■ APPLICATION OF THE CONVENTION ON THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE IN THE GAZA STRIP (ORDER OF 26 JANUARY 2024) (.pdf) + APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS (.pdf)
■ THE EXPRESSION OF HATRED FOR GENTILES (Richard Edmondson/Nahida Izzat) (10/04/14)

Settlers set fire to a mosque in the village of Marda, north of Salfit in the West Bank, writing racist slogans on its walls. | At dawn Friday, Israeli settlers set fire to a mosque in the village of Marda, located north of Salfit in the West Bank. ● Local sources told the Palestinian WAFA news agency that the settlers raided the eastern part of the village, set fire to the Birr al-Walidain mosque, and vandalized its walls with racist slogans. ● The sources further reported that villagers managed to extinguish the flames before they could spread throughout the mosque, with the damage confined to its entrance. ● Sheikh Othman al-Din, the Director of Salfit Endowments, condemned the attack on the mosque as a criminal act against a house of God. He urged the residents to remain vigilant, fearing that settlers may repeat this cowardly act.

■ lsrael is blowing up mosques in Southern Lebanon villages (10/31/24)
■ 'Israel' reduced 604 mosques to rubble, stole 1,000 bodies from Gaza (05/22/24)

Israeli soldiers speak of the IOF spokesperson’s statements turning into a competition between the forces: "If the division kills 99 or 150, the next division in line will try to reach 200.” | Buildings that are marked as residences of Resistance fighters or "enemy deployment sites" in the Gaza Strip continue to appear on the army’s target list even after they have been attacked, the military affairs correspondent for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Yaniv Kubovich, revealed. This, according to Kubovich, makes civilians who enter the same building prone to attacks and labeled as “terrorists” after they are killed by IOF fire.

Detainees describe the circumstances in the prison facilities as so appalling that they wish the ground would swallow them up rather than undergo the savage treatment. | The Palestinian Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainee Affairs has revealed troubling statements from Gaza captives detained in "Israel's" Ofer Prison. The reports, gathered from inmates Mohammed Jamous, 44, Fadi Ayad, 39, and Fadi Howaydi, 38, depict terrible assault and brutality from the onset of their captivity. ● The Commission's lawyer visited them, and the inmates described the harsh conditions they endured, citing they experienced "real fascism". "We were stripped of our clothes, beaten, tortured, and bound, with our eyes blindfolded," one of the detainees stated. ● The detainees described the Israeli troops as "rabid beasts" who reveled in their misery, emphasizing their hunger, thirst, and the constant pain they were subjected to. They even expressed surprise at their ability to survive under such conditions.

■ US bypassing law to fund 'Israel' despite rights abuses, lawsuit says (Al Mayadeen)
⚡ WELCOME TO HELL: The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture Camps (B'Tselem)
■ Horrendous photos from Megiddo Concentration Camp (10/14/24)
■ 1,200 Palestinians endure systematic torture in Israeli prisons (09/26/24)
■ 'Everyone was naked and bleeding': Israeli torture of Palestinians exposed (08/07/24)
■ 'Israel' used waterboarding, unleashed dogs on Gaza detainees: UN (08/02/24 )
■ Israeli lawmaker defends anal rape of Palestinian captives (08/01/24)
■ Mohammad Al-Sabbar 8th Palestinian Detainee Martyred behind ‘Israeli’ Bars since Oct.7 (02/09/24)

Kathryn Shihadah | Essential facts and stats about the Hamas-Gaza-Israel war: The current situation in Gaza and Israel did not come out of the blue. Critical background left out of U.S news | On Oct 7, the resistance group Hamas did not invade a peace-loving country. To Israelis, it may have felt tranquil and carefree – they were dancing, raising families on tree-lined streets, planning vacations abroad. Palestinians are pretty much invisible, locked as they are behind high concrete walls and electrified, fortified, barbed wire barriers. ■ Israelis have never experienced the kind of invasion they got that day. The roles are usually reversed. This time some Palestinians were killing, kidnapping, and causing panic, trauma, and unconscionable violence. Usually it is some Israeli soldiers and settlers that perpetrate such acts. ■ The Israelis’ experience – and that of their loved ones – is real and significant. ■ But many of us are dismissing Gazans’ experience out of hand. ■ If we believe in equality, in the presence of the imago dei in everyone, we ought to be troubled by this. Are Israeli sins forgivable, but Palestinian sins somehow unforgivable?

