Thursday, September 18, 2025

"Now, more proof that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. How can western governments still refuse to act? The UN commission of inquiry’s report makes it almost impossible for Israel – and its allies – to maintain the narrative that criticism of it is part of an antisemitic plot"

Palestinians search for wood to sell or use for cooking amid the rubble of a building destroyed in an Israeli strike in Gaza City, 14 September 2025. Photograph: Yousef Al Zanoun/AP

Wed 17 Sep 2025

Steve Crawshaw

The conclusion of a UN commission of inquiry that Israel has committed genocide in the war in Gaza, and that its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and other Israeli leaders are responsible for inciting that genocide, changes little in legal terms. The international court of justice (ICJ) in The Hague has yet to issue its final ruling in the genocide case that South Africa brought against Israel last year.

Politically, however, this latest report (officially a “conference room paper”, intended to aid discussion of the themes) may prove to be one of the final nails in the coffin of the shameless but still-continuing narrative from Netanyahu and his allies that any talk of Israeli crimes is part of an antisemitic plot – or, to use Netanyahu’s favourite phrase, “a blood libel”.

The commission of inquiry’s findings now stand alongside those of Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the respected Israeli groups B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights–Israel, who have all published authoritative and detailed reports concluding that Israel is committing genocide in the two years since the Hamas atrocities of 7 October 2023. UN experts and genocide scholars have reached the same conclusion.

Even when so many have already spoken, however, a UN commission of inquiry brings a particular stamp of authority. The chair of the commission on the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel is Navi Pillay, a former president of the international criminal tribunal for Rwanda. When I first met her, she was a respected UN high commissioner for human rights – not exactly a “Hamas proxy”, to quote Israel’s ambassador to the UN in Geneva when he accused the authors of the report of a “libellous rant”.... READ MORE https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/17/un-report-israel-genocide-gaza-western-governments?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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Pope Leo XIV "I express my profound closeness to the Palestinian people in Gaza, who continue to live in fear and to survive in unacceptable conditions, forced once again from their own lands..."

Pope Leo XIV

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Sep 17 [2025]

I express my profound closeness to the Palestinian people in Gaza, who continue to live in fear and to survive in unacceptable conditions, forced once again from their own lands.

Before Almighty God, who commanded “Thou shalt not kill,” and throughout human history, every person always has an inviolable dignity, to be respected and upheld.

I renew my appeal for a ceasefire, the release of hostages, and a negotiated diplomatic solution, in full respect of international humanitarian law. I invite everyone to join my heartfelt prayer that a dawn of peace and justice may soon arise.

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-09/pope-renews-appeal-for-gaza-ceasefire.html

Displaced Palestinians, fleeing northern Gaza move southward, in the central Gaza Strip (MAHMOUD ISSA)

Pope renews appeal for Gaza ceasefire: Inviolable human dignity of all must be respected

At the conclusion of his weekly General Audience, Pope Leo XIV expresses his “deepest” sympathy for the people of Gaza. He renews his appeal for a ceasefire, the release of hostages, a diplomatic solution to the crisis, and full respect for international humanitarian law.

By Christopher Wells

“I express my deepest sympathy to the Palestinian people in Gaza, who continue to live in fear and survive in unacceptable conditions, forced—once again—from their lands,” Pope Leo XIV said at his General Audience on Wednesday morning.

Israeli forces launched a massive new military offensive against Gaza’s largest population centre, Gaza City, on Tuesday, ordering civilians to flee the city amid the most intense bombardment they have faced in almost two years of war. Hamas has said 350,000 people have fled the eastern part of the city for displacement centres in other parts of Gaza City, while another 175,000 have fled the city altogether.

Inviolable human dignity of every person must be respected

Invoking “the Almighty Lord, who commanded ‘Thou shalt not kill,’” and “in the presence of all humanity,” Pope Leo on Wednesday declared, “Every person always has an inviolable dignity, to be respected and protected.”

The Holy Father went on to renew his appeal for “a ceasefire, for the release of the hostages, for a negotiated diplomatic solution, and for full respect for international humanitarian law.”

