Citazione di: Warp il 25 Mar 2025, 08:38
L'esercito dello stato terrorista israeliano ha arrestato Hamdan Ballal regista di "No Other Land", premiato agli Oscar come miglior documentario.

A quanto pare decine di coloni terroristi a volto mascherato in Cisgiordania hanno tentato di lanciare il regista.

Sono rimasti feriti anche altri palestinesi che erano con lui.

Il regista è stato quindi soccorso da una autoambulanza, da cui però i soldati israeliani lo hanno tirato fuori a forza e arrestato.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-03-24/ty-article/.premium/palestinian-director-of-no-other-land-attacked-by-settler-mob-arrested-by-idf/00000195-c980-da24-affd-fba4541a0000

Nemmeno Hollywood ti salva dalla furia terrorista di questi criminali sionisti

eheee ma voi mette co' Palliwood

Palestinian Filmmaker Hamdan Ballal Freed After Being Assaulted by Israeli Settlers & Soldiers
HeadlineMar 26, 2025

In the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal was released Tuesday from Israeli detention after being brutally attacked on Monday, first by a mob of masked Israeli settlers and then by Israeli soldiers. Three weeks ago, Ballal won an Oscar for co-directing the documentary "No Other Land" about violent Israeli settlers trying to seize Ballal's community in Masafer Yatta. Ballal said Israeli soldiers held him overnight blindfolded and handcuffed at a military base. He spoke on Tuesday from a hospital in Hebron, where he was receiving treatment.

Hamdan Ballal: "You know, it's like — overnight, it's like many times, but this is first time — OK? — they came, the soldiers, with the settlers, attacking me and beating me and destroyed me. This is first time. And this came — it's like, first, I got the Oscar awards. So, this, like, lets you, like, think, 'Why they're attacking you like this?' It's like hard attack after the Oscar. In the beginning, yes, there's attack, but not like this. The army, they tried to stop the settlers. But this attack, they came, the soldiers. They came, attacking me with the settlers."

25 Marzo 2025

Alberto Negri
Gli interessi miliardari multinazionali dietro il genocidio di Gaza
«Armi e tecnologie, a chi conviene il genocidio», titola il manifesto. «Perché Israele non può fermare le guerre e noi non possiamo fermare il genocidio di Gaza»


260 miliardi di dollari di aiuti militari
Dagli anni '50 Tel Aviv ha ricevuto dagli Usa oltre 260 miliardi di dollari di aiuti militari. Soltanto nell'ultimo anno e mezzo, dall'attacco di Hamas del 7 ottobre, hanno superato i 20 miliardi di dollari. Israele, allo stesso tempo, è all'avanguardia nella ricerca scientifico-tecnologica militare, è uno dei maggiori esportatori di armi e contemporaneamente uno dei maggiori clienti delle americane Boeing, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin e RTX (Raytheon Technologies). Queste società sono tra i principali fornitori di tecnologie militari, come caccia F-35, missili avanzati e sistemi di difesa aerea, utilizzati dall'esercito israeliano.

Struttura finanziaria globale
Dietro queste aziende si cela una struttura finanziaria globale: i fondi d'investimento internazionali noti come le «Big Three»: Vanguard, BlackRock e State Street. I tre fondi d'investimento sono tra i maggiori azionisti di rilievo delle principali compagnie di armamenti e di molti settori. Vanguard, BlackRock e State Street detengono quote significative in Boeing, Lockheed Martin e RTX, influenzando la gestione e le strategie di queste società. L'aumento delle spese militari e l'acquisto di armamenti da parte di Israele sono strettamente collegati ai profitti di queste aziende.

Chi arma e come
Lockheed Martin ha fornito i caccia F-35 a Israele, considerati un pilastro delle sue capacità militari. Gli F-35 il 26 ottobre hanno eliminato in un giorno l'80% delle difese anti-aeree iraniane. Boeing è responsabile della vendita di velivoli da combattimento e missili, mentre RTX ha fornito avanzati sistemi missilistici e difese aeree. Ogni vendita non solo rafforza l'apparato bellico israeliano ma genera anche grandi profitti. Le Big Three svolgono un ruolo di primo piano nell'alimentare una rete economica che beneficia direttamente dalle tensioni geopolitiche e militari.