On Sunday, December 15, 2024, day 436 of the Israeli assault against the entire civilian population of 2.2 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces continued their relentless bombardment of Palestinian civilians. | 11 Palestinians were killed and several injured as a result of the Israeli occupation bombing two houses in the Shuja’iyya neighborhood and the Nuseirat camp east of Gaza City and in the central Gaza Strip. ● A Wafa news correspondent reported that six Palestinians were killed, including children, and others were injured in an Israeli occupation bombing that targeted the Al-Qarm family’s house on Al-Beltaji Street in Al-Shuja’iyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City. ● The correspondent added that five citizens were killed, including a child, in addition to 13 others being injured, as a result of the occupation’s bombing that targeted a house in the vicinity of the Qassam Cemetery in the Nuseirat camp, in the central Gaza Strip.

■ Nearly 1 million Palestinians in Gaza face winter without shelter – Day 436 (If Americans Knew)

■ APPLICATION OF THE CONVENTION ON THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE IN THE GAZA STRIP (ORDER OF 26 JANUARY 2024) (.pdf) + APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS (.pdf)
■ THE EXPRESSION OF HATRED FOR GENTILES (Richard Edmondson/Nahida Izzat) (10/04/14)

Organizers describe how "Israel's" attacks on northern Gaza are some of the most savage and cruel assaults in its history of colonial domination. | The British Palestinian Committee (BPC) and the UK Gaza Community (UKGC) held a press conference in London Thursday, bringing together healthcare professionals and British-Palestinian voices to highlight the scope of "Israel's" deliberate devastation of Gaza amid an imposed media blackout. ● The event, which took place yards from BBC Broadcasting House, emphasized that while mainstream media attention has shifted, the situation in northern Gaza continues to worsen, as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians face what the UN calls catastrophic starvation. The ongoing strikes are described as the most savage and cruel assaults in the history of "Israel's" colonial domination of Palestine, according to the organizers.

💬 “We started hearing loudspeakers asking the men in the building to come out naked, then they asked the women and children to come out. They lined up the men, and the soldiers began firing at them randomly,” she expressed. ● She explained how “many were killed, and some were wounded and left to bleed to death. Then they put all the women and children in one room and threw a gas grenade inside. It’s very clear to us that everyone is a target, and the plan is just to kill and kill more.”

■ Israeli Forces Shoot a Palestinian Child Near Jenin (IMEMC News)
■ Day 434 in Gaza: Israeli Bombardment of Palestinians Continues (IMEMC News)
■ Live blog: Israel continues unabated killing of Palestinians across Gaza (TRT World)
✅ ‘Greater Israel’: With Assad out of picture, Israel moves to grab more Syrian land (Maryam Qarehgozlou)

The Israeli occupation commits three massacres across the Gaza Strip in 24 hours, killing 40 Palestinians and injuring 98 others. | In the latest toll issued by the Ministry of Health in Gaza on day 434 of the ongoing genocide, the number of martyrs has reached 44,875, with 106,454 wounded since October 7, 2023. ● The Israeli occupation committed three massacres across the Gaza Strip in 24 hours, killing 40 Palestinians and injuring 98 others, according to the Ministry. ● While some of the victims were transported to the few partially functioning hospitals in the Strip, most of them remain trapped beneath the rubble, with almost impossible means to get out amid the continuous Israeli obstruction of rescue operations.

■ Israeli attacks kill 70 Palestinians, wound 100 in a day (PressTV)
■ Israel Killed Over 5,000 Civilians in Gaza in October 2023 (Antiwar)
■ IOF detained 12,100 Palestinians in West Bank since October 2023 (Al Mayadeen)

The Israeli occupation continues tightening the noose on northern Gaza despite the catastrophic situation and the urgent UN appeals to allow humanitarian aid into the area. | The United Nations announced a significant disruption in humanitarian aid to northern Gaza for 66 days, leaving between 65,000 and 75,000 Palestinians without food, water, or healthcare. ● In northern Gaza, "Israel" continues its suffocating siege on Beit Lahia, Beit Hanoun, and Jabalia, denying aid to Palestinians trapped there. Moreover, around 5,500 Palestinians were forcibly displaced from three schools in Beit Lahia to Gaza City, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). ● In addition to the food crisis, OCHA reported that only four bakeries supported by the UN currently operate throughout Gaza, all located in Gaza City. ● Sigrid Kaag, the UN's Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Coordinator for the Gaza Reconstruction told reporters after her closed-door briefing to the Security Council on Tuesday that "civilians trying to survive in Gaza are facing a truly catastrophic situation."

