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They will be this week in Rafah anyway.
Sullivan was expected to press for Israel to go after Hamas militants in a targeted way, not with a full-scale assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah, the White House said before the discussions.
Israel launches strikes across Gaza as U.S. envoy meets Netanyahu — Reuters
Israeli planes and tanks pounded areas across the Gaza Strip, residents said, as White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday amid U.S. calls for a more focused military campaign.
Helicopter carrying Iranian President Raisi crashes, search under way — Reuters
A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister crashed on Sunday as it was crossing mountain terrain in heavy fog, an Iranian official told Reuters, and rescuers were struggling to reach the site of the incident.
Jewish space fog?They will be this week in Rafah anyway.
Sullivan was expected to press for Israel to go after Hamas militants in a targeted way, not with a full-scale assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah, the White House said before the discussions.
Israel launches strikes across Gaza as U.S. envoy meets Netanyahu — Reuters
Israeli planes and tanks pounded areas across the Gaza Strip, residents said, as White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday amid U.S. calls for a more focused military campaign.apple.news
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Helicopter carrying Iranian President Raisi crashes, search under way — Reuters
A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister crashed on Sunday as it was crossing mountain terrain in heavy fog, an Iranian official told Reuters, and rescuers were struggling to reach the site of the incident.
Those Mossad are tricky I’ve heard.
Or some option D being a combination of all of the above? Being Sunday morning, & seeing what Biden was wearing, I had to click on the Vid. I get it now but…
“Can you give me a hallelujah!!”
Admit it. At first sight, you thought "Gramps is wandering around in his bathrobe again," din'cha?Those Mossad are tricky I’ve heard.
Or some option D being a combination of all of the above? Being Sunday morning, & seeing what Biden was wearing, I had to click on the Vid. I get it now but…
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“Can you give me a hallelujah!!”
I was thinking of something more evangelical in all honesty. It is a Sunday morning.
Canada provides $40 million in new assistance for Palestinians
Author of the article:Canadian Press
Canadian Press
Mickey Djuric
Published May 16, 2024 • 2 minute read
OTTAWA — Canada is providing $40 million to help Palestinians in the Gaza Strip amid concern over what it calls a catastrophic humanitarian situation, worsened by an Israeli ground offensive in Rafah.
Ottawa says the funding will support the provision of food, water, emergency medical assistance, protection services and other life-saving assistance in the region.
The money will go to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA, as well as trusted partners in the region including the Canadian Red Cross and other Canadian non-governmental organizations.
The government says Canada’s funding has also helped establish an International Committee of the Red Cross field hospital in Rafah.
The hospital is being supported by the Canadian Red Cross with surgical equipment, medicine and supplies, diagnostic equipment, disinfection materials and personnel.
The need for humanitarian aid has become more dire in the last week following a ground offensive in Rafah by Israel, which said it must invade to dismantle Hamas and return hostages.
“Because of our extreme concern about the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza, we not only have to step up assistance, but we’ve also been relentless in our efforts to get more humanitarian aid in,” International Development Minister Ahmed Hussen said in an interview.
The $40 million is in addition to a $25-million payment Ottawa recently delivered to UNRWA as part of a multi-year commitment to help Palestinian refugees in the region, including those living in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and the West Bank.
Canada temporarily suspended funding to the agency in January after Israel alleged some UNRWA employees participated in the Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel, when Hamas and other Palestinian militants killed about 1,200 people and seized some 250 as hostages. The attack sparked the Israel-Hamas war, which Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry says has killed more than 35,000 Palestinians, including combatants.
Canada lifted that suspension in March.
UN investigators are looking into allegations against 14 of the 19 staffers.
A separate review of UNRWA’s neutrality said last month that Israel had never before expressed concerns about anyone on the staff lists that UNRWA had given Israel every year since 2011.
The report said UNRWA has “robust” procedures to uphold the UN principle of neutrality, but cited serious gaps in implementation, including staff publicly expressing political views, textbooks with “problematic content” in schools the agency runs and staff unions disrupting operations. It made 50 recommendations to improve UNRWA’s neutrality.
