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Updates April/March and earlier, 2025-'24 Earlier: April 3-1, 2025 Yet another Israeli war crime is buried and more 'grave' (sic) news April 1, 2025 Yet another Israeli war crime is buried in the sand  as the world looks away... and How did Israel kill the Red Crescent medics in Gaza?... & There Are No Universities Left in Gaza & How the ‘war on terror’ paved the way for student deportations... & 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: December 6, 2024: Attacks, arrests, threats, censorship: The high risks of reporting the Israel-Gaza war   Click here for earlier stories/news

April 12 - 9, 2025 UN raises alarm as Israel keeps killing mostly women, children in Gaza Food for thought: Well, we knew that since long but... keep saying: 'Wir haben es nicht gewuest' or? Read and decide for yourself April 10 - 7, 2025 The sanctity of life? Don't ask israelis the meaning of that. In any case, here are stories of some who literally know.

April 9 - 7, 2025 UN chief says Palestinians in Gaza in ‘death loop’, demands end to blockade... Food for thought: Although there is not even food thanks to the UN who withdrew their caretakers staff. Read the actual fact-finding news here April 9 - 7, 2025 Targeted, killed, burned alive: Paramedics, Journalists, People April 7 - 6, 2025 A million dollar question: Will anyone face justice? Well, we can only hope that the US will go bankrupt now they also started a trade-war. Read the actual fact-finding news here

April 6, 2025 I am not a number, I am a real story from Gaza. Remember it April 6 - 1, 2025 Neo-nazi zionists continue their warcrime acts with Western consent May the souls of those medics who only did their 'job' were killed rest in peace and may the political leaders of the Western world rest in shame. Opinion: "Israel kills, lies, and the Western media believe it" Read it here: https://www.aljazeera.com/ opinions/2025/4/6/ israel-kills-lies-and-the-western-media-believe-it April 3 - 1, 2025 Gaza faces ‘largest orphan crisis’ in modern history, report says... and more 'grave' (sic) 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.


Videoscreen shot footage - attacks kill only women, children
Al Jazeera - April 10, 2025 - By Mat Nashed
<<Unpacking Israel’s war on international humanitarian law
<<Israel has tried to legally justify its attacks and treatment of Palestinians, even as it goes against international law.
On March 24, Israel struck a car in northern Gaza and killed Al Jazeera correspondent Hossam Shabat. The 23-year-old is one of countless civilians – men, women and children – Israel has killed since launching what legal scholars describe as a “genocidal” war on Gaza. Israel often justifies its killings by claiming that the targets are people sympathetic or affiliated with Hamas or other armed factions. This was the justification given for killing Shabat. Israel also regularly destroys entire neighbourhoods and buildings, killing dozens – often hundreds – at a time, ostensibly to target a single Hamas operative. For years, Israel has tried to justify these practices by employing lawyers to create shadowy quasi-legal concepts in the hope of establishing new, dangerous precedents, according to legal scholars and experts. However, legal scholars told Al Jazeera that neither so-called “targeted killings” nor disproportionate attacks against civilians have any grounding in international law. “Is there any semblance of law or legal justification for the war tactics Israel is using in Gaza? The simple answer is no. There isn’t,” said Heidi Matthews, assistant professor of law at York University in Toronto, Canada.
Setting precedents
On September 28, 2000, Palestinians across the occupied West Bank and Gaza began demonstrating against Israel’s ever-entrenching occupation in what became known as the second Intifada. Israel’s repression of the Intifada quickly prompted Palestinians to mobilise and fight back. Over the next five years, Israel launched what it named “targeted killings”, assassinating unarmed Palestinians. Israel claimed that these targets could pose a threat to Israelis in the future because of their alleged membership in an armed faction. “Israel … strips protection from civilians based on their views or perspectives,” said Noor Kilzi, a researcher with Legal Agenda, a nonprofit in Lebanon that advocates for legal reform and human rights in the Middle East. Israel’s concept of targeted killings laid out a blueprint which the United States adapted during its “war on terror”, analysts told Al Jazeera. “[In the early 2000s] Israel and the US changed their legal doctrines and implemented that as part of their military dogma,” York University’s Matthews told Al Jazeera. “When it came to distinguishing between civilians and combatants… the US and Israel began to view [anyone as a target] based on their membership to a group,” she added. According to the International Committee of the Red Cross, a person is only a legitimate target if they are directly engaged in armed combat at the time they are killed. This means that suspected membership in an armed group is not a sufficient basis to assassinate someone.
