Archive for September 3rd, 2024

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03/09/2024

‘Apartheid Israel Is Targeting Gaza and the West Bank Simultaneously’: Independent UN Special Rapporteur

Human Wrongs Watch

GENEVA, 2 September 2024 (UN Human Rights)* – A UN independent expert warned today that Israel’s intensification of its military assault against the northern West Bank marks a dangerous escalation of grave violence and human rights violations committed by Israel against the Palestinian people since October 7, 2023.

Aid workers assess the damage following a military raid on a refugee camp in Jenin. (file, July 2023)
© UNOCHA/Médecins Sans Frontières | Aid workers assess the damage following a military raid on a refugee camp in Jenin. (file, July 2023)

“Israel’s genocidal violence risks leaking out of Gaza and into the occupied Palestinian territory as a whole,” warned Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967.

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03/09/2024

Israel’s Goal: Smashing Palestinian Legitimacy

Human Wrongs Watch

By James E. Jennings*

ATLANTA, Georgia, Sep 3 2024 (IPS)* – Most people think that Israel’s main goal in Gaza is to recover the hostages seized by HAMAS on October 7, 2023 with an announced follow-up mission to eliminate HAMAS as a threat. If you thought that, you would be wrong.
 
Substantial evidence reveals a different strategic aim—destroying every shred of Palestinian legitimacy as a nation.
 

Credit: UNRWA

Inspite of continual pleas from the weak Biden-Harris-Blinken White House to stop bombing civilians in Gaza, Israel refuses to end the carnage. What’s going on? As usual in the Middle East, the obvious plot has at least one hidden sub-plot.

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