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Analysis: First fatal attack on shipping by Yemen’s Houthi rebels escalates risk for reeling Mideast
AP explains the escalatory risk of fatal Yemen Houthi rebel attack at sea
BY JON GAMBRELLUpdated 8:49 PM GMT+7, March 7, 2024
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The first fatal attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on shipping threatens to further sever a crucial maritime artery for global trade and carries with it risks beyond those just at sea.
Already, the White House is warning that there will be a response to Wednesday’s attack on the Barbados-flagged, Liberian-owned bulk carrier True Confidence in the Gulf of Aden. What that will look like remains unclear, but the U.S. has already launched round after round of airstrikes targeting the Houthis, a rebel group that has held Yemen’s capital since 2014, and more are likely on the way.
However, a wider economic, humanitarian and political impact is looming from the attack. It also further highlights Yemen’s yearslong war, now overshadowed by Israel’s grinding war on Hamas on the Gaza Strip that may reach into the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, raising the danger of worsening regional anger.
Tiếp tục đọc “Analysis: First fatal attack on shipping by Yemen’s Houthi rebels escalates risk for reeling Mideast”Statement of the Commissioner-General of UNRWA to the General Assembly
Statement of the Commissioner-General of UNRWA to the General Assembly
4 March 2024, New York
Mr. President,
Excellencies,
I am here today because UNRWA, the United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees, is at a breaking point.
75 years after its creation by this Assembly as a temporary UN entity, pending a just political solution to the question of Palestine, the Agency’s ability to fulfil its mandate is seriously threatened.
Your urgent action is needed to facilitate a political solution that will bring peace to Palestinians and Israelis, and in this context alone, allow the Agency to transition.
Tiếp tục đọc “Statement of the Commissioner-General of UNRWA to the General Assembly”What would a new Palestinian government in the West Bank mean for the war in Gaza?
The Palestinian Authority’s prime minister announced his government’s resignation on Monday, seen as the first step in a reform process demanded by the United States as part of its latest ambitious plans to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (Feb. 26)Photos
BY JOSEPH KRAUSSUpdated 9:02 AM GMT+7, February 27, 2024 AP
The Palestinian Authority’s prime minister announced his government’s resignation on Monday, seen as the first step in a reform process urged by the United States as part of its latest ambitious plans to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
But it will do little to address the authority’s longstanding lack of legitimacy among its own people or its strained relations with Israel. Both pose major obstacles to U.S. plans calling for the PA, which administers parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, to govern postwar Gaza ahead of eventual statehood.
Tiếp tục đọc “What would a new Palestinian government in the West Bank mean for the war in Gaza?”List of United Nations resolutions concerning Palestine
UN General Assembly Resolutions & UN Security Council Resolutions
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following is a list of United Nations resolutions concerning Palestine. From 1967 to 1989 the United Nations Security Council adopted 131 resolutions directly addressing the Arab–Israeli conflict, with many concerning the Palestinians; Since 2012, a number of resolutions were issued dealing directly with the modern State of Palestine. The United Nations General Assembly also adopted resolutions. Tiếp tục đọc “List of United Nations resolutions concerning Palestine”
ICJ Order (Jan 26, 2024) on the Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel)
Read and Download full Court Order Jan. 26, 2024 >>
Read and Download Summary of Court Order of Jan 26, 2024 >>
(Feb. 16, 2024) Decision of the CIJ on South Africa’s request (dated Feb. 12, 2024) for additional provisional measures (on the Genocide case against Israel)
Read and Download Court Order of 16 Feb, 2024 >>
Videos: International Court of Justice: Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem – Public hearings Monday 19 February 2024 – Monday 26 February 2024
What the full series on the CIJ website >>
Majority of countries argue Israel violated international law in last historic hearing at UN court
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A Palestinian flag flies outside the United Nations’ highest court, rear, during historic hearings in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024, into the legality of Israel’s 57-year occupation of the West Bank and east Jerusalem, plunging the 15 international judges back into the heart of the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Six days of hearings at the International Court of Justice, during which an unprecedented number of countries will participate in proceedings, are scheduled as Israel continues its devastating assault on Gaza. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
Tiếp tục đọc “Videos: International Court of Justice: Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem – Public hearings Monday 19 February 2024 – Monday 26 February 2024”(Feb. 16, 2024) Decision of the ICJ on South Africa’s request (dated Feb. 12, 2024) for additional provisional measures (on the Genocide case against Israel)
ICJ phán quyết tạm thời vụ kiện Nam Phi – Israel
ANTG – Thứ Hai, 05/02/2024, 12:50
Tòa án Công lý quốc tế (ICJ) vừa đưa ra một quyết định liên quan vụ kiện của Nam Phi đối với Israel về tội “diệt chủng” khi tiến hành hoạt động quân sự chống lực lượng Hamas ở Dải Gaza, gây ra cái chết cho hàng chục ngàn thường dân Palestine vô tội.
