Washington to Tel Aviv: End War by End of Year – The Economist

PALESTAINE CHRONICALE
December 11, 2023

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken with Israeli President Isaac Herzog. (Photo: via Herzog TW Page)

Washington has called on Israel to speed up its operations as international condemnation over its offensive rises.

Israel must wrap up its war against Hamas by the end of this year or risk losing Washington’s support for its offensive in Gaza, The Economist has reported, citing sources with knowledge of diplomatic discussions between the two allies.

Under fire ICC prosecutor calls for Israel, Hamas to adhere to international law

DOHA NEWS
Fatemeh Salari
December 4, 2023

Karim Khan has been criticised by Palestinian groups for failing to visit Gaza, while undertaking a four-day trip to Israel.

International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan called on both Israel and Hamas to adhere to international law.

Khan, concluding his four-day visit to Israel and the occupied West Bank, emphasised that “all actors must comply with international humanitarian law. If you do not do so, do not complain when my office is required to act”.

Death toll mounts as Israel expands ground operation to every part of Gaza Strip

ARAB NEWS
AP
December 03, 2023

An injured man is carried away after a house was hit by Israeli bombing in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on December 3, 2023. (AFP)

• Gaza media office reported at least 700 people killed by Israeli bombing overnight
• Israeli settlers attacked two Palestinian villages in West Bank, killing one man

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip: Israel on Sunday ordered more evacuations in and around Gaza’s second-largest city of Khan Younis, followed by heavy bombardment, as the military’s offensive shifted to the southern half of the territory where Israeli officials assert that leaders of the Hamas militant group are hiding.

US VP Harris calls for restraint as Israel strikes southern Gaza

ARAB NEWS
December 03, 2023 

A handout picture released by the Jordanian Royal Palace shows King Abdullah II meeting US Vice President Kamala Harris on the sidelines of the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, on Dec. 2, 2023. (AFP/Jordanian Royal Hashemite Court)

• Jordan’s King Abdullah II and the US Vice President Kamala Harris meet in Dubai on the sidelines of COP28
• King Abdullah stressed the need for the US to play a leading role in pushing for a political horizon for the Palestinian issue to reach peace on the basis of the two-state solution

GAZA/CAIRO: US Vice President Kamala Harris said too many innocent Palestinians had been killed in Gaza as Israeli war planes and artillery bombarded the enclave on Saturday following the collapse of a truce with Hamas militants.

Families of Bedouin hostages wait for news as Gaza fighting resumes

ARAB NEWS
Reuters
December 03, 2023

Photo of shows Israeli released hostages siblings Bilal, second right and Aisha Al-Ziyadne, left, reuniting with their family at Soroka Medical Center, Israel. (GPO/AP)

• “There were tough times, we always had hope”
• Bedouin Arabs make up about 4 percent of Israel’s population

TIRABIN AL SANA, Israel: The family members of four Bedouin Arabs taken hostage on Oct. 7 during the assault on southern Israel by Hamas gunmen have welcomed the return of two of the captives but wait for news of the others as fighting resumes in the Gaza Strip.

Saudi Arabia rejects Israel’s ‘attempts at forced displacement’ of Gazans

AL ARABIA NEWS
Published: 21 October ,2023

People salvage belongings from the rubble of a building levelled in an Israeli strike on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on October 15, 2023. (AFP)

Saudi Arabia rejects “attempts at forced displacement” of the people of Gaza by Israel, Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan said on Saturday at the Cairo Peace summit.

Israel Expands Ground Assault Into Gaza As Fears Rise Over Airstrikes Near Crowded Hospitals

AP
Najib Jobain, Samy Magdy and Lee Keath
Oct 30, 2023, 

All 10 hospitals operating in northern Gaza have received evacuation orders, the U.N.’s office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs said.

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli ground forces pushed deeper into Gaza on Monday, advancing in tanks and other armored vehicles on the territory’s main city and freeing a soldier held captive by Hamas militants. The Israeli prime minister rejected calls for a cease-fire, even as airstrikes landed near hospitals where thousands of Palestinians are sheltering beside the wounded.

The military said a female soldier captured during Hamas’ brutal Oct. 7 incursion was rescued in Gaza — the first since the weekslong war began. It provided few details, but said in a statement that Pvt. Ori Megidish “is doing well” and had met with her family.

Israel Sold Advanced Weapons to Myanmar During anti-Rohingya Ethnic Cleansing Campaign

HAARETZ
Gili Cohen

Oct 24, 2017

 

 Israeli-made navy patrol boats custom-fitted with remote weapon stations are part of arms deals estimated to be worth tens of millions.

An Israeli Super-Dvora MK III sold to Myanmar during its anti-Rohingya ethnic cleansing campaign. Credit: Myanmar NAVY

“Welcome to the Myanmar Navy,” said the caption on the Myanmar Navy’s Facebook page, in honor of the arrival of an Israeli patrol boat to Myanmar’s shore. “The Super-Dvora MK III is moving forward at 45 knots on Myanmar waters,” the post continued. The post is from April, only half a year ago, when the Myanmar (Burmese) army was already being accused of war crimes.

UN Report Slams Israel for Selling Arms to Myanmar Army despite Muslim Rohingya ‘Genocide’

PALESTAINE CHRONIC
August 5, 2019
Blog, News

 Myanmar officials attended weapons conference in Tel Aviv, despite weapons ban over Rohingya genocide. (Photo: via Social Media)

A United Nations fact-finding mission called on Monday for an embargo on arms sales to Myanmar and for targeted sanctions on businesses with connections to the military after finding they are funding human rights abuses.

