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November '24 Special reports: For actual updates Nov. 2024 Added: 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   Previous report: In Gaza dreams die, but hope remains and & "ICC arrest warrants: 'Binyamin Netanyahu's world has shrunk considerably'" & Facing genocide while disabled & Stripped of our human dignity  & Woman Palestinian journalist speaks out about reporting Israel’s attacks     Overview special reports

November 28 - 24 and earler stories, 2024 Is Netanyahu immune from ICC arrest warrant-NO!   TRIBUTES TO MOTHERS AND CHILDREN

Shireen Abu Akleh In commemoration of Shireen Abu Akleh, the 'voice of Al Jazeera' killed while revealing the true face of israel Updated: Nov. 2 - Oct. 24: Gazaian journalists under permanent siege by the idf October 23 - 16, 2024: "Attacks, arrests, threats, censorship: The high risks of reporting the Israel-Gaza war" All incl. Additional stories of utmost interest  Click here for earlier stories/news

December 1 - November 28, 2024 Food for thought: "US surgeon brakes down ..." and I (Palestine-free activist) can hardly eat knowing/seeing what really is happening and "Let's not pretend: Although the war corroded Iran's deterrence, the 60-day cease-fire in Lebanon is a temporary lull as far as both Israel and Hezbollah are concerned - and if it was done so Netanyahu can prolong a futile war in Gaza, there is little to rejoice about" Haaretz outlet editor-in-chief. Read more and decide for yourself

November 28- 26, 2024 Food for thought: "Let's not pretend: Although the war corroded Iran's deterrence, the 60-day cease-fire in Lebanon is a temporary lull as far as both Israel and Hezbollah are concerned - and if it was done so Netanyahu can prolong a futile war in Gaza, there is little to rejoice about" Haaretz outlet editor-in-chief. Read more and decide for yourself

November 24 - 21, 2024 Food for thought: Here's why the Gaza war is 'consistent with genocide', according to UN body Read more and decide for yourself

 
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 1, 2024
<<US surgeon breaks down reading stories from Gaza doctors>>
Read more and video:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/12/1/us-surgeon-breaks-down-reading-stories-from-gaza-doctors

Al Jazeera - Dec 1, 2024
<<UNRWA pauses aid through key Gaza crossing as hunger stalks Palestinians
Suspension of humanitarian aid into Gaza comes as Israeli attacks kill almost 100 Palestinians in the last 24 hours.
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees has halted the delivery of aid through the Karem Abu Salem (known as Kerem Shalom to Israelis) crossing between Israel and Gaza because of security concerns, its chief said, as widespread hunger and deadly Israeli bombardments continue. "We are pausing the delivery of aid through Kerem Shalom, the main crossing point for humanitarian aid into Gaza. The road out of this crossing has not been safe for months. On 16 November, a large convoy of aid trucks was stolen by armed gangs," UNRWA head Philippe Lazzarini said in a post on X.
