The move boosts the illegal expansion drive in the occupied West Bank, where Israeli soldiers and settlers have killed at least 1,039 Palestinians — at least 225 of them children — over the past two years.
Mona Ali Khalil says the U.N. chief has a duty to take further measures to restrain Israel as it escalates and expands its violations of international humanitarian and rights law.
U.S. military veteran Zue Jernstedt describes in this interview with Kelly Doyle her voyage on the Global Sumud Flotilla and the subsequent ordeal she endured in a notorious Israeli prison.
The General Assembly is not powerless in the face of genocide. It can recommend one or more of six concrete measures based on the GA’s own precedents, writes Mona Ali Khalil.
Dozens of small civilian vessels carrying activists, parliamentarians, doctors and trade unionists, along with humanitarian cargo, are preparing for departure.