Canada helped with the report led by former French foreign minister Catherine Colonna, said Hussen.
He said he accepts the report’s recommendations and continues to uphold the organization as the “backbone” of aid in the territory.
“UNRWA’s network, presence, expertise and logistics, and ability to provide direct support to Palestinians inside Gaza, is unmatched,” he said.
“Other organizations also use their network and their connections to reach vulnerable populations inside Gaza, and that’s why we’re supporting them, because they’re very effective.”
— With files from The Associated Press
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Author of the article:Canadian Press
Canadian Press
Mickey Djuric
Published May 16, 2024 • 2 minute read
OTTAWA — Canada is providing $40 million to help Palestinians in the Gaza Strip amid concern over what it calls a catastrophic humanitarian situation, worsened by an Israeli ground offensive in Rafah.
Ottawa says the funding will support the provision of food, water, emergency medical assistance, protection services and other life-saving assistance in the region.
The money will go to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA, as well as trusted partners in the region including the Canadian Red Cross and other Canadian non-governmental organizations.
The government says Canada’s funding has also helped establish an International Committee of the Red Cross field hospital in Rafah.
The hospital is being supported by the Canadian Red Cross with surgical equipment, medicine and supplies, diagnostic equipment, disinfection materials and personnel.
The need for humanitarian aid has become more dire in the last week following a ground offensive in Rafah by Israel, which said it must invade to dismantle Hamas and return hostages.
“Because of our extreme concern about the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza, we not only have to step up assistance, but we’ve also been relentless in our efforts to get more humanitarian aid in,” International Development Minister Ahmed Hussen said in an interview.
The $40 million is in addition to a $25-million payment Ottawa recently delivered to UNRWA as part of a multi-year commitment to help Palestinian refugees in the region, including those living in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and the West Bank.
Canada temporarily suspended funding to the agency in January after Israel alleged some UNRWA employees participated in the Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel, when Hamas and other Palestinian militants killed about 1,200 people and seized some 250 as hostages. The attack sparked the Israel-Hamas war, which Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry says has killed more than 35,000 Palestinians, including combatants.
Canada lifted that suspension in March.
UN investigators are looking into allegations against 14 of the 19 staffers.
A separate review of UNRWA’s neutrality said last month that Israel had never before expressed concerns about anyone on the staff lists that UNRWA had given Israel every year since 2011.
The report said UNRWA has “robust” procedures to uphold the UN principle of neutrality, but cited serious gaps in implementation, including staff publicly expressing political views, textbooks with “problematic content” in schools the agency runs and staff unions disrupting operations. It made 50 recommendations to improve UNRWA’s neutrality.
Canada helped with the report led by former French foreign minister Catherine Colonna, said Hussen.
He said he accepts the report’s recommendations and continues to uphold the organization as the “backbone” of aid in the territory.
“UNRWA’s network, presence, expertise and logistics, and ability to provide direct support to Palestinians inside Gaza, is unmatched,” he said.
“Other organizations also use their network and their connections to reach vulnerable populations inside Gaza, and that’s why we’re supporting them, because they’re very effective.”
— With files from The Associated Press
Canada provides $40 million in new assistance for Palestinians
Ottawa says the funding will support the provision of food, water, emergency medical assistance, protection services.
Hidden hand funds Jew-hating protests, rallies, encampments
These outside interests do not wish to reveal themselves, but we will not rest until this hidden hand is exposed
Author of the article:Warren Kinsella
Published May 18, 2024 • Last updated 1 day ago • 4 minute read
If you are a Canadian Jew, or you are one of the many who supports Canadian Jews and Israel, it’s been a bad week.
The mayor of Canada’s largest city refused to attend the raising of one Israeli flag at City Hall, because it was too “divisive.” McGill University failed to get an injunction to remove a weeks-long anti-Israel, pro-Hamas encampment.
