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SvennoJ on 15 May 2024

Death toll mounts in another bloody night of Israeli attacks across Gaza Strip

Four people have been reported killed and nine injured in an Israeli attack on a residential apartment in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood and a mother and her child were killed in a separate attack on an apartment in the city’s Yarmourk area, according to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

An Israeli attack drone killed a Palestinian and injured two others when it targeted a group of civilians on Old Gaza Street in Jabalia city in the north of the territory, the Wafa news agency reports.

Air strikes have also hit Gaza City’s Remal and Zeitoun neighbourhoods overnight and Israeli artillery continued to pound the Nuseirat refugee camp as well as other locations in central Gaza, including the Yaban refugee camp.

Israeli naval ships stationed off Gaza were reportedly pounded on the northern coast of the territory, Wafa says.

The news agency also reports that Israeli ground forces blew up buildings in Jabalia and several areas in the north of the territory as well buildings in the as-Salam neighbourhood, east of Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip.


A smoke plume rises during Israel’s bombardment of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday


Gaza European Hospital ‘out of service’ due to fuel shortages

The electricity generators at the European Hospital near Rafah have stopped working due to fuel shortages, putting the hospital “out of service”, the Wafa news agency reports, citing medical sources.

It said the fuel shortages were “threatening the lives of hundreds of wounded and sick people inside” the medical complex in southern Gaza.

Yesterday, the Palestine Red Crescent Society warned of the “deterioration of humanitarian conditions” in Gaza amid Israel’s closure of border crossings, blocking aid and fuel from entering the besieged enclave.


Five reported killed in Israeli strike on Gaza’s Bureij refugee camp

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report that the strike hit the home of the Brash family, located in central Gaza’s Bureij refugee camp.

Ten killed by shelling of UNRWA clinic in Gaza City

Our colleagues on the ground are reporting that Israeli shelling targeted a UNRWA clinic in Gaza City’s Sabra neighbourhood, killing at least 10 displaced Palestinians.

The UNRWA said Israel’s military has repeatedly struck its facilities during the war, damaging 171 of them.


Battles raging in Rafah, Jabalia

The Israeli army has intensified military attacks by land and air.

Israeli fighter jets are continuing to hammer Jabalia and the Rafah district. In the Jabalia refugee camp, there are ongoing confrontations on the streets. Fighting also continues in the eastern side of Rafah district, including the Jnaina and Salam neighbourhoods.

Over the past couple of hours, we have recorded more victims in central areas of Gaza City. Ten Palestinians have been killed in the city’s Sabra neighbourhood after a UN-run clinic was targeted by Israeli jets. Five Palestinians were also killed in overnight strikes in Bureij refugee camp.

All those victims were brought to Al-Aqsa Hospital for burial preparations.

Palestinian medics treat injured children in Jabalia

The Palestine Red Crescent Society say it has treated numerous Palestinians, including children, injured in the Jabalia area of northern Gaza, even though it lacks adequate resources and supplies.

As we’ve been reporting, Israel and Hamas fighters are engaging in fierce battles in parts of Jabalia, where Israeli air attacks have also been frequent.

Earlier today, an Israeli air strike hit a family home in Jabalia, killing at least four people in addition to causing injuries, according to the Wafa news agency.




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A peek into tunnel warfare

Videos show Palestinian fighters in dramatic attacks on Israeli tanks in Rafah

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic have obtained and verified video clips showing members of the Qassam Brigades – the military wing of Hamas – carrying out daring attacks against Israeli tanks and bulldozers in the ongoing battle for Rafah city.

In one video, Palestinian fighters can be seen emerging from a tunnel in the earth nearby to parked Israeli tanks. The fighters rush towards the tanks with what appear to be antitank mines, which they prime for detonation before fleeing.

A fighter then fires a rocket-propelled grenade at another Israeli tank before all three escape back into the tunnel.

Translation: “Qassam Brigades” carry out a complex attack against the occupation forces penetrating east of Rafah.

Translation: “Qassam Brigades” publish scenes targeting occupation bulldozers and tanks east of Rafah.

 

Palestinian fighters carry out ‘very high daily rate of attacks’ on Israeli forces in Gaza

Palestinian armed groups have “preserved or rebuilt” their fighters and weaponry required to challenge Israeli military operations in northern Gaza, war monitors say, adding that the groups fighting in Jabalia report carrying out – on average – 28 attacks each day on Israeli forces since May 11.

