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Sari Bashi

3 years

Coming out of the closet profile on my secret life as the blogger Umm Forat and author of the recently published Maqluba: Upside Down Love (Hebrew, Asia Publishers).

A Jewish mom and a Palestinian dad raise a family full of endless contradictions

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@saribashi

7 months

"You do not get to target civilians because somebody else has targeted civilians. It’s nonreciprocal because your obligations are to the civilians. It’s not a deal between fighters. It’s a deal with humanity." My interview in @NewYorker on Gaza & Israel.

The Humanitarian Catastrophe in Gaza

International-law obligations are nonreciprocal: one war crime doesn’t excuse another.

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@saribashi

7 months

What's in northern Gaza, which Israel has ordered evacuated by tomorrow? Gaza's main hospital, dealing with 6000+ injured. A million people, including elderly and with disabilities. Food supplies. Warnings are not effective if impossible to implement.

Questions and Answers: October 2023 Hostilities between Israel and Palestinian Armed Groups

The following questions and answers (Q&A) address issues relating to international humanitarian law (the laws of war) governing current hostilities between Israel and Hamas and other Palestinian...

www.hrw.org

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@saribashi

6 months

Hamas is obligated to release hostages, whether or not aid enters Gaza. The Israeli gov't is obligated to supply Gaza with aid, whether or not hostages are released. Civilians should not be pawns in a deadly standoff between warring parties who flout basic principles of humanity.

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@saribashi

3 years

Thank you to the @nytimes editors for fronting Palestinian voices like that of @dianabuttu and to @theIMEU for amplifying those voices: "To be a Palestinian in Israel is to wait for the day when Israel will decide to forever rid itself of you."

Opinion | The Myth of Coexistence in Israel (Published 2021)

Palestinians live under a racist system whose laws enshrine their second-class status.

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@saribashi

3 years

Israeli transitional Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, desperate to stay in power to avoid jail for corruption, has now succeeded in preventing his rival, Yair Lapid, from forming a gov't. All it took was 120+ Palestinians and Israelis killed, including 30 children. So far.

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@saribashi

7 months

Ordering a million people in Gaza to evacuate when there’s no safe place to go, is not an effective warning. The roads are rubble, fuel is scarce and the main hospital is in the evacuation zone. This warning doesn't give license to harm the many civilians who can't or won't leave

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@saribashi

7 months

The Israeli army has ordered more than a million people in northern Gaza to evacuate within 24 hours. But there's nowhere to go. A thread on the rules of war and protecting civilians.

Israel tells UN to evacuate the northern Gaza Strip within 24 hours

More than 1 million Palestinians live in this area.

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@saribashi

2 years

Israeli undercover forces stormed a Palestinian university, arrested 4 students and shot a 5th in the occupied West Bank, bringing violence to what should be a safe space - a university campus. But if you read this Israeli right-wing newspaper, you get a totally different report.

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@saribashi

7 months

The reports and unverified videos of Israeli families taken hostage in their homes, kidnapped into Gaza- are terrifying. There’s no honor in unlawful attacks on civilians. No matter how just your resistance to apartheid and oppression is.

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@saribashi

2 years

Palestinian rights groups say it's apartheid. Israeli rights groups say it's apartheid. Int'l rights groups say it's apartheid. UN experts say it's apartheid. Maybe it's apartheid?

Al-Mezan الميزان

@AlMezanCenter

2 years

📌 New report by @UN_SPExperts Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the OPT concludes that Israeli rule over the OPT = #apartheid . We are thrilled that @AlMezanCenter 's 'The Gaza Bantustan' was cited by Prof. @MichaelLynk5 in his seminal report.

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@saribashi

10 months

Palestinians were expelled or fled in 1948. The Israeli gov't refused to let them return & built towns for Jews on their land. Yesterday, the Knesset expanded a law keeping those towns for Jews only. But that's not the focus of street protests. A thread.

Israel Allows More Towns to Reject 'Unsuitable' Residents Under Guise of 'Social Cohesion'

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@saribashi

7 months

As the Israeli military deepens its ground attack on Gaza, it's making statements distorting the laws of war and misstating the protections they give civilians. Yesterday it suggested that it's up to Palestinians to prove their civilian-ness. A thread to set the record straight.

