Scottish Friends of Palestine

Briefing Paper                                              

October 2024           

Law for Palestine         SOURCE: Law for Palestine (/law4palestine.org)

Judicial decrees, decisions, positions, and orders issued by official Israeli bodies:

§  A report published by the Hebrew newspaper “Ynet” revealed amendments made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the U.S.-backed hostage deal proposal submitted on July 27, 2024. The amended document shows Netanyahu's request for a permanent Israeli military presence along the Philadelphi Corridor and changes to plans regarding the Rafah crossing. It also outlines new conditions, including no-full-withdrawal from the corridor and the inspection of civilians returning to Gaza. (September 3, 2024)

§  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that Hamas will pay a very heavy price following the retrieval of six hostages' bodies by the Israeli army. He noted that Israel's goals in this war include eliminating Hamas, returning all of the hostages, and ensuring that Gaza never again constitutes a threat to Israel. He added that “three of these goals pass through one place: The Philadelphi Corridor. This is Hamas's lifeline and armament line”. (September 3, 2024)

§  The Israeli army claimed that during a security operation near the Beita area (southeast ofNablus), the forces fired at a “main instigator” of violent activity who was throwing stones and posing a threat. The army noted that it is investigating reports of the killing of a foreign national as a result of the shooting in the area and is reviewing the details and circumstances surrounding the incident. (September 6, 2024)

• Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich criticized the resolution adopted by the UNGA to end the occupation of Palestine, viewing it as further evidence of the Palestinian Authority’s hostility toward Israel. He affirmed his commitment to continue the fight against its legitimacy and work to eliminate the idea of a Palestinian state, which he considers an existential threat to Israel. (September 18, 2024)

• Media reports indicated that Israel proposed an offer in Washington DC to end the war in Gaza, which included the release of all hostages in exchange for allowing Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar safe passage out of the Gaza Strip, demilitarization of Gaza, and establishing an alternative governing power. The proposal also includes the release of several Palestinian prisoners. The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office claimed that Benjamin Netanyahu had accepted all U.S. proposals for the release of the captives, including the final mediation proposal, while Hamas rejected all these offers. (September 18/19, 2024)

• The Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesperson condemned the UN resolution calling for an end to the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories within a year. He described the resolution as “one-sided” and “distorted,” noting that it does not take into account Israel’s security needs. He added that the resolution undermines the chances for peace and ignores the basic principle underlying all peace agreements between Israel and its neighbors, which stresses that the resolution of the conflict can only be achieved through direct negotiations between the two parties. The Israeli Foreign Ministry again denounced the resolution, arguing that it encourages “unilateral moves” against Israel, which will not contribute to ending the conflict. (September 18-19, 2024)

• Israel submitted an official challenge to the International Criminal Court (ICC) regarding the court’s jurisdiction, as well as challenging the legality of the prosecutor’s requests for arrest warrants against Israel’s prime minister and defense minister. Israel argued that the prosecutor violated the court’s statute and the principle of complementarity by not giving Israel the opportunity to exercise its right to investigate the claims raised by the Prosecutor, before proceeding. (September 20, 2024)

• Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, criticized a draft resolution submitted by the Palestinian Mission for a vote in the General Assembly next week. The resolution demands the implementation of recent ICJ rulings under specific timelines and with the oversight of special monitoring mechanisms. Danon warned that passing this resolution, especially on the first anniversary of the October 7 events, would be a “reward for terrorism.” He called on the General Assembly to reject this resolution outright. (September 8, 2024)

• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that there will be no changes to the current status quo regarding the Temple Mount [Al-Aqsa Mosque]. He added that any visits by his government ministers to the area will require his prior approval through his military secretary. (September 8, 2024)

• Media reports suggest that, according to a classified Israeli Foreign Ministry memo, Israel plans to use the US Congress to pressure South Africa into halting legal proceedings against it at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) concerning the war in Gaza. Israeli officials are reportedly seeking to have members of Congress convey to South Africa that there will be serious consequences for continuing the legal process against Israel. (September 9, 2024)

• The IDF issued new orders for the residents of the Atatra neighborhood in northern Gaza to evacuate. The IDF spokesperson said that the area had previously received multiple warnings and is considered a dangerous combat zone. (September 9, 2024)