Mentre la popolazione civile di Gaza e Cisgiordania continua a soffrire per le operazioni militari e l'occupazione, le aziende belliche e i loro principali azionisti vedono aumentare i propri profitti grazie alle vendite crescenti di armamenti.

Complesso militar-industriale israelo-americano
Ecco perché si parla di complesso militar-industriale israelo-americano. Ha un preciso significato bellico, finanziario e di potere globale. Israele ha un'influenza sproporzionata per quanto riguarda le vendite di armi. Al mondo è il 97° paese per popolazione ma il nono maggiore esportatore di armi. In settori come l'intelligenza artificiale e la cybersecurity è in testa alla leadership mondiale. Gaza e la Palestina sono il laboratorio dello stato ebraico. Come scrive nel suo libro (Laboratorio Palestina, Fazi) il giornalista premio Pulitzer Antony Loewenstein, ebreo australiano.

Territori occupati palestinesi come poligoni
«Molti paesi vendono armi – dice Loewenstein – ma ciò che rende unica l'industria israeliana è il mix di armi, tecnologie di sorveglianza e tecniche che si combinano per creare un sistema completo per il controllo di popolazioni 'difficili' e si basano su anni di esperienza in Palestina». Il complesso militar-industriale di Israele – e di conseguenza anche degli Usa – utilizza i Territori occupati palestinesi come banco di prova per le armi e le tecnologie di sorveglianza che esporta in tutto il mondo, a partire dall'intelligenza artificiale. L'adozione di tecnologie di IA è stata accelerata dalla Unità 8200, il reparto d'élite dell'intelligence israeliana, oggi composta per il 60% da ingegneri ed esperti tech, il doppio degli informatici arruolati dieci anni fa.

Intelligenza Artificiale assassina
Eppure tra i palestinesi si muore sempre di più. Secondo le testimonianze di ex soldati e analisti raccolte dal Washington Post, la fiducia nell'IA ha portato le forze armate israeliane a ridurre alcuni passaggi di controllo, con il risultato di aumentare il numero di obiettivi ritenuti legittimi. Anche se questi comportano un maggior rischio di vittime tra i civili. Dalla proporzione di 1:1 del 2014 (un civile "sacrificabile" per colpire un membro di Hamas di alto livello) si è passati a 15:1 o persino 20:1 nel conflitto attuale, stando alle fonti del Washington Post.

Wiz e cybersicurezza
Tutto questo naturalmente non ferma Israele e la crescita del suo apparato militar-industriale sempre più integrato in quello americano. La startup israeliana Wiz, leader nella cybersicurezza, è nel mirino di Google. Il conglomerato di Bezos aveva già provato ad acquistarla la scorsa estate per 23 miliardi di dollari ma aveva ricevuto un secco no. Ha quindi deciso di alzare l'offerta, secondo il Wall Street Journal, a circa 33 miliardi di dollari.

Netanyahu e complici, palesi e nascosti
Ci si chiede spesso come mai gli americani e gli europei non facciano pressioni concrete su Netanyahu per limitare le stragi a Gaza che ormai superano i 50mila uccisi (70mila secondo fonti come Lancet). La realtà è che Stati uniti e Gran Bretagna sono direttamente impegnati nelle operazioni militari: il 70% dei voli di ricognizione sui bersagli da colpire a Gaza e in Libano nel 2024 sono stati compiuti da aerei americani e britannici. Ma soprattutto non c'è azienda europea importante che non abbia accordi con l'Israel Innovation Authority, agenzia governativa incaricata di finanziare progetti innovativi.

L'Italia di nascosto
Per esempio Stellantis si è unita ad altre aziende italiane come Enel, Leonardo STMicroelectronics, che hanno aperto laboratori di ricerca e sviluppo in Israele, o Sparkle, Snam e Adler che hanno concluso accordi con l'Israel Innovation Authority e con startup israeliane nel settore high-tech.

