Israel at war
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So are some of the hostages. Anyway. The point you are ignoring is that Arafat was given control of Gaza and the West Bank back in 1994. It was his personal enclave. Somehow he managed to fuck that up. Bankrupt the place and died with millions in his own Swiss bank account. So cry me a river to the sea.
Control of territory under military occupation.
Yahoo.
Why didn't Israel settle for the two state solution when it was possible?
at the ICJ
‘Israel has defied court by trapping, besieging and bombarding overcrowded Rafah’
Professor Max du Plessis has now taken the floor.
Here are his opening remarks:
The fact that Israel pushed more than one million Palestinians into Rafah and then carried out a “full-scale bombardment” of the province, all while sealing it off from aid and exposing it to famine, he said, is evidence of this intent.
This shows that Israel’s use of evacuation zones are “purely performative”, only further “endangering” Palestinian life, du Plessis added.
“Rafah as a place of refuge or place of safety remains a cruel distortion.”
On May 7, he says, just 15 hours after evacuation orders were issued, Israel commenced “a severe and sustained military assault on Rafah, which is ongoing”.
The assault has killed and injured Palestinians he says, adding they have also destroyed “makeshift homes and the remaining infrastructure necessary to sustain life in Gaza, including all aid and medical infrastructure in its path”.
“Israel deliberately attacked the very shelters to which it directed Palestinians to flee,” he says.
“Palestinian families in Gaza are left to make an impossible choice,” he said. “Either they stay trapped and likely killed alongside their loved ones in Rafah or they head out into the few bits of remaining land in Gaza, now filling up with tents and shacks”
He says Israel’s seizure of land crossings has further deprived Palestinians of aid.
‘Israel has defied court by trapping, besieging and bombarding overcrowded Rafah’
Professor Max du Plessis has now taken the floor.
Here are his opening remarks:
- My task is to address this court on the new facts and the grave changes in the situation in Rafah that is fast leading to the deadliest phase of this ongoing genocide.
- Those are the circumstances that compel South Africa to return to the court to seek urgent further or modified provisional measures against Israel.
- Judges of this court have recognised that the underlying reason for the court’s January and March orders was that the very right of existence of the Palestinian population in Gaza is currently at risk of irreparable prejudice and that the only effective way of preserving the right of existence of the protected group is through the function of prevention.
- South Africa seeks these provisional measures before it’s too late for prevention to be possible, let alone effective.
- This court noted that the situation in Rafah was already perilous in its decision of February 16.
- And instead of complying with this court’s decisions of January, February and March, Israel has defied this court by trapping, besieging and bombarding an overcrowded Rafah, exacerbating the security and the safety of 1.5 million highly vulnerable Palestinians.
- No one in Gaza is safe because, as the United Nations has repeatedly made it clear: Nowhere in Gaza is safe.
The fact that Israel pushed more than one million Palestinians into Rafah and then carried out a “full-scale bombardment” of the province, all while sealing it off from aid and exposing it to famine, he said, is evidence of this intent.
This shows that Israel’s use of evacuation zones are “purely performative”, only further “endangering” Palestinian life, du Plessis added.
“Rafah as a place of refuge or place of safety remains a cruel distortion.”
On May 7, he says, just 15 hours after evacuation orders were issued, Israel commenced “a severe and sustained military assault on Rafah, which is ongoing”.
The assault has killed and injured Palestinians he says, adding they have also destroyed “makeshift homes and the remaining infrastructure necessary to sustain life in Gaza, including all aid and medical infrastructure in its path”.
“Israel deliberately attacked the very shelters to which it directed Palestinians to flee,” he says.
“Palestinian families in Gaza are left to make an impossible choice,” he said. “Either they stay trapped and likely killed alongside their loved ones in Rafah or they head out into the few bits of remaining land in Gaza, now filling up with tents and shacks”
He says Israel’s seizure of land crossings has further deprived Palestinians of aid.
- Fears for the Emirati hospital are particularly acute. This is one of the last partially functioning maternity hospitals in the whole of Gaza which was until recently handling almost half of Gaza’s daily total of 180 births.
- It has already been forced to stop admitting patients and medics warn that without a doubt every single one of the 45 babies in the neonatal intensive care unit and the special intensive care unit will day if the hospital is occupied.
- And then on May 13, medical staff at the Kuwaiti received an evacuation order from Israeli forces. As one of the last remaining hospitals in Rafah, it had only around 16 beds available for the more than one million people sheltering in Rafah. Its closure will mean the complete collapse of the limping healthcare system in Rafah.
