Israel land grab law 'ends hope of two-state solution'

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Like to share. Another good summary of whats happened so far.

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This is why Israel wants to silence her

Francesca Albanese, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories







Amnesty International accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza

A damning new report by the rights group finds Israel’s war on Gaza meets legal threshold for genocide against the Palestinian people.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024...accuses-israel-of-committing-genocide-in-gaza




Gaza: Life in a death trap

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has witnessed 14 months of repeated attacks on civilians, the dismantling of essential civilian infrastructure including healthcare facilities, and a systematic denial of humanitarian assistance, seemingly underpinning Israel’s campaign to unravel the very fabric of society in Gaza. In the first 12 months of hostilities, MSF staff themselves have endured 41 attacks and violent incidents, including airstrikes, shelling and violent incursions in health facilities, direct fire on its shelters and convoys and arbitrary detention by Israeli forces. Eight MSF colleagues and many of their family members have been killed, many more have been injured. Medical personnel and patients alike have been forced to urgently evacuate health facilities on 17 separate occasions, often literally running for their lives. MSF has only been able to restart activities in three facilities.

https://www.msf.org/life-death-trap-gaza-palestine





"Extermination & Acts of Genocide": Human Rights Watch on Israel Depriving Gaza of Water

Human Rights Watch is accusing Israel of committing acts of extermination and genocide by deliberately restricting safe water for drinking and sanitation to the Gaza Strip.

The report details how Israel has cut off water and blocked fuel, food and humanitarian aid from entering the Gaza Strip, and deliberately destroyed or damaged water and sanitation infrastructure and water repair materials. We speak to one of the report's editors, Bill Van Esveld, the acting Israel and Palestine associate director at Human Rights Watch, who describes "a clear state policy of depriving people in Gaza of water," that HRW is, for the first time in the current Israeli assault on Gaza, characterizing as a genocidal act.










Hmmm again dont expect much but we will see where this goes.

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A new lawsuit accuses the State Department of failing to ever sanction Israeli military units under the Leahy Law, which was passed in 1997 to prevent the United States from funding foreign military units credibly implicated in gross human rights violations.

The case was brought by five Palestinians in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and the United States and is supported by the human rights group DAWN. Former State Department official Charles Blaha, who served as director of the human rights office tasked with implementing the Leahy Law, says there is a mountain of evidence of Israel carrying out torture, extrajudicial killings, rape, enforced disappearances and other abuses.

"Despite all that, the State Department has never once held any Israeli unit ineligible for assistance under the Leahy Law," says Blaha, now a senior adviser at DAWN. We also speak with Palestinian American writer Ahmed Moor, one of the plaintiffs in the suit, who has family in Gaza and says the last year of genocide has made the lawsuit more urgent. "The conditions of basic life are not being met. Gaza is unlivable," says Moor.


 
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More news from the Westbank. Palestinian Authority is cracking down on the resistance movements.


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There’s fighting in the Jenin refugee camp between Palestinian Authority (PA) forces, who have raided the camp, and Jenin Brigades fighters.

Jenin holds a special place in the hearts and minds of the people living under Israeli occupation in the West Bank.

In an exclusive interview, he said his armed group was the only thing keeping Palestinians safe from the violence of Israeli settlers in the Occupied West Bank.






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A young Palestinian journalist was shot dead overnight in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. On Sunday, her family accused the Palestinian Authority's (PA) security forces of killing her.

Shatha al-Sabbagh, a journalism student in her early twenties, was fatally shot in the head. According to her family, the bullet was fired by a PA security forces sniper during a period of calm, with no clashes occurring at the time.

The PA security forces, however, attributed her death to Palestinian "militants," referring to resistance fighters, and claimed she was shot during nocturnal clashes in the camp. In a statement, the PA described the incident as a "heinous crime committed by outlaws inside the Jenin camp."

Shatha’s family strongly refuted these claims, holding the PA security forces directly responsible for her death.

The Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate has called for an independent investigation to determine the circumstances surrounding her killing.