In the latest battlefield assessment from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP), the two US-based defence think tanks continue to emphasise that Palestinian armed groups are far from vanquished, and now rebuilding, despite months of war with a vastly better-equipped Israeli army.

“Palestinian militias are sustaining a very high daily rate of attacks targeting Israeli forces in Jabalia,” the ISW/CTP said, noting that Israel’s military is conducting “two re-clearing operations” in the north of the Gaza Strip, where it claimed in December that it had defeated Hamas.

Also, on Tuesday, Palestinian fighters carried out four “indirect fire attacks” from Gaza towards Israel, including Palestinian Islamic Jihad firing rockets from northern Gaza towards Israel’s Sderot area.


Israel names latest soldier killed in Gaza

The Israeli military has released details of the latest soldier to be killed in its war on Gaza. The 19-year-old sergeant in the 75th Battalion was killed on Tuesday in fighting in the south of the Gaza Strip, the military said.

With the deaths of five Israeli soldiers in Gaza between Friday and Monday this week, a total of 272 Israeli soldiers have been reported killed and 1,674 injured since the start of Israel’s ground operations in the Palestinian territory, the United Nations reports.

The latest death in southern Gaza will add to that total.


Projectile launched from Gaza causes damage in Sderot: Israeli military

The Israeli military said earlier today “two projectiles” were launched from the Gaza Strip towards the city of Sderot in southern Israel.

Initially, the military said its air defences had intercepted the projectiles but it later reported that one of them landed in the city and “caused damage”.

No casualties have been reported.

Sixty rockets fired at Israel from Lebanon

At least 60 rockets were fired from Lebanon in a recent barrage towards northern Israel with minor damage reported, Israeli newspaper Haaretz has reported, citing the Israeli military.

Since the start of the war, Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and the Israeli military have regularly traded fire across the border.

Haaretz says that Lebanon’s Hezbollah group claimed responsibility for the latest attack and said it was targeting the Biranit army base on the border with Lebanon.

The Lebanese armed group said it was in response to an Israeli strike on Tuesday which killed senior field commander Hussain Ibrahim Mekky, according to Haaretz.



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Israeli ultra-orthodox Jews hold anti-independence day protest in Jerusalem

An Israeli ultra-orthodox Jew – many members of which are anti-Zionist – holds a banner during an anti-Independence Day protest at their Meah Shearim neighbourhood in occupied Jerusalem on May 14, 2024. Israel cancelled its official 76th Independence Day celebrations amid its war on Gaza.



Ultra-Orthodox Jews represent about 13.5% of Israel. And while they may be anti-zionist, they're for expelling Arabs and reject democratic principles in favor of religious rule of law. They are the fastest growing group in Israel with 6.5 children avg.

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2016/03/08/israels-religiously-divided-society/

The big difference with other factions is that they're Jews first rather than Israel first.



SvennoJ on 15 May 2024

Blinken says Rafah offensive has had ‘negative impact’

The US secretary of state says the Rafah operation has had a “negative impact” on humanitarian conditions in Gaza, adding that it is urgent for the Rafah crossing – shuttered since it was seized by Israel last week – to regain operational capacity.

Addressing a news conference in Kyiv, Blinken also warned the enclave could fall into a chaotic power vacuum if no clear, long-term plan is put in place.

Netanyahu says there is no humanitarian crisis in Rafah

The Israeli prime minister has denied reports of mass hunger, disease and deprivation in Gaza’s southern city, saying that a humanitarian crisis “hasn’t materialised, nor will it materialise”.

Last week, after the Israeli army seized and shut down the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt – a vital entry point for humanitarian aid – the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, warned that southern Gaza’s hospitals had only days of fuel left to run their operations, and that the entry of fuel into the Strip was essential to prevent more death.

Yesterday, Israeli attacks on Rafah led Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, to pull out of the Indonesian Hospital and refer the 22 remaining patients there to other medical facilities.

As the Israeli army moves into the city to conduct its long-threatened ground offensive, there are currently more than one million Palestinians sheltering in Rafah, many in tents in the streets, prompting warnings of the spread of disease and an acute shortage of food from multiple UN agencies.

‘Scale of crisis defies imagination’, says IRC

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) says it is facing “significant disruptions to its humanitarian operations” following Israel’s ground operations in Rafah, southern Gaza, which resulted in the closure of the Rafah crossing and a blockade on entry of humanitarian workers and aid.

