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@EpshtainItay
Apr 13, 2023 • 6 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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Would #Israel, claiming to offer refuge to survivors of WW II atrocities - among them my grandparents - oppose the prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity?

This is what took place at the @UN Sixth Committee (Legal) this week: Image
Delegates considered concluding a new convention on crimes against humanity, debating whether it would close gaps in the current international legal framework, based on the draft articles of the International Law Commission, and the @IntlCrimCourt Statute. #Israel pushed back. Image
Reiterating an earlier statement (2019), the #Israeli delegate insisted on the (contentious) primacy of internal jurisdiction over international justice, and on introducing stringent limitations on universal jurisdiction to prosecute the gravest international crimes. Shameful. Image
The representative of #Israel suggested that equating the standards of the draft convention with elements of crimes developed by the @IntlCrimCourt, would lead to its rejection (by Israel? by the international community? remains unclear). Image
These are the definitions rejected by #Israel, which include deportation or forcible transfer of populations, imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty, and torture. I wonder why is that? Image
I'm proud to serve for a humanitarian organization - @NRC_Norway @NRC_Geneva - born in the ruins of WW II and committed to protecting displaced persons, and ashamed that my country of nationality - #Israel - betrays that universal lesson. Image

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Apr 2
BREAKING: In a joint statement, #Israel's co-ministers of defense @Israel_katz (Likud) and @bezalelsm (Religious Zionism) confirm the government's intention to permanently acquire, colonize, and annex the entirety of the occupied West Bank, at the expense of #Palestinian sovereignty.Image
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1/5 This egregious plan includes the wanton and extensive destruction of Palestinian homes and humanitarian and development assistance - schools, health clinics, livelihoods - provided by @eu_echo, @EU_Commission, @EUCouncil member states, and @NorwayMFA and @FCDOGovUK, under the guise of maintaining public order.
2/5 The International Court of Justice @CIJ_ICJ ruled in July 24 on the illicit connection between the destruction of property and the forcible transfer of Palestinians away from areas earmarked for settlement expansion. The Court concluded that Israel's actions amount to acts of aggression, making its presence in the occupied Palestinian territory unlawful.Image
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Mar 27
Earlier today, in 64 pages of legal perversion, the #Israeli High Court of Justice effectively rejected the @Gisha_Access petition to order the government to agree and facilitate humanitarian relief to the civilian population of #Gaza. A short thread: Image
1/5 At the outset, Israel's constitutional court held that Gaza was not under belligerent occupation, absolving Israel from the duties of an occupant to restore and ensure, as far as possible, public order and life in the occupied territory. Image
2/5 Petitioners rightly pointe at the International Court of Justice @CIJ_ICJ ruling of July 24' that Gaza remains under the authority of the hostile Israeli army, and the HCJ noted duties of the occupant towards the civilian population, commensurate with the degree of control. Image
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Mar 11
Minister Amichai Chikli deliberately distorts facts and law. So, let’s correct this perversion once and for all:

1/6 International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs) providing humanitarian and development assistance to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza do not seek to operate in #Israel but in #Palestinian territory, which Israel – according to the International Court of Justice - unlawfully occupies.Image
2/6 International Humanitarian Law (#IHL) is crystal clear: for as long as Israel continues to occupy the oPt, it has no latitude to refuse requests for humanitarian relief by the Palestinian people, it is their right to receive aid; nor is Israel allowed to deny impartial humanitarian organizations access to and presence in the occupied Palestinian territory; it is their right to provide aid.
As the occupant, Israel only has nominal control rights. It can, reasonably, satisfy itself that relief consignments and services are addressed to the population in need; and that relief consignments do, in fact, consist of relief supplies and do not contain weapons, munitions, or military equipment.
3/6 Minister Chikli wishes to impose political bias on impartial humanitarian organizations. The impartiality and independence of humanitarians are a sine qua non of any relief action. Aid is provided solely on the basis of need, without discrimination, autonomous of the political and military objectives of the occupying power.
Any attempt to silence INGOs and dissuade them from reporting grave breaches and serious violations of international law that they witness would inevitably result in the undermining of humanitarian protection.
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Mar 9
BREAKING: #Israel's Minister of Energy, Eli Cohen, orders the Israel Electrical Company to immediately cease power sale and transmission to Gaza. Image
1/3 In July 2024, the International Court of Justice @CIJ_ICJ determined that "Israel’s withdrawal from the #Gaza Strip has not entirely released it of its obligations under the law of occupation. Israel’s obligations have remained commensurate with the degree of its effective control over the Gaza Strip."Image
2/3 Israel, as the Occupying Power, must,tothefullestextentofthemeansavailabletoitandwithoutany adversedistinction,provide the civilian population of Gaza with the supplies essential tothe itssurvival, including electricity and fuel.
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Feb 26
In February 1988, 37 years ago, #Hamas was formed in #Gaza, encouraged and aided by #Israel as an opponent to the PLO. Many decades later, Israel's government continues to support Hamas, at the expense of the #Palestinians. A short thread: Image
1/3 Since the 2006 Hamas takeover of Gaza, Israel's (current) Minister of Finance and overseer of occupied territory territory, Smotrich @bezalelsm, spoke out against unseating it, naming Hamas an asset and the PLO-led Palestinian Authority a liability.
2/3 The logic Smotrich holds to is that Hamas has no international recognition and legitimacy, and thus, its rule undermines Palestinian political independence and permanent sovereignty over an integral State. PA rule over Gaza would lead to Palestinian self determination.
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Feb 11
EXCLUSIVE: Within the extensive dossier of files presented to the International Court of Justice @CIJ_ICJ in the pending advisory proceeding oh the presence and activities of UN agencies and humanitarian organizations in occupied Palestinian territory, is one document that tells the story of Israel's prolonged, acquisitive and unlawful occupation. A thread:Image
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The year is 1980, Israel's ambassador to the UN, Dr. Yehuda Blum, accords to @UNDP, set out to commence operations in occupied Palestinian territory, the privileges and immunities of the 1946 Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations. However, 12 years before that, Blum set the course for Israel's attempt to colonize and permanently acquire Palestinian territory, to the absolute detriment of the people UNDP was to serve.Image
The year is 1968, Dr. Yehuda Blum, a young Lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, penned the article, “The Missing Reversioner: Reflections on the Status of Judea and Samaria." The article, and its author - little known outside specialized legal circles - became the centerpiece of Israel’s official position on the occupied Palestinian territory, and the engine of its prolonged presence in the West Bank and Gaza.Image
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