"Gaza genocide: a collective crime." Absolutely read @FranceskAlbs's new report about how Third States have provided direct support, material aid, diplomatic protection and, in some cases, active participation in the Gaza genocide. ohchr.org/en/documents/c… "Without the direct participation, aid and assistance of other States, the prolonged unlawful Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territory, which has now escalated into a full fledged genocide, could not have been sustained."

The Israeli military just bombarded the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in its attempt to completely obliterate what remains of Palestinian healthcare in Gaza. A “double-tap” strike targeting the rescuers

https://twitter.com/nour_odeh/status/1959879944462381135

When today in the press conf explaining the invasion of Gaza City Netanyahu said that Israel is loosing the propaganda war, he meant he’d ordered the army to kill Anas al-Sharif, the main Palestinian voice documenting the genocide, after the army framed him for months as a target Israeli Radio Rwanda journalists frame the bombardment and killing of their Palestinian colleagues as justifiable. They repeat the army fabrications.

https://twitter.com/manniefabian/status/1954646095713247476

1/5 A relative of Arthur Smith, Master of Balliol at Oxford at the time of the 1917 Balfour Declaration, wrote to me to support the race review and our findings (with @SVadasaria) on Balfour and the ongoing complicity of Edinburgh University in Palestinian dispossession…
2/5 … through investments in genocide and the suppression of free academic conversations on Israel’s state racism. She wrote back yesterday and shared a copy of her grandfather's response to Chaim Weizmann's petition.

Rafael Advanced Def Systems tests its weapons on unarmed Palestinian civilians in Gaza and proudly advertises it. Rafael is part of a 5M € @HorizonEU project. Can you explain why you are partnering with corporate entities involved in international law violations @lemaitre_eu?

https://twitter.com/qudsnen/status/1944088627169878123

Here is the original video, @lemaitre_eu and @HorizonEU, in which your partner Rafael advertises one of its products proudly revealing that it is tested on unarmed civilians in Gaza. All partnerships with Rafael and Israeli arms companies should be terminated.

https://twitter.com/rafaeldefense/status/1942142628641812503

After fabricating dossiers about journalists and doctors before killing and torturing them, now the Israeli army is putting a target on the back of the Gaza Civil Defence spokesperson. Rescue equipment has been systematically destroyed and rescuers massacred since Oct 2023. This is part of a genocidal strategy deployed by the Israeli army since Oct 2023: framing all life saving and life sustaining infrastructures and personnel as “shields” and military targets in disguise to maximise civilian casualties and mass killings.

Israel’s refrain that hospitals—including Al Ahli, the last functioning hospital serving northern Gaza targeted last night—are an “illegal shield” for military command centres has repeatedly proven a fabrication. International law is used and distorted to justify genocide. 1/ 2/ The legal prohibition of shielding is mobilised to deprive an entire population of lifesaving services and delegitimise any form of resistance to the annihilation war.

According to a new report of the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry published today, Israel's systematic attacks and destruction of Palestinian reproductive and maternal health facilities in Gaza constitute genocidal acts. ohchr.org/sites/default/… In addition, the Israeli military "inflicted conditions of life on pregnant, post-partum and lactating women and their newborns and children in Gaza, resulting in the deprivation of essential care, food, water, medicine and shelter, that were indispensable to their survival."

The George Washington Uni prof who “thought out of the box” for Trump, starts his reconstruction plan based on illegal mass expulsion stating that “Hamas, under international law had no property rights in Gaza” and regretting that Gaza was not obliterated before Oct 7. He continues justifying the genocide as an attack “in conformity with international rules of law” and the destruction of Gaza as the result of “Palestinian dual use” of civilian infrastructures and human shielding.

1/ Medical Staff of Kamal Adwan Hospital about the Israeli assault yesterday:

"There was direct shelling on the archival, sterilization, and maintenance departments of the hospital, igniting a fire that quickly spread to the patient wards, surgical rooms, and laboratory.” 2/ Medical Staff of Kamal Adwan Hospital:

“Unfortunately, there was no water available to extinguish the flames because the occupation forces had destroyed the water tanks”

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital under Israeli siege:

Dec 24, 2024

“Yesterday, for the first time, Robots advanced near the hospital, posing a significant danger due to their proximity. They were very close, and they detonated explosives.” 1/8 Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital:

“As a result, all the partitions and the doors were destroyed , and the doors were nearly .

The destruction was horrific . In the hospital departments, twenty people were injured, including five medical personnel.” 2/8

Dr. Abu Safiya, Dir of Kamal Adwan Hospital, northern Gaza 1/7

Situation deteriorated significantly since yday. Throughout the night, more than 7 explosive drones were deployed around the hospital, resulting in the bombing of entire buildings & destruction of residential blocks Dr. Abu Safiya, Dir of Kamal Adwan Hospital, northern Gaza 2/7:

Debris and explosions struck the hospital directly, shattering doors and windows, instilling terror among the patients inside Kamal Adwan Hospital which is currently treating more than 120 injured individuals.

I wrote this, about Israel's offensive against UNRWA as evidence of genocidal intent now inscribed in national law after Monday's Knesset vote. And about the necessity to revoke its UN membership, given its relentless offensive against all what is UN. middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel… The ultimate objective of Israel’s campaigns to erase Unrwa has always been to erase the international legal protections in which the United Nations has enshrined the Palestinian right of return to the lands from which they have been expelled.

In "Humanitarian Camouflage," the latest issue of @PalStudies' Current Issues in Depth, @FranceskAlbs, @luigidaniele10 and I examine how Israel has been appropriating and distorting international humanitarian law to justify genocide.
palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656283

A crucial piece missing from the ICC arrest warrants is how Gallant/Netanyahu/others are involved in the crime of settler colonial transfer of civilians in occupied territory. This idea of the "right of return" of the settlers to the 2005 colonies has been long in the making 1/5 Netanyahu, Smotrich, Ben Gvir, Strock and members of the current government together with the settler movement, have spent the last two decades depicting the 2005 evacuations from Gaza and West Bank as an act of ethnic cleansing and violation of the "human rights of settlers" 2/5

In Journal of @PalStudies, @nevegordon and I analyse the emergence and circulation of "medical lawfare" —Israel's discourse of legitimization of its attacks on lifesaving and sustaining infrastructures, from 2007 until the ongoing genocide in Gaza tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
We argue that the multiple rounds of military attacks carried out by Israel since the implementation of the siege on Gaza in 2007 should be conceived of as an intensification of the existing pattern of settler-colonial dispossession and elimination.