Advisory opinions will not stop genocide
Wednesday 30-April-2025
Legal recourse becomes absurd when the need is to stop genocide as a matter of great urgency.
Ramona Wadi
Ramona Wadi is an independent researcher freelance journalist book reviewer and blogger. Her writing covers a range of themes in relation to Palestine Chile and Latin America. Her article appeared in MEMO.
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Israel is controlling the humanitarian paradigm
Friday 18-April-2025
Since the early days of the latest and ongoing phase of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, humanitarian aid has become a major weapon. It was on 9 October 2023 that the then Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant ordered a complete siege to be imposed on Gaza.
Exposing the UN’s hypocrisy of humanitarian aid and ceasefires
Saturday 12-April-2025
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council this week that, “As aid has dried up, the floodgates of horror have re-opened. Gaza is a killing field – and civilians are in an endless death loop.”
The humanitarian paradigm is as deadly as genocide
Tuesday 8-April-2025
As Israel omits Palestinians from Gaza in its depraved genocide, let the international community omit all its hypocritical rhetoric of “concern”, “deeply disturbed”, “deplores” and “catastrophic”.
Wasting time has never been deadlier for Palestinians
Tuesday 1-April-2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has found it pertinent to reiterate that, “We are negotiating under fire.”
Israel’s use of human shields in Gaza is part of its genocide against Palestinians
Friday 14-March-2025
Now that attention has shifted from the genocide in Gaza to the Trump administration, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has admitted that it is investigating instances where Palestinians were used as human shields by its troops in the coastal enclave.
The EU needs to clarify where it stands on Gaza
Sunday 9-March-2025
Speaking at the Emergency Summit of the League of Arab States this week, European Council President Antonio Costa’s intervention was replete with normalized inaccuracies.
Palestinians are being displaced by rhetoric and action
Friday 28-February-2025
Rejecting Israel’s forced displacement of Palestinians by rhetoric does not work.
Forced transfer and the West’s reliance on the humanitarian paradigm
Friday 21-February-2025
Emboldened by the US and the international community’s acceptance of its genocide, Israel is not taking long to emerge from the shadows of its own rhetoric.
The international community sold out the Palestinians decades ago on the right of return
Friday 14-February-2025
“Gaza is an essential part of a future Palestinian state,” the EU Spokesman for Foreign Affairs Anouar El Anouni stated belatedly in response to US President Donald Trump’s announcement of taking over Gaza and remodeling into a so-called “Riviera of the Middle East”.
Incitement and action point towards an ongoing genocide
Monday 3-February-2025
The relief over the brokered ceasefire was soon overshadowed by ‘coincidences’ which make one wonder about the oppression that Palestinians face relentlessly from Israel, the US and the international community.
Trump’s return and the humanitarian paradigm
Sunday 26-January-2025
Throughout his first tenure, US President Donald Trump mounted a campaign against the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) which included slander and defunding.
Israel’s humanitarian gimmicks and settler-colonial detachment
Monday 6-January-2025
While continuing its genocide in Gaza, Israel still wants to play its faux humanitarian concern card. An article published by AP recently, which made its way to the Times of Israel albeit with some details regarding the kill toll edited out.
As clarity on Israel’s genocide grows, so does the int’l community’s silence
Sunday 29-December-2024
More proof of Israel’s genocidal intent and actions comes from an investigation conducted by the New York Times, which discovered that since 7 October 2023, the Israeli military issued an order that allowed the killing of up to 20 Palestinian civilians with each strike.
The perks for genocide in Gaza
Wednesday 25-December-2024
In “enemy territory” – Israel’s euphemism for Gaza – it is beyond satire to see the Israeli military destroying Gaza’s infrastructure in order to kill Palestinians, while building infrastructure for its soldiers.
Genocide in the name of security, according to Israeli settler narratives
Thursday 19-December-2024
Israeli settler leaders are calling upon the Israeli government to emulate the genocidal strategy used against Palestinians in Gaza to displace and ethnically cleanse Palestinians from the occupied West Bank.