Wtf is going on in Germany
Germany bans inverted red triangle symbol used by Qassam Brigades: Report
Berlin has banned the symbol used by Hamas’s military wing to mark enemy targets in videos and in graffiti, The Daily Telegraph reports.
“The motion passed in the state senate said the scarlet arrow icon represents an immediate threat to Jews and to people committed to the freedom and security of Israel and should be banned at protests and in the context of the Middle East conflict,” the UK newspaper said.
Germany’s government is a staunch supporter of Israel at a time when Berlin has grown into the city with the largest Palestinian population in Europe. Both the ruling coalition and the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party voted for the motion. The state parliament also wants to assist in passing the law on a federal level, the paper said.
A symbol used within the "Free Palestine" movement to show solidarity with Palestinians. It references the red triangle on the Flag of Palestine, which is inverted when hung up, or the inverted red triangles used by the Al-Qassam Brigades to indicate targets in their released videos.
Why not ban the whole flag while you're at it. Just like Israel did with the colors of the flag.
https://www.972mag.com/palestinian-flag-ban-history-israelis/
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/01/israel-opt-flag-restrictions-are-the-latest-attempt-to-silence-palestinians-and-reduce-their-visibility/
Enforced disappearance escalated since October: Rights group
Addameer says that with the launch of Israel’s ground offensive, the organisation received reports of large numbers of civilians in Gaza, some nearly naked, crowded together in army vehicles and taken to an unknown destination.
The Palestinian NGO based in Ramallah said it received reports from the north of Gaza of mass detentions, ill-treatment, and forced disappearance of possibly thousands of Palestinians, including children, at the hands of Israeli forces.
Israeli authorities can detain Palestinian residents of Gaza under a law that does not guarantee the right to meaningful judicial review and violates due process rights, it said.
“The Unlawful Combatant Law, enacted by the Knesset in 2002, permits the Chief of General Staff of the Israeli forces to incarcerate a person based on ‘reasonable cause’ that ‘he is an unlawful combatant and that his release will harm national security’,” Addammeer said, adding that this “unlawful combatant” designation is not recognised under international law.
Several rights groups, including Israeli ones, have petitioned the Israeli Supreme Court to have authorities disclose the whereabouts of hundreds of Gaza residents taken. But so far, Addameer said, they’ve only managed to get some information on “a limited number of detainees without [authorities] disclosing the legal grounds for their detention”.
