April 19, 2026 [article from London Review Of Books with intro and photos by World Outlook.]

The​ UN Genocide Convention of 1948 lists five acts that constitute genocide when committed with the intent to destroy a group in whole or in part. The first two concern mass killing and serious bodily or mental harm...

The third prohibition ...forbids ‘deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction’. This refers to indirect forms of killing, those that don’t target human bodies but the environment that sustains them. Sufficient ‘conditions of life’ require buildings, hospitals, ...sewage and water systems, power grids, agriculture. The intentional destruction or degradation of such structures undermines a people’s ability to survive, leading to a slower and more tortuous form of annihilation.

April 21, 2026

Avraham Zarbiv is one of 14 people chosen for their “extraordinary contribution to society and the state”, alongside a scientist, a Michelin-starred chef, a leading doctor, members of the security forces and entrepreneurs.

A reservist who drives an armoured bulldozer, Zarbiv rose to prominence through videos documenting his personal campaign of destruction in Gaza, often accompanied by inflammatory rhetoric.

“You will have nothing left,” he declares in one voiceover, as the camera pans across a landscape of shattered buildings. “We will flatten you and destroy you.”

Un colon de la secte des monstres dégénérés sionistes inhumains fait un caton sur des palestiniens. 2 morts et plusieurs blessés.
Et il se passe quoi au niveau international ? Ben rien, ce sont des arabes musulmans, pas des ukrainiens blancs....
Allo la communauté internationale....

> Scenes documenting the moment settlers opened live fire on civilians in the village of Al-Mughayyir near Ramallah, resulting in the killing of two people and the injury of others
#settlersAreRubbish
#settlersAreTerrorists
#settlersAreCriminals
#stopPogromsInOccupiedWestbank
#stopZionism
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April 21, 2026

Palestinian women, men and children have reported attacks, forced nudity, invasive and painful body cavity searches, Israelis exposing their genitals, including to minors, and threats of sexual violence.

Sixteen cases of conflict-related sexual violence were recorded by researchers for the West Bank Protection Consortium over the last three years, a figure that is likely an under-reporting because of the shame and stigma faced by survivors.

“Sexualised violence is used to pressure communities, shape decisions about remaining or leaving their homes and land, and alter patterns of daily life,” the group of international humanitarian organisations said in a report.>

Popemobile child clinic yet to reach Gaza one year after Francis's death (BBC, 2026-04-21)

https://bbc.com/news/articles/c5ywj0n6pkyo

#CaritasJerusalem #PopeFrancis #Papamobile #COGAT #Gaza #WestBank #EndOccupation
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Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank, report says | Palestine | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/21/israeli-soldiers-using-sexual-assault-to-force-palestinians-out-of-west-bank-report-says

#Palestine #WestBank #Israel
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Why the ceasefire in Lebanon won’t stop Israel’s expansionist ambitions (+972 Magazine, 2026-04-16)

https://www.972mag.com/israel-lebanon-ceasefire/
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>> Israel’s push for buffer zones and 'natural borders' suggests the emerging ceasefire is unlikely to halt its ongoing ethnic cleansing in southern Lebanon.

>> … why is Israel insisting on this antiquated plan [to establish buffer zones], openly carrying out mass ethnic cleansing in its service? It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the causality is, in fact, reversed. Just as in #Gaza, where buffer zones serve as a pretext to corral residents of the already crowded enclave into 12 percent of its territory; just as in the West Bank, where “security areas” and “firing zones” have been used to disrupt Palestinian agriculture and push communities off the land, what we are seeing in #Lebanon is buffer zones in service of ethnic cleansing, not the other way around…

#palestine #WestBank #EthnicCleansing #IsraeliCeasefire
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Israeli attacks on Gaza kill at least four in Khan Younis, Beit Lahia | Al Mayadeen English
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-attacks-on-gaza-kill-at-least-four-in-khan-younis--b

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
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Amid Israeli violations, Hamas moves to continue Gaza ceasefire talks | Al Mayadeen English
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/amid-israeli-violations--hamas-moves-to-continue-gaza-ceasef

"According to cumulative figures from the ongoing war on Gaza since October 7, 2023, the death toll has reached 72,336, while 172,213 people have been injured, amid what local officials describe as catastrophic humanitarian and health conditions facing the population."

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
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Exigeons la levée du blocus de Gaza !!

https://europalestine.com/2026/04/20/levee-du-blocus-de-gaza-2/

> Seulement 700 patients ont été évacués de la bande de Gaza depuis le début du génocide, alors que les listes d'attente dépassent les 18 000 personnes. Et cette évacuation devait cesser ce lundi suite à la fermeture du point de passage de Rafah par l'occupation israélienne. L'occupation israélienne continue d'instrumentaliser le point de passage de Rafah pour aggraver [...]
#palestine
#gaza
#AideHumanitaire
#stopBlocusGaza
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from +972’s Sunday Recap +972Magazine [published in Israel]

April 19, 2026

It remains unclear whether the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon that took effect Thursday will hold. In any case, Dimi Reider argued, it’s unlikely to stop Israel’s expansionist ambitions. Efforts to establish buffer zones and “natural borders,” he wrote, suggest that ongoing ethnic cleansing in southern Lebanon is far from over.