■ Deadly Airstrikes Ravage Gaza: Dozens Martyred, Hundreds Injured (Al Manar TV)
■ Day 432 of genocide in Gaza: 44,805 martyrs, 106,257 wounded (Al Mayadeen)

The Government Media Office in Gaza reports that 'Israel' has committed 9,905 massacres, including attacks on 7,160 Palestinian families, leaving 55,758 martyrs and widespread destruction in Gaza since October 7, 2023. | The Government Media Office in Gaza issued a report revealing that "Israel" has committed 9,905 massacres in the Gaza Strip, including 7,160 attacks on Palestinian families, according to key statistics on the ongoing genocide since October 7, 2023. ● The report highlights that 1,410 Palestinian families were completely wiped out, with the death of all family members, including parents and children, leaving 5,444 martyrs from these families alone, as reported by the Ministry of Health. The office further stated that the total number of martyrs and missing persons has reached 55,758, including 17,712 children and 12,136 women.

Wearing a Palestine shirt gets you arrested in Germany. And we are supposed to believe the Nazis were worse? pic.twitter.com/in4xJ1lIvE

— Syrian Girl 🇸🇾 (@Partisangirl) October 11, 2024

While some of the victims were transported to the few partially functioning hospitals in the Strip, most of them remain trapped beneath the rubble. | The Israeli occupation committed four massacres across the Gaza Strip in 24 hours, killing 52 Palestinians and injuring 142 others. While some of the victims were transported to the few partially functioning hospitals in the Strip, most of them remain trapped beneath the rubble, with almost impossible means to get out, amid the continuous Israeli obstruction of rescue operations. This brings the death toll to 44,664 Palestinians, in addition to 105,976 injuries since October 7, 2023.

✅ Palestine, Victory Redefined (Nahida Izzat)(Poems For Palestine)

Since the early days of the genocide, "Israel" has consistently targeted medical facilities in Gaza, a pattern documented by various international human rights organizations. | Early this Friday morning, Israeli units stormed Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza, forcibly evacuating medical staff and patients and detaining a large number of individuals present at the hospital, Al Mayadeen’s correspondent reported. The abductees, including medical staff, were taken to an undisclosed destination. ● Simultaneously, Israeli forces demolished a residential block near the hospital, resulting in the killing of at least 30 Palestinians and injuring dozens more. The explosion also caused extensive damage in the area. ● For nearly two months, Kamal Adwan Hospital has been under a strict siege by invading Israeli units, which have blocked the entry of medical supplies, food, staff, and ambulances, effectively preventing the hospital from operating normally.

■ Israeli military kills four doctors in raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, eyewitnesses say (CNN)
■ ‘They killed him on the spot.’ Israel targeted Gaza soup kitchen chef in drone attack, brother says (CNN)
■ Another Gaza detainee killed under Israeli prisons' abuse policy (Al Mayadeen)

“The harm they do is diabolical, and yet, they expect you to believe they are the victims." | Susan Abulhawa’s blistering speech at the Oxford Union was the most ferocious indictment of Israel in the last decade. Author Abulhawa—who is a long-term human rights activist—summarized the iniquitous history of the Jewish state in a few succinct paragraphs while shedding light on the obscene toxic ideology that has permeated the nation’s doctrine from the very beginning. Abulhawa ignored the fictitious claim that Israel was created to provide safety and security for the Jewish people and, instead, showed that the country’s founders were maniacally focused on seizing land while expelling or exterminating the indigenous population. Ethnic cleansing and land theft are not an unavoidable response to sporatic Palestinian violence, but the cornerstones of the pernicious dogma that animates the Zionist state. Needless to say, Abulhawa’s presentation was met with riotous applause that lasted for more than three minutes as the audience expressed their appreciation for her heartfelt testimony.

Israeli strikes targeted Palestinians, including displaced people, women, and children in the Gaza Strip. | Israeli occupation forces continue to massacre civilians, demolish their homes, and shell civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip. During the late hours of Wednesday night and early on Thursday, Israeli occupation forces demolished more residential blocks in various areas. ● Al Mayadeen's correspondent reported that 25 people were martyred in an Israeli strike on Gaza City, according to an initial toll, while 10 others were killed and 50 were injured in the Yarmouk area in the same city. The neighborhoods of al-Sabra and Tal al-Hawa were also shelled by artillery units and Israeli occupation forces fired their machine guns the two neighborhoods in southern Gaza City. ● Our correspondent also reported that 5 Palestinians were martyred and another dozen were injured in an airstrike that targeted the Nusseriat refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip.