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@saribashi

3 years

Finally the world is recognizing the apartheid roots of the current escalation, noting excellent @hrw and @btselem reports. We should remember that @pchrgaza , @alhaq_org , @AlMezanCenter and other Palestinian groups determined apartheid years ago. Follow them. Listen to them.

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@saribashi

2 years

Israeli daily Haaretz saying will soon mark homes listed in unlawful Israeli settlements in the West Bank with a warning label.

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@saribashi

2 years

I'm thrilled, honored, humbled and grateful to announce that next month, I will begin my appointment as @hrw 's new Program Director, supervising our research and investigations as we reorient ourselves to strengthen the broader human rights ecosystem and meet today's challenges.

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@saribashi

7 months

15 years ago, the Israeli gov't deliberately reduced fuel & food supplies to Gaza, saying it had calculated the minimum Gaza residents needed and would allow that in, no more. Since Oct. 7 it's allowed 1/20 that amount but says Gaza has enough food & fuel.

Gaza’s Blocked Relief | Sari Bashi

There’s not enough food in Gaza. Since October 7 the Israeli government has cut water and electricity from its territory, closed its truck crossing with

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@saribashi

7 months

At least 42% of all housing units in the Gaza Strip have been either destroyed or damaged since Oct 7. More than 4,000 killed, 62% of whom are children and women. If you drop explosive weapons in densely packed cities, you are predicted to kill civilians and destroy their homes.

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@saribashi

3 years

I'm a proud Jew. I belong to a rich heritage of people who have fought oppression and discrimination. A government led by someone who has defended white nationalist marchers shouting "Jews will not replace us" -- will not tell me what anti-Semitism is.

Secretary Pompeo

@SecPompeo

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The U.S. is committed to countering the Global BDS Campaign as a manifestation of anti-Semitism. I am directing U.S. Special Envoy @USEAntiSemitism to identify organizations engaged in politically motivated actions intended to penalize or limit commercial relations with Israel.

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@saribashi

2 years

. @hrw is honored to #StandWithThe6 . Outside the offices of @alhaq_org with the leaders of @BisanResearch and @DCIPalestine , hours after their offices were raided by Israeli military forces. Peaceful defense of human rights is not terrorism.

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@saribashi

7 months

"Some of the older people fleeing northern Gaza today remember the homes they fled seventy-five years ago." My piece in @nybooks on why telling half the people in Gaza to evacuate - when there's nowhere to safely go - does not protect civilians.

Nowhere to Go in Gaza | Sari Bashi

This morning the Israeli military ordered more than a million people in northern Gaza to evacuate within twenty-four hours. That’s half the population of

www.nybooks.com

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@saribashi

3 years

UN reporting 219 people killed in Gaza, including 63 children. 75,000 people displaced, mostly in crowded UNRWA schools, with coronavirus testing and vaccination disrupted due to bombing of COVID center. 3-4 hours electricity/day. Water supply disrupted.

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - occupied Palestinian territory...

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@saribashi

1 month

New from @hrw : Kids playing street football. People charging phones in a grocery store. Families preparing food. 4 air strikes with no warning killed at least 106 civilians in Gaza, including 54 children. The US should stop arming those Israeli warplanes.

Gaza: Israeli Strike Killing 106 Civilians an Apparent War Crime

An Israeli airstrike on a six-story apartment building sheltering hundreds of people in central Gaza on October 31, 2023, is an apparent war crime, Human Rights Watch said today. The attack, which...

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@saribashi

10 months

Terrible to watch the detention of a Jerusalemite, evicted from his family home after a court (the one Israeli protestors are defending as democratic) blessed its unlawful transfer to Jewish settlers. But his determination and that of his supporters will ultimately prevail. Watch

Wafa News Agency - English

@WAFANewsEnglish

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#BREAKING : Israeli police have arrested Rafat Sub Laban, the son of Nora Ghaith and Mustafa Sub Laban, who were forcibly evicted from their house by Israel settlers less than two weeks ago.

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@saribashi

7 months

Israel said it would allow humanitarian aid into Gaza. Or did it? A thread on why 20 trucks entering via Egypt is inadequate bordering on absurd, given that Israel could simply flick on the water and electricity switches - if it wanted to fulfill obligations to civilians in Gaza.

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@saribashi

3 years

Section 24(a)(1) of Israel's antiterrorism law imposes up to 3 years in prison for identifying with a "terrorist group" by publicly expressing support, praise or sympathy. I support @alhaq . I praise @DCIPalestine . I sympathize with @Addameer . Please join me in breaking the law.