Finally, Pope Leo invited “everyone” to join in his “heartfelt prayer that a dawn of peace and justice may soon rise.”

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"The Nakba – Arabic for “catastrophe” – happened because the politicians of this country enabled it. They enabled it with the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which supported the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine...." Britain must help establish a Palestinian state It has a historical responsibility to do so- By William Dalrymple in The New Statesman

[Palestine Refugees Nakba 1948] Photo by CPA Media/Alamy

Seventy-seven years ago, 750,000 Palestinians were terrorised out of their homes and farms and villages in Galilee – from Tiberias, Beit She’an, Safed and the great Palestinian ports of Jaffa and Acre.

They were driven out with napalm and machine guns and machetes, and forced to flee from their groves of olive trees on to the barren dunes of Gaza where they remain. By the end of 1948, less than 15 per cent of Palestinians remained where they had always lived. More than 85 per cent had been ethnically cleansed, despite the promises of Arthur Balfour in his declaration that “nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine”.

The Nakba – Arabic for “catastrophe” – happened because the politicians of this country enabled it. They enabled it with the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which supported the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine. They also enabled it with 30 years of British colonial rule in Palestine during which the indigenous inhabitants were disarmed and their leaders arrested and sent to prison camps in the Seychelles and Cyprus. The black and tans, notorious for their violence, were brought in on Churchill’s orders and unleashed on those Palestinians who tried to stand up against the erosion of their land.

The British, determined to suppress the revolt militarily, dispatched 25,000 soldiers and policemen to Palestine in 1938 – the largest deployment of British forces abroad since the end of the First World War. They established military courts, operating under “emergency regulations” that gave the British Mandate the legal trappings of a military dictatorship. The best account of what we unleashed on the Palestinians can be found in Caroline Elkins’s Legacy of Violence, a chilling study of British anti-insurgency techniques in our imperial colonies. Elkins shows how the British destroyed the houses of all those involved in attacks under the legal authority of the emergency regulations. An estimated 2,000 houses were destroyed from 1936 to 1940.

Combatants and innocent civilians alike were interned in concentration camps – by 1939, more than 9,000 Palestinians were held in overcrowded facilities; many endured violent interrogation or torture. Younger offenders, between the ages of seven and 16, were flogged. Over 100 Arabs were sentenced to death in 1938 and 1939, and more than 30 were executed. By the time the revolt was crushed in 1939, the Palestinian leadership had been so badly intimidated they were in no position to fight for their survival when the British finally pulled out in 1948, leaving the Palestinians to their fate... READ MORE https://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2025/09/britain-must-help-establish-a-palestinian-state

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

"Jews and Israel are not the same. Equating them is a propaganda technique. The claim is central to rationales for arming Israel even as leading human rights groups decry genocide in Gaza."

Central to rationales for arming Israel is the claim that it is the nation of “the Jewish people”.’ Photograph: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP

"During the 1980s, when activists in the United States and elsewhere targeted apartheid South Africa with non-violent campaigns for boycotts, divestment and sanctions, those actions did not provoke charges of being anti-white. In this century, the nonviolent Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has targeted Israel, a country condemned as an apartheid state by one human rights organization after another after another – and BDS supporters, even if Jewish, routinely face accusations of antisemitism. In Congress, the accusers include many liberal Democrats"

by Norman Solomon

Tue 16 Sep 2025

The Guardian

More than nine months after Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch issued reports that concluded Israel was committing genocide – and more than a month since key Israeli human rights groups asserted the same – the American political establishment remains in rigid denial while horrors continue nonstop in Gaza. Virtually all Republicans and most Democrats in Congress still support massive US arms shipments to Israel, so they certainly can’t admit that the weaponry is making genocide possible.America

Central to rationales for arming Israel is the claim that it is the nation of “the Jewish people”.

When the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, spoke via video to a conference in Jerusalem three months ago, he declared: “There can be no nuanced separation of hatred of Israel and hatred of the Jewish people.” Rubio added: “Those who call for the destruction of Israel are calling for the destruction of the Jewish people.” Last month, the House speaker, Mike Johnson, reinforced the same message while visiting Israel, where he reportedly said that the West Bank was “the rightful property of the Jewish people”.

