2024-03-17 01:45:43
Gaza's Trees Disappear, Showing a Humanitarian Crisis - bellingcat
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/03/15/gazas-trees-disappear-showing-a-humanitarian-crisis/
Gaza's Trees Disappear, Showing a Humanitarian Crisis - bellingcat
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/03/15/gazas-trees-disappear-showing-a-humanitarian-crisis/
"Palestinian officials call latest assault ‘premeditated’ as people seeking humanitarian supplies increasingly targeted."
‘Massacre’: Israel forces attack crowds waiting for aid in Gaza, killing 21 | Israel War on Gaza News | Al Jazeera
https:…
Friends, I signed this letter, I encourage others to read and sign:
https://techforfreedomandjustice.github.io/tech-open-letter/
Humanitarian Situation in New York, Donetsk Region of Ukraine Is Dire Because of Hostilities: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/07/humanitarian-situation-in.html
“Twelve of Israel’s most prominent human rights organisations have signed an open letter accusing the country of failing to comply with the international court of justice’s (ICJ) provisional ruling that it should facilitate access of humanitarian aid into Gaza.”
https://www.
Israeli protesters attack aid trucks and destroy humanitarian supplies destined for Gaza. | Gaza | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/5/14/israeli-protesters-attack-aid-trucks-de…
Desk-AId: Humanitarian Aid Desk Assessment with Geospatial AI for Predicting Landmine Areas
Flavio Cirillo, G\"urkan Solmaz, Yi-Hsuan Peng, Christian Bizer, Martin Jebens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.09444
Today, at least one staff member of the UNRWA humanitarian aid organization was killed and 22 were injured in an Israeli air strike on a food and basic resources distribution center in Gaza.
“[...] food supplies are running out, hunger is widespread and, in some areas, turning into famine.”
“The Israeli Army received the coordinates including of this facility yesterday.”
The UN and everybody else is going to find out sooner or later that famine is the objective. Actually, no. The objective is the total extermination of all Palestinians, to open the way for more colonates, also in Gaza, not only in the West Bank. Extermination is not a somewhat unfortunate side effect of the war. It's the main reason for the war.
U.S. Military Says Gaza Aid Pier Is Anchored: Israel-Hamas War Live Updates - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/05/16/world/israel-gaza-war-hamas-rafah
RT by @ShouraHashemi: Without communication, humanitarian operations and emergency services in Sudan are likely to grind to a complete halt, putting millions of lives at risk.
Quelle: https://nitter.privacydev.net/amnesty/status/1766154440627650867#m…
U.S. extends humanitarian parole for Ukrainians for another two years: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/28/us-extends-humanitarian.html
Harris calls Gaza 'humanitarian catastrophe,' urges Israel to increase aid (Nick Robertson/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4505390-harris-calls-gaza-humanitarian-catastrophe-urges-israel-to-increase-aid/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240303/p26#a240303p26
Gaza's Erez crossing to reopen after Biden warning to protect civilians
Benjamin Netanyahu’s office has said his security cabinet has approved a series of steps to increase the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza, including the temporary reopening of a key crossing that was destroyed in the 7 October Hamas attack.
The announcement was made hours after a warning from US president Joe Biden that future US support for Israel would depend on it taking concrete action to protect c…
Why we won't accept the narrative of regrettable incidents in Gaza | MSF https://www.msf.org/why-we-wont-accept-narrative-regrettable-incidents-gaza
Denmark donates $33 million in humanitarian aid to Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/07/denmark-donates-million.html
Zonder verdere escalatie (het best case scenario) wordt het totaal aantal doden tegen de zomer geschat op 100 000. Honderd. Duizend.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-humanitarian-catastrophe-in-gaza-can-only-get-worse
Israel's Deadly Bombing of World Central Kitchen Convoy Was No Anomaly: Report | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/world-central-kitchen-gaza
Germany increases humanitarian aid to Ukraine to €1 billion: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/26/germany-increases-humanitarian.html
US military aircraft airdrop thousands of meals into Gaza in emergency humanitarian aid operation (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-gaza-airdrop-humanitarian-assistance-f8bc071193f89906abf21478bc70a084
http://www.memeorandum.com/240302/p23#a240302p23
"This is not a famine caused by drought, crop failure or environmental shocks. This is not famine happening because rich countries are not paying attention. It is completely preventable and due to the isolation of #Gaza, especially the north, from food delivery trucks and humanitarian aid... What we are seeing is a deliberate blockade of emergency food supplies... which is on the brink of seeing…
Baby steps.
