1940s, Nazareth, Palestine 🇵🇸 Palestinian girl-scouts.

1940s, Nazareth, Palestine Palestinian girl-scouts.

January 2026's supermoon over the Nuseirat area of Gaza Photograph by Anadolu/Getty Images

Deir al-Balah, Gaza

The moon in the evening over the Nuseirat area of GazaPhotograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

 https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2026/jan/03/wolf-moon-supermoon-across-the-world-in-pictures

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Families are struggling to survive amid the devastation. Israel’s ban on international NGOs will worsen this disaster: The Guardian view on Gaza’s winter [ISRAEL'S WAR ON PALESTINIANS]... the world must take heed as Palestinian suffering deepens again

A child at al-Bureij refugee camp, Nusairat, Gaza Strip. Photograph: APAImages/Shutterstock

As Gaza enters the bleakest period of winter, children are dying of hypothermia, drowning in flooded camps and burning to death as their families try to cook in flimsy tents. Israel destroyed nine out of 10 homes over more than two years of war. Camped amid the ruins, Palestinians struggle against strong winds, heavy rain and freezing temperatures. Aid deliveries resumed following the ceasefire, staving off the famine that had taken hold in parts of the territory, but remain wholly insufficient: 1.6 million people face acute food insecurity. The sanitation infrastructure has collapsed.

The UK, Canada, Japan, France and six other nations have jointly warned that the situation is catastrophic. Yet Israel is now deepening one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. On Tuesday, it announced that it is deregistering 37 NGOs active in Gaza. They must cease all operations there by 1 March unless they meet its new “security and transparency standards” – including by disclosing the personal details of staff. Many of the listed groups are among the best-regarded in their field, including Oxfam, Médecins Sans Frontières and the Norwegian Refugee Council.

Volker Türk, the UN human rights chief, was right to describe this as outrageous – and as part of a pattern of unlawful restrictions on humanitarian access. Israeli NGOs have warned that it breaks the principles of independence and neutrality for humanitarian organisations.

Israel says that the measures are necessary to prevent NGOs employing staff with links to extremist groups. It has repeatedly claimed that Hamas has infiltrated aid organisations and exploited international aid, while providing little evidence. Given the many relief workers arbitrarily detained and killed since the war began, the demand for staff lists has prompted alarm. Israel has reportedly refused requests for meetings on the issue.

Meanwhile, as Israel bars life-saving supplies such as tent poles and generators from humanitarian shipments, claiming they could be exploited for military purposes, it allows traders to bring such items into the territory. While ordinary Palestinians suffer, players inside and outside the territory profit financially and politically. US officers in Israel have reportedly urged that key items, including tent poles, be removed from the blacklist – without success... READ MORE  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/02/the-guardian-view-on-gazas-winter-the-world-must-take-heed-as-palestinian-suffering-deepens-again

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"... What other ethnic group would be treated with such indifference or ignorance or bias? Especially a devastated population, with the heaviest casualties among babies and children, by U.S.-made weapons. " Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader

@RalphNader

 

The media’s continued indifference to the massive under death count of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the genocidal Netanyahu—embraced for the 5th time this year at the White House—by Dictator Trump. The total death count coming from the most intense bombardment and starvation (food, water, medicine and healthcare) of a human population in military history in the tiny enclave is not nearly 70,000. It’s about 600,000—or slightly over a quarter of the civilian population. 

 

What other ethnic group would be treated with such indifference or ignorance or bias? Especially a devastated population, with the heaviest casualties among babies and children, by U.S.-made weapons.

https://x.com/RalphNader/status/2007105459719713058 

 

Civic Self-Respect

by Ralph Nader

Seven Stories Press  https://www.sevenstories.com/books/4505-civic-self-respect?srsltid=AfmBOooe0l0Zvtxn-KJ-9dBiwv1L4dS67VqFbFGz0XDZ9sJdDJ9MGgh7

