The US rejects the report that the United Nations General Assembly will receive // At least 50 dead in Tel Aviv’s offensives in the strip, Beirut and Damascus
▲ Attacks and forced displacement ordered by Israel in the strip have led its population to inhumane situations. In the image, a girl carries water to her shelter in Deir al Balh.Xinhua Photo
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Friday, November 15, 2024, p. 24
Jerusalem. The methods of war used in Gaza have the characteristics of a genocidestated yesterday a special committee of the United Nations (UN) in charge of investigating Israel’s practices during its offensive, while Human Rights Watch assured that the repeated evacuation orders in the strip constitute a forced transfer war crime and of ethnic cleansing in parts of the Palestinian territory.
In the report, which covers the period from the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israeli territory to July of this year, the committee highlighted the massive civilian losses and conditions imposed on Palestinians, intentionally endangering their livesand pointed out the Israeli government for use hunger as a method of war .
The document will be presented on Monday at the UN General Assembly in New York.
The United States criticized the committee’s conclusion. That is something we absolutely disagree with.reacted the spokesperson for the State Department, Vedant Patel. We believe that these types of phrases and those types of accusations are certainly unfounded..
In February of this year, Israeli forces used more than 25 thousand tons of explosives throughout the strip, the equivalent of two nuclear bombsindicates the report, which seems to allude to the impact of the bomb dropped by the United States on Hiroshima during World War II.
The Tel Aviv military campaign has already left 43,736 dead in the enclave, according to Palestinian authorities.
Meanwhile, “Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accumulated evidence that Israeli authorities are committing the war crime of ‘forced transfer’,” states the 172-page document based on interviews with displaced Gazans, satellite images and reporting. public carried out until August 2024, said Nadia Hardman, researcher at HRW, an organization that added that Israeli actions appear to fit the definition of ethnic cleansing in areas where Palestinians will not be able to return.
The body that monitors respect for human rights in the world stated that there was no no plausible imperative military reason to justify the mass displacement of 90 percent of Gaza’s population of 2 million people, with many individuals forced several times in the 13 months since the current campaign began to leave their place of residence or refuge.
Jerusalem, under threat
In this context, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) published on the social network Israel must immediately end its illegal plans to evict an entire Palestinian neighborhood in the heart of Jerusalemwhen referring to the Al Bustan community center. Three Palestinians, including a child and a pregnant woman, were displaced, bringing to 68 the number of people in that town in that situation since January 2024.
Another hundred structures, housing at least 1,500 Palestinians, are under imminent threat of demolition as Israeli troops move forward with a plan to replace the neighborhood with a new settlement. This measure is designed to lead to the forced transfer of the entire communitystated the OHCHR.
In the field of war, Tel Aviv’s attacks continued on Gaza, Lebanon and Syria, with a death toll of at least fifty. The authorities of the strip, a Palestinian territory, reported 25 dead and 112 injured in at least three killings committed in the 24 hours prior to the report.
In Lebanon, Israel again attacked the southern suburbs of Beirut, carrying out at least four airstrikes, Al Jazeera reported, and in the Baalbek region, a bombing on a two-story building left nine dead and five wounded.
The US ambassador to Lebanon presented the speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, Nabih Berri, with a draft proposal for a truce between Hezbollah and Israel, two political sources told Reuters.
In Syria, Israel carried out two air offensives against the Mazzeh neighborhood in Damascus and the suburb of Qudsaya, resulting in the deaths of 20 people, the Sana agency reported.
Bernie Sanders urges US to stop arms sales
The war in Gaza has been carried out almost entirely with American weapons and 18 billion taxpayer dollars. We cannot continue to be complicit in this war by providing more military aid and weapons to the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Congress must act to block these arms salessaid the Democratic senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders, on the social network
Meanwhile, Israeli authorities completed the demolition of a village in their territory after years of fighting by members of the country’s Bedouin Arab minority against relocation plans.
Three members of the town council were arrested before the demolition began, said Nati Yefet, the spokesman for the Regional Council for Unrecognized Peoples in the Negev.
Israel’s Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, celebrated the measure, and published on the social network X that demolition orders have increased 400 percent so far this year.