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Explanation of international law re genocide charges against Israel

January 24, 2024

Kai Ambos in a post on IPS of 23 January 2024 asks: “South Africa is taking Israel to the International Court of Justice. But what are the real chances of a guilty verdict?”

https://www.ips-journal.eu/topics/foreign-and-security-policy/israel-on-trial-7259/?utm_campaign=en_1179_20240123&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter

This post doesn’t really fit with the HRD focus of this blog, but I thought it is clarifying enough to want it distributed more widely,

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Palestinian and Israeli peace defenders share hope for peace

December 5, 2023

On 4 December 2023 he Middle East Monitor published this rare event: Palestinian and Israeli peace activists share hope for peace and better future

Speaking at an interfaith peace vigil organised by Together for Humanity at Downing Street in London, UK, Palestinian peace activist Hamza Awad and Israeli peace activist Magen Inon emphasised the crucial importance of promoting peace and mourning the lives lost. In an interview with BBC News, they shared the success of the event in bringing people together during challenging times, and said they hope for a better future where their children could grow up not hating or fearing anyone.

Palestinian and Israeli peace activists share hope for peace and better future

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Gaza protesters demand maintaining death penalty while NGOs discuss abolishing

October 14, 2013
Palestinian families in the Gaza Strip, protest in support of executing criminals in Gaza City, on October
9, 2013. (AFP/Mohammed Abed)
Human Rights defenders at an Abolish the Death Penalty meeting in Gaza were confronted with a demonstration of death penalty supporters days after Hamas hanged a convicted murderer. “The death penalty is Islamic law – implement it against all criminals,” one banner read. Mohammed Shurab, spokesman for Gaza’s “Families of the Victims” movement, urged “the government in Gaza to continue carrying out the death sentence against those who are killing our sons.” But speakers at the conference said the death penalty went against both international humanitarian law and the principles of Islam. “Islam doesn’t allow the death penalty or the killing of anyone,” said Suleiman Awda, a lecturer in Islamic law at Gaza’s Al-Azhar University. “It is a religion of forgiveness.” This position has been defended rigorously by several scholars including MEA 2009 Laureate Emad Baghi.

UN experts warned it was “not possible to correct a mistake… There’s no going back once the death penalty has been carried out.”

Last week’s hanging was the first time since July 2012 that Hamas has carried out capital punishment for murder. But on June 22, the Islamist movement hanged two men accused of collaborating with Israel. Under Palestinian law, collaboration with Israel, murder and drug trafficking are all punishable by death. Hamas has executed 17 people since taking over Gaza in 2007, according to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights.

via Gaza protesters demand death penalty as anti-NGOs meet | Maan News Agency.

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Centre for Constitutional Rights calls for action on death of US HRD, Furkan Doğan, in Mavi Marmara incident

May 22, 2013

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The New York based Center for Constitutional Rights called on US President Barack Obama last week to break his three-year silence over Israel’s 2009 killing of 18-year-old US citizen Furkan Doğan during its siege on the Gaza-bound Mavi Marmara ship in international waters.

The CCR states in its 16 May 2013 letter (emphasis theirs): Read the rest of this entry »

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