David Lammy's letter from the 1st of September versus the findings of the Human Right Council's independent commission published today.
Are we going to continue clinging to that conclusion or actually fulfil our obligations under the Genocide Convention?
The threshold for a #famine according to the IPC is very high. To get there the human suffering must be immense.
Only months of lies about humanitarian access to #Gaza & extreme cowardice in Western capitals made this possible.
Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
Michael Milshtein, the head of the Palestinian Studies Forum at Tel Aviv University tells Isaac Chotiner that the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has been “a total failure”. No, it is working just as intended—as a technology of genocide and humanitarian camouflage.
The @LemkinInstitute is calling on every leader in the world to step in immediately with measures that ensure food and water gets into Gaza right now. No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits. GET FOOD AND WATER INTO GAZA NOW. IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT.
Wow—the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named after Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide) says plainly:
"No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT."
"HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."
UN's Tom Fletcher: "The situation is dire.. we have thousands of trucks ready to go.. we are demanding that the world back us in pushing Israel to let us in.. [5 trucks is] a drop in the ocean.. there are 14,000 babies that will die in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them"
Who among us has not mistaken The Atlantic for an active agent of US war making?
