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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.

UNRWA, Palestinian children and the two-state diplomacy that works against children’s rights

According to UNRWA Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini writing on X, “Wherever we work, @UNRWA is dedicated to helping children be children.”

Israel was born and depends on ethnic cleansing

His admission about Israel’s ethnic cleansing in Gaza was a shard of truth from former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, albeit dissociated from what created Israel in the first place.

USAID’s guise is dismantled by Israel’s genocide in Gaza

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) announced it will be adding $230 million to its “economic recovery and development programs in the West Bank and Gaza”.

The UN and Israel share direct responsibility for starvation in Gaza

After the Israeli Knesset passed a bill designating the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) as a terror organization and banning the agency from operating in colonized Palestine, the occupation state’s foreign ministry formally notified the UN of its decision.

The US approves of all of Israel’s genocidal methods

In April this year, the US Agency for International Development (USAID), which is known to have been involved in covert operations for regime change, delivered its report on Gaza to Congress.

The psychological manipulation behind the Generals’ Plan

Last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu contemplated implementing the Generals’ Plan in Gaza, backed by former Israeli Defense Forces planning and operations chief General Giora Eiland who has described the siege as “compliant with international law”.

Netanyahu preaches to the world as if it is a basic human right to commit genocide

On the first anniversary of the cross-border incursion on 7 October 2023 and the start of Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza, all that the UN can boast of can be summed up in one word: complicity.

We need to call out the hypocrisy of the humanitarian paradigm

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the Lebanese people before bombing their country was eerily similar to the rhetoric usually associated with Gaza.

Israeli and international dehumanization of Palestinians

After almost a year of genocidal intent and action, the Israeli military said it would be investigating “a serious incident that is not in line with IDF values and what is expected of Israeli soldiers.”

The UN’s protection of pariahs

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese told a recent press conference in Geneva, “I think it is unavoidable for Israel to become a pariah in the face of its continuous, relentless, vilifying assault of the United Nations, on top of millions of Palestinians.”

Invoking international law to shield genocide and complicity in genocide

The UK has suspended 30 out of 250 arms licenses for exports to Israel over concerns that the weapons may be used in violation of international humanitarian law.

The relentless brutality of settler-colonialism must not be overlooked

In a series of posts on X, the Senior Communications Officer of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Louse Wateridge, gave a brief but succinct description of Gaza after ten months of Israel’s ongoing genocide.

Herzog’s faux ‘humanitarian objective’ is soaked in Palestinian blood

Israel and the US have made the clearest admission yet that any ceasefire resolution is solely about the return of the Israeli hostages.

Israel’s creation and exploitation of Palestinian human shields

How many times have Israeli officials justified massacring Palestinian civilians because Hamas uses them as human shields? Israeli media has now reported the opposite – the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) using Palestinian civilians as human shields in areas slated for incursion.

The EU is consistent in getting its priorities wrong

As international organizations warned about outbreaks of serious diseases in Gaza, caused by Israel’s genocidal bombing, the EU got on board and pronounced itself “gravely concerned” over Israel’s targeting of Gaza’s infrastructure.

The Olympic Games and Israel’s security narrative

The Israeli Olympics team will be provided with 24-hour security during their stay in Paris, after left-wing MP Thomas Portes said that protests should be staged against the Israeli team’s participation.