Israel has a ‘deliberate plan to kill children and women’: UN official
Figures from the UN agency for Palestinian refugees show 37 children in Gaza lose their mother every day. It’s being described as a “war on women”.
“In no war in recent history have we seen this appalling, deliberate targeted attack on women and children as we’ve seen in the war on Gaza,” said Reem al-Salem, the UN special rapporteur on women and girls.
She said Israel has been targeting Palestinian women for decades, but the current war shows zero consideration for their safety. “They are experiencing a full-blown genocide, they are being exterminated. There are few places in the world where we’ve seen something like this.”
Al-Salem noted nearly 15,000 children and 10,000 women have been killed in seven months of Israeli attacks. “If this is not a deliberate plan to kill children and women – the foundations of Palestinian life and society – then I don’t know what is really.”
Israel bombs farmland as hunger spreads to southern Gaza
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report that an Israeli raid hit agricultural land near the Egypt-Gaza border, south of Rafah.
Israel has for weeks insisted on launching a ground invasion into Rafah, despite UN agencies and aid groups warning it would result in “catastrophe” for the more than 1.5 million people sheltered there.
Bombing farmland, paid for with American tax payer money.
Palestinian employee of German development agency ‘abused’ in Israeli jail
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/3/palestinian-employee-of-german-development-agency-abused-in-israeli-jail
A Palestinian employee of Germany’s state-funded development agency has been imprisoned in Israel for more than a month. She alleges being beaten and subject to abusive and humiliating treatment.
Baraa Odeh, 34, works for the German Agency for International Cooperation and was detained by Israeli border guards on March 5 while returning to her home in Ramallah from a work trip to Germany. She was since sentenced to three months of administrative detention without charge.
Prisoner rights groups and released detainees have raised the alarm on Israel’s systematic use of torture in its prisons, especially in recent months.
Palestinian doctor denied entry to France after working in Gaza
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/4/palestinian-doctor-ghassan-abu-sitta-says-he-was-denied-entry-to-france
Ghassan Abu-Sitta, a doctor who spent 43 days in Gaza helping treat those wounded in Israel’s war, said he is being denied entry to France where he was scheduled to make a speech at the Senate.
Abu Sitta was placed in a holding zone at the airport and will be expelled, according to French Senator Raymonde Poncet Monge.
“Fortress Europe silencing the witnesses to the genocide while Israel kills them in prison,” the renowned British-Palestinian plastic surgeon said.
Student protests at University of Southern California continue
Pro-Palestine students are continuing their sit-in at the University of Southern California (USC).
“USC divest from genocide” and “Free Palestine” placards can be seen at the encampment setup at Alumni Park.
Pro-Palestinian demonstrations and encampments have taken place across universities in the United States and spread to campuses around the world.
Can it be any more peaceful??
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