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As Israel continues to pummel the Palestinian people with bombs and artillery shot into Gaza from troops amassed along its borders in preparation for a ground invasion, the Biden administration has reaffirmed its unwavering support for Israel’s war crimes and crimes against humanity against the Palestinians.
Israel enweghị ike ime mpụ ya ma ọ bụrụ na ọ bụghị nkwado dị ukwuu nke gọọmentị US. Ndị ọrụ US na-enyere aka ma na-akwado mpụ Israel site na nnukwu enyemaka agha ma na-enyocha nkatọ ọ bụla nke Israel na Council Security UN.
Onye isi ala Joe Biden kwuru na ya echeghị na mwakpo Israel na Gaza bụ "nnukwu iwe iwe" O kwuru nke ya "nkwado na-enweghị atụ” for Israel’s“right to defend itself” from rocket attacks from Gaza, but he did not condemn Israel’s airstrikes that are killing Palestinian civilians and destroying residential buildings, or the Israeli attacks on worshippers at the Al Aqsa Mosque.
"Okwu blanket dị ka ndị a na-enweghị obere okwu ma ọ bụ nkwenye nke ihe kpalitere usoro ime ihe ike a - ya bụ, nchụpụ nke ndị Palestine na mwakpo na Al Aqsa - mebie ndị Palestine & pụta ìhè na US ga-ele anya n'ụzọ ọzọ na mmebi ikike mmadụ," Rep. Alexandria. Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) tweeted, na kwuru Biden na-enye Israel "ọkụ ndụ ndụ" ka ọ gaa n'ihu na mwakpo ya.
Ocasio-Cortez kwuru, "Site na ịbanye n'ịkpọ aha omume Hamas - nke a ga-akatọ - na ịjụ ịnakwere ikike nke ndị Palestine, Biden na-akwado echiche ụgha nke ndị Palestine butere usoro ime ihe ike a," Ocasio-Cortez kwuru. “Nke a abụghị asụsụ nnọpụiche. Ọ na-ewe akụkụ - akụkụ nke ọrụ."
Onye ode akwukwo nke State Antony Blinken kwuru na enwere "ọdịiche bụ isi n'etiti otu ndị na-eyi ọha egwu na Hamas nke na-emegbu ndị nkịtị na Israel n'enweghị isi, nke na-agbachitere onwe ya." Mana dị ka Raji Sourani, onye isi ụlọ ọrụ Palestine Center for Human Rights, dere na ozi-e nye onye edemede a, na-ekwu dị ka Blinken siri kpuchiri eziokwu ahụ na ihe fọrọ nke nta ka ọ bụrụ ebumnuche Israel niile bụ ndị nkịtị. Ọtụtụ n'ime ndị e gburu bụ ndị Palestine. Ọzọkwa, dị ka ike na-achị, Israel enweghị ike iji ike agha megide ndị Palestine ji n'aka n'ihi na n'okpuru iwu mba ụwa, onye nwe ya nwere ọrụ ichebe ókèala ọ na-enwe.
Na Mee 13, ndị agha Israel tụrụ bọmbụ n'akụkụ ụzọ Gaza jiri ngwa agha, tankị na ụgbọ elu agha, na ndị agha nchekwa Israel (IDF) kwadebere ma ọ dịkarịa ala brigades nke ndị agha atọ maka ime ihe.
Minista nchekwa nke Israel Benny Gantz, onye jere ozi dị ka onye isi ndị ọrụ izugbe maka IDF n'oge Israel ogbugbu 2014 nke 2,251 Palestinians na Gaza, na-eyi egwu ime mpụ agha ọzọ. Gantz dọrọ aka ná ntị na "Gaza ga-agba ọkụ” ma ọ bụrụ na ndị Izrel ga-ehi ụra n’ụlọ.
“This is the worst I witnessed in my life. No safe haven in Gaza, so bloody and brutal.”
Hamas has fired rockets into Israel in response to the Israeli attack on worshipers at the holy Al Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem. Seven Israelis have been killed. ma Ndị Palestine 120 egbuola na mmadụ 900 merụrụ ahụ, dịka ndị ọrụ ahụike Palestine siri kwuo.
“This is the worst I witnessed in my life,” Sourani wrote in his email. “No safe haven in Gaza, so bloody and brutal; all the targets, almost are civilians, the most intention to exert pressure on resistance.” Sourani added:
They are terrorizing the two million in Gaza day and night, the peak this morning. We did not believe we will see the sunshine again. Everything is shaking in the house including our bodies. They destroyed the civilian police stations and headquarters, internal security, infrastructure, big building towers, etc. None of these, to the best of our knowledge, has any security significance.