On 5 August 2022, Israel launched a three-day offensive on occupied Gaza, visiting fresh trauma and destruction on a besieged population living under apartheid. Both Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups committed apparent war crimes. In one attack, an Israeli drone killed five children at a cemetery. In another instance, seven civilians were killed in a strike likely to have been caused by a Palestinian rocket that misfired.

Gaza's civil defense agency has described as “catastrophic” the situation in the besieged northern Gaza Strip, saying at least 60,000 Palestinians living in the area are at risk of death | Mahmoud Basal, spokesman of the Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza, made the remarks in a statement on Wednesday, as the Israeli regime continues its relentless aggression and siege on the territory. Basal went on to say that residents of the northern Gaza Strip have not received food and clean water for 60 days.

💬 “The situation in the city of Beit Lahia and other northern areas is catastrophic, and we are unable to provide health, medical and emergency services to the residents of these areas,” he said, adding that houses in the area have become uninhabitable.

lsraeli drone kills a Palestinian man in Northern Gaza Strip by dropping a bomb to his head. pic.twitter.com/lnwjQP2NGj

— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) December 1, 2024

The incoming US president has demanded that the Palestinian militants free all of their hostages before his inauguration | US President-elect Donald Trump has warned that there will be “all hell to pay in the Middle East” if Hamas does not release its remaining Israeli hostages before he assumes office. Trump has pressed both Israel and the Palestinian militants to end their conflict before his inauguration. ● Hamas militants captured more than 250 hostages during their assault on Israel last October. While 105 were freed during a short-lived truce the following month and several others rescued this year, around 100 are believed to remain in Gaza, with Hamas tying their release to an Israeli withdrawal from the enclave – a condition that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to accept. [What about the 6,000 Palestinian men and women detained in Israel? -Ed.]

Hundreds of thousands of Gazans are enduring dire conditions in makeshift shelters, says UN agency for Palestinian refugees. | The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said that more than 415,000 displaced individuals in Gaza are currently taking refuge in its school buildings. In a statement shared on social media, UNRWA posted on Sunday the testimony of Aisha, one of the many Gazan women taking shelter in a school. Expressing her exhaustion, Aisha said: "This place is meant for education, not for living."

■ Former Israeli Defense Minister Says Israel Is Carrying Out Ethnic Cleansing in Northern Gaza (Antiwar.com)
■ Israeli attacks kill 37 more Gazans as death toll nears 44,500 (Anadolu)
■ Families in Gaza are struggling to survive through engineered famine as Israeli leaders face ICC arrest warrants for war crimes (Collapse.News)

He was forced to watch his father burn alive in Rafah, now Omar (9) speaks and the world needs to listen to him. pic.twitter.com/M13Y3NavP6

— Suppressed News. (@SuppressedNws) June 1, 2024

■ Northern Gaza: 130,000 Children Deprived of Food and Medicine Under Israeli Siege (Antiwar.com)
■ Israel kills over 100 Palestinians in new massacres across Gaza (PressTV)

Sea swallows more than 10,000 tents over the past two days in Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/iAhagXnVif

— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) November 26, 2024

Robert Inlakesh | Eyewitness accounts reveal Israeli snipers are systematically targeting unarmed civilians, including children, using tactics that point to deliberate genocidal intent and a chilling policy of terror designed to annihilate a people, not just wage war.

💬 “I took my sons to our destroyed house, in Al-Sabra neighborhood, in order to pick up some clothes from under the rubble. When we were there, I saw my son fall to the ground and he started bleeding from his head. I got close to him and found that his head had exploded.” ● “Israeli tanks began shooting and firing everywhere. I knew that my son was dead … so I had to leave him on the ground and flee with my other sons to safety. I couldn’t return back to this place for 10 days, where I later found that an Israeli tank had run over his body and dismembered it, we could only collect some of his flesh and bones, which had been smashed by the Israeli tanks, and we put them in a piece of fabric, like a shirt, and took them, burying them in a makeshift cemetery.”

NEVER FORGET, NEVER FORGIVE. pic.twitter.com/I6nVTDOMZs

— Suppressed News. (@SuppressedNws) March 22, 2024

The Gaza Government Media Office has accused "Israel" of systematically targeting the territory's healthcare system, resulting in devastating consequences for medical personnel and facilities. | Over 1,000 doctors and nurses have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since last year, according to local authorities on Sunday. “Over 310 other medical personnel were arrested, tortured, and executed in prisons,” stated the Gaza Government Media Office. The statement further stressed that “the Israeli army also prevented the entry of medical supplies, health delegations, and hundreds of surgeons into Gaza.” The Media Office further accused the Israeli military of intentionally targeting hospitals to weaken Gaza’s healthcare system.