News and Analysis 1/26/24

The ICJ did not call on Israel to stop its military operations, only to comply with the Genocide Convention to which it is a signatory and to allow humanitarian aid to Gaza, yet Israel says no …

• ICJ Ruling on Gaza Genocide Is a Historic Victory for the Palestinians That Israel Vows to Defy (The Intercept)

… the consequences will be global:

• ICJ Case ‘Opens New Era Between the Global North and South,’ Says UN Expert (972 Magazine)

Israel’s policy to starve Gazans …

• Gaza Health Ministry Says 20 Palestinians Killed in Strike on Food Aid Queue (Reuters)

… has left a woman feeding her children on the roadside in the cold with thousands of other strangers around her” …

• Gaza’s Economy Has Been Erased. Famine and Black Markets Are All that Remain (Mondoweiss)

… and a man feeding his children animal feed …

• Gaza’s Desperate Hunger: Families Struggle to Fend Off Starvation (Washington Post)

“Fifteen shops, including those belonging to street vendors, were demolished in the Muslim-dominated Haidary Chowk area of Mira Road by state authorities on 23 January”:

• India: Authorities Must Stop Their Discriminatory Policy of Punitively Demolishing Muslim Properties (Amnesty International)

“[L]ess than 20 percent of Gaza’s territory is now a refuge for more than 1.5 million people living in desperate conditions”:

• Scores of Palestinians Killed as Israel Continues to Bomb Hospitals, Schools (Palestine Chronicle)

The disqualification of so highly qualified a candidate from the powerful Assembly of Experts demonstrates that those “in control and are not interested in sharing power with anyone”:

• Iran Bars Hassan Rouhani from Seeking Re-election to Key Body (The Guardian)

“[W]orking within the framework of the state … ‘48 Palestinians … protest … solely for the overturning … particular law[s], but never … [the] settler colonial state”:

• From the ‘Unity Uprising’ to Silence amid Genocide: the Political Domestication of Palestinian Citizens of Israel (Mondoweiss)

“An Israeli army officer has told MEE that ‘Netanyahu and his far-right war cabinet are not planning to withdraw from Gaza’” …

• Israel Planning ‘Permanent Army Stations’ in Gaza (Middle East Eye)

… instead, they are widening the war:

• IDF Strikes Iran-Hezbollah Airport, Launching Major Escalation (Jerusalem Post)
• Why Israel’s Push to Control Gaza’s Southern Border Could Endanger Peace with Egypt (Times of Israel)

“The requirement to explain scars when you’re a population that’s been subjected to relentless bombardment, which Canada itself may be contributing to through … — it’s absurd, it’s unconscionable””:

• Why Is Canada Asking Palestinians to List Scars on Gaza Visa Applications? (Aljazeera)

“Iran’s mission to the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment”:

• US Warned Iran that ISIS-K Was Preparing Attack Ahead of Deadly Kerman Blasts, a US Official Says (AP)

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