UN investigators detailed how businesses run by Myanmar’s army, also known as the Tatmadaw, are engaged in such violations and provide financial support for military operations such as efforts to force Muslim Rohingya out of Rakhine state in what has been branded a “genocide”.

 

Putin has a history of atrocities. Just how far will Russian forces go in Ukraine?

THE GUARDIAN
Kenneth Roth
Thu 3 Mar 2022
Kenneth Roth is executive director of Human Rights Watch


We have already seen indiscriminate use of cluster munitions, and the firing of ballistic missiles and rocket artillery

 

What can be done to stop a worsening spiral of indiscriminate warfare that would endanger countless Ukrainian civilians?’ People shelter from Russian attacks in a Kyiv underground station on Wednesday. Photograph: Roman Pilipey/EPA


As Russian forces invading Ukraine confront stronger and more effective resistance than the Kremlin probably anticipated, the big question is: what comes next. The Russian military has a history of meeting such resistance with serious violations of the laws of war, including deliberately targeting civilians and subjecting them to indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks.

Atrocity Alert No. 253: Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Myanmar (Burma) and Colombia Format

GLOBAL CENTRE
FOR THE RESPONSIBILITY
TO PROTECT
19 May 2021
ATROCITY ALERT

Atrocity Alert is a weekly publication by the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect highlighting situations where populations are at risk of, or are enduring, mass atrocity crimes.

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WAR CRIMES CONTINUE IN GAZA CONFLICT

As the war in the Gaza Strip has intensified over the past week, Israeli forces have displayed reckless disregard for the lives of Palestinians in the blockaded enclave, carrying out hundreds of airstrikes targeting residential buildings in one of the most densely populated areas in the world. Since 10 May at least 219 Palestinians, including 61 children, have been killed and over 1,500 injured by Israeli airstrikes. Airstrikes hit Shateh refugee camp on 15 May, killing 10 civilians, and also targeted a multi-story building that includes the media offices of Al Jazeera and the Associated Press. At least 130 buildings – including 17 hospitals and Gaza’s only laboratory for COVID-19 testing – have now been seriously damaged or destroyed, forcibly displacing over 58,000 Palestinians. Gaza’s sewerage system and water supply have also been damaged by airstrikes, with the UN reporting that 800,000 Gazans now lack access to safe drinking water. These attacks, which appear to deliberately ignore the principles of proportionality and distinction, may amount to war crimes under international law.

Myanmar’s genocidal military is still a friend to Israel

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By Eitay Mack 

April 23, 2021

Public pressure has forced Israel to halt arms sales to the brutal military junta, but the state’s political support remains strong.

Myanmar's military marches in a parade in the city of Naypyidaw, Myanmar, March 27, 2021. (Mil.ru/CC BY 4.0)

The message that the world was silent during the extermination of Jews during the Holocaust is routinely cited by the State of Israel and its Holocaust museum, Yad Vashem. And yet, Israel itself is complicit in silence surrounding a present-day atrocity: the crimes committed by the Myanmar military junta, which Israel is supporting with weapons, training, and political backing. Although legal, media, and public pressure has forced some change in Israel’s defense export policy to Myanmar, political support for the junta has remained strong.

Will Israel Break Up With Burma?

THE NATIONAL INTEREST

by Daniel J. Samet
February 10, 2021

The Israel-Burma defense relationship has not been without controversy.

In his first foreign policy-related speech as president, given February 4 at the State Department, President Joe Biden spoke about the “close cooperation with our allies and partners” as he addressed the recent coup in Burma. The United States, he said, will “work with our partners to support restoration of democracy and the rule of law and impose consequences on those responsible.”

That’ll be a cinch, right? A look at Israel, which was not among the allies and partners Biden went on to name, suggests the reverse. Israeli ties to the Burmese military may make the country well-positioned to impose consequences but getting Jerusalem to do so is another story.

Israel's defense sales reach $7.2 billion

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Abdelraouf Arnaout 

JERUSALEM 

22.06.2020

In recent years, Israel faced accusations of selling weapons to regimes that are accused of committing crimes 

Israel's arms sales have reached $7.2 billion in 2019, the Israeli Defense Ministry said on Monday.

"Despite the intense International challenges and competition, we have managed to keep Israel among the world's top 10 security exporters with a market share of over $7 billion," said Yair Kulas, head of the ministry's exports and defense cooperation division.

Why Are Old Myanmar-Israel Military Links Under New Scrutiny?

THE I DIPLOMAT

By Prashanth Parameswaran

June 11, 2019

A closer look at another round of scrutiny on defense collaboration between the two sides.

Last week, media reports surfaced that Myanmar military officials had attended an Israeli military expo, in spite of human rights issues that had led Israel to restrict aspects of security collaboration between the two countries. While the specifics remain unclear, the reports have nonetheless contributed to yet another round of scrutiny on the defense aspect of Israel-Myanmar cooperation.

Israel arms expo hosts Myanmar military officials despite weapons ban over Rohingya genocide

The New Arab
11/06/2019

Myanmar military officials have been spotted at an arms expo in Israel despite a ban on arms sales to the country over the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims.

Photos published in Israeli media last week showed Myanmar military officials in uniform touring the weapons and security conference in Israel last week.

Representatives from foreign militaries, including from countries with no official diplomatic relations with Israel, also attended the arms expo.