Such rhetoric – equating Israel with all Jews and Israel’s future with theirs – is an effort to sanctify Israel and shield it from criticism by brandishing the charge of antisemitism.

Fusing Israel with “the Jewish people” is a key propaganda technique. The fact that it’s so ubiquitous makes it no less ridiculous, or dangerous. A comment attributed to Voltaire applies: “As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.”

And atrocities continue with no end in sight. Israel has persisted with methodical – and clearly intentional – killing of Palestinian civilians not only with bombs, missiles and bullets but also with starvation as a weapon of war. Blockage or extreme constriction of humanitarian aid has been the norm. All summer, Israel has ignored the United Nations warning issued in June that food intake in Gaza had dropped far below “survival” level. By then, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross said conditions there had become worse than “hell on earth”.

Ironically, the country that we’re told is the ultimate target of antisemitism is now, in reality, the world’s most powerful cause of antisemitism. By insisting that it is the embodiment of Jews all over the world, the state of Israel seeks to associate Jews everywhere with its systematic war crimes and genocide in Gaza along with deadly ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the West Bank.... READ MORE https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/16/jews-israel-not-the-same-propaganda-technique

Genocide by remote control: Israel's explosive robots devastate Gaza. Israeli forces deploy explosive robots at 'unprecedented pace', obliterating homes and displacing families

Aftermath of an Israeli assault in Jabalia refugee camp, where explosive robots were reportedly used for the first time (MEE/Mohammed al-Hajjar)... "As of July, Israel has destroyed around 78 percent of all structures in the Gaza Strip, according to preliminary UN analysis.

An estimated 282,904 housing units have been damaged.

Nearly the entire population of the Gaza Strip has been displaced multiple times since the Israeli genocide in Gaza began in October 2023."

By Mohammed al-Hajjar in Gaza City, occupied Palestine and Huthifa Fayyad

Published date: 6 September 2025

Hamza Shabaan woke up mid-air.

A massive blast had hurled him off his mattress, leaving him disoriented and shocked.

Outside, an Israeli explosive-laden, remotely controlled “robot” was crawling through the streets of Gaza City, spreading terror in its wake.

“I looked out the window to see where the robot was, whether it was beside me or nearby,” said Shabaan, 35, speaking to Middle East Eye.

“It turned out it was about 100m away.”

Then another explosion hit, blowing him 2m back from the window.

“I started crawling on my hands and knees, escaping to the living room,” he recalled.

“I could hear the sound of shrapnel and debris hitting everything, horrifying noises.”

Shabaan’s experience is becoming all too common for Palestinians in Gaza City.

Since Israel announced last month that it was expanding its assault on the city, home to nearly one million people, massive explosions have rocked the area almost nightly.

At the centre of this new wave of violence is Israel’s latest battlefield tactic: remotely controlled, explosive-packed vehicles.

Rather than deploying troops on the ground, the Israeli military has been sending decommissioned armoured personnel carriers (APCs) into densely populated residential areas.

These APCs, packed with tonnes of explosives, are remotely navigated into neighbourhoods and then detonated, causing widespread devastation.

In some cases, the vehicles drop explosive barrels along streets and detonate them simultaneously, maximising the destruction across entire blocks.

“The explosions usually start just when you’re trying to sleep, around 10 or 11pm,” said Shabaan, adding that eight to ten blasts can be heard every night.

“They’re extremely powerful. They reduce entire buildings to crushed rubble,” he said.

Though he lived through many Israeli wars in Gaza and witnessed first-hand the destruction caused by F-16 fighter jets, this was on a different level.

“Nothing compares to these robots,” he said. “They are far more devastating than air strikes.”

