It's been 100 days since Israeli forces killed Al Jazeera journalist #ShireenAbuAkleh.
There has been no accountability for her killing.
She was shot in the head while doing her job and wearing a "Press" vest on May 11. 🧵
Israeli snipers killed journalist #ShireenAbuAkleh as she was covering Israeli raids in the occupied West Bank.
Israel initially tried to blame Palestinians for the killing. The UN disproved this claim, finding "no evidence" for it.
Israel has changed its story multiple times.
Israel has refused to open a criminal investigation on the killing of journalist #ShireenAbuAkleh.
This impunity for its violence against journalists is not new:
▪️ Israel killed at least 45 journalists since 2000
▪️ 0 Israeli soldiers have been convicted for killing them
Israel does not punish soldiers for killing journalists, but often punishes journalists for doing their jobs.
Since 2020, Israel arrested at least 26 Palestinian journalists, reports @theintercept, claiming their reports on Israeli abuses against Palestinians is "incitement."
The U.S. cleared Israel of intentionally killing #ShireenAbuAkleh — without investigating.
Her family has kept pushing for accountability — for Shireen and other families.
"Our family's grief is not unique. Shireen wasn't even the first U.S. citizen killed by Israel this year."
UN investigators confirmed Israeli snipers killed #ShireenAbuAkleh with "seemingly well-aimed bullets."
CNN, New York Times and Washington Post had similar findings.
The U.S. refused to condemn Israel, calling the killing an unintentional "result of tragic circumstances."
Biden refused to meet #ShireenAbuAkleh's family when he visited Israel.
Instead, he invited them to DC for a meeting with lower-ranking officials, which he did not attend.
Her niece said, "We're still waiting to see if [he] will meaningfully answer our calls for justice."
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The International Court of Justice has begun the hearing for South Africa’s case against Israel. In it, South Africa accuses Israel of eight different acts of genocide.
Here’s what they are 🧵
1 - Killing Palestinians
Israeli forces have killed at least 23,708 Palestinians since Oct. 7. 8,000 more Palestinians are missing.
2 - Causing serious bodily and mental harm
Over 59,410 Palestinians have been injured. More than 1,000 children have lost limbs.
The U.S. launched a racist eugenics program in Puerto Rico in the 1930s — sterilizing about one third of Puerto Rican women by 1976, many forced or coerced.
It was just one chapter of U.S. colonial eugenics programs and medical experiments targeting women of color. 🧵(1/8)
The U.S. approved forced sterilization in Puerto Rico in 1937 for what it called "overpopulation."
U.S. land theft and exploitation plunged the island into poverty. Health workers coerced people seeking contraception — mostly targeting Black and brown women — into sterilization.
U.S. occupiers transformed Puerto Rico's economy to focus on sugar — for U.S. interests — after invading in 1898.
70% of Puerto Ricans were made landless by 1925. By the 1930s:
▪️ 1 in 3 people unemployed
▪️ 80% of land owned by 2% of population, mostly white
BREAKING: A 6.3 earthquake hit the Turkey-Syria border, two weeks after the devastating earthquake.
No new casualties were immediately reported but witnesses report damage. Turkey has reported over 6,000 aftershocks since the February 6 earthquake killed over 46,000 people.
The Feb. 6 earthquake made over 1 million homeless in Turkey alone:
▪️ over 20,000 buildings collapsed
▪️ over 105,000 buildings need demolition
The government has been criticized for lax regulations. An ex-minister says that as of 2018, half of all buildings broke regulation.
Over 46,000 people in Turkey and Syria were killed by the February 6 earthquake.
Many are missing, but there is no official count.
The UN says:
▪️ Up to 5 million made homeless in Syria, many are already displaced
▪️ 350,000+ pregnant women need access to shelter, medical care
The UK and the U.S. forcibly displaced an entire Indigenous population from the Chagos Islands to build a military base.
Chagossians were never paid reparations or significant compensation. A new @hrw report accuses both countries of crimes against humanity. 🧵
The Chagos Islands are the UK's last African colony.
Most inhabitants were descendants of African and South Asian people enslaved or indentured to work on coconut plantations.
The UK evicted them in the 1960s to build a U.S. base in exchange for discounts on nuclear weapons.
Up to 2,000 Chagossians were forcibly displaced from their homes from 1965-1973.
The UK:
▪️ blocked supplies of food and medical care to starve the population out
▪️ blocked people returning if they traveled
▪️ intimidated residents by shooting or poisoning over 1,000 pet dogs