Her death is the latest in a series of fatalities in the Jenin area, where ongoing clashes between Palestinian resistance fighters and PA security forces have escalated tensions.
Shatha’s death brings the total number of fatalities since the clashes began on 5 December to eleven.





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Clashes between Palestinian security forces and resistance fighters in the occupied West Bank have continued for over a week, escalating violence in the region. On Saturday, a man was killed—identified by Hamas as a fighter—and several people, including both militants and Palestinian Authority (PA) personnel, were wounded.

The city of Jenin, in the northern West Bank, has been at the epicentre of the violence. The clashes began after the PA, which coordinates security with Israel, arrested several militants.
In response, the Islamic Jihad military wing called for Palestinians in the West Bank to "strike, declare a general mobilisation, and a day of rage" in solidarity with Jenin camp militants. Hamas, the PA's rival and dominant force in Gaza, accused the security forces of "deliberate targeting" of fighters and individuals wanted by Israel.

The PA exercises partial administrative control in the West Bank, a territory Israel has occupied since 1967. The recent clashes add to the escalating violence in the West Bank, which has seen a surge in Israeli military raids and settler attacks since the Gaza war began in October 2023.




PA are subcontractors for the zios, doing their dirty work.
 
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Netanyahu will get punished (in the hereafter) severely by God for his evil.

May Israel get utterly destroyed, may Islam and the Muslims triumph over the pigs who call themselves nonbelievers, may Islam and the Muslims stand triumphant on earth.

The Jews (Isreal) hate Muslims, and the Christians (USA, Nato) has no difficulty fully supporting them, even due their evil in Gaza is clear and enormous. May the pigs who call themselves Christians and Jews, and the polytheists, get destroyed.

This, the Quran says.

The Quran is my witness.
 
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Another update.

‘This is basically a civil war’: West Bank in fear as Palestinian Authority battles militant groups

PA seeking to prove it will be able to handle governing the Gaza Strip when the war there ends

Amid the echo of gunfire and explosions, 23-year-old Mariam picked her way through puddles on the unpaved streets of the refugee camp adjacent to the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, determined to get to a university class.

A sniper believed to be part of the Palestinian Authority (PA) forces shot and killed her friend, 22-year-old journalism student Shatha al-Sabbagh, a few days ago. Mariam said she was always afraid to leave the house, but an unprecedented PA operation on armed militant groups in the camp is now entering its second month, and shows no sign of ending. Her family has decided to try to preserve as much of their normal routine as they can.

“My mum is a teacher, and my sister studies with me. It’s not possible to go out every day. When we do, we risk our lives, and for what? This is basically a civil war, Palestinians killing Palestinians,” she said.

Jenin’s refugee camp, one of 19 across the West Bank built in the aftermath of Israel’s creation in 1948 to house displaced Palestinians, has always been an important centre of armed Palestinian resistance to the occupation. It is no stranger to Israel Defense Forces (IDF) operations, which have increased in scale and scope since the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October 2023.

The new Palestinian Authority raid on the camp is the largest operation the western-backed governing body has undertaken in the 30 years since it was formed.

Israel hopes it can delegate stamping out militant activity to the Ramallah-based authority, and the PA is seeking to prove it will be able to handle governing the Gaza Strip when the war there ends. Instead, growing anger at the lengthy, destructive raid, and what is considered by much of the Palestinian public as increasing PA complicity in the occupation, could fuel further unrest.

During the Guardian’s visit to Jenin on Tuesday, ambulances raced up and down the main road leading to the camp, bouncing through muddy water on roads churned up during previous incursions by Israeli tanks and bulldozers.

The PA-run police station’s tall gates were shut, and the upper floors of the compound were covered in bullet holes; the west side of the local hospital on the outskirts of the camp was also pockmarked by bullets and shrapnel, and several windows were broken. Gunfire echoed in every direction as shoppers hurried away from the smell of teargas.

“When the Israelis come, it is tough, but we know what to expect. In this raid, this kind of fighting we haven’t seen before. It’s like there are no rules,” said a member of staff at the hospital, who asked not to be named so he could speak freely.

