scores of women and children horrifically killed by an Israeli air strike while sleeping in tents in what was supposed to be a safe zone in Rafah.
“This war must stop because women and girls are bearing the brunt of it,” Bahous told a UN Security Council meeting on Tuesday.
@LauraLK@palestine It was a disgrace by many countries in the @UN to take a country like #Palestine and partition it #UN Resolution 181, and recognise the new partition #Israel and deprive the original country of its state status
#ICC / Israeli Mossad chief ‘threatened’ ICC prosecutor over war crimes inquiry | Israel
[…] "You don't want to be getting into things that could compromise your security or that of your family."
The allegations detailed in the Guardian paint a troubling picture of alleged intimidation tactics and excessive pressure applied by Israeli intelligence against an ICC prosecutor.
Cohen's covert contacts with Bensouda took place over several years leading up to her 2021 decision to open a formal #ICC investigation into alleged Israeli war crimes.
A close ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Cohen personally led the #Mossad's efforts as part of a decade-long campaign by Israel to undermine the ICC probe.
The efforts escalated in 2019-2020 with Cohen allegedly showing Bensouda photos of her husband taken covertly and suggesting the ICC probe would hurt her career.
[…] Another Israeli source briefed on the operation against Bensouda said the Mossad’s objective was to compromise the prosecutor or enlist her as someone who would cooperate with Israel’s demands.
[cont’d] #Israel / Spying, hacking and intimidation: Israel’s nine-year ‘war’ on the ICC exposed
[… ] Khan recently disclosed in an interview with #CNN that some elected leaders had been “very blunt” with him as he prepared to issue arrest warrants. “‘This court is built for Africa and for thugs like Putin,’ is was what a senior leader told me.”
[…] One former defence official familiar with Israel’s counter-ICC effort said joining the court had been “perceived as the crossing of a red line” and “perhaps the most aggressive” diplomatic move taken by the Palestinian Authority, which governs the West Bank. “To be recognised as a state in the #UN is nice,” they added. “But the ICC is a mechanism with teeth.”
Israel has waged a nearly decade-long secret "war" against the #ICC, deploying intelligence agencies to surveil, hack, pressure, smear and allegedly threaten senior ICC officials to derail inquiries into alleged crimes in Palestinian territories.
Israeli agencies intercepted communications of ICC prosecutors Fatou Bensouda and Karim Khan, providing Netanyahu advance knowledge of their intentions. Bensouda was allegedly personally threatened by then-Mossad chief Yossi Cohen.
Israel held secret back-channel meetings with the ICC using intelligence to try to undermine the Palestinian territories case, arguing Israel's military investigates itself properly.
The U.S. under #Trump imposed sanctions on ICC officials over the Afghanistan probe, believed partly aimed at the Palestinian case, working together with Israel against the ICC.
Despite intense pressure, Khan proceeded with seeking arrest warrants against #Netanyahu and #Gallant over alleged extermination, starvation and deliberately targeting civilians in Gaza.
Urgent: The Secretary-General of the United Nations: We condemn the practices of “Israel” that led to the martyrdom of dozens of innocent people who were searching for shelter, and there is no safe place in #Gaza, and this horror must stop.
A coalition of NGOs has urgently appealed to the #UN Security Council to enforce the International Court of Justice's orders regarding Israel's offensive in Rafah, Gaza.
#isreal will not stop pounding #palestine now as the sympathy #terrorists in the #un#icj and around the world try to extract demands using hostage and martyr.
I can't blame Israel for it's actions now. The legacy media world has taken the side of #Hamas. #Israel has nothing to lose and no one will stop them.
🔴 A deadly landslide which villagers in #PapuaNewGuinea say struck like "an exploding bomb" may have buried more than 2,000 people alive, a government agency fears
The figure - provided by the acting director of the country's National Disaster Centre - is far higher than the 670 the #UN suggested over the weekend
Exact casualty figures for the disaster, which tore through the village in the early hours of Friday, have been difficult to establish
To all the bad opinions regarding #gaza aid trucks from people who have never driven a truck:
Go to #Palestine and drive a truck through a #war zone, then report back.
The problem is finding #truck#drivers willing to risk their lives as the trucks are attacked by mobs of civilians standing around in a live fire war zone.