‘Wiping off’ Gaza City ... READ MORE https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/genocide-remote-control-israeli-explosive-robots-devastate-gaza

Israeli air strikes, quadcopters and booby-trapped vehicles target Palestinians in Gaza City. Israel says Gaza City ground offensive has begun as UN commission rules Israel is committing genocide in the enclave

A barefoot Palestinian girl can be seen near the rubble of al-Ghafari tower in Gaza City after it was destroyed by Israeli air strikes on 15 September 2025 (Omar al-Qattaa/AFP)

By Maha Hussaini in Gaza City, occupied Palestine

Published date: 16 September 2025

Relentless Israeli air strikes and artillery shelling targeted desperate Palestinians in Gaza City on Tuesday, on the same day a United Nations inquiry ruled that Israel is committing genocide in the besieged enclave.

Thick columns of black smoke could be seen filling the sky above the southern Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood, as the sounds of fighter jets, helicopter and quadcopter gunfire, along with the detonation of explosive-laden vehicles, echoed throughout the embattled city.

Following weeks of intense aerial attacks on the neighbourhoods of Zeitoun and Sheikh Radwan, Israeli forces stepped up their assault on Gaza City, with the military announcing a "new phase" in its 23-month-long war.

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz celebrated the announcement of the deadly assault, declaring on X that "Gaza [City] is burning."

"The IDF (Israeli army) is striking the terror infrastructure with an iron fist... We will not relent and we will not back down, until the mission is completed," he said.

Hours before the assault began, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that while the Trump administration wished for a diplomatic end to the war, "we have to be prepared for the possibility that's not going to happen."... READ MORE https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-city-israel-strikes-quadcopters-booby-trapped-vehicles-target-palestinians

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

The United Nations Commission of Inquiry found that Israel is committing a genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. In its report it concluded: “It is clear there is an intent to destroy the Palestinians in Gaza through acts that meet the criteria set forth in the Genocide Convention.”

United Nations Geneva

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“It is clear there is an intent to destroy the Palestinians in Gaza through acts that meet the criteria set forth in the Genocide Convention.” UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry's report shows #Israel has committed #genocide in #Gaza.

https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session60/advance-version/a-hrc-60-crp-3.pdf

Dear America- Political violence, racist violence, religious violence, war violence, drug violence, domestic violence, etc.: Violence is a problem- not the answer.

International Day of Peace September 21

United Nations 2025: Global cooperation drives efforts to uphold human rights, combat climate change, and promote peace in conflict-affected regions

letter I wrote & sent to my elected leaders this morning

Dear America

I detest HAMAS, but I am not so gullible & easily mislead to believe that HAMAS has ever had as much power or weaponry as Israel wants us to believe.

Israel needs an obvious enemy to point at as an excuse so that Israel can more easily attack and destroy Palestinians: FYI Palestinians are human beings- men, women, and children with hopes and dreams, human beings who are a diverse mix of good, bad, and indifferent just like all other human beings, regardless of supposed race or religion.

Gaza City, a city over five thousand years old, is being destroyed by Israeli bombs and explosives. The destruction of this ancient city coupled with the day-by-day massacres of its men, women, and children is being live streamed on social media. Meanwhile our mainstream legacy media barely notices, and when it does publicize anything, it phrases things to protect and coddle Israel.

Fact is modern Israel craves a never-ending supply of money & weaponry paid for by Western wage slaves who risk their jobs & livelihoods when they dare object to the cruel injustice, hypocrisy, bigotry and toxic delusions that are currently convincing IDF soldiers to make a sport out of targeting and killing young children in the rubble & ruin of Gaza.

How many more countries will Israel attack, how many more cities & villages & homes will Israeli forces raze, how many more farms & gardens will Israel wreck, how many more young lives will Israel ruin, and how many more families will Israeli settlers and colonizers torment and push into poverty.

Knowing our history, America should be firmly endorsing peace with the rule of fair and just laws & true equality based on justice and security for ALL people: Religion is a personal private choice, religion should not funded by tax payers here or there, and religion most certainly should not be used as a reason or an excuse to hate and harm others.

Political violence, racist violence, religious violence, war violence, drug violence, domestic violence, etc.: Violence is a problem- not the answer.