“An IRC and Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) emergency medical team (EMT) was initially scheduled to enter Gaza through the Rafah crossing on May 13. They remain unable to do so due to the persistent closure of the crossing,” the IRC said in a statement.

Kiryn Lanning, IRC team lead for the occupied Palestinian territory, said: “I have recently returned from Gaza, where the scale of the crisis defies imagination. Facilities across southern Gaza have been repurposed into makeshift shelters overflowing into the streets. This displaced population is now facing acute shortages of basic necessities such as food, water, and adequate sanitation.”

Palestinians in need of medical evacuation plead for Rafah crossing to reopen

With Rafah’s border crossing shuttered, Palestinians with life-altering wounds are unable to be evacuated abroad for treatment, leaving them to suffer in the enclave with limited medicine and healthcare.

Ni’ma Ali Imad’s five-year-old son, who lost his sight and suffered a head wound due to Israeli shelling, is one such case.

“The doctors here did what they could, but we still need the official sides [authorities] to cooperate with us and open the border crossing, because this is a child, and we would want him to live like other children in the world,” Ni’ma Ali, speaking at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah, told the Reuters news agency.

“We hope that you will be able to open the Rafah border crossing for the humanitarian cases, so that they can receive treatment, and be provided with medication, so the boy can once again see with his eyes.”



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Belgium favours total EU ban on weapons to Israel

Belgium’s development cooperation minister has said Brussels, which holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, backs a complete ban on EU weapons exports to Israel but is facing resistance from other EU members.

“It is very clear that Belgium is in favour of a full weapons ban but some member states are still exporting,” Caroline Gennez said on a visit to the Jordanian capital, according to comments carried by The National newspaper.

“Israel has the right to defend itself. On the other hand, it is not allowed to punish an entire population for what happened on October 7,” said Gennez.

Germany, by far the bloc’s biggest military exporter to Israel, defended its shipments at the International Court of Justice in April in a case brought against it by Nicaragua.

However, Germany’s Defence Minister Boris Pistorius indicated last week that Berlin is weighing pausing some arms shipments to Israel following its Rafah operation.

Activists target defence industry factory in UK in protest against Gaza war

Video posted on X by the group Palestine Action shows a group of people in red jumpsuits on the roof of a factory belonging to weapons manufacturer Teledyne in the UK city of Shipley.

They can be seen removing the roof of the factory and throwing it off the building. The group said the action was in retaliation for the company producing electronic components for missiles and planes used by Israel in its war on Gaza, which has killed at least 35,233 Palestinians.

Palestine Action targeted several other Teledyne factories last month, causing damage.


UK pro-Palestine activists protests against arms shipments to Israel

Protesters in the UK have staged demonstrations outside factories of arms manufacturing companies to call against weapons shipments to Israel.

In Glasgow, a group of pro-Palestine activists blocked the entrance to the Thales plant, demanding an end to the supply of ammunition and weapons to Israel.

Meanwhile in Shenstone, members of the Palestine Action group blocked entrances to the UAV Engines Ltd factory.

Police arrested six protesters at the scene, the group wrote on X.


Prominent authors support divestment from companies that profit from Israel

More than 200 authors, including Naomi Klein and Sally Rooney, have signed a letter calling for increased pressure on investment management firm Baillie Gifford – sponsors of the Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction – to divest “from companies that profit from Israeli apartheid, occupation and genocide”.

The letter was inked by Fossil Free Books, a UK-based group of workers in the literary industry, which has pressured the company to stop investing in the fossil fuel industry. Now, it is also focusing on divestment from Israel as it believes that “solidarity with Palestine and climate justice are inextricably linked”.

Literary organisations that accept sponsorship from Baillie Gifford “can expect escalation, including the expansion of boycotts, increased author withdrawal of labour, and increased disruption until Baillie Gifford divests,” the letter reads.

Protesters gather at university in Paris for Nakba day

Video posted by French media shows a gathering of people at Paris’s Sorbonne University to commemorate Nakba Day, when 76 years ago Palestinians were uprooted from their homes and lands in a series of violent episodes.

Protesters angry about Israel’s war on Gaza have been gathering at Sorbonne University since late last month, when the global campus Gaza encampment protests spread there.



