/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>480979
>is this nazi poster trying to make us hate Jews or something?
Could be, dumb fuck probably doesn't know we don't do scapegoats.

>because there are plenty of good working class jews who don't stand for zionfags
We probably should draw a clear distinction between Zionists and Jews, and accuse everybody of antisemitism for suggesting otherwise. So Israel's war-crimes don't get pinned on Jews.

>>480989
Why are Israeli people not allowed to have a state?

>>480989
Zionists (including Evangelical Zionist sickos) are pretty much the only people who try to blur the line. Jews are among those leading the way against this absolute abominable evil which the Zionist warmongers are trying to do in their name, and it's absolutely sick the way that Zionist Israeli chauvinists try to throw diaspora Jews under the bus. Zionists should be ashamed, but unfortunately that feeling is alien to them. I do really feel sorry for people who've genuinely been indoctrinated into this cult, where they feel like the only way to express their religion and culture is by subservience to a 20th century militarized nation state created by British imperialism. Even those presently indoctrinated by Hasbara bullshit have a chance to see the light some day, but if they ever recover from this insanity then the horror at realizing what they have done will be unbearable.

>>480990
The Zionists are committing a genocide in their pursuit of ethno-nationalism. You can forget about legitimizing that crap. They made such a huge bloodbath, that it'll never wash out.

>>480991
>Zionists (including Evangelical Zionist sickos) are pretty much the only people who try to blur the line. Jews are among those leading the way against this absolute abominable evil which the Zionist warmongers are trying to do in their name,
Yes that seems to be the case.
>and it's absolutely sick the way that Zionist Israeli chauvinists try to throw diaspora Jews under the bus.
Yeah we need to update the definition of antisemitism to reflect that.

> I do really feel sorry for people who've genuinely been indoctrinated into this cult, where they feel like the only way to express their religion and culture is by subservience to a 20th century militarized nation state created by British imperialism. Even those presently indoctrinated by Hasbara bullshit have a chance to see the light some day, but if they ever recover from this insanity then the horror at realizing what they have done will be unbearable.
Yeah that's gonna be a rough awakening.

Houthis claim attack on two vessels, two US destroyers

Yemen’s Houthis targeted two US destroyers and the vessel CYCLADES in the Red Sea as well as the MSC Orion in the Indian Ocean, the group’s military spokesman Yahya Sarea said.

The Houthis, who control the most populated parts of Yemen, have carried out dozens of attacks on vessels with commercial ties to the US, the UK and Israel in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden since November.

The group says the attacks are a response to Israel’s assault on Gaza.

US says Houthis sent drone towards navy ships, ballistic missiles fired at merchant vessel

The US military said Houthi forces in Yemen fired three antiship ballistic missiles and directed three armed drones to attack a Greece-owned ship travelling in the Red Sea.

CENTCOM, which commands US forces deployed in the Middle East, said the Malta-flagged MV Cyclades was able to continue its journey and there were no reports of injuries resulting from the missile attack.

Earlier on Monday, US forces engaged and destroyed a drone which was “on a flight path towards” two US Navy ships – the USS Philippine Sea and USS Laboon – in the Red Sea.

“There were no injuries or damages reported by US, coalition, or merchant vessels,” CENTCOM said in a post on social media.

Yemen’s Houthis say their campaign in the Red Sea targets shipping either owned by or which has links to Israel and Israeli ports, and is in retaliation for Israel’s war on Gaza.

ICC war crimes prosecutors interviewed Gaza hospital staff: Report

Prosecutors from the International Criminal Court (ICC) have interviewed staff from Gaza’s two biggest hospitals, two sources have told the Reuters news agency.

The prosecutors from the war crimes court in The Hague have reportedly spoken to staff from al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City and the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Reuters said.

This is the first confirmation the ICC is speaking to medical staff about possible crimes in the Gaza Strip, Reuters said, though it noted the sources asked not to be named due to the sensitivity of the subject.

The ICC’s office of the prosecutor said it could not comment due to the need to ensure the safety of victims and witnesses.

Israel has repeatedly besieged hospitals in the Gaza Strip, with Palestinian officials calling for investigations in recent days after hundreds of bodies were exhumed from mass graves at both Nasser and al-Shifa Hospitals following the withdrawal of Israeli forces from both locations.

US hypocritical over ICC probe into Israel war crimes in Gaza: Russia

Russia says the United States is being hypocritical by opposing the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) investigation of Israel but supporting its arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin.

The ICC – which can charge individuals with war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide – is investigating Hamas’s attack and Israel’s devastating military assault on Gaza, now in its seventh month.

“Washington fully supported, if not stimulated, the issuance of ICC warrants against the Russian leadership,” Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said in a post on Telegram.

But “the American political system does not recognise the legitimacy of this structure in relation to itself and its satellites”, Zakharova said, adding such a position is intellectually “absurd”.

White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre said the US doesn’t support the ICC’s investigation of Israel as it doesn’t have jurisdiction.

Disease spreads as 10,000 bodies decompose in blown-up buildings

More than 10,000 missing Palestinians are buried under the debris of hundreds of destroyed buildings in Gaza.

The territory’s civil defence agency made the statement on X as the death toll from the war rose to 34,535.

“The continued accumulation of thousands of bodies under the rubble has begun to cause the spread of disease and epidemics, especially with the onset of summer and the rise in temperatures, which accelerates the process of decomposition,” it said in a statement.

Students, teachers hit with tear gas at Hebron school: Report

Israeli forces stormed a secondary school in Hebron in the occupied West Bank and fired tear gas at the institution, reports the Wafa news agency.

The tear gas hit dozens of students and teachers at the Tariq bin Zayad school with many needing medical treatment from inhaling the gas.

The incident comes as Israeli forces carry out a round of familiar raids in and around Hebron in the occupied West Bank. Earlier, we reported Israeli forces ransacked homes in Hebron and killed a Palestinian man 22km (14 miles) from the city.

Notorious Israeli battalion may still get US military aid
Stefanie Dekker
Reporting from occupied East Jerusalem

The US is considering sanctioning the Netzah Yehuda battalion, the ultra-Orthodox Israeli army unit accused of rights abuses against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

One of the incidents believed to be part of the charges against the unit is that its forces killed a 78-year-old Palestinian American dual citizen in 2022. They bound him, gagged him and left him to die in sub-freezing temperatures.

Four other battalions the US State Department also found responsible for “gross violations” have not been named. But the State Department says those units have “remediated” – meaning they’re now fine and will continue to receive American military aid.

The Netzah Yehuda last week wasn’t going to receive military assistance. Now the US State Department has given Israel more time to look into the allegations against it because of a massive backlash.

China says Hamas and Fatah met for discussions in Beijing

The rival Palestinian groups met in China’s capital recently for “in-depth and candid talks on promoting intra-Palestinian reconciliation”.

“Representatives of the Palestine National Liberation Movement [Fatah] and the Islamic Resistance Movement [Hamas] recently came to Beijing,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said, adding that “positive progress” was made in discussions.

“China and Palestine share a traditional friendship. We support Palestinian factions in achieving reconciliation and increasing solidarity through dialogue and consultation. We will continue to work actively towards that end,” Jian added.

‘Walls closing in’ on those committing grave violations in Gaza war

Salman Shaikh, a former Middle East peace envoy with the UN, says Israel’s conduct in Gaza is increasingly under the spotlight worldwide and international courts are expected to hold Israeli officials accountable.

“The walls are closing in. International law has to be administered. Otherwise, we will see Western countries effectively cannibalising international law and the rules-based international order, which they themselves set up after the horrors of the second world war,” Shaikh told Al Jazeera.

“We have ample evidence and those who have committed grave violations of international humanitarian law – whether they are Hamas or other Palestinian groups but also the Israeli army. This cannot continue.”

Western nations should be extremely concerned about their support for Israel during its six-month attack on Gaza, he noted. “European capitals and Washington need to think really hard about their actions, including the supply of offensive weaponry to the Israeli army.”

Journalism professors call on New York Times to review October 7 report

Fifty-nine journalism professors from top US universities have called on The New York Times to address questions about a report that described a “pattern of gender-based violence” in the October 7 attacks on Israel.

The professors said they felt the need to issue a letter to the newspaper after coming across “compelling reports” challenging the integrity of the story.

“The Times’ editorial leadership appears to have largely dismissed these reports and remains silent on important and troubling questions raised about its reporting and editorial processes,” they wrote in the letter, a copy of which was obtained and posted online by The Washington Post.

“We believe this inaction is not only harming The Times itself, it also actively endangers journalists, including American reporters working in conflict zones as well as Palestinian journalists (of which, the Committee to Protect Journalists estimates, around 100 have been killed in this conflict so far),” the professors said.

A spokeswoman for the Times said the paper has “reviewed the work that was done on this piece of journalism and [we] are satisfied that it met our editorial standards”, the Post reported.

Students hang banner renaming Columbia’s Hamilton Hall to ‘Hind Hall’

Student protesters at Columbia University unfurled a banner to cover the name of the historic administrative building, Hamilton Hall, according to posts on social media verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad agency.

The banner covering the name of the building reads “Hind Hall”, in commemoration of six-year-old Hind Rajab, who was killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.

The building is being occupied by the students as demonstrations against Israel’s war on Gaza continue to rage at the campus and other universities in the US and beyond.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/4/30/israels-war-on-gaza-live-34-killed-in-gaza-amid-ceasefire-negotiations

>>480990
Why do they need a state? They can't live in peace with other people?

>>481018
IMHO you are asking the wrong question.

The Zionist state was created because the British empire wanted a imperial outpost in the middle east and they had the power to do it. When the British empire fell apart the US empire took over.

