Dutch conservative PM Mark Rutte urges Israel to stop its offensive on Rafah.

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GENEVA (4 June 2024) – UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk today issued a renewed call for an end to the sharp rise in deadly violence in the occupied West Bank since 7 October, and urged accountability for the killing of over 500 Palestinians by Israeli Security Forces (ISF) and settlers.

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Background story on https://t.iss.one/warfareanalysis/48833

In November, human rights lawyer Rabea Eghbariah was set to be the first Palestinian published in the Harvard Law Review. Then his essay was killed.

Yesterday, he became the first in the Columbia Law Review. Then the Board of Directors took the whole site down.

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Anadolu:

Amount of Israeli bombs dropped on Gaza surpasses that of World War II

Israel dropped 70,000 tons of bombs on Gaza Strip since last October, exceeding World War II bombings in Dresden, Hamburg, London combined, according to Euro-Med Human Rights.

The Germans bombed London, dropping around 18,300 tons of bombs between 1940 and 1941, according to various estimates, including archives from the New York Times.

The Allies dropped 8,500 tons of bombs on Hamburg in the summer of 1943, said Hendrik Althoff, a research fellow at the Department of History at the University of Hamburg.

The Allies also used 3,900 tons of bombs on Dresden in February 1945, according to historical records.

It is estimated that Israel has dropped more than 70,000 tons of explosives on the Gaza Strip in addition to its bulldozing operations.

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Update on Alkasheff
(previous posts:
https://t.iss.one/warfareanalysis/44342
https://t.iss.one/warfareanalysis/45374
https://t.iss.one/warfareanalysis/45596)

Summary: the IDF has a site where it blackmails Palestinians into collaborating with the occupation.

Tech4Palestine and Zionism Observer need our help to shut the site down, as it has migrated to its third web host.

All the information to do so quickly and effectively can be found at shadyidf(DOT)com

Help us out!


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Officials for the Hebrew channel Kan:

Israel requires guarantees from the United States to continue the war if Hamas obstructs the implementation of the deal

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Update on https://t.iss.one/warfareanalysis/48730

Grayson Beare, a self-proclaimed Zionist, murdered a mother & wife, Halima Hoosen-Preston, stabbing her repeatedly. He also stabbed & critically injured Halima’s husband & son.

His father is Julian Beare, CEO of Beare Holdings, an Ex-Director of Grindrod, and, a Trustee of the Durban Holocaust and Genocide Centre at The Durban Jewish Club.

He did this because Halima & her family stood up for the freedom of Palestine.

He has appeared in a Durban court on charges of murder and attempted murder.

The case was postponed to 11 June for a mental assessment and possible bail hearing.

The State said it was opposed to bail.

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Hadshot Bazaman: Evacuation of the synagogues in Meron for fear of strikes

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Iran's acting foreign minister, Ali Bagheri, and his Lebanese counterpart, Abdallah Bou Habib, have agreed to adopt a "joint effort to confront Israeli aggression and protect the Palestinian people, especially in Rafah".

Context: this is big, because Iran got the support of the Foreign Minister of Lebanon, so the US/UK/EU can no longer claim that only “terrorists” in Lebanon support the stopping of the aggression on Palestine.

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