Beirut protesters mark 76th anniversary of the Nakba

Pro-Palestine protesters in Beirut marched to mark the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, Reuters reports.

The demonstration began outside the American University of Beirut and reached its final destination outside the British Embassy in the city.

This year’s commemoration has been dominated by the plight of around two million Palestinians in Gaza, most of whom are living in temporary shelters after being displaced from their homes by the Israeli war.

The seven-month-long war, which has killed more than 35,000 Palestinians and displaced most of the population, has drawn fears among many of a second Nakba in which they would be forced from the besieged coastal enclave altogether.


Protesters carry signs and flags as they march in support of Palestinians in Gaza and to mark the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, in Beirut, Lebanon, May 15

First Jewish Biden appointee publicly resigns over Gaza war policy

A US Interior Department staffer has become the first Jewish political appointee to publicly resign in protest of the country’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza.

Lily Greenberg Call is a special assistant to the chief of staff in the Department of the Interior. She accuses President Joe Biden of using Jews to justify US policy in the conflict.

She is at least the fifth mid- or senior-level administration staffer to make public their resignation in protest of the Biden administration’s military and diplomatic support of the now seven-month-long Israeli war.

In her resignation letter delivered Wednesday, she said she “can no longer in good conscience continue to represent this administration”.

“I think the president has to know that there are people in his administration who think this is disastrous,” Call said of the war overall and US support for it. “Not just for Palestinians, for Israelis, for Jews, [but also] for Americans, for [Biden’s] election prospects.”



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At least three people dead, dozens wounded in Israeli attack on Gaza City

The Wafa news agency reports that “dozens” of casualties have resulted from Israel’s targeting of a group of Palestinians at the intersection of al-Jalaa Street and al-Oyoun Street in the centre of Gaza City, which we reported on earlier.

At least three bodies arrived at al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City as well as a number of critical cases, Wafa reports.

The number of dead from this attack, which targeted a gathering point for internet access, is expected to rise, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reports.


Number of dead expected to increase in al-Jalaa street attack

In the past 45 minutes, a drone seems to have fired a missile at a group of people at Jalaa Street, one of the major streets in the centre of Gaza City – very popular and thriving before the war.

There was a group of people who was gathering at a place to get an internet connection. The vast majority of people here have family in the southern part and the centre, and trying to get hold of them.

This is not the first time we see this pattern of attacks on civilians gathering in large groups, either at a food distribution or internet connection points, or even at a solar-powered point to charge their phones or computers.

It has happened repeatedly in the past month; it happened in Sheikh Ridwan, where at least 12 people were killed as they were trying to get an internet connection.


So far, what we have learned from civil defence crew members, three [bodies of dead people] were transferred to al-Ahli Arab Hospital. A few more are in critical condition and we are expecting the number of dead to increase.

Israeli army orders more evacuations in northern Gaza

Israel’s military ordered the immediate evacuation of the al-Manshiya and Sheikh Zayyed neighbourhoods in northern Gaza because, it claims, Palestinian fighters are firing rockets from there into Israeli territory.

Army spokesman for Arab media Avichay Adraee said it will “act forcefully against them. For your safety, you must evacuate the area immediately to known shelters west of Gaza City.”


‘I saw my mother in torn pieces’: Witness to Israeli attack on UNRWA clinic

Earlier, we reported that Israeli shelling targeted a UNRWA clinic in Gaza City’s Sabra neighbourhood, killing at least 10 displaced Palestinians.

Witnesses to that attack spoke to Al Jazeera, recounting the horrors of their experience.

Samir Shaaban, who lost his parents in the attack, said, “I tried to keep in touch with them. My mother used to tell me, ‘Don’t come to us, son. We have everything we need, just stay safe’ … I woke up to the news of the bombing, so I rushed to the clinic to find my mother in pieces and my father lying next to her. May God have mercy on their souls”.

Mohammed al-Qayed, a survivor of the bombing, said, “We were sleeping, and there was no resistance here as they claim. Suddenly, we saw a red light from the rocket falling on us”.

Al-Qayad pointed to the areas where people died, noting that there were children among the dead, and said, “If we were upstairs, we would be among the martyrs, as well”.