Ecco perché Israele non può mai perdere una guerra e noi europei non faremo nulla per fermare Netanyahu. Anche il riarmo europeo, che beneficerà le industrie belliche del continente e americane, renderà Israele più forte e influente. Come e perché muoiono a Gaza e in Medio Oriente lo sappiamo bene.

la Palestina è  stata rimossa dell'agenda europea.
Siamo impegnati a fattura' con le armi sti ca.zi de Gaza. i sionisti pagano bene magari scippamo qualche commessa all'americani.
bisogna coltivasse i clienti migliori

si sapeva i Palestinesi sono (per il governo genocida, e chi lo aiuta) pura e semplice carne da macello
altro che palliwod, questi andrebbero tutti processati per crimini contro l'umanità, e ad essere buoni andrebbero buttate le chiavi

Marco Travaglio - Le Favole di Pinocchia
Fatto Quotidiano, 28 marzo 2025

Prima che l'ennesimo euro-scandalo – gli incontri della lobby israeliana di estrema destra Idsf, mai registrata né autorizzata, con 19 eurodeputati, fra cui la pidina Pina Picierno – diventi la solita disputa burocratica su regole e regolette, è bene andare alla sostanza. Se la vestale del renzismo, del bellicismo e dell'atlantismo (ma solo, coerentemente, fino all'elezione di Trump), riceve i capi dell'Israel Defense and Security Forum con tanto di foto opportunity nel Parlamento europeo di cui è una dei 14 vicepresidenti, il problema politico non è se e come abbia registrato gli incontri. Né che siano avvenuti. Chi mai dovrebbe incontrare quella congrega di fanatici estremisti che teorizzano la colonizzazione illegale della Cisgiordania e reclutano mercenari per le guerre di Israele, se non la Picierno, che in quest'anno e mezzo, col giochino "E allora il 7 ottobre?", è riuscita a non condannare mai nettamente ed esplicitamente il governo Netanyahu per lo sterminio di 50 mila (almeno) palestinesi a Gaza e a tacciare di antisemita filo-Hamas chiunque lo chiamasse col suo nome? Il problema politico è cosa ci faccia questa signora nel Pd. O, in alternativa, quale credibilità abbia il Pd quando tuona (di rado) o pigola (spesso) contro i crimini di Netanyahu&C. se poi si tiene le Picierno e altri sedicenti "riformisti" per mancanza di riforme. Un altro frequentatore dell'allegra brigata israeliana è il lituano Andrius Kubilius, commissario Ue per la Difesa, e anche lì nessuno stupore: è un altro tifoso del riarmo e non poteva non empatizzare. Ma almeno sta in un partito di destra catto-nazionalista. Non in uno di presunta "sinistra".

Ma, in questa spettacolare farsa chiamata Europa, capita che la Commissione, cioè il governo, sia composta da Cdu, FdI, Liberali, Verdi e Pse. Infatti continua a sfornare auto-sanzioni alla Russia, ma non s'è mai sognata di discutere e men che meno votare sanzioni a Israele. Neppure per bloccare le forniture di armamenti che Netanyahu usa per radere al suolo la striscia di Gaza, attaccare la Cisgiordania aizzando e armando i coloni più violenti, il Libano, la Siria, l'Iran, lo Yemen e ogni tanto pure l'Iraq. Intanto la Picierno dichiarava con grave sprezzo del ridicolo che "l'Italia non vende armi a Paesi in guerra". Stilava liste fantasy di putiniani. E riusciva a chiedere, restando seria, "alla Commissione e al Consiglio Ue l'inserimento di Ciro Cerullo, in arte Jorit, tra gli individui sottoposti a sanzioni" perché l'artista di strada napoletano aveva dipinto un murale su Mariupol e incontrato Putin a Mosca per portare messaggi di pace. Invece, per una che incontra i lobbisti delle guerre e delle stragi d'Israele, niente sanzioni. Anche perché dovrebbe sanzionarsi da sola.

L'esercito di Israele ammette di aver sparato contro ambulanze e pompieri a Gaza: «Ma c'erano terroristi»

https://www.open.online/2025/03/29/gaza-israele-esercito-spari-ambulanze-pompieri/

La sfida di Netanyahu alla Cpi: mercoledì vola da Orbán in Ungheria. L'avviso dell'UE: «Stati eseguano rapidamente i mandati di arresto»

Il premier israeliano è atteso nel paese estero che aderisce al Trattato di Roma. Anche se, al tempo delle accuse dell'Aja, Orbán lo difese e rilanciò invitandolo a Budapest

https://www.open.online/2025/03/30/benjamin-netanyahu-cpi-ungheria-viktor-orban-rischi/

hanno anche tentato di occultare i corpi dei paramedici...
la disumanizzazione, la totale perdita di ogni barlume di umanità da parte dell'esercito isreliano ci riporta agli orrori indicibili dei campi di concentramento di Auschwitz Dachau o Buchenwald, ma questa volta con israele come carnefice

