Archive for September, 2024

04/09/2024

United Nations Reports ‘Lethal Tactics’ by Israeli Forces in West Bank

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(UN News)* — Israeli forces continue to employ “lethal war-like tactics” in the West Bank, including airstrikes, with people being killed, injured and displaced, the UN Spokesperson said on Tuesday [].

Damaged roads, buildings, and infrastructure due to the ongoing escalation of violence in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. (file)
© UNICEF/Alaa Badarneh | Damaged roads, buildings, and infrastructure due to the ongoing escalation of violence in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. (file)
 
Stéphane Dujarric informed journalists at the regular press briefing in New York that operations have resumed in Tulkarm and continue in Jenin.
 
“The UN has recorded more than two dozen fatalities over the past week, including children,” he said.
03/09/2024

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

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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

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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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