Video shows Israeli attack on Rafah house

Palestinian journalist Alamuddin Sadiq has posted video to his Instagram account showing an Israeli army bomb hitting a home in Rafah, where Israel has begun a ground offensive and has been ramping up air attacks.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6_QDVRNZUW



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Gallant calls for post-war plan from Israeli government

Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has urged the government to make a decision about post-war governance in the Gaza Strip, saying he would not support open-ended Israeli military rule over the Palestinian territory.

In a televised news conference, Gallant said he had promoted a plan for a new Palestinian administration not linked to Hamas since soon after the conflict began in October but “got no response” from various Israeli cabinet forums.

Earlier in the day, Netanyahu said talking about the “day after” the war was a moot point because the war would not end until after the defeat of Hamas, a goal that he said is still elusive.


‘Calculated effort’ by Israel’s far-right ministers to push ‘Nakba’ in Gaza

An Israeli journalist says the far right is using the October 7 Hamas attack “as an opportunity to launch a new Nakba” in Gaza.

“Unfortunately in this war, we’re seeing too many Israeli politicians saying this should be repeated. It’s being used as a political tool to threaten the Palestinians with another expulsion,” said Meron Rapoport, who writes for +972 magazine and is an editor at Local Call.

He said the language used by some of the hardline politicians about pushing Palestinians out of the area is because of “frustration that they won’t leave”.

“I think there was a calculated effort to bring these terms into the political discourse. How successful they are? It is a question,” Rapoport said.


Netanyahu and Gallant exchange barbs

In a message directed at Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, Netanyahu said, “I am not prepared to exchange Hamastan for Fatahstan. The first thing I did after October 7 was order the army to destroy Hamas … The first condition for ‘the day after’ is to eliminate Hamas – with no excuses.”


Far-right Israeli ministers take aim at Gallant for comments on post-war Gaza

Comments from Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant saying he would not support open-ended Israeli military rule over Gaza have placed him in the crosshairs of National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, both members of Israel’s hard right

“From Gallant’s point of view, there is no difference between whether Gaza is controlled by [Israeli] soldiers, and whether Hamas murderers control it,” Ben-Gvir said in an X post.

“This is the essence of the concept of a defense minister who failed on October 7, and continues to fail even now. Such a defense minister must be replaced in order to achieve the goals of the war.”

In his comments, Gallant also said he has repeatedly been ignored by the members of the Israeli government when he asked them to formulate a plan for post-war governance in the Gaza Strip and Smotrich appeared to take issue with that claim, as well.

“Defense Minister Gallant announced today his support for the establishment of a Palestinian terrorist state as a reward for terrorism and Hamas for the most terrible massacre of the Jewish people since the Holocaust”, he said in his own X post.

“I demand that the Prime Minister immediately bring to the government a decision on denying any involvement of the PA in the Gaza Strip and then demand that Gallant choose between implementing the government’s policy and [resigning],” he continued.


Israeli opposition leader says gov’t is losing control

Yair Lapid has said that as long as the Netanyahu government is in power, Israel will not be able to win the war in Gaza.

His comments came after Defence Minister Yoav Gallant rejected the possibility of Israeli civil or military governance of post-war Gaza.

“The government has lost control,” Lapid wrote in a post on X. “Soldiers are being killed every day in Gaza and they fight among themselves on television. The cabinet is disassembled and non-functional. Ministers protest in front of cabinet meetings.”

“One cabinet sends humanitarian aid convoys and the other burns them,” he added. “Relations with the US are collapsing, the middle class is collapsing, they have lost the north”.

“We can’t go on like this. We will not win with this government.”



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Israeli settlers attack houses in villages across West Bank

Israeli settlers have attacked and vandalised two homes in the occupied West Bank – one in the Hebron area and another near Nablus, the Wafa news agency reports.

Settlers vandalised a house in Masafer Yata and threatened its owner while in the village of Qusra near Nablus, Israelis from the settlement of Esh Kodesh under soldiers’ protection attacked another home.

New settler attack on Gaza-bound aid convoy

Al Jazeera’s correspondent reports that settlers have attacked aid trucks as they were heading to Gaza via Jerusalem.

The correspondent reported that they attacked a truck driver near the Beit El military checkpoint, north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

We will bring you updates on this incident as we get more information. The attack comes just days after a mob of Israeli settlers looted aid trucks near Hebron, also in the West Bank, destroying their cargo and then setting them on fire.

Israeli settlers attack truck driver in occupied West Bank

According to new information, it appears that Israeli settlers attacked commercial trucks with Palestinian drivers and not aid trucks.