A Jewish kid was beaten up by a Muslim kid at a Fredericton-area school, and teachers did nothing to stop it. Vancouver artists are being kicked out of exhibits for being Jewish. Canada, for the first time, showed its willingness to recognize a Palestinian “state” run by Hamas – a listed terror organization.
And, to top it all off, CBC broadcast a couple “facts checks,” as they called them, about whether the aforementioned encampments – the Infant-fada – were receiving support from outside.
The “fact checks” were so replete with errors, so completely unbalanced, we will not even link to them, because we have a policy against publishing fake news at this organization. Suffice to say that the “investigative reporter” who broadcast the stories mainly relied upon (a) other CBC reporters (b) Israel-hating protestors and (c) an anti-Zionist professor for his sources.
That tells you all you need to know.
So, what is the truth? Are the protests we are seeing on our university campuses, and in our streets – across Canada and the United States – planned and connected? Are they being funded by others?
Well, yes and yes.
As far back as January, this newspaper has published multiple sourced reports about “pro-Palestine” protestors getting paid to protest, from Victoria to Montreal. We have documented that self-styled “progressive” organizations here and in the U.S. are using their non-profit status to pass along millions to those who despise Jews and the Jewish state. It’s all right there in Google, by us and other news organizations.
But perhaps CBC can’t afford Google. Perhaps, too, they didn’t see a bombshell lawsuit that was commenced earlier this month – and well before CBC broadcast their fake news reports – in the Virginia’s District Court. It wasn’t hard to find. We certainly found it, within minutes.
That lawsuit, all 49 pages of it, lays out in granular detail the way in which the anti-Semitic American Muslims for Palestine (AMP, which isn’t as active in Canada) and the pro-Hamas Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP, which assuredly is, with 200 chapters here and around the globe) “serve as Hamas’ propaganda divisions” in Canada, the U.S. and elsewhere.
In Canada, some SJP chapters have taken slightly different names, like Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA), or Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR). But they’re all branches of the same poisonous tree – about which the Anti-Defamation League has said: “Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and many of the organization’s campus chapters explicitly endorsed the actions of Hamas and their armed attacks on Israeli civilians… SJP chapters issue pro-Hamas messaging and/or promote violent anti-Israel messaging channels.”
So, SJP is here and they are very active on campuses – and they help oversee just about every anti-Semitic protest in this country.
What does the lawsuit say about them? And who is suing them, and for what?
The lawsuit is brought by young people, mainly, who somehow survived the slaughter at the Nova Music Festival on Oct. 7, or the mass-murder of innocents at Kibbutz Holit on the same terrible day. Fifteen people were killed at the kibbutz, Israelis and non-Israelis alike. At Nova, the site of the worst atrocities on that day, 364 mainly young people were killed.
Their lawsuit against SJP and AMP is a legal work of art, basically. It is a thing of beauty. It meticulously and surgically lays out the ways in which SJP and its allied organizations “provide on-campus management and control hundreds of university chapters of SJP.” Why? “To operate a propaganda machine for Hamas and its affiliates across campuses.”
The legal action has been brought by five of some of the biggest and best law firms in the United States. It seeks a jury trial, and unspecified damages for the plaintiffs.
To date, representatives of SJP and AMP have not responded to multiple requests for comment on the lawsuit.
In the statement of claim, the victims write: “[SJP and its affiliates] provide ongoing, continuous, systematic and material support for Hamas its affiliates … by operating and managing Hamas’s mouthpiece for North America, dedicated to sanitizing Hamas’ atrocities and normalizing its terrorism.”
It’s all right there, page after page of it. The allegations haven’t been tested in court yet. But would it have killed CBC to, say, reach out to someone involved in the lawsuit and try and get both sides of the story?
Apparently. Perhaps they were too busy counting their taxpayer-funded bonuses to, you know, go out and do some real reporting.
No matter. The rest of us know the truth: the Jew-hating protests, rallies and encampments we are seeing are funded, in whole or in part, by outside interests who do not wish to reveal themselves. They are the hidden hand.
But the rest of us will not rest until the hidden hand is exposed.
