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Four Palestinians Killed in Joint Attack by Israeli Occupation Forces and Settlers in Nablus on Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

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Ibrahim Hussein’ Ali Ramadan (31), who was shot in the head; his brother, Jawad Hussein ‘Ali Ramadan (26), who was shot in the chest; Farouq ‘Adnan ‘Ali Ramadan (41), who sustained wounds to the chest, abdomen, and thigh; and ‘Imran Ahmed ‘Ali Ramadan (33), who was shot in the head.

… IOF also imposed a military curfew on Tal village, closed all entrances to Nablus, and declared the area a closed military zone.

… The settlers carried out two major attacks on the villages of Jeet and Far’ata, east of Qalqiliya and southwest of Nablus, adjacent to Tal village. During the attacks, they set fire to a house and vehicles parked in front of it as well as in the vicinity of Ramallah. These attacks resulted in the injury of five Palestinians, including two who sustained serious injuries.

At the time of preparing this press release, IOF and Israeli settlers continue to carry out widespread attacks and acts of collective punishment against Palestinian civilians and their property in these areas.

The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office stated in a press release that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz instructed the military to take “punitive” measures following the Tal village incident. 

… For his part, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called for issuing orders to the IOF that “for every Jew killed, the enemy must bear the loss of land and homes.” Ben-Gvir has repeatedly participated in incursions into Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, while promoting incitement for settler attacks and working to provide them with protection.

These developments come amid an ongoing pattern of escalating attacks and crimes carried out by the IOF and Israeli settler militias across the occupied West Bank.

Continue reading at https://pchrgaza.org/four-palestinians-killed-in-joint-attack-by-israeli-occupation-forces-and-settlers-in-nablus/

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Torture and genocide Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 by Francesca Albanese

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This report examines Israel’s systematic use of torture against Palestinians from the occupied Palestinian territory since 7 October 2023, encompassing both custodial and noncustodial practices, which meet the threshold for genocide under the Genocide Convention. It documents how torture has become integral to the domination of and punishment inflicted on men, women and children, both through custodial abuse and through a relentless campaign of forced displacement, mass killings, deprivation and destruction of all means of life to inflict long-term collective pain and suffering. A continuous, territorially pervasive regime of psychological terror is being imposed, designed to break bodies, deprive a people of their dignity and force them from their land. This is not incidental violence. It is the architecture of settler-colonialism, built on a foundation of dehumanization and maintained by a policy of cruelty and collective torture.

Continue reading at https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session61/advance-version/a-hrc-61-71-auv.pdf

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Legal analysis of the conduct of Israel in Gaza pursuant to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide by Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel

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252. The Commission concludes on reasonable grounds that the Israeli authorities and Israeli security forces have committed and are continuing to commit the following actus reus of genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, namely (i) killing members of the group; (ii) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (iii) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; and (iv) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group.

253. On incitement to genocide, the Commission concludes that Israeli President Isaac Herzog, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, have incited the commission of genocide and that Israeli authorities have failed to take action against them to punish this incitement. The Commission has not fully assessed statements by other Israeli political and military leaders, including Minister for National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir and Minister for Finance Bezalel Smotrich, and considers that they too should be assessed to determine whether they constitute incitement to commit genocide.

254. On the mens rea of genocide, the Commission concludes that statements made by Israeli authorities are direct evidence of genocidal intent. In addition, the Commission concludes that the pattern of conduct is circumstantial evidence of genocidal intent and that genocidal intent was the only reasonable inference that could be drawn from the totality of the evidence. Thus, the Commission concludes that the Israeli authorities and Israeli security forces have had and continue to have the genocidal intent to destroy, in whole or in part, the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

255. The Commission concludes that the State of Israel bears responsibility for the failure to prevent genocide, the commission of genocide and the failure to punish genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

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

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South Korea latest to level charges against Israeli officials for alleged war crimes in Gaza on UPI

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  1. June 24 (UPI) — South Korean government officials and other organizations on Monday filed a series of charges leveled against top Israeli government officials, including Israel’s president and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for genocide and other alleged crimes against humanity.
  3. The South Korean lawsuit cites seven high-ranking Israeli officials, such as the country’s President Isaac Herzog along with Netanyahu, Israeli Defense Forces Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, Foreign Minister Israel Katz, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir.

Continue reading at https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2024/06/24/south-korea-Israel-genocide-Benjamin-Netanyahu-Peoples-Solidarity-for-Participatory-Democracy/9881719261585/

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Prime Minister Shtayyeh says world should take a clear stand to stop Israel’s apartheid practices on WAFA News Agency

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Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said today that the world should take a clear stand and what is necessary to stop Israel’s crimes of apartheid against the Palestinian people… “The racist practices of Ben Gvir and all members of the Israeli Government and its affiliated militias that espouse the doctrine of killing, burning, erasure and genocide are enough for the world to stop dealing with this Government, condemn its practices, enforce international laws calling for sanctions, and protect the Palestinian people from those criminal practices,” said the Prime Minister.

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Ben Gvir: Give Every Jew a Gun by Richard Silverstein

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The ranks of Israeli politicians are replete with those advocating ethnic cleansing, apartheid and even genocide. As I’ve written here, a Likud MK called for building death camps for “Arabs.”  The leading candidate to run the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum, Effi Eitam, has said of Palestinian MKs:

“The day will come when we will expel you [to Gaza]”

“We should expel the vast majority of Arabs from Judea and Samaria, we can’t have all these Arabs…”

Regarding Lebanon, he said: “Simply slaughter Civilians? Yes, that is the equation.  It’s cold, it’s cruel. But that is it.”