Teeny tiny baby steps. https://www.threads.net/@potus/post/C5W-AOWLxle
Unrest in Haiti: Why it's not actually gang violence.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/03/unrest-in-haiti-insurgency-not-gang-violence.html?via=rss
Elon Musk might be suing OpenAI because he is a troll and has a grudge but his lawsuit puts a spotlight on the empty humanitarian posturing by AI businesses (Parmy Olson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles
The pointed bit: SA wants a direct order for #Israel to halt all military operations in Gaza and swing to humanitarian assistance.
But, showing a political sensitivity entirely out of character, SA tops its requested orders with one that would compel Hamas to release its hostages, were it possible for the ICJ do such a thing.
Long overdue. Israel’s steps to protect innocent Gazans will determine US policy, says Blinken – video | World news | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2024/apr/04/israels-steps-t…
Six homeless people die every day on the streets of Los Angeles. Without cops enforcing private property rights we could solve this problem practically tomorrow. These people are killed by police just as surely as the people they gun down. This is in addition to the millions whose lives are shortened and immiserated by being forced to sell their labor to survive. These people are also killed by police.
The Israeli attack on a humanitarian convoy in Gaza in early April that killed seven aid workers with the U.S.-based aid group World Central Kitchen has ignited a fierce global backlash against Israel’s policies of engagement in the territory.
The attack involved the successive firing of three missiles at three vehicles, driven by suspicions of a Hamas combatant’s presence within the convoy, according to reports.
Dont forget the catastrophe in #Sudan
First UN food aid in months arrives in Sudan’s Darfur as famine looms | Humanitarian Crises News | Al Jazeera
https://www.
“We shouldn’t be spending a dime on humanitarian aid [in Gaza]. It should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Get it over quick.”
— Tim Walberg (R), U.S. Representative for Michigan [Source: The New York Times]
RT by @amalizadeh: It’s not a pretty picture. Experienced Israeli journalist @BarakRavid explains why it’s no surprise that also humanitarian workers are killed by the IDF 🇮🇱 operation in Gaza.
Source: https://nitter.privacydev.net/carlbildt/status/17757589…
Les extrémistes israéliens n’aident vraiment pas leur pays.
#Israel #Extremism #HumanitarianAid #Gaza
More war crimes by Israel: "Report: Dozens killed by IDF fire in Gaza while waiting for humanitarian aid".
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-0
House Democrats are committed to delivering the national security funding we need to ensure Ukraine can continue to protect its democracy from Russia’s unprovoked war of aggression, support our ally Israel in its war against Hamas, surge humanitarian assistance to Palestinian civilians in harm’s way, and strengthen our allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific. It’s time for Republicans to bring this legislation to an up or down vote.
Israel has always done this. Nothing new...
What Gaza humanitarian aid items has Israel rejected during the war? - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/11/israel-aid-gaza-banned-blocked/
Zonder verdere escalatie (het best case scenario) wordt het totaal aantal doden tegen de zomer geschat op 100 000. Honderd. Duizend.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-humanitarian-catastrophe-in-gaza-can-only-get-worse
This is what AI in war looks like. Israel is using AI to identify targets at a much faster pace. And those are the collateral damages. "Unintentional" killing of humanitarian aid people sounds much like they moved in a way that triggered the AI. At some point, this can turn into automatic self destruction.
Hamas announces it has accepted an Egyptian-Qatari cease-fire proposal (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-hamas-war-humanitarian-aid-8659eae6e0a7362504f0aa4aa4be53e0
http://www.memeorandum.com/240506/p30#a240506p30
"A coalition of lawyers domestic and abroad — including at least 20 that work in the Biden administration — are calling on President Joe Biden to halt military aid to Israel, arguing that its actions in Gaza do not comply with U.S. and international humanitarian law." https://www.politico.…
Now the financial funds are available i would expect a massive movement of military equipment by land and air (like the berlin airlift, https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/story/Article/3072635/th…
Yeah. Logged in. And this from @… , via boosting, is the first post in my feed - https://hcommons.social/@adachika192/112065649277399405
General assembly votes to back Palestinian bid for membership
The UN general assembly has voted overwhelmingly to back the Palestinian bid for full UN membership,
in a move that signalled Israel’s growing isolation on the world stage amid global alarm over the war in Gaza and the extent of the humanitarian crisis in the strip.
