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Welcome to cryfreedom.net, formerly known as Womens Liberation Front.  A website that hopes to draw and keeps your attention for  both the global 21th. century 3rd. feminist revolution as well as especially for the Zan, Zendegi, Azadi uprising in Iran and the struggles of our sisters in other parts of the Middle East. This online magazine that started December 2019 will be published every week. Thank you for your time and interest. 
Gino d'Artali
indept investigative journalist
radical feminist and women's rights activist 

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Dec 6 and--,2024:
Who accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza?
& Gazans displaced by war now face a new threat: winter
& There are no <humanitarian zones> or <evacuation orders> in Gaza
  
 & Rooted in this land until death
 

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 Muslim charities face discrimination as Palestinians are desperate for aid
 &  Cola Gaza Free
& The Lebanon ceasefire is a respite, not a solution for the Middle East
& "The Middle East Needs 'Women, Life, Freedom'"
& Gangsters block aid distribution in south Gaza


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November 28 - 24 and earler stories, 2024
Is Netanyahu immune from ICC arrest warrant-NO!
 


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Shireen Abu Akleh
In commemoration of Shireen Abu Akleh,
the 'voice of Al Jazeera'
killed while revealing the true face of israel

Updated:

  December 6, 2024:
Attacks, arrests, threats, censorship: The high risks of reporting the Israel-Gaza war
 
Click here for earlier stories/news

 

December 05 - 04, 2024
Food for thought:
'The Thinker' of Gaza:
"I hear my grandpa's soul saying
"evil people
can only win
if good people
stay silent and do nothing.""
just read the actual and fact-finding news

December 04 - 01, 2024
Food for thought:
'The Thinker' of Gaza is not nor will be silenced
no matter how hard netanyahu tries
and most likely the latter will be silenced soon
by the ICC.
Wisfull thinking?
just read the actual and fact-finding news


When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali.


Al Jazeera - Dec 6 2024
<<Who accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza?
Amnesty International says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. They aren't the only ones reaching this assessment.
On December 5, Amnesty International declared that Israel is committing the crime of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
Genocide is criminalised under the Genocide Convention, which Israel ratified in 1950, a year after it was recognised as a state by the United Nations. "[T]here is sufficient evidence to believe that Israel's conduct in Gaza following 7 October 2023 amounts to genocide," Amnesty stated in its report. Amnesty is not the first organisation to conclude Israel is committing genocide - here are other organisations who have made the same assessment.
What made Amnesty's mind up?
Genocide, by definition, constitutes five specific acts. Amnesty International has found that Israel is committing three of them:
Killing members of a group.
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to individuals from that group.
Deliberately bringing about conditions of life that aim to physically destroy a group in whole or in part.
Amnesty has specifically condemned Israel for using starvation as a method of war - act 3 above.
As the occupying power, Israel has a legal obligation to supply the population in Gaza with all basic provisions and necessities.
But since Israel began its war on Gaza on October 7, 2023 - following a Hamas-led attack on Israel earlier that day - it has cut off water, fuel and nearly all humanitarian aid from reaching civilians in Gaza. Palestinian civil societyIn a damning statement one month after Israel began its offensive on Gaza, al-Haq, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights and Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights said Israel intended to wipe out the Palestinian people "in whole or in part". They sounded the alarm over the "clear risk of genocide" Palestinians faced in Gaza, focusing on the dehumanising rhetoric by Israeli officials. These included the words of then-Defence Minister Yoav Gallant - wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity - who referred to Palestinians as <human animals>. Israeli President Isaac Herzog also declared: <There are no innocent civilians in Gaza.>
Center for Constitutional Rights (US)
The CCR is a United States-based legal advocacy fighting for civil rights since 1966 that has also said Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
On October 18, 2023, CCR released a legal analysis on Israel’s violations of the Genocide Convention and also criticised the US administration.
The US government has supplied about 69 percent of the weapons Israel uses to assault Gaza – including large, non-precision bombs that inflict disproportionate suffering on civilians - fighter jets, and other artillery. "[T]here is a plausible and credible case to be made that the United States’ actions to further the Israeli military operation, closure, and campaign against the Palestinian population in Gaza rise to the level of complicity," the CCR said in a statement.
UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories
Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the situation in Palestine, has concluded that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. In her March report entitled, Anatomy of a Genocide, she also found Israel was committing three of the five acts of genocide.
She noted that beyond denying life-saving aid and food to Palestinians, Israel was also bringing about the destruction of the people through systematically destroying hospitals and farmland. "Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza is an escalatory stage of a long-standing settler colonial process of erasure," Albanese said.
International Court of Justice
The UN's World Court ruled on January 26 that Palestinians were "at risk of" genocide. This was a case South Africa raised against Israel for committing genocide and remains ongoing, as the former continues to raise requests with the court in an effort to get Israel to end its war on Gaza.
The hearings in January saw the court issue a binding order for Israel to stop acts of genocide by scaling up humanitarian aid. Israel is obligated to report back to the court on a monthly basis to demonstrate how it has complied with the orders - an ongoing assessment which could take years.
Until now, Israel has defied the court's orders and has instead killed relief workers and civil servants in Gaza who are indispensable in distributing humanitarian relief. Israeli officials have attempted to smear the court as <anti-Semitic> and claimed South Africa was <providing legal cover for Hamas>.
What countries accuse Israel of genocide?
So far, 14 countries have joined or signalled their intention to join South Africa’s genocide case against Israel in the World Court. They include Belgium, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Egypt, Ireland, Spain, Libya, Maldives, Mexico, Nicaragua and Turkiye. In addition, Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani accused Israel of committing a "collective genocide" in Gaza.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/6/who-accuses-israel-of-committing-genocide-in-gaza