"Yesterday, we tried to bring in a few food trucks on the same route. They were all taken," he added, warning hunger was "rapidly deepening" in Gaza. Lazzarini listed how the humanitarian operation had become "unnecessarily impossible" due to "the ongoing siege, hurdles from Israeli authorities, political decisions to restrict the amounts of aid, lack of safety on aid routes and targeting of local police". He called on Israel to ensure aid flowed to Gaza and said the country "must refrain from attacks on humanitarian workers". On Thursday, the UN agency said "out of the 91 attempts the agency has made to deliver aid to besieged north Gaza between October 6 and November 25, 82 have been denied and 9 impeded."
Israel has been accused of using starvation as a weapon of war as it has restricted supplies of food, medicine and other essential items into Gaza since launching the war last October. More than 44,000 Palestinians have been killed in nonstop Israeli bombardment since then.
Targeting of aid convoys
Louise Wateridge, the UNRWA emergency officer, told Al Jazeera that the targeting of aid convoys has been happening since May. "That has led to desperation of people, who don't have what they need and it has led and forced criminal activities," she stressed. The pause in the delivery of aid also follows an Israeli attack on Saturday that killed three contractors of the US charity World Central Kitchen (WCK). The Israeli military claimed one of the contractors was involved in Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack. However, the WCK said it had "no knowledge that any individual in the vehicle had alleged ties" to the Hamas attack. The UN said last month that 333 aid workers had been killed since the start of the war in October of last year, 243 of them employees of UNRWA. Israel, which imposed a total siege on Gaza in the early stages of the war last year, blames the inability of relief organisations to handle and distribute large quantities of aid. Hamas's Interior Ministry in Gaza have responded to the looting, saying more than 20 of the gang members suspected of carrying out the robbery had been killed by its security forces acting in coordination with tribal committees.
Meanwhile, Palestinians in Gaza have told Al Jazeera of their confusion over how, in one of the most heavily surveilled territories on the planet, the presence of so many armed men could have gone undetected by Israeli forces. The Washington Post had previously reported that an internal UN memo from October said the gangs in Gaza "may be benefitting from a passive if not active benevolence" or "protection" from the Israeli army.
One gang leader, the memo said, had established a "military-like compound" in an area “restricted, controlled and patrolled by the IDF (Israeli army)". As this developed, Gaza's civil defence agency reported that nearly 100 people were killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza in the last 24 hours.
The casualties include those killed in an Israeli strike on a home belonging to the al-Araj family in the Tal az-Zaatar neighbourhood, which housed more than 40 people.
Israel's genocide in Gaza has killed at least 44,382 Palestinians and wounded 105,142 since October 7, 2023. At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that day, and more than 200 were taken captive.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/1/unrwa-pauses-aid-through-key-gaza-crossing-as-hunger-stalks-palestinians

