‘My children are crying from hunger. This is a war of starvation’
With insufficient aid and skyrocketing prices across Gaza, Palestinians in the overcrowded city of Rafah are struggling to feed their families.
Category: Columns
Unless Israel changes course, it could be legally culpable for mass starvation
Gaza is on the brink of famine. If the US and UK fail to use every possible lever to stop the catastrophe, they will be complicit
Why do America’s liberal hawks attack Russia while giving Israel a free pass?
Liberal hawks like Michael McFaul, Max Boot and Anne Applebaum are quick to denounce Russian aggression but ignore Israeli crimes
Academia in Gaza ‘has been destroyed’ by Israeli ‘educide’
Palestinian scholars mourn ‘deliberate targeting’ of higher education but pledge to rebuild once war is over
Independent Commission for Human Rights and Palestinian Civil Society Institutions Firmly Denounce Suspension of Aid to UNRWA by Various Countries
The undersigned Palestinian institutions strongly denounce the announcement by several countries to suspend their aid to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), based on Israeli intelligence reports accusing some UNRWA workers of involvement in the October 7, 2023 attacks.
Palestinian Organisations Welcome Landmark ICJ Provisional Measures Order Finding That Israel’s Actions in Gaza Are Plausibly Genocidal
Our organisations thank South Africa for its leadership in taking the case and commend South Africa’s commitment “to end all acts of apartheid and genocide against the Palestinian people and to walk with them towards the realisation of their collective right to self-determination, for, as Nelson Mandela momentously declared, “our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians”.
Sorrow and fury: a letter from American rabbis to President Biden
President Biden, what is happening right now in Gaza is no accident of history — and your complicity has been anything but silent. We call upon you to be true to your word and end U.S. complicity in Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people.
The situation in Gaza and the role of universities
The Council of the Law Faculty at the University of Antwerp (Belgium) decided by consensus to halt the execution of a cooperation agreement with Bar-Ilan University (Israel).
Apartheid as a form of genocide: Reflections on South Africa v Israel
On 12 December 2023, Mathu Joyini, South Africa’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, told the 10th Emergency Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly, that the large-scale Israeli military operation in Gaza, following the 7 October attacks, had ‘illustrated that Israel is acting contrary to its obligations in terms of the Genocide Convention’. She added that, ‘[a]s a UN Member State and owing to South Africa’s painful past experience of a system of apartheid, this impresses on us, as Member States to take action in accordance with international law’ (video of session at 1:17:22).
Statement by South Africa welcoming the provisional measures ordered by the International Court of Justice against Israel
Today marks a decisive victory for the international rule of law and a significant milestone in the search for justice for the Palestinian people. In a landmark ruling, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has determined that Israel’s actions in Gaza are plausibly genocidal and has indicated provisional measures on that basis. For the implementation of the international rule of law, the decision is a momentous one. South Africa thanks the Court for its swift ruling.