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Born in Connecticut in 1934, RALPH NADER has spent his lifetime challenging corporations and government agencies to be more accountable to the public. His 1965 book Unsafe at Any Speed permanently altered the course of a reckless U.S. automobile industry and made Nader a household name. His lobbying and writing on the food industry helped to ensure that the food we buy is required to pass strict guidelines before reaching the consumer. One of Nader’s greatest achievements was his successful lobbying for a 1974 amendment to the Freedom of Information Act, which gave increased public access to government documents. Over the years he has co-founded the public interest groups Public Citizen, Critical Mass, Commercial Alert, and the Center for the Study of Responsive Law. His 2000 presidential campaign on the Green Party ticket served to broaden the scope of debate on the nation’s priorities. Named by the Atlantic as one of the hundred most influential figures in American history, Nader continues to be a relentless advocate for grassroots activism and democratic change. He lives in Washington, D.C. 

✝️ Hosh Al-Syrian | Bethlehem, Palestine. 🇵🇸 It says in Arabic: “In the month of July, 1883 God is the guardian and the guide, and the house built by the Lord shall not shelter the wicked.”

Hosh Al-Syrian | Bethlehem, Palestine. It says in Arabic: “In the month of July, 1883 God is the guardian and the guide, and the house built by the Lord shall not shelter the wicked.”

Israel has banned 37 aid organisations from working in Gaza from January 1, severing access to lifesaving aid for Palestinians, as its genocide continues... & [NOTICE UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) is not on this list- UNRWA was already blocked by Israel earlier last month] UNRWA Commissioner-General on New Anti‑UNRWA Legislation Passed by the Israeli Parliament

[NOTICE  UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) is not on this list- UNRWA was already blocked by Israel earlier last month]

https://x.com/AJEnglish/status/2006908305369678257/photo/1

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 https://apnews.com/article/gaza-humanitarian-aid-suspension-israel-ec535cea548ddc75080f1e6bffe53801

List of aid groups working in Gaza that Israel is suspending

1. Action Against Hunger

2. ActionAid

3. Alianza por la Solidaridad

4. Campaign for the Children of Palestine

5. CARE

6. DanChurchAid

7. Danish Refugee Council

8. Handicap International: Humanity & Inclusion

9. Japan International Volunteer Center

10. Medecins du Monde France

11. Medecins du Monde Switzerland

12. Medecins Sans Frontieres Belgium

13. Medecins Sans Frontieres France

14. Medecins Sans Frontieres Nederland

15. Medicos del Mundo

16. Mercy Corps

17. MSF Spain

18. Norwegian Refugee Council

19. Oxfam Novib

20. Premiere Urgence Internationale

21. Terre des hommes Lausanne

22. International Rescue Committee

23. WeWorld-GVC

24. World Vision International

25. Relief International

26. Fondazione AVSI

27. Movement for Peace-MPDL

28. American Friends Service Committee

29. Medico International

30. Palestine Solidarity Association in Sweden

31. Defense for Children International

32. Medical Aid for Palestinians UK

33. Caritas Internationalis

34. Caritas Jerusalem

35. Near East Council of Churches

36. Oxfam Quebec

37. War Child Holland

[NOTICE  UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) is not on this list- UNRWA was already blocked by Israel earlier last month]

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 https://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/official-statements/unrwa-commissioner-general-new-anti%E2%80%91unrwa-legislation-passed-israeli-Parliament

UNRWA Commissioner-General on New Anti‑UNRWA Legislation Passed by the Israeli Parliament

The United Nations flag is seen flying above the UNRWA compound in East Jerusalem, shortly before Israeli officials tore it down and replaced it with the Israeli flag on 8 December 2025

 

From Philippe Lazzarini, the UNRWA Commissioner-General as posted on his official X account (previously known as Twitter) 

 

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AMMAN

“Yesterday’s vote by the Israeli parliament passing new legislation against UNRWA is outrageous. It is a direct affront to the mandate granted to the Agency by the UN General Assembly and contrary to findings of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which oblige Israel to fulfil its responsibilities as a UN Member State to UNRWA and the broader UN system.

