Israel’s Supreme Court on Sunday ruled that the government has failed to provide Palestinian security prisoners with adequate food for basic subsistence and ordered authorities to improve their nutrition.
The decision was a rare case in which the country’s highest court ruled against the government’s conduct during the nearly two-year war.
Since the war began, Israel has seized thousands of people in Gaza whom it suspects of links to Hamas. Thousands have also been released without charge, often after months of detention.
Rights groups have documented widespread abuse in prisons and detention facilities, including insufficient food and health care, as well as poor sanitary conditions and beatings. In March, a 17-year-old Palestinian boy died at an Israeli prison, and doctors said starvation was likely the main cause of death.
“Israel is starving Palestinian hostages.”
There, fixed that headline for you, CBC.
How bad it has to be for the SC to say that.
They’re eating a hell of a lot more than the people in Gaza
waiting for the accusations of antisemitism in 3… 2… 1…
I’m surprised people don’t talk more about Netanyahu’s genocide. He’s in the driving seat, and calling him out by name instead of “Israel” is far more likely to affect change, focus pressure where it belongs, and dodge spurious antisemitism accusations. Give it a go.
(EDIT: my inbox seems to be filling with the same response over and over. At no point am I trying to excuse the complicity of others; “it’s not just Netanyahu” is hardly a deep insight.)
That would imply removing Netanyahu would end the genocide (it won’t).
If anything, he’s actually dragging it out as his contemporaries are even more hardline insane and would justify sacrificing relations with the US to go full gas chambers execution.
He didn’t stay in power by being wildly unpopular. He’s just another drop in the barrel of similar nation leaders like India’s Modi or Russia’s putin.
All three are very well supported publicly and privately, despite what some media outlets may want you to believe.
He has majority support. It is truly Israel’s genocide.
I didn’t say it wasn’t. I’m saying you’ll get a lot more traction with a more focussed message that’s less likely to cause kneejerk reactions down tribalistic lines, and give Zionists less opportunity to shut you down.
While it might feel like Netanyahu’s genocide, what with the defense minister switching and all, the truth of all people in power is:
They have support from others.
From fanatic support to apathy, someone is listening to what he says (and making his dreams a reality), while others are letting it happen by not doing anything.
Had Netanyahu suggested genocide and gotten laughed at, none of this would be hapening.
Yet he didn’t get laughed at. He got listened to instead.
If even their own court ruled against it in such a regime, then it must have been really, really bad.
Not the Onion?