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@saribashi

3 years

For years, Israelis have warned, "If we expand the settlements, it will be apartheid." "If we pass the Nation State Law, it will be apartheid." "If we declare additional annexation, it will be apartheid." Today @hrw determines: It's apartheid.

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@OmarSShakir

3 years

Breaking: @hrw finds that Israeli authorities are committing crimes against humanity of apartheid & persecution. Thread w findings in 213pg report on Israel's rule of Palestinians. Time to recognize reality for what it is, find #Courage2FightApartheid 1/27

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@saribashi

4 months

Videos of Israeli hostages, like the one released by Islamic Jihad of Elad Katzir, are an outrage on their personal dignity. The hostages should be released immediately and unconditionally, not filmed under duress begging for a prisoner exchange. All civilians deserve protection.

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@saribashi

6 months

There is so much to say about Shifa hospital and the medical professionals risking their lives to care for patients, under bombardment. I want to say one word: Fuel. Let in the fuel needed to run ventilators, incubators and life support systems. Give those patients a chance.

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@saribashi

4 years

What are the Israeli authorities trying to accomplish, by taking away fish, electricity, fuel, gravel, clothing and spare parts from 2 million people in Gaza, a majority of whom are children? I mean, even aside from the moral and legal illegitimacy - what is their plan?

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@saribashi

8 months

The US is expected this week to approve visa-free access to Israelis. In return, the Israeli gov't is giving a tiny number of Palestinian refugees, like my husband, tourist visas to visit their own land. Can't we do better than that?

Palestinian Americans are now tourists in their own land

Despite concessions to the relatively few Palestinians who hold U.S. citizenship, another 5 million Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank are still denied their right to freedom of movement throug…

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@saribashi

6 years

-Investigation by @hrw finds that @AvigdorLiberman , @netanyahu sanctioned policy to fire on demonstrators in Gaza who posed no imminent threat to life. Time for targeted sanctions against those implicated in serious abuses

Israel: Apparent War Crimes in Gaza

Israeli forces’ repeated use of lethal force in the Gaza Strip since March 30, 2018, against Palestinian demonstrators who posed no imminent threat to life may amount to war crimes.

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@saribashi

2 years

Inaction by the US, EU and UN Security Council in light of ethnic cleansing, attacks on aid workers delivering food, and other abuses of women, men and children in Tigray is inexcusable. Ethiopian lives matter. We need targeted sanctions and an arms embargo to protect civilians.

Laetitia Bader

@LaetitiaBader

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As Ethiopian and Eritrean forces intensify their offensive in #Tigray , collective inaction is no longer an option, key actors need to change tact and use all tools at their disposal to protect civilians at risk of further atrocities

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@saribashi

7 months

The law requires Israel to allow life-saving fuel into Gaza, with monitoring and inspection. Israel says 1-Gaza hospitals have enough fuel; 2-If they want more, Hamas has reserves. It's not the first time Israel claims to know Gaza's humanitarian needs. They're wrong. A thread.

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@saribashi

7 months

This video is hard to watch. Hamas-led fighters deliberately killed civilians in southern Israel. The International Criminal Court has jurisdiction and should investigate.

Israel/Palestine: Videos of Hamas-Led Attacks Verified

Human Rights Watch has verified four videos from the October 7, 2023, attacks by Hamas-led gunmen, showing three incidents of deliberate killings, and presents this analysis in a video published...

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@saribashi

11 months

May his memory be a blessing and a call to end the crime against humanity of apartheid perpetrated against Palestinians. Including sweet Palestinian toddlers who shouldn’t face Israeli gunfire in a residential area, a predictable outcome of 56 years of military rule.

B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم

@btselem

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Muhammad a-Tamimi (2021-2023) succumbed today to the wounds he sustained on Thursday evening, when an Israeli soldier shot him and his father. He is the 150th Palestinian killed by Israel since the beginning of 2023.

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7 months

"The deal that Joe Biden brokered for 20 trucks to come in via the Egyptian crossing is painfully unambitious .. there has been no talk of the need to simply turn the water and electricity back on to allow hospitals some modicum of an ability to function."

Gaza conditions worsen amid food, water, fuel shortages

“There is no reason that the Israeli government should not simply flip the switch back on and allow civilians in Gaza to resume drinking clean water and have the electricity they need to power it,”...