The legislation cuts off water, electricity, fuel, and communications from UNRWA and grants the government of Israel authority to expropriate UN properties in East Jerusalem, including UNRWA’s headquarters and its main vocational training centre.

Furthermore, the bill explicitly excludes UNRWA from Israeli law enacting Israel’s obligations under the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations. This stands in clear violation of the State of Israel’s obligations under international law.

This latest move extends the laws passed last year and implemented since January 2025 that banned UNRWA’s operations in occupied East Jerusalem and halted all contact between Israeli officials and UNRWA.

The new legislation is a further blow to the multilateral system. It is part of an ongoing, systematic campaign to discredit UNRWA and thereby obstruct the core role that the Agency plays in providing human-development assistance and services to Palestine Refugees. Services which the ICJ has ruled are essential for delivering on the UN’s commitment to the rights of the Palestinian people, including their right to self-determination.

In October, the ICJ restated that the State of Israel is obliged under international law to facilitate UNRWA’s operations, not hinder or prevent them. This new legislation is an unacceptable rejection of the ICJ’s findings.

Israel is obliged to act within the UN framework and not take unilateral action contrary to its obligations under the UN Charter. Should Israel dispute the actions of UNRWA, it must refer the issue to the UN’s deliberative bodies and seek a decisive ruling from the ICJ. A failure to do so disrespects the procedures critical to the operation of the UN system.

 Despite Israel’s obligations, these legislative steps have been accompanied by unilateral actions on the ground that show a repeated disregard for international law.

Earlier this month, Israeli officials stormed UNRWA’s compound in East Jerusalem – which is a UN premises – and tore down the UN flag, replacing it with an Israeli flag. And in May, they forced the closure of UNRWA’s schools in East Jerusalem, depriving hundreds of Palestine Refugee children of their right to education.

Israel’s unilateral actions are having a direct operational and legal impact on UNRWA’s services in the occupied Palestinian territory, including in Gaza, where the Agency is the backbone of the international humanitarian operation. As Gaza, the West Bank, and the wider region continue to face conflict and turmoil, UNRWA – more than ever – is irreplaceable.  

Legislation against UNRWA is also a further setback to efforts to reach a just and lasting diplomatic solution to the decades’ long Israeli-Palestinian conflict.   Pending such a solution, UNRWA is mandated to provide services, especially health and education, to Palestine Refugees. 

The rights of Palestine Refugees exist separate to UNRWA, under international human rights law, international humanitarian law, and UN General Assembly resolutions, including Resolution 194, adopted in 1948, a year before UNRWA was created in Resolution 302. Even if UNRWA no longer existed, these rights would endure.

The current and earlier legislation passed by the Israeli parliament also rejects the principal obligation of UN Member States to respect the UN’s independence and its privileges and immunities. It creates a grave precedent for other conflict situations where governments may wish to eliminate an inconvenient UN presence.

It therefore targets not just UNRWA, but any individual or entity calling for compliance with international law and a peaceful political solution. Failing to push back against attempts to intimidate and undermine the UN in the occupied Palestinian territory will eventually compromise humanitarian and human rights work worldwide. “

 https://x.com/unlazzarini/status/2005783683765043400?s=46&t=n-DGCyE5Su6GxZ75P5lB7A

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" "Our home is dear to us, the memories are dear to us, the family, the neighbors, and the good people are dear to us," said Motaz Mohor, whose home was set to be destroyed as he watched the bulldozers. "The first time our grandparents were displaced, and this is the second time." His grandparents had moved to Nur Shams after their original displacement from the cities of Jaffa and Haifa during the 1948 war surrounding Israel's creation, when some 700,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes by forces of the nascent state or fled as troops advanced, an event Palestinians call the Nakba, or "catastrophe." "

An Israeli army bulldozer demolishes homes in the Palestinian urban refugee camp of Nur Shams, near the West Bank city of Tulkarem on Wednesday. Photo by Majdi Mohammed/AP Photo

 

Palestinians watch as Israeli bulldozers claw down their West Bank homes

World Dec 31, 2025 4:09 PM EST

NUR SHAMS REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank (AP) — Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank watched as Israeli military bulldozers pulled down their homes Wednesday as part of a nearly year-long incursion into the territory's northern refugee camps.

