🇵🇸 UN relief chief says says humanitarian crisis in Gaza is “the worst ever”

“The worst ever”.

UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Martin Griffiths described the death and destruction in Gaza as the worst situation he had seen in his entire career. Speaking to CNN, the British diplomat said the situation in Gaza is a global crisis and a crisis of humanity.

Source : Middle East Eye
#Palestine #Gaza #Genocide #UN
23/11/2023

🇵🇸 The Olive Tree Hugger: Settler attacks on Palestinian farmers and their olive trees | Al Jazeera

“I hugged the olive tree… I’d raised the tree like my child.” Mahfodah Shtayyeh

On November 27, 2005, a Palestinian woman was photographed hugging an olive tree after it was attacked by Israeli settlers.The photograph became an iconic image symbolising the daily struggle of many Palestinian farmers in the occupied West Bank.

Over 800,000 olive trees on Palestinian farms have been uprooted by the Israeli authorities and settlers since 1967.

#Palestine #OPT #Colonisation #Dispossession #Apartheid #Agriculture #Olive #OliveCulture #Trees #Settler #SettlerViolences

🇵🇸 1/2 - Some context and background on Palestinians detained & imprisoned by Israel :

1) A Palestinian "prisoner" does not refer to someone tried & convicted in a normal court of law that follows due process. Palestinians are detained by Israeli soldiers, https://www.addameer.org/israeli_military_judicial_system/military_courts

No arrest warrant, no right to a phone call, no lawyers present. 2) Palestinians are interrogated without lawyers present & widespread abuses amounting to torture, are documented by human rights orgs. This links to some #testimonies. https://addameer.org/publications/systematic-use-torture-and-ill-treatment-israeli-interrogation-centers-cases-torture

3) Palestinian children are also tried in specially designed "juvenile military courts". Between 500 & 700 🇵🇸 kids are tried in these courts each year. Sworn affidavits of nearly 800 child detainees show 86% were not informed of the reason for their arrest https://www.dci-palestine.org/military_detention

80% were strip-searched, 42% were denied adequate food & water, 31% were denied access to a toilet, 97% were interrogated without a family member present, 55% were shown or made to sign a paper in Hebrew, not Arabic. https://www.savethechildren.net/news/%E2%80%9Ctreated-animals%E2%80%9D-palestinian-children-face-inhumane-treatment-israeli-run-prisons

4) Israel widely uses "administrative detention" against hundreds of Palestinians. This allows for the indefinite detention of a Palestinian without charge - renewable every 6 months. Since '67, around 60,000 Palestinians were administrative detainees. https://www.btselem.org/administrative_detention

Source : Noure Odeh
#Palestine #Apartheid #Judiciary #Detention #Prison #Minors #Children #Addameer #Btselem
22/11/2023

🇵🇸 2/2 - Some context and background on Palestinians detained & imprisoned by Israel

5) At least 800,000 🇵🇸shave been imprisoned at one point in their lives since 1967 by Israel, making the issue of prisoners a topic that touches all families. In July @FranceskAlbs said this mass incarceration policy was another expression of apartheid. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/07/dismantle-israels-carceral-regime-and-open-air-imprisonment-palestinians-un

6) Israel detains Palestinians from Gaza under an obscure law that strips away meaningful judicial review and due process rights. That says a lot given that Palestinian detainees from the West Bank barely have any rights. https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/03/01/gaza-unlawful-combatants-law-violates-rights

7) More than 10,000 Palestinian women have been imprisoned since 1967. Currently around 80 are imprisoned & detained by Israel.

8) Palestinians can be detained for raising a 🇵🇸, throwing stones, "incitement", or affiliation with any political faction. https://www.addameer.org/israeli_military_judicial_system/military_orders

9) Since 10/7, Israeli forces have detained around 3,000 Palestinians, including 30 journalists, community leaders, and non-violent resistance leaders & has denied lawyers & ICRC access. HR orgs have documented horrific tales of torture of detainees https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/11/israel-opt-horrifying-cases-of-torture-and-degrading-treatment-of-palestinian-detainees-amid-spike-in-arbitrary-arrests/#:~:text=Israeli%20authorities%20have%20dramatically%20increased,of%20torture%20and%20death%20in"

10) Released prisoners say in addition to cutting off water & electricity, detainees report that many have had their limbs, legs, and hands broken, and many others from unrecognizable from the beating. Soldiers are filming the abuse : https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=ltu-F_2ai1M

Source @Noure Odeh
#Palestine #OPT #Apartheid #Judiciary #Prison #Detention #Minors #Children
22/11/2023

PALESTINE ONLINE 🇵🇸 (@OnlinePalEng): "Israel kills seven Palestinian women every two hours by its indiscriminate bombardment of the Gaza Strip, according to the UN." | nitter –

#Palestine #Gaza #Genocide
Nov 23, 2023 · 3:11 PM UTC

🇵🇸 UN Women: ‘Seven women are killed every two hours’

Natalia Kanem, executive director of UN Women, said two mothers are killed every hour and seven women are killed every two hours during a briefing about Gaza on Wednesday.

Kanem noted that 67 percent of the more than 14,000 people killed in Gaza are estimated to be women and children, as opposed to 14 percent before 7 October.

Source : Middle East Eye
#Palestine #Gaza #Genocide
#Women #Children
23/11/2023

روني الدنماركي (@Aldanmarki):🇵🇸 "Palestinians are some of the most tender-hearted people on earth. Their ability to find joy and pleasure in the midst of carnage and despair is unmatched." | nitter –

روني الدنماركي (@Aldanmarki): "Veteran journalist Wael Dahdouh lost his wife and his children to this damned war. The little girl lost her parents. Both of them have found comfort in each other. An immediate platonic connection." | nitter –

أحمدصالحAhmd Saleh (@iahmedsalih): "لقطه عفويه من طفله اثناء تغطيه الاستاذ وائل الدحدوح" | nitter –

#Palestine #Gaza #Journalist
#WaelAlDahdouh #Aljazeera
Nov 23, 2023 · 1:20 PM UTC

🇵🇸 The voice of Gaza | The Electronic Intifada – 23/11/2023

Al Jazeera’s bureau chief in Gaza Wael al-Dahdouh was live on air when he heard the worst possible news: His family had been attacked by Israel.

His wife Amna, son Mahmoud, daughter Sham and grandson Adam were all killed.

It has been almost a month since the massacre yet Wael has not had any space to grieve. He has continued reporting with great courage on the genocide being inflicted on his people

#Gaza #Genocide #Journalist
#WaelAlDahdouh #Aljazeera

Imminent truce must be used to strengthen int’l, human rights, media presence in Gaza

Ahead of the first temporary humanitarian truce agreement in the Gaza Strip going into effect, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor called for the formation of international human rights committees that would visit the Strip and document the magnitude of Israel’s crimes against Palestinian civilians.

EMHRM emphasised that any United Nations fact-finding committees sent to investigate the situation in Gaza should gather victim #testimonies in person and ascertain the rapidly worsening humanitarian situation with their own eyes

The Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court should be tasked with taking the lead in this regard, said the rights organisation. It should be expected to dispatch representatives to conduct field visits in the Gaza Strip, in order to speak with #victims and witnesses and oversee #investigations at the scene of the #crimes

Via @EuroMedHR #Gaza #Truce #Witness #Journalist #ICC 23/11/2023