Palestine

By Rayhan Uddin
Published date: 23 November 2024 12:34 GMT

November 21, 2024

Nan Goldin kritisiert Israel und Deutschland scharf (Tagesschau, 2024-11-23)

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/gesellschaft/goldin-rede-kritik-100.html
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“Bei der Eröffnung ihrer Retrospektive in #Berlin hat die Fotografin Nan Goldin Israels Vorgehen im Nahost-Konflikt angeprangert. Auch Deutschland macht sie für das Leid der Zivilbevölkerung verantwortlich.”

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Today, our family in Gaza received the news of the martyrdom of three of my cousins in an Israeli airstrike on the Jabalia area. These martyrs, who rose in the prime of their youth, were an example of sacrifice and patience in the face of oppression. Their loss has left a great void in our hearts, but we know that their place in paradise is higher and greater. We ask Allah to accept them among the martyrs and grant us patience in this great tragedy.

The International Criminal Court Issues 'Watershed' Warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, for War Crimes in Gaza (Drop Site News, 2024-11-21)

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/icc-netanyahu-gallant-israel-biden-gaza
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“The court’s decision may also create serious tension for the European Union, as it wages its own legal battle at the ICC against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. Vladimir Putin faces an ICC arrest warrant over his invasion of that country, which has increased legal pressure ... Many European countries like #Germany that have been vocally supportive of Israel will now face pressure to undermine the authority of the same court that they are relying on to combat Russia...”

“While the Biden administration has already made clear it rejects the jurisdiction of the #ICC over Israel, at least one U.S. mayor has pledged to comply with the warrants. ‘Dearborn will arrest Netanyahu & Gallant if they step within Dearborn city limits,’ said Abudullah Hamoud, the mayor of the #Michigan city...”

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Without Fear or Favour: For an Effective International Criminal Court (Verfassungsblog, 2024-06-14)

https://verfassungsblog.de/without-fear-or-favour/
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A statement by a group of 9 German legal scholars published in June, after the application for arrest warrants for Netanyahu et al.

"Germany... would thus be obliged under international law, and would be capable under German law, to arrest any person against whom the ICC has issued an arrest warrant, be it President Putin or, in future, perhaps one of the Hamas leaders, Defence Minister Gallant or Prime Minister Netanyahu..."

"... the public statement by the German Federal Minister of Justice that President Putin would be arrested in #Germany and surrendered to the #ICC. If the same were not to apply in the case of an arrest warrant for an Israeli Prime Minister, Germany would be exposed to the accusation of applying double standards ..."

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Fresh protest in White House on Biden’s Israel policy (Politico, 2024-11-18)

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2024/11/18/fresh-protest-in-white-house-on-bidens-israel-policy-00183727
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Fresh, latest and perhaps the last? Anyway, I’d like to remember there have been a number of conscientious White House staffers throughout…

“… a group of at least 20 White House staffers call out the Biden administration for failing to follow through on demands issued … on Oct. 13, which required Israel to take ‘concrete measures’ within 30 days to improve the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.”

“‘You are running out of time to do the right thing, but decisive action could save precious lives in the next two months,’ the staffers write.”

“This marks the latest in a flurry of letters from U.S. government officials urging Biden to cut or condition U.S. support for Israel…”

“… An open letter in July signed by more than 500 appointees and staffers condemned the deep humanitarian impact of U.S. policy while funding the war in Gaza.”

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German architecture award rescinded over British artist’s Israel boycott vow (Guardian, 2024-11-18)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/18/german-architecture-award-rescinded-british-artist-israel-boycott-vow-james-bridle
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"[the Schelling Architecture Foundation] has rescinded one of its … awards from a British artist [James Bridle] over the signing of an open letter promising a boycott of Israeli cultural institutions, citing the German parliament’s controversial antisemitism resolution as a factor behind the decision.”

“… on Sunday, days before this Wednesday’s awards ceremony …, Bridle was informed in an email that the foundation’s committee had decided unanimously not to award them the prize because Bridle was among the several thousand authors who signed an open letter calling for a boycott of Israeli cultural institutions.”

“In its email … the foundation further linked its decision to a cross-party resolution passed by the German parliament earlier this month.”

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#NieWiederIstJetzt #FakeAntisemitism

In December, al-Bursh was arrested by the military in the last hospital he worked at, Al-Awda Hospital in Jabalya. He was told to come outside and abducted. Over the next few months, he apparently underwent horrific torture at a Shin Bet interrogation facility and, later, the Sde Teiman detention camp.

He was then transferred to Ofer Prison, where he died on April 19. "We could hardly recognize him," said a Palestinian doctor who saw him at the detention facility. "It was obvious that he'd been through hell.

It wasn't the man we knew, but a shadow of that man." Al-Bursh, who stayed fit and often swam, turned into a ghost. He was a specialist in surgical orthopedics who studied in Jordan and Britain; had he lived somewhere else, things could have been much different.

His death in prison was met with a characteristic shrug in Israel, although actor and rapper Tamer Nafar wrote a lovely elegy for him in Haaretz; in which I also wrote about al-Bursh. The authorities avoided taking any responsibility for his death. The prison service, controlled by National Security Minister Ben-Gvir, said it doesn't deal with "illegal combatants." So this is suddenly about "combatants," with whom they suddenly "don't deal." The military said it had not been holding al-Bursh when he died.

Dozens of detainees have died in Israeli prisons this year, like in the worst prisons in the world – and this isn't a subject worth discussing by the protest movement for democracy in Israel. Hundreds of medical personnel have been killed in Gaza, and it doesn't even interest the Israeli Medical Association. What a disgrace.

But al-Bursh has become a phantom doctor, whose character, life and death refuse to disappear. Last week, his image came up in an investigative report by John Sparks on Sky News. While Israeli investigative journalist Ilana Dayan complains to Christiane Amanpour on CNN that "we are not sufficiently covering the human suffering in Gaza" and then presents another heroic report on the military, the TV station she works for shows not even a glimpse of what's happening in Gaza. "Viewers aren't interested," said one of the heads of Israel's Second Authority for Television and Radio this week. The statement summarized the new concept of journalism: pay-per-view.

Live Updates: I.C.C. Issues Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant: The International Criminal Court rejected Israel’s challenges to its jurisdiction, and also issued a warrant for a top Hamas official. Its chief prosecutor had sought the arrests for war crimes in Gaza.
(New York Times, 2024-11-21)

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11/21/world/israel-netanyahu-hamas-gaza?unlocked%5C_article%5C_code=1.bk4.jwQE.BCnDXqhSny-E
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Visuals by Samar Abu Elouf
Text by Samar Abu Elouf and Eric Nagourney
Doha, Qatar
Nov. 19, 2024

[Photos with text about Palestinians from Gaza who were severely wounded by Israeli attacks and managed to escape. Not easy to read.]