The scene in Nur Shams has been repeated often across the northern West Bank in the roughly 11 months since Israeli troops launched operation "Iron Wall" there in early 2025. During that time, the military has demolished or heavily damaged at least 850 structures across the refugee camps of Nur Shams, Jenin and Tulkarem, according to an analysis of satellite imagery by Human Rights Watch.

Troops have also forced out the camps' populations, leading to the largest displacement in the West Bank since Israel captured the territory in 1967. Tens of thousands of residents are living with relatives, cramming into rental apartments or living in public buildings.... READ MORE  https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/palestinians-watch-as-israeli-bulldozers-claw-down-their-west-bank-homes

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Dear America, Our land and resources are being gobbled up for AI data centers for what purpose? Is it for the greater good of tax paying citizens- or is it to feed the greed of corporations and companies that already use our data to charge us as much as they can at every turn.

Pennsylvania Data Center Partners and PowerHouse Data Centers are planning a $15 billion data center campus in the Carlisle area, alongside the scenic Conodoguinet Creek, Central Pennsylvania

letter I just sent to my elected leaders- HAPPY NEW YEAR!  

Dear America,

Our land and resources are being gobbled up for AI data centers for what purpose?   Is it for the greater good of tax paying citizens- or is it to feed the greed of corporations and companies that already use our data to charge us as much as they can at every turn.

The game is being rigged to impoverish and destroy select individuals and families here, there, and soon everywhere. Fees now- maybe bulldozers later as those in power misuse their position for miserly motives- or vengeance against those they do not like... as in state sponsored racist hate or misogyny.

FYI Israel has been freely using AI to destroy the people of historic Palestine, in tandem with deploying propaganda to silence and systematically impoverish good and decent people who object to the blatant injustice and violence that Zionism inspires.   All Israel has to do is accuse an individual of being or supporting HAMAS and BAM another journalist is killed and more Palestinian homes are demolished AND more and more Palestinian land is usurped.  

All Israel has to do is posit disinformation accusing an aid group of harboring HAMAS and BAM aid funding is stopped- and Palestinian babies starve and freeze to death.  

Why are our Congress and our President so willing to be conned and manipulated by Israel?!!!

A human rights rules based order providing food and shelter for starving people is being destroyed because Israel wants the land- but not the native non-Jewish people of that land. 

The United Nations & Golden Rule thinking are being sabotaged intentionally, just as our own Congress and our Fourth Estate has been corrupted and crippled by a very foreign country that wants our money and weaponry- but not our ideals of real freedom, justice, and equality.

Keep in mind the fact that data center hardware will be obsolete in less than a decade- filling up and polluting our landfills.  Costing us more and more in many ways as the decades pass: A data center consumes enough power in a day to power a small city- think of all the pollution that will produce... all for what?!!!

All for AI and Israel- the most pervasive con jobs in our modern world.

We should be investing in people and diversity and jobs- real jobs- real justice- Golden Rule thinking and being... not war, injustice, Billionaire greed, and AI tricks

Sincerely,

Anne Selden Annab

NOTES https://anniesnewletters.blogspot.com/search/label/Notes

"The deregistration of 37 INGOs undermines principled humanitarian action, endangers staff and communities, and compromises effective aid delivery." "Ensuring access to humanitarian aid is a legal obligation, not a discretionary choice.”

