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In 2023, in the wake of Hamas’ unprecedented military operation against Israel on October 7, Israel began a systematic campaign of genocide against Palestinian civilians living in the West Bank and Gaza. By the end of 2023, the death toll of Palestinians in Gaza had surpassed 22,000 with more than 57,000 injured. The Lemkin Institute has issued a timeline of the Israel-Palestine situation and multiple genocide alerts and statements.

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Feb 14
As Israel attacks #Rafah, the Gaza city where an estimated 1.3 million Palestinians are seeking refuge, most of them internally displaced, the @LemkinInstitute reiterates that the Biden Administration (@POTUS) is complicit in genocide and must take immediate steps to prevent further destruction, loss of life, and displacement in Gaza and the West Bank.

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The @LemkinInstitute further notes that the administration’s decision to withhold promised
funding from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (@UNRWA), the largest and most
active UN agency in the Gaza Strip, risks placing the administration in the position of being an
active perpetrator of genocide.
In light of this unequivocal support for Israel, which enables Israel’s genocide, as well as President Biden’s apparent ongoing unwillingness to change course or reign in the Israeli state, we urge all US officials critical of the Biden administration’s policy towards Israel to resign, lest they risk further complicity in this high crime. We applaud Josh Paul and @CraigMokhiber for their resignations from the US State Department (@StateDept) and the United Nations (@UN) respectively early on in the conflict. We extend the same call to officials in other states actively supporting Israel and/or withholding UNRWA funding. Multiple resignations would be an unprecedented act of civic courage and genocide prevention.
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Feb 1
Following coordinated financial threats to UNRWA, and with grave concern, the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention issues the following warning to several nations about their direct involvement in the intensification of genocidal acts against the Palestinian people. We urge a reversal of course, preventative measures from global populations, and action from international legal bodies.

With credit and gratitude to many scholars and practitioners of international law, read our full statement below

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The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention is deeply concerned by the decision of a coalition of several nations – the United States and Germany, in concert with Australia, Austria, Canada, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Romania, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom – to suspend funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). This is a serious escalation of the crisis in Gaza and follows the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) first ruling in Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel), which many hoped would slow the genocide. Further, it represents a shift by several countries from potential complicity in genocide to direct involvement in engineered famine. It is an attack on what remains of personal security, liberty, health, and dignity in Palestine.

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (LIGP) acknowledges this decision may have been taken in haste, or without proper advice to national leadership, and if so we urge a reversal. If no reversal is forthcoming, we condemn the decision to defund UNRWA, and in doing so, we join a growing consensus of practitioners of international law and scholars of genocide in pointing out that this action is tantamount to increased participation in the on-going genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and constitutes both a violation of the ICJ’s recent ruling and of the participating nations’ responsibilities under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (‘the Genocide Convention’). We further warn that withdrawing funding for UNRWA functions as a fulcrum by which genocidal acts against Palestinians will spread from Gaza to other critical, endangered zones for Palestinian life. During a period of famine, to implement either permanent cancellation or a pause of funding potentially puts states that have previously committed funds in violation of the Genocide Convention.
On January 26th, 2024, @UNRWA announced it had received and accepted serious allegations from Israel against 12 staff members. These allegations, which were based on various forms of intelligence, including interrogations, claimed that these staff members had links to Hamas and other Islamist organizations and had been involved in the October 7 attacks. UNRWA’s leadership immediately dismissed 9 of these staff members from their posts. One staff member is deceased. The identities of another two are awaiting clarification. UNRWA urged accountability, including criminal prosecution, and began a formal investigation. Several nations responded to Israel’s allegations by withholding their promised funding for the entire agency – an immediate withdrawal of hundreds of millions of dollars that could constitute up to two-thirds of UNRWA’s total budget. UNRWA employs an estimated 30,000 people total in Palestine, approximately 13,000 of whom are in Gaza. Currently, 10,000 Gazan UNRWA staff members cannot work due to incapacitation or displacement by Israel’s bombardment of Gaza; removing this funding from the remaining 3,000 core workers will lead to operational collapse.

The threat to UNRWA’s humanitarian aid is unprecedented, and thus shocking. As the Commissioner-General of UNRWA notes, his agency took swift measures to terminate accused employees and begin a thorough investigation through the proper channel, the United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS). Immediately, a coalition of vital, respected humanitarian aid organizations – including @save_children , @afsc_org , @Oxfam and relevant Médecins du Monde chapters from France (@MdM_France), Switzerland, Canada (@MdMCanada), and Germany (each urging reversal from their respective governments) – expressed their outrage to donor states, warning that removal of these funds threatens food and shelter for more than 1 million people. The damage of any pause in funding will be irreparable. It is further shocking that the international media has not reacted to these threats with alarm. The Lemkin Institute urges journalists and editors to report robustly on the humanitarian and legal dimensions of withholding humanitarian aid to Palestinians.
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Jan 12
In today’s historic first public hearing in the @CIJ_ICJ for the proceedings instituted by South Africa in their case against the State of #Israel, #SouthAfrica laid out 8 Genocidal Acts committed by Israel against the Palestinian people. Here are the acts as charged by South Africa.

Be sure to follow along tomorrow as the @LemkinInstitute’s Denis Owen Williams follows the second day of public hearings on our Twitter account.

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Dec 4, 2023
The @LemkinInstitute has prepared the following timeline to help illustrate an important point from @UN Secretary-General @AntonioGuterres about the ongoing 🇮🇱🇵🇸conflict — that the October 7 attack by Hamas was “not occurring in a vacuum”.

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It is important to highlight the warnings and condemnations concerning 🇮🇱’s increasing oppression of the 🇵🇸 populations in the months and years prior to October 7, 2023. (2/10) Image
Continue reading to gain important context about the ongoing crisis and to develop a better understanding of the current dialogue. #Gaza_Genocide (3/10) Image
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Oct 8, 2022
The Lemkin Institute warns the world about Turkish and Azerbaijani propaganda, which is well-funded by both states and which has had a deep and enduring impact on perceptions of Armenia, Armenians, and the South Caucasus conflict since the genocide of 1915. 1/
The entire world still lives in the presence of genocidal Armenophobia. It has worked its way into scholarship, journalism, and politics. Some of this influence has been bought outright with money and gifts, 2/
but much of it is the consequence of the saturation of the global public sphere by Antiarmenianism and genocide denial. In light of this, the Azerbaijani state’s tactic of “mirroring,” which involves accusing Armenia and Armenians of committing the crimes that it itself has 3/
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