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US singlehandedly blocks Palestine from full UN membership, $26 billion to Israel reaches House floor – Day 195

[email protected] April 19, 2024 al-Shifa Hospital, arms transfer, Columbia, columbia university, google, icc, Ilhan Omar, Iran, Isra Hirsi, mass grave, palestinian statehood, unsc, West Bank

US singlehandedly blocks Palestine from full UN membership, billion to Israel reaches House floor – Day 195

Biden mulls massive arms sale to Israel; Israeli “limited” strike in Iran takes world’s eyes off Rafah; another mass grave discovered at Al Shifa Hospital, where Israeli forces stashed at least 30 bodies; ICC may issue arrest warrants for Israeli leaders; Israeli violence in West Bank refugee camp; pro-Palestinian students arrested at Columbia U, receive death threat;; Google fires employees who stood for Palestine

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Questions, controversies, tempers swirl around UNSC ceasefire resolution – Day 171

[email protected] March 26, 2024 air drop deaths, ceasefire resolution, genocide, hospitals gaza, international law, military aid, security council, unrwa, unsc

Egos, assumptions, denialism accompany passage of UN Security Council resolution; meanwhile, another confirmation of genocide by Israel; German support for UNRWA; air drop deaths; hospitals under siege; Israel’s “compliance” with int’l law, more

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UN Security Council says Yes to ceasefire; US abstains

[email protected] March 25, 2024 ceasefire, Gaza, unsc

At long last, the UN Security Council agrees on a ceasefire demand. (Two aspects have potential impacts not widely discussed.) All that remains is for Israel to comply.

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Israeli forces kill 112 Gazans in “flour massacre,” US vetoes condemnation – Day 146

[email protected] March 1, 2024 air drop aid, famine, flour massacre, humanitarian aid, israeli settler, malnutrition, massacre, torture, unsc, us veto, West Bank

Israeli forces open fire on Gazan aid-seekers, killing over 100, then blame everyone but themselves; US vetoes UN Security Council condemnation of massacre; US mulls air dropping aid – a “negligible” move that has drawn wide criticism; more malnutrition deaths; Gaza’s agricultural sector is decimated; West Bank Palestinian and settler deaths; EuroMed report on torture; more

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While on trial for occupation, Israel is entrenching its military in Gaza – Day 137

[email protected] February 21, 2024 Gaza, genocide, humanitarian aid, icj, Israel, israeli road gaza, occupation, Palestinian journalists, sexual assault, unrwa evidence, unsc, West Bank

Israel building a road to cut Gaza in two; food deliveries stop in north, severely limited everywhere else; still no evidence for UNRWA after Israel’s bombshell accusation; female and male Palestinian ex-prisoners report sexual assault, US unfazed; Israel reportedly opens fire on members of Palestinian press; US vetos ceasefire resolution at UN Security Council; Day Two of Int’l Court of Justice proceedings against Israeli occupation; and more

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Palestinian ex-detainees heard “screams around the clock” from fellow prisoners – Day 136

[email protected] February 20, 2024 al-aqsa mosque, humanitarian aid, icj, marwan barghouti, nancy pelosi, occupation settler violence, palestinian prisoners, palestinian state, ramadan, torture, unicef, unsc, Women's Rights

Reports that Israeli forces killed, raped Palestinian women & girls; Israeli torture, grotesque humiliation of Palestinian prisoners; humanitarian aid at “lowest level”; UNICEF expects “explosion in preventable child deaths”; Netanyahu rejects Palestinian state; ICJ hearing against Israel’s occupation; settler attacks in West Bank jumped 200%; US offers resolution at UNSC; Pelosi’s delusional statement; fears for Marwan Barghouti’s life

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A history of the US blocking UN resolutions against Israel

[email protected] May 20, 2021 Great March of Return, intifada, israeli settlement, Jerusalem, nikki haley, susan rice, un resolution, unsc

Over the past five decades, the United States has vetoed at least 53 UN Security Council resolutions critical of Israel – 3 in just the last week.

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Will Israel Become a UN Security Council Member?

[email protected] September 25, 2017 abstain, BDS, israel-africa summit, latin america, nikki haley, security council, unesco, unsc

Israel has desperately sought to be legitimized by the UN, while it has done its utmost to de-legitimize the UN. Now it wants a Security Council seat.

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