Các thẩm phán Tòa ICJ đưa ra phán quyết.
Tuy nhiên, ICJ cũng mở cho Israel một lối thoát “cửa hậu” bằng cách không đáp ứng hoàn toàn yêu cầu của Nam Phi là buộc Israel ngừng bắn ngay lập tức mà chỉ yêu cầu Israel “đảm bảo rằng hành động quân sự tại Gaza là không diệt chủng”.
Tiếp tục đọc “ICJ phán quyết tạm thời vụ kiện Nam Phi – Israel”What to know about Jewish settlers in the West Bank and why they are so controversial
The following is my tweet in X about this issue.
About Jewish settlers in the West Bank:
The WH has set its sights on Israel’s settlers, a controversial movement that has grown in power over the years & is seen by the outside world as a major impediment to peace between Israel & the Palestinians.
Tiếp tục đọc “What to know about Jewish settlers in the West Bank and why they are so controversial”Beware neocons expanding Israel-Gaza bloodbath to draw China into proxy war – John Lander
Former Australian diplomat John Lander returns to CITIZENS INSIGHT in the wake of the Israel-Gaza war to discuss the broader global geopolitical ramifications.
Interview with John Lander, Former Deputy Ambassador to China (1974-76), Former Ambassador to Iran (1985–87) Hosted by Robert Barwick, Research Director of the Australian Citizens Party
From Israel-Hamas War of Genocide to China-Taiwan issue, analysis to see the “rule-based order” of the US and Its allies, in which the “rules” keep changing to serve US’ and ít allies’ interests and no one really knows what the rules are.
After the Youtube clip is the computer-generated transcrip of the talk.
Key takeaways from UN court’s ruling on Israel’s war in Gaza
BY JOSEF FEDERMANUpdated 2:46 AM GMT+7, January 27, 2024 AP
JERUSALEM (AP) — The U.N. world court on Friday came down hard on Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip, calling on Israel to “take all measures” to prevent a genocide of the Palestinians. But it stopped short of demanding an immediate cease-fire, as the South African sponsors of the case had hoped.
All sides tried to claim victory with the ruling, seizing on different elements that buttressed their positions.
Tiếp tục đọc “Key takeaways from UN court’s ruling on Israel’s war in Gaza”Here’s what the ICJ said in its orders to Israel about preventing genocide in Gaza
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) 17-judge panel issued six emergency measures ordering Israel to “take all measures within its power” to prevent acts which could fall foul of the Genocide Convention.
Here’s a summary of the measures Israel must take according to the court’s preliminary ruling:
- Prevent commission of acts that kill or cause serious bodily or mental harm to Palestinians. The acts are specified within Article Two of the genocide convention.
- Ensure that its military does not commit any of the aforementioned acts
- Prevent and punish any direct and public incitement to commit genocide
- Enable provision of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance for Palestinians in Gaza
- Prevent destruction of any evidence related to allegations of acts of genocide
- Submit a report to the court on all measures taken to adhere to these orders
ICJ announces interim genocide case ruling on Israel’s war in Gaza
S. Africa wins, Israel loses
Nelson Mandela’s support for Palestinians endures with South Africa’s genocide case against Israel
Judges at the International Court of Justice on Thursday opened two days of legal arguments in a case filed by South Africa accusing Israel of genocide in its Gaza war. (Jan. 11)
BY GERALD IMRAYUpdated 2:28 AM GMT+7, January 12, 2024 AP
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Barely two weeks after he was released from prison in 1990, Nelson Mandela flew to Zambia to meet with African leaders who had supported his fight against South Africa’s apartheid system of forced racial segregation.
One figure stood out among the men in dark suits eagerly waiting to greet Mandela on the airport tarmac: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, wearing his black and white checkered keffiyeh headdress, had traveled to see the newly freed Mandela.
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