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Reacting to Israeli strikes on Gaza, Clémence Lagouardat, Oxfam’s Humanitarian Coordinator in Gaza, said:
“It is indefensible that Israel has breached the ceasefire agreement by carrying out airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, killing over 300 people and injuring hundreds. The ongoing targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructure cannot be justified under any circumstances.
“The ceasefire glimmer of hope should have been protected for the two million people trying to survive in terrible conditions across Gaza and for the remaining Israeli hostages.
“Israeli authorities have also ordered new evacuations across Gaza forcing civilians – who have already been displaced multiple times – to flee again with no safe place to go to. These forced displacement orders are violating international law.
“The humanitarian situation in Gaza remains catastrophic. Since the start of the month, which was also the beginning of Ramadan, Israel placed Gaza under a full siege, cutting off food, fuel and all humanitarian aid. One week ago, it cut electricity to Gaza’s main operational desalination plant that supplied clean water to around 500,000 people. Meanwhile, Gaza’s already collapsing medical system is struggling to absorb the rising number of casualties. Hospitals are low on supplies and ambulances are unable to reach the wounded.
“This crisis persists due to the international community’s failure to hold Israel accountable for its violations of international law. This must end. International law is not optional, nor is it selective – it exists to protect all civilians, everywhere, and must be upheld universally.
All parties must now work to restore a permanent and sustainable ceasefire for all Palestinians and Israelis.”
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Either Netanyahu is confident that no future Israeli government would hand him over to the International Criminal Court to answer charges of genocide or he has resigned himself to spending his retirement in an ICC court in the Hague and languishing in jail for his later years.
Which is it ?
The quite twisted talk about anti-semitism, with resort to older nasty history, is misleadng if it is to involved in current Istaeli actions, which are blatant murder and theft based on unsupportable old superstition and claims of rights within such utter stupidity. There is no abrahamic god, no promised land, no chosen special people, no absolving from law and its consequences. Netanyahu and his supporters must be charged, eliminated, outed. But gutless brainless runaway stupid USA leadership distorts all world action, opinion, justice, decency. However, its Supreme Court has just awakened slowly. Chronic insane criminal Trump may get some bared teeth. No? (and I opposed the old anti-semitism through a long education career...) #later addition.., I've been reading an article by Mike Brock, on N Ferguson's belated understanding that he, Ferguson, was "wrong" about Trump and the danger he poses to USA life. Ferguson, known to me in history for two decades, is and always was a solid egofixated swollen prick, determined to be noticed, well paid, to have networked up chosen friends and supporters, to be regarded as sage, essential, correct, when he is a swollen penissimo fraud, a foul twister, an avoider of essentials. The Trump rubbish is typical...
TM, it's not simply a case of this or that. There's still the question of Netanyahu's incomplete criminal proceedings trial in Jerusalem, and it's not out of the question that he will end up in an Israeli prison prior to any ICC proceedings.
Canguro, Good Point !
By calling the enemy 'terrorist' denies them legitimacy. Hamas is a terrorist organisation because Israel has deemed it to be so. Any one who happens to live in the enclave known as the Gaza strip is by association with the terrorist Hamas group also deemed to be terrorist.
Unfortunately, when only incidents of defiance are seen out of the context of an occupation of the 'terrorist's' land since 1948 are seen as terrorist activity. but the treatment of the Palestinians seen as a legitimate defensive position, there will never be a sniff of humanitarianism toward Palestinian people. As in Gaza, so on the West Bank and increasingly the Golan Heights.
And it goes back before 1948 to the Balfour declaration of 1917 where Britain effectively promised Palestine to the Zionists, rendering the Palestinians as unworthy of living in that land.
What the Israelis are doing in breaking the ceasefire is just business as usual.