The Zionist project was modeled on the colonial subjugation model, which is what the British empire used for most of it's reign. This is also the reason why the Zionist project is unraveling now. Colonial domination was based on the fact that the colonial powers had a huge advantage in industrial production compared to the countries they subjugated. But today that industrial differential is no longer there. Most countries in the world are industrialized and can project hard power with industrial proficiency too.

The best course of action likely is to de-zionify the Israeli state and remove all the apartheid stuff from the official ideology, demilitarize and create a Palestinian state as well. And shift the focus of international struggle towards diplomacy and trade.

So the right question to ask would be what kind of state(s) does this region need.

>>480788
>>481024
>MuH Two-State Solution!!!
>MuH Single Palestinian State and Israeli stATE abolishmeNt Solution!!!
Pure ideology, as commie Zizek would say. How do we have a guarantee that the Palestinian government won't simply do the same? Out of the goodness of their own heart? They could be just as bad. To say otherwise is idealism.

>>481024
I disagree. Iran should wipe them out and send them packing back to new york

>>481024
I'm answering a question with a question.

>What kind of state(s) does this region need
There was already a Palestinian state there, either you respect their independence or you're a colonizer.

>>481025
>The Palestinian government won't simply do the same
And they would be completely justified.

>>481028
There'll be no New York to go back to because of anti-semetism.

>>481029
Yikes, going mask off here. Colonialism/imperialism but make it diverse and done by Middle Eastern people. Real classy.



Iran is explicitly trying to, in their words, "wipe Israel off the earth"

I support the people of Israel who are under attack by Iran and Hamas.
As far as the Palestinians go, that's a different issue that existed even before the attacks of October 7th.

What happened to Palestinian territory is not related, or at least not caused by, the October 7th attack. It's a different story.

Isreal and Pallestinians need to figure their own shit out there. America needs to not get involved with any of this. Hamas Terrorists want to erase Isreal off the map. This is an attack on Judaism.

>>481031
the real reason he likes Israel is because they let him dilate and call him a woman

>>481025
>How do we have a guarantee that the Palestinian government won't simply do the same?
You are operating with an erroneous premise.

If the Zionists remain in power in Isreal, they will continue and likely even expand their hostile stance towards everybody else in that region. The result will be that they will get brute-forced out of power and the people they have terrorized (which is not just the Palestinians) will be returning the favor. And no Israel's nukes do not change that outcome, just delay it.

However if the US and the other western powers agree to pull the plug on Zionism now, they'll take part in architecting the new structure, and thus can ensure that there will be no revanchism.

>>481028
>I disagree. Iran should wipe them out and send them packing back to new york
At the moment the Netanyahu regime is looking to start a war with Iran, while Iran doesn't appear to be particularly keen on that. And from the looks of it, the US doesn't appear to be interested in such a war either. So Genocideyahu appears to be shit out of luck on that front.

>>481037
difference is that Bibi is fooling himself into thinking he can win by beating Iran but he will get annihilated if he tries. Then the options for Iran are to let the conflict continue to destroy the Palestinian civilian population or to win a war against Israel and maybe Britain

>>481031
>Yikes, going mask off here
>Oooh yikie wikey NOOOooo only my chooosen people are allowed to do ethnically cleanse
Get fucked
>Yikes
In the ass, you sound like a redditfag.

>I support the people of Israel
Lolololoooooooool

>>481029
>There was already a Palestinian state there, either you respect their independence or you're a colonizer.
I see your point, however the priority always is about creating good material conditions for the people that live there. Correcting a historic wrong is secondary. If the Zionist apartheit/supremacy apparatus gets dismantled and Israel gets demilitarized, and all the people there get full political rights and good living conditions, that's a supreme victory.

On some level this is a battle between those people that create a pleasant environment where people thrive and those others that seek to create a hostile environment where people suffer.

The Zionists clearly are creating hell on earth, that's the reason why they are unfit to rule.

>>481038
>difference is that Bibi is fooling himself into thinking he can win by beating Iran but he will get annihilated if he tries.
I wouldn't be so sure, there always is the possibility that Netanyahu knows that Iran would win decisively, and that he just doesn't care. His calculation may simply be that starting a war with Iran halts the corruption charges against him. If Isreal gets destroyed, he exits with a golden para-shoot and retires. The outcome where Israel survives but Netanyahu gets prosecuted for corruption may simply be a less desirable outcome from his perspective.

>Then the options for Iran are to let the conflict continue to destroy the Palestinian civilian population or to win a war against Israel and maybe Britain
To be fair the US could pull the plug on Zionism and set in motion a diplomatic restructuring of the regional state structures. All the countries in the region including Iran would strongly prefer that.
By the way the UK is not going to enter a war, their industries are depleted, and the military age population will not fight.

>>481041
>I wouldn't be so sure, there always is the possibility that Netanyahu knows that Iran would win decisively, and that he just doesn't care. His calculation may simply be that starting a war with Iran halts the corruption charges against him. If Isreal gets destroyed, he exits with a golden para-shoot and retires. The outcome where Israel survives but Netanyahu gets prosecuted for corruption may simply be a less desirable outcome from his perspective.

Ding!
He doesn't give a fuck. He will happily endanger Israel if it means he gets to stay in power, and I'll add that he would happily destroy Israel if it means he gets to die quickly rather than rotting in prison.

>>481037
>>481039
Ya'll are replying to Hasbara posts like they're serious. Nice of you!

Ministry of religious affairs accuses Israel of desecrating Palestinian bodies

The Gaza Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs has issued a statement accusing the Israeli military of mutilating the bodies of hundreds of dead Palestinians, including carrying out postmortem decapitations and dismemberment.

It called the alleged mutilation of corpses a violation of the sanctity of the dead, which is “a religious, humanitarian and moral crime”.

The ministry also said that since October 7, Israeli forces have “committed atrocities the likes of which history has not witnessed, with global cover, blatant American support, and shameful silence from international organisations”.

People are not given proper burials, it added, “as the Israeli military uses bulldozers to throw bodies into a large pit and then cover them with garbage. This was documented in al-Shifa Medical Complex, Nasser Medical Complex, and Kamal Adwan Hospital.”

Portuguese-flagged ship is hit in Arabian Sea

The container ship has come under attack by a drone in the far reaches of the Arabian Sea. That corresponds with a claim early Tuesday by Yemen’s Houthi rebels that they assaulted the ship there.

The attack on the MSC Orion, occurring some 600 kilometres (373 miles) off the coast of Yemen, appeared to be the first confirmed deep-sea assault claimed by the Houthis since they began targeting ships in November.

It suggests the Houthis have the ability to strike out potentially into the distances of the Indian Ocean as the rebels previously threatened in their continuing campaign over Israel’s war on Gaza.

Law enforcement action at US universities ‘disproportionate’: UN

The UN has voiced concerns regarding the treatment of pro-Palestine protesters at US universities.

The spokesperson for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Marta Hurtado, said “We are concerned that some of law enforcement actions across a series of universities appear disproportionate in their inputs.”

Protests have swept through US higher education institutions, with many erecting tent encampments on campus grounds after about 100 protesters were first arrested at Columbia University in NewYork on April 18.

At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, police moved in on Tuesday morning to clear one encampment, detaining some protesters.

TV footage showed police at the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in Richmond on Monday evening pushing and shoving away protesters, with students saying tear gas and pepper spray were deployed.

At the University of Texas at Austin, police also clashed with protesters on Monday, including using pepper spray, and made arrests while dismantling an encampment, adding to hundreds detained nationwide over the weekend.

ICJ rules against halting German arms exports to Israel

The World Court has ruled against issuing emergency measures over German arms sales to Israel.

“The circumstances are not such as to require the exercise of its power under Article 41 of the statute to indicate provisional measures,” presiding Judge Nawaf Salam said.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague made its ruling on Nicaragua’s request that emergency measures be imposed on Germany over its support for Israel’s war on Gaza.

Nicaragua argued during two days of hearings earlier this month that Germany violated the 1948 Genocide Convention and international law by supplying Israel with arms, accusing Berlin of being well aware there was a risk of genocide.

Germany denied the accusations, and its lawyer argued that Nicaragua’s case was rushed, based on flimsy evidence and should be thrown out for lack of jurisdiction.

Germany is one of Israel’s biggest military suppliers, sending it $353.7m in equipment and weapons in 2023.

Protesters gather in Tel Aviv, demand immediate return of captives held in Gaza

Some 200 protesters have gathered outside the Israeli Ministry of Defence building in Tel Aviv, calling on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to finalise a deal with Hamas that ensures the return of captives held by the group in Gaza.

Family members of the captives and their supporters have been demonstrating for months for the return of their loved ones.

They are now demanding a meeting with Netanyahu to find out more about the status of the deal, which is being negotiated in Cairo.

A Hamas delegation is meeting with mediating parties there, but has repeatedly said any deal must include a permanent ceasefire and a withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip, which have been major sticking points in negotiations.



Israel ‘a hostage of irresponsible lunatics’, says opposition leader

Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid says Israel has become “a hostage of irresponsible lunatics” in his latest post slamming Prime Minister Netanyahu.

“You can’t go on like this. A minister with a criminal record stands in the prime minister’s office and threatens the prime minister with the consequences if he does not do what he is told,” Lapid wrote on X.

“[Itamar] Ben Gvir tells the whole world and the whole region that Netanyahu is weak and works for him. It is unbelievable that he is not fired on the spot.”

Earlier, Ben Gvir said Netanyahu had “heard” his words and understood the consequences if the Rafah operation did not happen.

Far-right ministers, including Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, have both threatened to leave Netanyahu’s coalition government if the military operation in Rafah does not occur.