Al Jazeera - December 5, 2024 - By Alastair McCready
<<Amnesty International accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza
A damning new report by the rights group finds Israel's war on Gaza meets legal threshold for genocide against the Palestinian people.
Human rights group Amnesty International has concluded that Israel’s war on Gaza meets the legal threshold for genocide in a damning new report.
The report published on Thursday, titled, "You Feel Like You Are Subhuman": Israel's Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza, is the culmination of months of research by Amnesty, including extensive witness interviews, analysis of "visual and digital evidence", including satellite imagery, and statements made by senior Israeli government and military officials. Amnesty said the Israeli military has committed at least three of the five acts banned by the 1948 Genocide Convention, including indiscriminate killings of civilians, causing serious bodily or mental harm, and "deliberately inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction". "Month after month, Israel has treated Palestinians in Gaza as a subhuman group unworthy of human rights and dignity, demonstrating its intent to physically destroy them," said Agnes Callamard, secretary-general of Amnesty International. "Our research reveals that, for months, Israel has persisted in committing genocidal acts, fully aware of the irreparable harm it was inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza," Callamard said. "It continued to do so in defiance of countless warnings about the catastrophic humanitarian situation and of legally binding decisions from the International Court of Justice [ICJ] ordering Israel to take immediate measures to enable the provision of humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza," she said. "Our damning findings must serve as a wake-up call to the international community: this is genocide. It must stop now," she added. Callamard said that taking into "account the pre-existing context of dispossession, apartheid and unlawful military occupation" in which the Israeli military's crimes against the civilian population of Gaza have been committed, "we could find only one reasonable conclusion: Israel's intent is the physical destruction of Palestinians in Gaza". Israel dismissed the Amnesty International report as <entirely false> on Thursday. <The deplorable and fanatical organisation Amnesty International has once again produced a fabricated report that is entirely false and based on lies,> Israel’s foreign ministry said in a statement.
'Seismic, shameful failure'
The Israeli military's argument that it is lawfully targeting Hamas and other fighters who are located among the civilian population of Gaza - and that it is not deliberately targeting the Palestinian people - does not stand up to scrutiny, Amnesty said. "The presence of Hamas fighters near or within a densely populated area does not absolve Israel from its obligations to take all feasible precautions to spare civilians and avoid indiscriminate or disproportionate attacks," the rights group said. "Regardless of whether Israel sees the destruction of Palestinians as instrumental to destroying Hamas or as an acceptable by-product of this goal, this view of Palestinians as disposable and not worthy of consideration is in itself evidence of genocidal intent," it said. Amnesty also said that it found “no evidence” that the reported diversion of humanitarian aid by armed groups in Gaza "could explain Israel's extreme and deliberate restrictions on life-saving humanitarian aid" to the civilian population of the war-torn territory. Officials in Israel have consistently rejected allegations of committing genocide in Gaza, claiming they are acting in self-defence following the Hamas-led October 7 attacks and that criticising their war is anti-Semitic. The Amnesty report, however, also states that the crimes documented in Gaza were often "preceded by officials urging their implementation". More than 100 statements by Israeli military and government officials were reviewed in the report that "dehumanised Palestinians, called for or justified genocidal acts or other crimes against them". Of those statements, 22 were made by senior officials in charge of managing the war on Gaza and <appeared to call for, or justify, genocidal acts, providing direct evidence of genocidal intent>. This language was frequently replicated, including by Israeli soldiers on the ground" who made calls to <erase> Gaza and celebrated "the destruction of Palestinian homes, mosques, schools and universities", Amnesty said. Amnesty's Callamard said the international community was also guilty of a "seismic, shameful failure" in Gaza by failing to "press Israel to end its atrocities". By delaying calls for a ceasefire in Gaza and continuing to send weapons to Israel, the international community's failure "will remain a stain on our collective conscience", Callamard said. "Governments must stop pretending they are powerless to end this genocide, which was enabled by decades of impunity for Israel's violations of international law," she said. "States need to move beyond mere expressions of regret or dismay and take strong and sustained international action, however uncomfortable a finding of genocide may be for some of Israel's allies." >>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/5/amnesty-international-accuses-israel-of-committing-genocide-in-gaza


The Gazaian Thinker


"I hear my grandpa's soul saying
'evil people
can only win
if good people
stay silent and do nothing.'"
 

and

"When the world,
at the brink of an WW3 outbreak,
is so troubled
you can/have/are
(to be) the solution."

and

"I was 'not' a child
I only wanted
a little bit dead,
just short,
to then wake-up again
on the banks
of the river to the sea
and a free Palestine"
Gino d'Artali
ghost-poet/writer of The Thinker - Gaza

 


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