#genocide-allegations

#genocide-allegations

A new acronym emerged a couple of months into Israel's bombardment of Gaza: WCNSF. Wounded child, no surviving family. That acronym is unique to Gaza, experts like paediatrician Dr Tanya Haj-Hasan with Medecins Sans Frontieres have said. Normally it's rare for doctors to treat a child who has lost their entire family. But there has been nothing normal about the genocide in Gaza, where whole bloodlines have been wiped out and there are more child amputees than anywhere else in the world.

Turkiye says it has issued arrest warrants for genocide against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior Israeli officials. Among 37 suspects listed are Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and army chief Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir, according to a Friday statement from the Istanbul prosecutor's office, which did not publish the complete list. Turkiye has accused the officials of genocide and crimes against humanity that Israel has perpetrated systematically in its war on Gaza since October 2023.

In both Israel and among its Western allies, the Gaza ceasefire deal is seen as an opportunity to move on from the accusations of genocide against it, and to restore close relations weakened as a result of public anger. Over two years of its unrelenting war on Gaza, Israel has killed more than 67,900 Palestinians and injured more than 170,000. It has destroyed or damaged 92 percent of the enclave's residential housing and its actions in blockading Gaza have led to a famine being declared.

The peace deal that has been struck, which we welcome, will have no bearing on the case that is before the International Court of Justice, Ramaphosa told parliament. The case is proceeding, and it now has to go to the stage where Israel has to respond to our pleadings that have been filed in the court, and they have to do so by January of next year, he added.

I mourn these lives and pray for the safe return of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities, In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war: a death toll that now far exceeds 67,000; with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble. Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language.

Israeli officials are in Cairo negotiating a ceasefire agreement with Hamas based on a 20-point plan presented by US President Donald Trump. The agreement would see the remaining 47 Israeli hostages returned (25 of whom are presumed dead), a cessation of Israel's bombing campaign and the creation of an interim government for Gaza led by former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.

The Labour conference will vote on whether it believes Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza and whether the the UK-Israel trade agreement should be suspended in what could become a significant conference showdown. Labour members are preparing to use the vote on Monday to highlight their unease with the government's refusal to conclude that Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza.

More than 100,000 people rallied in Berlin, protesting against German support for Israel's genocide in the Gaza Strip. Demonstrators marched from Berlin's City Hall to the Grosser Stern on Saturday, following a call from a broad coalition of some 50 groups, including pro-Palestinian organisations, Medico International, Amnesty International, and the opposition Left Party, for a large demonstration. Organisers of the All Eyes on Gaza Stop the Genocide rally demanded an end to German complicity in Israel's genocidal war in the Palestinian enclave.

Protecting your country and your society is one thing, but bombing hospitals and killing innocent boys and girls with hunger is another thing entirely, he said. What Prime Minister Netanyahu presented in October 2023 as a military operation in response to the horrific terrorist attacks has ended up becoming a new wave of illegal occupations and an unjustifiable attack against the Palestinian civilian population an attack that the UN special rapporteur and the majority of experts already describe as a genocide.

We demand from our politicians more than just talk. We are long past this, Remah Naji, one of the organisers of the protest in the eastern city of Brisbane, told Al Jazeera. Now, we demand actions in the same way we acted in times of genocide. We are signatories to the Genocide Convention, which means that we have an obligation to prevent and punish genocide when it occurs.