Special Rapporteur Says Israel’s Unlawful Carceral Practices in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Are Tantamount to International Crimes and Have Turned it into an Open-Air Prison

https://www.ohchr.org/en/news/2023/07/special-rapporteur-says-israels-unlawful-carceral-practices-occupied-palestinian

Israel does not abide by any humanitarian rules in its treatment of Palestinians and others. For example, Israel arrested 429 Palestinians, including 32 children, last July. The number of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons has reached about 4,500, including 41 women.
The Israeli authorities have converted some detention centers that are not suitable for humane detention into detention centers for newly arrested persons for 14 days, without transferring them to investigation.
Israeli forces arrested two Lebanese in a town in southern Lebanon. They killed 11 Lebanese, one of whom was a soldier, and injured 83 Lebanese citizens while they were returning to their towns in southern Lebanon. The Israeli army refused to withdraw after the expiry of the 60-day period stipulated in the ceasefire agreement.
The Lebanese Prime Minister called on the countries sponsoring the ceasefire agreement to deter Israel and force it to withdraw, indicating that any retreat from adhering to the terms of the agreement and implementing Resolution 1701 will have dire consequences.

Released Israeli female hostages
This is Islam and its teachings. It is enough for you to look at the faces of these hostages to know that they enjoyed all care and attention in Gaza sector whose residents cannot even find a piece of bread or a sip of clean water.

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=913819904290292&id=100069868733416&rdid=xqRjyYwyTz9NCdGN#

In the event of war, it is permissible to take hostages, but the difference is that Israel mistreats them, while the Palestinians treat them humanely.

First three hostages released by Hamas as part of ceasefire
Media reports and testimonies of some of the released Israeli hostages indicated that Hamas provided them with their basic needs, such as food, health care, and good treatment. The official Israeli Broadcasting Authority said that the three female hostages carried souvenirs presented to them by Hamas, which included a map of the Gaza Strip, pictures of the female hostages during their captivity, and a certificate of appreciation. The Israeli female hostages appeared in good condition.
In return, Israel released 90 male and female prisoners, including 21 Palestinian children. They showed signs of torture, abuse, and starvation, while some of them left in a psychological state of collapse.

The dream is over!
This is what was stated in the editorial of the Israeli newspaper "Haaretz" under the title: The Palestinians are the best people on earth in defending their homelands.
The writer says:
During the war on Gaza and the resistance's missiles being fired at us, our losses every three days exceed $912 million from attempts to monitor and respond. In addition to the disruption of trade, the decline of the stock market, the shutdown of most institutions in the fields of agriculture, industry and trade, the disruption of some airports and some train lines, and the cost of feeding those fleeing to shelters, not to mention the destruction of homes, shops, cars and factories.
We are exposed to a war that we started and ignited, but we are not the ones who manage it. As for its end, it is not in our interest, especially since the Arab cities in Israel surprised everyone with this massive revolution against us, after we thought that they had lost their Palestinian compass.
This is an ominous sign for the state whose politicians have confirmed that their calculations were all wrong, and their policies needed a horizon beyond what they thought.
As for the Palestinians, they are the true owners of the land.
Who else but the owners of the land would defend it with their souls, money and children with such ferocity, pride and defiance?
If our people were actually clinging to the land of Palestine, we would not have seen the immigration of Jews in such huge numbers, and they have been rushing to immigrate since the beginning of the war after we made the Palestinians taste our woes of killing, imprisonment, siege and separation, and drowned them in drugs and invaded their thoughts with nonsense that distanced them from their religion, such as liberation, atheism, doubt about Islam, corruption and homosexuality.
In addition to that, they know what awaits them in terms of humiliation, insult and arrest of some, and they have never hesitated to go to perform prayers in Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Ironically, armies of countries with all their equipment did not dare to do what the Palestinian resistance did in a few days after the mask fell off the invincible Israeli soldier and he began to be killed and kidnapped.
As long as Tel Aviv has tasted the missiles of the resistance, it is better to give up our false dream of Greater Israel.
The Palestinians must have a neighboring state that is at peace with us and we are at peace with it, and this will only prolong our stay on this land for a few more years.
That is, if we can continue for the next ten years as a Jewish state, because there will come a day when we pay the entire bill.
The Palestinian will rise again and again, and this time he will come riding his horse heading towards "Tel Aviv"

