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    ISRAEL / HAMAS / GAZA

    BACKGROUND / EXPLAINERS
  • What's the Israel-Palestinian conflict about and how did it start?
    | Reuters | December 5, 2023 11:05 AM CST Updated 3 months ago |

  • Axios Explains: Israel-Hamas war - - The big picture
    | Axios |

  • Over 50% of Gaza buildings damaged or destroyed in Israel's bombardment
    | Will Chase, Axios staff | January 14, 2024 |

    QUOTE FROM ABOVE LINK:
    "A video investigation from the New York Times found that Israel dropped over two hundred 2,000-pound bombs in an area of southern Gaza it had designated as safe for civilians. Such munitions are rarely used by U.S. forces in populated areas due to their destructiveness.
    Details: Damage is greatest in the north, where between 70-80% of buildings are damaged or destroyed, according to the analysis of satellite data, which was conducted by Jamon Van Den Hoek of Oregon State University and Corey Scher of CUNY Graduate Center."

    TWO-STATE SOLUTION
  • Israel-Palestinian conflict: what is the two-state solution and what are the obstacles?
    | Reuters | January 26, 2024 3:55 AM CST |

    SETTLERS
    Israeli settlements expand by record amount, UN rights chief says
    | Emma Farge, Reuters staff | March 8, 2024 4:21 PM CST |

    GENOCIDE
  • How to think through allegations of genocide in Gaza: What we talk about when we talk about genocide.
    | Nicole Narea and Sigal Samuel, Vox.com staff | Nov 13, 2023 7:00am EST |
    QUOTE FROM ABOVE LINK:
    "[O]n October 28, the director of the New York office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights stepped down because, as he wrote in his resignation letter, "we are seeing a genocide unfolding before our eyes [in Gaza] and the Organization that we serve appears powerless to stop it."

    SECOND QUOTE FROM ABOVE LINK:
    "Experts pointed out that charges of "genocide" carry no more legal or moral weight than "crimes against humanity" or "war crimes" under international law."

  • It’s not just Israeli bombs that have killed children in Gaza. Now some are dying of hunger too.
    | Mohamed Jahjouh, Jack Jeffery, and Lee Keath, Associated Press staff | Updated 9:24 AM CST, March 8, 2024 |

  • Genocide Convention (Wikipedia)
    QUOTE FROM ABOVE LINK:
    "The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG), or the Genocide Convention, is an international treaty that criminalizes genocide and obligates state parties to pursue the enforcement of its prohibition. It was the first legal instrument to codify genocide as a crime, and the first human rights treaty unanimously adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, on 9 December 1948, during the third session of the United Nations General Assembly.[1] The Convention entered into force on 12 January 1951 and has 152 state parties as of 2022."

  • What is Genocide? (United States Holocaust Memorial Musuem)

  • INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE JANUARY 2024 ORDER: APPLICATION OF THE CONVENTION ON THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE IN THE GAZA STRIP [English language PDF]
    | International Court of Justice, January 26, 2024 order |

    HOSTAGES
  • [Paragraph] 85
    TEXT of PARAGRAPH 85: "The Court deems it necessary to emphasize that all parties to the conflict in the Gaza Strip are bound by international humanitarian law. It is gravely concerned about the fate of the hostages abducted during the attack in Israel on 7 October 2023 and held since then by Hamas and other armed groups, and calls for their immediate and unconditional release."

  • UN team says rape, gang rape likely occurred during Hamas attack on Israel
    | Michelle Nichols, Reuters staff | March 5, 20244:46 AM CST |

    UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST ASSOCIATION
  • UUA Statement on the Humanitarian Catastrophe in Gaza and Israel: October 17, 2023

  • Why We Cannot Turn Away: Resources for UUs Engaging Palestine & Israel
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