Lebanese students hold first coordinated university protests over Gaza

Hundreds of students have gathered at various university campuses in Lebanon to protest against Israel’s war on Gaza.

Students, alumni and other Lebanese waved flags and posters at campuses in the capital, Beirut, and elsewhere, with some demanding their universities boycott companies that do business in Israel, Reuters reported.

At the American University of Beirut, some 200 people gathered in a campus square where they had been given approval by the administration to protest for two hours.

Campus security barred protesters or journalists from venturing further into the university grounds and shepherded reporters off campus as the allotted window to demonstrate came to a close.

Demonstrations took place at other universities including the Lebanese American University.

German envoy chased off Palestine museum grounds over country’s war stance

Footage from the Birzeit University grounds shows the German representative to the Palestinian Authority being chased out of the Palestinian Museum by a crowd of students over his country’s support for Israel.

The museum is on the premises of the educational institution, located north of Ramallah.

Oliver Owcza is seen being jeered by a group of students who told him, “Get out!”

Owcza is then forced to head to his vehicle while a crowd runs after him. Some students are seen hurling objects at the car as it drives off.

The envoy later posted on X: “Peaceful protest & dialogue always has its place. We regret that today’s meeting of EU Heads of Missions at the National Museum in Birzeit was unduly interrupted by protestors. Nevertheless, we remain committed to constructively work with our Palestinian partners!”

France deploys riot police to quell campus protests over Gaza
Sania Mahyou

Paris, France – Tensions are rising between the French state and students at top universities who are staging pro-Palestine protests amid Israel’s war on Gaza, inspired by their American counterparts.

As well as an end to Israel’s war, demonstrators called on school administrators to cut ties with Israeli institutions and other businesses they see as complicit in the war in Gaza, which to date has killed about 34,500 Palestinians, mostly children and women.

$267m in UNRWA funding still suspended

While many countries have reinstated funding to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), the agency still has $267m in committed funds held up, mostly by its chief donor the United States, said agency chief Philippe Lazzarini.

While UNRWA has enough funds to keep running until the end of June, bolstered by more than $115m in recent private donations, it has limited visibility after that, Lazzarini said.

In January, more than one dozen countries suspended funding to UNWRA due to Israeli allegations that 12 of its staff members took part in the October 7 attack, with 190 others offering intelligence and logistical support. However, more than three months later, Israel still has not presented credible evidence for the claims, according to an independent review for the UN, and the UN probe has since dropped or suspended cases into several of the accused employees.

182 UNRWA staff members killed in Gaza war

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), the largest aid group operating in Gaza, has had 182 staff members killed during the war, according to its chief Philippe Lazzarini.

Israeli military attacks in Gaza have also damaged 160 of the agency’s facilities, killing a total of 400 people sheltering inside the buildings, he added.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/4/30/israels-war-on-gaza-live-34-killed-in-gaza-amid-ceasefire-negotiations

Israeli parliament member says police beat her at rally

Naama Lazimi, a member of Israel’s Knesset representing the left-wing Labor Party, says she was accosted and beaten by police at a rally in Tel Aviv that called for an immediate captive release deal.

In a post on X, Lazimi said police “lost all restraint” while trying to break up the protest on Monday night, beating her as she tried to help a protester who had been arrested.

“The violence on the part of the cops was unrestrained; we all felt it was much much different from previous protests,” Lazimi told Israel’s Kan radio.

“To think that the police force, the body that is supposed to protect me, is something I should be afraid of, that protesters should be afraid of, is a reality that cannot be.”

Thousands of Israelis, including the relatives of some captives still held in Gaza, have been staging regular protests in Israel calling on the government to secure the release of Israeli captives or a Gaza ceasefire.

‘1 in 3 Palestinian child prisoners are in administrative detention’

Defense for Children International – Palestine has said that Israeli forces have dramatically escalated their military operations in the occupied West Bank in the last six months.

“DCIP has been monitoring Palestinian child administrative detainees since 2008, and the numbers have never been this high,” it said in a statement.

Sixty-one children are currently held by Israeli forces without charge or trial, equivalent to about one in three out of all Palestinian child detainees, the organisation said.

DCIP called administrative detention “a cruel tool” because the children and their lawyers aren’t privy to what are deemed “secret charges”.

Administrative orders can also be renewed indefinitely, “creating an unbearable environment of anxiety for parents and children who don’t know when they will be able to go home”.

Sciences Po loses funding over Gaza protests

“I have decided to suspend all regional funding for Sciences Po until calm and security have been restored at the school,” Valerie Pecresse, the right-wing head of the greater Paris Ile-de-France region, says on social media.

The suspension came as demonstrations against Israel’s war on Gaza last week shook one of France’s most prestigious educational institutions.

The university’s acting administrator, Jean Basseres, lamented the decision.

“The Ile-de-France region is an essential partner of Sciences Po, and I wish to maintain dialogue on the position expressed by Mrs Pecresse,” he told the French daily Le Monde.

Regional financial support for Science Po includes 1 million euros ($1.07m) earmarked for 2024, a member of Pecresse’s team told AFP.

The demonstrations echoed many currently taking place on university campuses globally.

French Higher Education Minister Sylvie Retailleau said the French government has no plans to suspend funding for Sciences Po.

Suspect in Jerusalem stabbing attack identified as Turkish national: Israeli police

Israeli police say the man who carried out a stabbing attack on a police officer in the Old City of Jerusalem was a visiting Turkish national, aged 34.

As we reported earlier, the alleged assailant was shot dead by Israeli border police.

US under pressure to protect Israeli officials from ICC arrest?

Reports that the International Criminal Court (ICC) may soon issue arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials over the war on Gaza should be read with scepticism, an analyst says.

“We should take this ICC arrest warrant story to some extent with a grain of salt. We may get different news in the coming days or weeks. But it’s not really clear where this is coming from beyond Israeli sources, or possibly Israeli officials leaking to the press to try to put pressure on outside forces, namely the United States,” said Antony Loewenstein, an independent journalist and author.

“The US has hated the ICC for years because they don’t want their own soldiers, or generals, or politicians to be put on trial for what happened, for example, in Iraq and Afghanistan in the last 20 years.”

ICC arrest warrants? Netanyahu phones Biden: Report

US news outlet Axios reports PM Netanyahu phoned President Biden to ask for help in preventing the International Criminal Court (ICC) from issuing arrest warrants for Israeli officials over the grisly war on Gaza.

Two unnamed Israeli officials were quoted as saying the phone call took place on Sunday amid increasing alarm that senior figures may face international justice for the attack that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians.

The Axios story comes after Reuters reported ICC prosecutors interviewed staff from Gaza’s two biggest hospitals about possible crimes committed in Gaza. More than 300 bodies were uncovered from mass graves at Nasser Hospital after Israeli forces withdrew on April 7.

Tulane University encampment continues despite calls from school administration to halt protest

Students at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, have gathered to protest Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza as pro-Palestinian demonstrations sweep college campuses across the country.

Videos verified by Al Jazeera show police setting up barricades and a large sign set up near the gathering that reads: “No trespassing”.

In a letter, the university administration confirmed the suspension of five students and urged protest organisers to end their sit-in. It further threatened university staff and employees who joined the protest with disciplinary measures, including dismissal, if they do not halt their participation.

New Yorkers march in support of students protesting for Gaza

Footage shared by journalists on social media shows a crowd marching through the streets of New York City, stopping at a number of university campuses.

The march began at New York University, where dozens were arrested last week after the school administration called for police to break up pro-Palestine demonstrations.

The march will end at Columbia University where earlier today, students occupied a building belonging to the university, saying they would not leave until their demands – divestment of the university from Israel, financial transparency from the university, and amnesty for students so-far disciplined in pro-Palestine protests – are met.

https://twitter.com/probablyreadit/status/1785414172664119358

Travis County, Texas urges UT Austin to compromise with protesters

Travis County Attorney General Delia Garza has urged the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) to settle with protesters who are demonstrating against Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza.

She confirmed police arrested 97 students.

Yesterday, police, some in riot gear, detained dozens as they dismantled an encampment set up on campus by students calling on their university to cut ties with Israel.

Garza said that 65 of those arrested were charged with criminal trespass.

“Cycling people in and out of jail on low, low-level charges and dwindling our criminal justice resources for the rest of the community will do very little to maintain the public safety of our community,” she said.

Garza said it is not the role of the criminal justice system to assist the Texas governor in efforts to “suppress nonviolent and peaceful demonstrations”. She was referring to remarks made by Governor Greg Abbott, who last week called for the arrest and expulsion of students protesting at the university.

US rights group criticises anti-Semitism bill that cleared House Rules panel

DAWN has said that the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism, which the US House of Representatives Rules Committee is trying to codify through a bill, is “problematic and contentious” and “is being used to stifle speech by Palestinians and Palestine advocates”.

Human rights and civil rights organisations, including Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), have said that the IHRA’s working definition of anti-Semitism has been misused to falsely label any criticism of Israeli government policies as anti-Semitic.

“Attempts to push criticism of Israel out of the legitimate discourse are particularly worrying at a time when US support for Israel is itself one of the most pressing foreign policy issues facing our nation,” said Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man, the director of research for Israel-Palestine at DAWN.

“The young people of this country deserve better than to be told that they are anti-Semites for questioning how and where their tax dollars and university tuition are invested.”

Pro-Palestine protesters urge Olympic officials to limit Israel’s participation in Paris Games

About 300 people have rallied at the headquarters of the Paris Olympics’ organising committee, waving Palestinian flags and chanting slogans against Israel’s “institutional participation” in the games as it continues its war on Gaza.