Al Jazeera - Nov 30, 2024 - Al Jazeera Live - By Ylenia Gostoli
<<LIVE: Israel kills 40 in Gaza’s Jabalia; Lebanese mourn Nasrallah
Women react near the bodies of Palestinians killed in an Israeli strike, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Gaza City November 30, 2024.
This video may contain light patterns or images that could trigger seizures or cause discomfort for people with visual sensitivities.
Israeli forces killed at least 40 Palestinians in a single air raid on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, as the death toll from Israel's attacks on Saturday rose to at least 100 people.
A Hamas delegation is in Cairo amid renewed efforts to reach a ceasefire agreement in Gaza, as Tuesday's ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah continues to hold despite repeated violations by the Israeli military.>>
Video here: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/12/1/live-aid-workers-among-45-killed-by-israel-in-gaza-as-hamas-in-truce-talks

Al Jazeera - Nov 30, 2024 - By Mohammed Haddad and Marium Ali
<<Israel kills three World Central Kitchen aid workers as it pounds Gaza
US-based food charity says it is pausing its operations in Gaza after an Israeli air attack hits a vehicle carrying its workers.
The Israeli military has killed three workers with the World Central Kitchen (WCK) and at least two other people in an air strike on a vehicle in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, in what was the third deadly attack on the aid group this year. The US-based charity, which runs community kitchens in Gaza, said it had paused its operations in Gaza after the attack on Saturday. "We are heartbroken to share that a vehicle carrying World Central Kitchen colleagues was hit by an Israeli air strike in Gaza," WCK said in a statement. "At this time, we are working with incomplete information and are urgently seeking more details." The Israeli military claimed that it was targeting a <terrorist> who had participated in the October 7 attacks on Israel and was employed by the WCK. <The terrorist had been under intelligence surveillance for a long time and was targeted based on reliable intelligence information about his location in real time,> Arabic-language spokesperson Avichay Adraee said in a post on X. However, the WCK said it had "no knowledge that any individual in the vehicle had alleged ties to the October 7 Hamas attack". Earlier on Saturday, Palestinian Civil Defence spokesperson Mahmoud Basal told the AFP news agency that the bodies of "at least five dead were transported [to hospital], including the three employees of World Central Kitchen" following the attack. "All three men worked for WCK and they were hit while driving in a WCK four-wheel drive vehicle in Khan Younis," Basal said, adding that the vehicle had been "marked with its logo clearly visible". The Israeli army did not mention the other victims of the attack, or its effect on getting food to the starving population of Gaza who rely on the Washington-based charity's services.
Al Jazeera's Hind Khoudary, reporting from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, said the attack would have grave implications for the provision of aid in Gaza. "So, it's beyond attacking Palestinians, Palestinian workers, aid organisations. It's attacking all sources of aid, and all sources of community kitchens, and those who have been working tirelessly to prevent starvation in Gaza," she said.
WCK attacked in Gaza
The Israeli military has repeatedly targeted aid workers since the start of the war on Gaza in October 2023. A series of Israeli air attacks hit a convoy of the WCK in April, killing seven of its aid workers. Another staff member was killed in an Israeli attack in July. The Israeli military claimed that those attacks were <mistakes> and that it dismissed two officers and reprimanded three others for their role. But an investigation by Al Jazeera's Sanad verification agency using open-source information, witness testimonies and images from the site found the attacks were intentional.
Israel has also killed a record number of United Nations personnel in its war on Gaza. Antoine Renard, the World Food Programme (WFP) Palestine representative, told Al Jazeera that aid organisations face extreme difficulties in delivering basic goods in Gaza. "One of the biggest challenges the World Food Programme is facing is, over the last three months, we’ve been without capacity to provide assistance to 1.1 million people," said Renard on Saturday. "We've been facing clear shortages of the assistance we're supposed to provide ... In November, we’ve only been able to reach 815,000 people. The vast majority of these have received only one-third of the rations they're supposed to receive."
Dozens killed across Gaza
Overall, at least 32 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks across the enclave overnight and into Saturday, Gaza medics said. That included at least three killed in an Israeli bombardment of a group of Palestinians in northern Gaza’s Jabalia city, and another killed in a drone attack near the Halimah al-Saadiyah School in the same area.
At least 44,382 people have been killed in more than 13 months of war on Gaza, according to the enclave's Health Ministry, which said on Saturday that at least 105,142 more have been wounded and thousands remain missing.
Meanwhile, Hamas, whose fighters continue to report battles with Israeli soldiers in Gaza, in a statement condemned the use of internationally prohibited weapons by Israel which have been documented by doctors and others to make the bodies of victims "evaporate" after impact.
The group also released a video purportedly showing one of dozens of Israeli captives who continue to be held in the enclave saying "time is running out" and pleading for US President-elect Donald Trump to secure his release from captivity.
Last week, the group had reported one captive was killed and another was seriously wounded in the north as a result of Israeli attacks.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/30/israel-kills-world-central-kitchen-aid-workers-in-gaza