Leiber’s legacy?
Throughout Israel’s war on Gaza, it has routinely dropped 2,000lb (900kg) bombs in densely populated residential areas, as well as systematically targeted schools, hospitals and displacement shelters.
Israeli officials justify these attacks by claiming that Israel is fighting a “just war” against barbarians. As a result, the ostensible goal of destroying Hamas outweighs minimising civilian casualties.
This is rooted partly in the philosophy of Francis Leiber, a 19th-century German American military theorist, who was tasked with setting out the “rules of conduct” for Unionist soldiers fighting the Confederates in the US Civil War. He argued that some wars are vital to the moral progress of civilised nations and require a quick victory, which can only be achieved using tactics that will likely cause huge civilian casualties. “Leiber basically said that whatever is militarily necessary to carry out war is legal,” Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg, a legal scholar at the London School of Economics, told Al Jazeera. This terrifying reasoning is blatantly at odds with international norms and laws, Gurmendi Dunkelberg added. “He believed in killing as many people as you can, so that you finish the job quickly. He believed that was more humane than trying to protect people to the point that the war drags on for say 15 years,” he said. Since the beginning of Israel’s war on Gaza, its spokespeople have made similar arguments. Mark Regev, an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said the goal was to “get the [war] done quicker” when asked by PBS about why Israel had dropped 6,000 bombs in the first six days of attacks on the besieged enclave. Then spokesperson for the Israeli army, Daniel Hagari, also admitted during the first days of the war that the emphasis in Gaza was on “damage and not accuracy”.
Destroying the system
In November 2024, the International Criminal Court (ICC) approved two arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his then-Defence Minister Yoav Gallant – accused of using starvation as a weapon of war and deliberately attacking civilians in Gaza. An earlier ruling by the International Court of Justice found that Palestinians in Gaza faced a real risk of genocide due to Israel’s war practices. The rulings by the ICC and ICJ add weight to the argument that Israel has failed in trying to legally justify its war practices, which likely amount to multiple war crimes, crimes against humanity and even genocide. As a result, Israel and its western allies are now trying to sabotage the very institutions that were created to uphold international law and prosecute perpetrators of atrocities, said Nadim Khoury, former director at Human Rights Watch and the founder of the Arab Reform Initiative think tank. “Israel has clearly hit the limit of what they can get away with by using legal arguments. Now, they’re just acting with total impunity to undermine the institutions trying to enforce international laws,” he told Al Jazeera. Several legal scholars and experts expressed dismay that Netanyahu may be able to visit countries in Europe that are parties to the Rome Statute, the legal framework underpinning the ICC. Countries such as Hungary, Belgium and France have said they will not arrest Netanyahu if he visits their countries or passes through their land or airspace. York University’s Matthews believes states that claim to uphold international law must act quickly to salvage what’s left of the system, acknowledging that it was never a perfect model. “Other states – beyond America and Israel – need to take action to save or salvage the system as a whole, or it will fade away quickly,” she told Al Jazeera.
“We are at an inflection point and it doesn’t look good.”>>
Videos: Al Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/4/10/israels-war-on-international-humanitarian-law

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Al Jazeera - April 8, 2025 - By Nour Elassy - Poet and writer based in Gaza
<<Opinions
|Fear is not a word that can describe what we feel in Gaza
The past three weeks since the ceasefire ended have been an endless horror story.