It's important to note that we can enter houses without using human shields. We did it for months, according to a proper entry procedure which included sending in a robot, a drone, or a dog. This procedure proved itself, but it took time, and the command wanted achievements here and now.
In other words, we forced Palestinians to act as human shields not because it was safer for IDF troops, but because it was faster.


https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025-03-30/ty-article-opinion/.premium/in-gaza-almost-every-idf-platoon-keeps-a-human-shield-a-sub-army-of-palestinian-slaves/00000195-e627-deaf-a397-


Mar 30, 2025

In Gaza, human shields are used by Israeli soldiers at least six times a day.

I served in Gaza for nine months, and first came across these procedures, called "mosquito protocol" in December 2023. It was only two months into the ground offensive, long before there was a shortage of dogs from the IDF's canine unit, Oketz, who were used for this purpose. This became the insane, unofficial excuse for this insane, unofficial procedure. I didn't realize then how ubiquitous using human shields, whom we referred to as a "shawish," would become.

Today, almost every platoon keeps a "shawish," and no infantry force enters a house before a "shawish" clears it. This means there are four "shawishes" in a company, twelve in a battalion, and at least 36 in a brigade. We operate a sub-army of slaves.

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The procedure is simple. Innocent Palestinians are forced to enter houses in Gaza and "clear" them, to make sure there are no terrorists or explosives.

I recently saw that the IDF's Military Police Criminal Investigation Division opened six investigations into the use of Palestinian civilians as human shields, and my jaw dropped. I've seen cover-ups before, but this is a new low. If the MPCID wanted to do its job seriously, it would have to open far more than even a thousand investigations. But all the MPCID wants is for us to be able to tell ourselves and the world that we're investigating ourselves, so they've found six scapegoats and are pinning it all on them.

I was present at a meeting where one of the brigade commanders presented the "mosquito" concept to the division commander as a "necessary operational achievement to accomplish the mission." It was so normalized that I thought I was hallucinating.

As early as August of 2024, when this story broke in Haaretz and in testimonies collected by Breaking the Silence, a senior source said that both the outgoing IDF Chief of Staff and the outgoing Head of the Southern Command knew about the procedure. I don't know which is worse: that they don't know what's going on in the army they command, or that they do know and continue regardless.

It's been more than seven months since that story was published, and soldiers have continued detaining Palestinians and forcing them to go into houses and tunnels ahead of them. While the Chief of Staff and the Head of the Southern Command continued to say and do nothing about it, the protocol became even more widespread and normalized.

The highest-ranking personnel on the ground have known about the use of human shields for more than a year, and no one has tried to stop it. On the contrary, it was defined as an operational necessity.

It's important to note that we can enter houses without using human shields. We did it for months, according to a proper entry procedure which included sending in a robot, a drone, or a dog. This procedure proved itself, but it took time, and the command wanted achievements here and now.

In other words, we forced Palestinians to act as human shields not because it was safer for IDF troops, but because it was faster. That's why we risked the lives of Palestinians who were suspected of nothing other than being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

It didn't go through without pushback. Soldiers and officers resisted. I resisted. But that's what happens when the senior command doesn't care and the politicians even less. That's what happens when you're quick on the trigger and operationally burned-out to the max. That's what happens when you're in an unending war that fails to bring the hostages back alive month after month. You lose moral judgment.

A friend who's an officer in the army told me about an incident they experienced: They encountered a terrorist in a house that had already been cleared by a "shawish." The "shawish" was an elderly man, and when he realized he'd messed up, he was so scared he soiled himself. I don't know what became of him. I was afraid to ask.

This one case shows that the justifications they gave us that the procedure is for "security" purposes weren't true. These people aren't professional combatants; they don't know how to scan a house. The soldiers don't trust them anyway because they're not there of their own free will. Sometimes, "shawishes" are sent to houses just to set those houses on fire or blow them up. It has nothing to do with security.

I shudder to think what this does to the psyche of anyone who has to go into a house, terrified, in place of armed soldiers. I also shudder to think about what this does to us Israelis.