The protesters said that Israeli athletes should compete in Paris under a neutral flag, similar to the rules the International Olympic Committee applied to Russian athletes after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

French President Emmanuel Macron said Israeli athletes will compete in Paris under their country’s flag.

The Olympic Games in Paris will take place from July 26-August 11.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/4/30/israels-war-on-gaza-live-34-killed-in-gaza-amid-ceasefire-negotiations

Dozens arrested, loaded onto police buses, at Columbia University

We’ve been reporting on police entering Columbia University to dismantle a pro-Palestinian protest there.

Al Jazeera’s Teresa Bo who is at Columbia University says police are saying least 50 people have been arrested, with the students taken away in two police buses.

Columbia president asks police to remain on campus until May 17: Report

Nemat Minouche Shafik, the president of Columbia University, has asked New York police to remain on the university’s campus until May 17 to “ensure encampments are not reestablished”, the AFP news agency is reporting.

Students previously re-established their Gaza Solidarity encampment on the lawns of Columbia University after it was dismantled by police on April 18, in a move that saw about 100 arrests and spurred a protest movement across many other US universities.

Handling of Columbia protests a ‘betrayal’ of university’s history, memory of Edward Said
A graduate of Columbia told Al Jazeera’s correspondent Kristen Saloomey that the administration’s handling of the student protests was a betrayal of the university’s history and one of its finest scholars – the late Edward Said.

“Columbia is the university of Edward Said – a great scholar of Palestinian history and its people,” the student, who only gave his name as Henry, told Al Jazeera.

“That’s a history that has been totally betrayed by the university.

“And it was betrayed before. In 2019, the students voted overwhelmingly for divestment.

“We were told the university doesn’t get involved in politics.

“To me, this is politics [the police action against protesters].

“The Tel Aviv Global Centre [a Columbia research hub in Israel] is politics.

“The fact that there are students here who can’t participate in the full breadth of what Columbia offers because they partner with a country with race laws, with apartheid – a well-established fact – that, to me, is despicable.

“I didn’t like the old administration. I definitely don’t like how [Columbia’s President Nemat Minouche Shafik] is handling this.”

Freedom of speech, expression ‘supposed to be prized’ in US: Columbia student

A Columbia University student spoke to Al Jazeera’s correspondent Teresa Bo outside the campus about the events that led to the latest police incursion.

“A lot of students went into Hamilton Hall yesterday and occupied and [renamed] it as Hind’s Hall,” said the student who did not want to be identified by name.

“They were there all day long. All of us were hoping that the administration would behave like adults and negotiate in good faith with the students and find a compromise, find a way forward to get these students safely back to their classes where they belong.

“But a lot of us were very disappointed, obviously, and shocked, to see the police return to our campus – an American institution where freedom of speech and freedom of expression are supposed to be prized.

“Earlier today, via social networks, we were told that they expected the police to come so we came out here to demonstrate our support [for the student protesters], and for me personally for the American values that I believe in.

“I’m horrified by the decision-making process here. This isn’t Moscow. This isn’t Tehran. This is New York City. We should be able to protest peacefully.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/5/1/israels-war-on-gaza-live-un-chiefs-warn-israel-against-assault-on-rafah

GAZA: AID WORKERS FIND GHOST TOWN AND CHILDREN LIVING AMID RUBBLE IN KHAN YOUNIS

KHAN YOUNIS, 25 April 2024 – Children are living amid rubble in streets of total devastation in Khan Younis, the second largest city in Gaza, according to Save the Children staff returning to the city for the first time since the war started over six months ago.

Prior to the 7 October attacks and war in Gaza, the city in the southern part of the Gaza Strip had a population of more than 200,000 people, including about 100,000 children.

Now Khan Younis is a ghost town, with people returning in small numbers to protect what remains of their properties or retrieve belongings while lone children roam the streets seeking water and other supplies. Media have recently reported that satellite pictures show rows of tents on a site to the west of Khan Younis.

Sacha described the scenes as apocalyptic:

“I actually felt physically sick – my body’s reaction to seeing this absolute brutality, for this total disregard for human life.

“I’ve been to a lot of warzones and disasters, but I’ve never been in a situation where as far as the eye can see, every building is rubble. In some conflicts, you will see devastation, but there are gaps between damage and buildings still standing. Here – you turn 360 degrees - every single building is either severely damaged or rubble on the ground. And not just one or two streets, but dozens of streets. It’s everywhere.

“I was also struck by the numbers of lone children. You are driving through what feels like an empty street and then suddenly you see children climbing out of the rubble. I saw so many children carrying containers, I guess of water - I don’t know for how far they were carrying them – all by themselves, through these destroyed streets. You could see the containers were heavy and hard for the little kids to manage. It was eerie and terrible to see so many children by themselves, knowing how dangerous it is to be in those collapsed and semi collapsed buildings.”

https://www.savethechildren.net/news/gaza-aid-workers-find-ghost-town-and-children-living-amid-rubble-khan-younis

DATA LEAK: How is Israel accessing WhatsApp to find targets in Gaza?

WhatsApp (owned by Mark Zuckerberg's company) is being used for data by Israel to kill Palestinians.

>>481054
So spying on people's private data with AI-Hitler, in order to mass-murder them. Is that sufficient abuse of power, to justify getting our privacy back ?

Because it looks like Gaza is something like a testing ground for the methods they're intending to roll out on the rest of the world.

>>481056
The Wars Come Home
<Weapons, tactics, techniques and, maybe most importantly, ideology are already spreading in the US and across the Collective West from the Ukraine and Gaza Conflicts.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/04/the-wars-increasingly-come-home.html

I hope that Gallagher's prediction turns out to be wrong, but yeah shit looks grim dark

Turkey will intervene in ICJ genocide case against Israel: Foreign minister

In a statement quoted by Reuters, Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan says the country has “decided to get involved in support of South Africa’s appeal against Israel” at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

The ICJ, a UN court that rules on disputes between nations, ordered Israel in January to refrain from any acts that could fall under the Genocide Convention, in an interim ruling to a case filed by South Africa.

Despite the ruling, Israel has since continued to kill thousands of Palestinian civilians in daily military assaults on the besieged territory.

Since the start of the war, Turkey has been one of Israel’s fiercest critics on the international stage, with its President Recep Tayyip Erdogan repeatedly calling Israel a “terror state”.

Israeli settlers attacked Jordanian aid convoys, dumped supplies: Report

Two Jordanian aid convoys carrying food, flour, and other humanitarian aid were attacked by Israeli settlers this morning on their way into Gaza, reports Jordan’s state-run Petra news agency, citing the Foreign Ministry.

The convoys, one taking the Beit Hanoon crossing and another taking the Karem Abu Salem crossing from Israel into Gaza, were targeted by the settlers who dumped some of their cargo and damaged the trucks, said the ministry, noting that the trucks continued the aid delivery mission.

In a statement carried by Petra, ministry spokesman Sufyan Qudah said, “The extremists’ attack on the two convoys, and the failure of the Israeli authorities to provide protection for them, undermine all the Israeli government’s claims and commitments to allowing aid to enter Gaza.”

Netanyahu tells Blinken he will not accept deal that ends war in Gaza: Report

Israel’s prime minister has told Blinken he will not accept a deal that includes ending the war on Gaza, Israeli media has reported.

According to senior American and Israeli officials, Netanyahu said that if Hamas insists on ending the war, the deal will not be accepted and Israel will be forced to launch a military offensive in Rafah, Israeli news agency Walla reported.

Blinken met with Israeli leaders in his push for a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, saying “the time is now” for an agreement that would free hostages and bring a pause in the war.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/5/1/israels-war-on-gaza-live-un-chiefs-warn-israel-against-assault-on-rafah

>>481060
Here we go, Turkey being a UKUS NATO puppet again. What do you even gain out of supporting Israel and denying genocide? Actually, just answered my own question…

>>481061
What? That's literally the exact opposite of what Turkey is doing.

>>481062
My apologies, I misread the headline and skimmed the rest…

US warns ICC against arrest warrants after Israeli threat: Report

After a threat against the Palestinian Authority (PA) by Israel, the US has reportedly told officials with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in private that issuing arrest orders for top Israeli government and military officials would be a mistake.

“We are quietly encouraging the ICC no to do it. It will blow up everything,” US outlet Axios reports, citing unnamed US officials.

It said Israel believes that the PA has been encouraging the ICC, which is based in The Hague in the Netherlands, to issue arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others, and is therefore ready to retaliate.

The retaliation could come in the form of cutting off the transfer of tax revenues that Israel collects for the Palestinian organisation, which could potentially lead to its collapse.

Israeli settler attack on aid convoys ‘warrants global condemnation’: Jordan FM

The Jordanian foreign minister says the “despicable attack by radical Israeli settlers” on two Jordanian convoys taking desperately needed humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza “warrants global condemnation”.

“Protecting the convoys is a legal obligation of Israel as the occupying power,” Ayman Safadi wrote in a post on X after the Jordanian foreign ministry officially condemned the attacks.

Safadi said one of the attacked trucks was the first to enter Gaza through the Beit Hanoon (Erez) crossing, which has just been reopened.

Colombia’s president says country will sever ties with Israel

Colombian President Gustavo Petro says he will break diplomatic relations with Israel over its actions in Gaza.

Petro has already heavily criticised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and requested to join South Africa’s case accusing Israel of genocide at the International Court of Justice.

More on the opening of the Beit Hanoon (Erez) border crossing

The Gaza Strip’s northern border crossing with Israel has been opened for the first time since the beginning of the war on Gaza last October.

Jordanian public service media outlet Al-Mamlaka TV reports that a Jordanian aid convoy consisting of 31 trucks entered Gaza via the Beit Hanoon crossing, known as the Erez crossing to Israelis.