Last week, during another violent night, my almost four-year-old niece asked me a question I’ll never forget. “If we die while sleeping… will it still hurt?” I didn’t know what to say. How do you tell a child — who has seen more death than daylight — that dying in your sleep is a mercy? So I told her: “No. I don’t think so. That’s why we should fall asleep now.” She nodded quietly, and turned her face to the wall. She believed me. She closed her eyes. I sat in the dark, listening to the bombs, wondering how many children were being buried alive just down the street. I have 12 nieces and nephews. All are under the age of nine. They have been my solace and joy in these dark times. But I, like their parents, struggle to help them make sense of what is going on around us. We have had to lie to them so many times. They would often believe us, but sometimes they would feel in our voices or our stares that something terrifying was happening. They would feel the horror in the air. No child should ever have to endure such brutality. No parent should have to cower in despair, knowing they cannot protect their children. Last month, the ceasefire ended, and with it, the illusion of a pause. What followed wasn’t just a resumption of war — it was a shift to something more brutal and relentless. In the span of three weeks, Gaza has become a field of fire, where no one is safe. More than 1,400 men, women and children have been slaughtered. Daily massacres have shattered what remained of our ability to hope. Some of them have hit home. Not just emotionally. Physically. Just yesterday, the air was filled with dust and the smell of blood from just a few streets away. The Israeli army targeted al-Nakheel Street in Gaza City, killing 11 people, including five children. A few days earlier, at Dar al-Arqam School, a place that had sheltered displaced families, an Israeli air strike turned classrooms into ash. At least 30 people were killed in seconds—mostly women and children. They had come there seeking safety, believing the blue United Nations flag would protect them. It didn’t. The school is less than 10 minutes away from my home. The same day, the nearby Fahd School was also bombarded; three people were killed. A day earlier, there was news of a horror scene in Jabalia. An Israeli strike targeted a clinic run by the UNRWA, where civilians were sheltering. Eyewitnesses described body parts strewn across the clinic. Children burned alive. An infant decapitated. The smell of burning flesh suffocating the survivors. It was a massacre in a place meant for healing. Amid all this, parts of Gaza City received evacuation orders.
Evacuate. Now. But to where? Gaza has no safe zones. The north is levelled. The south is bombed. The sea is a prison. The roads are death traps.
We stayed.
It is not because we are brave. It is because we have nowhere else to go. Fear is not the right word to describe what we feel in Gaza. Fear is manageable. Fear can be named. What we feel is a choking, silent terror that sits inside your chest and never leaves. It is the moment between a missile’s whistle and the impact, when you wonder if your heart has stopped. It is the sound of children crying from under the rubble. The smell of blood spreading with the wind. It is the question my niece asked. Foreign governments and politicians call it a “conflict”. A “complex situation”. A “tragedy”. But what we are living through is not complex. It is a plain massacre. What we are living through is not a tragedy. It is a war crime. I am a writer. A journalist. I’ve spent months writing, documenting, calling out to the world through my words. I have sent dispatches. I have told stories no one else could. And yet — so often — I feel like I am screaming into a void. Still, I keep writing. Because even if the world looks away, I will not let our truth remain unspoken. Because I believe someone is listening. Somewhere. I write because I believe in humanity, even when governments have turned their backs on it. I write so that when history is written, no one can say they didn’t know.
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/2025/4/8/fear-is-not-a-word-that-can-describe-what-we-feel-in-gaza

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Al Jazeera - April 7, 2025
<<Red Crescent demands international probe into Israel killing of Gaza medics
Palestine Red Crescent says Israel’s attack constitutes a ‘full-fledged war crime’, calls for commission to investigate.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has called for an independent international inquiry into the “deliberate killing” of 15 medical and humanitarian workers in an attack by Israeli forces in Gaza. In a statement on Monday, the group said the March 23 attack in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah “constitutes a full-fledged war crime, and it reflects a dangerous pattern of repeated violation of international humanitarian law”. PRCS President Younis al-Khatib said an independent commission is needed “to establish the facts and hold those responsible accountable”. Israeli forces opened fire at the medics, who were driving in ambulances to assist wounded people at the site of an earlier Israeli attack. A video recently recovered from the mobile phone of one of the medics showed their final moments. The medics were wearing highly reflective uniforms and were inside clearly identifiable rescue vehicles before they were shot by Israeli forces in Rafah’s Tal as-Sultan neighbourhood. According to the PRCS, the convoy came under heavy gunfire for about five minutes. It said communication between the team and the central dispatch centre “confirms that the gunfire continued for no less than two hours” with continuous shooting heard until contact was completely lost with one of the medics. This has also been confirmed by one survivor, who said the ambulances came under direct fire with no warning, according to al-Khatib. The survivor also said he was used by Israeli officers as a “human shield” before being able to escape. “It is no longer sufficient to speak of respecting the international law and Geneva Convention,” al-Khatib told reporters from el-Bireh in the occupied West Bank. “It is now required from the international community and the UN Security Council to implement the necessary punishment against all who are responsible.”
