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To The World:
The licence you give to Israel to commit atrocities is the licence you give to all.

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#Gaza #Genocide #LicenceToKill

Transcription attached next post. Please watch, listen, read!

To Mr. Ben Saul: Respect 🙏🕊️

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Australian UN Rapporteur Sends Shockwaves by Fiercely Blasting the US, Israel, and Germany Over Gaza
YouTube video by The Africa News Network
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December 21, 2024 at 1:21 AM
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2/3 I couldn't single out any one particular statement, so I've transcribed the entire speech with help from YouTube.

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Australian UN Rapporteur Sends Shockwaves by Fiercely Blasting the US, Israel, and Germany Over Gaza
YouTube video by The Africa News Network
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December 21, 2024 at 1:29 AM
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These are not #Bushfires
These are not #Wildfires
This is no #ActOfGod

This is #Genocide

The #IsraelOccupationForces set these #Fires in northern #Gaza

#WarCrimes
#YouCannotSayYouDidNotKnow

#Gaza 🕊️
peterwening.bsky.social Peter Wening @peterwening.bsky.social · Jan 9
Huge fires are now raging in large areas of northern #Gaza, after they were set on fire by Israeli occupation forces during large scale demolitions.

Beit Lahia and Tal al-Zaatar among the areas affected.

#Palestine

Photography: Khalil Al-Kahlout
January 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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"Deaths in Israel’s war on Gaza far higher than 46,000"
Hind Khoudary
Reports from Deir el-Balah, central Gaza
Photo Credit: Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters
#NetanyahuIsDepraved
#WhenIsItEnoughIsrael
#StopArmingButchers
#Genocide #Gaza
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#StopTheSlaughter
https://aje.io/zt0z6r?update=3431969 Screenshot from Al Jazeera: "Deaths in Israel’s war on Gaza far higher than 46,000" Hind Khoudary Reporting from Deir el-Balah, central Gaza The Health Ministry has updated the death toll from Israel’s war. The 46,000 Palestinians recorded killed are those victims who were actually received at overrun hospitals in Gaza. Thousands are still trapped under the rubble of homes and residential buildings hit by Israeli forces. Among the dead and buried are thousands of children, women, and elderly Palestinians. The UN agency for children, UNICEF, says since the beginning of 2025 at least 74 children have been killed in Israeli attacks. Palestinian man Belal Kullab, wounded in an Israeli strike that killed his son Adnan, according to medics, holds Adnan's body, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, at Al-Ahli Arab Baptist hospital in Gaza City January 8" Photo: A man holds the body of his dead son at al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City [Photo Credit: Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters]
January 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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3/3 Please note that I've removed "um" "uh" & word stutters and I've included punctuation and paragraphs. If anyone feels I've changed or incorrectly emphasised any part of Mr. Saul's words, please let me know.