• The IDF released preliminary findings of its investigation, noting that foreign national Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi was highly likely to have been indirectly and unintentionally hit by IDF fire that was not aimed at her but at “the key instigator of the riot” at the site. The IDF launched an investigation by the Military Police Criminal Investigations Division (MPCID), and its results will be submitted to the Military Advocate General’s Corps for review upon its conclusion. (September 10, 2024)

• Israeli Knesset member and leader of Yisrael Beiteinu party, Avigdor Lieberman, called for a halt to all humanitarian aid to Gaza, stating that there must be no food, water, cigarettes, fuel, and goods, to Gaza. (September 10, 2024)

• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked Justice Minister Yariv Levin to urge Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara to open a criminal investigation against him, as Prime Minister, and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant regarding the Gaza War, in an attempt to avoid arrest warrants requested by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Baharav-Miara rejected the request, considering it a ploy that could harm Israel’s image in court. (September 12, 2024)

• Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich criticized the resolution adopted by the UNGA to end the occupation of Palestine, viewing it as further evidence of the Palestinian Authority’s hostility toward Israel. He affirmed his commitment to continue the fight against its legitimacy and work to eliminate the idea of a Palestinian state, which he considers an existential threat to Israel. (September 18, 2024)

• Media reports indicated that Israel proposed an offer in Washington DC to end the war in Gaza, which included the release of all hostages in exchange for allowing Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar safe passage out of the Gaza Strip, demilitarization of Gaza, and establishing an alternative governing power. The proposal also includes the release of several Palestinian prisoners. The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office claimed that Benjamin Netanyahu had accepted all U.S. proposals for the release of the captives, including the final mediation proposal, while Hamas rejected all these offers. (September 18/19, 2024)

• The Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesperson condemned the UN resolution calling for an end to the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories within a year. He described the resolution as “one-sided” and “distorted,” noting that it does not take into account Israel’s security needs. He added that the resolution undermines the chances for peace and ignores the basic principle underlying all peace agreements between Israel and its neighbors, which stresses that the resolution of the conflict can only be achieved through direct negotiations between the two parties. The Israeli Foreign Ministry again denounced the resolution, arguing that it encourages “unilateral moves” against Israel, which will not contribute to ending the conflict. (September 18-19, 2024)

• Israel submitted an official challenge to the International Criminal Court (ICC) regarding the court’s jurisdiction, as well as challenging the legality of the prosecutor’s requests for arrest warrants against Israel’s prime minister and defense minister. Israel argued that the prosecutor violated the court’s statute and the principle of complementarity by not giving Israel the opportunity to exercise its right to investigate the claims raised by the Prosecutor, before proceeding. (September 20, 2024)

• The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied reports about a ceasefire or a de-escalation of fighting in the north. It clarified that the news about a ceasefire was merely a U.S.-French proposal, and the Prime Minister has not made any decisions yet. The statement also added that military operations in Gaza will continue until all war goals are achieved, directing the Israeli army to continue fighting with full force according to the plans presented to them. (September 26, 2024)

• In his speech before the United Nations General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that the UN had become a “contemptuous farce.” He argued that decisions made by international institutions against Israel, as well as the swift action by the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor in issuing arrest warrants for Israeli leaders, is “pure anti-Semitism.” Netanyahu asserted that the war in Gaza could end immediately if Hamas surrendered, laid down its arms, and released all hostages. He stated, “But if they don’t, we will fight until we achieve victory. Total victory. There is no substitute for it.” (September 27, 2024)

Law for Palestine & ICC    26/08/2024

Law for Palestine Submits Amicus Curiae Brief to the International Criminal Court, Affirming Jurisdiction over Israeli Officials and Countering Challenges Read more: https://law4palestine.org/law-for-palestine-submits-amicus-curiae-brief-to-the-international-criminal-court-affirming-jurisdiction-over-israeli-officials-and-countering-challenges/

NY Times -  you would think Gaza’s polio outbreak was just a natural disaster James North Mweiss 03/09/2024 Notice how “polio” — not Israel’s murderous military, is “stalking the population.” The beginning of that sentence is even worse: “War and disease have been cruelly intertwined as long as humans have confronted one another on the battlefield. . .” No mention of Israel’s deliberate destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system for nearly a year now, Read more: https://mondoweiss.net/2024/09/from-reading-the-ny-times-you-would-think-gazas-polio-outbreak-was-just-a-natural-disaster/?ml_recipient=131545213139158795&ml_link=131545200859285089

