Israel intensified attacks on Gaza civilians after ‘historic’ ICJ ruling: UN experts
As we reported earlier, a group of 39 independent UN human rights experts have released a statement saying “Israel must stop acting as if uniquely above the law” and “immediately comply” with a recent “historic” ruling from the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
Here’s more from the expert’s statement:
“Since the Court ruling on 19 July, Israel has intensified attacks on the civilian population in Gaza and their natural resources,” the experts said. Three days after the ICJ ruling, Israeli ground forces began a nine-day ground invasion of eastern Khan Younis, killing 255 people, according to Gaza officials.
The Israeli army also admitted this week that it bombed a reservoir that provided drinking water for Palestinians in Rafah, one of dozens of water sources Palestinians officials say Israeli forces have destroyed this month.
The UN experts also called for an arms embargo on Israel and “targeted sanctions…on Israeli individuals and entities involved in illegal occupation and racial segregation and apartheid policies.”
UN experts hail @CIJ_ICJ declaration on illegality of Israel’s presence in the occupied #Palestinian territory as “historic” for Palestinians and international law.
They reiterate their call for international #arms embargo and #CeasefireNOW.https://t.co/5GpCsgMK7g pic.twitter.com/0FGFHIlH5o
— UN Special Procedures (@UN_SPExperts) July 30, 2024
Freed Palestinians reveal severe abuse and torture by Israeli soldiers, families live in anguish
The eyes of Palestinians freed from Israeli prisons betray suffering that the mind cannot comprehend.
“They put a prod in our mouth and private parts and electrocuted us,” Mohammad Abu Shaar, a Palestinian freed from an Israeli prison, told Al Jazeera.
Such harrowing stories are recounted at hospitals in Gaza each time Israel releases Palestinians who were taken from Gaza and held in Israeli prisons.
Documented cases of torture and sexual abuse of Palestinian detainees have now reached unprecedented levels and rights group says Israel continues to carry out the enforced disappearances of thousands of men, women and children in Gaza.
Far-right mobs attack Israeli journalists covering Sde Teiman protest
Israeli journalists have reported being attacked on Tuesday as they covered protests by far-right demonstrators at the Sde Teiman detention centre in southern Israel, the Haaretz newspaper reports.
Ilana Curiel, a journalist for Israeli news site Ynet, said she was left “in tears” after being physically and verbally assaulted. “[The protesters] shoved me, spit on me and called me a slut, an ‘Arabs’ whore, a traitor. They dropped my phone twice,” she said.
Channel 12 News reporter Ori Isaac was also struck, spit on, and verbally attacked, according to Israeli media watchdog The Seventh Eye.
Demonstrators stormed Sde Teiman to protest the arrest of nine Israeli soldiers accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee at the military facility, which was set up following the launch of Israel’s war on Gaza in October. Scuffles also broke out between demonstrators and Israeli soldiers in a separate protest at a military court at the Beit Lid army base.
Right-wing protesters wave Israeli flags outside the Sde Teiman detention facility on July 29
