Lives Ended in Gaza

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CHRISTOF WACKERNAGELMetamorphose/Metamorphosis

 In 30, 50 oder 100 Jahren, wenn die menschliche Spezies noch da ist, wird sich wohl herausstellen, ob der Autor Recht hatte, als er behauptete, dass die 2020er Jahre die Geburt des Biofaschismus erlebten. In der Zwischenzeit ist dies eine Brandschrift, die den Handpuppen des Kapitals die Maske vom Gesicht reißt. Dringend lesenswert!

In 30, 50 or 100 years' time, if the human species still exists, history will tell whether the author was right in asserting that the 2020s saw the birth of biofascism. In the meantime, here's a scathing pamphlet that rips the masks off capital's puppets. A must-read!

 

Gazans Fled Their Homes.They Have Nowhere to Return to‘It’s Mind-blowing’: 1.7 Million Palestinians Escaped Israel’s Bombardment of Gaza. Most of Their Homes Have Been Damaged or Destroyed

Yarden Michaeli and Avi Scharf

Haaretz – Israel News

Satellites reveal the vast devastation across the Gaza Strip. The new reality that the Israel Defense Forces’ operations have created will affect the entire region for years. This is how it looks One of Israel’s most dramatic acts in the war, which erupted following Hamas’ terror attack, is the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Gazans from their homes and the destruction of large swaths of the Strip. Residents, military officials and journalists describe scenes of vast devastation. « It’s like after an atomic bomb, » one of them reported in Haaretz after visiting northern Gaza. An accurate estimation of the destruction is a challenging task due to the fog of war – and as the IDF restricts entry by journalists. But it’s possible to create a map of the destruction using satellite data, which shows that at least half of all the buildings in the enclave are likely to have been damaged or destroyed, according to American researchers. Most of the destruction is in the north, but bitter fighting is also underway in the south, as is seen in the satellite data. Some 1.7 million Gazans have fled their homes during the war, and most of them are now in the south, the United Nations says. Huge tent cities have been put up along the Egyptian border. A new humanitarian, security and diplomatic reality has emerged, and it will shape the region for years to come.

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Hamas' Preliminary Response To a General Framework for a Comprehensive Agreement among the Parties

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النص الحرفي لرد «حماس» على «اتفاقية الإطار»

Here is the full text of the response to the Paris proposal that Hamas delivered to Qatari and Egyptian mediators earlier today Feb. 6, 2024, translated by Resistance News Network. The American and zionist sides received a copy of the 3-page-long response, including amendments to the “Framework Agreement” proposal, in addition to a special appendix of guarantees and demands aimed at stopping the aggression and addressing its affects.

Draft - Preliminary Response/ the Hamas Movement's Response To a General Framework for a Comprehensive Agreement among the Parties (between the "israeli" occupation, Hamas, and the Palestinian factions)

This agreement aims to stop the mutual military operations between the parties, achieve complete and lasting calm, exchange prisoners between the two sides, end the blockade on Gaza, reconstruction, return of residents and displaced persons to their homes, and provide shelter and relief requirements for all residents in all areas of the Gaza Strip, according to the following stages:

 First Stage (45 days):

This humanitarian stage aims at releasing all "israeli" detainees from among women and children (under the age of 19, not conscripted), the elderly, and the sick, in exchange for a specific number of Palestinian prisoners, in addition to intensifying humanitarian aid, redeployment of forces outside populated areas, allowing the commencement of reconstruction of hospitals, houses, and facilities in all areas of the Strip, and permitting the United Nations and its agencies to provide humanitarian services, and establishing housing camps for the population, as follows:

- A temporary cessation of military operations, cessation of aerial reconnaissance, and redeployment of "israeli" forces away from populated areas in the entire Gaza Strip, to be aligned with the dividing line, enabling the parties to complete the exchange of detainees and prisoners.

- The two parties will release "israeli" detainees from among women and children (under the age of 19, not conscripted), the elderly, and the sick, in exchange for a number of Palestinian prisoners, ensuring the release of all individuals whose names are pre-agreed upon during this stage.

- Intensification of the entry of necessary and sufficient quantities for the population's needs (to be determined) of humanitarian aid and fuel daily, allowing appropriate quantities of humanitarian aid to reach all areas in the Gaza Strip including the north of the Strip, and the return of displaced persons to their residences in all areas of the Strip.

- Reconstruction of hospitals across the Strip and introducing what necessary for establishing population camps/tents for sheltering the population, and resumption of all humanitarian services provided to the population by the United Nations and its agencies.

- Beginning of (indirect) negotiations regarding the requirements necessary for restoring complete calm.

- The attached appendix with details of the first stage is an integral part of this agreement, with the agreement on details of the second and third stages during the implementation of the first stage.