A new generation of fighters has now come of age in Jenin, as well as Nablus and the Nur Shams camp in Tulkarm. They have no memory of the Oslo peace agreements of the 1990s; any hope their parents had that the diplomatic process would lead to the creation of an independent Palestinian state faded long ago.

Most of these young men are part of small, ad hoc militias only loosely affiliated with the traditional Palestinian factions, such as Fatah and its rival Hamas. During visits to Jenin, the militants have repeatedly told the Guardian that they readily switch allegiance to whichever group can provide the funding and weapons they say are needed to combat Israeli incursions.

The IDF began its most serious operations in camps around the West Bank for 20 years in the spring of 2023, after a wave of Palestinian attacks against Israelis, and they have intensified since the war in Gaza began: the use of helicopter gunships, drone assassinations and weeks-long sieges are now commonplace.

Currently, Hamas’s armed wing, and the smaller, more radical Islamic Jihad, both of which have ties to Iran, control the camp. The PA, which is dominated by the secular Fatah, has dubbed the armed youth of the camp “outlaws”, launching the campaign against them on 5 December.

Operation Protect the Homeland marks the first direct Fatah-Hamas clashes since 2007, when the PA lost control of Gaza to the Islamist group in a brief civil war. So far, the PA operation in Jenin is less deadly than Israeli raids – three fighters, three security officers and four civilians have been killed – but shows signs of morphing into a war of attrition.

The operation will continue until “outlaws serving foreign agendas” that undermine the PA’s efforts to “protect civilians, security and peace in the West Bank,” have been neutralised or surrendered, Brig Gen Anwar Rajab said.

“It is the outlaws who are helping Israel, they give the Israelis an excuse to annex the West Bank and weaken the Palestinian Authority,” he said. “Above all, we want to avoid a scenario like Gaza right now happening in the West Bank.”

Rajab’s argument, however, appeared to hold little water with the people of Jenin. “The PA are traitors, people don’t trust them. From the beginning, they have always been against the resistance,” said Abu Yasin, 50, a baker from the camp selling cheese and spinach fatayer pies. He was a former member of Hamas’s armed wing, he said, and had spent time in both Israeli and Palestinian jails.

“Everyone knows they are in Jenin to send a signal to the Israelis and to America that they can handle security and take control of Gaza again.”

The PA was formed in 1994 as part of the Oslo peace accords as a five-year interim body designed to administer parts of the Palestinian territories and coordinate with Israel on security matters. Its final status was never agreed, however, as talks stalled and the second intifada, or uprising, erupted. The deeply unpopular Mahmoud Abbas, 89, was elected to a four-year term in 2005 and has remained in charge ever since.

Under his watch, a corrupt, repressive and ineffectual ruling class has emerged that has proved unwilling or unable to combat Israeli settlement expansion and the rising tide of settler violence in the West Bank. The PA is hated by much of the Palestinian public but supported by pragmatic elements of the Israeli political and defence establishment and western donors, who fear a power vacuum if it collapses.

Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has repeatedly said that he will not allow the PA to administer the Gaza Strip when the war ends, although the US and much of the international community back its return.

“Sooner or later Israel will run out of use for the PA and will discard them,” said Abu Yasin, the baker. “Then [the PA] will not be able to pretend they are protecting us any more.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...est-bank-in-fear-after-shooting-of-journalist
 
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A timely reminder.

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Sami Hamdi provides a powerful perspective on what it means to be a Muslim who truly trusts in Allah’s promise of victory. He highlights the importance of viewing faith and politics as interconnected, reminding us not to separate the metaphysical from worldly affairs








And another


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Much of what has happened is premised on a set of collective myths the west has attempted to perpetuate about Israel and its intentions. A compliant media and a political class that have provided a thin veneer of acceptability to Israel’s murderous rampage has all but shattered the myth that the west holds the moral high ground.

Today we want to explore the myths that surround the current crisis. To help us understand the situation better we invite back onto the show Dr Azzam Tamimi who is a Palestinian British academic, author of Hamas the unwritten chapter.