The International Criminal Court Is Investigating Israeli War Crimes in 2014
Na Maachị 3, 2021, Fatou Bensouda, onye ọka ikpe nke International Criminal Court (ICC), mara ọkwa na ụlọ ọrụ ya na-amalite nyocha nke ọma banyere mpụ agha e mere na West Bank, gụnyere East Jerusalem na Gaza Strip kemgbe Israel 2014 "Operation Protective Edge," nke ndị agha Israel gburu ndị Palestine 2,251.
Bensouda hụrụ a ndabere ezi uche dị na ya to believe that Israeli forces committed the war crimes of willful killing, willfully causing serious injury, disproportionate use of force, and the transfer of Israelis into Palestinian territory. She also found a reasonable basis to investigate possible war crimes by Palestinians, including intentional attacks against civilians, using civilians as human shields, and torture and willful killing.
Seven years after Operation Protective Edge, Israeli officials are once again committing war crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories. In its current “Operation Guardian of the Walls,” Israeli leaders are perpetrating the same war crimes as those they committed in 2014.
Apartheid nke Israel bụ mpụ megide mmadụ
Under the ICC’s Iwu Rome, “inhumane acts committed in the context of an institutional regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over another racial group, with the intent to maintain that regime” constitutes the crime against humanity of apartheid.
In 2001, the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) sent a delegation to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories and subsequently published a akụkọ documenting a system of apartheid.
Richard Falk, former UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories and professor emeritus at Princeton University, and Virginia Tilley, professor of political science at Southern Illinois University, co-authored a akụkọ for the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia in 2017. It found “beyond a reasonable doubt” that Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians constitutes “the crime of Apartheid.”
In January 2021, the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem issued a report titled, “Ọchịchị nke Ọchịchị Ndị Juu site na Osimiri Jọdan ruo n'Oké Osimiri Mediterenian: Nke a bụ Apartheid. "
Like B’Tselem, Human Rights Watch had long resisted charging that Israeli leaders were committing the crime of apartheid. But on April 27, Human Rights Watch issued a detailed akụkọ describing Israel’s “intent to maintain the domination of Jewish Israelis over Palestinians across Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory,” including East Jerusalem. The report added that this Israeli government intent “has been coupled with systematic oppression of Palestinians and inhumane acts committed against them. When these three elements occur together, they amount to the crime of apartheid.”
Palestinians Have a Lawful Right to Resist Israeli Occupation
N'okpuru iwu mba ụwa, ndị Palestine nwere ikike iwu kwadoro iguzogide ndị Israel na-eweghara ala ha, gụnyere site na mgba agha. Na 1982, ndị Nzukọ Ezumezu nke UN " kwughachiri izi ezi nke mgba ndị mmadụ na-alụ maka nnwere onwe, iguzosi ike n'ezi ihe ókèala, ịdị n'otu mba na nnwere onwe pụọ na ọchịchị colonial na mba ọzọ na ọrụ mba ọzọ site n'ụzọ ọ bụla dịnụ, gụnyere mgba ọgụ."
Under international law, the Palestinians have a lawful right to resist Israel’s occupation of their lands, including through armed struggle.
Ọchịchị Biden na-ekwu na Israel na-eme ihe iji chebe onwe ya megide rọketi Hamas, mana n'okpuru iwu mba ụwa, Israel, dịka ndị agha na-ejide onwe ya, enweghị ikike iji ike agha na-agbachitere onwe ya megide mpaghara ya.
Noura Erakat, onye ọka iwu ruuru mmadụ na prọfesọ osote na Mahadum Rutgers, dere in Jadaliyya, "A state cannot simultaneously exercise control over territory it occupies and militarily attack that territory on the claim that it is ‘foreign’ and poses an exogenous national security threat. In doing precisely that, Israel is asserting rights that may be consistent with colonial domination but simply do not exist under international law.”
As Falk kwuru na nyocha na Truthout, "It is always deceptive to treat the oppressor and the oppressed as if equal.” In the current situation, he added, “the oppressor acts contrary to applicable international law and elementary morality while the oppressed is countering by exercising rights of resistance and suffering the deprivation of basic rights. Of course,” Falk added, “the tactics of resistance should be scrutinized by reference to legal and moral constraints, but without losing sight of overwhelming structures of dominance and the far greater harm done by state violence than by the violence of resistance.”
Agbanyeghị nchịkwa Biden na-ekwusi ike nha nha n'etiti rọketi Palestine na bọmbụ Israel.