- Israel’s ground incursion into Rafah has been described by the UN as one of the darkest morning in this seven-month nightmare.
- With Rafah’s destruction ongoing as South Africa speaks to this court today, the destruction of Gaza itself will be complete.
- The change in the situation in Gaza and the new facts in Rafah that I have described demand the provisional measures.
- The necessity could not be starker. The magnitude and the gravity of the situation facing the Palestinian people in Gaza is now exemplified in Rafah.
- South Africa has thus been motivated to come urgently to this court to prevent the destruction of the final Palestinian governorate of Gaza with its homes, its hospitals, its schools, its libraries, its businesses, shelters, mosques to which Israel has not yet laid complete waste.
- South Africa has come quickly as possible to the court to ensure that the exhausted Palestinian men women and children who have sought refuge in Rafah are protected from a bloodbath.
Dumbest post of the day...Terrorism happened on Oct 7....War started Oct 8....facts...you're just dumb. Gaza and West Bank (Palestine) aren't wiped off the maps...they're just in ruins because of war... You won't even put Hamas in the picture because of your support for their terrorism....and hate for Jews and israel...Israel proved they are terrorists on Oct 8, committing genocide after wiping Palestine off the maps.
So you back terrorists committing genocide.
How are you any better than Hamas?
Updates: ICJ hears S Africa request over Israeli assault on Gaza’s Rafah
These were the updates on the first day of the ICJ hearings for Thursday, May 16, 2024.www.aljazeera.com
They did and that's why there is an Israel. It was the Arabs who rejected partition.
Wrong again...Israel establishing a state isn't terrorism...had the Arabs in the area also established their state, you would've had the 2 state you were crying about...but the Arabs didn't want their own state...they just want no Jewish state... kinda anti semetic if you ask me....You're too salty about the partition resolution and just throw "terrorism" in every argument... but let's keep the debate going...I like winning.
You really need to dig deeper in the history of the area...not just choose where you want to start....Jews were the receiving end of the violence from Arabs in the Middle East...name Any country in the middle east in fact...until the Jews learn the only way is to establish their own state and fight their way to survival. but you won't do it.... you wouldn't want what you will find out.....yeah...clump up all the jews in a piece of land smaller than Texas and cry apartheid....what a joke.
A consummate buffoon. But that profile is required for rationalizing genocide
Not correct, rich.
The first terrorism in Palestine was by zionist terrorists, before partition.
Israel was established through terrorism and ethnic cleansing.
that's a lot of casualties of war...what are Hamas doing to palestinians? left them out in an open war zone....can't even evacuate them...time to own up their mistakes for starting another conflict...Post a map of Palestine, then, rich.
Prove it.
Post a map of Palestine, rich.
Then we can discuss where you think Palestinians in Gaza should go since its a giant concentration camp with 70% of all buildings destroyed.
You really should read the ICJ posts.
The first war, in 1948–49, began when Israel declared itself an independent state following the United Nations' partition of Palestine and five Arab countries—Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria—attacked Israel. And guess what...that's not when the violence started...
The Hebron massacre was the killing of sixty-seven or sixty-nine Jews on 24 August 1929 in Hebron, then part of Mandatory Palestine, by Arabs incited to violence by rumors that Jews were planning to seize control of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.[1] The event also left scores seriously wounded or maimed. Jewish homes were pillaged and synagogues were ransacked. Some of the 435 Jews in Hebron who survived were hidden by local Arab families,[2] although the extent of this phenomenon is debated.[3] Soon after, all Hebron's Jews were evacuated by the British authorities.[4] Many returned in 1931, but almost all were evacuated at the outbreak of the 1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine. The massacre formed part of the 1929 Palestine riots, in which a total of 133 Jews and 110 Arabs were killed, the majority of the latter by British police and military,[5] and brought the centuries-old Jewish presence in Hebron to an end.
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Sure if you can find a map of Palestine post ithen...because never heard of a country names palestine....you can try hard to claim state of Palestine after realizing state of Israel isn't going anywhere...I know you're butthurt about it... keep crying giant concentration camp...israel was dealt with a small piece of land and make it work for them....Palestinians didn't want their own state...they wanted no Jewish state... Hamas promised "no Jewish state...I don't think they can deliver...
Read the history of Irgun, rich.
So you're admitting Israel has wiped Palestine off the maps and you are supporting this act.
Then you are calling Hamas terrorists for claiming they are thinking of doing something similar.
The same message applies to the trained seals on this boardBull Burr puts Maher's bitch ass in its place. Hilarious and satisfying!