Does every mother who sends her son off to fight understand that he might find himself grabbing a Palestinian his father's age, or his younger brother's age, and violently forcing him to run in front of him, unarmed, into a potentially booby-trapped house or tunnel? Not only have we failed to protect our troops, we've corrupted their souls, and there's no way to know what this will do to us, as a society, when they come home from war.

That's why the MPCID investigation is so infuriating. First, the soldiers are made to use Palestinians as human shields, and then the officers use lower-ranking soldiers as their own human shields, all while we're still desperately trying to get back the hostages that are being held, in part, to serve as human shields for Hamas.

It was obvious that it was only a matter of time before this story blew up, but it's too big for the MPCID to handle. Only an independent State Commission of Inquiry could get to the bottom of this.

Until then, we have every reason to worry about international courts in the Hague, because this procedure is a crime - a crime even the army now admits. It happens daily and is much more common than the public is being told.

sono mesi che lo dico , i governanti israeliani ed i comandanti di idf(ma a questo punto anche i soldati)
andrebbero tutti portati a processo per crimini di guerra ,e crimini contro l'umanità,
da tempo hanno raggiunto i livelli di ss e gestapo 

quello che sta facendo il governo israeliano non mi sorprende, con diverse intensità lo fanno da quasi ottanta anni. Quello che mi sta sconvolgendo veramente è che si stanno ripetendo i meccanismi che hanno portato a far si che davanti agli orrori di ss e gestapo "la gente" al 90% sosteneva nazismo e fascismo e così oggi, il popolino si è trasformato in un mostro assetato di sangue trasudando disumanità razzismo e odio, persone che fino a un anno e mezzo fa sembravano esseri civili al massimo riescono ad essere indifferenti

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/03/the-gaza-paramedic-killings-a-visual-timeline?CMP=share_btn_url

non era facile creare nell'opinione pubblica mondiale la percezione di una equivalenza tra svastica e stella di david

Gaza, video smentisce Israele sul massacro dei paramedici:
"Ambulanze con luci accese, esecuzione"

Un filmato pubblicato dal New York Times mostra che gli uomini della Mezzaluna rossa il 23 marzo si mossero in modo corretto, non potevano essere considerati "sospetti". In 15 sono stati uccisi e gettati in una fossa comune

https://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2025/04/05/news/gaza_video_smentisce_massacro_paramedici-424108806/?ref=RHLF-BG-P2-S1-T1

sono lo schifo dell'umanità, i vertici di idf e tutti i soldati che si sono macchiati ripetutamente di omicidio verso persone indifese,oltre al governo genocida in primis bibi il porco , andrebbero processati per crimini contro l'umanità

Israeli-German Philosopher's Participation in Buchenwald Ceremony Cancelled Under Israeli Pressure
The memorial site invited Boehm for his ethical reflections on universal human rights and Nazi crimes. The Israeli embassy said that Boehm 'dilutes the memory of the Holocaust with his discourse on universal values'


Apr 4, 2025

Under pressure from the Israeli government, a speech by Israeli-German philosopher Omri Boehm at an event marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany was cancelled.

In a statement on X, Israel's embassy to Germany described the decision to invite Boehm to the event as "a blatant insult" to the remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust. As reasons, they cited his comparison of the Holocaust to the Palestinian Nakba and his description of Yad Vashem as "an instrument of political manipulation."

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Boehm confirmed to Haaretz that his participation in the ceremony was canceled. He said that he and the memorial site tried to prevent a scandal and intend to cooperate in the future.

The Israeli embassy said that "under the guise of science, Boehm is trying to dilute the memory of the Holocaust with his discourse on universal values, thereby depriving it of its historical and moral significance."

"History is not an abstract debate and the Holocaust not an intellectual playground," the embassy added.

The Buchenwald memorial site said in a statement that Boehm – the grandson of a Holocaust survivor – was invited to the event because of his ability to hold "value and ethical reflections on the connection between history and memory, particularly regarding the value of universal human rights and their significance in relation to the crimes of the Nazis."

Director of the Buchenwald memorial site, Jens Christian Wagner, told the media that Boehm's invitation " led to a conflict with representatives of the Israeli government, which also involved the survivors of the camps. In order to protect the survivors and out of a desire to ensure a commemorative event for the concentration camp – where the emphasis is not on an initiated and external debate but on the survivors – we decided, after discussion with Boehm, to postpone his speech to a later date."