I suppose there could be no better candidate for a museum commemorating Nazi genocide than someone who advocates genocide.  Every time someone hears him talk about the Holocaust. they will be reminded of his own genocidal rhetoric.  Seriously, it is a grave insult to the 6-million to appoint a former IDF general, a cruel, vicious brute to safeguard their memory.  But that is par for the course for this state birthed in the crucible of Nakba and continuing it to this day.

… Genocide does not happen suddenly. It evolves from lesser crimes and gradually grows into a monstrous hate capable of exterminating tens of thousands or millions, depending on circumstances.  For this reason, I’m not satisfied with the word ‘apartheid’ alone.  While it is an accurate portrait of current reality, it is not sufficient. As I’ve written, we must speak about genocide.  Its most extreme form is the extermination of the people.  But genocide also encompasses incitement to genocide; attempts to erase culture, language and traditions. These are all genocide.  Israel qualifies on all these counts.  It assaults Palestinian NGOs, destroys thousands of homes, steals land, demolishes schools, bombs universities, power plants and sewage treatment facilities.  All this is genocide.  That it has not yet exterminated tens or hundreds of thousands is no comfort.  That may yet come, considering the venomous hatred of the Judeo-Nazis above.  In the meantime, genocide remains a potent and accurate term.

Continue reading at https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2023/08/25/ben-gvir-give-every-jew-a-gun/

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Israeli minister publicly declares safety of Jews more important than that of Arabs on The Cradle

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Israel’s National Security Minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, on 23 August declared that upholding Jewish families’ safety and freedom of movement is “more important” than doing the same for the country’s Arab population.

“My right, and my wife’s and my children’s right, to get around on the roads [of the occupied West Bank] is more important than the right to movement for Arabs,” the Jewish supremacist minister said during a televised interview on Channel 12. “Sorry Mohammad,” he said to journalist Mohammad Magadli, who was arguing with him, “but that’s the reality. That’s the truth. My right to life comes before their right to movement.”

“For the first time, an Israeli minister admits on air that Israel enforces an apartheid regime based on Jewish supremacy,” Arab lawmaker Ahmad Tibi of the Hadash-Taal party said on social media following Ben Gvir’s tirade.

The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court defines apartheid — which is a direct symptom of military occupation — as a crime against humanity, characterized by the commission of “inhumane acts,” such as unlawful killing, torture, and forcible transfer, which are committed to maintaining an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over another.

Major human rights groups and UN officials have accused Tel Aviv of perpetuating such a system against Palestinians on top of the military occupation of their land and a decades-long campaign of genocide.

Continue reading at https://new.thecradle.co/articles/israeli-minister-publicly-declares-safety-of-jews-more-important-than-that-of-arabs

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24 Democratic Congress members visit Israel, give unconditional support to the apartheid regime by Sameena Rahman

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Twenty-four U.S. Democratic Party congress members visited Israel this week and gave unconditional support to the ultra-reactionary Netanyahu government, whose genocidal policies towards Palestinians have reached new heights.

… This blatant tone-deafness from the Democrats is hardly surprising as they continue to ignore the widespread repression and violation of Palestinians human rights. Just this year alone, multiple Palestinian communities have faced repeated assault by the Israeli Defense Forces despite international condemnation. On Aug. 6, Zionist settlers who murdered three Palestinian children were hailed as heroes by Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. Such crimes and incitements of genocide by high Israeli officials was ignored, with the Democrats’ blanket endorsement and legitimizing the racist state.

… The Biden administration has thus far only offered mild admonishment with no teeth to force Israel to uphold any semblance of democracy for Palestinians as it spirals further into a fascistic state. The Democrats delegation’s uncritical visit is a green light for Israel’s racist crimes to continue with impunity, and puts the Democratic Party fully in league with the likes of Netanyahu, Beh-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a self-described “fascist homophobe” and promoter of genocide. 

Continue reading at https://www.liberationnews.org/24-democratic-congress-members-visit-israel-give-unconditional-support-to-the-apartheid-regime/

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Israel: Chronicle of a Genocide Foretold by Richard Silverstein

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Some find use of the term “genocide” regarding Israel’s treatment of Palestinians objectionable for various reasons.  But I’ve written here rebutting such claims. With the rise of Israel’s Judeo-fascist government and its terrorist senior ministers (Smotrich and Ben Gvir), it’s far past time for the world to not only acknowledge this genocidal reality, but to stop it before it’s too late.

We already see genocidal incitement both in words and deeds.  Seven Palestinian villages with over 500 residents have been expelled by settler violence.  Bezalel Smotrich called for “wiping out” the village of Huwara, after two settlers were killed nearby. A villager was murdered by a Judeo-terrorist. No one has been charged with any crime.

…Anyone who scoffs at the idea of genocide or a Final Solution should examine the history of countries which did such heinous acts.  The final act of extermination did not spring up ex nihilo.  It followed a slow, building process of demonization, harassment, and violence, which led up to it.  This is the stage in which Israel finds itself.

Continue reading at https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2023/08/11/israel-chronicle-of-a-genocide-foretold/

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After decades of Palestinians’ forced displacement & brutalization, Israeli ministers issue genocidal statements with impunity by UN Special Rapporteur for Palestine, Francesca Albanese

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