Second Stage (45 days):

The completion of (indirect) negotiations regarding the requirements necessary for the continued cessation of mutual military operations and return to a state of complete calm must be announced before implementing the second stage.

This stage aims to release all detained men (civilians and conscripts), in exchange for specific numbers of Palestinian prisoners, continuation of humanitarian measures from the first stage, withdrawal of "israeli" forces outside the borders of all Gaza Strip areas, and commencement of comprehensive reconstruction of houses, facilities, and infrastructure destroyed in all areas of the Gaza Strip, according to specific mechanisms that ensure implementation of this and the complete end of the siege on the Gaza Strip, as agreed upon in the first stage.

Third Stage (45 days):

This stage aims at exchanging the bodies and remains of the deceased between the two sides after identification, and continuation of humanitarian measures from the first and second stages, according to what will be agreed upon in the first and second stages.

Framework Agreement Appendix: Details of the First Stage

- Complete cessation of military operations from both sides, and stopping all forms of aerial activities including reconnaissance, throughout this stage.

- Redeployment of "israeli" forces away from populated areas in the entire Gaza Strip, to be aligned with the dividing line to the east and north, enabling the parties to complete the exchange of detainees and prisoners.

- Both parties will release "israeli" detainees from among women and children (under the age of 19, not conscripted), the elderly, and the sick, in exchange for all prisoners in the occupation's prisons including women, children, elderly (above 50 years), and the sick who were arrested up to the date of signing this agreement without exception, in addition to 1,500 Palestinian prisoners, of whom Hamas will name 500 with life sentences and high sentences.

- Completion of necessary legal procedures ensuring that the released Palestinian and Arab prisoners are not re-arrested for the same charges for which they were arrested.

- The mutual and simultaneous release in a manner that ensures the release of all individuals listed in the pre-agreed lists during this stage, with names and lists exchanged before implementation.

- Improvement of conditions for prisoners in the occupation's prisons and lifting of measures and sanctions imposed after October 7th, 2023.

- Stopping the incursions and aggression by "israeli" settlers on Al-Aqsa Mosque and returning the situation in Al-Aqsa Mosque to what it was before 2002.

- Intensifying the entry of necessary and sufficient quantities for the residents' needs (no less than 500 trucks) of humanitarian aid and fuel daily, allowing appropriate quantities of humanitarian aid to reach all areas of the Strip, especially the north of the Gaza Strip.

- The return of displaced persons to their residences in all areas of the Strip, ensuring the freedom of movement of residents and citizens by all means of transport without hindrance in all areas of the Gaza Strip, especially from the south to the north.

- Ensuring the opening of all crossings with the Gaza Strip, resumption of trade, and allowing the freedom of movement of individuals and goods without obstacles.

- Lifting any "israeli" restrictions on the movement of travelers, patients, and the wounded through the Rafah crossing.

- Ensuring all wounded men, women, and children are allowed to receive treatment abroad without restrictions.

- Egypt and Qatar will lead efforts with all necessary parties to manage and supervise the guarantee, achievement, and completion of the following issues:

   1. Providing and introducing sufficient heavy equipment necessary for debris and rubble removal.

   2. Providing civil defense equipment, and the requirements of the Ministry of Health.

   3. The process of reconstructing hospitals and bakeries across the Strip and introducing what is necessary for establishing camps for residents/tents for sheltering the population.

   4. Introducing no less than 60,000 temporary homes (caravans/containers) such that 15,000 homes enter the Gaza Strip each week from the start of this stage, in addition to 200,000 shelter tents, at a rate of 50,000 tents each week, to shelter those whose homes were destroyed by the occupation during the war.

   5. Beginning the reconstruction and repair of infrastructure in all areas of the Strip, and rehabilitating electricity, telecommunications, and water networks.

   6. Approving a reconstruction plan for homes, economic facilities, and public utilities destroyed due to aggression, scheduling the reconstruction process within no more than 3 years.

- Resumption of all humanitarian services provided to the population in all areas of the Strip, by the United Nations, its agencies, especially UNRWA, and all international organizations operating to resume their work in all areas of the Gaza Strip as before October 7th, 2023.

- Re-supplying the Gaza Strip with the necessary fuel to re-operate the power generation station and all sectors.

- The occupation's commitment to supplying Gaza with its electricity and water needs.

- Beginning (indirect) negotiations regarding the requirements necessary for the continued cessation of mutual military operations and return to a state of complete and mutual calm.

- The exchange process is closely linked to the extent of commitment to the entry of sufficient aid, relief, and shelter mentioned and agreed upon.