The German government responded on Friday that former Nazi concentration camps are free to choose who they invite to their ceremonies.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-04-04/ty-article/.premium/israeli-german-philosophers-part-in-buchenwald-ceremony-cancelled-under-israeli-pressure/00000196-00f1-d101-a7bf-81fbee660000



Opinion | Ignoring Massacres in Gaza City While Protesting for Democracy in Tel Aviv
How is it possible to square the defense of Israel's democratic values with a situation in which on the other side tens of thousands of Palestinian lives are being cut short in a single blow?
Mar 21, 2025

Israel recently committed the largest child massacre in its history. Two hundred children and 100 women were killed in one day. Altogether, about 400 civilians were killed, and the number of dead is not yet final. These numbers are not reported in the Israeli media, and if they are – it's always minimized in an outrageous manner.


For example, Channel 12 News, Israel's mainstream television station, reported that the 400 dead were "operatives." How can you claim that they were all "operatives" when it's completely clear that the entire world is seeing the horrifying pictures of dozens of babies and children bombed to death? How is it possible to lie so blatantly when the truth is so clear? For how long will the Israeli media be complicit in the crimes of the Israeli government?

Even the media of other countries that committed genocide would be ashamed to lie like that. But Israel's chutzpah is a foundation stone of its approach.

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The majority of the Israeli public, which opposes the war, thinks that the war jeopardizes the hostages' lives and that the fighting was resumed for political reasons. I was somehow able to understand the Israeli reaction at the start of the war, after October 7, 2023, even though it did not directly refer to the Palestinian victims. At that time, the response was intended to protect against being labeled as "traitors." But after 18 months of mass killing, which will enter the history books as an eternal disgrace, that mechanism can no longer work.

Although resuming the war will kill the hostages, it mainly kills masses of Palestinian men, women, children and the elderly. At what point will anti-war Israelis say aloud what should be said and stop being euphemistic? I understand there has been some coming to terms with being labeled "child murderers." Is it possible to reach a lower moral nadir? Doesn't it frighten them to be labeled as such?

It's already impossible to distinguish between things in Israel. It's impossible to distinguish the media from the public. Because even those who oppose the war are afraid to say that Gazans are human, too. Because it's impossible to separate the pilot from the bomb. He's told to push the button and he pushes it. The majority of the people not only tolerate mass slaughter, but demand it, either explicitly or tacitly.

This isn't a problem of the media concealing or manipulating. It is the fruit of militaristic racist indoctrination that begins in kindergarten and continues until death. An indoctrination that needs destruction to justify the existence of Zionism.

There is something warped in the narrative, which is currently being presented by the liberal Jewish public in Israel, as a struggle to save Israeli democracy. This struggle exists in the near total absence of reference to the war's lethal consequences on Gaza and Gazans.

How is it possible to square the defense of democratic values with a situation in which on the other side tens of thousands of lives are being cut short in a single blow? It sounds unbelievable.

How is it possible to insist on freedom and justice without any reference to the inconceivable human price of this war? How it is possible to devalue life in Gaza, which has become so cheap for Jews in Israel, while simultaneously calling for the preservation of Israeli democracy? Exactly what democracy are we talking about? One that carries on its back such enormous, terrible destruction every day?

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025-03-21/ty-article-opinion/.premium/even-anti-war-israelis-are-scared-to-say-gazans-are-human-beings/00000195-b525-d862-a3b5-f53704750000?dicbo=v2-wnn5J6e&utm_source=traffic.outbrain.com&utm_medium=referrer&utm_campaign=outbrain_organic

Opinion | Starvation Stalks Gaza. Why Is Israel's Supreme Court Looking Away?
Just when the Israeli Supreme Court's judicial oversight was needed to examine alleged violations of Palestinian civilians starving in the Gaza Strip, the court chose to defer the issue, claiming it was 'not the appropriate forum'
Aeyal Gross Tamar Luster
Apr 9, 2025 11:23 am IDT

Last week, the United Nations World Food Program announced that all 25 bakeries it supports in the Gaza Strip would close, and that it would distribute its last remaining food packages within days. This is but one result of Israel's far-reaching decision to completely block humanitarian aid from entering Gaza through Israeli territory since early March, following the breakdown of cease-fire negotiations. Against this backdrop, difficult questions arise from the Israeli Supreme Court's recent decision that affirmed the legality of Israel's policy on humanitarian aid in Gaza.

