Elisheva Goldberg

Israel is paying private civilian contracts at least $500 per day to demolish homes in areas it occupies in southern Lebanon shomrim.news/hebrew/contrac…

BREAKING: #Israel’s Ministerial Committee on Legislation is, at this hour, considering a draft bill to terminate the Oslo Accords, the interim agreements between Israel and the PLO @nadplo that established the framework for limited #Palestinian self-government. For decades, Israeli officials invoked “pacta sunt servanda” - agreements must be kept - while insisting Palestinians honour obligations under Oslo, even as settlement expansion, annexation, forcible transfer, and fragmentation of the occupied territory steadily eroded the accords in practice. Now, it appears, Israel may formally renounce the very framework it long claimed remained binding. Yet one point of law is beyond doubt. The legal consequences identified by the International Court of Justice @CIJ_ICJ in 2024 do not depend on Oslo, and cannot be extinguished by legislation of a single party. Israel’s presence in the occupied Palestinian territory - the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza - was determined by the Court to be unlawful, and as such, must end unconditionally and as rapidly as possible. Termination of Oslo will not alter Israel’s obligations under international law. It will not extinguish the rights of Palestinians to reparation for internationally wrongful acts arising from decades of unlawful presence and deliberate harm. Nor will it relieve third States of their duty to effectively cooperate to bring those unlawful acts to an end, and secure permanent Palestinian sovereignty.

Record number of Democratic senators, 40 out of 47, voted to block arms sales to Israel, marking a historic shift in the party. Both measures ultimately failed, but the number is unprecedented. @haaretzcom haaretz.com/israel-news/is…

“My colleagues and I have been arguing for two decades now that Israel is unwilling — today I would say even unable — to investigate and prosecute [alleged war crimes] in a way that corresponds to international standards.” My podcast w/ Israel's top human rights lawyer @sfardm:

The Netanyahu gov helped launch the Iran war, has unleashed an offensive in Lebanon & continues to harm civilians in the West Bank & Gaza. We shouldn't send taxpayer-funded bombs & equipment to facilitate this brutality. We must stop Trump's arms transfer twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…