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These outside interests do not wish to reveal themselves, but we will not rest until this hidden hand is exposed
Author of the article:Warren Kinsella
Published May 18, 2024 • Last updated 1 day ago • 4 minute read
If you are a Canadian Jew, or you are one of the many who supports Canadian Jews and Israel, it’s been a bad week.
The mayor of Canada’s largest city refused to attend the raising of one Israeli flag at City Hall, because it was too “divisive.” McGill University failed to get an injunction to remove a weeks-long anti-Israel, pro-Hamas encampment.
A Jewish kid was beaten up by a Muslim kid at a Fredericton-area school, and teachers did nothing to stop it. Vancouver artists are being kicked out of exhibits for being Jewish. Canada, for the first time, showed its willingness to recognize a Palestinian “state” run by Hamas – a listed terror organization.
And, to top it all off, CBC broadcast a couple “facts checks,” as they called them, about whether the aforementioned encampments – the Infant-fada – were receiving support from outside.
The “fact checks” were so replete with errors, so completely unbalanced, we will not even link to them, because we have a policy against publishing fake news at this organization. Suffice to say that the “investigative reporter” who broadcast the stories mainly relied upon (a) other CBC reporters (b) Israel-hating protestors and (c) an anti-Zionist professor for his sources.
That tells you all you need to know.
So, what is the truth? Are the protests we are seeing on our university campuses, and in our streets – across Canada and the United States – planned and connected? Are they being funded by others?
Well, yes and yes.
As far back as January, this newspaper has published multiple sourced reports about “pro-Palestine” protestors getting paid to protest, from Victoria to Montreal. We have documented that self-styled “progressive” organizations here and in the U.S. are using their non-profit status to pass along millions to those who despise Jews and the Jewish state. It’s all right there in Google, by us and other news organizations.
But perhaps CBC can’t afford Google. Perhaps, too, they didn’t see a bombshell lawsuit that was commenced earlier this month – and well before CBC broadcast their fake news reports – in the Virginia’s District Court. It wasn’t hard to find. We certainly found it, within minutes.
That lawsuit, all 49 pages of it, lays out in granular detail the way in which the anti-Semitic American Muslims for Palestine (AMP, which isn’t as active in Canada) and the pro-Hamas Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP, which assuredly is, with 200 chapters here and around the globe) “serve as Hamas’ propaganda divisions” in Canada, the U.S. and elsewhere.
In Canada, some SJP chapters have taken slightly different names, like Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA), or Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR). But they’re all branches of the same poisonous tree – about which the Anti-Defamation League has said: “Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and many of the organization’s campus chapters explicitly endorsed the actions of Hamas and their armed attacks on Israeli civilians… SJP chapters issue pro-Hamas messaging and/or promote violent anti-Israel messaging channels.”
So, SJP is here and they are very active on campuses – and they help oversee just about every anti-Semitic protest in this country.
What does the lawsuit say about them? And who is suing them, and for what?
The lawsuit is brought by young people, mainly, who somehow survived the slaughter at the Nova Music Festival on Oct. 7, or the mass-murder of innocents at Kibbutz Holit on the same terrible day. Fifteen people were killed at the kibbutz, Israelis and non-Israelis alike. At Nova, the site of the worst atrocities on that day, 364 mainly young people were killed.
Their lawsuit against SJP and AMP is a legal work of art, basically. It is a thing of beauty. It meticulously and surgically lays out the ways in which SJP and its allied organizations “provide on-campus management and control hundreds of university chapters of SJP.” Why? “To operate a propaganda machine for Hamas and its affiliates across campuses.”
The legal action has been brought by five of some of the biggest and best law firms in the United States. It seeks a jury trial, and unspecified damages for the plaintiffs.
To date, representatives of SJP and AMP have not responded to multiple requests for comment on the lawsuit.
In the statement of claim, the victims write: “[SJP and its affiliates] provide ongoing, continuous, systematic and material support for Hamas its affiliates … by operating and managing Hamas’s mouthpiece for North America, dedicated to sanitizing Hamas’ atrocities and normalizing its terrorism.”