Al Jazeera - Nov 30, 2024 - By Nour Elassy - Poet and writer based in Gaza
<<I am starving in Gaza and I don't believe the world can’t do anything
Israel tried to starve Gaza before and the international community reacted. Why isn't it doing anything now?
For over a year now, my family and I have been displaced from northern Gaza to Deir el-Balah in the middle of the Gaza Strip. Throughout this time, we, along with the rest of Gaza's population, have lived every type of torture imaginable and unimaginable. One of them is hunger. Gaza is now fully dependent on food aid. From a place that could produce its own food and feed its population with fresh vegetables, fruit, eggs, meat and fish, it has now become a place of starvation. Since last year, the Israeli army has made sure to destroy food stores, markets, warehouses storing foodstuffs, farms and fishing boats. It has eliminated police forces securing aid delivery and distribution, thus ensuring that aid is looted before it reaches those who need it. For a while now, we have been buying <aid> food, not receiving it for free. We were barely scraping by when the situation took a sharp turn for the worse in October. What began in the so-called <disaster zone> of the north has expanded to the rest of the Strip. Israel's nutritional terrorism has struck the whole of Gaza. The Israeli army decreased the number of trucks it was allowing to enter to just 30-40 per day and food - which was already expensive and unaffordable for most - started to disappear. Now, even if we are able to buy food, we cannot find any. The international agencies and various charities are of no use; they cannot provide anything. It is difficult for me to explain and capture the feeling of hunger for someone who does not understand the depths of its pain, and it is even more challenging to explain this experience while being under constant bombardment and shelling from Israel for more than 400 days now.
But I will try.
Every day, I wake up in the morning in a home full of family members trying to survive this madness. I drink a bit of barely drinkable water; it has an unpleasant salty taste that does not satisfy thirst. Israel has polluted underground water and prevented fuel from entering, so the last remaining water desalination plant is no longer working. If I am lucky, I have a bit of coffee, of course without any sugar, and maybe a tiny piece of bread. Then I try to forget about my hunger by focusing on my studies. I was supposed to graduate last year, but I couldn't complete my last semester because the genocide started. After the Israeli army destroyed all universities, Gaza’s education authorities came together and devised a plan to have students continue their education online. Gaza's destroyed infrastructure has made this endeavour extremely difficult. The internet connection is weak and in most places, non-existent. There is also no electricity, so charging a phone or a laptop is a challenge. But this is not even half of the struggle. Studying itself, being able to focus amid the sound of screaming, bombardment and drones, and the constant feeling of hunger and weakness is nearly impossible. I study literature, which requires one to dissect a text, to analyse the language, the characters, their motives and feelings, but I cannot focus. My brain does not comply; I cannot comprehend what I am reading. The brain fog does not go away, no matter how hard I try to focus. The headache is followed by nausea and my stomach rumbling. What makes it even more difficult to focus while starving are the children. I have eight nephews and nieces all living with me here in the same house, and all are under the age of six. Every time they cry for food, their mothers try to change the subject or offer what expired food they have. Yet, how convincing can you be when the food is too difficult to look at even for adults? My sister and sister-in-law have babies. Formula is almost impossible to find, so they try to breastfeed them even though they themselves are malnourished. Imagine how you breastfeed a newborn on emptiness. The Gaza health authorities reported 28 children died from malnutrition in the spring. There has been no update of this number since then. We can only imagine how many babies we have lost to starvation.
Hunger has affected everyone I see. People are visibly thinner, they walk around with an empty look in their eyes, dark circles underneath. The streets are filled with children and elderly people begging for food. I see misery and hunger everywhere I turn. The worst is that the food that we have, when we do have it, does not make us feel better. We have been having mostly expired canned food and wheat infested with worms. When I eat it, it makes my stomach problems so much worse. I am always in pain after a meal. Starvation is destroying our bodies and our minds, incapacitating us. And this is the goal.
It is, of course, not the first time Israel has starved Gaza to ensure its population is weak and vulnerable.
When it imposed its illegal siege on the Strip in 2007, it allowed on average of 2,400 trucks per month to enter in the following three years. This was a sharp decrease from the average of 10,000 trucks, which was meeting the bare minimum of needs before the siege. The number began to rise after 2010 when an international coalition of human rights activists and groups organised the Gaza Freedom Flotilla - a fleet of six civilian ships loaded with humanitarian aid that sailed for Gaza in an attempt to break the Israeli siege. Israeli soldiers raided the ships and killed nine people, causing international outrage and significant political pressure to lift the blockade. The number of aid trucks increased again after Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza in 2014, which killed more than 2,200 people and destroyed parts of the Strip. International pressure again bore down to force Israel into allowing more aid in. It is for this reason that I cannot be easily convinced that the international community simply cannot influence or pressure Israel. They can, they have, and they must. In October, just 37 trucks entered Gaza per day, or fewer than 1,150 for the whole month. Two weeks ago, Israel allowed three trucks carrying food, water and medicine to enter the north, only to attack and burn down the shelter where they were unloaded. If 10,000 trucks per month were inadequate to meet the needs of Gaza before the genocide, then imagine what 1,000 trucks are doing for a population that has been starved for more than a year, has no clean water, medical supplies or fuel, and is suffering from various infectious diseases and injuries. Forgive my grim outline of our reality, but there is no space left for niceties as I am hungry. All I can think about is my empty stomach. All I have had while writing this article is a piece of bread from old wheat and some expired canned food. And while Israel may hope that we starve in silence, we will not. The world can and must stop the starvation of Gaza.
The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial stance.>>
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/11/30/i-am-starving-in-gaza-and-i-dont-believe-the-world-cant-do-anything

