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Palestinian protests mobilized in response to planned evictions in East Jerusalem, and police have cracked down on protesters as clashes have continued to escalate during the holy month of Ramadan. Police forces attacked worshippers at East Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa Mosque on May 8, the last Friday of the holiday, and raided the mosque again on Monday. Hamas has responded with rocket fire, provoking Israeli airstrikes. The death toll so far includes 65 people in Gaza, including 16 children, and seven Israelis, including two children. The clashes represent the worst fighting in the region in seven years. Few of the Arab League nations speaking out, including those that have normalized relationships with Israel, have actually leveraged their power to advance human rights for Palestinians, Shakir said. ....
Qusay Dawud/Getty Images Israel has a deplorable record of carrying out unlawful attacks, Amnesty International said. These groups say Hamas rocket attacks on civilian areas in Israel could also constitute war crimes. Israeli airstrikes have targeted and leveled multiple apartment buildings in Gaza amid escalating violence in the region this week, and top human rights groups have warned these actions could amount to war crimes. Deliberate targeting of civilian objects and extensive, unjustified destruction of property are war crimes. Destroying entire multi-storey homes making tens of families homeless amounts to collective punishment of the Palestinian population and is a breach of international law, Saleh Higazi, deputy director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International, said in a statement. ....
How Human Rights Watch is Fueling The War Between Israel and the Palestinians A post by reader Marty Lewis War isn’t pretty: Violence escalates, bombs are launched, innocents die and communities are torn apart. We like to think that the impact of modern media is something new- but it isn’t. When Hitler became leader of the Nazi Party a hundred years ago in 1921, it was because of what he said and how he said it. While social media didn’t exist in his day, there existed an infrastructure where messages could be easily amplified: the beer halls, cafés and other venues of Central Europe were where people gathered regularly to exchange ideas and launch revolutions. While we like to focus on the benefits of such amplification, such as bringing people together, it also has the opposite and devastating effects when appropriated by those who want to justify their evil. ....