It’s all right there, page after page of it. The allegations haven’t been tested in court yet. But would it have killed CBC to, say, reach out to someone involved in the lawsuit and try and get both sides of the story?
Apparently. Perhaps they were too busy counting their taxpayer-funded bonuses to, you know, go out and do some real reporting.
No matter. The rest of us know the truth: the Jew-hating protests, rallies and encampments we are seeing are funded, in whole or in part, by outside interests who do not wish to reveal themselves. They are the hidden hand.
But the rest of us will not rest until the hidden hand is exposed.
KINSELLA: Hidden hand funds Jew-hating protests, rallies, encampments
If you are a Canadian Jew, or you are one of the many who supports Canadian Jews and Israel, it's been a bad week.
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JERUSALEM - The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Monday he is seeking arrest warrants for leaders of Israel and Hamas, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, over actions taken during their seven-month war.
Karim Khan said that he believes Netanyahu, his defence minister Yoav Gallant, and three Hamas leaders -- Yehia Sinwar, Mohammed Deif and Ismail Haniyeh -- are responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip and Israel.
ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrant for Israeli and Hamas leaders, including Netanyahu
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Monday he is seeking arrest warrants for leaders of Israel and Hamas, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, over actions taken during their seven-month war.
On the basis of evidence collected and examined by my Office, I have reasonable grounds to believe that Benjamin NETANYAHU, the Prime Minister of Israel, and Yoav GALLANT, the Minister of Defence of Israel, bear criminal responsibility for the following war crimes and crimes against humanity committed on the territory of the State of Palestine (in the Gaza Strip) from at least 8 October 2023:
Starvation of civilians as a method of warfare as a war crime contrary to article 8(2)(b)(xxv) of the Statute;
Wilfully causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or health contrary to article 8(2)(a)(iii), or cruel treatment as a war crime contrary to article 8(2)(c)(i);
Wilful killing contrary to article 8(2)(a)(i), or murder as a war crime contrary to article 8(2)(c)(i);
Intentionally directing attacks against a civilian population as a war crime contrary to articles 8(2)(b)(i), or 8(2)(e)(i);
Extermination and/or murder contrary to articles 7(1)(b) and 7(1)(a), including in the context of deaths caused by starvation, as a crime against humanity;
Persecution as a crime against humanity contrary to article 7(1)(h);
Other inhumane acts as crimes against humanity contrary to article 7(1)(k).
My Office submits that these acts were committed as part of a common plan to use starvation as a method of war and other acts of violence against the Gazan civilian population as a means to (i) eliminate Hamas; (ii) secure the return of the hostages which Hamas has abducted, and (iii) collectively punish the civilian population of Gaza, whom they perceived as a threat to Israel.
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Israel does not recognize the jurisdiction of the ICC as it hasn’t signed the Rome Statute. But that doesn’t mean its citizens cannot be prosecuted by the court.
Palestinian leaders signed up to the Rome Statute in 2015. As such, the ICC has jurisdiction over actors in Gaza and other Palestinian territories and by extension, over actors in those territories, including Hamas.
ICC prosecutor Khan confirmed this in October, saying alleged crimes committed by Israel in Gaza, or by Hamas in Israel, fall under the court’s jurisdiction, Reuters reported.
A member of the Hamas political bureau, Muhammad Nazzal, told CNN in February that going to the ICC was “a mistake” that would stall negotiations to return the hostages (???).
“The shortest way to return their prisoners is to complete the ongoing negotiating process,” the Hamas member told CNN at the time.
Israeli politicians across the political spectrum condemned the decision. Foreign Minister Israel Katz called it a “scandalous decision” and an “unrestrained frontal attack on the victims of October 7 and our 128 hostages in Gaza.”
The leader of the opposition, Yair Lapid, called it “a complete moral failure” and said Israel “cannot accept the outrageous comparison between Netanyahu and Sinwar.”
So the ICC is going to make Netanyahu popular in Israel? Probably not their goal but….Here we are..