“At a time when the people of Gaza are staring down famine; when hospitals are attacked and invaded; when aid organizations are blocked from reaching people in need; when civilians are under bombardment from north to south; it is more critical than ever to heed the calls made over the last seven months:
“Release the hostages. Agree a ceasefire. End this nightmare.”
Martin Griffiths, the UN’s chief of emergency humanitarian relief
The International Court of Justice will announce a decision today on potential orders against Israel regarding its ongoing attack on Gaza, specifically in Rafah. Israel fears the court will order a halt to the to the war, or at least the Rafah operation, due to worsening humanitarian conditions. Such an order would put Israel in a difficult position - defying it could lead to international sanctions, though the U.S. would likely support regardless of the legality of its actions in Gaza, as it did so far.
#Maariv is reporting that according to the assessment of "diplomatic officials," the likelihood that the court will accept South Africa's request and order a halt to the war in Gaza tomorrow, is not very high, but nonetheless, this time it is "realistic and certainly not negligible."
If this scenario materializes - Israel will be dependent on the U.S. vetoing the order. But according to assessments in Israel, in the current situation the American veto is not guaranteed, and it is possible that Washington will condition it on Israel taking one action or another. For example, in exchange for Israeli agreement to the Saudi initiative.
In the current circumstances, the court rules that Israel must take effective steps to ensure immediate access to Gaza for any investigative committee, fact-finding mission and investigative bodies - to be appointed by the #UN in order to investigate allegations of genocide.
The court rules that the catastrophic situation in #Gaza necessitates the immediate and urgent implementation of the orders from January and March - relating to the entire Gaza Strip and especially #Rafah.
"This situation was avoidable. The civilians and soldiers who have died since the new offensive began can’t be brought back, but through adequate weapons and #AirDefence provisions, and permission for #Ukraine to strike Russian territory, the west can ensure that their friends and families won’t face the same fate – and that the residents of #Kharkiv and the villages where I work can keep rebuilding their homes and their lives."
A reminder that less than two weeks ago, it was revealed that Trump solicited a $1 billion bribe from the energy industry, offering in return the gutting of environmental regulations.
A week ago, Big Journalism had already consigned this epic scandal to the memory bin.
Had Biden done anything remotely like that, I guarantee that it would still be among the top stories of the day -- and Congress, including Democrats, would be moving toward impeachment.
@blazeoryan@mikeblake@dangillmor
That "commitment to allies" excuse doesn't work when you're talking about the people who literally rule the world. What, is Biden's boss gonna come down and give him an earful for NOT giving weapons to a genocidal state?
And if #Biden is so hamstrung by these commitments, then what about his commitment to the #UN and the #ICC, which he's now threatening to destroy?
WTAF: #US Secretary of State #Blinken warned if United Nations recognizes #Palestine as an independent State, United States, allies and affiliated businessmen will cut funding for #UN, thus cutting United Nations ability to run huminitarian aid for Global South countries.
He is threatening the world on behalf of #Israel, while pretending that they support a 2 state solution.
This is the most outrageous comment I've ever read from Blinken. I'm not sure if it's accurate, because the only source is the post on ShiTwitter:https://x.com/halalflow/status/1792944530389393422
"Israeli soldiers and police tipping off groups that attack Gaza aid trucks" ...
"Individual members of Israel’s security forces are tipping off far-right activists and settlers to the location of #aid trucks delivering vital supplies to #Gaza, enabling the groups to block and vandalise the convoys, according to multiple sources.
#Settlers intercepting the vital #humanitarian supplies to the strip are receiving information about the location of the aid trucks from members of the Israeli police and military, a spokesperson from the main Israeli activist group behind the blockades told the #Guardian.
The claim of collusion by members of the security forces is supported by messages from internal internet chat groups reviewed by the Guardian as well as accounts from a number of witnesses and human rights activists."
When apartheid South Africa came under growing international pressure at the UN, the General Assembly initiated boycotts.
It suspended South Africa, stripping it of its Member State rights & privileges. The apartheid regime could no longer be seated, speak or vote at the General Assembly & other UN organs.
"Apartheid South Africa changed course because it became a pariah & isolated regime"