Al Jazeera - Nov 30, 2024 - Al Jazeera Live By Urooba Jamal and Mersiha Gadzo
<<LIVE: Israel killed 19 Palestinians in Gaza in past 24 hours
This video may contain light patterns or images that could trigger seizures or cause discomfort for people with visual sensitivities.
At least 19 Palestinians have been killed and 72 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave's Health Ministry. According to our team on the ground, three aid workers of World Central Kitchen have been killed since dawn in Gaza's southern city of Khan Younis.>>
View video: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/30/live-israeli-attacks-kill-nearly-100-in-gaza-as-hunger-grips-enclave

Al Jazeera - Nov 29, 2024 - By Al Jazeera Staff
<<Israeli attack kills Kamal Adwan Hospital's ICU director
An Israeli drone killed Dr. Ahmed Al-Kahlout, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital's Intensive Care Unit, as he was reportedly passing through the gate of the besieged hospital in northern Gaza.>>
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/11/29/israeli-attack-kills-kamal-adwan-hospitals-icu-director

Al Jazeera - Nov 29, 2024 - By AJLabs
<<Which countries recognise Palestine in 2024?
The State of Palestine is recognised as a sovereign nation by 146 countries, representing 75 percent of United Nations member states.
This year, amid Israel's continuing war on Gaza, nine countries – Armenia, Slovenia, Ireland, Norway, Spain, the Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and Barbados - formally recognised the State of Palestine, reflecting growing international support. On November 29, the world observes the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, a day established by the UN in 1977 to emphasise global support for Palestinian rights, including self-determination, independence and a just resolution to the issue of Palestinian refugees. Recognising Palestine strengthens its global standing, improves its capacity to hold Israeli authorities accountable for the occupation, and pressures Western powers to act on the two-state solution.
Which countries recognise Palestine?
Currently, at least 146 UN member states recognise the State of Palestine, as does the Holy See, the governing body of the Catholic Church and Vatican City, which holds UN observer status.
These countries are listed in the map and table below:>>
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/29/which-countries-recognise-palestine-in-2024

Al Jazeera - Nov 28, 2024 - By Al Jazeera Staff
<<Rain and protest dampen Macy’s annual Thanksgiving Day parade in New York
Police arrested 21 protesters after they unfurled a banner in the middle of the parade route to denounce the war in Gaza. Pelting rain dampened the 98th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in the United States, as it cut across New York City on Thursday. But for a second year in a row, the giant balloons and party floats had to navigate another obstacle: protesters. As the procession made its way down West 55th Street, a group of pro-Palestinian demonstrators entered the parade route, briefly blocking a gigantic balloon representing McDonald's restaurant mascot, the red-headed clown Ronald McDonald. They sought to remind parade-goers of the human toll of Israel's ongoing war in Gaza, which has killed at least 44,330 Palestinians, many of them women and children. In the middle of the street, the protesters unfurled a banner that read, "Don't celebrate genocide! Arms embargo now. Free Palestine!" Several sat cross-legged on the wet pavement, holding up small Palestinian flags. McDonald's, the fast-food chain whose balloon they blocked, has been the subject of an ongoing boycott after a subsidiary in Israel announced free meals for Israeli military members after the start of the war. The chain, however, has distanced itself from that effort, pointing out that the decision was made by a local franchise, not by the company's global leadership. Police quickly arrested 21 of the protesters on Thursday, dragging some out of the street in order to let the parade pass. The delay was only a matter of minutes. Last year, a similar demonstration occurred, resulting in the detention of 34 protesters, many of whom were clad in white jumpsuits splattered with fake blood. As then, the protesters this year called for the US to stop supplying Israel with arms. Media reports have indicated the US is planning to greenlight a new $680m arms sale to its Middle East ally, on top of its existing military aid. The parade otherwise continued without a hitch. Beloved cartoon characters like the dog Bluey soared through the air. The Disney character Minnie Mouse made her debut as a balloon. And Broadway stars like Idina Menzel and Billy Porter rode atop floats or mingled among the dancers and marching bands pounding the pavement. The parade contained 22 big balloons and 34 floats, according to organisers. It is televised live across the US. Last year, the broadcast raked in 28.5 million viewers, a record for the event, according to the publication The Hollywood Reporter.
That made it one of the most watched non-sporting events of the year.>>
View photos here: https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/11/28/rain-and-protest-dampen-macys-annual-thanksgiving-day-parade-in-new-york

