07/11/2023
Text: Kristine Grønhaug | Photos: Beate Simarud | Design: Rami Touma
2 November 2023 — She leans her veiled head against her hand holding a walking stick. Is she 80 or 90? She doesn’t know. But her hands are as weathered as time itself.
Her name is Ndamukunzi. It means “without friends”.
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In North Kivu province, in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo), over 1.2 million people have been displaced since March 2022 when a wave of violence erupted among armed groups fighting over power and resources.
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07/11/2023
Countries Providing Weapons Risk Complicity in Grave Abuses
(Jerusalem) – Allies of Israel and backers of Palestinian armed groups should suspend the transfer of arms to the warring parties in Israel and Gaza given the real risk that they will be used to commit grave abuses, Human Rights Watch said today [6 November 2023] .
Providing weapons that knowingly and significantly would contribute to unlawful attacks can make those providing them complicit in war crimes.
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07/11/2023
4 Nov 2023 – Nobel Peace Laureate called on the Irish government to trigger the Genocide Convention as a way to help halt the Israeli genocidal attack on Palestinians, in front of the American embassy in Belfast today.
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Mairead Corrigan Maguire
The governments of the US, UK, Germany and most of Europe are wholly complicit in the horrific assault on the people of Gaza.
Not only are these governments refusing to meet their treaty obligations to ensure respect for the Geneva Convention but they are in fact actively arming the assault by providing economic and intelligence support, and giving political and diplomatic cover for Israel’s war crimes.
Palestinians in Gaza are being demonized, suffering ethnic cleansing, and collective punishment. This is a classic case of genocide and the Israeli government must be held accountable.
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