‘Data is control’: what we learned from a year investigating the Israeli military’s ties to big tech Our reporting revealed a symbiotic relationship between the IDF and Silicon Valley – with implications for the future of warfare By Noa Yachot

"On this new year, let’s resolve to get our priorities straight. A safer world begins by investing more in fighting poverty and less in fighting wars. Peace must prevail. It’s clear the world has the resources to lift lives, heal the planet, and secure a future of peace and justice.In 2026, I call on leaders everywhere: Get serious. Choose people and planet over pain. And I urge everyone who hears this message: Play your part. Our future depends on our collective courage to act. This new year, let’s rise together: For justice. For humanity. For peace. "

‘A gift that cannot be sold’: the Palestinian family fighting to save their West Bank farm- For more than three decades, the Nassars have battled Israeli efforts to reclassify their property as ‘state land’

When the holiday lights come down, our commitment to world peace must endure - William Lambers in The Patriot News

    "It’s important that each of us be an advocate for peace and charity. You can do this by speaking out and letting your elected officials     know your support of humanitarian aid." -William Lambers

The March of Trees -Nabil Anani & On the Wing of an Angel -Sliman Mansour... EXPLORE more in the Palestinian Museum

More rain. More human misery, despair and death. Harsh winter weather is compounding more than two years of suffering. People in Gaza are surviving in flimsy, waterlogged tents and among ruins. There is nothing inevitable about this. Aid supplies are not being allowed in at the scale required. Meanwhile, as the largest UN agency on the ground, #UNRWAworks to do what we can. We could multiply these efforts tomorrow if aid flowed in. — @UNLazzarini

1935, Bethlehem, Palestine 🇵🇸 Portrait of Marguerite Kattan (née Mattia Kattan) reading alongside her two sisters.

Suddenly, a strong windstorm turns all the displaced persons sheltering here into tentless... Israeli occupation authorities must have [SHOULD HAVE] allowed the entry of 60,000 mobile homes in January, but they have allowed the entry of nothing. - Journalist Motasem A Dalloul

“I look forward to the day when there will be an investigation into the role of Western corporate media in this genocide. Because this is not just a genocide that has been overlooked. This is a genocide that has been justified and enabled by the media.” —Francesca Albanese

Feliz Navidad 2025- Nativity scene made by the follower Elduayen Navallas Roc, a Franciscan tertiary from Navarre.

The sun rises over the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on December 24, 2025

This Christmas remember Palestine- Madonna and Child featuring the Palestinian flag and star of Bethlehem- painted by Irish artist and human rights activist Freda Hughes

Israel must let UNRWA aid into Gaza ... UNRWA has food, shelter, medical and other essential supplies outside of Gaza - enough to reach hundreds of thousands of people facing the harsh winter. This aid has been blocked by Israeli Authorities since March. Refusing to let it in is a choice – one that deprives people inside Gaza of the means to survive and recover. UNRWA's 12,000 team members are working tirelessly inside Gaza... But letting the blocked aid in would enable them to multiply their operations massively.

Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, welcome the stranger, care for the sick, comfort the afflicted, love the outcast, inspire the hopeless.

1939, Iqrit, Palestine - At the time of their eviction in November 1948, Iqrit was home to 491 residents, the majority of whom 432 were Melkite (Greek Catholic) Christians living throughout the village, the remaining 59 Muslim inhabitants either rented homes in Iqrit or had built houses in the nearby area of esh-Shafaya. By 1948, the villagers collectively owned around 600 dunams (approximately 600,000 m²) of private land. Much of this area was covered with fig groves that served both the people of Iqrit and neighboring communities....

Bethlehem, Palestine today ... Christmas Day 2025... "The birthplace of Jesus - Bethlehem, [Palestine] 🇵🇸 - is walled off from the world by Israel, shrunk to less than 15% of its size by land grab & isolated from its twin city Jerusalem. Yet Christmas for Palestinians is a joyous national holiday of hope in justice. Merry Christmas to all." Nour Odeh

Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza City is named after Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. According to tradition, the Holy Family passed through Gaza during their flight into Egypt after the visit of the Magi, when Herod ordered the massacre of the innocents.

Merry Christmas from Times Square- from the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) which was founded in 1980 in response to stereotyping, defamation, and discrimination directed against Americans of Arab origin.