The Times of Israel quoted army Colonel Moshe Tetro, head of Israel’s Coordination and Liaison Administration for Gaza, who said he hopes the crossing will be open every day and will help reach a target of 500 aid trucks entering Gaza daily.

UN calls for end to West Bank violence after 14 killed in refugee camp

Amid daily violent raids on occupied Palestinian territory in the West Bank, the latest Israeli military raid on the Nur Shams refugee camp left 14 Palestinians dead in late April.

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has released images showing the aftermath of the raid that also destroyed UN buildings, and has called for an end to the violence.

“Everyone in this area was in danger. It was just terrorising, no more, no less. Just terror,” said Musa Salah, a resident of the camp.

Haniyeh’s sister moved to house arrest after being charged with incitement

An Israeli court has ordered the release of the sister of Hamas’s top leader to house arrest after she was indicted for incitement and identification with a “terror group”, Israeli media report.

Sabah Haniyeh, 57, the sister of Ismail Haniyeh, was born in Gaza but has Israeli citizenship and lives in southern Israel. She was arrested in early April, indicted on April 21 and released to house arrest today.

According to the indictment, she sent several messages praising Hamas’s October 7 attacks to WhatsApp groups that seem to include members of the extended Haniyeh family.

Ismail Haniyeh lives in exile in Qatar.

Khamenei slams Israeli-Saudi normalisation efforts

Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says efforts that are under way to forge a normalisation of ties between Israel and Arab countries will not resolve the crisis in the Middle East.

“Some people think that by forcing neighbouring countries to normalise their ties, the problem will be solved,” Khamenei said while addressing a crowd. “They are wrong.”

His comments come after Blinken said the US is nearly ready to offer Saudi Arabia a security package if it normalises relations with Israel.

Talks over a potential normalisation with Israel came to a halt on October 7.

‘Time to recognise State of Palestine is now’: UN ambassador

Riyad Mansour, Palestine’s ambassador to the UN, is calling on the countries that have not recognised a State of Palestine to do so now.

This comes after Barbados and Jamaica became the latest to recognise Palestine, joining 140 others.

“For those who have not yet recognised a State of Palestine, we say there are no grounds for further delay. Those who want to destroy a Palestinian state and with it any chance for peace are not waiting,” Mansour said during a speech at UN headquarters in New York.

“If you wonder if you are on the right side of history, ask yourselves one question: ‘Is what I’m doing advocating freedom and peace or enabling continued oppression and conflict?’ You should ask yourself that question.”

Guterres: UN committed to peace ‘based on end to occupation’

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has reaffirmed the organisation’s “hope” for a two-state solution, calling it the only long-lasting path to peace for both Israelis and Palestinians along with the whole region.

“The UN is totally committed to supporting a pathway to peace, based on an end to the occupation and the establishment of a fully independent, democratic, viable, contiguous and sovereign Palestinian State, with Gaza as an integral part,” he said in a statement.

Hezbollah attacks homes in Israel

A statement from the group says its fighters have attacked two homes in the Israeli town of Shtola.

It said the strike was in response to “the Israeli enemy’s attacks on the steadfast southern villages and civilian homes” in Lebanon.

No casualties were immediately reported, but we will update you on this strike as information comes in.

Gaza filled with more debris and rubble than Ukraine: UN

The United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) says that the mammoth task of clearing Gaza’s debris is made all the more costly and dangerous by the sheer amount of asbestos and unexploded ordnance.

Nearly seven months into the war, UNMAS estimates the amount of debris in the Gaza Strip at 37 million tonnes in mid-April, or 300 kilogrammes per square metre (60 pounds per square foot).

“Gaza has more rubble than Ukraine, and to put that in perspective, the Ukrainian front line is 600 miles [nearly 1,000km] long, and Gaza is 25 miles [40km] long,” said Mungo Birch, head of the UNMAS programme in the Palestinian territories.

But the volume of rubble is not the only problem, UNMAS said.

“This rubble is likely heavily contaminated with UXO [unexploded ordnance], but its clearance will be further complicated by other hazards in the rubble,” Birch told journalists in Geneva.

“There’s estimated to be over 800,000 tonnes of asbestos, for instance, alone in the Gaza rubble.” The cancer-causing mineral used in construction requires special precautions when handling.

It is generally estimated that 10 to 15 percent of the munitions fired do not explode on impact and therefore represent a lasting danger for civilian populations.

1,000 Gaza workers in Israel ‘remain missing’: Palestinian rights groups

Palestinian human rights organisations have said that there is no information available about 1,000 workers from the Gaza Strip who were working in Israel on October 7.

The Commission for Detainee’s Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club, and the Addameer Foundation for Prisoner Care and Human Rights said in a joint statement that the number of Palestinian workers from Gaza who were in Israel before October 7 was approximately 10,300.

They added that “3,200 [workers] of them were released at the Kerem Shalom [Karem Abu Salem] crossing at the beginning of November 2023 from the detention centres where they were being held, some still wearing zip ties on their wrists bearing numbers.

“Approximately 6,441 workers were deported to the West Bank, and approximately 1,000 workers remain missing in light of the ongoing crime of forced disappearance against Gaza detainees.”

The organisations said that Israel has so far refused to disclose their whereabouts or information about their well-being, only saying that there are two military camps for Gaza detainees – one near Be’er Sheva, and another near Jerusalem.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/5/1/israels-war-on-gaza-live-un-chiefs-warn-israel-against-assault-on-rafah

New Yorkers rally in support of Palestine on May Day

A large crowd gathered today at New York City’s Foley Square for a protest entitled “Student and Workers Unite for Palestine”.

Posts from protest organisers say that this rally is being held in sympathy not only with Palestinians in Gaza, as they continue to endure Israel’s ongoing military campaign, but also with students on US university campuses, who are currently facing harsh police crackdowns as they demand their institutions divest from business ties with Israel.

https://twitter.com/PeoplesForumNYC/status/1785767360701358112

Palestinians thank students protesting worldwide for their support

Palestinians have demonstrated in the city of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza to show their support for pro-Palestine protests at universities worldwide.

Demonstrators of all ages held Palestinian flags and signs with names of universities such as Columbia, UCLA, the University of Minnesota and Yale.

Student rallies have spread to dozens of schools across the US in recent days expressing opposition to Israel’s war on Gaza. Students in universities across the world have also joined by staging protests.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/5/1/israels-war-on-gaza-live-un-chiefs-warn-israel-against-assault-on-rafah

https://twitter.com/Pal_action/status/1785739519771267285
Vote for Joe Biden to violently suppress college students, smear American protestors as anti-Jewish racists, and bomb these very children beyond the point where they are even recognizable as human corpses.

>>481078
>US warns ICC against arrest warrants after Israeli threat: Report
>After a threat against the Palestinian Authority (PA) by Israel, the US has reportedly told officials with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in private that issuing arrest orders for top Israeli government and military officials would be a mistake.
>“We are quietly encouraging the ICC no to do it. It will blow up everything,” US outlet Axios reports, citing unnamed US officials.
>It said Israel believes that the PA has been encouraging the ICC, which is based in The Hague in the Netherlands, to issue arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others, and is therefore ready to retaliate.
>The retaliation could come in the form of cutting off the transfer of tax revenues that Israel collects for the Palestinian organisation, which could potentially lead to its collapse.

All this arm-twisting of the ICC means that there is real momentum for going after Netanyahu.

Turkey halts all trade with Israel citing Gaza war

Turkey stopped all exports and imports to and from Israel because of the “worsening humanitarian tragedy” in the war-battered Gaza Strip.

“Export and import transactions related to Israel have been stopped, covering all products,” Turkey’s Ministry of Trade said in a statement. “Turkey will strictly and decisively implement these new measures until the Israeli government allows an uninterrupted and sufficient flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza.”

The two countries had a trade volume of $6.8bn in 2023. Turkey last month imposed trade restrictions on Israel over what it said was Israel’s refusal to allow Ankara to take part in air-dropped aid operations for Gaza.

Houthi leader says over 600 missiles launched since October 7

Abdel-Malik al-Houthi, the leader of the Houthis in Yemen, says the group has launched 606 ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drones in its attacks since October 7, which the group says are carried out in opposition to the deadly war on Gaza.

He said in a speech that 111 of the projectiles were directly launched at Israel, with the rest targeting warships belonging to Israel’s allies in the region, along with other vessels traversing the waters near Yemen.

Al-Houthi claimed that the group has so far targeted 107 ships linked with Israel and the US, and that it launched 33 missiles and drones in eight attacks in the past week in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the Arabian Sea and Israel.

“There is considerable annoyance and concern among the enemies due to operations extending to the Indian Ocean,” he said.

Syria says eight soldiers wounded after Israeli air strike

The Syrian Ministry of Defence says in a short statement that eight soldiers were wounded after the Israeli military launched an air strike from the occupied Golan Heights.

The attack hit an area in the vicinity of the capital Damascus, and there were also some “material losses”, it said, according to state-run SANA broadcaster.

UN rapporteur says ‘no Palestinian is safe’ after doctor’s killing

The UN rapporteur for occupied Palestinian territories says she’s “extremely alarmed” by reports of the killing of Dr Adnan al-Barash in an Israeli prison.

“While I acquire more information, I urge the diplomatic community to intervene with concrete measures to protect Palestinians,” Francesca Albanese wrote in a post on X.

“No Palestinian is safe under Israel’s occupation today.”

Hamas condemns doctor’s killing, calls for international intervention

Hamas says in a statement that the killing of Dr Adnan al-Barash in an Israeli prison is another episode of the “horrific war crimes” committed against Palestinians.

The group said many, including children, are regularly detained by Israeli forces from schools and hospitals and taken to detention centres where they lack the most basic rights.