Guarantors of the agreement: Egypt, Qatar, Turkey, Russia, the United Nations

 

TAL MITNICKThere is no military solution-a statement of refusal

 

 

The Elders call for immediate compliance by Israel with ICJ provisional measures

The Elders, 29/1/2024

The Elders was founded by Nelson Mandela in 2007. We are an independent group of global leaders working for peace, justice, human rights and a sustainable planet. @TheElders

 

Statement:  The Elders call for Israel to comply immediately with the provisional measures ordered by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to protect Palestinians in Gaza from acts of genocide.

 

The Elders also call for Israel’s allies to publicly affirm their respect for the Court’s ruling, and to use the political, military and financial leverage at their disposal to ensure Israel’s compliance with the provisional measures.
 
The ICJ’s legally binding decision is a moment of the utmost gravity. 

Israeli forces have killed over 25,000 Palestinians in Gaza, destroyed homes and infrastructure across the territory and displaced up to 1.9 million people. The Elders share the Court’s judgement that this scale of devastation risks causing irreparable harm to the people of Gaza.
  
Israel, as the occupying military power, must comply with the Court’s ruling and implement the provisional measures in full. This includes ensuring its military does not commit any acts of genocide against the Palestinian people as a protected group, including killing members of the group. It also includes preventing incitement to genocide, and enabling provision of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance. An immediate step must be to lift the siege of Gaza and end the collective punishment of Palestinians.

The Elders support the Court’s emphasis that all parties to the conflict are bound by international humanitarian law, and its call for the immediate and unconditional release of the hostages held by Hamas and other armed groups.

All states have a responsibility to respect the Court’s ruling. South Africa has shown moral leadership in bringing this case, and it is now incumbent on others – particularly Israel’s allies and the UN Security Council – to live up to their own moral and legal obligations to prevent acts of genocide, and support the ICJ’s ruling.

As a minimum, Israel’s allies must ensure they are not complicit in any atrocity crimes. The Elders thus reiterate their call for all countries providing military assistance to Israel to place this under review and set new conditions for future provision. Governments which provide military assistance in the knowledge that atrocities are being committed, or may be imminent, risk being complicit. Self-defence can never be a justification for atrocity crimes.

For too long, Israel’s allies – particularly the United States and many European states – have provided political cover for its violations of international law.  This impunity must end now.
  
Political leaders who choose to disregard or undermine the Court’s ruling risk further weakening the international rule of law at a time when it is already acutely under threat. The UN Security Council has a vital role in ensuring compliance with the ICJ ruling and upholding the consistent application of international law. The world is watching.

Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and Chair of The Elders

Ban Ki-moon, former UN Secretary-General and Deputy Chair of The Elders

Graça Machel, Founder of the Graça Machel Trust, Co-founder and Deputy Chair of The Elders 

Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway and former Director-General of the WHO

Helen Clark, former Prime Minister of New Zealand and former head of the UN Development Programme

Elbegdorj Tsakhia, former President and Prime Minister of Mongolia

Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

Hina Jilani, Advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and co-chair of the Taskforce on Justice

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former President of Liberia and Nobel Peace Laureate

Ricardo Lagos, former President of Chile

Juan Manuel Santos, former President of Colombia and Nobel Peace Laureate

Ernesto Zedillo, former President of Mexico

DAWNPrime Suspects: Investigating Israeli War Crimes in Gaza

DAWN (Democracy for the Arab World Now) is a non-profit organisation that promotes democracy, the rule of law and human rights for all people in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). It brings together analysts, researchers, lawyers and activists aiming to fulfil the vision of its founder Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi journalist murdered on 2 October 2018, who had founded it in June 2018.

المشتبه بهم الرئيسيون: التحقيق في جرائم الحرب الإسرائيلية في غزة

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These are the officers and commanders responsible for executing Israel's war in Gaza. The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is investigating war crimes and crimes against humanity. Here are the prime suspects.

The Prime Suspects

DAWN submitted to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) a list of over 40 individual Israeli military officers who were involved in the first five weeks of the war Israel declared following the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023. Each individual officer had command responsibility over units involved in the fighting or bombardment of Gaza between October 8, 2023 and November 13, 2023, or were involved in imposing the siege on Gaza in that time.

Each "Prime Suspect" card includes the name, rank, photo, and role of an individual Israeli commander. DAWN compiled the list of officers exclusively from official Israeli military publications that confirmed the presence of specific military units in specific locations at specific times. (One entry only was verified through a television interview with a commanding officer of the unit in question.) The list includes officers from the rank of lieutenant-general and up who command units no smaller than battalion level forces. It covers nearly all branches of the Israeli military, as well as the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), the unit that administers the siege on Gaza.

DAWN is publishing individual "Prime Suspect" cards identifying each officer on a rolling basis on this page.

