Israeli military treating West Bank as 'second combat front' after Gaza

Major escalation in Israeli operations in territory last week was 'just the beginning', according to Israeli security officials

The Israeli military is currently treating the occupied West Bank as “the second most critical front” after its war on Gaza, according to a report in Israel Hayom on Tuesday. 

Citing Israeli security officials, the report said that recent events had triggered a major policy shift in the West Bank, an area that was previously designated as a “secondary arena” requiring “stable maintenance”. 

"The Jenin operation is just the beginning," security officials said, citing a recent escalation in the West Bank city. 

Israel has significantly stepped up its offensive in the West Bank since Wednesday, resulting in the killing of at least 30 Palestinians across Jenin, Tulkarm, Tubas and Hebron. 

The operation included drone and sniper attacks, as well as the use of military bulldozers to destroy critical infrastructure and cut off communications and resources. 

Read more at: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-military-treating-west-bank-second-combat-zone-after-gaza

Demand Oregon Treasury Comply with International Law and Divest from Genocide

Palestine will soon be free, but many people of Gaza are running out of time. We must act now to stop apartheid and genocide, and at a minimum divest from structures supporting it. Please demand the Oregon Treasury and the Oregon Investment Council comply with international law, UN recommendations, Oregon legislative precedent, and its own guiding principles to divest from Israel Bonds, Caterpillar Inc., and Bank of America.

Please sign to petition the Oregon Treasury and the Oregon Investment Council (OIC) to:

1) Discontinue investments in Israel Bonds for as long as Israel remains an apartheid state;
2) Divest from Caterpillar Inc. and Bank of America while these companies are complicit in genocide; and
3) Demand the Oregon Treasury develop a human rights investment policy to prevent such investments in the future.

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/demand-oregon-treasury-comply-with-international-law-and-divest-from-genocide

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Mass evacuations in Gaza choke survival and severely constrain aid operations

Civilians are exhausted and terrified, running from one destroyed place to another, with no end in sight.

This cannot continue.

International humanitarian law demands that the parties protect civilians and meet their essential needs. The way forward is as clear as it is urgent: protect civilians, release the hostages, facilitate humanitarian access, agree on a ceasefire.

 Read more at: https://www.ochaopt.org/content/mass-evacuations-gaza-choke-survival-and-severely-constrain-aid-operations

Countries fueling Israel’s Gaza war may be complicit in war crimes, experts warn

Exclusive: research tracks dozens of oil and fuel shipments that could have aided Israel’s war on Gaza

“After the 26 January ICJ ruling, states cannot claim they did not know what they were risking to partake in,” said Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, adding that under international law, states have obligations to prevent genocide and respect and ensure respect for the Geneva conventions.

“The case for the US’s complicity in genocide is very strong,” aid Dr Shahd Hammouri, lecturer in international law at the University of Kent and the author of Shipments of Death. “It’s providing material support, without which the genocide and other illegalities are not possible. The question of complicity for the other countries will rely on assessment of how substantial their material support has been.”

Read more at: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/20/israel-war-gaza-fuel-war-crimes-warning

 

Letter to Biden, Harris with American physicians’ and nurses’ observations from the Gaza Strip

Link to Letter sent by 45 American Doctors and Nurses to President Biden and Vice President Harris

July 25, 2024
Re: American physicians’ and nurses’ observations from the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023

I’ve never seen such horrific injuries, on such a massive scale, with so few resources. Our bombs are cutting down women and children by the thousands. Their mutilated bodies are a monument to cruelty.

Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, trauma and critical care surgeon

I saw so many stillbirths and maternal deaths that could have been easily prevented if the hospitals had been functioning normally.

Dr. Thalia Pachiyannakis, obstetrician and gynecologist

Every day I saw babies die. They had been born healthy. Their mothers were so malnourished that they could not breastfeed, and we lacked formula or clean water to feed them, so they starved.

Asma Taha, pediatric nurse practitioner

Gaza was the first time I held a baby’s brains in my hand. The first of many.

Dr. Mark Perlmutter, orthopedic and hand surgeon

Read the letter at: https://tinyurl.com/gazadoctorsletter

Read the appendix at: https://tinyurl.com/gazadoctorsletterappendix

 

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