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Spanje weigert tot de groep landen te behoren die koste wat kost Israël wil helpen genocide in Gaza te plegen. Het kan dus wel, enige moed tonen tegenover de zionistische terreur. Hadden wij in NL maar iets minder laffe, kruiperige leiders met een greintje morele ruggengraat.

There are states that refuse to be swept away by anti-Palestinian racism & blind allegiance to Israel. Thank you Belgium, Luxembourg, Ireland, Norway, & Spain for exercising moral judgment & not defunding UNRWA.

Palestijnen in #Gaza eten nu gras. Maar NL @MinPres schort betaling aan voedsel en hulp op via de #UNRWA. NL kan daarmee volgens het tussenvonnis van @CIJ_ICJ medeplichtig zijn aan genocide. Mijn stuk in @volkskrant morgen. Hervat die hulp per direct. volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie…

I rarely praise the Guardian but this is a extraordinary visual investigation of the sheer level of destruction in Gaza: theguardian.com/world/ng-inter… Absolutely crystal clear when you look through it that the objective is to render the place utterly inhabitable, and destroy Palestinian civil society. Places destroyed are homes, mosques, schools, hospitals, cemeteries, historical landmarks, supermarkets, etc. Everything that makes up a community. Complete disconnect from the stated goal of fighting Hamas.

The brazen hypocrisy of Israeli security forces, accusing Hamas of hiding behind protected medical facilities & misusing ambulances in Gaza, while themselves use the cover of medical professionals to carry out covert killings shouldn’t be lost on anyone. bbc.co.uk/news/world-mid…

States must reverse cruel decision to withdraw UNRWA funding ⬇️ amnesty.org/en/latest/news…

Buitenrechtelijke executies van drie Palestijnse mannen in een ziekenhuis in Jenin (West Bank!) door een groep Israëlische militairen, verkleed als Palestijnse burgers. Klinkt te gestoord om waar te zijn, maar Israëlische media doen hier ook verslag van. timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry…

BREAKING: Spain announces that it will not suspend funding to UNRWA in Gaza. “Spain will maintain its support for UNRWA. The UN agency is indispensable and the funding helps alleviate the terrible humanitarian situation in Gaza.” — Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares

If 0.04% of UNRWA staff were implicated in a violent attack that led some Western countries to collectively punish 30,000 of their colleagues & 2.3m of their compatriots, what is the proportional punishment for the genocide being carried out by the Israeli gov't, army & settlers?

De landen die vliegensvlug sancties nemen tegen UNWRA omdat enkele van hun (nu terecht ontslagen) leden mogelijks sympathiseren met Hamas, namen en nemen geen enkele sanctie tegen Israel waar tienduizenden leden van het Israëlische leger zich schuldig maakten en maken aan oorlogsmisdaden en misdaden tegen de menselijkheid. Een humanitaire schande is dit! Schaam jullie. Goed dat ons land steun blijft geven aan de enige levenslijn die de Palestijnen nog hebben .

Whatever your position is, just take a moment to reflect on just how dark this is. Just hours after the ICJ concluded that Israel was plausibly committing genocide and ordered it to dramatically step up humanitarian efforts, 7 Western countries sanctioned... not Israel but the Palestinians and the UN (!!!). They cut funding for UNRWA, which is THE UN agency tasked with humanitarian assistance to Palestinians (and therefore their main lifeline). Even if you were the world's worst cynic, you'd still have a hard time expecting such sheer level of cruelty and depravation. This is absolutely unfathomable. They did so with the cheapest possible excuse, effectively using Israel's narrative that "UNWRA is Hamas" and allegations by Israel that some UNWRA staff were involved in the 7th Oct attack but 1) Israel has been making these accusations for months (so the timing of cutting funding right after the ICJ ruling is obviously not a coincidence) and 2) UNWRA has announced it's terminated the contracts of the staff members accused (12 people out of its 30,000 strong workforce) and launched an investigation, so it obviously doesn't condone this. Even if the allegations were to be proven correct, how can an organization of 30,000 staff be held collectively accountable for the individual actions of 0.04% of its workforce? Especially in the current context when its work is a life or death matter for millions of people. To add to the cynicism here, UNWRA staff are actually a major victim of the war with at least 152 UNRWA staffers killed by Israel in Gaza to date. In a normal world, it is Israel that should be punished for killing so many members of a humanitarian organization. But nope, it's the humanitarian organization that's getting punished, alongside with the very vulnerable population it's committed to helping.