     + JESUS IS PALESTINIAN +

Christmas is not a Western story – it is a Palestinian one: Christmas is a story of empire, injustice and the vulnerability of ordinary people caught in its path.... "This Christmas, our invitation to the global church — and to Western Christians in particular — is to remember where the story began. To remember that Bethlehem is not a myth but a place where people still live. If the Christian world is to honour the meaning of Christmas, it must turn its gaze to Bethlehem — not the imagined one, but the real one, a town whose people today still cry out for justice, dignity and peace." Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac

Merry Christmas from Palestine- a message from Ambassador Dr. Husam Zomlot -Christmas 2025

Israel approves 19 new illegal settlements further limiting Palestinain movement and undermining the prospect of a two-state solution to end the Israel/Palestine conflict.

‘Treated as criminals’: Gaza fishermen risk everything at sea Facing starvation, Palestinians turn to the sea to feed their families, risking imprisonment or death

The only entirely Christian village of the West Bank is getting ready to celebrate the Lord's coming in an atmosphere halfway between the joy of the festivity and the fear of new attacks by Israeli colonists.

East Jerusalem: Israeli forces demolish a residential building consisting of 13 apartments belonging to Palestinians in the Silwan neighbourhood.... "As part of its efforts to expel Palestinians and carry out ethnic cleansing, Israel enforces a policy that disrupts every aspect of life for Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem and is designed to push them out of their homes and city. "

"In July, international agencies warned of the danger he was in as the Israel Defense Forces stepped up online attacks, falsely labelling him a Hamas terrorist." It was lethal to be in Gaza this year, and deadly for those who tried to tell the world

Preserving Palestinian culinary heritage... As a small pastry shop in Jerusalem, Zalatimo Sweets came to this world. Their journey started over a century ago, namely in Palestine in 1860. It all began with the "Mutabak" - a popular Arabian pastry.

Carrying the hope of Christmas ... the children of Palestine

“For over two years, a coordinated campaign to dismantle UNRWA has reached unseen levels, using disinformation as a weapon...” Philippe Lazzarini

Cold is not a natural disaster when shelter is denied- After destroying over 85% pf Gaza's homes, Israel is blocking the entry of caravans and reconstruction materials

"The Christ child still lies among the rubble, reminding us that God chose not safety, not power, not palaces—but vulnerability and solidarity with the crushed of the earth. And yet now, rising from that rubble, stands a tree - a living tree. For me, this is a profoundly Palestinian image—and a profoundly Christian one. The tree is declaration. It is the tree of life. It is defiance in the face of death. It is hope planted where despair is expected to rule. The tree appears almost as if it grows out of the rubble itself. Not beside it. Not after it is cleared away. But from within it. This is our story." Rev. Munther Isaac

Dallas church’s Nativity evokes immigration detention centers, homelessness: The Nativity scene asks passersby to consider what it would look like if Jesus’ birth took place today.

Dear America- Real freedom, justice, and democracy are being embezzled by corporate greed and political corruption to empower Israel and war.

"ISRAEL SAYS" is not God talking.

Israel has a right to exist, but Israel has no right to starve and displace the men, women and children of historic Palestine.

The vast majority of Americans are not wealthy & the taxes that We The People pay are being diverted into funding religious bigotry and terror via Israel's cruel war on the native non-Jewish men, women, and children of historic Palestine. HAMAS cruelty and stupidity echoes Zionist cruelty and stupidity and on and on it goes. Neither approach will build peace or security.

The weapons industry and a global war machine- AND INJUSTICE- burgeon with American tax payer funds.

Violence is a problem- not the answer.

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

"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 deregistration of 37 INGOs undermines principled humanitarian action, endangers staff and communities, and compromises effective aid delivery." "Ensuring access to humanitarian aid is a legal obligation, not a discretionary choice.”

B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم

@btselem

B’Tselem joins the Statement by 19 Israel-based human rights organizations on the deregistration of INGOs: 

“The deregistration of 37 INGOs undermines principled humanitarian action, endangers staff and communities, and compromises effective aid delivery." 

"Ensuring access to humanitarian aid is a legal obligation, not a discretionary choice.” 

 https://x.com/btselem/status/2006644225996173530

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