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Starvation of civilians as a method of warfare as a war crime contrary to article 8(2)(b)(xxv) of the Statute;
Wilfully causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or health contrary to article 8(2)(a)(iii), or cruel treatment as a war crime contrary to article 8(2)(c)(i);
Wilful killing contrary to article 8(2)(a)(i), or murder as a war crime contrary to article 8(2)(c)(i);
Intentionally directing attacks against a civilian population as a war crime contrary to articles 8(2)(b)(i), or 8(2)(e)(i);
Extermination and/or murder contrary to articles 7(1)(b) and 7(1)(a), including in the context of deaths caused by starvation, as a crime against humanity;
Persecution as a crime against humanity contrary to article 7(1)(h);
Other inhumane acts as crimes against humanity contrary to article 7(1)(k).
My Office submits that these acts were committed as part of a common plan to use starvation as a method of war and other acts of violence against the Gazan civilian population as a means to (i) eliminate Hamas; (ii) secure the return of the hostages which Hamas has abducted, and (iii) collectively punish the civilian population of Gaza, whom they perceived as a threat to Israel.
International Criminal Court prosecutor statement on arrest warrants for Hamas, Israeli leaders — Reuters
Following is the statement from Karim Khan, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, on arrest warrants over the war in Gaza.
Reactions to ICC prosecutor's request for arrest warrants for Israeli, Hamas leaders — Reuters
The International Criminal Court's prosecutor said on Monday he had requested arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his defence chief and three Hamas leaders over alleged war crimes.
Palestinian leaders signed up to the Rome Statute in 2015. As such, the ICC has jurisdiction over actors in Gaza and other Palestinian territories and by extension, over actors in those territories, including Hamas.
ICC prosecutor Khan confirmed this in October, saying alleged crimes committed by Israel in Gaza, or by Hamas in Israel, fall under the court’s jurisdiction, Reuters reported.
A member of the Hamas political bureau, Muhammad Nazzal, told CNN in February that going to the ICC was “a mistake” that would stall negotiations to return the hostages (???).
“The shortest way to return their prisoners is to complete the ongoing negotiating process,” the Hamas member told CNN at the time.
Israeli politicians across the political spectrum condemned the decision. Foreign Minister Israel Katz called it a “scandalous decision” and an “unrestrained frontal attack on the victims of October 7 and our 128 hostages in Gaza.”
The leader of the opposition, Yair Lapid, called it “a complete moral failure” and said Israel “cannot accept the outrageous comparison between Netanyahu and Sinwar.”
So the ICC is going to make Netanyahu popular in Israel? Probably not their goal but….Here we are..
Hamas and Israeli leaders may face international arrest warrants. Here’s what that means — CNN
The decision to seek arrest warrants doesn’t immediately mean the individual is guilty, but is the first stage in a process that could lead to a lengthy trial.
It is what it is. Netanyahu shit the bed.So the ICC is going to make Netanyahu popular in Israel? Probably not their goal but….Here we are..
Hamas and Israeli leaders may face international arrest warrants. Here’s what that means — CNN
The decision to seek arrest warrants doesn’t immediately mean the individual is guilty, but is the first stage in a process that could lead to a lengthy trial.
Disgusting as usual. Why are there no arrest warrants for the leaders of Hamas?ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrant for Israeli and Hamas leaders, including Netanyahu
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JERUSALEM - The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Monday he is seeking arrest warrants for leaders of Israel and Hamas, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, over actions taken during their seven-month war.
Karim Khan said that he believes Netanyahu, his defence minister Yoav Gallant, and three Hamas leaders -- Yehia Sinwar, Mohammed Deif and Ismail Haniyeh -- are responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip and Israel.
ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrant for Israeli and Hamas leaders, including Netanyahu
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Monday he is seeking arrest warrants for leaders of Israel and Hamas, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, over actions taken during their seven-month war.www.ctvnews.ca
He’s toast, but the ICC will jump his popularity for a while before he’s tossed to the side.
