GENEVA (Reuters) - Israel’s naval blockade of the Gaza Strip violates international law, a panel of human rights experts reporting to a U.N.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-un-gaza-rights/u-n-experts-say-israels-blockade-of-gaza-illegal-idUSTRE78C59R20110913

We've already proved that the U.N.is a biased organization. That took 5 full posts of proof today that you answered with a flag wave. Your source is invalid.

You would have had Gaza if:

You didn't attack Israel in 1967...

If you agreed to the peace negotiations in 2000...



More than $60m (£46m) in annual funds for the Palestinian security services has now ended, and - while Israel has backed some previous cuts in US aid for Palestinians - officials have expressed concern about this move.

It is thought that co-operation with Israeli forces, which helps keep relative calm in the West Bank, could be affected.

The Anti-Terrorism Clarification Act (ATCA), passed by Congress and then signed into law by President Donald Trump last year, has just come into force.

This allows Americans to sue those receiving foreign aid from their country in US courts over alleged complicity in "acts of war".

At a news conference on Thursday, senior official Saeb Erekat said the Palestinian Authority (PA) had sent a letter to the US state department asking them to end funding because of a fear of lawsuits.

"We do not want to receive any money if it will cause us to appear before the courts," he said.

The PA denies Israeli accusations that it incites militant attacks.

"We are not seeking anything, the Americans have made their decision, but we will continue to participate in the fight against terrorism in the region," Mr Erekat went on.

He pointed out that there were currently cases against three banks operating in the Palestinian territories before US courts, and that in the past, several attempts to allow US victims of Palestinian attacks to sue the PA and Palestine Liberation Organisation had failed because of a lack of jurisdiction.

Despite a large hole in its budget, the PA maintains that the halt in US aid will not affect the work of its security forces.

"At the request of the Palestinian Authority, we have wound down certain projects and programs funded with assistance under the authorities specified in ATCA in the West Bank and Gaza," a US official told the BBC on Friday.

"All USAID assistance in the West Bank and Gaza has ceased."

It is not clear how long the halt will remain in effect.

But the Palestinian official said no steps were currently being taken to close the USAID mission in the Palestinian territories and no decision had been made about future staffing at the US embassy in Jerusalem.

Last year, Washington cut hundreds of millions of dollars of aid to the Palestinians, which included funding of humanitarian projects - such as health, education and infrastructure - supported by USAID.

This was widely viewed as a way of pressing Palestinian officials to restart peace talks with Israel and re-engage with the White House ahead of the announcement of its promised Middle East peace plan.

The Trump administration also ended all US funding for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA. It had previously been the largest donor to UNRWA, giving more than $360m in 2017.

Recently US government scholarships awarded to Palestinian students have been suspended and hundreds of Palestinian and foreign workers working on US-funded programs have lost their jobs.

"Our work was really important. We'd made a big impact but now we're stopping a lot of our projects in the middle," said one Palestinian whose position in law and order supported by USAID was terminated this week.

"We were really helping to build the capacity of the Palestinian police and prosecutors, helping them to carry out their investigations and daily work," the man said. "It's a huge setback."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-47095082

UN expert calls for ban on Israeli products from settlements

https://apnews.com/ac68611864b040ac918048c6e05d50fc

Unfortunately the Palestinian Terrorists don't produce anything, so they can't be boycotted...but cutting off $300+ million in aid works just fine.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

A grandfather in Israel buried his three-day-old grandson. The baby’s parents—the victims of a terrorist shooting along with several others—could not attend the funeral, as they remain hospitalized from the attack. The baby boy had been delivered prematurely by emergency Caesarian section after his mother was shot.

This morning, two more Israelis were killed and two were seriously wounded in another terrorist shooting in the West Bank.

These are only two of the more than 500 Palestinian terrorist attacks carried out or thwarted in the West Bank and Jerusalem this year alone.

Rather than outright condemn this blatant terrorism, leading Palestinian officials across the spectrum praised the attacks and the terrorists who committed them.

53 months of terror – 13 September 2015 to the present

Since September 2015, Israel has experienced a wave of terror perpetrated by individuals, many of them very young, inspired by vicious incitement in Palestinian social and traditional media and urged on by the Palestinian leadership. The Palestinian Authority goes so far as to pay convicted terrorists a monthly allowance – the more serious the offense, the more money they receive. The families of terrorists killed by Israeli security forces during a terror attack receive a monthly "pension" as well.

On 30 March 2018, Hamas instigated a campaign that was billed as a peaceful civilian protest, but was actually an excuse for violent riots on the Gaza Strip-Israeli border. In addition, kites and helium balloons with incendiary material attached have been launched from the Gaza Strip to the Israeli side. The resulting fires (over 2,000) have destroyed thousands of acres of forests and agricultural land (8,747 acres as of July 2019), with a huge cost to farmers and to the entire ecosystem of the western Negev https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-kite-set-fires-engulf-the-south-foresters-fight-to-save-every-tree/ . Experts estimate that it will take decades for the area to recover. During this same period, rocket launches from the Gaza Strip have also increased. An additional cost that cannot be estimated in money is the cost of the trauma suffered by the civilian population in southern Israel, especially the children.

In May 2019, Hamas and Israel entered into an agreement for a six-month ceasefire. Attacks have decreased but not ceased altogether.

In November 2019, there was a hiatus in the Hamas-orchestrated border riots. The arson kites and balloons have also decreased drastically.

