📢 It's been 45 years since the UN established #PalestineDay - and Israeli authorities provide daily reminders of why we still need it. For how much longer will the world tolerate Israel's cruel #apartheid system?
Today and every day, we at Amnesty International stand with #Palestinians as they demand their rights in the face of Israel’s relentless attacks.
We call on our supporters around the world to demonstrate their solidarity by speaking out, however they can, to demand an end to Israel’s apartheid. amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
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These new laws passed by the Knesset will stop UNRWA from operating in occupied East Jerusalem and seriously impede its work in the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory (West Bank and Gaza Strip) which will have devastating consequences for Palestinians, particularly those facing an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe in occupied Gaza.
UNRWA is a lifeline offering humanitarian aid, education & shelter for millions of Palestinian refugees in the OPT & neighbouring countries. As the occupying power, Israel has a legal obligation to ensure the basic needs of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, and to uphold their human rights.
By impeding UNRWA’s operations, Israel is violating the ICJ’s orders for it to take immediate measures to protect Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip from the risk of genocide, including by ensuring sufficient humanitarian assistance & facilitating basic services.
In Lebanon, authorities are using criminal defamation laws as a weapon to harass, intimidate and attack journalists and critics who report on allegations of corruption in the country.
🧵 Today’s decision by the @CIJ_ICJ to order additional provisional measures in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel highlights the continuing catastrophic deterioration of conditions & the growing threat to Palestinians in occupied #Gaza since the ICJ’s last ruling.
The Court’s decision to issue additional measures is a clear indication of the State of Israel’s failure thus far to comply with the previous legally binding measures issued by the Court, as already reiterated by @Amnesty and others.
In its decision, the ICJ stressed that Palestinians in Gaza are no longer facing only a risk of famine, but that famine is “setting in” necessitating the modification of the original provisional measures order to address the exceptionally grave developments.
🚨 The statement published by the office of PM Netanyahu, which instructs the Israeli military to produce a plan for the “evacuation of the civilian population” of #Rafah has spread panic in the southern governorate raising fears that a massive ground operation is imminent.
Such an operation will have catastrophic consequences for more than a million people – the vast majority of them displaced - who are living in desperate conditions in Rafah, squeezed into overcrowded areas, makeshift tents and schools or sleeping on the streets, who have nowhere to go.
Satellite imagery of rural areas of Rafah show a mass of tents and other temporary structures that have risen since mid-October. In urban areas of Rafah, a mass of people and new temporary structures can be seen on the streets ⬇️
🔎 @Amnesty has verified 6 videos of an attack on 13 October 2023, resulting in civilian casualties along Salah-Al Deen street, a route the Israeli army had designated as safe for civilians to flee after an Israeli ‘order’ told them to leave northern #Gaza.
Israeli military have been urging hospitals & Int’l orgs in northern Gaza to rapidly relocate people to the south & airdropping leaflets. This is virtually impossible: w/no transport children, sick & older people, pregnant women, persons with disabilities can’t make this journey.
Our research team found that a convoy, including a truck carrying around 30 people, 8 cars & other nearby people, incl. women, children & people with disabilities, was attacked. Ambulances that arrived at the scene were hit in a second attack & rescuers injured. At least 70 died.
The first draft of new rules required foreigners married to Palestinians to leave the West Bank for 6 months. This has since faced backlash and has been removed.
Now, if the relationship starts after the foreigner has arrived to the west bank, they must still declare this love interest to the Israeli Defense Ministry. These laws further entrench a cruel system of apartheid against Palestinians and isolate them from the outside world.