Sincerely,

Anne Selden Annab

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"Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world..." https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights

The $2.7 trillion question - what is the true cost of security? | A new report by the United Nations Secretary-General explores how rebalancing military spending for a sustainable and peaceful future can furnish the security we need.

“The world is spending far more on waging war than on building peace.” The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Sept. 2025: The true cost of peace [& the CRUCIAL IMPORTANCE of] Rebalancing world military spending for a sustainable and peaceful future

"Recognizing a Palestinian state is a limited but welcome step that addresses an enduring blind spot: Palestinian rights cannot be conditioned on Israeli interests" Noam Sheizaf in The Guardian

Israeli home demolitions, family fragmentation, and forced displacement of Palestinians began in 1948 with the Nakba and continues to this day- Sept. 15th 2025

Artists4Ceasefire: WE BELEIVE all life is sacred, NO MATTER FAITH OR ETHNICITY... CEASEFIRE NOW... STOP WEAPONS... SAVE LIVES

After calling for a free Palestine in her Emmys acceptance speech, the Hacks star said ‘I feel like it is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel’- Hannah Einbinder and Javier Bardem among Emmy stars to call for Gaza ceasefire

Israeli airstrikes on Saturday leveled three schools run by the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in Gaza City, displacing thousands of civilians who had been sheltering there from months of bombardment

680,000 DEAD... Based on all the data collected, the death toll in Gaza is at least 680,000 and 380,000 are infants under five years of age...

From Every River to Every Sea ...

"No self-respecting journalist considers Holocaust denial a legitimate point of view, and no serious media organisation argues that impartiality requires it to provide Holocaust denial with a platform in any serious discussion about Germany's extermination of Europe's Jews during World War Two - let alone equal time, or beginning and ending every such discussion with "Germany said". Gaza Genocide denial, by contrast, is a well-organised and orchestrated global campaign sponsored, funded, and avidly promoted - without any hindrance whatsoever - by the regime perpetrating the genocide."

AFTER SAVAGERY: "The West’s moral exceptionalism has expired. What’s left is the hard work of rebuilding universality from the camp outward, universality as solidarity, not domination. Palestine is not a cause on your list; it is a lens. Through it, everything sharpens: climate justice, policing, borders, surveillance, labour. The same empire, the same alibi. Choose your side."

“It is catastrophic throughout the city. Nonstop airstrikes everywhere, including without prior warning. Almost every moment a house gets bombed. It’s terrifying,” an UNRWA doctor in Gaza City told us. Intensified Israeli attacks on Gaza City continue. People have nowhere to go. No place is safe. This war must stop. CeasefireNow

UN general assembly votes to back Hamas-free government for Palestine. Compromise plan sees Arab states condemning 7 October attacks in return for clear UN support for a Palestinian state

Sept. 12th, 2025: UN General Assembly ADOPTS resolution endorsing the New York Declaration on the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution

"Apply international law and the UN Charter, which form the basis of your legitimacy. Use these tools to enforce the acceptance of the exchange deal that Qatar, Egypt, and the United States have worked on. Use them to stop the aggression on Gaza, to end the starvation, to enforce the entry of humanitarian aid," Jordan’s FM Ayman Safadi at UN Security Council Sept. 2025: "Safadi described the ‘Israeli’ government as "a rogue government, stained with the blood of innocents, driven by extremism and hatred, that neither cares for international law nor is deterred by human values.""

Agree to disagree… and let people live their lives: Teach your children that it's okay to disagree with someone, but it is never okay to harm someone else.

Global military spending reached an unprecedented $2.7 trillion in 2024 amid intensifying wars and rising geopolitical tensions worldwide. “The world is spending far more on waging war than in building peace,” the UN Secretary-General António Guterres said at a press briefing for his new report on the threat posed by the steady rise in military expenditure.

The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago [USA] and Munich [Germany]- Five-month investigation reveals how four members of one family were shot and killed in a single day and highlights a pattern in which Israeli troops target unarmed civilians

"Settler violence, carried out under the protection and encouragement of Israeli authorities, is an inseparable part of the Jewish supremacy regime, which perpetrates genocide in the Gaza Strip and forcibly displaces thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank."