The assembly voted by 143 to nine, with 25 abstentions, for a resolution called on the UN security council to bestow full membership to the state of…
World Central Kitchen is devastated to confirm seven members of our team have been killed in an IDF strike in Gaza.
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Despite coordinating movements with the IDF, the convoy was hit
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This is not only an attack against WCK, this is an attack on humanitarian organizations showing up in the most dire of situations where food is being used as a weapon of war. This is unforgivable
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The seven killed are from Australia, Poland, UK, US, Canada, and Palestine.
Sweden allocates $3.7 million for humanitarian aid to Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/01/sweden-allocates-million.html
It seems like pausing humanitarian efforts is exactly what they want though. 💔
1,5 Milliarden Dollar für die Ukraine von der Weltbank
Die infolge des russischen Angriffskriegs wirtschaftlich angeschlagene Ukraine erhält frisches Geld von der Weltbank. Die Zahlung belaufe sich auf 1,5 Milliarden Dollar, teilte Ministerpräsident Denys Schmyhal mit. Damit könnten unter anderem Sozialausgaben finanziert werden. Die Ukraine ist auf die Finanzhilfe ihrer westlichen Partner angewiesen.
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The pointed bit: SA wants a direct order for #Israel to halt all military operations in Gaza and swing to humanitarian assistance.
But, showing a political sensitivity entirely out of character, SA tops its requested orders with one that would compel Hamas to release its hostages, were it possible for the ICJ do such a thing.
Maybe stop sending money and weapons to the perpetrators for the invasion, that might help.
Also, @… needs to add alt-text.
https://www.threads.net/@potus/post/C5R2tf
Michigan Republican congressman suggests nuking Gaza, ending humanitarian aid (Melissa Nann Burke/The Detroit News)
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2024/03/30/michigan-congressman-tim-walberg-suggests-nuking-gaza-ending-humanitarian-aid-nagasaki-hiroshima/73156051007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240330/p35#a240330p35
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"With rare bipartisan momentum, the [US] House pushed ahead Friday on a foreign aid package of $95 billion for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and humanitarian support.. Friday’s vote produced a seldom-seen outcome in the typically hyper-partisan House, with Democrats helping Republican Speaker Mike Johnson’s plan advance overwhelmingly 316-94. Final House approval could come this weekend, when the package would be sent to the Senate."
EU and US pile on pressure for Gaza ceasefire
EU leaders call for ‘immediate humanitarian pause’ while US expected to bring UN resolution calling for truce without delay
#netanyahu is a 2bit criminal and is waging war to avoid prison.
Tonight, the president will announce in his State of the Union address that he has directed the US military to undertake an emergency mission to establish a port in Gaza, working in partnership with like minded countries and humanitarian partners.
This port, the main feature of which is a temporary pier, will provide the capacity for hundreds of additional truckloads of assistance each day.”
US forces will build a temporary port on the Gaza shoreline in the next few weeks to allo…
SNP welcomes Labour call for ‘immediate humanitarian ceasefire’ in Gaza, claiming it forced Starmer into U-turn – UK politics live
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/feb/20/post-o…
EU allocates almost $90 million in humanitarian aid to Ukraine, Moldova: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/20/eu-allocates-almost.html
Watching the US House debate on C-SPAN. The Putinistas are treading lightly except for a deranged rant from MTG. Now they’re on the $-to-Israel bill; one voice so far is uncomfortable with Netanyahu's slaughter of the innocents. Apparently invisible or irrelevant to all the others. Anyhow, the bill has a useful humanitarian-aid-for-Gaza component (one GOP voice wanted to amend that bit out).
"Francis appealed anew for an immediate cease-fire in #Gaza and the release of hostages taken from #Israel on Oct. 7 by Hamas. Praying for the families of the seven World Central Kitchen workers killed, he called for humanitarian aid to reach Gaza’s people and for all efforts to prevent the conflict fr…
What an attack on Rafah means for civilians
On Monday, the Israel Defense Forces told about 100,000 civilians in Rafah to evacuate to a humanitarian zone in the territory’s west,
saying the military would operate with “extreme force” in the areas where they live.
https://www.
Everybody complaining about Biden should consider that we are pressuring a sovereign nation to change how it treats its ersatz citizenry when we have little to no standing to do so - just like not having standing in court cases.
Israel agrees to increase humanitarian aid delivery to Gaza under U.S. pressure
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The accusation Arab nations would be responsible for the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, or are “degenerate”, for not taking in Palestinian refugees, is self-defeated by the fact that accusation comes from the nation that is both the cause for those refugees' existence and does not want to provide shelter to them either.