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@saribashi

3 years

Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza reporting 213 killed since Monday, including 61 children. Two senior doctors, one of whom taught medicine, are among the casualties, and yesterday the lab that tests for coronavirus was destroyed, as people seek shelter in crowded schools.

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@saribashi

7 months

Palestinians don't need to prove their civilian-ness in order to stay alive. If the Israeli military has no information on who is inside a car - the laws of war forbid it from blasting them with tank fire.

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@saribashi

6 months

Israeli gov't's decision to withhold from the Palestinian Authority tax revenues intended for public services in Gaza is a further act of collective punishment. The money, collected from Palestinians by Israel on behalf of the Palestinian Authority - is for civilians in Gaza.

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@saribashi

3 years

Opponents of Israeli apartheid are mobilizing not just against the current war in Gaza but also against the American weapons emboldening the Israeli gov't. In Jerusalem, in DC, in Gaza-there's a movement for real and sustained change. @RepAOC @DAWNmenaorg

Ocasio-Cortez, Pocan & Tlaib Lead Joint Resolution to Block Weapon Sales to Netanyahu | Represent...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Mark Pocan, and Rashida Tlaib led the introduction of a House resolution opposing the sale of $735 million in American-made weapons...

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@saribashi

6 months

Taking hostages is a war crime. Hamas needs to release *all* civilian men, women & kids, immediately and unconditionally. Blocking humanitarian aid is a war crime, too. Israeli gov't needs to end restrictions on life-saving fuel into Gaza, now. Civilians are not bargaining chips.

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@saribashi

6 years

Israeli minister of interior proudly announces that he is deporting Human Rights Watch's representative from Israel. Does he think he can hide Israeli human rights abuses by getting rid of those who document them?

Israel Orders Human Rights Watch Official Deported

Israeli authorities on May 7, 2018, revoked the work permit for Omar Shakir, the Human Rights Watch Israel and Palestine director, and ordered him to leave Israel within 14 days. This is not about...

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@saribashi

3 years

I #StandWithThe6 . Constricting space for Palestinian civil society is happening continuously. A thread on yesterday's Israeli Supreme Court decision denying tax exempt status to an Israeli-registered NGO providing services to Palestinian children in the Israeli-occupied West Bank

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@saribashi

7 months

For decades the US has ignored apartheid by Israeli authorities against Palestinians, sending weapons, giving visa deals to Israeli tourists and brokering normalization with Arab dictators. If only this war would persuade the US to address the abuses that are feeding the violence

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@saribashi

3 years

I cam think of a lot of jailed Saudi dissidents, journalists, and human rights defenders would love the chance to play football.

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@saribashi

6 months

Israel as occupying power is obligated to *supply* Gaza's civilians with enough humanitarian aid whether or not there's a ceasefire. Palestinian armed groups are obligated to release all civilian hostages whether or not there's a ceasefire. Civilian lives should not be bargained.

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@saribashi

4 months

Palestinians in Gaza have a right to return, not just to the homes they lost a few months ago in northern Gaza but also to the homes they lost 75 years ago, in what's now Israel. My essay in @nybooks .

Gaza: Two Rights of Return | Sari Bashi

It has been almost four months since Israel began its strikes on Gaza, following the massacre of hundreds of civilians by Hamas-led gunmen in the

www.nybooks.com

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@saribashi

2 years

My mother-in-law was 8 when she fled her village as the Israeli army approached in 1948. The battle there ended decades ago, and the 8-year old child is now an 82-year old women, but the Israeli gov't still won't let her - or her son - return home.

Israel welcomes Ukrainian refugees. Why won’t it do the same for Palestinians married to Israelis,...

Israel has admitted thousands of Ukrainians since Russia's February invasion, yet bars Palestinians married to Israelis from entering the country.

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@saribashi

6 months

Today is a day of joy for 24 hostages and 39 Palestinian prisoners, mostly children and women, who are slated to be freed to reunite with their families. The Israeli gov’t has also agreed to let more aid into Gaza. It’s important and it's not enough. A thread.

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@saribashi

5 months

The kidnappers of the 3 Israeli hostages bear responsibility for their deaths-hostage taking is a war crime. The Israeli military also bears responsibility, bc of its longstanding failure to enforce IHL protections for civilians in Gaza waving white flags.