“Among them are doctors whose crime was performing their humanitarian duty towards their wounded and sick people,” Hamas said.

Its statement called on the international community to condemn the arbitrary arrest and subsequent deaths in detention of Palestinians, and force Israel to reveal the fate of thousands of prisoners and return them to their families.

Earlier, the Reuters news agency had cited an unnamed security source as saying that the Israeli strike had hit a building operated by Syrian security forces on the outskirts of Damascus.

Iran university promises free education, stay to expelled Western students

Multiple universities in Iran are taunting their Western counterparts by promising to accept students who are expelled for participating in pro-Palestine protests.

The Shahid Beheshti University (SBU) in Tehran, one of Iran’s top universities, announced on Thursday that it will welcome students turned away from universities in the US and across Europe.

“We have considered scholarships for these students and will fully pay for their education, dormitory and stay,” said SBU President Mahmoud Aghamiri, according to state-linked media.

“We will also especially support Palestinian students who are facing challenges,” he said without elaborating.

Dozens of universities across Iran were the scenes of widespread student demonstrations – and clashes with armed security and arrests – during nationwide protests that rocked Iran in 2022 and 2023.

At least 2,000 arrested at US campus pro-Palestine protests: Report

A tally from the Associated Press found that 2,000 people have been arrested since mid-April, when students at Columbia University in New York occupied their campus and kicked off a wave of student-led pro-Palestine protests across the US.

Earlier today, at least 200 were arrested at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the latest incident of mass arrest at a campus protest.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/5/2/israels-war-on-gaza-live-israel-still-denying-aid-to-north-gaza-says-un

>>481107
>Multiple universities in Iran are taunting their Western counterparts by promising to accept students who are expelled for participating in pro-Palestine protests.
Assuming this is a realistic offer (language barriers ?) that's sort off a gigachaad brain-drain move.

‘Islamic Resistance in Bahrain’ claims first attack on Israel’s Eilat

A group identifying itself under the umbrella term the “Islamic Resistance in Bahrain” has claimed its first attack on Israel.

The group, called Saraya al-Ashtar or al-Ashtar Brigades, released a video showing a drone being launched, allegedly at the Israeli port city of Eilat, on Saturday. Israel has not commented on any such attack.

The group said it “targeted the headquarters of the company responsible for land transportation in the Zionist entity [Trucknet] in the city of Umm al-Rashrash [Eilat] in occupied Palestine”.

Trucknet, which is an Israeli transport company, signed an agreement in March to transfer oil between Israel and Arab countries. Saraya al-Ashtar is designated as a “terrorist” organisation by the US, which says it has ties with Iran.

Hezbollah claims two attacks on Israeli positions
The Lebanese armed group says it launched two strikes on Israeli positions on Thursday afternoon.

The first attack used artillery shells to target a site in Israeli-occupied Shebaa Farms and it achieved a direct hit, Hezbollah said.

“Appropriate weapons” were fired in the second strike on a position in the Kfarchouba hills, it added.

Iran slaps sanctions on US, UK over Israel support

Iran has announced sanctions on several American and British individuals and entities for supporting Israel in its war on Gaza.

The Islamic Republic, the regional arch foe of Israel, unveiled the punitive measures in a statement from its Foreign Ministry.

It said the sanctions targeted seven Americans, including General Bryan P Fenton, commander of the US special operations command, and Vice Admiral Brad Cooper, a former commander of the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet.

British officials and entities targeted include Secretary of State for Defence Grant Shapps, commander of the British army strategic command James Hockenhull and the UK Royal Navy in the Red Sea.

Penalties were also announced against US firms Lockheed Martin and Chevron, and British counterparts Elbit Systems, Parker Meggitt and Rafael UK.

The impact of these measures on the individuals or entities, as well as their assets or dealings with Iran, remains unclear.

Gaza death toll rises

At least 34,596 Palestinians have been killed and 77,816 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7, its Health Ministry says.

The ministry added that 28 people were killed and 51 injured in the latest 24-hour reporting period.

Portland police begin clearing student-occupied campus building

Scenes posted by US journalists and media outlets on X show the local police in the US state of Oregon surrounding and beginning to evacuate a library on the campus of Portland State University.

Students had occupied the building on Monday in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.

Earlier today, police told the students inside to leave or face arrest.

https://twitter.com/BonnieSilkman/status/1786038866698473498

Boy loses limbs after ‘hidden explosive charge’ in food aid detonates

A teenage Palestinian boy is the latest to be severely wounded while opening “booby-trapped food”, according the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

“A 14-year-old boy was seriously injured and sustained limb amputations after opening a booby-trapped can of food found while looking for his belongings in his house that had been shelled by Israeli forces in Khan Younis,” OCHA said, citing Gaza authorities.

The boy, who was wounded in the blast on Monday, is just one of “many people recently injured” from aid supplies rigged with hidden explosive charges, the UN agency added.

Israeli army still finding debris from Iranian missiles

The Israeli military has released images it says show the remains of another surface-to-surface missile fired by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) during its attack on Israel on April 13.

The Israeli military used a crane to clear out the missile debris, which it said was cleared of hazardous materials, near the southern city of Arad.

The Iranian attack was carried out in retaliation for the April 1 destruction of an Iranian consulate in Syria, which killed seven IRGC members, including two generals in charge of operations in Syria and Lebanon.

Saudi Arabia cracks down on criticism of Israel online: Report

Saudi Arabia has stepped up arrests for social media posts about the war in Gaza, Bloomberg News reports.

Among the recent detainees was an executive with a company involved in the kingdom’s Vision 2030 economic plan who “expressed views on the Gaza conflict deemed by authorities to be incendiary”.

Other people arrested include a media figure who said Israel should “never be forgiven” and an individual calling for the boycott of American fast-food restaurants in the country. The recent spike in arrests are motivated by security concerns, according to Riyadh-based diplomats and human rights groups, Bloomberg said.

The arrests come as Saudi Arabia signals “a readiness to agree to diplomatic relations with the Jewish state – if it commits to Palestinian statehood”.

Doctor killing takes medical sector death toll to 496

The killing of Dr Adnan al-Barash in an Israeli prison that we reported on earlier has taken the total death toll of medical personnel since the start of the war on Gaza to 496.

Gaza’s health ministry said in a statement that about 1,500 medical workers have also been wounded, and 309 remain imprisoned in Israeli jails.

“The killing of Dr al-Barash would not be the last crime in light of the complete secrecy of the condition of prisoners in prisons, especially those arrested from the Gaza Strip,” said the ministry.

It also called on the international community and health and human rights organisations to intervene and protect prisoners held by Israel.

Al-Bursh, 50, was the head of the orthopedic department at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. He was arrested by the Israeli army last December as he treated patients at al-Adwa Hospital in northern Gaza.

Israeli man detained for trying to attack Netanyahu’s convoy: Report

Israeli broadcaster Channel 12, citing local police, reports that a 58-year-old man was detained after an incident involving the Israeli prime minister’s motorcade in Tel Aviv.

Few details are available at this time, but we will continue to update you on this incident.

==Three arrested for protesting at weapon manufacturer’s building in Bristol
The Palestine Action protest network says three demonstrators have been arrested by British police for protesting in front of the Bristol headquarters of Elbit Systems.

Some had perched themselves on top of a van in order to block what they said was the only entrance into the building. Protesters said the weapons manufacturer is actively arming a “genocide” in Gaza.

Elbit Systems, which produces some of the most advanced drones in the world, proclaims on its website that its unmanned aerial vehicles are “the backbone” of the Israeli military.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest mandatory conscription

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has secured another two weeks of time to deal with the hot-button issue of mandatory conscription for ultra-Orthodox Jews, but they are continuing their protests in the meantime.

https://twitter.com/AJA_Palestine/status/1786041745450381579

US sanctions five people over support for Hezbollah

State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller says the United States is sanctioning five people for “enabling [Hezbollah] financial advisor Hassan Moukalled and his company to continue supporting the terrorist group and its senior officials”.

Some in Gaza ‘tasting fresh bread for the first time in six months’

Shaza Moghraby, a spokesperson for the World Food Programme (WFP), says humanitarian access to Gaza is improving relative to where it has been, but it’s still not enough.

Yesterday, the first aid trucks entered Gaza via the Beit Hanoon (Erez) border crossing in the north for the first time since October 7.

“We have seen improvements but we need the routes to be opened all the time,” she said.

According to Moghraby, WFP has been able to open four bakeries in northern Gaza where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are in dire need.

“So for the first time, people in the northern areas who were using extreme measures to make bread, using animal feed and bird seed to make bread, for the first time they are tasting fresh bread in six months.”

Dozens of Israeli settlers tour, pray at Al-Aqsa Mosque: Report

Israeli settlers have carried out a tour at Al-Aqsa Mosque and performed Talmudic rituals in the vicinity of Bab ar-Rahma prayer area, the Wafa news agency has reported.

The Jerusalem governorate said about 163 Israeli settlers participated in the provocative tour, protected by Israeli police.

Under the status quo, only Muslims are allowed to pray at Al-Aqsa Mosque which includes its courtyard.

Israeli police also increased their military deployments near Al-Aqsa Mosque, preventing young Palestinian men from entering, Wafa reported.

Palestinian embassy seeks temporary status for those who entered Egypt

The Palestinian embassy in Egypt is seeking temporary residency permits for tens of thousands of people who have arrived from Gaza during the war, which it says would ease conditions for them until the conflict is over.

Diab al-Louh, the Palestinian ambassador in Cairo, said as many as 100,000 Palestinians had crossed into Egypt, where they lack the papers to enrol their children in schools, open businesses or bank accounts, travel, or access health insurance – though some have found ways to make a living.

