Israel is deliberately starving Palestinians according to UN rights expert
UN special rapporteur on the right to food Michael Fakhri says denial of food is war crime and constitutes ‘a situation of genocide’.
We have never seen a civilian population made to go so hungry so quickly and so completely, that is the consensus among starvation experts. Israel is not just targeting civilians, it is trying to damn the future of the Palestinian people by harming their children.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/27/un-israel-food-starvation-palestinians-war-crime-genocide

US intelligence casts doubt on Israeli claims of UNRWA-Hamas links, report says
According to the Wall Street Journal, a US intelligence report casts doubt on accusations that the UN agency was collaborating with Hamas in a wider way. The Journal said the report mentioned that although the UNRWA does coordinate with Hamas in order to deliver aid and operate in the region, there was a lack of evidence to suggest it partnered with the group. It added that Israel has not “shared the raw intelligence behind its assessments with the US”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/22/us-intelligence-unrwa-hamas

Palestinians file criminal complaint against German Government officials for enabling the genocide in Gaza
A group of German lawyers – representing families of two Gazans – is filing a criminal complaint against German Government officials, for the crime of aiding and abetting genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza by providing Israel with weapons and issuing related export permissions. They are supported by civil society organisations ELSC (European Legal Support Center), PIPD (Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy) and Law for Palestine under the Justice andInt Accountability for Palestine Initiative.
https://www.thepipd.com/actions/support-the-justice-and-accountability-for-palestine-initiative

Coming of age in displacement: Navigating gender, mental health, and well-being in Palestinianrefugee camps in the West Bank and Jordan
Thursday 7 March from 17:00 to 18:30 at Bush House North East Wing, King’s College Strand Campus, London
An in-person, ticketed event
Seminar with Dr Weeam Hammoudeh in London.
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/coming-of-age-in-displacement-navigating-gender-mental-health-and-wellbeing-in-palestine-refugee-camps-in-the-west-bank-and-jordan

Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine
Friday 15 March from 18:00 – 20:00 (UK time) at Freud Museum, London
Red Clinic event: Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi in conversation with Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
In-person tickets:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/psychoanalysis-under-occupation-tickets-850139820087
Online tickets:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/psychoanalysis-under-occupation-online-tickets-tickets-850177542917

Edward Said seems like a prophet: 20 years on, ‘there’s hunger for his narrative’
As war rages in Gaza, the scholar and activist’s words feel prescient. That’s because so little has changed
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/15/edward-said-palestine-israel-gaza

John Berger reads Ghassan Kanafani’s ‘Letter from Gaza’ (20 minute video)
In an address to the inaugural Palestine Festival of Literature in 2008, John Berger gave a moving reading of Ghassan Kanafani’s ‘Letter from Gaza’, written in 1956.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ThCEzFWLOQ

A World without Palestinians
From the Massachusetts Review
Despite the desperate cries of our people for an end to this unceasing bloodshed, despite the millions across the globe who have taken to the streets to demand an immediate ceasefire, despite a ruling by the highest international court that Israel must protect civilians and immediately allow humanitarian aid, a reconsolidation of global powers continues to fund, uphold, and turn their backs as a genocide unfolds, revealing a simple truth: humanity is content to exist in a world without Palestinians. “It no longer matters, after this, if anyone loves us, / or if anyone walks in our funerals,” Palestinian poet Samer Abu Hawwash wrote on October 25th. “We hold each other’s hands, / go forth alone in this desert of a world.”
https://massreview.org/node/11753

Against Erasure: A photographic memory of Palestine before the Nakba with architect Nadi Abusaada and poet Mohammed El-Kurd
An hour-long discussion about the book and the photos
Join Mohammed El-Kurd, Dr. Nadi Abusaada and Haymarket Books to celebrate the launch of Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba
Through its stunning collection of images of Palestine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Against Erasure tells the story of a land full of people—people with families, hopes, dreams, and a deep connection to their home—before Israel’s establishment in 1948, known to Palestinians as the Nakba, or “catastrophe.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtNmUoQQhWM

Women & War: World BEYOND War’s 2024 Virtual Film Festival
Marking International Women’s Day (March 8), this year’s “Women & War” virtual film festival from March 9-23, 2024 explores the intersection of women, war, and militarized masculinity. Each week, we’ll host a live Zoom discussion with key representatives from the films and special guests to answer your questions and explore the topics addressed in the films.
https://worldbeyondwar.org/2024filmfest/

Dr Naledi Pandor, South African MP tells it like it is …
https://twitter.com/umyaznemo/status/1758348154104123882