The dream is over!
This is what was stated in the editorial of the Israeli newspaper "Haaretz" under the title: The Palestinians are the best people on earth in defending their homelands.
The writer says:
During the war on Gaza and the resistance's missiles being fired at us, our losses every three days exceed $912 million from attempts to monitor and respond. In addition to the disruption of trade, the decline of the stock market, the shutdown of most institutions in the fields of agriculture, industry and trade, the disruption of some airports and some train lines, and the cost of feeding those fleeing to shelters, not to mention the destruction of homes, shops, cars and factories.
We are exposed to a war that we started and ignited, but we are not the ones who manage it. As for its end, it is not in our interest, especially since the Arab cities in Israel surprised everyone with this massive revolution against us, after we thought that they had lost their Palestinian compass.
This is an ominous sign for the state whose politicians have confirmed that their calculations were all wrong, and their policies needed a horizon beyond what they thought.
As for the Palestinians, they are the true owners of the land.
Who else but the owners of the land would defend it with their souls, money and children with such ferocity, pride and defiance?
If our people were actually clinging to the land of Palestine, we would not have seen the immigration of Jews in such huge numbers, and they have been rushing to immigrate since the beginning of the war after we made the Palestinians taste our woes of killing, imprisonment, siege and separation, and drowned them in drugs and invaded their thoughts with nonsense that distanced them from their religion, such as liberation, atheism, doubt about Islam, corruption and homosexuality.
In addition to that, they know what awaits them in terms of humiliation, insult and arrest of some, and they have never hesitated to go to perform prayers in Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Ironically, armies of countries with all their equipment did not dare to do what the Palestinian resistance did in a few days after the mask fell off the invincible Israeli soldier and he began to be killed and kidnapped.
As long as Tel Aviv has tasted the missiles of the resistance, it is better to give up our false dream of Greater Israel.
The Palestinians must have a neighboring state that is at peace with us and we are at peace with it, and this will only prolong our stay on this land for a few more years.
That is, if we can continue for the next ten years as a Jewish state, because there will come a day when we pay the entire bill.
The Palestinian will rise again and again, and this time he will come riding his horse heading towards "Tel Aviv"

The Israeli Invasion of Lebanon
The 1967 war broke out between Israel and Iraq, Egypt, Syria and Jordan and lasted for 6 days, leading to Israel's occupation of Sinai, Gaza, the West Bank and the Golan Heights.

The 1978 Invasion of Lebanon

Israel invaded southern Lebanon under the pretext of responding to the operations carried out by the Palestine Liberation Organization against Israel from Lebanon. It occupied Lebanese territory up to the Litani River for three months.

The 1981 Israeli Invasion

Israel violated the truce 2,777 times between 1981 and 1982, then launched violent air strikes on southern Lebanon. The Israeli army entered Lebanese territory and imposed a siege on western Beirut, preventing food and water while continuing the bombing. As an agreement was about to be reached for Palestinian fighters to leave Beirut, Israel launched the most violent bombing of Beirut, which lasted 10 continuous hours. Then it invaded Lebanon. Israeli forces besieged Beirut. Israel bombed Beirut with internationally banned weapons, including cluster bombs, phosphorous bombs, napalm, booby-trapped children's toys, and fuel vapor bombs. Most of Beirut was levelled to the ground. Israel continued to prevent international and humanitarian aid to the city for 76 days. The siege ended with the complete destruction of a third of Beirut. The Security Council issued a resolution calling for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon. The war ended in 1985, but the Israeli army did not withdraw.
Establishment of Hezbollah
After the Israeli invasion and occupation of southern Lebanon, Hezbollah, or the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon, was established. It launched a guerrilla war in southern Lebanon, which led to Israel's withdrawal in 2000.
The 2006 Israeli aggression on Lebanon
The Israeli bombing caused the displacement of half a million Lebanese. The US government and its allies supported Israel with precision-guided bombs and rejected international calls for an immediate ceasefire. Finally, the Security Council resolution ended the combat operations and the Israeli army withdrew to the Blue Line and the Hezbollah force withdrew to the north of the Litani River.
Attempts to invade Lebanon in 2024
Since October 2023, the Lebanese-Israeli border has witnessed a continuous exchange of strikes between Israel and Hezbollah. Tensions escalated significantly in 2024 as Israel carried out daily military operations against Hezbollah. The raids targeted Hezbollah infrastructure, with the declared goal of destroying the party's tunnels and military bunkers. The Israeli army issued an urgent warning to residents of 25 villages in southern Lebanon to evacuate, and sent troops and military units into southern Lebanon, engaging in battles with Hezbollah fighters. However, it failed to invade Lebanon, and Israel was forced to agree to a ceasefire on November 27, 2024, after months of mutual military operations between the two sides. Hezbollah fired hundreds of rockets and drones at Israel.