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Colombia: President Petro, it is time to break relations with the genocidal Israeli regime!Join the first 126 signatories to the petition

Translated by Fausto Giudice, Tlaxcala

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Urgent appeal to the President of the Republic of Colombia Gustavo Petro Urrego

“So leave our country
Our land, our sea
Our wheat, our salt, our wounds
Everything, and leave
The memories of memory
O those who pass between fleeting words!”
Mahmud Darwish, Those Who Pass Between Fleeting Words, 1988

17.11.2023

State of Palestine Street, Bogotá (inaugurated in September 2023)

 
Mr. President Gustavo Petro, friends and other recipients of this communication,

With alarm and anguish we are witnessing the vile genocide perpetrated by the Zionist State of Israel against the Palestinian people. In turn, the United States is complicit in such horror, has deployed its war apparatus to the ar zone and supports Netanyahu's government with weapons.

For decades, it has spent a fortune in arming Israel. This drama is not new, it is 75 years of ignominy since the very creation of this state. It is the aberrant disproportion of two powers raging against a small territory and its people.

Pain and indignation have seized us, the images reveal all the impiety exercised, they have even bombed hospitals and refugee centers causing to date more than ten thousand fatalities without counting the missing, most defenceless girls, boys and women, civilian population. We are seeing the destruction and the bleeding of a people in all its dimension.

Inevitably, repudiation of such ignominy has been expressed from different parts of the world. Massive demonstrations have been held in many cities. As of today, several countries have spoken out. In our case, we are encouraged by your courageous declarations, qualifying this barbarism of the State of Israel as what it is: a genocide, as well as a “cleansing” or continuous ethnic elimination for 75 years. You have pointed out that the Zionist regime has violated human rights, that it has ignored all UN resolutions. You have also condemned their inhumane actions, and this deserves great recognition from us. Colombia, as well as several other countries, has recalled its ambassadors for consultation. The Plurinational State of our sister country Bolivia has broken diplomatic and economic relations with the Israeli State.

Although there is a forceful pronouncement on your part, it is of greater scope, to ratify it, to take one more step; that step that advances among the smoke of bombs to say No more, from our country Colombia we do not condone it. For this reason and in the face of such a misfortune, President Gustavo Petro, we raise our petition, which arises from the heart of the feeling of popular sectors that voted for the Government of Change that you preside together with Francia Márquez. We also call on Colombians who read this communiqué to adhere to this clamor by signing the following petition:

We would like to request President Gustavo Petro, the immediate severance of diplomatic, economic and political relations with the State of Israel with the consequent expulsion from our territory of the diplomatic corps of said country and the cancellation and/or embargo on all contracts concerning military security systems and armaments.

It is imperative to cancel the agreement that absurdly and regrettably grants us the condition of “strategic partner” of NATO, given that our country has no geographical or political reason to belong to that organization. Both the existence of U.S. military bases in our territory and our membership in this military organization, which goes against world peace, not only threatens our sovereignty, but also places us as an ally of the U.S. military forces in the scenario of a possible war between foreign powers. Likewise, Colombia considers itself as a “non-aligned” country, which unfortunately is only possible in words, because in practice we are not, since we are a signatory country of those agreements with NATO and accept the existence of U.S. military bases in our territory, a situation that you fought against and denounced in other days. Asserting Colombia's sovereignty before the world and positioning our country as a territory of peace would constitute the ratification of your policy of total peace, not only for our territory but also for the planet, in accordance with your positioning as a world leader for global peace.

With sincere appreciation and consideration, the following Colombian persons, residing in Colombia and abroad, sign this petition:

Gloria Gaitán, social fighter and writer, daughter of the great leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán.
 Hernando Calvo Ospina, writer, journalist, documentary filmmaker, Paris, France.
 Renán Vega Cantor, writer, researcher, university professor. Bogotá, Colombia.
Reinaldo Spitaletta, journalist, writer, columnist for El Espectador, Medellín, Colombia.
 Daniel Libreros, research professor, Universidad Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia.
Victor de Currea-Lugo, physician, journalist, university professor, Bogotá, Colombia.
 Juan Manuel Arango, journalist, Noticiero Clarín, Colombia.
Blanca Merz, social leader, Hamburg, Germany.
Mauricio Vidales, poet and columnist, Hamburg, Germany.
Eleazar Plaza, writer, editor, director of Rosa Blindada Ediciones, Cali, Colombia.
 Alberto Aguilera, historian, researcher specializing in Simón Bolívar, Cali, Colombia.
 Juan Diego García, writer, Colombia.
 Matilde E. Trujillo U. freethinker, popular educator, Cali, Colombia.
 Luis Alfonso Mena, journalist, lawyer, historian, director of Periodismo Libre de Cali.
Ildebrando Arévalo, historian, international analyst, professor ESAP, Cali, Colombia.
 Luis Carlos Domínguez Prada, lawyer, writer, human rights defender, Bogotá, Colombia.
 Manuel Caicedo Paz, freethinker, socio-political activist, Cali, Colombia.
 José Urbano, documentary filmmaker, Cali, Colombia.
 Carlos Fuentes Delgado, metallurgical engineer, university professor, Cali, Colombia.
 Iván Enrique Chaves, health worker, pensioner, Cali, Colombia.
Harold Adolfo Ortíz Calero, magister in political science, doctor in philosophy, Cali, Colombia.
 Henry Montesdeoca, singer-songwriter, Cali, Colombia.
María Piedad Ossaba, independent journalist, director of La PLuma, Paris, France.
Mario Ossaba, painter, sculptor, Paris, France.
 Lilian Eugenia Gómez Álvarez, agronomist, PHD Biological Sciences, Medellín, Colombia.
 David López, jurist, director AIDHES, Switzerland.
 Álvaro Lopera, journalist and engineer, Colombia.
 Eliécer Jiménez Julio, journalist exiled in Geneva, Switzerland.
 Evelio Loayza, physician, human rights defender, CPDH, Cali, Colombia.
Alcides Lesmes, trade unionist, human rights defender, exiled from the UP, Valencia, Spain.
 José Manuel Gómez, UP political exile, Geneva, Switzerland.
Zoilo Angulo Ríos, agricultural engineer, PHD candidate, Valencia, Spain.
Nelson Restrepo Arango, lawyer, human rights defender, exiled, Madrid, Spain.
 Jaime Jiménez García, historian, lawyer, Medellín, Colombia.
 Carlos Arturo Velandia, peace promoter, Medellín, Colombia.
Patricia Quintero, teacher exiled in Belgium.
André Veraart, pensioner, Belgium.
Cecilia Saavedra Ruiz, journalist, director of Zuma Qamana Cooperative, Bogotá, Colombia.
Rodrigo Vargas, human rights defender, CPDH, Cali, Colombia.
Heidy Rojas, project technologist, human rights defender, CPDH, Cali, Colombia.
Jovanny Rojas, human rights defender, demobilized FARC-EP peace signatory, Cali, Colombia.
Milton Luna, teacher, graduate in Chemistry, Cali, Colombia.
Elías Díaz, writer, Cali, Colombia.
 Diego Gil, writer, Cali, Colombia.
 Ana Ruth Mejía, architect, Cali, Colombia.
 Yamil Gutiérrez, philosopher, Cali, Colombia.
 Stella Jane Potes Cortés, artist, Cali, Colombia.
Jairo Ramírez Benjumea, social psychologist UNAD, Cali, Colombia.
 Pablo Angarita, actor, playwright, stage director, Cali, Colombia.
 Margarita María Aristizábal Ariza, anthropologist, Cali, Colombia.
 Hugo Sánchez, cultural manager, director of Café Cinema, Bogotá, Colombia.
Luna Vera, actress, cultural manager, artivist, Bogota, Colombia.
 Aleida Tabares Montes, actress, playwright, stage director, poet. Bogota, Colombia.
 María Catalina Hurtado, graduate in Social Sciences, Cali, Colombia.
 Clemencia Gálvez, literature teacher, poet. Cali, Colombia.
 José Figueroa Fernández, exiled in Brussels, Belgium.
