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05/06/2024
Peace or No Peace, Israel Stands Accused of Genocide and War Crimes in Gaza
Human Wrongs Watch
– The Biden administration, which is frantically attempting to finalize a shaky peace agreement between Israel and Hamas, is being stymied by at least two far right-wing politicians in Netanyahu’s cabinet—Foreign Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir—and also by the Israeli Prime Minister himself who wants to totally eradicate Hamas before he agrees to a cease-fire.
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Destruction in Gaza Strip. Credit: UNICEF/Hassan Islyeh
But peace or no peace, the charges against Israel, including genocide, war crimes, starvation as a weapon of war, and the destruction of homes, hospitals, schools, universities, mosques, and churches, will continue to linger.
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04/06/2024
More than 500 Palestinians Killed in Occupied West Bank: UN Human Rights Chief
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — Violence in the occupied West Bank linked to the war in Gaza passed a deadly milestone with more than 500 Palestinians killed since 7 October, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights chief Volker Türk said on Tuesday [].
Two of the latest fatalities were 16-year-old Ahmed Ashraf Hamidat and 17-year-old Mohammed Musa Al Bitar, both shot “at a distance of about 70 metres while running away after throwing stones and/or Molotov cocktails towards a[n Israeli] military post outside a settlement near Aqabat Jaber, CCTV footage shows”, said the High Commissioner’s Office, OHCHR.
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03/06/2024
Situation in Southern Gaza ‘Horrific and Apocalyptic’: World Food Programme
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — Aid corridors in southern Gaza must be fully opened to allow the entry of food, fuel and other desperately needed relief items, a senior official with the World Food Programme (WFP) said on .
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Matthew Hollingsworth, WFP Country Director in Palestine, warned that with limited access to the south “we will no doubt see what we saw happen in the north in the first months of the war”.
Mr. Hollingsworth recently spent 10 days in Gaza. Speaking from Jerusalem, he told journalists in New York that people in the enclave “really are at their wits’ end”.
A horrific ‘exodus’
He said the “exodus” from Rafah over the past 20 days “has been an awesome and horrific experience for many, many people.”
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01/06/2024
Gaza: More than 4 in 5 Children “Did Not Eat for a Whole Day at Least Once in Three Days”
Human Wrongs Watch
Gaza: Children are starving amid persistent aid access obstacles, warn UN agencies
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31/05/2024
“Harrowing Images of Destruction, Displacement and Death Have Emerged from Rafah, Including Infants Torn Apart and People Burnt Alive”
Human Wrongs Watch
By UN Human Rights*
UN experts outraged by Israeli strikes on civilians sheltering in Rafah camps.
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31/05/2024
Amid Ongoing Israeli Incursions into Gaza, Aid Facilities Shut ‘One after Another’
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — With no let up in reported street battles and Israeli bombardment across Gaza on Thursday [], UN humanitarians warned that the flow of vital lifesaving aid into the enclave has fallen by more than two thirds since the Israeli military stepped up its campaign in Rafah and seized the key aid conduit.
29/05/2024
Gaza: UN Human Rights Chief Voices ‘Horror’ at Loss of Life in Displaced Palestinians Camp after Israeli strikes
Human Wrongs Watch
GENEVA (UN Human Rights) – UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on Monday [27 May 2024] voiced his horror at the further loss of civilian life in Gaza, after Israeli air strikes on Sunday hit a camp for displaced people in the southern city of Rafah.
25/05/2024
Update on Situation in Gaza, Palestine
Human Wrongs Watch
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.“The city of Rafah is now comprised of three entirely different worlds: the east is an archetypal war zone, the middle is a ghost town, and the west is a congested mass of people living in deplorable conditions.
“People have no choice but to put their faith in so-called ‘humanitarian safe zones’ designated by the forces that have killed their family members and destroyed their homes.
“They have dragged their families and few possessions onward to new locations for the seventh, eighth, ninth time in seven months of war. But as far as we can see, there is nothing ‘humanitarian’ about these areas.
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25/05/2024
‘Israel Must Comply with International Court of Justice Order Calling It to Immediately Halt Military Operations in Rafah’
Human Wrongs Watch
By Amnesty International*
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