βLife, like a dome of many-colored glass
Stains the white radiance of Eternityβ
The Human Rights Council is holding its fifty-sixth session at the United Nations Office at Geneva, 18 June to 12 July 2024β¦ #HRC56
Navi Pillay, chair of the UNβs Independent International Commission of Inquiry shared detailed findings with the council today as it relates to the Occupied Palestinian Territory (including East Jerusalem, and Israel)
As a consequence I learnt⦠Reports originating in the Secretariat must not exceed 8,500 words in length (10,700 words for documents not originating in the Secretariat), including any footnotes, headings or hidden text. A waiver must be requested for reports that exceed the limit.
Reports:
π Commissionβs full report to the Human Rights Council (A/HRC/56/26)
π Commissionβs detailed report on the 7 October attack in Israel(A/HRC/56/CRP.3)
π Commissionβs detailed report on Israelβs military operations and attacks in Gaza until the end of 2023 (A/HRC/56/CRP.4)
GAZA: FAMILIES FORCED TO FORAGE FOR FOOD LEFT BY RATS AS 1.1 MILLION CHILDREN FACE STARVATION
Some excerpts from published printβ¦
βtoday, it is clear to everyone that we have to annihilate all Gazansβ
βThere are no innocents, when you say population, thereβs no population; there are two and a half million terroristsβ
ββknocking on the roofβ tactic is employed to allow innocents to leave. If Gaza contains no innocents, thereβs no rationale for βknocking on the roofββ
The MK84 bomb can form a crate up to 15 m wide and 11 m deep and can penetrate up to 38 cm of metal or 3.4 m of concrete, depending on the height from which it is dropped.
The time allowed, 24 hours, and the numbers involved, 1.1 million people, made it one of the fastest mass displacements in history.
Israeli politicians have advocated for the βmigrationβ or βvoluntary migrationβ of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, with some explicitly calling for their forced displacement.
In most cases where ISF has shot and killed Palestinians holding white flags, there is little or no investigation of any kind and never an independent public investigation.
One mother told the Commission about staying with her four young boys in a dog cage with a cover on top to give them some protection from rain and cold.
βThere was no access to water. I could not shower for two months; it was so humiliating. We stayed with thousands of people, all of us sharing 22 bathrooms, 11 for men and 11 for women. The stench was unbearable.β
βWe would get water delivered every two weeks, but the water was salty. We had nowhere to put it, so we saved it in pots and pans.β
If a single item is rejected, the whole load is rejected and the truck has to return to El Arish in Egypt for re-loading and then commence the whole process again.
In IDP camps and shelters, sanitation services are inoperable, resulting in a pile-up of approximately 400,000 kilograms of waste per day, equivalent to the weight of 9,000 toilets.
According to reports, more than 300,000 people have applied for gun licences and 64,000 personal firearm licences have been approved since the start of the current hostilities.
"Shall he make our sister into a whore?"
βI've always said Arabs [female pronouns used] are the biggest sluts out there β¦ There you go, here are the sets [of lingerie] here, inside, another new one in the package, they havenβt opened it yet, look at these sets, who wants elastic bodysuits?β
βTwo or three drawers stuffed with the most exotic lingerie that you can imagine, just piles, loads of it, in every single house. Unbelievable. These naughty naughty Gazans.β
βThey ordered all of us, men and women, to take off our clothes and to continue walking, ordering us to only look forward. I was walking naked between the tanks, not even wearing underwear. An Israeli soldier spit in my face. I forced myself not to react as I knew they would break every bone in my body if I did.β - Man from Gaza
Of the more than two million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip, roughly half are under the age of 18. They have already lived their entire lives under the Israeli blockade, experienced four escalations of hostilities and suffered repetitive and continuing trauma.
Rescuers could not retrieve the body of the baby from under the rubble and the family was unable to bury him.
"I didn't see anything, I didn't hear anything. All I remember is waking up with my left hand amputatedβ
50 percent of the patients on his operating list were children
βthere is absolutely no form of education or schooling in the Gaza Strip at the momentβ
Most evacuated children had been exhibiting increasing symptoms of post-traumatic stress, such as nightmares, flashbacks and sudden screaming in fear, for example, crying out in the middle of the day, βIsraeli soldiers will come into the hospital [β¦] and get usβ
dehumanize and vilify Palestinian men with references to βhuman animalsβ, βbarbarismβ, βrapistsβ and βISISβ
Men were particularly targeted in terms of being filmed or photographed while being subjected to sexual acts and in other degrading and humiliating circumstances.
female detainees were photographed and shamed online, sitting on front of an Israeli flag, with their hands tied, and/or were photographed in the intimacy of their bedroom
The woman looks confused, dazed and scared and a soldier can be seen holding her shoulders and pushing her to sit on the bed.
Israel Katz, the Israeli Minister of National Infrastructure, Energy, and Water, said that the water and electricity cutoff βis what the nation of child killers deservedβ
βThis is a clear message to all those inciting keyboard βheroes - the Israel Police will reach each and every one of you. Don't test us.β
The World Bank, EU, and UN conducted an Interim Damage Assessment, preliminary analysis of damages from the conflict and their human (data from 10/7/23-3/14/24) and economic impacts (data 10/7/23-1/26/24)
It does not constitute a full-fledged Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment (RDNA) which will be carried out when the situation permits (last conducted 2021)
π Gaza Interim Damage Assessment | March 2024
π Gaza Rapid Damage And Needs Assessment | July 2021
Estimated damages in monetary terms (US dollars) by sector:
πΊInfrastructure: $18.5 billion (97% total GDP of West Bank & Gaza in 2022)
πΊHousing: $13.29 billion
πΊCommerce, Industry, Services: $1.65 billion
πΊAgriculture: $629 million
πΊHealthcare: $554 million
πΊWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH): $503 million
πΊEnvironment: $411 million (including removal of rubble)
πΊTransport: $358 million
πΊCultural Heritage: $319 million
πΊEducation: $341 million (over 625,000 students, 22,564 teachers)
More than 31,000 people killed (70% women & children)
Over 161 UN staff killed (largest single loss of life in organizationβs history)
I had posted that Al Jazeera podcast episode yesterday.. on a similar bad bad trendβ¦
We are dooming this world which we all do share..
βIs the global nuclear arms race underway? A report finds nuclear powers have increased spending on a scale not seen in decades. Ongoing armed conflicts are said to be the main reason.β
From The Inside Story Podcast: Is a global nuclear arms race underway?, Jun 18, 2024
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-inside-story-podcast/id1587936366?i=1000659425418
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oh my holy God...and meanwhile world military expenditure increased for the ninth consecutive year in 2023, reaching a total of $2443 billion.
2443 billion divided by 8 billion humans,
equals $306 billion/person.
Now we can continue,
thinking you and me are two,
or we can realize what we all are,
now.
We are not humans if we don't realize this.
Eternal gratitude Najwan for being as you are, a treasure in the desert of horror and ignorance π