 María Fernanda Quintero, geographer, researcher Territorio y Población, Bogotá, Colombia.
 Miguel Hernández Chavarro, industrial engineer, Bogotá, Colombia.
Javier Meza Lagrancurth, petroleum engineer, Santa Marta, Colombia.
 Marco Alfredo Forero Parra, lawyer, Bogotá, Colombia.
 Luis Eduardo Agudelo Caro, pensioner, Bogotá, Colombia.
Eduardo Duplat Sanjuan, demobilized M19, Cúcuta, Colombia.
 Iván Bocanegra, mechanical engineer, Corinto, Colombia.
 Adolfo León Arciniegas Martínez, beekeeper, Palmira, Colombia.
 Mauricio Domínguez Caicedo, university professor, Cali, Colombia.
 Alfredo Martínez Vásquez, veterinarian and zootechnician, Cali, Colombia.
 Francia Elena Prado Cedano, lawyer, Cali, Colombia.
Jorge Kujar, plastic artist, Cali, Colombia.
Jesús Alberto Gómez, architect, Cali, Colombia.
José Ramírez, M19 exile in Spain.
 Walter Tello, plastic artist, Cali, Cali, Colombia.
 Beatriz Eugenia Hurtado, plastic artist, Cali, Colombia.
 Marta Inés Hurtado, poet, Cali, Colombia.
Harrinson Riascos Torres, systems engineer, Hamburg, Germany.
Victor Edgar Vélez Giraldo, peasant artist, Palmira, Colombia.
 Edgar Aníbal Roa Zamora, social leader, Cali, Colombia.
Ángela María Quintero, psychologist, PhD University of Valencia, Spain.
Emely Marín, human rights lawyer, Valencia, Spain.
Willie Milton Hostos Álvarez, visual artist, Valencia, Spain.
 María Cristina Palacio, sociologist, public policy specialist, Manizales, Colombia.
 Gladys Giraldo, psychologist, Medellín, Colombia.
 Alba Nora Aristizábal, human rights lawyer, Manizales, Colombia.
 Amparo Mejía Arbeláez, sociologist, Manizales, Colombia.
David Marcelo Idarraga, publicist, Barcelona, Spain.
Pietro Alfonso Schiavo, soccer coach, Köln, Germany.
Sara García, economist, Valencia, Spain.
 Rafael Escobar, publicist, Cali, Colombia.
Anilsa Caicedo Salazar, lawyer, Universidad Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia.
Jairo Restrepo, freelance journalist, USA.
Juan Carlos García Rivera, anthropologist, Universidad Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia.
Miryam Christel, sociologist, Stuttgart, Germany.
 Gloria Mesa, graduate in English philology, pensioner, Manizales, Colombia.
María Carolina Estepa Becerra, lawyer, Bogotá, Colombia.
Juan Pablo Estupinan, lawyer, Bogotá, Colombia.
 Blanca Lucía Mera, attorney, Procuraduría, Bogotá, Colombia.
 Francia Elena Correa, psychologist, Manizales, Colombia.
 Luz Marina Cruz Pérez Cruz, psychologist, Pereira, Colombia.
María Emma Rodriguez Mosquera, social activist, Cali, Colombia.
 Johanna María López, head nurse, Medellín, Colombia.
 Beatriz del Socorro Escobar, lawyer, Medellín, Colombia.
 Silverio Mejía, artist, Manizales, Colombia.
 María Teresa Puerta Marín, social activist, Toronto, Canada.
 Oswaldo Quintero, lawyer, Pereira, Colombia.
 Claudia Patricia Gómez, social worker, Bogotá, Colombia.
Silvia Zuleta, social activist, Barcelona, Spain.
 Martha Isabel Povea de Caicedo, retired teacher, Armenia, Colombia.
Laura Vargas, administrative, Valencia, Spain.
 Stella García, business administrator, Cali, Colombia.
 Patricia Duque, therapist in Traditional Oriental Medicine, Cali, Colombia.
 César A. Duque Córdoba, lawyer, public official, Cali, Colombia.
Yira Bolaños Arturo, reincorporation and reconciliation project coordinator, Cali Mayor's Office
Patricia González, business administrator, Cali, Colombia.
 Daniela Córdoba, professional in international business, Cali, Colombia.
 Silvia María Salazar Giraldo, lawyer, human rights defender, Cali, Colombia.
 Rosalba Hernández, independent trader, Cali, Colombia.
 Esperanza Cerón, physician, Cali, Colombia.
 Elizabeth Cubaque, popular leader, Ciudad Bolivar, Bogota, Colombia.
 Santiago Duque, worker, Cali, Colombia.
Ángela Liliana Mazuera León, psychologist, philosophy graduate, human rights defender, Cali, Colombia.
Pilar Orozco, psychologist, Cali, Colombia.
Lisandro Duque Naranjo, cineasta, columnista y escritor