They don’t even ask for an independent investigation or wait for the results of UNRWA’s investigation. They immediately take measures against a whole organisation that’s providing vital services to the captive & slaughtered people of Gaza, on the basis of accusations against 12.

UNRWA moet vernietigd worden; taal die eerder deze maand werd gebezigd in de Knesset. Nu het ICJ oordeelt dat Israël wellicht genocide pleegt in Gaza, komen aantijgingen tegen 12 (van de 30.000) UNRWA medewerkers naar buiten. 👇🏻 🧵

You've frankly got to marvel at the West's (utter lack of) strategy in the red sea. The US and the UK managed to get their ships banned from the red sea passage after their bombing campaign. Meanwhile China, unaffected by the ban, is quite logically redeploying its ships to serve the route, taking advantage of the new competitive advantage that they got served on a golden platter. The US then asks China to bail them out and help them curb the attacks, bizarrely preferring to go through the humiliation of begging their main geopolitical rival for help rather than rein in Israel. And the weirdest thing is: why on earth would China do that? The U.S. has been multiplying hostile moves on China for years, they've made it clear that their principal objective remains to contain China and they've now shot themselves in the foot in a way that benefits China. How far gone can they be to think China would help in that context? China's response was that "the Red Sea tension is a 'spillover' from the Gaza conflict, which should be ended as soon as possible". In other words: fix your own goddam mess!

@dutchlauren ♥️🖤

@overlistener Liever omgekeerd: een zelfbewuste moslima met twee blonde jongemannen. De kortsluiting die dat in het hoofd van sommige mensen geeft kan ik wel waarderen.

Laten we een spelletje doen: Stel dat moslimman hier een foto van twee blonde Oekraiense vluchtelingen zou delen met de begeleidende tekst dat hij ze in huis neemt en dat ze in natura mogen betalen. Zou het dan ook als humor worden gezien? Wat zouden dan de reacties zijn?

@Evw847 @nourdeenw Die verkiezingen waren in 2006, de helft van de bevolking was toen nog niet eens geboren en ruim nog een kwart nog geen 18. En van stemmers stemde een minderheid op Hamas. Maar goed, ik zal die kinderen wel uitleggen dat ze niet creperen door Israelische bommen...

Niet de dood van meer dan 25.0000 Palestijnen waaronder vooral vrouwen en kinderen, maar de dood van deze 21 Israëliërs is volgens de NOS het "zwaarste incident sinds begin grondoffensief". twitter.com/NOS/status/174…

PRESS RELEASE: the #ICJ will deliver its Order on the request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by South Africa in the case #SouthAfrica v. #Israel this Friday, 26 January 2024, at 1 p.m. (The Hague). Watch live on @UNWebTV tinyurl.com/5n6m94px

@caitoz Welcome to the Netherlands! Just so our PM has a shot at becoming the next NATO sg. 🤮

Supporting the world's most powerful government bombing the poorest country in the middle east for trying to stop an active genocide is the most sycophantic bootlicking you can possibly cram into a single political opinion.

De @NOS wast mogelijke oorlogsmisdaden van Israël wit met IDF stenografie. Alle gebouwen - dus ook huizen - vlak bij de grens met Israël worden vernietigd om wat Israël een “bufferzone” noemt te creëren. Oftewel, illegale vernietiging en annexatie. ynet.co.il/news/article/r…