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| National Demonstration – Stop Arming Israel / Ceasefire Now Saturday 27 April – Assemble at 12:00 in Parliament Square (marching to Hyde Park) https://palestinecampaign.org/events/national-march-for-palestine-27-april/ UKPALMHN Action Half-Hour Monday 29 April at 13:00 UK time An informal space to share thoughts and feelings, and to channel these into actions that we take together. Please contact ukpalmhn@gmail.com if you would like to attend this meeting All of the actions for this event and previous events can be found on: https://ukpalmhn.com/gaza-crisis/ Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian We recently reported that Professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian was suspended from, and the re-instated at, the Hebrew University following world-wide protests. In the past week, she has been arrested and then released. This link has further details: https://www.palestinechronicle.com/state-backed-censorship-israels-persecution-of-nadera-shalhoub-kevorkian/ The UK-Palestine Mental Health Network is very concerned about this development and is ready to campaign on this issue when there is clarity about the best course of action in the current circumstances. In defence of Gaza’s hospitals: An urgent appeal for protection amidst ongoing attacks against Gaza’s healthcare system Joint Statement by Members of the Rebuilding Gaza’s Health Sector Initiative This is an open letter intended for health organisations. It has been signed by the UK-Palestine Mental Health Network. There is a link to the letter which provides a shocking, case-by-case catalogue of the destruction of healthcare in Gaza. https://ukpalmhn.com/resources/joint-statement-by-members-of-the-rebuilding-gazas-health-sector-initiative/ UN rights chief ‘horrified’ by reports of mass graves at two Gaza hospitals Spokesperson says some bodies allegedly had their hands tied while others were bound and stripped https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/23/un-rights-chief-horrified-by-reports-of-mass-graves-at-two-gaza-hospitals Manufacturing Famine: Israel is Committing the War Crime of Starvation in the Gaza Strip This is a report from the leading Israeli Human Rights Organisation In this document, we review the current scale of the hunger crisis in the Gaza Strip, its short and long term impacts, Israel’s conduct with respect to this issue and the legal implications of this conduct. Based on various reports from international bodies about the situation in Gaza and on testimonies gathered by B’Tselem’s field researchers, we unfortunately conclude that for months, Israel has been committing the crime of starvation under international law in the Gaza Strip. https://www.btselem.org/publications/202404_manufacturing_famine Israel still has no proof of UNRWA terrorist claims – but damage to aid agency is done Inquiry has not backed up allegations of ties to Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which led to loss of $450m as people died in droves. Israel has yet to provide evidence of UNRWA staff terrorist links, Colonna report says https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/22/israeli-allegations-of-unrwa-staff-links-to-terrorism-cost-aid-agency-dearly UK unlikely to make snap decision over UNRWA funding Tory MPs urging government not to restore funding despite UN’s roadmap, published on Monday, to make agency more transparent https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/22/uk-unlikely-to-make-snap-decision-over-unrwa-funding Pro-Israel advocacy organisation offered money for people to infiltrate pro-Palestinian demonstrations wearing Keffiyehs The Shirion Collective posted an advert about a project named “Operation Global Insight” which would consist of “an undercover operation – become an agent embedded behind enemy lines.” https://twitter.com/MintPressNews/status/1782481904161169673 Meta and Lavender A little-discussed detail in the Lavender AI article is that Israel is killing people based on being in the same WhatsApp group as a suspected militant. Where are they getting this data? Is WhatsApp sharing it? Lavender is Israel’s system of “pre-crime” – they use AI to guess who to kill in Gaza, and then bomb them when they’re at home, along with their entire family. (Obscenely, they call this program “Where’s Daddy”). https://blog.paulbiggar.com/meta-and-lavender/ Testimonies of Palestinians who thought they heard children and women screaming for help in Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp, only to realize that the cries were coming from an Israeli drone broadcasting distress calls to lure them out so it could shoot them. https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1780716585260564932?s=46 “I’m Jewish, and I’ve Covered Wars. I Know War Crimes When I See Them”: Reporter Peter Maass on Gaza Maass covered the Bosnian genocide in the 1990s that killed about 100,000 people over nearly four years. He says many of the same war crimes he reported then are part of Israel’s current assault, including sniper attacks on civilians, bombing of civilian infrastructure, attacks on bread lines and besieging whole populations by preventing food and other aid from entering. “What seems to be unfolding in Gaza is even worse than what I saw in Bosnia,” says Maass. https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/16/israel_war_crimes Anatomy of a Genocide: A conversation with Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese Thursday 2 May at 4:30 pm (UK time) Join the National Lawyers Guild for an in depth conversation with Special Rapporteur to Palestine. Francesca Albanese, to discuss her recent report “Anatomy of a Genocide” Register: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sGfKxAxUQE2Snp1KWTUGLw#/registration Covering Palestine: A Shireen Abu Akleh Memorial Symposium Thursday 9 May 2024 15:00 – 19:00 (UK time) Two years after the killing of acclaimed Palestinian-American Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by the Israeli military in the occupied West Bank, this conference will focus on both the journalists at risk on the ground as well as an assessment of Western media coverage of Palestine and, in particular, the war on Gaza. https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9017132798413/WN_V9OgAHV2TOe1eRkrUGmoeA#/registration |
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