Al-Louh stressed that residency permits would only be for legal and humanitarian purposes, adding that those who arrived since the war began on October 7 had no plans to settle in Egypt.

It will take until at least 2040 to repair destroyed homes in Gaza, UN says

If the war in Gaza stopped today, it would still take until 2040 to rebuild all the homes destroyed in Israel’s bombardment and ground offensives, according to UN estimates.

“Every additional day that this war continues is exacting huge and compounding costs to Gazans and all Palestinians,” said UN Development Programme Administrator Achim Steiner.

At least 370,000 housing units in Gaza have been damaged, including 79,000 destroyed completely, according to a new report by the UNDP and the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia.

After previous wars on Gaza, housing was rebuilt at a rate of 992 units year. Even if Israel allows a five-fold increase of construction material to enter Gaza, it would take until 2040 to rebuild the destroyed houses, without repairing the damaged ones, the report said.

Two Palestinian detainees from Gaza die in Israeli prisons: Prisoner’s Society

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society says that one of the detainees who died was Dr Adnan al-Barash, the head of the orthopaedic department at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, the largest medical complex in the besieged and bombarded territory.

Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied territories, said she was “extremely alarmed” by the information and urged the diplomatic community to intervene with concrete measures to protect Palestinians.

“No Palestinian is safe under Israel’s occupation today,” she wrote on X.

UNRWA shows extent of damage in Gaza

https://twitter.com/UNRWA/status/1786026227402228049

White House says Gaza pier to open in days

A maritime pier constructed by the US military to speed the flow of humanitarian aid in Gaza should be open within a matter of days, despite poor weather that is hampering preparations, White House national security spokesperson John Kirby has said.

“We were hoping within days. I think that’s still a hope,” Kirby said at a news briefing.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/5/2/israels-war-on-gaza-live-israel-still-denying-aid-to-north-gaza-says-un

Iraqi fighter groups claim missile attack on Tel Aviv

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of Iran-aligned armed groups, has said it launched multiple cruise missiles at Israel on Thursday, the Reuters news agency reports.

A source from the group told Reuters that al-Arqab-type cruise missiles were fired at the city of Tel Aviv for the first time. Israel has yet to comment on the attack.

The Iraqi armed groups have claimed multiple attacks on US forces stationed in Iraq and Syria, as well as targets in Israel, since October.

US military says it destroyed three Houthi uncrewed aerial systems in Yemen

The US military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) has said that it “engaged and destroyed” three uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen.

“It was determined these systems presented an imminent threat to US, coalition forces, and merchant vessels in the region,” CENTCOM wrote in a post on X.

California Republicans want university leaders fired over antiwar protests

Republican party leaders are calling for the removal of university administrations in California, saying they should have prevented campus protests against Israel’s war on Gaza from escalating into “lawlessness and violence”.

According to The Associated Press news agency, Republicans want the leaders at universities such as the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt removed, and are also pushing for a proposal that would cut pay for university administrations.

US senators meet ICC over potential Israel arrest warrants: Report

A group of both Democratic and Republican US senators reportedly held a virtual meeting with senior officials from the International Criminal Court (ICC) over potential arrest warrants being considered for top Israeli officials.

The meeting took place on Wednesday shortly after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to multiple senators, reports the US news site Axios, citing three unnamed sources.

Republican lawmakers have reportedly threatened to pass legislation against the ICC if it moves forward with the warrants.

Axios earlier reported that Biden administration officials have also privately warned the ICC against the move after a warning by Israel that it could cut off tax funds it collects for the Palestinian Authority, which could cause it to collapse.

Students erect pro-Palestine encampments across Canadian campuses

Students at the University of Toronto set up an encampment in a fenced-off grassy space at the school’s downtown campus where some 100 protesters gathered with dozens of tents.

According to a statement from organisers, the encampment will stay until the university discloses its investments, divests from any that “sustain Israeli apartheid, occupation and illegal settlement of Palestine”, and ends partnerships with some Israeli academic institutions.

“If public disruption is the only way to get our voice heard, then we are willing to do that,” said University of Toronto graduate student and encampment spokesperson, Sara Rasikh.

Students also set up encampments at McGill University in Montreal, the University of British Columbia and the University of Ottawa.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/5/2/israels-war-on-gaza-live-israel-still-denying-aid-to-north-gaza-says-un

>>481108
True!

Trinidad and Tobago recognises the State of Palestine

The government of Trinidad and Tobago has announced that it is officially recognising the State of Palestine, a move it said would help to achieve a “lasting peace”.

A news release from the Caribbean country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the move strengthened the “growing international consensus on the issue of Palestinian statehood”.

“Recognition of Palestine is moral and just and demonstrates Trinidad and Tobago’s acknowledgement of and support for the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinian People,” the statement said.

European Union Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell said on Monday that several EU countries are set to recognise Palestine as an independent state by the end of May. The countries are yet to be confirmed but are believed to include Ireland, Spain, Belgium, Malta and Slovenia.

In April, the US vetoed a UN resolution that would have paved the way for full membership for Palestine, saying statehood must be achieved through direct negotiations between Israel and Palestine.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/5/3/israels-war-on-gaza-live-unprecedented-levels-of-death-and-destruction

>>481128
>CNN DISGRACES Itself
Is there a time when it didn't?

>>481129
Nope, but this is still really disgusting stuff.

>>481128
>>481129
I feel like it's gotten worse over time.

You used to be able to get some information from sources like that, you just had to reverse their spin in your mind.

Some time later they began omitting so much context that it became empty, people talking about events without saying anything.

At present it sometimes feels like watching these can be a mind-danger. Like a Greek mythological creature that has a negative effect on people who just look at it. I wish i know how this got so spooky.

>>481128
CNNN pissed me off so badly with this bullshit.
Like I used to watch major cable news networks like this to at the very least keep my pulse on the fifth branch of the government and the hegemonic state of our society, but. I'm not even going to so much as bother with them now. It's so blatant and apparent at this point they might as well have just got on camera and said "WE ARE LITERALLY AN APPARATUS OF THE STATE AND CAPITAL" Their in the exact same category as Fox news now to me.

>>481130
They literally just went on air and started fucking lying.

>>481128
Better breakdown by Caitlin Johnstone of the lies in this segment:
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/05/03/caitlin-johnston-cnn-compares-campus-protesters-to-nazis/

Democracy Now!: Meet Hala Rharrit, First U.S. Diplomat to Quit over Gaza

ICC demands end to ‘retaliation threats’ over Gaza

The prosecutor’s office at the International Criminal Court (ICC) has appealed for an end to what it calls intimidation of its staff.

The Hague-based office of ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan said in a statement all attempts to impede, intimidate or improperly influence its officials must cease immediately.

While the prosecutor’s statement did not mention Israel, it was issued after Israeli and US officials have warned of consequences against the ICC if it issues arrest warrants over Israel’s war on Gaza.

‘An entire family wiped out’

Gaza resident Sanaa Zoorob said her sister and six of her nieces and nephews were killed in an Israeli attack on Rafah. Two of the children “were found in pieces in their mother’s embrace”, she said.

One of the children was six years old and another was handicapped.

“An entire family wiped out. I just want to convey a message – what is the fault of these children? What have they done to have their building bombed by three rockets? These children were sleeping. Their remains were collected in one bag,” said Zoorob.

She appealed for “a permanent ceasefire and a full withdrawal from Gaza” of Israeli troops.

Palestinian family forced by Israel to demolish shops in occupied East Jerusalem

Israeli authorities have reportedly forced a Palestinian family to demolish three shops they owned for decades in the town of Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem.

The Israeli municipality in the area ruled the stores must be destroyed because they were built without a permit, the Wafa news agency quoted Yassin Qaraeen, a family member, as saying.

The shops were there for more than 30 years and the family had to demolish the businesses themselves in order to avoid paying heavy fines to the municipality if it carried out the process, said Qaraeen.

Israel promises Rafah attack in a week unless Hamas agrees to terms: Report

Israel has reportedly given Hamas one week to agree to a truce and prisoner-captive exchange deal, threatening it will begin its ground invasion of Rafah otherwise.

Egyptian officials conveyed this message from Israeli leaders to the armed Palestinian group on Thursday, according to the Wall Street Journal, which cited unnamed Egyptian sources briefed on the matter.

Publicly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has continued to promise an invasion of Rafah regardless of a deal with Hamas. The Palestinian group has said it’s “looking positively” at the latest proposals mediated through Egypt.

An earlier news report said CIA Director William Burns is now in Cairo, and a Hamas delegation is expected soon as well.

Halted Israel trade aimed at ‘forcing’ a Gaza ceasefire: Erdogan

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the move to halt trade with Israel, which has angered Israeli officials, is aimed at achieving a ceasefire in Gaza.

“We have taken some measures to force Israel to agree to a ceasefire and increase the amount of humanitarian aid to enter” Gaza, Erdogan told businessmen in Istanbul. Trade between the two countries is worth about $7bn annually.

“We will oversee the consequences of this step we have taken in coordination and consultation with our business world.”

He later told reporters: “Up to now, Israel has killed 40,000 to 45,000 Palestinians without mercy. As Muslims, we could not stand by and watch.”

Erdogan said Turkey knows “we did the right thing”, but the move has left Israeli officials fuming with Foreign Minister Israel Katz calling the president a “dictator”.

Qassam Brigades launches missiles at Israel from southern Lebanon

The military wing of Hamas says its fighters have managed to launch missiles at Israel from southern Lebanon, where Hezbollah is engaged in fighting along the border with Israel.

Footage obtained by our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic shows volleys of missiles developed by the Qassam Brigades being launched from Lebanon, purportedly at Israeli military targets.