Destroyed - 70 percent of Jenin’s streets   Tamara Nassar EI  04/09/2024

The Israeli attack has killed at least 33 Palestinians, including seven children, and injured nearly 130 since 28 August, the Palestinian Authority’s health ministry reported, when Israeli troops launched a deadly wide-scale assault on the Jenin refugee camp, Nur Shams refugee camp east of Tulkarem and the al-Faraa refugee camp in the foothills of the Jordan Valley, south of Tubas. Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/lethal-israeli-assault-destroys-70-percent-jenins-streets

Testing the boundaries for ethnic cleansing in the West Bank Abdaljawad Omar Mweiss 04/09/2024 There is a pretense of novelty in Israel’s most recent offensive in the West Bank, which it has glibly called “Operation Summer Camps.” Even before it began, Israel announced that the operation was the most wide-ranging invasion of the West Bank since 2002. What is most striking about this framing is the charade that each new operation represents a fresh response to an emerging threat. Read more: https://mondoweiss.net/2024/09/testing-the-boundaries-for-ethnic-cleansing-in-the-west-bank/?ml_recipient=131635801565955491&ml_link=131635792744285603

Jenin - ‘Days filled with terror’  Shatha Hanaysha  Mweiss 06/09/2024

Israel’s Channel 12 reported that the ‘Summer Camps’ operation is still ongoing, with security officials stating, “We will return soon to Jenin and other areas; the operation in the northern West Bank and throughout the region will not stop.” Read more: https://mondoweiss.net/2024/09/days-filled-with-terror-palestinians-in-jenin-recount-harrowing-10-day-israeli-army-invasion/?ml_recipient=131816956744434882&ml_link=131816953509578442

Israeli troops in West Bank intentionally killed US activist  MC Murphy EI  07/09/24 Demonstrators were congregated on the outskirts of the village some 150-200 meters away from Israeli troops, according to Pollak. The situation was quiet when a sniper positioned on a rooftop fired two live bullets, he said. The first bullet hit a metal object and shrapnel hit a village resident in his thigh. The second one was the bullet that hit Eygi.

“I found her lying on the ground … bleeding from her head,” Pollak said, adding that she “had a very weak pulse.” Eygi was evacuated to a hospital but efforts to save her life failed.

Saad Dhiab, a resident of Beita, told WAFA that after the shots rang out, “I saw the soldiers dancing happily at what they had done.”  Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/witness-israeli-troops-west-bank-intentionally-killed-us-activist

Israel – no right of self-defence in Gaza Craig Mokhiber Mweiss 10/09/2024

The UN Charter, a treaty binding on all member states, codifies key rights and responsibilities of states. Among these are the duty to respect the self-determination of peoples (including the Palestinians), the duty to respect human rights, and the duty to refrain from the use of force against other states (where not authorized by the Security Council). Israel, for the 76 years of its existence, has been repeatedly in breach of these principles.  . . .

In fact, its principal obligation is to protect the occupied population. Read more: https://mondoweiss.net/2024/09/no-israel-does-not-have-a-right-to-defend-itself-in-gaza-but-the-palestinians-do/?ml_recipient=132179379237160926&ml_link=132179373781419797

Bullets rained down from drones and helicopters  Khaled El-Hissy EI 10/09/24

Nearly a month later, on 21 August, the Abu al-Fahm family would experience another raid by Israeli troops.This time, the Israelis raided Mawasi al-Qarara with tanks as well as quadcopters and helicopters. The Abu al-Fahm family tent was in the Lisan al-Mina area, on al-Tina Street, and this seemed to them to be at the center of the raid.Quadcopter drones spread out and started shooting at the tents around 6 pm. Apache helicopters also fired bullets at the displaced people in their tents.

