A senior United Nations human rights official has issued a stark warning about the ongoing threat of mass ethnic cleansing in the occupied West Bank, as "Israel" continues its aggressive campaign to take over Palestinian territory and forcibly displace its residents.
Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur, emphasized that the risk of "Israel" carrying out "mass ethnic cleansing" in the West Bank is "real".
Israel launched airstrikes across the Gaza Strip early Tuesday, killing at least 326 Palestinians, including women and children.
The surprise bombardment shattered a ceasefire in place since January and threatened to fully reignite the 17-month-old war.
The attack during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan could resume a war that has already killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and caused widespread destruction across Gaza.
LIVE: Israel strikes Gaza, killing over 300 including many children | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/18/live-trump-threatens-iran-as-deadly-us-attacks-on-yemens-houthis-continue
- Photos: Bodies of Palestinians killed by Israeli strikes brought to Gaza City hospitals
- Photos: Bodies of Palestinians killed by Israeli strikes brought to Gaza City hospitals
- Trump far more ‘permissive’ of Israel’s attacks in Gaza than Biden was
- ‘Surprise and shock’ in Gaza after heavy Israeli attacks
"Israel has launched a major assault on Gaza, shattering the fragile two-month-old ceasefire between its forces and Hamas.
"Israeli air strikes across the territory early on Tuesday killed at least 232 Palestinians, many of them children, Gaza’s Ministry of Health said."
Israel has resumed its genocide.
Parents are again writing the names of their children on their hands, arms or legs.
There is almost no hospital function remaining in gaza - Israel lied about them being Hamas command centres.
There is almost no food, water and electricity - thanks to Israeli war crimes.
Ambulances and rescuers are routinely bombed.
‘Israeli’ Settlers Protected by #IDF Set Fire to Homes in Northern West Bank as Military Onslaught on #Tulkarm Rages!
100s of ‘Israeli’ settlers, escorted by troops, have stormed villages and set fire to Palestinian homes in the northern #WestBank.
Media reports, quoting local sources, said #settlers stormed the Palestinian village of Kifl Haris, near #Nablus, on Friday.
#StopIsrael #SanctionIsrael #BDS
#palestine #Israel #Politics #Genocide @palestine@a.gup.pe @palestine@lemmy.ml
@nemo@mas.toMahmoud Khalil is fighting for his First Amendment rights after being detained for pro-Palestine advocacy. ACLU reports his legal team filed an amended habeas petition challenging his detention, arguing it violates his constitutional rights. #FreeSpeech 
#Palestine 
https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/mahmoud-khalil-habeas-petition-first-amendment
@Peter_Link@expressional.socialThis Is the Greatest Threat to Free Speech Since the Red Scare
Opinion [re arrest of #MahmoudKhalil]
Michelle Goldberg
March 10, 2025
from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
[gift article - link can be shared. Expires in 30 days.]
[Bias alert - #NYT usually favors Israel]
"“This seems like one of the biggest threats, if not the biggest threats to First Amendment freedoms in 50 years,” said Brian Hauss, a senior staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union. “It’s a direct attempt to punish speech because of the viewpoint it espouses.”"
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/opinion/mahmoud-khalil-free-speech.html?unlocked_article_code=1.404.Y_fK.OGBIayggrMEg&smid=url-share
#ACLU #DefendAcademicFreedom
#repression
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
#media #news #press @palestine
#AliAbunimah is FREE.
'Switzerland canceled a conference it was mandated to hold by the UN on the rights of #Palestinians under #Israel military occupation... after pressure from Israel/fear of retribution from the US.
Ostensibly neutral, #Switzerland is the depositary of the 1949 4th #GenevaConventions, that protects civilians under military occupation.
""Neutral" Switzerland cancels #UN conference after Israel pressure"
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/neutral-switzerland-cancels-un-conference-after-israeli-pressure @palestine #palestine #gaza #genocide
Series of explosions heard across #Gaza
The Reuters news agency is also reporting that witnesses have described hearing a series of explosions across Gaza, with residents reporting several Israeli airstrikes.
#ceasefire #CeasefireViolations #Palestine #IsraelWarCrimes #IsraelTerroristState
@israel @palestine
#BREAKING | Israeli occupation warplanes launch intense airstrikes on multiple areas across the #Gaza Strip.
@israel @palestine
#israel #palestine #IsraelTerroristState #IsraelWarCrimes #CeasefireViolations #ceasefire
https://t.me/QudsNen/154234
@mondoweiss@social.mondoweiss.netIsrael is erasing Jenin refugee camp because of its role in Palestinian collective memory and resistance. It might destroy the camp, but it can never extinguish what it represents.
@dbattistella@todon.euRenown Pakistani architect Yasmeen Lari has rejected the prestigious Wolf Prize, refusing its $100,000 award over Israel's continuing genocide in Gaza.
#Architecture #YasmeenLari #Pakistan #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Genocide
https://www.dezeen.com/2025/03/14/yasmeen-lari-refects-wolf-prize-gaza/
"Israeli settlers threw stones at Palestinians in the South Hebron Hills in the West Bank on Monday, wounding a man and a woman. None of the settlers were arrested. Instead, an Israeli police officer who arrived at the scene detained one of the Palestinians who had been assaulted."
“The Guardian’s latest propaganda for Israel is absolutely shocking”
by The Canary @thecanaryuk @EFJEurope
@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@guardian @Independent @thetimes
https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2025/03/17/guardian-israel/?__s=pw3ygmyxve9etudpqdrh
Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported last week that Israeli soldiers sexually abused two Palestinian brothers they had captured and tortured on the streets of the West Bank last January.
The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel, has just released a report on systematic Israeli sexual violence against Palestinians since 7 October 2023.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israeli-accusations-rape-confessions-own-crimes
Jenin camp '100 percent destroyed' after two-month Israeli siege
Over 43,000 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from their homes in Jenin and Tulkarem
News Desk
MAR 17, 2025
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/29463
#yemen
#humanitarianaid
#antiimperialism
#genocide
#antiPalestinianracism
#berniesanders
#Gaza
#Palestine
#Syria
#iran
#lebanon
#geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @yemen #blackmastodon
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@mondoweiss@social.mondoweiss.netEarly this year investment research firm Morningstar caved to a multi-year ADL pressure campaign and exempted Israel from its socially responsible investing ratings. This success in exempting Israel from investor accountability is just the beginning.
Palestinian journalist from Jerusalem Latifa Abdul-Latif is due to appear in court today after Israeli occupation police detained her yesterday.
Abdul-Latif was taken while she was at the Damascus Gate (Bab Al-Amud) plaza in the north of the Old City.
The Israeli police claimed she was involved in incitement on social media.
Israel has increased its targeting of Palestinian journalists, shooting at those covering its military attacks.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250317-israel-detains-palestinian-journalist-from-jerusalem/
