Israel’s attack on Gaza should never have started – and now it won’t end because Israel clings to its desire to violate international law indefinitely.
What’s standing in the way of an Israel-Gaza ceasefire? Israel wants to keep breaking int’l law
Tags: extrajudicial killing
2021 was deadliest year for Palestinian children since 2014
Instead of holding perpetrators accountable, Israel is criminalizing the work that human rights organizations are doing to protect Palestinian children’s rights.
Israel’s killing of Palestinian children: ~80 so far in 2021
Defense for Children International declares that Israel regularly commits “extrajudicial or willful killings” of Palestinian children… Children in a village were regularly targeted; some of this targeting was to punish their parents for political activism… 85 children from the village had been arrested over the years, 10 of them under 15. “More than 500 villagers had also been wounded, and five people were killed.”
Three Palestinians and three Israelis killed in spate of deadly incidents
The Israeli military has recently been conducting aggressive operations inside the occupied Palestinian West Bank, including in Area A, where the Palestinian Authority is supposed to be in full control.
Israel continues to prolong and entrench the now 50+-year occupation, citing the need for security; in reality the occupation and its injustice are the cause of Palestinian resistance, not the result of Palestinian violence.
Leahy Law would cut aid to Israel, but no one wants to enforce it
Killing of Palestinians is not new. It has been going on for decades, unabated, uncriticized, and bankrolled by the US. The Leahy Laws enable us to withhold aid to countries that commit human such rights abuses, but in spite of overwhelming proof of abuse by Israel, our politicians refuse to cut off military support.