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SvennoJ on 10 June 2024
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Pro-Palestine protesters target UK’s Barclays bank branches with red paint

Pro-Palestine activists have targeted 20 Barclays branches in England and Scotland, urging divestment from Israel’s weapons trade.

Some branches were also vandalised and had their windows broken.

According to the group Palestine Action, the protests were carried out to “demand the bank divests from Israel’s weapons trade and fossil fuels”. It said it will continue targeted actions until Barclays stops investing in certain companies.

You shall not mention the war...

University in Chicago dismisses professor after assignment on Israeli war on Gaza

DePaul University says it has dismissed a part-time biology instructor after she gave an optional assignment related to the war.

Anne d’Aquino told students in May that they could write about the impact of “genocide in Gaza” on human health. The theme of the spring class at the Chicago university was how microorganisms cause disease.

DePaul said some students objected to politics in a science class. It found the material was “outside the scope” of the class. D’Aquino appealed her dismissal. She said the assignment was relevant, noting that scientists had warned about the spread of infectious disease in Gaza.



International probe into Gaza hospital mass graves ‘essential’: UK medical charity

Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) is “deeply concerned” that no international investigators have yet been allowed to enter Gaza to preserve evidence and pursue accountability more than a month after the discovery of hundreds of bodies in mass graves at the enclave’s two hospitals.

At the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, the Palestinian Civil Defence recovered 392 bodies, including those of women, children, the elderly and injured people, from at least three mass graves. The discovery of these mass graves followed a weeks-long siege and military raid by Israeli forces, which forced Nasser hospital out of service.

Similarly, after a two-week-long invasion and siege by the Israeli military, at least seven mass graves were reported at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

“Israel has attacked nearly every hospital in Gaza. Hundreds of health workers and patients have been killed and detained. The discovery of mass graves in two hospitals further demonstrates that the protected status healthcare in Gaza under international law has totally failed, with harrowing results,” said MAP’s director of advocacy Rohan Talbot.

“The families of the dead deserve to know the truth of what happened to their loved ones, and to have justice wherever serious violations of international law have occurred. This can only be achieved through thorough, prompt and impartial investigations,” he said.

“The international community must therefore demand access to Gaza for independent investigators and forensic experts, so that evidence can be preserved and accountability pursued,” Talbot added.

 

US rights groups file appeal against Biden, Blinken alleging complicity in Israeli genocide in Gaza

The Center for Constitutional Rights, a New York civil liberties group, has filed an appeal on behalf of the Palestinian human rights organisations Al-Haq and Defence for Children International as well as Palestinians in Gaza and Palestinian Americans in the US in the Ninth District Court of Appeals in San Francisco.

They assert that the US (including the president, secretary of state and secretary of defence) is complicit in an Israeli genocide in Gaza.

The original lawsuit was filed in November in federal court, but it was dismissed in January on jurisdictional grounds.

“I promised my surviving family members in Gaza that I would do everything in my power to advocate on their behalf,” said Laila El-Haddad, a plaintiff in the case who has lost five family members in the war.