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Israel - A Rant

Rashid

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You wait for one picture of a bus stop to come along and then three come along at the same time.

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Hopefully there won’t be much left of Gaza in a few weeks time.

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I think you'll find the national dog of Israel is the Disputed Border Terrier.

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6 minutes ago, Gnasher said:

 

UK Government has restored the funding. Not a suprise but welcome all the same. It should never have been cut. 

 

 

 

 

No - I get that. Was the basis for reinstatement a single report?

Has there been any media on changes within the UNRWA during the pause?

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No - I get that. Was the basis for reinstatement a single report?

Has there been any media on changes within the UNRWA during the pause?

 

 

Not sure if link answers your questions. 

 

https://x.com/FCDOGovUK/status/1814240042061005029?t=irQ3yKTWgqpKnrbae5mUQg&s=19

 

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/no-evidence-israel-back-unrwa-accusations-says-eu-humanitarian-chief-2024-03-14/

 

 

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Israel using water as weapon of war as Gaza supply plummets by 94%, creating deadly health catastrophe: Oxfam 

Published: 17th July 2024

Israel damaged or destroyed five water and sanitation sites every three days since the start of this war

A new Oxfam report reveals how Israel has been systematically weaponizing water against Palestinians in Gaza, showing disregard for human life and international law.  

The report, Water War Crimes, finds that Israel’s cutting of external water supply, systematic destruction of water facilities and deliberate aid obstruction have reduced the amount of water available in Gaza by 94% to 4.74 litres a day per person – just under a third of the recommended minimum in emergencies and less than a single toilet flush.   

 Oxfam analysis also found:  

  • Israeli military attacks have damaged or destroyed five water and sanitation infrastructure sites every three days since the start of the war.  
  • The destruction of water and electricity infrastructure and restrictions on entry of spare parts and fuel (on average a fifth of the required amount is allowed in) saw water production drop by 84% in Gaza. External supply from Israel’s national water company Mekorot fell by 78%.  
  • Israel has destroyed 70% of all sewage pumps and 100% of all wastewater treatment plants, as well as the main water quality testing laboratories in Gaza, and restricted the entry of Oxfam water testing equipment.  
  • Gaza City has lost nearly all its water production capacity, with 88% of its water wells and 100% of its desalination plants damaged or destroyed.  

The report also highlighted the dire impact of this extreme lack of clean water and sanitation on Palestinians’ health, with more than a quarter (26%) of Gaza’s population falling severely ill from easily preventable diseases.  

In January, the International Court of Justice demanded that Israel immediately improve humanitarian access in light of a plausible genocide in Gaza. Since then, Oxfam has witnessed firsthand Israel’s obstruction of a meaningful humanitarian response, which is killing Palestinian civilians.  

 

"We’ve already seen Israel’s use of collective punishment and its use of starvation as a weapon of war. Now we are witnessing its weaponizing of water, which is already having deadly consequences."  

Lama Abdul Samad, Oxfam Water and Sanitation Specialist
Oxfam's office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory & Israel

Oxfam Water and Sanitation Specialist Lama Abdul Samad said it was clear that Israel had created a devastating humanitarian emergency resulting in Palestinian civilian deaths.  

 

“We’ve already seen Israel’s use of collective punishment and its use of starvation as a weapon of war. Now we are witnessing its weaponizing of water, which is already having deadly consequences.  

 

“But the deliberate restriction of access to water is not a new tactic. The Israeli Government has been depriving Palestinians across the West Bank and Gaza of safe and sufficient water for many years,” she said.   

“The widespread destruction and significant restrictions on aid delivery in Gaza impacting access to water and other essentials for survival, underscores the urgent need for the international community to take decisive action to prevent further suffering by upholding justice and human rights, including those enshrined in the Geneva and Genocide Conventions.”  

 Monther Shoblak, General Manager of the Gaza Strip’s water utility CMWU, said:   

“My colleagues and I have been living through a nightmare these past nine months, but we still feel it’s our responsibility and duty to ensure everybody in Gaza is getting their minimum right of clean drinking water. It’s been very difficult, but we are determined to keep trying – even when we witness our colleagues being targeted and killed by Israel while undertaking their work.”   

Oxfam is calling for urgent action including an immediate and permanent ceasefire; for Israel to allow a full and unfettered humanitarian response; and for Israel to foot the reconstruction bill for water and sanitation infrastructure.  

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Ofer Cassif in the Knesset: 

"In the same week that a large majority in the Knesset voted against the establishment of a Palestinian state, the International Court of Justice ruled that the occupation is illegal; that an independent Palestinian state should be established in the territories occupied by Israel in June 1967.


I am happy and welcome that decision and call on all the relevant forces to take actual steps to end the occupation and for the rapid promotion of the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in all the occupied territories, alongside the State of Israel.


This is the natural and historic right of the Palestinian people to be masters of their own fate, like all other nations, in their own sovereign State.


This is also a clear interest of all the citizens of Israel - that their country will transform from an occupying and oppressive country into a free, democratic and safe one.


The decision of the Knesset and its supporters will soon be thrown into the ash heap of history, while the decision of The Hague is the one that will prevail."

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Michael Rosen is something a bit special isn't he. Netenyahu and the editor of the Jewish Chronicle not so much so. 

 

 

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This was the response from the editor of Britain's biggest Jewish newspaper to Rosen's question to him  "do you think Israel are acting with humanely in Gaza" 

 

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How is it possible to reason with people such as JW Simon? Rosen's response below. 

 

 

 

 

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She was alive coming into this weekend, she's not alive now. 

 

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Their is never money to enrich the lives of children over here but always money to aid the ending of the life of the children over there. 

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