The Qassam Brigades also said its fighters inside the Gaza Strip launched “heavy-calibre mortar shells” at the so-called Netzarim Corridor of the Israeli military, which runs east to west through the besieged enclave, separating its north and south.

https://twitter.com/AJA_Palestine/status/1786429768205771102

Houthis say ‘millions’ march again in Yemen in support of Gaza, military ops

Houthi-run media have released images from another weekly march in Yemen, saying “millions” of people again took to the streets to express solidarity with Palestinians.

The al-Masirah broadcaster also reported demonstrators announced their support for more naval operations by Houthi forces, which said they will extend their attacks to all ships linked with Israeli ports if Israel launches a ground invasion of Rafah in southern Gaza.

https://twitter.com/TvAlmasirah/status/1786413281944506825

Iran slams US for cracking down on pro-Palestine student protests

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani has condemned US authorities for violently suppressing the protests of pro-Palestinian students across the country.

He wrote on X: “The move of the US government authorities to distort the truth and describe genuine student and academic anger and protests as anti-Semitism, in order to justify and use of violent suppression tools to silence the peaceful protests and gatherings of pro-Palestine students, does not diminish the ugliness of their actions.”

“A significant number of Jewish people, including Jewish students, have declared their disgust with the hateful crimes of the Zionist regime and the US government’s shameful support for the regime,” Kanaani said.

He added that the “mask of hypocrisy” has been removed “from the faces of the false defenders of freedom of speech and human rights”.

Rafah invasion could lead to a ‘bloodbath’: WHO

The World Health Organization (WHO) says it’s deeply concerned a threatened Israeli ground invasion of Rafah in southern Gaza “could lead to a bloodbath”.

“Only 33 percent of Gaza’s 36 hospitals and 30 percent of primary healthcare centres are functional in some capacity amid repeated attacks and shortages of vital medical supplies, fuel, and staff,” it said.

“As part of contingency efforts, WHO and partners are urgently working to restore and resuscitate health services, including through expansion of services and pre-positioning of supplies, but the broken health system would not be able to cope with a surge in casualties and deaths that a Rafah incursion would cause.”

Netanyahu is the obstructionist in negotiations: Hamas official

Husam Badran has accused the Israeli prime minister of issuing statements aimed at undermining prospects for a truce.

The senior Hamas official told the Agence France-Presse news agency that the group was in the process of conducting internal dialogues among its leaders and with allied groups before negotiators return to Cairo to continue negotiations towards a truce.

But he warned that Netanyahu’s repeated statements insisting he will send forces into Rafah were calculated to “thwart any possibility of concluding an agreement”.

“Netanyahu was the obstructionist in all previous rounds of dialogue and previous negotiations, and it is clear that he still is,” Badran said in a telephone interview.

“He is not interested in reaching an agreement, and therefore, he says words in the media to thwart these current efforts.”

Badran reiterated that Hamas’s goal remains a lasting ceasefire and “a complete and comprehensive withdrawal of the occupation forces from the Gaza Strip”.

Body of Israeli previously presumed a captive is found

An Israeli citizen who was previously believed to have been kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 has been declared dead after his body was found in Israeli territory.

The Israeli military said on X that the death of Elyakim Libman was confirmed based on “findings that were identified following a complex investigation” carried out by the army, police, forensic authorities and the Health Ministry.

The victim’s family has been informed. Libman reportedly was working as a security guard at the Supernova desert dance party on October 7.

‘Only violence we’ve seen has been against college encampments’: CAIR

Ahmed Rehab, the executive director of the US-based Council on American-Islamic Relations, weighed in on the debate on violence at pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses across the United States.

“The only violence we have seen has been violence against encampments, whether by pro-Israeli mobs at UCLA – as was widely reported – or by the police who come in a militarised fashion,” he said in an announcement from Chicago.

Palestinian employee of German development agency ‘abused’ in Israeli jail
Ruairi Casey

Berlin, Germany – A Palestinian employee of Germany’s state-funded development agency has been imprisoned in Israel for more than a month, where she has been beaten and subject to abusive and humiliating treatment, her family members and lawyer say.

Baraa Odeh, 34, works for the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), and was detained by Israeli border guards on March 5 while returning to her home in Ramallah from a work trip to Germany.

Mahmoud Hassan, a lawyer for Odeh who has spoken to her in prison, said she has been physically assaulted and subject to inhumane conditions.

Israeli military held woman in Gaza to force brother’s surrender: Rights group

The Israeli army has held a Palestinian woman in Gaza for hours to force her brother to turn himself in, according to the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor.

Enas Abu al-Moazza was travelling south towards Rafah with her husband, Palestinian photojournalist Muhammad al-Hajjar, and their children to eventually escape Gaza by moving abroad.

They were stopped at gunpoint at a checkpoint near the Netzarim Corridor, which the Israeli military has set up to separate northern and southern Gaza.

Al-Hajjar was driven away while al-Moazza was reportedly held until her 21-year-old brother surrendered. The family said her brother has no ties to armed or political groups.

“The Israeli army held al-Moazza for roughly 12 hours before seizing all of her belongings, including cash, gold and cell phones, and ultimately releasing her. She was given only her ID card,” the Geneva-based rights group said.

“Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor stresses that holding a person hostage to force their family member to ‘surrender’ is a war crime. Civilians should not be used as tools of war or put in danger during military operations.”

‘Extremist settlers undermining security and stability,’ UK’s Cameron says

British Foreign Secretary David Cameron says Israel’s “extremist settlers are undermining security and stability and threatening prospects for peace” in Palestine.

His statement came after the UK announced the new sanctions that we reported on earlier against several groups and individuals behind the violence against Palestinians in the region.

“This latest package of sanctions targets two groups leading these attacks and four individuals who are directly responsible for egregious violence against Palestinian civilians,” Cameron said.

The four individuals named by the UK government included Noam Federman, a “radical settler activist”, and Neria Ben Pazi, who is said to be responsible for “illegally constructing three illegal outposts”, according to a UK government statement

Federman’s son Ely Federman was among four people the UK sanctioned in February.

Also named was Eden Levi, who the ministry accused of taking part in “assaults and intimidation of Palestinians as part of a wider intimidation campaign to drive their population out of the area”.

The fourth individual was Elisha Yered, accused of “inciting religious hatred and violence”.

The two groups named were Hilltop Youth and Lehava, which the EU has also placed on its blacklist.

US military says pier construction halted, moved to Israel due to bad sea conditions

The US Central Command (CENTCOM) says soldiers “temporarily paused” the offshore assembly of a floating pier they’ve been building for weeks to get more aid to Gaza because of unsafe sea conditions.

“The partially built pier and military vessels involved in its construction have moved to the Port of Ashdod, where assembly will continue, and will be completed prior to the emplacement of the pier in its intended location when sea states subside.”

The US military said once fully constructed, the pier will allow “the delivery of large quantities of humanitarian aid from ship to shore by truck, with vehicles driving directly off ships and across the temporary pier to a marshaling yard ashore”.

International aid organisations and say deliveries by land are by far the most effective way to get humanitarian relief to besieged Palestinians.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/5/3/israels-war-on-gaza-live-unprecedented-levels-of-death-and-destruction

Gaza death toll rises

At least 34,622 Palestinians have been killed and 77,867 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7, its Health Ministry says.

The ministry added that 26 people were killed and 51 injured in the latest 24-hour reporting period.

Bahrain-based group likely claimed attack to ‘deter overland Israeli trade’

An Iran-aligned Bahrain-based group called Saraya al-Ashtar published a video of a drone, allegedly targeting a company facilitating overland trade in the Israeli port city of Eilat.

A report by the Critical Threats Project says the company, Trucknet Enterprise, signed several agreements with Emirati companies in December 2023 to organise overland trade to the Gulf and mitigate the impact of attacks on shipping by the Houthis in Yemen.

“Houthi attacks have reduced commercial operations at the port of Eilat and thus driven Israel to rely more on land routes through Jordan and the Gulf states to the Persian Gulf,” it says.

“Saraya al-Ashtar likely claimed the attack, regardless of whether it occurred, to deter companies and the Gulf states from supporting overland Israeli trade.”

Time to give Gaza access to international media’: UNRWA chief

Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), says Palestinian journalists in Gaza should be joined by their international peers to report on the war.

Marking World Press Freedom Day, he noted the highest number of journalists killed in any conflict is by the Israeli military in the besieged enclave.

“Without the courage and the determination of Palestinian journalists, we wouldn’t know and comprehend the extent of the tragedy unfolding in Gaza,” he wrote in a post on X. “Time to give access to international media to complement the work of their local peers.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/5/3/israels-war-on-gaza-live-unprecedented-levels-of-death-and-destruction

>>481160
>Gaza death toll rises
this is at this point a severe undercount. it hit 30k months ago and then the zionists destroyed/killed almost all of the infrastructure/people in charge of the death toll.

It's likely 100-200k palestinians dead by now. maybe more.

death to israel
death to america

>>481159
>ICC demands end to ‘retaliation threats’ over Gaza

>The prosecutor’s office at the International Criminal Court (ICC) has appealed for an end to what it calls intimidation of its staff.

>The Hague-based office of ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan said in a statement all attempts to impede, intimidate or improperly influence its officials must cease immediately.

I wonder what happened there. Did this go down like in the mafia movies ? Did they send Jimmy Snipsnip with a hedge trimmer, to threaten the staff with cutting off their pinky fingers ?

>>481161
>It's likely 100-200k palestinians dead by now. maybe more.
It's probably double the reported number, so ~70k
But given the extremely adverse conditions in Gaza, it's likely that delayed consequences will drive up the death toll. So you may not be far off by guessing 200k