Erica Chisholm

"Israel is a civilized country surrounded by uncivilized enemies" Hey @petr_macinka, do you find this civilized?

🚨 Israeli settlers cut water pipelines belonging to Palestinian farmers near the Ein al-Auja spring north of Jericho.

مشهد يقهر القلوب، لحظة قيام المستوطنين الإسرائيليين بسرقة أحد الخيول الجميلة من مزرعة رجل فلسطيني بعد ضربه بعنف في فلسطين المحتلة حجم الظلم كبير، ولا يمكن الصمت عن هذا الإرهاب !

This Holocaust Remembrance Day I choose to remember Folke Bernadotte, a Swedish count and diplomat who, as vice-president of the Swedish Red Cross, managed to save more than 30k prisoners from concentration camps during World War II. In 1948 he was appointed by the UN to be the mediator in Palestine. His WWII past didn't help him when the Stern Gang (Lehi), a Zionist miltia, made him the target of a defamation campaign and released a caricature (attached) of him being kicked out of Palestine while giving the Nazi salute, with the text: "A suggestion to the agent Bernadotte: get out of our country". After Bernadotte didn't comply with the "suggestion" he was assassinated in Jerusalem by the Lehi on September 19th, 1948, along with the head of the UN's French military observers in Palestine. One of the commanders of the Lehi at the time, who was responsible for ordering the hit, was Yitzhak Shamir, later the Prime Minister of Israel.

Çok fazla şehit var çok !!! Gazze'deki Şati Kampı 1 saat önce yoğun saldırıya uğradı ve tüm dünyada Akıl Tutulması devam ediyor... Görmüyorlar. Duymuyorlar. Bilmiyorlar. Müslümanlar ve ey vicdanlı insanlar !!! Sakın bu gece uyumayın !!! Uyumayın. Çünkü #GazzeÖlüyor

Because President Trump @POTUS, his @BoardOfPeace, and High Rep. @nmladenov allow Israel to continue assassinating CIVILIAN police officers throughout Gaza, 3-year-old child Yahya Al-Malahi is dead today. An Israeli drone fired a missile into a police vehicle on Al-Nafaq Street in Gaza City, killing the officer inside and civilians nearby — 4 dead total, including the child. His father said they had just left a family wedding. The UN has directly credited Gaza’s civilian police with the near-total collapse in aid looting — including by Israel-backed gangs operating under what a UN memo described as Israeli military “protection.” Israel has continued to assassinate officers with total impunity in the six months since it agreed to a ceasefire. Footage by journalist Khames Alrefi

Palestine Action defendants are blocked from explaining their motives or mentioning Israel, genocide, or the target of their actions The British state is destroying its own courts to protect Israel's apartheid system We are reporting this because British media can not

The Gaza ceasefire brokered by Donald Trump has effectively collapsed for weeks. Israel is escalating killings and airstrikes against civilians—just moments ago, five people were killed in Al-Shati refugee camp west of Gaza City.

Sexual violence against Palestinians in Israeli prisons and detention centers constitutes a de facto state policy, used as a tool of subjugation and destruction, with a sharp escalation since October 7, 2023, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor found in a new report titled “Another Genocide Behind Walls.” The report documents direct sexual assault, rape and assault with objects, and torture targeting genitals, as well as organized practices including filming and the collective presence of security personnel during assaults — evidence the report says points to the institutional and systematic nature of the crimes. The Young Turks’ Ana Kasparian reported some of the details. More details in linked thread. 🧵

This is one of the most heartbreaking stories coming out of Gaza. For nine months, 37-year-old Raed al-Mureidi has been trapped in a medical nightmare. While searching for food for his family at a U.S./Israeli aid distribution point, aka Kill Zones, Raed was shot in the head by the Israeli terrorist forces. The bullet fractured his skull, leaving him paralyzed and unable to speak. As his condition deteriorates, a mass has begun to form in his head. Because of the ongoing brutal Israeli blockade and the destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system, the surgery he needs to survive is impossible to get locally. Israel and its terrorist system have denied his travel permit for nearly a year. Raed is now a symbol of thousands of others caught in a savage system that blocks both food and the medicine needed to survive. The heartbreaking video is below.