In 2023, the murder rate among Jews and other non-Arab ethnic groups in Israel was 0.85 murders per 100,000 people.
Netanyahu Trial
The Jerusalem District Court ruled that Netanyahu will stand trial in the cases filed against him four years ago, in which he is accused of bribery, fraud and breach of trust.
Netanyahu's defense team has filed a request to the District Court to postpone the prime minister's testimony several times. Yedioth Ahronoth reported that the State Prosecution informed the Jerusalem District Court that it rejected the latest request to postpone Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's testimony.
Note
If the Israeli people were God's chosen people, they would be a people of faith without crimes and without the need for trials.
The Bible says
True believers are those who hear the word of God, believe it in their hearts, and understand the value of the message to the point that they take up their cross to follow Jesus (Luke 9:23; 14:26-33).
When we have a relationship with God, this means that God is part of our daily lives. We must pray, read, and meditate on His Word to know Him better. We must pray for wisdom (James 1:5), which is the most precious thing we can possess.

After 14 months of slaughter in Gaza, the International Criminal Court has finally issued an official arrest warrant for Israeli prime minister Netanyahu. But it means nothing if governments around the world don’t enforce it. And there’s no time to waste - every 30 minutes, a child has been killed by Israel in Gaza.

According to the Israel Democracy Institute, about two-thirds of Israeli Jews believe that Jews are the "chosen people".
The Torah mentioned Israel in the sense of the Children of Israel a lot, but it also mentions that the foreign believer is treated as the believer from the Children of Israel. Today, however, there is confusion between the Israelis during the era of Moses, and the Jews as adherents of a religion.
The Jews acknowledge the punishment of God, if they are the children of God, then He does not punish them. And since He tortures them, they are not his children or his loved ones.
There is no people chosen by God with all its individuals. In every nation there are believers who love God and who are loved by God.
Christians believe that they are God's chosen people as well. Based on verse 1 Peter 2:9
‘But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light’—1 Peter 2:9 (NIV).
In contrast with those who reject Christ and are destined to "stumble," Peter now describes the chosen people of God
Peter uses language that had been used to describe God's special relationship with Israel. As Israel was, we—believers, the church—are also a chosen race. Unlike Israel, though, we are not a race in the sense of our family, ethnicity, skin color, or country of origin. We are a spiritual race, in the sense that, in Christ, we share a single spiritual Father. In that same meaning, we are a "holy nation," a specific group of people called out and set apart from all other nations.
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The Israelites were a chosen generation. Likewise, believers in Christ are the objects of God’s everlasting love, irrespective of any foreseen qualities in themselves. They have not chosen him, but he has chosen them and called them with a holy calling. And, although they belong to different people and languages, they are of the spiritual seed of Abraham. Born from above, united in one head, and partakers of one life, they have one hope on earth, one home in heaven.
To represent the higher honor of the saints in the gospel age, Peter combines two offices never united in the Jewish church. Jewish kings were not priests; neither were all the tribes of ancient Israel admissible to the priesthood. But in regard to Christians it is true of them all that they are kings, inasmuch as they are made conquerors in Christ over their spiritual enemies. They are priests—the way into the holiest of all has been open to each of them. No exclusion but that of their own unbelieving and suspicious hearts exists to their entering in. The altar has been prepared and consecrated upon which they are enjoined to lay the bloodless sacrifice of their whole persons “holy and acceptable unto God, which is their reasonable service” [Romans 12:2].
Like Israel of old, believers in Christ are a holy nation. The true church of Christ, separated from the world, washed in the fountain opened for sin and uncleanness, sanctified by the word applied by his efficacious working, in whose hand it becomes the incorruptible seed that lives and abides forever, the church stands forth with the inscription upon it of HOLY TO THE LORD [Exodus 28:36, Jeremiah 2:3, etc.].
About the author and the source
The Christian’s Daily Companion was the work of thirty-one contributors from the Church of Scotland, each of whom provided morning and evening meditations for the days assigned them. Today’s author, John MacFarlane (1798–1875), was a minister in the village of Colessie, in Fife, Scotland. Our devotional is condensed from his much longer meditation

https://christianhistoryinstitute.org/devotional/11/23

SparklingCrystal
Wrote about ‘How is Israel related to god's chosen people?’