Another massacre in Gaza ‘safe zone’  Qassam Muaddi  Mweiss  11/09/2024

Flashlights in the hands of rescue workers break the dense darkness over the sand in al-Mawasi, the tent encampment sheltering displaced Palestinians in Khan Younis. A group of men with shovels struggle to remove sand in the middle of a giant crater in the Israeli-designated “safe zone.” In video testimony collected for Mondoweiss, rescue workers pull out half-buried blankets from the sand and explain that they are trying to dig people out of the crater, which was caused by an Israeli airstrike. Read more: https://mondoweiss.net/2024/09/everything-around-me-was-getting-torn-apart-israel-commits-another-massacre-in-gaza-safe-zone/?ml_recipient=132269962100212748&ml_link=132269953902446531

Sexual abuse revelations might bring outcry but little change  Mati Yanikov EI 12/09/24  Sde Teiman, a military base in the Naqab desert, has risen to global infamy after revelations that it was turned into a torture camp for Palestinian detainees.An investigation released by the Israeli rights group, B’Tselem, as well as reports in CNN, The Guardian, The New York Times and others reveal a routine of torture and inhumane conditions at what became a detention center after 7 October. According to Amnesty International, 36 detainees had died there by June. Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/content/sexual-abuse-revelations-might-bring-outcry-little-change/48796

“It’s unbearable terror”  Abubaker Abed EI  12/09/2024

F or Anas Daher, 24, the situation in the central Gaza city of Deir al-Balah over the past month has been “terrifying.” Daher is a nurse at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, and Israel bombed both the gate of the hospital and the camp on its grounds at the beginning of September. “Quadcopters hovered closely over the hospital for many days before the incursion, playing bizarre sounds,” he said, like dogs barking. “On the day we were forced to flee [on 25 August], there was a sniper nearby opening fire at people running away.” Daher has since returned to his work at the hospital, but he said the quadcopters and Apache helicopters continue to hover above. Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/content/its-unbearable-terror/48816

Inside Israel’s concentration camps  Tamara Nassar EI  13/09/2024

While Israel has perpetrated these kinds of attacks on Palestinians in its prisons for decades, they have increased dramatically in quantity and intensity since 7 October, amid an atmosphere of state-sanctioned and directed revenge. The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem is aware of at least 60 Palestinians deaths in Israeli detention since 7 October, though the figure could be higher. And while Israel’s claims of rapes and sexual assaults by Palestinians on 7 October lack even a single identified victim or firsthand testimony, any forensic evidence or credible eyewitnesses, the rapes and other sexual attacks on Palestinians are documented with a large and growing body of horrifying and consistent victim accounts and witness statements. Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/content/rape-torture-and-murder-inside-israels-concentration-camps/48386

How did the international community’s inaction contribute to Israel’s atrocities?In an interview with Anadolu, Ihsan Adel, Chair of Law for Palestine, emphasised that Israel’s actions stem not only from its internal policies but also from the passive complicity of the international community. "It’s not just about the states directly involved in the persecution of the Palestinian people or those supporting Israel, but also those with trembling hands, who allowed this situation to unfold," Adel said, highlighting the lack of meaningful efforts to hold Israel accountable.  Read the Full report here

Israel is joining the first global AI convention   Mona Shtaya  Mweiss 16/09/24

It is deeply troubling that Israel has been allowed to join the first global treaty on artificial intelligence (AI)—an agreement meant to regulate AI’s responsible use while upholding human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. For 11 consecutive months, Israel has weaponized AI in its genocide in Gaza, deploying AI-driven surveillance and automated targeting systems that have inflicted devastating civilian harm. Read more: https://mondoweiss.net/2024/09/israel-is-joining-the-first-global-ai-convention-heres-why-thats-dangerous/?ml_recipient=132722958927922801&ml_link=132722949153097330

Israel’s long history and strategy of targeting civilians Jonathan Ofir Mweiss 18/09/2024 The name of the Dahiya Doctrine stems from the Dahiya quarter of Beirut that Israel targeted and leveled during the 2006 war, a quarter where many families affiliated with Hezbollah lived. In 2008, then military Chief of Northern Command Gadi Eisenkot (later chief of staff and centrist minister), coined the doctrine and  outlined “what will happen” to any enemy that dares attack Israel: Read more: https://mondoweiss.net/2024/09/israels-attack-on-lebanon-using-exploding-electronics-is-part-of-a-long-history-and-strategy-of-targeting-civilians/?ml_recipient=132904144488892327&ml_link=132904134046123994

Twins only had 48 hours Fedaa al-Qedra EI 20/09/2024

It is one of the quirks of genocide that a certain amount of bureaucracy carries on as before.

