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‘I lost my wife and my land’: A deadly olive harvest season ends in the West Bank (+972 Magazine, 2024-12-12)

https://www.972mag.com/olive-harvest-west-bank-deadly-violence/
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"Restrictions and attacks by the Israeli military, together with rampant settler violence, left many Palestinians unable to harvest this year's crop."

"Every year, around October, Palestinian families gather under their olive trees to harvest the past year’s produce. But for many olive farmers in the West Bank, this was another exceptionally difficult year, amid a surge in Israeli settler and military violence that is forcing Palestinians off their land.

"Under the shadow of the ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza, where harvesting olives has become virtually impossible, Israeli settlers have been burning and stealing from olive groves across the West Bank and assaulting those who attempt to harvest their crop..."

#WestBank #EndOccupation
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Blinken repeatedly disrupted in Congress by pro-Palestine activists (TRT World | Youtube, 2024-12-12)

https://youtube.com/shorts/9OMNd7bnc0A
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This short video shows three protesters, among many.
cf. Palestine Chronicle article
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/butcher-of-gaza-protesters-disrupt-blinkens-testimony-in-congress/

FYI, the congress hearing was about the U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan. So they were surprised by protesters? 🤨

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Refuser.org (Refuser Solidarity Network) provides an international base of support for Israeli war-resistance.

https://www.refuser.org/
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[About]
“Voices Against War (VAW) is a social media initiative of the Refuser Solidarity Network established in October 2023 to amplify the voices of Israelis resisting the Gaza war. By exposing millions of people around the world to these voices, the goal is to achieve an end to the bombardment of Gaza, the entry of aid and restoration of vital resources like water and electricity, and safe return of all hostages. The long term goal is to end the Israeli occupation and establish equal rights for all people who live here.”

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By world-outlook.com on December 1, 2024

By world-outlook.com on December 2, 2024

By world-outlook.com on December 11, 2024

Brett Wilkins
Dec 11, 2024

Kavitha Chekuru
December 6 2024, 5:00 a.m.

Sami Vanderlip
Dec 11, 2024

Jonah Valdez
December 10 2024, 11:45 a.m.

Reporters laugh as US calls for ICC case against Assad (2024-12-10)

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241210-reporters-laugh-as-us-calls-for-icc-case-against-assad/
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＊With a short clip ＊

“Reporters yesterday mocked the hypocrisy of US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller during a press briefing, where he stated that the US supports the #ICC case against ex-Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad but opposes cases against Israeli officials …”

Link to Youtube short:
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/BpUFzF-aRFU

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Our goal is ambitious: to push the book all the way to number one and to land it on the New York Times bestseller list. This is a stretch, but it’s genuinely within reach if all of us pull together. To have the book already ranked in the top 100 means there is serious momentum, but we have to keep it up.

If you already pre-ordered a copy, consider pre-ordering a few more for friends and family. And forward this email to anybody who’d be interested.

Because there has been so much demand for the book it is likely to sell out on Tuesday, the day it officially comes out, which means the way to get your copy and have it count toward the rankings is to pre-order it from Bookshop.org or Amazon before Tuesday. (We hate Amazon as much as you do, but its ranking is the one that the publishing industry cares about. Buying through Bookshop supports local bookstores and counts toward the NYT list.)

from 972Magazine [published in Israel]
By Haggai Matar
November 26, 2024

‘No Other Land’ Wins Best Feature Documentary & Best Director At 40th IDA Documentary Awards: Complete Winners List (Deadline, 2024-12-05)

https://deadline.com/2024/12/2024-ida-awards-winners-list-1236195905/
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“It’s been an extraordinary week for No Other Land…”

“The film set in the occupied West Bank won Best Feature Documentary at the 40th IDA Documentary Awards in Los Angeles on Thursday and it also won the Best Director prize ... The quartet of filmmakers also received the IDA’s Courage Under Fire Award, a previously announced honor recognizing the difficult and dangerous conditions in which the film was made.

“No Other Land swept most of the awards announced this week: on Monday, it won Best Documentary at the Gotham Awards, and on Tuesday, the New York Film Critics Circle named it the best documentary of the year. It won the National Board of Review Freedom of Expression Award on Wednesday...”

