Human Rights Watch says Israel's deprivation of water in Gaza is act of genocide
The 184-page Human Rights Watch report said the Israeli government stopped water being piped into Gaza and cut off electricity and restricted fuel which meant Gaza's own water and sanitation facilities could not be used.
As a result, Palestinians in Gaza had access to only a few litres of water a day in many areas, far below the 15-liter-threshold for survival, the group said.
Read the article here.
“Obey the Law”: Palestinians Sue State Dept., Saying Arms Sales to Israel Violate U.S. Human Rights Law
A new lawsuit accuses the State Department of failing to ever sanction Israeli military units under the Leahy Law, which was passed in 1997 to prevent the United States from funding foreign military units credibly implicated in gross human rights violations. The case was brought by five Palestinians in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and the United States and is supported by the human rights group DAWN. Former State Department official Charles Blaha, who served as director of the human rights office tasked with implementing the Leahy Law, says there is a mountain of evidence of Israel carrying out torture, extrajudicial killings, rape, enforced disappearances and other abuses. “Despite all that, the State Department has never once held any Israeli unit ineligible for assistance under the Leahy Law,” says Blaha, now a senior adviser at DAWN. We also speak with Palestinian American writer Ahmed Moor, one of the plaintiffs in the suit, who has family in Gaza and says the last year of genocide has made the lawsuit more urgent. “The conditions of basic life are not being met. Gaza is unlivable,” says Moor.
Read or watch this discussion here.
And, as always, thanks to Democracy Now! for their great reporting on Palestine.
Sometimes there are no words...
The assassination of the orthopedic doctor Saeed Joda this morning while he was on his way to perform his medical duty by an enemy aircraft.
The doctor who spent more than a year bandaging the wounds of the injured and saying goodbye to the victims from among his family and neighbors, the doctor was injured more than once and continued his work moving from one hospital to another and from the home of the injured to the shelters, then he covered the eyes of his nephew Muhammad with his hand and prayed over him, and after a few days he was unable to cover the eyes of his son Majd who was killed by a treacherous bombardment a week ago while recovering the bodies of his cousins, and here are the doctor's eyes covered today for the sake of God and the homeland.
This obituary is unparalleled. Medicine in the Gaza Strip and its north has lost one of its icons, the camp has lost its compassionate and skilled doctor, and we in the Joda family have lost a scholar in medicine, ethics and sacrifice, it is time for us to be proud of him and to grieve deeply.
May God have mercy on the deceased, and inspire his family, loved ones and those who follow in his footsteps with patience and solace.
Shaimaa Alsayed, via “We Stand with Palestine and the Palestinian People” (Facebook)