Births, for instance, still have to be registered. Deaths too. Increasingly, however – tragically, appallingly – the time between a birth and death in Gaza is growing narrower. Indeed, Gaza’s health ministry in August announced that according to its records, 115 babies had been born and died during Israel’s now 11 month-long genocide. Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/content/they-only-had-48-hours/48896

First rainfall spells disaster for displaced Gaza families as winter approaches Tareq Hajjaj  Mweiss  20/09/2024  Only a few feet away from the water, thousands of tents are sprawled across Gaza’s sandy beaches. Displaced families are trying to build sand barriers to prevent the incoming tide from flooding their living quarters.. . .

This means displaced families across Gaza will be faced with two choices during the incoming winter season, during which floods have become increasingly common: either sink in sewage water in Gaza’s decimated urban landscape, or get swallowed up by the rising tide in the tent encampments by the sea. Read more: https://mondoweiss.net/2024/09/first-rainfall-spells-disaster-for-displaced-gaza-families-as-winter-approaches/?ml_recipient=133085334215853435&ml_link=133085320764720340

Israel and the double lie of ‘human shields’ Craig Mokhiber Mweiss 21/09/2024

But Israel, in its automatic claim of “human shields” each time it kills large numbers of civilians and destroys protected civilian infrastructure, pays no mind to this definition. Instead, it simply extends the phrase to all civilian deaths. On cue and without evidence, complicit Western politicians, their official spokespersons, and media corporations then dutifully repeat Israel’s human shield mantra over and over again.  Read more: https://mondoweiss.net/2024/09/every-accusation-a-confession-israel-and-the-double-lie-of-human-shields/?ml_recipient=133175917828638029&ml_link=133175913999239123

Israel shuts down Al Jazeera’s office in Ramallah Jon Gambrell AP 22/09/2024

Al Jazeera denounced Israel’s “unfounded accusations” as it continued broadcasting live from Amman, Jordan, even as Israeli troops welded shut its office doors in Ramallah and confiscated its equipment. “Al Jazeera will not be intimidated or deterred by efforts to silence its coverage,” it said. Read more: https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-al-jazeera-gaza-war-hamas-4abdb2969e39e7ad99dfbf9caa7bb32c?ml_recipient=133195001610896787&ml_link=133194995375015415

Plan to impose siege, expel 300,000 Palestinians from northern Gaza

News Desk The Cradle 23/09/2024  When retired major general Giora Eiland presented the plan last week, he claimed it would “change the reality” on the ground in Gaza. “We have to tell the residents of north Gaza that they have one week to evacuate the territory, which then becomes a military zone, [a zone] in which every figure is a target and, most importantly, no supplies enter this territory.” Read more: https://thecradle.co/articles/israel-considers-plan-to-impose-siege-expel-300000-palestinians-from-northern-gaza

How Does Israel Justify Mass Killings? It Starts in the Schools George Yancy I-P News 25/09/2024   In Israel, what must be legitimated is the colonization of Palestine and the ongoing occupation. Israel must justify its policies. So, like all colonizers, Israel portrays the colonized as primitive, evil or superfluous. Israel portrays them as a racialized group that cannot change and never will change. .Read more:  https://israelpalestinenews.org/how-does-israel-justify-mass-killings-it-starts-in-the-schools/

Waste is piling up in Gaza. The public health implications are disastrous

Ahmed Abu Abdu Mweiss 25/09/2024 With a population exceeding 800,000 people, our city generates over 700 tons of waste daily. Before the Israeli genocide began on October 7 almost a year ago, managing this volume of waste in a city under siege was already challenging. The Israeli occupation systematically prevented us from importing or building the necessary equipment to carry out our work, including garbage trucks or waste treatment facilities, over nearly two decades. After the genocide began, the Israeli occupation launched a war on all our sanitation facilities and waste management systems, with the objective of creating an environmental and health crisis in Gaza. Read more: https://mondoweiss.net/2024/09/waste-is-piling-up-in-gaza-the-public-health-implications-are-disastrous/?ml_recipient=133538337600308403&ml_link=133538324572800065

Israel bombs refugee camps in Gaza, kills hundreds in Lebanon N Barrows-Friedman EI 26/09/2024  In Gaza, Israeli airstrikes and quadcopter drones attacked Palestinians in Beit Lahiya, Jabaliya, Rafah, Khan Younis, Bureij refugee camp and Nuseirat refugee camp. Nearly 40 people were killed in attacks on Tuesday. In Nuseirat, homes were flattened and people were killed as Israeli tanks pounded the area. Our contributor Abubaker Abed said that, according to residents in Nuseirat, Israeli snipers and quadcopters have been operating on the western edge of the camp. Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/israel-bombs-refugee-camps-gaza-kills-hundreds-lebanon

