Mark Zeitoun on flooding Gaza’s tunnels “It would go against every norm humanity has ever developed, including the environment aspects of int. humanitarian law/rules of war & all the progress made towards criminalising harm to natural environment:ecocide.” theguardian.com/world/2023/dec…

PRESS RELEASE: #SouthAfrica institutes proceedings against #Israel and asks the #ICJ to indicate provisional measures bit.ly/3GZnYpZ

"For the survival of the people of Gaza today, it doesn’t matter whether Israel intends genocide or not. Unless Israel follows the famine relief committee recommendations, it will knowingly cause mass death by hunger and disease." — Alex de Waal theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I wrote about how Palestine delineates the contours of the Third World, reflecting also on the contrasting trajectories of India and South Africa vis-à-vis Israel/Palestine thanks to Social Text Journal and check out the rest of the ‘Palestine Now’ collection socialtextjournal.org/periscope_arti…

Missing from the "Verbatim Record," but preserved forever on TikTok, is Philippe Sands actually saying the word "Period."

My remarks a few weeks ago to the UN Human Rights Council on Gaza. The international community has done nothing to prevent Israel's campaign on genocide and starvation. The world's governments are complicit. It is time to sanction Israel to ensure an immediate ceasefire.

Knowing how Israel operates,my assessment is that Israeli forces intentionally killed #WCK workers so that donors would pull out & civilians in Gaza could continue to be starved quietly.Israel knows Western countries & most Arab countries won't move a finger for the Palestinians.

🚨Global land concentration: The world's farmland is owned by the few! 1% largest farms control 70% of farmland worldwide. In Latin America it's worse. Extreme land inequality obstructs sustainable #foodsystems. Data from our new #LandSqueeze report ➡️ipes-food.org/report/land-sq…

Some thoughts on the #ICC request for arrest warrants. Firstly,the request reflects its political challenges:It could not remain silent on a live-streamed genocide & as evidenced by the US, Israeli reactions, it also risked its relevance. The request threads this terrain #Thread

Thanks AJ+ for this space. There is no way imo to diminish the epochal earthquake this arrest warrants request marks. Israel's impunity has been the cornerstone & most blatant manifestation of an entire system of Western suprematisms ruling the world. No more (finally)!

Israel must "immediately halt its military offensive and any other action in the Rafah Governorate that may inflict on the Palestinian group in Gaza conditions of life that would bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part." Vote is 13-2 Historic.

In March I did this with AJ+. It went a bit viral (because of the shocking videos, not me). Since then the flow of sadistic dehumanizations only grew, exponentially. Now in this Zeteo documentary you can hear from the soldiers themselves x.com/mehdirhasan/st…

How was Isr. able to starve 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza at unprecedented speed and intensity? I answer this question in my new report. I'll be discussing my report with the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, October 18. undocs.org/a/79/171 Here's a 🧵...

🌍 New Report Alert! “On Thin Ice: Disproportionate Responses to Climate Change Protesters in Democratic Countries” reveals how governments are cracking down on climate activists and violating basic rights. Full report here cri.org/reports/on-thi… #RightToProtest #FreeSpeech

Access and #BenefitSharing policy landscape becomes increasingly complex PlantTreaty Working Group hears on negotiations under World Health Organization (WHO) for a treaty on #pandemics, UN Biodiversity for a multilateral mechanism on DSI Fig. by Elsa Tsioumani

12/13 Ultimately, the challenge to int. law spotlighted by the catastrophe in Gaza is only partly doctrinal. No interpretive clarification, no judicial process can fix what is a political crisis of law, borne from states’ lack of courage to apply law without fear or favor.

The UN #Biodiversty Conference CBD #COP16 is fast approaching, and digital sequence information is key to access and benefit sharing. But what is it, and why does it matter? Earth Negotiations Bulletin's Elsa Tsioumani explains ▶️ iisd.org/articles/insig…

As we speak, write, tweet, sob: Israeli forces are committing another massacre in northern Gaza. People in Jabalyia are killed - both in groups, and one by one - amid unspeakable cruelty and sadism. By Israelis who have accepted to be "willing executioners" of a genocidal plan.

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What does Palestine have to do with the COP29? @Kolinjivadi and asmaa say unless colonial power is tackled, climate change can never be addressed. ℹ️tni.org/en/article/sus… #COP29