Should we all move there? All 7-8 billion on the planet?
For we are all god's chosen people.
Quite arrogant and far from loving to say that it's only for Israelis.
Or Americans as they do the same. "God bless America" (and the rest can go to hell).
Palestine’s lived in what is now called Israel.
Then after the WW the allied forces decided the Jews had to go to Palestine to PEACEFULLY co-habit the country with the Palestine’s.
But Jews clearly didn't get 'peaceful co-habitation' as they took over, mistreated the Palestines, and that's still going on today.
They did their best to annihilate the original people of the country.
How is that 'god chosen'??
Basically the mess in that country is the result of the allied forces' decision, nothing to do with god.
It had to do with the fact that no one knew what to do with the Jews after the war and they had to go somewhere. So dump them in an area where they weren't in the way.
Well, they were, but not in the way of the west.
If the allied forces had decided differently back then there'd now be peace in today's Israel.
As it is the west has created a giant massacre, caused by the Israelis, and suffering of the people who actually lived in that country.
They're now confined by the Israelis behind a wall on a small piece of land, not allowed to do this and that and the other.
Really very sad and actually disgusting to treat other human beings that way.
We are all part of the Divine, god if you wish, and in that sense all equal. No race, people etc. has god's / the Divine's preference

Wide Arab solidarity with Lebanon following a wave of explosions of communication devices in Lebanon used by Hezbollah elements and the explosions of wireless communication devices "pagers" carried out by Israel in southern Lebanon, the Bekaa and other scattered areas.
Iran said that it is "a stigma for the West that supports Israel", especially the United States, an ally of Israel.
Egypt expressed its solidarity with Lebanon in this attack and Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati received a call from Foreign Minister Dr. Badr Abdel Ati, during which he conveyed the solidarity of Egypt, its president and people, with Lebanon in what it was exposed to from pager explosions.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry also condemned the terrorist aggression committed by Israel against civilians in Lebanon, which reflects its desire to expand the scope of the war.
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani issued directives to send Iraqi medical teams and emergency teams to Lebanon to provide urgent assistance to alleviate the pain of the injured innocent civilians.
Iraq stressed that these events, in addition to the other ongoing threats and attacks committed by the usurping entity, and the threat to launch a large-scale war on Lebanon, are matters that require urgent international intervention; In order to prevent the situation from sliding towards expanding the circle of war that has targeted, for months, the people of the Gaza Strip, as well as civilians in the West Bank and southern Lebanon, and caused them tragedies, without deterring the occupation army from implementing its plans to expand and occupy more lands.
Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister Ayman Safadi confirmed the directives of King Abdullah II of Jordan to provide any medical assistance needed by the Lebanese medical sector to treat thousands of Lebanese citizens who were injured in the mass bombing in Lebanon.
The spokesman for the Secretary-General of the United Nations warned of the risks of escalation in Lebanon, which is taking the region to a dangerous stage.
The international organization demanded an independent investigation into the circumstances of these mass bombings, and holding accountable those who ordered and carried out this attack. The United Nations said that targeting thousands of individuals without knowing who was in possession of the targeted devices violates international humanitarian law.

Israel will become a ‘pariah’ over Gaza ‘genocide’, UN rights experts say
United Nations rights rapporteurs also slammed the ‘double standards’ of countries that support Israel’s devastating war on Gaza.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/16/israel-will-become-a-pariah-over-gaza-genocide-un-rights-experts-say

How the war on Gaza exposed Israeli and western fascism
Material and rhetorical support for the genocide of the Palestinian people is everywhere. It's time to ask why
In its 2009 attack, Israel killed “only” 1,300 or so Palestinians in Gaza, not the many tens of thousands – or possibly hundreds of thousands, no one truly knows – it has this time around..."

https://www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/gaza-israel-war-western-fascism-exposed-how?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Meanwhile, the carnage continues:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/9/13/israels-war-on-gaza-live-dozens-more-killed-amid-anger-over-school-attack

LIVE from SHUT DOWN Presidential Debate For Gaza Protest in Philadelphia
From Status Coup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iinDL7o0gZE
Supporters of Genocide should never be President of the USA!

UN Expert Accuses Israel of "Deliberate Starvation" as a Means of Exterminating the Palestinians

Michael Fakhri, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, has published a report accusing Israel of carrying out the “deliberate starvation” of the Palestinians in Gaza as a means of exterminating them and annexing their land.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/09/10/bniw-s10.html

Israel destroys water service and sewage lines in Jenin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5PVbzbGj5U

An Israeli Jew speaks out against the genocide in Palestine
B’Tselem Executive Director Yuli Novak’s address to the UNSC, September 4th 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmwX7K_gDKQ

Welcome to Hell
https://www.btselem.org/publications/202408_welcome_to_hell