Netanyahu defends Gaza and Lebanon attacks in U.N. speech  Michael Arria Mweiss 27/09/24 “For too long, the world has appeased Iran,” he added. “That appeasement must end.” Netanyahu also lashed out at the very body he was addressing, accusing the United Nations of being a “house of darkness” and a “swamp of antisemitic bile.” He claimed that he wasn’t planning on delivering a speech to the U.N. this year, “but after I heard the lies and slanders leveled at my country by many of the speakers at this podium, I decided to come here and set the record straight.” Read more: https://mondoweiss.net/2024/09/netanyahu-defends-genocidal-gaza-campaign-in-u-n-speech/?ml_recipient=133719525434591088&ml_link=133719511128868607

How Israel attempts to justify indiscriminate attacks on civilians  Craig Mokhiber Mweiss  28/09/2024 International humanitarian law (IHL) explicitly prohibits the use of booby traps or other devices in the form of apparently harmless portable objects (like pagers) that are specifically designed and constructed to contain explosive material. 

It also prohibits indiscriminate weapons, tactics, and attacks, such as distributing booby-trapped devices across a population in circumstances where the originators of the weapons would have no way of knowing who was holding or close to the device when it detonates. Read more: https://mondoweiss.net/2024/09/how-israel-attempts-to-justify-indiscriminate-attacks-on-civilians-and-why-its-failing/?ml_recipient=133810121876702448&ml_link=133810112501385028

Israel’s defiance on full display IAK Staff  I-PNews 28/09/2024

OCHA says that humanitarian aid movements in Gaza continue to face significant access constraints. Nearly 90 per cent of coordinated humanitarian response movements between northern and southern Gaza so far in September have been either denied or impeded. Read more: https://israelpalestinenews.org/israel-defiance-full-display-biden-admin-commences-hand-wringing-day-356/

The UN resolution and the movement to liberate Palestine Craig Mokhiber Mweiss 29/09/2024

The General Assembly of the United Nations, a body unconstrained by the U.S. veto, and in which all countries have a seat, overwhelmingly endorsed the findings of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), and declared that the occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza is unlawful and must end entirely, that every soldier and settler must be removed, that the apartheid wall must be dismantled, relevant laws repealed, that Palestinians must be compensated and allowed to return home, and that Israeli-imposed racial segregation and apartheid in Palestine must cease. Read more: https://mondoweiss.net/2024/09/freedom-decree-the-un-resolution-and-the-movement-to-liberate-palestine/?ml_recipient=133900759450257002&ml_link=133900747968349210

Israel’s year of war on children T Hajjaj & Q Muaddi  Mweiss  30/09/2024

UN chief Antonio Guterres said Gaza had become a “graveyard for children” only a month into the genocidal war. Added to that are the long-term mental and health effects children will experience as a result of exposure to disease, chronic malnutrition, and relentless violence. Read more: https://mondoweiss.net/2024/09/the-most-precarious-place-in-the-world-to-be-a-child-israels-year-of-war-on-children/?ml_recipient=133991330501101098&ml_link=133991320129635654

UK related articles

Letter from a jailed Palestine activist  Francesca Nadin  EI  09/09/2024

Editor’s note: Palestine Action activist Francesca Nadin, 38, has been imprisoned awaiting trial since 29 June after she was arrested and charged with “conspiracy to commit criminal damage” against two Leeds banks, Barclays and JP Morgan. Both banks invest in Israel’s biggest weapons producer, Elbit Systems. Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/content/letter-jailed-palestine-activist/48686

UK police arrest journalists and activists under Terrorism Act Synne Furnes Bjerkestrand Mweiss 17/09/2024  On August 29, 12-16 police officers, some of them from the UK’s counter-terrorism unit, arrested Palestine activist and journalist Sarah Wilkinson, 61, under the Terrorism Act 2000, for content she had posted online. The bail conditions, which included not being allowed to use any electronic devices or any form of public transportation, were dropped a week later. She has also returned to reporting via her social media accounts. Read more: https://mondoweiss.net/2024/09/in-disturbing-escalation-against-the-palestine-movement-uk-police-arrest-journalists-and-activists-under-terrorism-act/?ml_recipient=132813562817021026&ml_link=132813549651101437

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