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| UKPALMHN Action Half-Hour Monday 8 April at 1 pm UK time An informal space to share thoughts and feelings, and to channel these into actions that we take together. This Action Half-Hour will highlight the campaign that the UK should re-institute funding to the Palestinian relief agency, UNRWA. Please contact ukpalmhn@gmail.com if you would like a link to this meeting All of the actions for this event and previous events can be found on: https://ukpalmhn.com/gaza-crisis/ Psychoanalysis and the Crisis in Gaza Friday 10 May at 6-8 pm (online and in person) The Frontline Club, Norfolk Place, London W2 W2 1QJ Introduction: Martin Kemp Main Speaker: Karim Dajani Discussant: Dr David Bell Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/psychoanalysis-and-the-crisis-in-gaza-online-in-person-tickets-871594752367 This event is organised by a group of psychoanalytic clinicians who issued a Statement in January 2024 entitled ‘A Call for Psychoanalytic Professionals to address the human catastrophe in Gaza’ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QcFqIFhjL38kCRYDy6WMo3oJ300Yf31GTxXpGNknVHM/edit. This has over 250 signatures from British Psychoanalytic Council members: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fruVb-Sb3sAT2IgWHQPbLfvU5lyXpgDSXgHTI2wWna4/edit?pli=1 Doctor recounts harrowing shifts working at one of Gaza’s last standing hospitals Dr Tanya Haj-Hassan has been recording her experiences working in intensive care at one of the enclaves few remaining hospitals, Al-Aqsa https://www.itv.com/news/2024-03-28/doctor-recounts-grueling-shifts-working-at-one-of-gazas-last-standing-hospitals ‘I lost hope with the Home Office’: Palestinians fundraise to evacuate family in Gaza Hundreds of GoFundMe campaigns set up after Home Office refuses visas or Ukrainian-style entry scheme https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/29/i-lost-hope-with-the-home-office-palestinians-fundraise-to-evacuate-family-in-gaza ‘Ecocide in Gaza’: does scale of environmental destruction amount to a war crime? Exclusive: Satellite analysis revealed to the Guardian shows farms devastated and nearly half of the territory’s trees razed. Alongside mounting air and water pollution, experts says Israel’s onslaught on Gaza’s ecosystems has made the area unlivable https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/29/gaza-israel-palestinian-war-ecocide-environmental-destruction-pollution-rome-statute-war-crimes-aoe 10 Year Anniversary Video for the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability at Bethlehem University A 5-minute video highlighting the successes of the Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt8OTGoS198 ‘Famine is setting in’: Top UN court orders Israel to stop blocking Gaza aid Additional provisional measures ordered by the ICJ contradict Israel’s claim that it does not hinder humanitarian aid deliveries to the besieged Palestinian enclave https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/international-court-orders-israel-facilitate-entry-food-gaza Anatomy of a Genocide: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese By analysing the patterns of violence and Israel’s policies in its onslaught on Gaza, this report concludes that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating Israel’s commission of genocide is met. One of the key findings is that Israel’s executive and military leadership and soldiers have intentionally distorted jus in bello principles, subverting their protective functions, in an attempt to legitimize genocidal violence against the Palestinian people. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/26/un-expert-accuses-israel-of-several-acts-of-genocide-in-gaza Report: https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session55/advance-versions/a-hrc-55-73-auv.pdf NYT refutes previous claim of ‘Hamas rape’ on 7 Oct In startling news, on Wednesday 26 March, the New York Times refuted its own claim that Hamas fighters raped two young Israeli girls during the Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on 7 October. These claims have been used in subsequent allegations about sexual violence carried out by Hamas.The new report is called ‘Medic’s Account of Sexual Assaults Is Undercut by Israeli Soldier’s Video’ but this is a paid-for link so information is provided from a different source: https://thecradle.co/articles/nyt-refutes-previous-claim-of-hamas-rape-on-7-oct ACTION CORNER … Hebrew University reinstates Palestinian Prof. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian following outcry Hebrew University in Jerusalem has reinstated Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, the internationally renowned feminist Palestinian professor, who was suspended earlier this month after saying in an interview Israel was committing genocide in Gaza. https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/29/headlines/hebrew_university_reinstates_palestinian_prof_nadera_shalhoub_kevorkian_following_outcry Palestine Action permanently shut Elbit down in Tamworth After sustained direct action, the Israeli weapons maker was forced to sell due to increased security costs which cut their profits by 75%. The new owners wrote to Palestine Action to confirm the factory is no longer associated with Elbit and have discontinued all arms manufacturing contracts. https://twitter.com/Pal_action/status/1773367473921761323?s=20 Israel lobbyists tried to cancel an event on mental health and Palestine – but failed Israel lobbyists targeted a sold-out event on Palestine at London’s Freud Museum earlier this month, but ultimately failed to stop the discussion from going ahead in an important moment for Palestine solidarity within a divided discipline. https://novaramedia.com/2024/03/28/israel-lobbyists-tried-to-cancel-an-event-on-mental-health-and-palestine-but-failed/ |
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