 
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What you can do.

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Consumers have expressed their ire against major corporations that support Israel’s genocidal policies with worldwide boycotts. The collective consumer effort has shown results. We look at the effects of a one-year global boycott.


Its a small but significant step. Those who support this genocide dont care about basic humanity - but they do care about maintaining their bottom lines.





Also (as mentioned in the previous posts) taking legal action against those who perpetuate the genocide.

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Belgian Lebanese activist Dyab Abou Jahjah, the founder of the Hind Rajab Foundation, discusses how the organization seeks to hold Israeli soldiers accountable for war crimes committed in Gaza. Named after a 6-year-old girl who was killed by Israeli forces in Gaza almost a year ago, the Hind Rajab Foundation uses evidence gathered from soldiers' own social media to build cases against them.

The group recently filed a complaint against a soldier in Brazil, leading a local judge to issue an arrest warrant for him that he only avoided by fleeing to Argentina. "Unfortunately, the Israeli government smuggled the soldier out of Brazil, which is, of course, obstructing justice," Abou Jahjah tells Democracy Now! "We are relentless in seeking justice, and we are very convinced that one day justice also will be served in a court of law."






You can see the effect.




There are precedents for this, eg. the hunt for Nazis long after WW2 concluded.



BREAKING - A Ceasefire has been agreed!

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Qatar, Egypt and the United States have announced that mediation efforts to reach a ceasefire agreement in Gaza have succeeded.

Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani made the announcement, saying that the deal will lead to the release of Israeli captives and surging humanitarian aid to Gaza.

 
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Another update

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The genocide in Gaza has opened up a new world of intellectual exploration for so many of us who have been for too long ignorant of the details. Many of us have had to deconstruct our worldviews and start again, looking at the world through a more critical lens. The impunity with which Israel pursues its ends is genuinely bewildering. How is it that most Western politicians remain uncritical allies of a regime that is eradicating a people from its land through multiple means, including the systematic use of violence?

I met with the eminent Jewish historian Avi Shlaim at the Oxford Middle East Centre. Professor Shlaim has recently authored an uncompromising book on the intent of the Israeli state and her Western backers. Titled Genocide in Gaza, Israel’s long war on the Palestinians - it is probably one of the most lucid historical books I have read on the topic in a while. Today, we want to dip into that history to truly understand the genocidal intent that is sewn into the intellectual fabric of Zionism. In particular, I want to understand the key roles of Britain and America in feeding this settler colonial project and their shared goals. We all know how difficult it has been for food and essential supplies to reach the beleaguered people of Gaza.

This, Insha'Allah, is changing. We have partnered with a charity, Baitulmaal, because now, more than ever, there is a need not only in Gaza but also in Turkish controlled Northern Syria and in all the places we routinely talk about in this program where our ummah is subject to abject poverty. We have chosen this charity because Baitulmaal is a non-profit with people on the ground who organize well-thought-out projects and serve the most needy.

 
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Another update.

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The betrayal of Palestine began long before 1948. In this powerful episode, we expose the hidden history of colonial agents, broken treaties, the silent nakba before the nakba and how nationalism shattered the unity of the Muslim Ummah. Dr. Khalid Al Owaisi unveils the truth about the Sykes-Picot Agreement, British spy, Gertrude Bell, and the secret long-forgotten complicity that led to the fragmentation of Islamic lands and identity.

But amidst betrayal and silence, signs of awakening are rising across the Muslim world—from the streets of Amman to the digital defiance of Ifrah Omar. This episode makes the case that we are entering the final stages before the liberation of Palestine, and that the Ummah must now choose: sacrifice or shame, courage or complicity.

🎙 Guest Bio :Dr. Khalid Al Owaisi is a Palestinian activist, historian, and international speaker. He serves as Executive Director of the Academy of Islamic Jerusalem Studies and is a Senior Lecturer in Islamic History at the Social Sciences University of Ankara. His work focuses on Islamic heritage, resistance movements, and the colonial manipulation of Muslim identity and geography.

 

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