A petition demanding unimpeded aid access to Gaza was first brought forth by five Israeli civil society organizations last year in March 2024, when international agencies first released a stern warning of imminent famine in the Strip. The petitioners argued that Israel has obstructed humanitarian aid and imposed collective punishment in Gaza.

After year-long legal deliberations, the court rejected their petition and determined that Israel upheld its legal obligation under international and Israeli law. Israel's High Court of Justice explicitly refused to address this current halt of humanitarian aid, stating that "the current proceeding is not the appropriate forum for addressing these decisions, which reflect a significant change in circumstances." Yet with the court's ruling explicitly resting on Israel's claim that it does not limit the amount of aid entering Gaza, issuing the decision after Israel already reversed that position renders the judgment hollow.


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Severe threat of famine: Last UN bakery closes in Gaza month after humanitarian aid halt
Furthermore, international organizations are still sounding the alarm over a sharp decline in food and medical supplies in the Strip, coupled with a significant rise in market prices. They are expressing deep concern over worsening hunger. Precisely when the Supreme Court's judicial oversight was needed to examine alleged violations of civilian starvation, the court chose to defer the issue.

The Supreme Court's decision was based on Israel's position that Gaza is not an occupied territory. The court's position contradicts the July 2024 advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice, which determined the law of occupation does apply in Gaza and thus confirms Israel's extensive obligations toward civilians in Gaza. The Israeli Supreme Court decision reflects and entrenches Israel's deeply problematic approach, aiming to dismantle Hamas while simultaneously blocking any alternative governance structure or assuming responsibility as an occupying force.

The Supreme Court also declined to consider and weigh Israel's obligations under international human rights law, such as the right to food or health. Thus, it imposed only minimal duties on Israel, ignoring the significant force it exercises over Gaza and its residents.


Israel and the Supreme Court have recognized that Israel is obliged to "allow and facilitate" the passage of humanitarian aid under applicable law of war. Accordingly, a key issue emerges in the court case: whether or not Israel's actions fulfill this obligation.

The petitioners pointed to delays, bureaucratic restrictions and de facto obstacles imposed by Israel on the movement of essential aid. Combined with Israeli army attacks on civilian infrastructure and widespread destruction, they argued this has led to the collapse of Gaza's food and healthcare systems and precipitated a humanitarian crisis.

Israel, on the other hand, contended that amid intense hostilities it continuously acted to improve aid infrastructure, and bolster inspection and coordination with humanitarian organizations. It said that Hamas is responsible for the suffering of Gaza's civilians due to its diversion and looting of humanitarian aid.

The Supreme Court accepted Israel's position. However the ruling limited itself to reviewing Israel's actions without addressing the actual situation facing Gaza's civilian population. Israel claimed that the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) process, an international mechanism led by UN agencies and humanitarian organizations which has consistently warned of famine in Gaza, relies on methodological and factual mistakes.

And yet, Israel did not present alternative data regarding the humanitarian situation of civilians in Gaza. The court too refrained from engaging with the issue and avoided making any determination. Even though the circumstances on the ground have worsened amid a complete halt of aid into Gaza over the last month, the court made the detached remark that "it appears the cease-fire between January and March 2025 created a different factual reality than the one on which the IPC's forecast was based."

To assess the legality of Israel's actions, especially in a decision with such severe consequences as stopping humanitarian aid from reaching an overpopulated enclave after a year and half of war, it is necessary to evaluate the potential harm. It's impossible to assess this potential harm without significant consideration of the condition of children, the elderly, women and men in Gaza.

Several Israeli hostages recently released during the cease-fire described the hunger they experienced while unlawfully held by Hamas as an excruciating form of torture. A plethora of studies also show that hunger not only causes severe physical suffering but also bears a heavy psychological burden with highly damaging implications for social bonds within families and communities.

When the Israeli Supreme Court, along with most of the Israeli media, refuses to address the horror of hunger spreading among Gaza's civilians, we must not look away, and must face the harsh reality in the Strip.

Aeyal Gross is a professor of constitutional and international law at Tel Aviv University. He is a member of the board of Gisha, which is one of the petitioners in the Supreme Court petition mentioned in the article. X: @AeyalGross

Tamar Luster is a Ph.D candidate at the Buchmann Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University.

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