In December 2019, the organizers of the March of Return announced that the weekly border protests would be suspended until the end of March 2020, when they will be resumed on a monthly basis, or on "prominent national occasions." (Note: March 30 is Land Day, a day commemorating violent clashes between Arab Israelis and Israeli forces in 1976, in reaction to a government plan to expropriate land in the Galilee for state purposes.) Predictably, the Gazafence protests did not achieve their stated goals: to end the "siege on Gaza" and to achieve the "right of return" for Palestinians whose grandparents once lived in Mandatory Palestine. (It should be noted that, while Israel controls the border rossing points between Israel and the Gaza Strip, commercial goods pass through daily.)

Israel has doomed itself. They now do to others what the Nazis did to them.

Yes, and yet fools are blinded by their own bigotry and hate..

My Grandad told me about what the Black and tans, did when they burned Cork, in 1920. He didn't like them and always said they were "A shower of evil bastards!" That was him being polite about them, as he told me the way they went about while in Cork, where he came from and Ireland in general! Nobody should be oppressed, in their own Country. Not the Irish, Scots (In the past) or the Palestinians. Israel, is an aggressive nation, just like the British Empire was and then England also! I know I come from a Country that's classed as part of the UK, but I have no allegiances to them. Only to Scotland and Ireland, where my families are from! TAL32, Alba gu brath!

Good man.. Yes the Black and Tans were a shower of criminals recruited to go to Ireland to uphold British rule, they didn't have proper uniforms so what they wore earned them their name, they burnt raped and pillaged. The film "The Wind that shakes the Barley" isn't bad take on the time.. Bless

February 22 2004 - Eight people were killed and over 60 wounded, 11 of them school pupils, in a suicide bombing on Jerusalem bus no. 14A near the Liberty Bell Park. The Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack, which was carried out by Mohammed Za'ul, from the Bethlehem area. The victims: Ilan Avisidris, 41, of Jerusalem; Lior Azulai, 18, of Jerusalem; Yaffa Ben-Shimol, 57, of Jerusalem; Rahamim Doga, 38, of Mevasseret Zion; Yehuda Haim, 48, of Givat Ze'ev; St.-Sgt. Netanel Havshush, 20, of Jerusalem; Yuval Ozana, 32, of Jerusalem; and Benayahu Zuckerman, 18, of Jerusalem.

Definitely evil oppressor school children. Completely legitimate target

It's always the same with these apologists of Zionists war crimes.. Say anything about their barbarity towards the Palestinian people and they start crying what about this what that, oh yeah and not forgetting the Holocaust, can't we just commit atrocities on a defenceless population and call it war, after all we've been persecuted forever?



You just keep churning out the Zionist propaganda that you are so good at finding.. I prefer to stand on the side of the oppressed.

February 26 - Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Amir Zimmerman, 25, of Kfar Monash was killed and two other soldiers wounded when two Palestinian terrorists opened fire near the Erez Crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel. The terrorists were killed by soldiers. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

February 27 - Eitan Kukoi, 30, and his wife, Rima Novikov Kukoi, 25, were killed in a terrorist shooting attack on the Lahav-Ashkelon road, along the Green Line. The PFLP and the Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades both claimed responsibility for the attack.

March 14 - Ten people were killed and 16 wounded in a double suicide bombing at Ashdod Port. Hamas and Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims: Gil Abutbul, 38, of Ashdod; Danny Assulin, 51, of Ashdod; Avraham Avraham, 34, of Ashdod; Zion Dahan, 30, of Ashdod; Ophir Damari, 31, of Rehovot; Moshe Hendler, 29, of Rehovot; Mazal Marciano, 30, of Ashdod; Avi Suissa, 56, of Kiryat Malakhi; Maurice Tubul, 30, of Ashdod; and Pinhas Avraham Zilberman, 45, of Tel Aviv.

March 19 - George Khoury, 20, a Christian Arab and the son of well-known veteran attorney Elias Khoury of Beit Hanina, was shot to death from a vehicle while jogging in the north Jerusalem neighborhood of French Hill. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, which claimed responsibility for the attack, later published an apology.

Here's some of the "OPPRESSORS" of Palestine...those evil military people who will do anything to kill peace-loving Palestinians...

These evil people, and 11 more of like age and make-up, were eliminated 19 years ago, June 2nd, 2011 at a nightclub by a holy martyr of Islam interested only in peace...

I believe all deaths are wrong, I won't go blaming innocent children, or glorify in their deaths, as you seem to do.. You can try and justify all you want, but the numbers speak for themselves.

The Impact of the Conflict on Children

https://rememberthesechildren.org/remember2014.html


“The majority of these [Palestinian] children were killed and injured while going about normal daily activities, such as going to school, playing, shopping, or simply being in their homes. Sixty-four percent of children killed during the first six months of 2003 died as a result of Israeli air and ground attacks, or from indiscriminate fire from Israeli soldiers.”

Remember These Children's list of victims does not yet mention all of the 527 children killed by Israel in during its 2014 assault on Gaza in the summer...

https://ifamericansknew.org/stat/children.html

If you don't want Palestinian children to die:

Stop strapping explosives to them.

Stop hiding behind them and using them as human shields.

Stop enlisting them into your "military."



April 3 - Yaakov (Kobi) Zagha, 40, of Avnei Hefetz was shot dead by a terrorist outside his home, after his daughter Hani, 14, was shot and wounded. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

April 17 - Border Policeman Cpl. Kfir Ohayon, 20, of Eilat was killed, three others wounded when a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up at the Erez Crossing. Hamas and Fatah claimed joint responsibility for the attack.