“Genocide was the overwhelming impression that I got,” says Mark Perlmutter MD, orthopedics hand surgery specialist and president of the World Surgical Foundation who just volunteered in Gaza. “This is dehumanization. The purpose of this is to kill a population.”

The director of Kamal Adwan hospital’s pediatrics unit told Human Rights Watch on April 4 that 26 children, and a 73-year-old man, had died after experiencing starvation-related complications in his hospital alone. hrw.org/news/2024/04/0…

IHL prohibits starvation as a weapon GermanForeignOffice

Three sons and grandsons of Hamas politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh were killed in an Israeli attack on their car in Gaza

In December, Human Rights Watch found Israel using starvation of Gaza as a weapon of war, a war crime.

Today, we detail its deadly consequences: infants, toddlers, and school-aged kids dying from malnutrition, dehydration, and other starvation-related complications. hrw.org/news/2024/04/0….

The secretary general of MSF not mincing words:

These leaks are designed to create the impression of a major feud between the US and Israel, but the fundamental question of whether billions of dollars of US military aid should be conditioned on Israel following international humanitarian law is not on the table.

'I met so many children who are malnourished.'

Tess Ingram, a Unicef Communication Specialist working in the Gaza Strip, tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy that a seven-year-old boy she met had 'been living on grass'.

New @HRW report: Israeli forces unlawfully attacked #Gaza residential building on Oct 31, absent any apparent military target, killing at least 106 civilians, including 54 kids. States that continue to provide arms to Israel risk complicity in war crimes hrw.org/news/2024/04/0…

“They expect to die daily” - @cpj talks to three women trying to help the Gazan press corps cpj.org/?p=374539 via Christine Pennel-JonMENA

The targeted killing of journalists, if committed deliberately or recklessly, is a war crime.

CPJ has documented 95 journalists killed during the Israel-Gaza war, as of April 3.

CPJ has been calling for an investigation into the killing of Reuters videographer Issam Abdallah by…

WASHINGTON, April 3 (Reuters) - Celebrity chef Jose Andres told Reuters in an interview on Wednesday that an Israeli attack that killed seven of his food aid workers in Gaza had targeted them 'systematically, car by car.'

The idea that in the midst of all this carnage this administration even considered going for a grand normalization deal indicates how little they understand the impact of said carnage in and on the region.

Apart from the clearly marked aid convoy that had been cleared with the IDF in advance??

An absurd and risible statement from Kirby. Striking an aid convoy is a prima facie violation of IHL, and is part of a clear pattern of IDF behavior.

They need to take him off the podium.

.Dalia Hatuqa🪬🤌 writes for The Century Foundation Century International on how Israel, even as it lays waste to Gaza, has also been strangling the West Bank: tcf.org/content/commen…

The Israeli military hit all three cars in the convoy one by one after observing passengers switch vehicles after the first was hit and then transfer wounded to a third vehicle. Members of the convoy 'even notified the people responsible that they were attacked':

Bellingcat has just published an initial analysis of the Israeli strikes that killed World Central Kitchen workers in Gaza:
bellingcat.com/news/2024/04/0…

Horrendous

Sources to Haaretz:

3 separate Israeli strikes on the World Central Kitchen convoy

Survivors fled their vehicle after being targeted, only to be struck again in another car - then in another

They even managed to alert colleagues they were hit but all were killed

New satellite imagery from Maxar Technologies shows the destruction of Al-Shifa Hospital and its surroundings after nearly six months of war and multiple Israeli military raids, strikes and widespread demolition.

Left: June 1, 2022
Right: April 1, 2024

NYT on the Israeli claim that not a single civilian was killed in its assault on Al-Shifa Hospital:

The US has authorized the transfer of hundreds of 2000-pound bombs to Israel, despite a UN ceasfire vote + evidence that Israel has routinely dropped the non-guided mega-explosive on areas in Gaza marked 'safe' for civlians

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