‘Who is telling the truth?’
Al-Khatib also called on the international community to safeguard aid workers and prevent the targeting of hospitals, medical centres and ambulances. He also requested that Israel disclose the whereabouts of the PRCS staff who are still missing. The PRCS lost eight of its workers in the attack. Six members of the Palestinian Civil Defence agency and an employee of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, were also killed. The Israeli military had claimed its soldiers “did not randomly attack” any ambulances, insisting they fired on “terrorists” approaching them in “suspicious vehicles”. “Several uncoordinated vehicles were identified advancing suspiciously toward [Israeli army] troops without headlights or emergency signals,” it said. But al-Khatib refuted this claim, saying the ambulances had emergency lights on. “We at PRCS have been accustomed to Israel’s false allegations and fabricated stories with regards to what goes on in the Gaza Strip,” al-Khatib said. “We believe that the whole world, including media representatives, has now come to realise who is telling the truth,” he added. In its statement, the PRCS said the area was not classified as a “red zone” at the time of the emergency response, which means no prior coordination was required to access the site. It said for several days after that, Israeli forces prevented rescue teams from accessing the area under the pretext that it was a “red zone”. Then only limited access was granted, during which PRCS teams recovered the body of a Civil Defence member before Israeli forces forced the rescue team to withdraw, it said. On March 30, the bodies of 14 others were discovered in a “mass grave in a brutal and degrading manner that violates human dignity”, the PRCS added. The attack was decried by the Civil Defence, Gaza’s Government Media Office, Hamas and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk, who said the incident raises concern over possible “war crimes” by the Israeli military. Meanwhile, Tom Fletcher, head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said that since Israel broke the ceasefire in Gaza on March 18 and resumed its war on the enclave, Israeli air attacks have hit “densely populated areas” with “patients killed in their hospital beds, ambulances shot at, first responders killed”.
According to UNRWA, at least 408 aid workers, including more than 280 UNRWA staff members, have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza since the war began on October 7, 2023. Gaza’s Ministry of Health said that since March 18, at least 921 people have been killed in the territory, adding to the more than 50,000 killed since the war began – most of them children and women. The violence pushed the heads of six UN agencies to call on Monday for an immediate renewal of the ceasefire that Israel unilaterally broke and the re-entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza.>>
Source: Al Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/7/red-crescent-demands-international-probe-into-israel-killing-of-gaza-medics


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Al Jazeera - April 7, 2025 - By Justin Salhani and Maram Humaid
<<Targeted, killed, burned alive: Journalists in Gaza attacked by Israel
In the latest attack on reporters in Gaza, a journalist is burned alive and others wounded in a targeted strike on a media tent outside a hospital.
Abed Shaat drifted off to sleep on Sunday night, exhausted after covering Israeli air strikes all day. The 33-year-old freelance photographer had returned to a tent in front of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in southern Gaza where he’d been based along with other journalists since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza. Then, they were jolted awake. “I woke up to the sound of a huge explosion nearby,” Shaat said. “My colleagues and I immediately rushed out of the tent. [I had] my mobile phone to film. “The strike had directly hit the journalists’ tent across from us. I was horrified – to target journalists like this!”
Burned to death
The tent belonged to the TV station Palestine Today.
