Annelle Sheline: Why I’m resigning from the State Department
Annelle Sheline, PhD, served for a year as a foreign affairs officer at the Office of Near Eastern Affairs in the Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor.
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From the Guardian: ‘Man-made starvation’: the obstacles to Gaza aid deliveries – visual guide
Israel’s siege of Gaza has created what aid officials are referring to as “man-made starvation”, with the territory facing the threat of mass deaths from famine in the coming weeks. Children are already dying from hunger. As part of its devastating war strategy against Hamas, Israel has restricted shipments of food and medicine to just a fraction of what Palestinian civilians need to survive. The crisis is an artificially created one. “Starvation is used as a weapon of war,” the EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said this week. “Israel is provoking famine.”
Captured Israeli drone footage shows four Palestinian civilians executed by repeated missile strikes in Gaza
Al-Jazeera Arabic broadcast this footage of the murder of four unarmed young men in the Al-Sika area of Khan Younis in southern Gaza in early February 2024.
#CrimesByIsrael project compendium updated to include events up to 19 Feb 2024
Excellent document from the #CrimesByIsrael project that tracks violations of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Fourth Geneva Convention, Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions, and Protocol III of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons.
Al-Jazeera releases investigative documentary “October 7”
In October 7, the I-Unit reveals widespread human rights abuses by Hamas fighters and others who followed them through the fence from Gaza into Israel. But the investigation also found that many of the worst stories that came out in the days following the attack were false. This was especially true of atrocities that were used repeatedly by politicians in Israel and the West to justify the ferocity of the bombardment of the Gaza Strip, such as the mass killing of babies and allegations of widespread and systematic rape.
ICJ sets dates for April public hearings on Nicaragua invoking the Genocide Convention against Germany (15 March 2023)