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz quoted a security source as saying the settlers thought the truck was carrying humanitarian aid. The attack took place near the Israeli settlement of Givat Assaf.




More than 9,300 Palestinians in Israeli prisons: Rights groups

Prisoner rights groups have said that among the detainees are 3,424 in administrative detention, 80 women and 250 children.

The groups said that this tally does not include the number of prisoners from Gaza, who are being subject to “enforced disappearance” since the war began in October.

“Six hundred Palestinians are serving life in prison or are expected to be handed this sentence,” the groups said. “Among them are 21 who have been in prison since before the Oslo accords were signed in 1993. One of the prisoners, Mohammed al-Tous, has been in jail since 1985.”

8,745 arrests made since October 7: Prisoner groups

Prisoner rights groups said that this number includes:

  • 292 women
  • 615 children
  • 75 journalists (49 of them still imprisoned)
  • 18 who have died in detention

This excludes detainees from Gaza, whose numbers the groups estimate are in the “thousands”.



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‘Ethnic cleansing a terrible crime, but genocide even worse: Ilan Pappe

The Israeli historian and author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine says that what happened during the Nakba in 1948 and what’s occurring in Palestine now is comparable in some ways but added that “in many other respects” today’s events are “even worse”.

Speaking to Al Jazeera, Ilan Pappe pointed out to the higher number of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks over the past seven months. He also said that in 1948, “massacres were then used in order to persuade people to leave”.

“What we see now are massacres which are part of the genocidal impulse, namely to kill people in order to downsize the number of people living in Gaza,” Pappe, who is a professor of history at the University of Exeter, added.

“Ethnic cleansing is a terrible crime against humanity but genocide is even worse,” he continued. “So I think we are seeing a transition from using ethnic cleansing as the main method of taking as much of Palestine as possible, with as few Palestinians in it as possible – we are moving into a far more lethal method, that of genocide.”

Western denial today ‘far more sinister, outraging’ than during Nakba: Historian

Ilan Pappe, the author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, says the enabling role of Western countries when it comes to Israel’s war on Gaza is “even worse” than their stance during the Nakba.

“At the time in 1948, there was no television. People did not have smartphones, and it was relatively easy to cover up the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing, and to claim that it didn’t exist,” the Israeli historian told Al Jazeera.

“It is impossible to say now that people cannot know what is going on when it appears on our screens,” Pappe said.

“So I think the level of denial today is far more sinister, far more outraging and really I think is one of the main reasons why the civil societies, even in the West, find it impossible to be silent anymore and are led now by brave students all around the United States and elsewhere who feel that they know exactly what goes on and they do all they can to stop it,” he added.

Pappe also expressed scepticism that politicians in Europe would change their “basic indifference and the international immunity they have provided to Israel” before the European Parliament elections at the beginning of June.

“But I am confident that in the near future, beyond the 2024 elections, this kind of attitude that has been displayed by European politicians will come back to bite them because they are not representing faithfully their electorates when it comes to Palestine,” he said.

“They never did before, but particularly in the last seven months, their positions have been very different from the moral position displayed by most of the people who have a modicum of consciousness and decency in them when they understand what goes in Gaza and when they show their support for the people of Gaza.”

US human rights experts finds Israel is committing genocide in Gaza

The University Network for Human Rights, along with other experts, has conducted a thorough legal analysis of Israel’s acts since October 7, finding that it violated the Genocide Convention.

“Specifically, Israel has committed genocidal acts of killing, causing serious harm to, and inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of Palestinians in Gaza, a protected group that forms a substantial part of the Palestinian people,” the group of international legal experts said.

The experts submitted their 100-page report, Genocide in Gaza: Analysis of International Law and its Application to Israel’s Military Actions since October 7, 2023 (PDF), to several UN officials.

“The findings of this report put other States on notice that they have an obligation to not be complicit in, and work together to prevent and punish, Israel’s egregious violations of the prohibition on genocide. They also serve to strengthen the current legal cases against Israel in the International Court of Justice and against the Biden administration in US federal court.”

“This assault has been one of extremes: the deadliest conflict for journalists and aid workers ever recorded, the world’s fastest starvation rate ever, and more children killed in four months than all conflicts in the past four years combined. Simply put, the devastation in Gaza is unparalleled,” said Thomas Becker, legal and policy director of UNHR.”



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