Energy firms face legal threat over Israeli licences to drill for gas off Gaza

Middle East Eye |

Major energy companies awarded licences by Israel to explore for gas off Gaza's coast have been warned that they could face legal action for possible breaches of Palestinian maritime sovereignty and war pillaging.

Israel's Ministry of Energy granted exploration rights to three companies - Italian energy giant Eni, UK-based Dana Energy and Israel's Ratio Petroleum - three weeks after the war on Gaza began in October.

Lawyers working on behalf of three Palestinian NGOs - Al Hag, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights and Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights - notified the companies in letters this month that they would use "all legal mechanisms to the fullest extent" if they proceeded and called on them to desist from any activities relating to the licences.

The organisations contend that over half of the zone for which the companies were awarded licences lies within Palestine's maritime boundaries.

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Imam Khamenei (Supreme Leader of Iran):

"The U.S. will sink like the Titanic."

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U.N. ICJ court to hold hearings on legality of the occupation of Palestinian-claimed lands on Monday

NPR |

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The United Nations' highest court opens historic hearings Monday into the legality of Israel's 57-year occupation of lands sought for a Palestinian state, plunging the 15 international judges back into the heart of the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Six days of hearings are scheduled at the International Court of Justice, during which an unprecedented number of countries will participate, as Israel continues its devastating assault on Gaza.

Though the case occurs against the backdrop of the Israel-Hamas war, it focuses instead on Israel's open-ended occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem.

Omar Awadallah, the head of the U.N. organizations department in the Palestinian Foreign Ministry said: "They've had to consider the word genocide in the South Africa case," he said,"Now we want them to consider apartheid."

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🔺 Palestinian Red Crescent: The Israeli occupation targets the third floor of Al-Amal Hospital with artillery shelling.

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Prominent Black Church Leaders Call for End of U.S. Aid to Israel

New York Times |

The African Methodist Episcopal Church Bishops Council (A.M.E.) says American financial assistance to help Israel fight its war in Gaza supports “mass genocide.”

As you may remember, Biden delivered remarks at Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, S.C., last month. He was interrupted by protesters calling for a cease-fire in Gaza.


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🔻The Hebrew newspaper "Israel Today":

The entire Hamas elite, Yahya Sinwar, Muhammad Deif and Marwan Issa, is still alive and working, and this constitutes a miserable failure for "Israel."

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BREAKING: The Water Transport Workers Federation of India representing workers at 11 major Indian ports will refuse to load or unload weapons to Israel. This is in solidarity with a call by Palestinian trade unions. India sends $7bn in arms to Israel a year

🔺One of the injuries, which arrived at Shuhada Al Aqsa Hospital after Israeli strikes on Deir Al Balah in central Gaza

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🔺Backlash on social media and calls to expel Israel's ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg, Idit Rosenzweig-Abu, after she incited hatred against Muslims in Belgium.

She shared footage of a Muslim preacher reciting verses from the Qur'an in Brussels Parliament, and falsely claimed that he was reciting a Surah "about a battle between Muslims and Jews" and that it "calls for the killing and taking captive of Jews."

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🔺Israel perpetrates a massacre against innocent Palestinians in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza

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🔺Grieving Palestinians bid a final farewell to their loved ones in the aftermath of the massacres carried out last night by Israeli fighter jets in Deir el-Balah.

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🔺 The everyday morning Farewells in Gaza as Israel continues its genocide on innocents

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🔺Israeli occupation soldiers subject detained Dr. Atef al-Hout, the director of Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, to questioning as the Israeli army continues its raid of the hospital

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🔺A pro-Palestine demonstration in front of the Israeli embassy building, in Ottawa, Canada, rejecting the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip

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🔺Like a video game... Israel's military reveals a new technology - which they test on innocent civilians - to kill more Palestinians from inside military vehicles

The Israeli soldier, "... see what happens to stone throwers..."

Only in the nation of psychopaths; Israel, is (allegedly) stone-throwing punished with gun shots

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