Israel: Investigate ‘White Flag' Shootings of Gaza Civilians

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@saribashi

7 months

Thank you, UN Secretary General Antonio Gutteres for calling on Israel to rescind its cynical Gaza evacuation order and for doing so in a prominent US publication - so that the people sending Israel weapons will read it.

Opinion | Why Israel Must Reconsider Its Gaza Evacuation Order

As secretary general of the United Nations, I appeal to Israeli authorities to reconsider.

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@saribashi

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Israel deliberately blocked aid into Gaza until starvation set in. Under pressure it allowed more aid but now says it has closed the aid crossings for imperative security reasons- “sorry, nothing we can do.” There is something to do: obey intl law and ensure aid to civilians.

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Israel's deliberate use of starvation as a weapon in Gaza is a war crime. New @hrw report on Israel's blockade & its willful impeding of aid, which alongside widespread destruction, is depriving civilians of objects indispensable to their survival.

Israel: Starvation Used as Weapon of War in Gaza

The Israeli government is using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare in the occupied Gaza Strip, which is a war crime. Israeli forces are deliberately blocking the delivery of water, food,...

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@saribashi

5 years

. @Airbnb delivers where the US government fails to oppose unlawful, abusive Israeli settlements in the West Bank. My @ForeignPolicy piece on why the decision to stop listing homes on stolen land is the right thing to do. @hrw

If the U.S. Government Won’t Act, Airbnb Will

While the White House rubber-stamps Benjamin Netanyahu’s every move, the online rental company is cracking down on Israel’s illegal settlements.

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@saribashi

3 years

This is one of the more efficient and brilliant analyses of the situation in Israel-Palestine I have watched.

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My sixty-second rant tonight on @MSNBC was about Ben & Jerry's ice cream, the occupation, apartheid, and illegal settlements. Make sure you watch till the end 😉 #minuterant

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We didn't find evidence of military use of the ambulance struck by Israeli fire. Using an ambulance for military purposes would unlawfully endanger civilians. But that's not enough to strike it. Laws of war require warnings and special protections.

Gaza: Israeli Ambulance Strike Apparently Unlawful

The Israeli military’s strike on a marked ambulance just outside of Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital on November 3, 2023 was apparently unlawful and should be investigated as a possible war crime.

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1 year

Spot on: “Israelis have been admirably and bravely protesting in the streets to save their democracy. A democracy that has never existed for millions of Palestinians who live under direct Israeli control...where are the Israeli protests for their freedoms, for their rights?"

Mehdi Hasan

@mehdirhasan

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"As one Israeli woman at a protest in Tel Aviv earlier this month pointed out, via her placard: 'We were silent about occupation, and we ended up with dictatorship.'" From my @MSNBC commentary tonight.

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5 years

When I read this Muslim woman's account of torture, rape, medical experiments and brainwashing at China's "reeducation" camps, I think of the brave Hong Kong protesters defying the Chinese regime's attempt to suppress their vibrant free society:

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@saribashi

7 months

In response to a query about an Israeli tank firing on a car in Gaza, the Israeli military told the Wall Street Journal that it "was not shown any proof that this is a civilian car, and there's no information on who is inside." That's a complete distortion of the laws of war.

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7 months

. @hrw 's q and a on the laws of war can help understand Israel's order to evacuate half of Gaza's population: 1. Warnings are not effective if you can't safely leave. 2. Even if you warn, you still need to protect the civilians who remain in place.

Questions and Answers: October 2023 Hostilities between Israel and Palestinian Armed Groups

The following questions and answers (Q&A) address issues relating to international humanitarian law (the laws of war) governing current hostilities between Israel and Hamas and other Palestinian...

www.hrw.org

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@saribashi

5 months

Preliminary results of the Israeli military's inquiry into its fatal shooting of 3 hostages in Gaza suggest the attack was unlawful. But why are Israeli authorities investigating the killing of Israeli civilians, as they should - but not of Palestinian civilians? A thread.

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@saribashi

3 years

There is nothing heroic about firing rockets on Israeli civilians. That's not resistance. That's a war crime.

Two Israeli women killed in Palestinian rocket strikes, ambulance service chief says

Israel hit more than 130 "Hamas military targets", it says, while more than 200 rockets were fired from inside Gaza.