Also:

• Why I will not stand for Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day siren
• Can a renewed Joint List survive until Israel’s elections?
• Brief, arbitrary abductions: A new tool of Israeli intimidation in Masafer Yatta
• PODCAST: The disappeared of Gaza

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A tour to the lands of "alRoha" and the 7 destroyed Palestinian Villages there.

Jewish Voice for Peace on Instagram (2026-04-19)

https://www.instagram.com/p/DXUTgmYl0J8/
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>> The Warsaw Ghetto uprising is the most well known act of Jewish resistance to the Nazi regime’s fascism. The refusal of Warsaw Jews to accept the violent fate the Nazis prescribed to them, and instead fight back, reminds us all of our duty to resist oppression wherever it is.

>> We hold these ancestors close and affirm our commitment to ensuring their values of solidarity, collective liberation, and anti-imperialism are carried on into the future as we fight for justice in Palestine and stand against rising fascism here in the US.

>> Never again for anyone.

#WarsawGhettoUprising #JewishVoiceForPeace #Gaza #palestine #NeverAgainForAnyone
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Statement by UNICEF on the killing of two water truck drivers in the Gaza Strip (2026-04-17)

https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/statement-unicef-killing-two-water-truck-drivers-gaza-strip-0
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>> “UNICEF is outraged by the killing of two drivers of trucks contracted by UNICEF to provide clean water to families in the #Gaza Strip.

>> “The incident, in which two other people were injured, occurred during routine, water trucking operations, with no changes in movement or procedures.

>> … UNICEF contractors have been instructed to suspend onsite activities until security conditions in the area are restored.

“#UNICEF calls on the Israeli authorities to immediately investigate this incident, and ensure full accountability. Humanitarian workers, essential service providers, and civilian infrastructure, including critical water facilities, must never be targeted…

#ThisIsNoCeasefire #palestine #StopIsrael
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April 19, 2026

Hamas has rebuffed a proposal by the US-backed “Board of Peace” to disarm the group, citing ongoing Israeli violations of the first phase of the ceasefire.

Palestinian sources with direct knowledge of the talks told Middle East Eye that Hamas views the plan, presented earlier this month, as a “trap” designed to ignite civil war in the Gaza Strip and destabilise Palestinian society.

The group fears the proposal would leave Palestinians in Gaza defenceless while allowing Israeli-backed armed gangs to operate freely and spread disorder.

“Hamas completely rejects this,” a Gaza-based source said, adding that opposition is even stronger within its military wing, the Qassam Brigades, which considers disarmament “collective suicide”.

RE: https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/31611/

I cannot comment on the substance of this article, but it does make for very interesting reading.

#Palestine #Israel
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Among its goals, the US-Israel war on Iran aims to bury Palestinian self-determination. Now more than ever, a one-state framework is the only defence against surrender

Seven Palestinians killed by continued Israeli violations of ceasefire | Al Mayadeen English
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/seven-palestinians-killed-by-continued-israeli-violations-of

"Seven killed and 24 injured in Gaza in 24 hours amid continued Israeli attacks and reported ceasefire violations, officials say."

With all eyes on Iran, Israel continues the massacre of Palestinians unabated.

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
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April 16, 2026

> Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez once again condemns countries that support wars and attacks in Gaza, the West Bank, Ukraine, Lebanon, and across the Middle East.
#spainForGaza
#spain
#españa
#PedroSanchez
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A look into Apple ties with the genocidal Zionist entity: using Apple Maps for erasing Lebanon, research and development centers, technology acquisitions...

Palestinian Symbols Banned at Holocaust Memorial Site Buchenwald, Germany - The European Legal Support Center (#ELSC) (2026-03-02)

http://elsc.support/de/palestinian-symbols-banned-at-holocaust-memorial-site-buchenwald-germany/

Support the campaign https://donorbox.org/kufiya/_case
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>> In a new legal case, the European Legal Support Center (ELSC) is defending an antifascist activist’s right to commemorate at Holocaust memorial site Buchenwald, after she was banned and threatened with a criminal complaint by the memorial’s administration for wearing a Kufiya. This case challenges the criminalisation of Palestinian symbols and the role of memorial and cultural institutions in the repression of Palestine solidarity.

>> The ban on Palestinian symbols at Buchenwald is not an isolated measure, but part of a systematic policy of repression…

#KufiyasInBuchenwald #FakeAntisemitism #Gaza #palestine #GermanComplicityInGenocide
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Israhell n'a pas "créé le hamas" debunkage d'un fakenews circulant à l'ouest.

Debunking the lie that “Israel created Hamas” | The Electronic Intifada

https://electronicintifada.net/content/debunking-lie-israel-created-hamas/51350

> Myth was insinuated by Israeli intelligence and cemented by resistance faction's rivals.
#hamas
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