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p1. Australian UN Rapporteur Sends Shockwaves by Fiercely Blasting the US, Israel and Germany over Gaza https://youtu.be/wAbNhLfb6dM?si=e5r7M33CI9AV_7br Australian UN Rapporteur, Mr. Ben Saul: "Good afternoon everybody, delighted to be here. My job is to encourage governments to respect human rights while countering terrorism and I think one of the striking features of the last fourteen months is how Israel has used counterterrorism rhetoric to justify exceptional extreme violence against Palestinians accompanied by a chronic dehumanization of the Palestinian people which, of course, allows them to be killed in large numbers at the political level and also through the legal measures that Israel has taken. The International Community, through International Law, the General Assembly, Security Council have, on many occasions, repeated and insisted that all countries must respect human rights and humanitarian law when countering terrorism without exception. That's because human rights and humanitarian law already accommodate security concerns. It's a balance between protecting people and allowing militaries to fight so you don't need to go outside that legal framework in order to effectively and successfully deal with an adversary in an armed conflict. p2. The problem here, of course, is that Israel, as our colleagues have already said, has enjoyed impunity for many, many decades which has emboldened it to become increasingly violent and increasingly lawless and this last campaign in Gaza is unprecedented in the history of warfare in recent years. It's not just that there have been extreme violations which have been well documented so we all, over the past fourteen months, have seen deliberate attacks on civilians, indiscriminate attacks, disproportionate attacks, starvation, denial of humanitarian relief, suppression of NGOs, and UNWRA as terrorists, a complete lack of credible accountability through the Israeli military and civilian justice system. That's all pretty obvious and on the record. What I find more shocking in a way is that I've been working on humanitarian law for 25 years. I've co-operated technically with the Israeli Defense Forces on many occasions in the past and I know they have excellent lawyers - very, very good International Humanitarian Lawyers. So when they unleash a campaign of violence like this, they know what they're doing; and part of this story which I don't think has been explored quite so much, is just how Israel has enabled this violence by taking very extreme, exceptional interpretations of International Humanitarian Law to impose a kind of cloak of legality on what they're doing. So they've expanded the definition of what is a military objective. They've expanded the category of people they call fighters who can be attacked. p3. They impose very large numbers on the civilian casualty counts that they tolerate in targeting. They've used artificial intelligence to bypass the usual precautions that must be taken before launching attacks. They've loosened the rules on authorizing detention of militants, removing effective judicial control or access to lawyers for very protracted periods. They've authorized controls on the distribution of humanitarian relief, ostensibly on security grounds, which are not tolerated by a proper interpretation of humanitarian law. Likewise, authorizing displacement of civilians in a manner which is outside the mainstream and this is part of a historical pattern. I mean, it's the same story if you go back on the way Israel has sought to legalize its settlements in the West Bank: housing evictions, exploitation of Palestinian natural resources, claims to territory, etc., and the problem, of course is as we've all mentioned, much of this has gone unchallenged by the states that matter and that can have a real influence to change Israel's behavior on the ground. To wind up, I just mentioned that this is something which is expanding a kind of contagion that's going well beyond the occupied Palestinian territories and in the past year many of us have commented publicly on the kind of lawlessness that Israel has also been unleashing on its neighbors. So if you think, just in recent days in Syria, destruction of the Syrian Air Force when there are no pilots but because Syria has no functioning government or military that can fly those planes at the moment. The attacks on the buffer zone in the Syrian Golan Heights. We've seen in Lebanon indiscriminate attacks through the the pager explosions. Attacks on Hezbollah Banks, calling them "military objectives" when they're just financial institutions - and, again, it goes back to their exploitation of interpretations of humanitarian law. In Iran, attacks on multiple occasions which are not in self-defense according to International Law. So of course all of this is enormously destructive of the international legal order. If lawlessness on this scale and of this extremity has no consequences then it sends a signal to everybody else that you can behave in the same way and the whole system begins to break down. It's encouraging that a bunch of countries have sought to hold Israel to account and it's a very strong legal movement on many many fronts; but ultimately you need the states that matter to bring the pressure to bear on Israel. Germany and the United States supply 99% of the weapons exported to Israel. They could stop this conflict overnight if they stopped the weapons that kill the Palestinians. Thank you." - Mr. Ben Saul - Australian United Nations Rapporteur Video uploaded by The African News Network on the 14th of December 2024 at https://youtu.be/wAbNhLfb6dM
December 21, 2024 at 1:37 AM
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Biden is also providing
money to Lebanon, something the US has done since October 2024, to help with those displaced by Israel's out of control murder spree.

The #DeathMerchants are raking it in.

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#FailingHumanity
#Gaza #Genocide
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January 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Why has the US accused Sudanese militias of genocide – but not Israel?

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/...

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#IDFwarCrimes
Why has the US accused Sudanese militias of genocide – but not Israel?
The US says forces active within Sudan are guilty of many of the same war crimes that Israel is accused of.
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January 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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#YesItIsGenocide #YouCannotSayYouDidNotKnow

#UniversalDeclarationOfHumanRights
#HumanRights
#WeRegress

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10th December 1948
#EleanorRoosevelt
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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December 10, 2024 at 5:19 PM
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Israel bombs Gaza school as displaced Lebanese return south
Israel, Hezbollah traded fire before a ceasefire, which the US said would see Israel’s army leave Lebanon over 60 days.
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November 27, 2024 at 3:47 PM