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@saribashi

5 years

. @Airbnb stopped listing rentals in unlawful Israeli settlements, not because the abuses there are the worst in the world but because its listings there contribute to those abuses, especially discrimination and land theft. My piece in Foreign Policy:

If the U.S. Government Won’t Act, Airbnb Will

While the White House rubber-stamps Benjamin Netanyahu’s every move, the online rental company is cracking down on Israel’s illegal settlements.

foreignpolicy.com

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@saribashi

2 years

On my run today I saw @SJabaren of @alhaq_org , one of the Palestinian civil society groups raided. He offered me grapes from his village. Said the Israeli security officer who threatened him spoke fluent Arabic. Talked about the fight for dignity. I'm proud to #StandWithThe6 .

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@saribashi

2 years

I was a young co-founder of the Israeli human rights NGO, @Gisha_Access , when I first met Sahar Francis. Her integrity and tenacity in defending Palestinians tried in unjust Israeli military courts left a permanent impression on me, then and now. I'm proud to #StandWithThe6 .

Al-Haq الحق

@alhaq_org

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Message from @saharfrancis , General Director of @Addameer on the forcible raids and closures on seven civil society organisations this morning and the reponse of the organisations against such illegal attacks #StandWithThe6

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2 years

Today @amnesty joins @hrw , @btselem in finding that the Israeli gov't is committing the crime against humanity of apartheid. Palestinian rights defenders like @alhaq_org , @AlMezanCenter and others said that for years, but no one listened to them. Maybe we should listen to them.

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4 years

I think Bahrain normalizing relations with Israel is great. Helps clarify that in the Middle East, the divide is not "sectarian" but rather between oppressive governments of all religions, on one hand, and on the other hand, the people who need to work harder to get rid of them.

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@saribashi

5 years

Please take the time to show your support for Airbnb's decision to stop contributing to human rights abuses in Israeli settlements! @Airbnb did the right thing - let them know you think so!

Jewish Voice for Peace

@jvplive

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Airbnb removed listings from illegal Israeli settlements. This is huge and paves the way for more corporations to follow. Of course they're being hit with a ton of bricks by the Israeli government and the usual suspects. Let's make it easier on them. 👇🏽 …

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8 months

I have mixed feelings about reports of Israeli security officials acknowledging apartheid in Israel-Palestine. They give credibility to what Palestinian writers and activists have concluded for decades. Let's amplify that credibility and also question it.

A former Mossad chief says Israel is enforcing an apartheid system in the West Bank

A former head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency says that Israel is enforcing an apartheid system in the West Bank.

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2 years

Ma'ale Adumim is an Israeli settlement unlawfully established in the occupied West Bank, through land grabs and expulsion of Bedouin Palestinians. At least 's new warning encourages guests to ask questions about their garden rental with free Netflix.

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"Giving visas to a tiny number of Palestinian refugees is outrageous, because they should not be treated as tourists in their own land."

Palestinian Americans are Now Tourists in their Own Land

The Israeli government, motivated by the plum prize of joining a coveted U.S. visa waiver program and desperate for a public relations win in light of mass protests, launched a pilot program in July....

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The Israeli military and Palestinian armed groups are committing systematic and widespread abuses against civilians. Arming them risks complicity in war crimes. US, UK, Germany, Canada, Iran and others should suspend military aid.

Suspend Arms to Israel, Palestinian Armed Groups

Key allies of Israel and Hamas should suspend military assistance and arms sales, given the real risk that they will be used in the commission of grave abuses.

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I'm reposting this oped by the @benandjerrys cofounders because those of us who support dignity, justice and human rights should shout our support for their decision to stop selling ice cream in Israeli settlements to counter the backlash they face.

Opinion | We’re Ben and Jerry. Men of Ice Cream, Men of Principle. (Published 2021)

We support the company's decision to end the sale of its ice cream in the occupied Palestinian territories.

www.nytimes.com

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The ICC prosecutor has opened an investigation into serious international crimes allegedly committed in Palestine. Here's my take on why the U.S. shouldn't interfere:

Biden Can’t Claim ‘Moral Leadership’ While Sanctioning the ICC

Washington’s aversion to the court’s recent decision on Palestine is emblematic of a fundamental disconnect in U.S. foreign policy.

foreignpolicy.com

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Civilians who cannot or do not heed warnings still retain the full protections of IHL. So Israel still has to treat civilians in northern Gaza (and in its hospitals) as civilian. In case of doubt, a person or object should be presumed to be civilian.

