Forwarded from 🇵🇸 Automated Apartheid in Palestine
🇵🇸 Putting Palestinians "On a Diet": Israel's Siege & Blockade of Gaza | IMEU – 2014
Israel’s siege and blockade of Gaza are central pillars of a policy of economic warfare intended to punish the entire population of the tiny, occupied coastal strip in the hopes that Palestinians living there will blame Hamas for their predicament and reject the organization as well as any resistance to Israel’s continued control of the territory.
As noted by the UN and human rights organizations such as Amnesty International, this amounts to collective punishment, which is a violation of international law. (Read the article for more on the legal status of the blockade and siege.)
#Gaza #Blockade #UN #Hamas #InternationalLaw #HR #EconomicWarfare #Siege #CollectivePunishement #IMEU
Israel’s siege and blockade of Gaza are central pillars of a policy of economic warfare intended to punish the entire population of the tiny, occupied coastal strip in the hopes that Palestinians living there will blame Hamas for their predicament and reject the organization as well as any resistance to Israel’s continued control of the territory.
As noted by the UN and human rights organizations such as Amnesty International, this amounts to collective punishment, which is a violation of international law. (Read the article for more on the legal status of the blockade and siege.)
#Gaza #Blockade #UN #Hamas #InternationalLaw #HR #EconomicWarfare #Siege #CollectivePunishement #IMEU
Forwarded from 🇵🇸 Automated Apartheid in Palestine
🇵🇸 Devastation, bombing and starvation: Israel is destroying life in Gaza | B'Tselem
For two months now, Israel has been blocking the entry of #food and humanitarian aid into the #Gaza Strip, deliberately starving over two million people, including more than one million #children. On 16 April, Defense Minister Katz declared Israel would continue to block the entry of food and aid into Gaza, effectively admitting it is using #starvation as a method of warfare. On 25 April, the United Nations World Food Programme (#WFP) announced that its food warehouses in Gaza were now empty.
This deadly #siege is enabled by the international community in an abdication of its responsibility to protect human lives. The Israeli government and other decision-makers continue to deliberately and openly order the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity that exacerbate the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. They must be held accountable for their actions and face justice.
16/05/2025
#Palestine #oPt
For two months now, Israel has been blocking the entry of #food and humanitarian aid into the #Gaza Strip, deliberately starving over two million people, including more than one million #children. On 16 April, Defense Minister Katz declared Israel would continue to block the entry of food and aid into Gaza, effectively admitting it is using #starvation as a method of warfare. On 25 April, the United Nations World Food Programme (#WFP) announced that its food warehouses in Gaza were now empty.
This deadly #siege is enabled by the international community in an abdication of its responsibility to protect human lives. The Israeli government and other decision-makers continue to deliberately and openly order the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity that exacerbate the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. They must be held accountable for their actions and face justice.
16/05/2025
#Palestine #oPt