Al Jazeera - Nov 28, 2024 - By Al Jazeera Staff
<<At least 42 Palestinians killed as Israel ramps up bombing in central Gaza
At least 42 people have been killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip, medical sources told Al Jazeera Arabic, as Israeli forces stepped up their bombardment of central areas and tanks pushed deeper into the enclave's north and south. Six people were killed in two air strikes on a house and near Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip while four others were killed when an Israeli strike hit a motorcycle in Khan Younis in the south, the Reuters news agency reported on Thursday, quoting medics. Later, an Israeli air strike near a tent camp housing displaced families in eastern Khan Younis killed at least five people and wounded others. In Nuseirat refugee camp, Israeli warplanes carried out several air attacks, destroying a multistorey building and hitting roads outside mosques. At least 11 people were killed in the strikes, according to health officials at al-Awda Hospital in the camp. They said in a statement that dozens of families were trapped in their homes after tanks advanced from the northern area of the camp and ambulances were unable to reach them because of continued tank fire. As Israel escalated its bombardment of the besieged territory, the United Nations warned that more than two million people were trapped in the Gaza Strip with little access to food and no access to safe drinking water. "Food is scarce, and famine is imminent. Most of Gaza’s water supply is unsafe to drink. With nowhere to go, families are living in abandoned homes or out in the open," the UN said. Reporting from central Gaza, Al Jazeera's Tareq Abu Azzoum said families have gone days living off just drinking water and dates. "Also, civilians have been reporting on their family members being buried under the debris of their houses after being targeted by Israeli artillery and fighter jets without being able to be rescued," he said. Israel's war on Gaza continued to rage a day after Israel and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah began a ceasefire, halting more than a year of fighting and raising hopes among many Palestinians in Gaza for a similar deal between Israel and Hamas, which governs the enclave. Months of efforts to negotiate a ceasefire have yielded scant progress. Announcing the Lebanon accord on Tuesday, US President Joe Biden said he would now renew his push for a ceasefire in Gaza as he urged Israel and Hamas to seize the moment. Late on Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said conditions for reaching a deal to secure the release of Israeli captives in the Gaza Strip have considerably improved. Asked about a possible deal in an interview with local Channel 14, Netanyahu said: <I think the conditions have very much changed for the better.>
Israel's assault on Gaza has killed at least 44,330 Palestinians and wounded 104,933 since October 2023. Israel launched the war after at least 1,139 people were killed in Hamas-led attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023, and about 250 others were taken captive.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/28/at-least-42-palestinians-killed-as-israel-ramps-up-bombing-in-central-gaza

Haaretz - November 27, 2024 - by Dahlia Scheindlin
Arresting Netanyahu: Why the ICC Doesn't Trust Israel's Justice System to Investigate Gaza War Crimes
International justice rests on the idea that if a country can investigate its own crimes, there is no need for international courts to step in. But right now, it's hard to depend on the defense that Israel is a Western democracy with a fully functioning legal system
Among the many reasons why Israel and its supporters are furious at the International Criminal Court in The Hague for issuing arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, one in particular stands out. For the first time, the ICC is seeking to arrest leaders of a "Western democracy.">>
Source/video: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-11-27/ty-article-magazine/.premium/arresting-netanyahu-why-the-icc-doesnt-trust-israels-justice-system-on-gaza-war-crimes/00000193-6ebf-d711-ab97-7fbfdf6b0000  
 

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