🧵Crucial for Global Affairs Canada & Mélanie Joly to review damning evidence in a new Human Rights Watch report of unprecedented settler violence in the West Bank since Oct 7. Spoiler: the Israeli military either participated in or didn't protect Palestinians from attacks. hrw.org/news/2024/04/1…

Palestinian children have seen their families brutalized, their homes & schools destroyed by settler & soldier attacks.
Senior Israeli officials are fueling or failing to prevent these attacks.
Israel’s allies should do far more to stop this: Human Rights Watch report hrw.org/news/2024/04/1…

New Human Rights Watch report documents the forcible displacement of 5 entire Palestinian communities due to settler attacks, often with direct participation of Israel Defense Forces. This is not going to be resolved by sanctioning a few bad apples. Here's what US, UK, EU should do: hrw.org/news/2024/04/1…

Israeli soldiers entered one Palestinian woman’s tent, shoved her and her children and took their phones, she said, after which “one man in uniform kicked me in the back of my neck. They said, ‘Go to the valley, and if you come back, we will kill you.’” washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/…

Who is responsible for rising settler violence in the West Bank? New @HRW research. A 🧵: hrw.org/news/2024/04/1…

Breaking: State-backed Israeli settler attacks displaced 7+ entire Palestinian West Bank communities since Oct 7. Israeli authorities are responsible—they participated in attacks or looked on, arm settlers & ensure impunity. Sanctions needed. New from Human Rights Watch
hrw.org/news/2024/04/1…

Formal schooling has stopped for all children in Gaza, the targeting of schools and destruction of educational infrastructure must have consequences. The futures of Gazan children are being obstructed every minute this war continues and their basic rights are violated United Nations

[1] Following the report on the incident in Aqraba: Initial investigation conducted by Yesh Din indicates that during the early evening, dozens of armed settlers headed towards Khirbet a-Tawil in Aqraba, southeast of Nablus. The settlers fired live ammunition, >>

Delays. Access restrictions. Shooting.

On Tuesday, UNICEF's humanitarian convoy was hit by live ammunition on the way to deliver life-saving aid to north #Gaza .

Our staff are safe, but the immense difficulties of delivering aid are making it nearly impossible to meet children's…

YNET photographer.

Read and weep: 'They beat the shit out if me, broke my fingers, burned all my photographic equipment. They searched my pockets suspecting I recorded them on a memory card. On the floor, they each kicked me, in the head, the stomach. They left me naked...'

The Post contacted 25 aid groups, U.N. agencies and donor countries to ask about aid delivery to Gaza and found that Israeli authorities have denied or restricted access to items ranging from lifesaving medical supplies to toys to chocolate croissants.

“I think it’s…

So, I come from the part of New York that Congressman Mike Lawler represents.

I've been writing to him since 2023, in the hopes that, I don't know, he would hear something.

This is how that went: 🧵

Always important to have a good book to read when you're being deported

1/Leaders meeting in Paris on April 15 should address how the suffering, humanitarian crisis in #Sudan has been also worsened by ongoing violations, hampering of aid by warring sides, acts may amount to war crimes. New Human Rights Watch hrw.org/news/2024/04/1…

Our sincere condolences go out to those he has left behind, including his family, friends, and colleagues.

Humanitarian workers are #NotATarget
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It’s not just fringe extremists glorifying the nakba. Bezalel Smotrich, who oversees the West Bank, wrote, “Zionism was built based on population exchange” including “the exit of masses of Arabs” from Israel. “This historic pattern seems to require culmination.” This is his goal.

A fantastic little scoop by the FT: Rwanda's own national carrier refuses to take asylum-seekers back to Rwanda because of the reputational damage it would cause. Now why would that be? ft.com/content/1251e4…

NEW DATA: 3 months into the expansion of Welcome Corps, more than 13,000 sponsor groups — 65,000 Americans — have submitted applications to resettle refugees they know.

11k more applications are in progress. MN, WA, TX, CA, & OH are the top states. niskanencenter.org/65000-people-s…

A quietly devastating stat went up on the ICRC website this week.

We've recorded more than 7,000 cases of missing people from Gaza since Oct 7.

icrc.org/en/document/is…