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Why is the US requesting millions of dollars in foreign investment in Palestine, rather than telling its closest Middle East ally and client state to stop deliberately crippling the Palestinian economy?

Gisha גישה مسلك

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Israel has again reduced the fishing zone it enforces in Gaza's territorial waters to 10 nm. The recurrent reductions of the fishing zone in response to actions over which fishermen in Gaza have no control constitute blatant collective punishment. More:

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Against Shin Bet and prosecutor recommendations, court releases Israeli teenager, charged with killing a Palestinian mother of 8, to house arrest in his settlement. If he were Palestinian and the victim Israeli, he would be jailed for the rest of his life

Suspected Israeli killer of Palestinian woman can go back to settlement home, court rules

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IHL - the laws of war - require warring parties to take all feasible precautions to prevent civilian harm and to do everything feasible to ensure that a target is not civilian. Where possible, they should warn, and refrain from attacks causing disproportionate harm to civilians.

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Hospitals must be protected. Unverified claims of their military use are alarming and would unlawfully put civilians at risk. But that wouldn't strip patients & doctors of their civilian protections. Evacuation is a last resort. And fuel must be allowed in

Human Rights Watch Sari Bashi concerned about gross violation of...

Human Rights Watch Sari Bashi says she is concerned about the gross violation of international law in Gaza by Israel.Sari says the attack on hospitals is a w...

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@saribashi

3 years

Palestinians are barred from entering settlements but allowed to enter with permits, during designated times, as laborers. About 30,000 do so with permits, and thousands of others work there without permits. In some cases, they get paid to farm the land taken from their families.

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"In a system of apartheid, we don’t get to choose our place in the ethnic hierarchy. Because I am Jewish, the authorities bought me two doses of vaccine, and I will take them when I return to Israel. But it’s not the system I want." My piece in @jdforward .

Opinion | Yes, Israel should vaccinate all Palestinians. Here’s why.

The Israeli government is legally and morally obliged to step in.

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New @hrw research: kids in Gaza are dying of starvation-related complications as the Israeli gov't continues to block aid from reaching northern Gaza. . A thread on why this is not merely unfortunate-it's a deliberate policy that can and should be reversed.

Gaza: Israel’s Imposed Starvation Deadly for Children

Children in Gaza have been dying from starvation-related complications since the Israeli government began to use starvation as a weapon of war, a war crime.

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The Israeli gov's has maintained a punishing closure of Gaza for 16 years. Since the horrific Oct. 7 attacks on Israeli civilians by armed groups from Gaza, it blocked food & fuel shipments and closed the water taps and electricity switch that supply Gaza.

Israel: Unlawful Gaza Blockade Deadly for Children

The Israeli government should immediately end its total blockade of the Gaza Strip that is putting Palestinian children and other civilians at grave risk.

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3 years

Well-meaning Americans and Europeans ask how can they help Gaza. Of course, donations are needed to rebuild. But the most important thing is to ask your governments to stop backing an Israeli policy to cripple economic life in Gaza.

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2 years

. @dianabuttu in a moving tribute and call to action in the wake of the killing of veteran journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in an Israeli raid on a Palestinian refugee camp. @DAWN_Journal

Israel’s Propaganda Can’t Cover Up Its Responsibility for Shireen Abu Akleh’s Killing

Israel’s response to the murder of Shireen Abu Akleh has been a textbook example of hasbara, the Israeli effort to dehumanize Palestinians through propaganda.

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@saribashi

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This witch hunt usually happens quietly ,against Palestinian scholars who lose opportunities because they fight for the human rights of Palestinians. Thank you, Ken, for calling attention to how blatant the practice has become. Those in power know and fear that we are right.

Kenneth Roth

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So much for academic freedom at Harvard's @Kennedy_School : Dean Douglas Elmendorf was so fearful of @HRW 's reporting on Israel (applying the same standards as HRW does everywhere else) that he vetoed a fellowship that the Kennedy @CarrCenter offered me.

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The laws of war require armies to take measures to protect civilians. They can warn civilians to flee, but a warning is not "effective" if people can't actually get to a safe place. And if they stay in place - they're still protected by int'l law .

Questions and Answers: October 2023 Hostilities between Israel and Palestinian Armed Groups

The following questions and answers (Q&A) address issues relating to international humanitarian law (the laws of war) governing current hostilities between Israel and Hamas and other Palestinian...