 

GIDEON LEVYThese Are the Children Extracted After the Bombardment of Gaza's Jabaliiya Refugee Camp

 Gideon Levy, Haaretz, 2/11/2023

A Hamas terrorist was taken out of the debris, carried in his father’s arms. His face is covered with dust, his body jerking like a sack, his stare blank. It’s not clear if he’s alive or dead. He is a toddler of three or four, and his desperate father rushed him to the Gaza Strip's Indonesian Hospital, which was already bursting with wounded and dead people.

Palestinians look for survivors under the rubble of destroyed buildings following Israeli airstrikes in Jabaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, on Wednesday. Photo: Abed Khaled /AP

Another terrorist was extracted from the wreckage. This time she’s clearly alive, her fair, curly hair is white with dust; she’s five or six, being carried by her father. She looks right and left, as though asking where help will come from.

A man in a tattered vest scribbles here and there, a white sheet folded like a shroud in his hands, covering an infant’s body, and he’s waving it in despair. It’s the body of his son, a newborn baby. This infant hadn’t yet had a chance to join Hamas’ military headquarters in the Jabaliya refugee camp. He had only lived a few days – a butterfly’s eternity – and was killed.

Dozens of youngsters continued digging in the rubble with their bare hands in a desperate effort to extract still-living people or the bodies of neighbors, raising destroyed walls from the hand of a child sticking out of the ruins. Perhaps this child was a terrorist in Hamas' Nukhba force.

All around stood hundreds of men, dressed in rags, clasping their hands together hopelessly. Some of them burst into tears. An Israeli solar heater with a Hebrew sticker lies in the rubble, a reminder of days gone by. “We have no time for feelings now,” says camp resident Mansour Shimal to Al Jazeera.

On Tuesday afternoon, Israel Air Force jets bombed Block 6 in the Jabaliya refugee camp. In Israel, it was barely reported. Al Jazeera reported that six bombs had been dropped on Block 6, leaving a huge crater, into which a row of gray apartment buildings fell like a house of cards. The pilots must have reported successful hits. The sights were horrific.

When I went to Gaza’s Daraj Quarter in July 2002, the day after Salah Shehadeh’s assassination, I saw harsh sights. But they were pastoral compared to what was seen in Jabaliya on Tuesday. In Daraj, 14 civilians were killed, 11 of them children – about a tenth of the number of people killed in the bombing on Tuesday in Jabaliya, according to Palestinian reports.

In Israel, they didn’t show the Jabaliya scenes. And yet, hard to believe, they did take place. A few foreign networks broadcast them in a loop. In Israel, they said the commander of Hamas’ central battalion in Jabaliya, Ibrahim Biari, was killed in an air force strike in the most crowded refugee camp in Gaza and that dozens of terrorists had been killed. Shehadeh’s killing was followed by a penetrating public debate in Israel.

What took place on Tuesday in Jabaliya was barely even heard about here. It happened before the bad news about the Israeli soldiers who were killed was released, while the wartime campfire was crackling away.

According to the reports, about 100 people were killed in the Jabaliya bombing and some 400 were wounded. The pictures from the Indonesian Hospital were horrifying, no less. Burnt children thrown one beside another, three and four on one filthy bed; most of them were treated on the floor for lack of enough beds. “Treatment” is the wrong word. Due to the lack of medicines, life-saving surgery was carried out not only on the floor, but without anaesthesia. The Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia is now a hell.

Israel is at war, after Hamas murdered and kidnapped with barbarism and brutality that cannot be forgiven. But the children who were extracted from the debris of Block 6 and some of their parents have nothing to do with the attacks on Be’eri and Sderot.

While the terrorists ran rampant in Israel, Jabaliya’s people were huddled in their huts in Gaza’s most crowded camp, thinking how to pass another day in these conditions, which were worsened by the siege of the last 16 years. Now they will bury their children in mass graves because in Jabaliya, there's no room left for individual ones.

België: een voorbeeldige oproep tot handelenBelgique : Un appel à l’action exemplaireBelgium: An exemplary call to actionBelgica : un appello all’azione esemplareBélgica: Una llamada a la acción ejemplarBelgien: Ein vorbildlicher Aufruf zum Handelnرفض التعامل مع المعدات العسكرية الموجهة للحرب في فلسطينNL FR EN IT ES DE AR

• Centrale nationale des employés (CNE/Puls), member of the Confederation of Christian Trade Unions (CSC/ACV)
•  Union Belge du Transport (UBT/BTB), member of the Fédération Générale du Travail de Belgique (FGTB/ABVV)
  

• Syndicat des Employés, Techniciens et Cadres de Belgique (SETCa/BGTK), member of the FGTB

• CSC/ACV-Transcom (transport and communications)

Rifiuto di maneggiare attrezzature militari per la guerra in Palestina

31/10/2023

Mentre in Palestina è in corso un genocidio, i lavoratori dei vari aeroporti del Belgio vedono armi dirette alle zone di guerra.

Il carico e lo scarico di queste armi consente di rifornire le organizzazioni che uccidono persone innocenti.

Noi, i diversi sindacati attivi nel settore dell'assistenza a terra, chiediamo ai nostri iscritti di non occuparsi di voli che trasportano materiale militare verso la Palestina/Israele, come del resto erano già previsti accordi e regole chiare all'inizio del conflitto con la Russia e l'Ucraina.

Chiediamo un cessate il fuoco immediato e chiediamo ai governi belgi di essere coerenti e di non tollerare spedizioni di armi attraverso gli aeroporti belgi. Come sindacati, dichiariamo la nostra solidarietà a coloro che stanno agendo per la pace.