There are, but it’s not as newsworthy. Three of them are also on the ICC list. Palestine is a signatory member of the ICC (someone considered a leader of Palestine, signed them in 2015) but Qatar isn’t, & that’s where Hamas leadership is headquartered. Israel & America are also not signatory members of the ICC.
State of Palestine
International Criminal Court prosecutor statement on arrest warrants for Hamas, Israeli leaders — Reuters
Following is the statement from Karim Khan, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, on arrest warrants over the war in Gaza.
Murder as a crime against humanity, contrary to article 7(1)(a), and as a war crime, contrary to article 8(2)(c)(i);
Taking hostages as a war crime, contrary to article 8(2)(c)(iii);
Rape and other acts of sexual violence as crimes against humanity, contrary to article 7(1)(g), and also as war crimes pursuant to article 8(2)(e)(vi) in the context of captivity;
Torture as a crime against humanity, contrary to article 7(1)(f), and also as a war crime, contrary to article 8(2)(c)(i), in the context of captivity;
Other inhumane acts as a crime against humanity, contrary to article 7(l)(k), in the context of captivity;
Cruel treatment as a war crime contrary to article 8(2)(c)(i), in the context of captivity; and outrages upon personal dignity as a war crime, contrary to article 8(2)(c)(ii), in the context of captivity.
*Ahem* ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrant for Israeli and Hamas leaders, including Netanyahu
Read a damn newspaper. For that matter, read the damn article you're screeching about.
Pages of carefully chosen legal language in a statement issued by Mr Khan, the ICC chief prosecutor who is a British King’s Counsel.
Word by word, line by line, they add up to a devastating series of allegations against the three most prominent leaders of Hamas as well as Israel’s prime minister and defence minister.
A determination to apply international law and the laws of armed conflict to all parties, no matter who they are, lies at the heart of Mr Khan’s statement in which he lays out his justification for requesting arrest warrants.
"No foot soldier, no commander, no civilian leader - no one - can act with impunity." The law, he says, cannot be applied selectively. If that happens, "we will be creating conditions for its collapse".
It is the decision to hold both sides’ conduct up to the template of international law that is causing so much anger, and not just in Israel.
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The United Nations has revised down the figure it publishes for the proportion of women and children killed in Gaza, leading to claims fewer Palestinians have been killed since Israel launched its offensive following the Hamas attack of 7 October.
On 6 May, the UN said that 69% of reported fatalities were women and children. Two days later, it said this figure was 52%.
The overall number of reported deaths in Gaza - which currently stands at more than 35,000 - has not changed, but the UN now says incomplete information has led to the revision.
The UN says it is now relying on figures from the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza, rather than from the Hamas-run Government Media Office (GMO).
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Word by word, line by line, they add up to a devastating series of allegations against the three most prominent leaders of Hamas as well as Israel’s prime minister and defence minister.
A determination to apply international law and the laws of armed conflict to all parties, no matter who they are, lies at the heart of Mr Khan’s statement in which he lays out his justification for requesting arrest warrants.
"No foot soldier, no commander, no civilian leader - no one - can act with impunity." The law, he says, cannot be applied selectively. If that happens, "we will be creating conditions for its collapse".
It is the decision to hold both sides’ conduct up to the template of international law that is causing so much anger, and not just in Israel.
What the ICC arrest warrants mean for Israel and Hamas — BBC News
The Israeli and Hamas leaders are suspected of committing war crimes during the continuing war in Gaza.
On 6 May, the UN said that 69% of reported fatalities were women and children. Two days later, it said this figure was 52%.
The overall number of reported deaths in Gaza - which currently stands at more than 35,000 - has not changed, but the UN now says incomplete information has led to the revision.
The UN says it is now relying on figures from the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza, rather than from the Hamas-run Government Media Office (GMO).
Gaza war: Why is the UN citing lower death toll for women and children? — BBC News
The UN says it is now relying on figures from the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza.
Kinda what I'd expect from a very senior attorney in an incredibly sensitive, complex, and controversial case.