" “Why does the PM insist on blowing up any deal that comes close?” despaired the mother of a hostage held in Gaza, following Israel’s airstrike in Qatar on Tuesday. For anyone who doubted Benjamin Netanyahu’s commitment to the forever war he unleashed after 7 October..." The Guardian view on Israel’s attack in Doha: western passivity is allowing Netanyahu to cross every red line

Maps: Israel has attacked six countries in the past 72 hours In just three days, Israel has carried out strikes in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Tunisia, Qatar and Yemen.

Arab Christian Bedouin woman from the town of Al-Karak, Ottoman Empire, 1898... before WWII shaped Western imposed borders & bigotry that ended freedom & respect for Arabs in The Holy Land

1946, Jerusalem, Palestine: Janette Mikhael with teachers and students of the Girl Scout Leaders at Horsh al-Qubaybeh located west of Jerusalem.

Mahmoud Khalil : “My story is just a small story,” he says. “A story of how violence against Palestinians can be transported around the world.” ... A Palestinian refugee, intimately familiar with the experience of repeated displacement, he remains resolute in the face of a prospective fresh exile. “Even if I am deported, I would continue to speak out for Palestine,”

Israel targets and kills at least one child every hour...

US visa refusal for Palestinian delegation prompts calls to move UN meeting to Geneva. General assembly session about two-state solution for Palestine and Israel due to start in New York on Tuesday

Israel used to lie about killing journalists; now it barely bothers to do so. What happened? by Meron Rapoport in The Guardian

Palestinians to ask UK to own up to ‘law violations’ between 1917 and 1948 Petition, drafted by human rights lawyers, says war crimes were committed during British occupation of Palestine

"Hello from Palestine! This is Lifta. It was a Palestinian village just outside of Jerusalem. In 1948, Zionist paramilitaries massacred local residents and launched repeated attacks. They drove out the local population. This was one example of the horrors of the Nakba, when 750,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes and 15,000 were murdered. Today only the ruins remain, but a few of the survivors - and many thousand descendants - live on." Owen Jones

The Voice of Hind Rajab gets record 23-minute ovation at Venice premiere

"In Gaza, journalists are not just relaying the tragedies of displacement, loss, and starvation. They are experiencing it firsthand in all of its extremities, too. But when journalists are also targets, who reports on them? More than 270 Palestinian media personnel have been killed in 21 months. Who defended them? This was the duty of international journalists: to stand by their peers, to serve as their armour, to amplify their voices." Mariam Barghouti

"The media’s initial reporting and subsequent failure to hold Israel truly accountable highlights a disturbing trend in which Western outlets choose Israeli propaganda over the truth, often downplaying and normalising blatant violations of international law. As such, the media allows the continued dehumanisation of Palestinians and the normalisation of Israel’s atrocities, even genocide. The Nasser hospital bombing is not an aberration, it is part of a larger pattern of Israeli aggression against Gaza’s civilian infrastructure, including hospitals, homes, and schools. " Assal Rad

"Beyond Gaza, in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli military and armed settlers are inflicting appalling violence on Palestinians – annexation is now a declared political objective. The world’s indifference and inaction are shocking; amount to complicity; and compromise the stability of the entire region." UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini ..."UNRWA must be allowed to deliver aid and reverse the man-made famine in Gaza."

Update: Alarming Escalation of Israeli Soldiers’ Looting during Raids in the West Bank

In Gaza, priests and nuns have chosen to stay. They refuse to abandon their people, even as bombs fall and threats grow. Their courage is a light in the darkest night... #Witness #Palestine #Churches #Christians

"Human rights don’t change with the seasons, political winds, or trends. They are timeless. In an increasingly polarised world, they help to unite us. No matter where we live or what we believe, we all want safety and peace for ourselves & those we love." Volker Türk #United Nations #GoldenRuleThinking

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STOP THE SIEGE- stop funding crazy cruel Israeli schemes & the forced displacement, imprisonment, starvation, torture, and killing of human beings in Gaza and Palestine

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