Il fronte sindacale comune

• ­    Centrale nazionale degli Impiegati (CNE), membro della Confederazione dei sindacati cristiani (CSC/ACV)

• ­    Unione Belga del Transporto, membro della Federazione generale belga del lavoro (FGTB/ABVV)

• ­    Sindacato degli impiegati, tecnici e dirigenti del Belgio (SETCa), membro della FGTB

• ­    CSC-Transcom (trasporti e comunicazioni)

Negativa a manejar material militar para la guerra en Palestina

31-10-2023

Mientras se comete un genocidio en Palestina, los trabajadores de los distintos aeropuertos de Bélgica ven pasar armas destinadas a zonas de guerra.

La carga y descarga de estas armas permite reabastecer a las organizaciones que matan a inocentes.

Nosotros, los diferentes sindicatos activos en el sector de la asistencia en tierra, hacemos un llamamiento a nuestros miembros para que no manipulen vuelos que envíen material militar a Palestina/Israel, como también había acuerdos y normas claras al comienzo del conflicto entre Rusia y Ucrania.

Pedimos un alto el fuego inmediato y solicitamos a los gobiernos belgas que sean coherentes y no toleren el envío de armas a través de los aeropuertos belgas. Como sindicatos, declaramos nuestra solidaridad con quienes están actuando por la paz.

El frente sindical común

• Centrale nationale des employés (CNE), miembro de la Confederación de Sindicatos Cristianos (CSC/ACV)

• Union Belge du Transport, miembro de la Fédération Générale du Travail de Belgique (FGTB/ABVV)

• Syndicat des Employés, Techniciens et Cadres de Belgique (SETCa), miembro de la FGTB

• CSC-Transcom (transportes y comunicaciones)

Weigerung, militärische Ausrüstung für den Krieg in Palästina zu handhaben

31.10.2023

Während in Palästina ein Völkermord im Gange ist, sehen ArbeiterInnen an den verschiedenen Flughäfen in Belgien Waffen, die für Kriegsgebiete bestimmt sind, wegfahren.

Das Be- und Entladen dieser Waffen ermöglicht den Nachschub für Organisationen, die unschuldige Menschen töten.

Wir, die verschiedenen im Bereich der Bodenabfertigung tätigen Gewerkschaften, rufen unsere Mitglieder dazu auf, keine Flüge abzufertigen, die militärisches Material nach Palästina/Israel transportieren, da es zu Beginn des Konflikts mit Russland und der Ukraine ebenfalls klare Vereinbarungen und Regeln gab.

Wir fordern einen sofortigen Waffenstillstand und bitten die belgischen Regierungen, konsequent zu sein und keine Waffenlieferungen über belgische Flughäfen zu dulden. Als Gewerkschaften erklären wir unsere Solidarität mit denjenigen, die sich für den Frieden einsetzen.

Die gemeinsame Gewerkschaftsfront

• Centrale nationale des employés (CNE), Mitglied des Christlichen Gewerkschaftsbundes (CSC/ACV)

• Union Belge du Transport, Mitglied der Fédération Générale du Travail de Belgique (FGTB/ABVV)

• Syndicat des Employés, Techniciens et Cadres de Belgique (SETCa), Mitglied der FGTB

• CSC-Transcom (Verkehr und Kommunikation)
  
  

  رفض التعامل مع المعدات العسكرية الموجهة للحرب في فلسطين

   

  31 أكتوبر 2023

   

  بينما تجري عمليات إبادة جماعية في فلسطين، يرى العاملون في مطارات مختلفة في بلجيكا شحنات أسلحة في طريقها إلى منطقة الحرب.

   

  إن تحميل أو تفريغ هذه الأسلحة يعني المساهمة في إمداد الأنظمة التي تقتل الأبرياء.

   

  نحن، عدد من النقابات العاملة في مجال الخدمات اللوجستية الأرضية، ندعو أعضاءنا إلى عدم التعامل مع أي رحلات جوية تحمل معدات عسكرية إلى فلسطين-إسرائيل، مثلما كانت هناك اتفاقيات وقواعد واضحة في بداية الصراع مع روسيا وأوكرانيا.

   

  إننا ندعو إلى وقف فوري لإطلاق النار ونطلب من الحكومات البلجيكية أن تكون حازمة وأن لا تتسامح مع تسليم الأسلحة عبر المطارات البلجيكية. كنقابات، نقف مع أولئك الذين يناضلون من أجل السلام.

   

  الجبهة النقابية المشتركة:

   

  المركز الوطني للموظفين (CNE)، عضو اتحاد النقابات المسيحية (CSC/ACV)

   

  الاتحاد البلجيكي للنقل، عضو الاتحاد العام للعمل في بلجيكا (FGTB/ABVV)

   

  نقابة الموظفين والفنيين والكوادر البلجيكية (SETCa)، عضو FGTB

   

  CSC-Transcom (المرور والاتصالات)