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This week, I will be forcing a vote to block nearly $500 million in bombs and bulldozers to Israel.  Enough is enough. U.S. taxpayers must not keep funding the Netanyahu government’s mass killing and displacement of civilians in Gaza, Iran and Lebanon.

“Another genocide behind walls”: New report documents testimonies of rape and sexual violence in Israeli prisons euromedmonitor.org/a/7022

Once transferred to detention, Palestinian prisoners and detainees encounter a system that functions as state-run torture camps, where they face severe violations that include systematic sexual violence as a means of subjugation and destruction euromedmonitor.org/a/7022

🧵#THREAD | Sexual violence against Palestinians in Israeli prisons and detention centres constitutes a de facto state policy, used as a tool of subjugation and destruction, with a sharp escalation and the removal of prior restraints since 7 October 2023 ⤵️

A new report by the Euro-Med Monitor documents dozens of testimonies from Palestinian victims from the Gaza Strip who were subjected to sexual violence, including rape, inside Israeli prisons and detention centres

Since 7 October 2023, Palestinian women and girls from #Gaza have faced systematic and institutionalised sexual violence, including forced public stripping, physical harassment, threats of rape, and repeated rapes at gunpoint euromedmonitor.org/a/7022

Girls’ and women’s bodies were used as tools of coercion and blackmail in Israeli detention. Euro-Med Monitor documented threats to rape detainees’ wives or daughters to force confessions, and threats of rape against women to extract information about male relatives.

Sexual violence against Palestinians in Israeli prisons and detention centres constitutes a de facto state policy, used as a tool of subjugation and destruction, with a sharp escalation and the removal of prior restraints since 7 October 2023. A new Euro-Med Monitor report documents widespread patterns of sexual violence, including rape, against detainees from the #Gaza Strip, describing it as a tool of destruction aimed at breaking individual and collective will and inflicting severe physical and psychological harm. The report cites direct sexual assault, assault with objects, and torture targeting the genitals, as well as organised practices such as filming and the presence of multiple security personnel during assaults, which reinforces evidence of the institutional and systematic nature of these crimes. These violations intersect with detention policies that inflict severe, lasting physical and psychological harm, including injuries that cause permanent disability and, in some cases, impair reproductive function. The report relied primarily on live testimonies from Palestinian former detainees from the Gaza Strip who were released by Israeli forces in recent weeks and months and who reported being subjected to various forms of systematic sexual violence. Khaled Ahmad, a researcher at Euro-Med Monitor, said that accessing cases of sexual violence and documenting testimony was “nearly impossible.” “We knew there were dozens of cases of rape and sexual assault, but in a conservative society, it is extremely difficult for someone to come forward and say they were raped,” he added. “Despite the difficulties, we managed to reach some cases, but most were male, because the context of sexual assault against women in Palestinian society carries greater and more complex consequences. Therefore, it is extremely difficult for a woman to say she was assaulted.” Ahmad also confirmed that Euro-Med Monitor was unable to access or obtain consent to document dozens of other cases, adding: “We know that the number of people subjected to sexual violence is higher than expected, and that there are dozens of other male and female victims who were raped or sexually assaulted and chose to remain silent.” MORE: euromedmonitor.org/en/article/7022

In a new extensive report, Euro-Med Monitor documented dozens of testimonies from Palestinians in #Gaza who reported systematic sexual violence, including rape, in Israeli prisons and detention centres. 🧵Thread featuring some of the testimonies

@JonathanPeled GO to the west bank any day of the week, and time of day, for the past 3 decades, and you’s find some version of this terrorist goon. A stereotype is a stereotype for a reason.

Condanniamo fermamente l’uso manipolatorio della recente copertina de L’Espresso. L'immagine distorce la complessa realtà con cui Israele deve convivere, promuovendo stereotipi e odio. Un giornalismo responsabile deve essere equilibrato e corretto. #MediaResponsibility