The European Union should suspend its trade and institutional ties with Israel to deter war crimes that amount to genocide in the Gaza Strip, the UN’s special rapporteur on Palestine has said.
“Europe is the main trading partner - which accounts I think for 30% of Israel’s trade - so it has a huge power and it should use that power. In the end, this is not an option, it’s an obligation because Article 2 of that association agreement foresees the suspension in case of violations of human rights,” she added.
Albanese said the EU’s reluctance to use the measures in its power to hold Israel to account perpetuates Israel’s impunity and reveals a “disconnect” between Europe’s political class and the large portion of European society that has persistently called for a ceasefire in the besieged Gaza Strip.
She also said EU leaders need to take more concrete counter-measures against Israel, including revoking diplomatic recognition and targeted sanctions on government officials.
The idea that Israel is committing genocide is ludicrous. If they wanted to they could turn Gaza into glass. Instead they have been performing precision strikes for months on end, and despite it being an extremely dense urban environment, they’ve only killed maybe 30k civilians. No other nation has gone to such great lengths to minimize civilian casualties in war than Israel has. But instead of getting commended, they get vilified and blood libeled. Sickening.
You mean israel waits until suspects are home with their family to kill them instead of bombing them on the battlefield. Trying to maximize civilian casualties.
And systematically starves all Palestinians using hunger as a weapon or war.
Genocide denial is already over. Currently the Hasbara narrative is that Israels very high civilians casualties are necessary.
The linked article is unverifiable: the original “source” has provided no corroborating evidence to support their story (and they are quite clearly biased in all their reporting…), and a google search only returned results which eventually led back to the original “news” organization. Not going to put much stock in that story.
Israel is facilitating the entrance of approximately 1.2 pounds of food per person in Gaza at the moment, and has been since the early days of the war. If civilians in Gaza are starving, which I believe they are based on all available information, then the fault lies squarely with Hamas, who continues to steal virtually all aid that enters the Gaza Strip and use it to further their violent and genocidal agenda.
TL;DR: Link to unverifiable story with no sources, and a blood libel. Great stuff /s
Blood libel really is the new favorite Hasbara catchphrase of the day.
She wrote this report proving israel is committing Genocide. Maybe you missed it. Collective starvation of a population doesn’t leave room for interpretation.
Anatomy of a Genocide - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese (A/HRC/55/73) (Advance unedited version)
Not to rain on this parade, but the EU took forever to sanction even fucking russia, and even that never became a complete cut in trade.
True but it did take a lot less civilian casualties. Israel has killed more than three times the amount of civilians as Russia so far, percentually far more children.
True but it did take a lot less civilian casualties.
And so ? Are the civilians from Ukraine less worth than the civilians from Gaza ? What is the number at which the EU should do something then ?
Of course not. The point of sanctions should be that when the war crimes get so bad the comes financial pressure to stop doing them.
I agree. But the problem is to understand who is committing a war crime. In this situation, by the international laws, both side are committing a war crime, technically. So, who we should hit with the sanctions ?
By international law only israel has committed a war crime as it condones resistance against occupation by any means necessary.
Also the israeli blockade on Palestine is one of the most flagrant violations of humanitarian law and already “sanctions” Palestinians.
By international law only israel has committed a war crime as it condones resistance against occupation by any means necessary.
By international laws, also fighting without an uniform is a crime.
By international laws, you must not use human shields. The Geneva convention also stipulate that if you don’t apply it with me, you have no right to ask to be applied to you.So, we are still sure that only one side is committing a war crime ? If not, why not ask also to the other side to respect the international laws.
And if we decide this is not a war but an act of terrorism, why we should ask to the victim side (in this specific occasion) to respect a law that do not apply to the situation and let the offending side to do what it want ? Only because they are playing dirty ?
Also the israeli blockade on Palestine is one of the most flagrant violations of humanitarian law and already “sanctions” Palestinians.
Gaza has a border with Egypt and, as far as I know, Israel cannot do anything to close this border (aside attacking Egypt of course). So, at the minimum, we should also punish Egypt for blocking the Palestinians.
The Geneva convention also stipulate that if you don’t apply it with me, you have no right to ask to be applied to you.
See the funny part here is that israel is the party that has ignored international law for the last 75 years. We’re doing some weird history reversal here by saying that it’s the Palestinians fault for not following it.
If israel had followed international law there would have never been retaliation from Gaza.
we should also punish Egypt for blocking the Palestinians.
We do not of course. As we personally supply Egypt with weapons and billions in loans to keep their corrupt government in power to help israel surpress the Palestinians and the rest of the Egyptian population. Sisi is an American puppet.
Hamas is still holding innocent Israelis hostage and sexually assaulting them.
If Morocco sent gangs over the Spanish border to rape and murder (even babies) and took hundreds of hostages, no-one would ask Spain to negotiate a ceasefire while the hostages are still suffering.
Hamas must be destroyed. It’s disgusting that the EU and UN have been funding them directly.
Oh no more “beheaded raped babies in ovens from pregnant bellies”.
It’s a sad state of affairs that people are still repeating this complete propaganda.