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The killing of 7 @WCKitchen aid workers in Gaza is both tragic and unsurprising, given the Israeli military's extensive use of explosive weapons in populated areas in Gaza - a practice discredited globally - and its failure to facilitate and protect relief operations. A thread.

World Central Kitchen

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World Central Kitchen is devastated to confirm seven members of our team have been killed in an IDF strike in Gaza. Read our full statement on the loss of our team members here:

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The Aamer family used to walk 20 minutes from their West Bank home to their farm. Then Israel built a settlement on part of it, with help from Israeli banks. Now it’s a 2-hour detour to what’s left of their land. New @hrw research, with @KNavot data.

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As the conversations about a possible hostage/prisoner exchange/ceasefire deal continue - let's remember please that human beings are not bargaining chips. Hamas & Islamic Jihad should release all civilian hostages immediately & unconditionally.

Hamas, Islamic Jihad: Holding Hostages is a War Crime

Hamas and Islamic Jihad are committing war crimes by holding scores of Israelis and others as hostages in Gaza. No grievance can justify holding anyone hostage. The groups should immediately and...

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There are 295 ventilators in the #WestBank and #Gaza - 6 for every 100,000 people. There are 2,173 ventilators in Israel - 2.4 for every 10,000 people. Conclusions: (1) We need to contain the #coronavirus . (2) We more ventilators. (3) We need to allocate them equally.

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The EU should insist that Hamas and Israel refrain from further targeting of civilians. It should set an example by NOT cutting its own aid to Palestinian civilians - because of the actions of Palestinian fighters. @AkshayaSays

With Gaza Sealed Off, Palestinians Face Aid Freezes Too

This week, as it pounded Gaza from the sky following Hamas’s deadly weekend attacks, the Israeli government also cut off Gaza’s electricity, fuel, water, and food in what it described as a “total...

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3 years

As the Egyptian government threatens to execute more political prisoners, @sarahleah1 calls out the US on its role in enabling and even funding its abuses.

Time to Cut Egypt Off

Biden must make good on his promise to recalibrate Washington’s approach to Cairo.

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3 years

Palestinian officials scrambling for coronavirus vaccines as infections skyrocket. Israel has already received the first shipment of the Pfizer vaccine but wants to exclude 5 million Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank from distribution.

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Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu: "Elections are a tragedy, but establishing a gov't that is dependent on the Arab parties is a bigger tragedy." In other countries, a gov't supported by citizens from different ethnic groups is called "democracy."

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2 years

The US and EU provide the Israeli gov't with privileges, funding and weapons based on so-called shared values of democracy and freedom. They should take strong action against the Israeli military's crackdown on peaceful human rights defenders. @OmarSShakir

Raising the Alarm: Israel’s All-Out Assault on Rights Defenders

On August 18, Israeli authorities raided the offices of seven prominent Palestinian civil society organizations, seizing documents, printers, and computers, welding the doors shut, and issuing...

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4 years

The illusion of Arab solidarity against Israeli domination has obscured a more important fault line: the rift between autocratic MENA governments, propped up by the U.S., and the people whose rights they suppress. My piece in @RStatecraft : @DAWNmenaorg

How Arab-Israeli normalization could spark a region-wide democracy movement

The US-backed club of repressive governments in the Arab world is breaking the taboo on normalization with Israel. Could that strengthen pro-democracy forces in Israel/Palestine?

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2 years

Their hair is lovely, and their spirit and souls are even more beautiful. Schoolgirls in Iran are risking their lives to fight for freedom. The Iranian authorities should stop sending men with guns to intimidate, injure and even kill these brave children.

In Iran, Schoolgirls Leading Protests for Freedom

Protests erupted across the country after 22-year-old Mahsa (Jina) Amini’s death on September 16, following her arrest by morality policy for “improperly” wearing her headscarf. Since then, dozens of...

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ICC decision to investigate serious crimes in Israel/Palestine is a test for the Biden administration-will it pursue a non-selective human rights policy, including accountability for abuses by allies? Or continue Trump's attack on the Int'l Criminal Court?

ICC has jurisdiction to probe Israel, Hamas for war crimes, pretrial judges rule

In 2-1 decision, judges determine Palestine is a state, and The Hague can thus investigate there; probe likely to cover 2014 Gaza war, settlement policy, IDF actions on Gaza border

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