Senior Humanitarian Law and Policy Consultant; Special Advisor @NRC_Norway @NRC_Geneva. All views my own unless expressly stated otherwise.
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1/3 The #Israeli government is set to allocate an additional 40 million ILS to 'Ariel University,' located in a West Bank settlement of the same name, due to its exclusion from international academic collaboration and exchange programs.
The political and practical arrangements for a #Rafah offensive continue; I would not read #Israel's redeployment of ground forces as the end of hostilities but as preparation for the next phase, which may prove to be even more devastating - bringing about mass displacement and deportation:
1/3 First, #Israel is not the occupying power in #Gaza, with respect to Art.42 of the Hague Regulations, as it is not under its actual authority, but under that of Hamas. Counsel would like to share facts an 'in camera' session. 
1/5 A permissive attitude on the use of force by #Israel in #Gaza has already led to the killing of numerous @UNRWA staff and the destruction of its premises, in breach of the 1946 Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the @UN: 
Yesterday, Bezalel Smotrich (Min. of Finance and Overseer of Occupied Territory), Idit Silman (Min. of Environmental Protection) and Zvi Sukkot (Chair of Judea and Samaira Parliamentary Committee) visited #AlAuja and vowed to permanently displace this #Palestinian community.
Yet, #Israel stated on Friday that "we outright reject any allegations according to which Israel is purposefully starving the civilian population in #Gaza." In fact, depriving the population of 65 percent of its minimal daily food ration amounts to intentional starvation.
The Court ordered additional provisional measures "in view of the prolonged and widespread deprivation of food and other basic necessities to which the Palestinians in the #Gaza Strip have been subjected," with "famine setting in."
According to sources within #Israel's military, the expired ammunition and antiquated weapon systems (the M109 Howitzer, in service since 1963) led to a "sharp increase in the risk of misfire and targeting errors." 
1. The crude volume of humanitarian relief required - over 500 truckloads a day - cannot be matched by even the most extensive aerial and maritime operation. Nor does it resolve issues with prioritising distribution and ensuring a dignified and safe delivery.
Just north of Road 749 is what remains of the Karni Crossing, dismantled by Israel in 2011 when it was last operated. #Israel intends to use it as a log base from which aid will be provided to sympathetic "villagers associations" in #Gaza. 
It is not above erroneously claiming that protesters - encouraged to "cancel aid and fuel to Hamas," through a carnival held at Ashdod Port, Nitzana and Kerem Shalom Crossings - made it impossible to facilitate critical relief to #Gaza, as mandated by the Court. 
In 1974, the @UN defined the act of aggression. #Israel's current conduct in #Gaza and its stated intentions with respect to occupied #Palestinian territory rise to the level of a crime of aggression. 
Addressing the plenary, #Netanyahu said: "I congratulate the members of the Knesset, including from the opposition, who voted with a huge majority in favor of my proposal that Israel oppose being unilaterally dictated to establish a Palestinian state. I don't remember many votes that the Knesset voted with a majority of 99 out of 120. The Knesset united with an overwhelming majority against the attempt to dictate to us the establishment of a Palestinian state,a dictate that will not only not bring peace but will endanger the State of Israel. The members of the House are united as the people are united in a way that has never been before. Today's vote sends a clear message to the international community."
On 15 October 2023, exactly 4 months ago, his government-sponsored think tank identified two such locations: 1. the area east of #Rafah (once the location of the #Gaza airport, long destroyed by Israel) to which hundreds of thousands of Palestinians can be forced. 
It needs to be made clear that there is no #Israeli political consultation in which it engages in good-faith negotiations toward a politically independent and permanently sovereign #Palestinian state. The only way forward is adjudication and mandatory arbitration, imposing an end to Israeli occupation and the realization of Palestinian self-determination.
#Israel's former National Security Advisor and close confidant of the PM, Meir Ben-Shabbat, has laid out the options leading Israel down the path of a war of aggression - a gross violation of international law - on 13 October already, let's recall; 
The list of those in attendance corresponds to #Israeli officials named by #SouthAfrica in the @ICJ proceeding in connection with direct and public indictment to #genocide. 
