“If a UK government sees genocide and extermination taking place in Gaza and fails to act by ending all arms sales to Israel, never can it ever speak of international law and atrocity prevention when it is complicit in such atrocities."
Me in @aljazeerarss
“Israel’s genocidal intentions, and stated promises to ethnically cleanse [Gaza] are as clear as day, and yet still there is a business-as-usual approach to Israel….The UK must not be an ally or complicit in Israeli atrocities.”
I'm quoted in this @aljazeerarss piece.
82 Likes, 6 Comments - Joseph Willits (@josephwillits) on Instagram: "This was taken in Qarawat Bani Hassan, a Palestinian town in Salfit in occupied Palestinian terri..."
Over 70 UK Parliamentarians call for UK action to stop Israeli plans to forcibly evict Palestinians in Masafer Yatta. The forcible transfer of protected persons in occupied territory constitutes a war crime.
"It cannot be business as usual with the UK."
Over 70 UK Parliamentarians from all political parties, Members of Parliament and Members of the House of Lords, have written to the Foreign Secretary Rt. Hon James Cleverly MP, condemning Israeli plans to forcibly evict and forcibly displace over 1,000 Palestinians in Masafer Yatta in the South Hebron Hills, and calling for UK action to stop these plans. The forcible transfer of protected persons in occupied territory constitutes a war crime.
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Everyone at Caabu is alarmed at the horrific earthquakes that have hit Turkey and Syria. Our thoughts with all those suffering and we send our sincerest condolences. Thousands have died. Over 6,000 buildings have collapsed. Caabu is focussing its efforts on pushing for greater access for vital humanitarian supplies, equipment and expertise inside Syria. The local organisations such as the White Helmets lack the capacity to deal with a disaster on this scale. They lack the equipment, the expertise and also the fuel which is in very short supply throughout Syria.
European parliamentarians have written to 9 EU Foreign Ministers & EU's Josep Borrell, about Israel's government's annexationist & discriminatory policies towards Palestinians, inc the forced displacement & dispossession of Palestinians in Masafer Yatta.
European parliamentarians (from national parliaments and Members of the European Parliament), have written to nine European Union Foreign Ministers, and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borell, about the formation of the new Israeli coalition government and the threatened plans which effectively amount to annexation of occupied Palestinian territory. This letter mentions specifically the intentions of the new Israeli government to forcibly evict and dispossess over 1,000 P
A really grim warning being shared widely on Instagram by members of the LGBTQ community in Lebanon with the community and others being targeted by the police in Beirut, posing as gay men to entrap, arrest and extort.
Reports too of them using apps such as Grindr. #LGBTQ #Lebanon #Beirut
The forcible transfer & forcible displacement of over 1,000 Palestinians in 14 villages in Masafer Yatta in the South Hebron Hills, the demolitions of their homes, the destruction of their livelihoods, by Israel would constitute a war crime. #savemasaferyatta
See this post: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm9YcB9I2BM/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Joseph Willits shared a post on Instagram: "The forcible transfer and forcible displacement of over 1,000 Palestinians in 14 villages in Masafer Yatta in the South Hebron Hills, the demolitions of their homes, and destruction of their livelihoods, by Israel would constitute a war crime. Israeli leaders are never held accountable for the numerous breaches of international law and human rights abuses committed against Palestinians across Palestine, not just in Masafer Yatta. Such plans to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from their homes, their lands, plans of an ongoing Nakba, through an illegal occupation by a racist government, committing the crime of apartheid against Palestinians, are depraved, they’re a disgrace. They’re also the actions, plans and desires of successive Israeli governments, leaders, backed by public opinion, sometimes dressed up as ‘liberal’ or ‘progressive’. Things are worsening (or rather the mask slips a little more) with an Israeli government which is explicitly racist, driven by stated desires to crush Palestinians in various ways, with pro-annexationist policies and promoting Jewish supremacy. On forming the new government, Netanyahu posted that Jewish people have an "exclusive and unquestionable right to all areas of the Land of Israel” including occupied Palestinian territory, the occupied West Bank & occupied Syrian territory in the Golan. There have been many moments to wake up to such lived realities for Palestinians of brutal occupation and apartheid, but it’s always been a choice not to. I doubt there will ever be a reckoning, even as the situation becomes ever more grim, and the impunity and lack of accountability with which such actions are carried out by Israeli governments, illegal settlers, and soldiers, ever more brazen, dangerously brave, supported by the spineless. Violent settlers are able to carry out excessive and grotesque violence in full view and in full knowledge that there will be zero accountability for them. Pictures taken by me in Masafer Yatta in June 2022, the day after demolitions. See more from @basilaladraa @awdah.hathaleen @eidu_aleid @savemasaferyatta_ @atlcol @youthofsumud @btselem @al_haq_organization @ali_awad98 @_0mri__ @972mag @naamoduk". Follow their account to see 2802 posts.
UK politicians demand Foreign Secretary James Cleverly introduces consequences for new Israeli government's annexationist policies.
New Israeli government policy is "designed to advance the separate, discriminatory & unequal system" against Palestinians.
Click link to read the letter in full: https://caabu.org/news/news/british-politicians-demand-foreign-secretary-introduces-consequences-new-israeli
#Palestine #Palestinians #Israel #israelielections #farright #apartheid
UK Parliamentarians have written to the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, Rt Hon. James Cleverly MP demanding consequences for the annexationist policies of the new Israeli Government, which includes in it two explicitly and violently anti-Palestinian racists and Jewish supremacists, in Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich.
Any NGOs or others in public health etc in #Lebanon that could use various UK prescription medicines?
They’re mostly for chronic diseases & were my late grandmother’s. All in date & unopened. I can send more details. Ideally would need to hand them over tomorrow (21 November).
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