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Cake day: March 16th, 2024

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  • This news isn’t as good as it first appears unfortunately:

    State attorney Aner Helman told the court that 700 inmates had been moved to Ofer military facility in the occupied West Bank, with another 500 set to be transferred in the weeks to come. Around 200 detainees will remain in Sde Teiman, said Helman

    So, they’re not even shutting down their Abu Ghraib in Sde Teiman, but they’re moving the bulk of it to a detention camp called Ofer. Except:

    Last week, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said the military launched a probe into the allegations of mistreatment at Sde Teiman, as well as at Anatot and Ofer

    In other words Ofer’s already a shit show of human rights abuses as well. They’re just shuffling people around their various camps.









  • It’s a point that only makes sense if you don’t pay attention to international geopolitics.

    Small countries have a vested interest in the upholding of international law because they are vulnerable, so they quite often stick their heads up above the parapet for it. E.g. when the Rohingya Genocide occurred in South East Asia a small country in West Africa, The Gambia, are the ones who took them to the ICC.

    As for South Africa, it has a very long history of criticizing Israel for its apartheid. Bishop Desmond Tutu made international headlines by calling it an apartheid after his visit to Israel and Palestine. Moreover, during Apartheid South Africa era, Israel was one of the big weapons suppliers to the Apartheid regime (which was at war with its neighbour) when many countries were boycotting it.

    The entire African Union are quite sensitive about what Israel does.

    If you know anything about history, it makes perfect sense that South Africans would be leading the charge here (which they have done consistently).


  • The UN officials aren’t saying any of those things. Here’s a tldr of the issue

    • The platform is meant to be in Northern Gaza where the worst of the starvation is

    • Israel wants it to be moved south to an Israeli choke point

    • Israel is about to close the crossings in South Gaza so it can attack Rafah

    • If the tiny amount of aid that can come in is able to be diverted to South Gaza then Israel may face less international condemnation over this phase of the Gaza genocide.

    Please help me understand why delivering food and medicine to Gaza is bad.

    If there is a starving child and you can choose to deliver them the nutrients they need but instead you choose to give them half a peanut instead, in a really theatrical way, that’s obviously bad right?

    That’s what’s happening here.








  • UNRWA also said that its staff had been detained while carrying out their duties in Gaza, being held in the same conditions as the other detainees.

    They were interrogated about their work and threatened to make false confessions about the UN agency, including that it had links with Hamas.

    Among the forms of torture the UNRWA staff were subjected to were severe beatings, being forced to strip naked, threats of rape and electrocution, threats of violence and murder at gunpoint, attacks by dogs, and threats against the lives of their families.