“I started taking pictures from a distance, but as I got closer to the burning tent, I saw one of my colleagues on fire,” Shaat said. “I couldn’t continue filming. I don’t even know how I summoned the courage to approach the flames and try to pull the burning person out. “The fire was intense. There was a gas canister that had exploded, and another one that was burning. I tried to pull him out by his leg, but his pants tore off in my hand. I tried from another angle, but I couldn’t. “The fire grew so strong, I fell back, I couldn’t bear it any longer. Then some of the men came with water to put the fire out. “I suddenly felt really weak … and lost consciousness.” Israel’s attack burned Palestine Today reporter Hilmi al-Faqaawi to death along with another man named Yousef al-Khazindar. Journalists Hassan Eslaih, Ahmed al-Agha, Muhammad Fayek, Abdallah Al-Attar, Ihab al-Bardini and Mahmoud Awad were also injured. The Israeli army said on X it had launched the attack to capture Hassan Abdel Fattah Muhammad Islayh (Eslaih), alleging he was a member of Hamas posing as a journalist. Eslaih, a journalist with a large social media following, was badly wounded in the strike. He had been threatened multiple times by Israeli authorities for covering an attack on an Israeli kibbutz during the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel on October 7, 2023. The Israeli army also said it took steps “to reduce the chance of harming civilians” but did not explain why it chose to bomb a tent full of sleeping journalists to capture one of them.
‘Nothing new in … crimes against journalists’
More than 200 journalists and media workers have been killed by Israeli forces since October 2023, according to the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, making it the deadliest ever conflict for journalists. The tent targeted on Monday was outside one of the largest hospitals in southern Gaza. Journalists have been gathering in hospitals from the beginning of Israel’s war on Gaza, seeking relatively steady internet service, electricity and safety in numbers. Locals said journalists have been stationed and reporting from Nasser Hospital throughout the conflict. “We live, sleep and work there. We see each other more than we see our own families,” Shaat said. “What connects us … is more than just work.” Experts told Al Jazeera in September that Israel’s killing of journalists in Gaza shows a clear pattern of targeting journalists. “There’s nothing new in the Israeli occupation’s crimes against journalists,” Jad Shahrour, spokesperson for the Samir Kassir Foundation, a Beirut-based media freedom watchdog, told Al Jazeera.
“This isn’t the first time during this war, from October 7 to today, whether in Lebanon or Gaza, the Israeli army has directly targeted journalists’ centres. “This, of course, according to international law, is a war crime, and nothing justifies it.” Other journalists killed in Gaza since the start of the war include Al Jazeera Mubasher journalist Hossam Shabat and Al Jazeera reporter Hamza Dahdouh, son of Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh. Both journalists were killed in targeted attacks on their cars, and Israel justified its actions by saying they were part of armed groups but did not provide evidence for the allegations. Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed at least 50,700 people in Gaza, most of whom are children or women and, therefore, not considered members of “terrorist groups” in Israel’s classification. Many civilian men – a protected group under international law – have also been killed. Reporters Without Borders told Al Jazeera it was investigating Monday’s attack.
Whose turn is it next?
Journalists in Gaza are walking with targets on their backs, media rights organisations said. “Israel deliberately bombs journalists because it doesn’t want anyone to report the situation,” Shahrour said. The idea, the groups said, is to discourage reporting of possible war crimes Israel is committing to allow Israel to avoid any accountability. The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate gave a news conference on Monday, calling for international accountability for Israel’s crimes against journalists in Gaza. Speaking to Al Jazeera just after returning from al-Faqaawi’s funeral, Shaat spoke of the deep psychological scars the experience has left on him. “Even now, I don’t feel I can move past what I saw. I never imagined in my life that I would be pulling someone while they were on fire.” He sustained minor burns on both hands during the rescue attempt and now cannot hold a camera.
“I feel completely paralysed. … Who are we even doing this for? Does anyone care? Is there anything more horrific than this scene to move people?”
“This isn’t the first time someone has burned to death, and it’s not the first time journalists have been directly targeted,” Shaat said.
“We still don’t know whose turn it will be next.”>>
Source: Al Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/4/7/targeted-killed-burned-alive-journalists-in-gaza-attacked-by-israel

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