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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/6449613

Check out the first two paragraphs:

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U.S. laws require healthcare practitioners and anyone else who suspects they may have encountered a case of child abuse to report it to “the state.” But what is one to do when it is the state itself that’s doing the abusing?

The Lancet medical journal, published in Britain and read throughout the world, recently condemned the Israeli state and the “ongoing Israeli military assault on Gaza” for causing “an unprecedented rise in maternal deaths, miscarriages, and stillbirths.”

Israel's Wall of Impunity (Ralph Nader Radio Hour, 2024-12-07)

https://podcasts.apple.com/jp/podcast/israels-wall-of-impunity/id874581610?i=1000679593267
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#CraigMokhiber #podcast #StopGenocide
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"The lives of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip depend first and foremost on the private and personal scale of values ​​of the commanders in the Strip," Har-Zahav wrote, adding that any senior officer who orders the killing of Palestinians simply because of their identity will not face consequences.

"A human life in the Gaza Strip is worth less than the lives of the thousands of stray dogs that roam the area looking for food. While there is a clear order prohibiting shooting dogs unless a soldier is in real danger when the dog's jaws are locked on him, humans are permitted to be shot without any real restrictions."

from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Mera Aladam
Published date: 6 December 2024 16:34 GMT

Using eyewitness reports, video footage, articles, photographs, eyewitness evidence and over investigatory material, much of it recorded by Israeli soldiers, the historian has produced what Haaretz calls “the most methodical and detailed documentation in Hebrew (there is also an English translation) of the war crimes that Israel is perpetrating in Gaza”.

Some of the most shocking incidents documented by Mordechai include a Palestinian woman with a child being shot while waving a white flag, starving girls being crushed to death while queuing for bread, a handcuffed 62-year-old Palestinian man getting run over by an Israeli tank and an air strike targeting people trying to help a wounded boy.

from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Nadav Rapaport in Tel Aviv, Israel and Oscar Rickett in London
Published date: 6 December 2024 14:25 GMT

Israeli troops assaulted the school complex, shelled and bombed the area, and issued expulsion orders through quadcopters fitted with loudspeakers, according to witnesses, forcing terrified families outside in the middle of the night.

Leaving much of their scant belongings behind, civilians were forced to walk for an hour and a half, along Salah al-Din road—the main thoroughfare running through the enclave—before being forced to pass through an Israeli checkpoint.

Witnesses describe tear-streaked children covered in dust running panicked in the streets as warplanes and drones roared overhead. Some pleaded for water but Israeli soldiers refused to give them anything and instead poured water on the ground in front of them to taunt them, according to witnesses.

At the checkpoint, Israeli troops separated the men and detained them as their families screamed in desperation. Witnesses described children clinging to Israeli tanks in a desperate attempt to stay with their fathers. After the checkpoint, families were forced to walk for hours more, through the day, making their way a harrowing 10 kilometers south to Gaza City. Some of the wounded fell on the road with no hope of getting treatment.

"I was walking with my sister in the street,” said Rahaf, 16. She and her sister were the sole survivors in their family of an earlier airstrike that killed 70 people. “Suddenly my sister fell due to the bombing. I saw blood pouring from her, but I couldn't do anything. I left her in the street, and no one pulled her out. I was screaming, but no one heard me."

When those who made it finally arrived, they collapsed in the streets exhausted. Children cried from hunger and thirst, and mothers shivered from the bitter cold, with no shelter or safe place to go.

“My colleagues can no longer deny that this is genocide,” said Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan). “We must follow our own U.S. laws. We need an Arms Embargo now.”

On Thursday, Amnesty released a sprawling report determining that Israel’s assault of Gaza amounts to genocide, citing Israel’s relentless attacks, blocking of humanitarian aid, targeting of health and other basic infrastructure, forced displacement of 90 percent of Gaza’s population, and more.

Amnesty is the first major international humanitarian organization to outright label Israel’s actions as a genocide. The group was also one of the first major human rights organizations to label Israel’s violent occupation and oppression of Palestine as apartheid, back in 2022.

The human rights group, one of the largest in the world, specifically called out the U.S. as a major collaborator in the genocide due to the Biden administration’s policy of sending Israel weapons with zero red lines. Just last week, despite Israel’s clear, ongoing campaign of ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza, reports emerged of the Biden administration advancing yet another sale of weapons to Israel worth $680 million.