Additionally, the same argument was used by Nazi Germany about Jewish refugees not being able to leave Germany as less European nations accepted them [
The Ukrainians whose lives were turned upside down by Russia's war, twice: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/06/the-ukrainians-whose.html
Biden gets Israel to open second border crossing into #Gaza - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2024/04/04/biden-gets-israel-to-open-se…
Business Insider interviewed Warren Buffett's son about his support for Ukraine.
Howard Buffett's foundation has given $520 million to Ukraine in humanitarian aid.
The philanthropist warns the US will make a historic blunder if it fails to support Ukraine's war effort.
http…
EU and US pile on pressure for Gaza ceasefire
EU leaders call for ‘immediate humanitarian pause’ while US expected to bring UN resolution calling for truce without delay
#netanyahu is a 2bit criminal and is waging war to avoid prison.
Turkey halts trade with Israel over 'humanitarian tragedy' in Gaza (Aoife Walsh/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68945380
http://www.memeorandum.com/240503/p51#a240503p51
Uncovering large inconsistencies between machine learning derived gridded settlement datasets
Vedran Sekara, Andrea Martini, Manuel Garcia-Herranz, Do-Hyung Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13127
Parliamentary committee backs bill on banning Moscow-linked church ahead of final vote: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/05/parliamentary-committee-backs.html
US VP Harris calls for immediate ceasefire to ease "humanitarian catastrophe" in Gaza (Jeff Mason/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-vp-harris-urges-israeli-government-do-more-boost-aid-into-gaza-2024-03-03/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240303/p27#a240303p27
How 360,000 Haitians Wound Up Living in Empty Lots and Crowded Schools - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/world/americas/haiti-gangs-refugees-crisis.html
Bridging Solidarity — Humanitarian-Political Mission to Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/20/bridging-solidarity-humanitarianpolitical.html
In blunt remarks, US VP Harris calls out Israel over "catastrophe" in Gaza
Vice President Kamala Harris bluntly called out Israel on Sunday for not doing enough to ease a "humanitarian catastrophe" in Gaza as the Biden administration faces increasing pressure to rein in its close ally while it wages war with Hamas militants.
Ukraine's government reaches agreement with Palantir to accelerate demining through AI: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/03/ukraines-government-reaches.html
'Unlawful and Catastrophic': IDF Begins Forced Evacuation of Rafah | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/evacuation-order-rafah
NGO: Ukrainian teenager illegally deported by Russia returns home: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/02/ngo-ukrainian-teenager.html
Biden warns Netanyahu about humanitarian situation in Gaza : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/04/1242878083/biden-netanyahu-call-aid-workers-ceasefire
Israel is making a concerted effort to head off feared plans by the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other top Israeli officials, an Israeli government source told The Times of Israel on Sunday.
The National Security Council is leading the campaign, according to the source.
The Foreign Ministry is also involved. “We are operating where we can,” said an Israeli diplomat.
New Zealand announces $26 million aid package for Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/22/new-zealand-announces.html
House members will hold separate votes on four bills that represent $95bn in funding altogether
– including roughly $26bn in aid for Israel, $61bn for Ukraine, $8bn for US allies in the Indo-Pacific region and $9bn in humanitarian assistance for civilians in war zones, such as Gaza.
The bills are expected to pass the House, after they easily cleared a key procedural hurdle on Friday ahead of the final vote.
Those that pass will be combined into a single package in order to …
New Zealand announces $16 million in aid to Ukraine and toughens anti-Russian sanctions: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/22/160308.html
Ireland to intervene on South Africa’s behalf in ICJ genocide case against Israel – POLITICO
https://www.politico.eu/article/ireland-intervene-on-behalf-south-africa-icj-case-against-israel/
As U.S. government remains gridlocked, Warren Buffett's son Howard has given #Ukraine half a billion dollars
https://post.news/@/fortunemagazine/2cuaDEhMKjiB0vE6Wnsi…
Did the Black Sea Grain Initiative Lower Prices of Agricultural Futures?: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/19/did-the-black.html
Did the Black Sea Grain Initiative Lower Prices of Agricultural Futures?: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/19/did-the-black.html
Ukraine – Taiwan: Exploring experiences in countering disinformation: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/22/ukraine-taiwan-exploring.html
UN-Appointed Human Rights Experts Demand Halt of Arms Shipments to #Israel for Violations of Laws of War
https://www.juancole.com/2024/02/appointed-shipments-violati…