The Biden Administration Is Aiding and Abetting Israeli Crimes
An individual can be convicted of a war crime or a crime against humanity under the Rome Statute if he or she “aids, abets or otherwise assists” in the commission or attempted commission of the crime, “including providing the means for its commission. "
Gọọmentị US na-enye Israel ijeri $3.8 na enyemaka agha kwa afọ. Israel enweghị ike idowe ọrụ ya nke ala Palestine na mkpagbu nke ndị Palestine na-enweghị enyemaka US.
Moreover, the United States regularly prevents the UN Security Council from issuing resolutions or statements that criticize Israel. The U.S. was the only country on the Security Council to oppose a statement urging Israel to prevent the evictions of Palestinian families from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem. The kwuru okwu, endorsed by 14 of the 15 Council members, called on Israel “to cease settlement activities, demolitions and evictions, including in east Jerusalem in line with its obligations under international humanitarian law” and refrain from taking unilateral actions “that exacerbate tensions and undermine the viability of the two-state solution.”
N'agbata 1967 na 2017, United States jiri veto ya na Council Security 43 ugboro iji chebe Israel pụọ na ajụjụ mba ụwa.
Kwụsị enyemaka ndị agha US nyere Israel
Countries that receive U.S. military aid can only use weapons for legitimate self-defense and internal security, according to the Arms Export Control Act. In addition, the Leahy Law forbids military units that commit human rights abuses from receiving U.S. weapons or training. Moreover, the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 prohibits U.S. assistance to any country “which engages in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights.” U.S. military aid to Israel violates all three of these laws.
Enwere mmegide na-eto eto na Congress nye ego US maka ime ihe ike nke Israel na mmebi ikike mmadụ na mpaghara Palestine.
Onye nnochite anya Mark Pocan (D-Wisconsin) tweeted, "Anyị enweghị ike ịkatọ rọketị ndị Hamas gbara wee leghara ime ihe ike ndị uwe ojii steeti Israel kwadoro megide ndị Palestine - gụnyere nchụpụ n'ụzọ iwu na-akwadoghị, mwakpo ime ihe ike megide ndị ngagharị iwe, na igbu ọchụ nke ụmụaka Palestine." Pocan gbakwụnyere, "enyemaka US ekwesịghị ịkwado ime ihe ike a."
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan), nwanyị America mbụ Palestine jere ozi na Congress, tweeted, "A na-eji ego ndị na-atụ ụtụ America na-eme ihe megidere ikike mmadụ," na-agbakwụnye, "Congress ga-edozi ihe enyemaka anyị na-ezigara Israel, ma kwụsị kpam kpam ma ọ bụrụ na agbasoghị ọnọdụ ndị ahụ. Nkwupụta anaghị arụ ọrụ, Blinken. O zuru ezu."
Those who oppose Israeli war crimes should pressure their congressmembers and the White House to halt U.S. military assistance to Israel.
Mmadụ iri abụọ na atọ sonyeere ndị nnọchiteanya Marie Newman (D-Illinois) na Pocan na ịbịanye aka na ya leta na-agba ndị ọchịchị Biden ume ka ha manye ndị isi Israel ka ha "kwụsị atụmatụ ya ịkwatu ụlọ ndị Palestine na Al-Bustan na ịchụpụ ndị Palestine n'ụlọ ha na Sheikh Jarrah," mpaghara abụọ dị na East Jerusalem.
Na Eprel 13, onye nnọchi anya Betty McCollum webatara HR 2590, "To promote and protect the human rights of Palestinians living under Israeli military occupation and to ensure that United States taxpayer funds are not used by the Government of Israel to support the military detention of Palestinian children, the unlawful seizure, appropriation, and destruction of Palestinian property and forcible transfer of civilians in the West Bank, or further annexation of Palestinian land in violation of international law.”
The National Lawyers Guild issued a okwu in solidarity with the Palestinian people. It notes that May 15 is the 73–year anniversary of the Nakba, the Arabic word for catastrophe."In 1948, the Zionist settler colonial movement with the support of imperialist powers established the state of Israel through the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, waged through massacres and the destruction of over 500 Palestinian villages,” the statement reads. “This colonial project continues today as we are witnessing the forced expulsion of Palestinians in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem by armed settlers, indiscriminate violence against Palestinian protestors, attacks on Palestinian holy sites, and the ongoing devastating closure and indiscriminate bombing of Gaza.”
Ka Israel na-aga n'ihu na mwakpo ya na Gaza, nkwenye nzuko na mba ụwa mmegide ga-abawanye. Ndị na-emegide mpụ agha Israel kwesịrị ịmanye ndị otu ha na ndị omeiwu na White House ka ha kwụsị enyemaka ndị agha US na-enye Israel ma kwụsị igbochi ọrụ UN Security Council iji kwụsị mmebi ikike ụmụ mmadụ nke Israel.
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