Tag: Israel and palestine conflict

Wong, Dutton spar over cut in aid to Gaza

The Age/Matthew Knott/3.2.2024 Yet again Dutton playing politics with innocent lives – just like he did with the Voice vote – has this man no shame – Mark Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong has hit back at Opposition Leader Peter Dutton for insisting she be sacked if the federal government resumes funding for the United Nations’ key humanitarian agency in the Palestinian territories. The stoush between Dutton and Wong came as Israel’s ambassador to Australia accused the government of appearing to forget Hamas’ responsibility for the

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US ‘approves strikes’ after drone attack, Biden imposes sanctions for Israeli settler violence

The Australian | Agency Writers | 02.02.24 Only another 200,000 settlers to be charged!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mark The US State Department has moved to sanction four Israeli citizens involved in extremist settler activities following President Joe Biden’s executive order today. The department named four people who it said were involved in settler-led attacks on Palestinians: David Chai Chasdai, Einan Tanjil, Shalom Zicherman and Yinon Levi. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said “Israel must do more to stop violence against civilians in the West Bank and hold accountable those

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Palestinians in Gaza say Israel not abiding with ICJ’s provisional measures to prevent genocide

“I looked forward that the ICJ would force Israel to stop its war, but such a decision now just gives Israel more time to kill more and more Palestinians…” If the ICJ had been brave enough to demand an immediate ceasefire this would not be happening. Mark Palestinians in the besieged coastal enclave accused Israel of not abiding by the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) ruling on South Africa’s genocide case, which explicitly ordered Israel to prevent genocidal acts in the Gaza Strip. On Friday, 26 January, the ICJ in

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Israeli forces disguised as doctors kill three militants in raid on West Bank hospital

The raid on the West Bank’s Ibn Sina Hospital, which Israel said was to target a “Hamas terrorist cell”, was carried out in a rehabilitation ward where one of the three men killed was undergoing treatment, the facility’s director said. How desperate is the Israeli Government and Settlers to kill innocent and ordinary Palestinians – shocking but, sadly, not surprising. Mark CCTV footage said to be from the West Bank’s Ibn Sina Hospital shows multiple armed men and women, disguised in medical uniforms or civilian clothes,

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URGENT ACTION: Demand the Australian Government freezes military support for Israel – not UNRWA aid for Palestinians

Take ACTION to demand the Australian Government reverses its decision to pause funding to the UNRWA, and instead supports a ceasefire, facilitates access to unfettered humanitarian aid for Gaza and cuts its military exports and cooperation with Israel. A legally binding ruling from the International Court of Justice for Israel to act immediately to prevent genocide in Gaza comes with obligations for Australia too – namely that it do everything in its power to prevent the killing and collective punishment of Palestinians. Australia’s decision to freeze

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Hamas studies ceasefire proposal after deadly Israeli hospital raid in West Bank

(The Age, 31/1/2024) Question – What does ‘total victory’ look like to Netanyahu? Answer – Every Palestinian dead, in the sea or anywhere but Gaza or the West Bank – Mark West Bank/Gaza/Doha: Hamas said on Tuesday it was weighing up a new ceasefire proposal in the war with Israel in Gaza, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his forces would not withdraw from the enclave until they had achieved “total victory”. The developments came hours after Israeli commandos disguised as medical workers and Muslim women

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Pro-Israel ‘surveillance’ group turning attention to Australia, leaked posts show

I suspect that any support for Palestine or Palestinians will be called antisemitic ignoring the fact that Arabs can be semitic as it is related to ancient languages and NOT exclusive to Jews – Mark A pro-Israel “surveillance network” that has offered bounties for information on pro-Palestinian protesters is establishing a foothold in Australia and claims to have secured meetings with key federal politicians, leaked messages show. Shirion Collective, which has largely focused on the US and UK, boasts of its ability to scrape digital fingerprints

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Australia’s role in further collective punishment on Gazans

Inevitable!!!!!!!!!! Mark While the UN Secretary General and head of UNRWA calls for an investigation into what Israel alleges are crimes committed by some 12 Gazan UNRWA staff (among the 13,000) in the participation of the October 7th events, the leaders of the Western world including Australia just jump on board of these allegations and immediately cut aid to UNRWA. In so doing I believe they are all involved in yet further collective punishment, Australia among them, on an entrapped, starving, drenched, freezing, ill and injured

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States defunding UNRWA may be violating genocide convention: expert

A number of countries – including Australia, Britain, Finland, Germany and Italy – on Saturday followed the lead of the United States in pausing UNRWA funding. As usual Governments jump to conclusions if they support Israel! – Mark A UN expert warned Sunday that countries defunding the UN agency for Palestinian refugees were breaching a court order to provide effective aid in Gaza and could be violating the international genocide convention. A number of donor countries – including Australia, Britain, Finland, Germany and Italy – on Saturday followed

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Is the two-state solution now dead?

Canberra Times | Ian Parmeter | 29 January 2024 It has been years since anything other than complete genocide has been the focus and aim of Netanyahu – is 2 state dead – whilst this government is in power in Israel and the USA – YES – Mark The growing rift between the Biden administration and the Netanyahu government over Israel’s war in Gaza is now in the open, with public disagreement between them on the viability of a two-state solution to the conflict. US President

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