2025-09-23 Israel. Genocide.
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I told myself: one post per month about Israel and Palestine is
enough.

So what's new? Nothing is new, it's just worse.

> After the formal confirmation of famine by the Integrated Food
> Security Phase Classification (IPC), the humanitarian emergency has
> reached intolerable proportions, with an entire population facing
> starvation under siege as the Israeli military advances into Gaza
> City, which is overcrowded with more than a million displaced
> Palestinians. Three hundred and sixty-one Palestinians have died due
> to malnutrition, including 130 children. Thirteen of them, including
> 3 children, have died in the past 24 hours. -- Gaza: UN experts urge
> General Assembly to respond to famine and genocide

How long will it take Israel to crawl back from this shame? How many
decades until we -- the witnesses -- forgive? How many decades until
they -- the descendants of the victims -- forgive? And how long until
the individuals forget?

Every new generation will learn about this atrocity. Some people don't
understand that a boycott now is the mildest of the lukewarm reactions
to the genocide. What should instead happen is what all the
signatories of the Genocide Convention have promised to do: to prevent
and punish actions of genocide in war and in peacetime.

Where are they now? Wikipedia has a list of the parties. The Genocide
Convention is an international treaty that criminalises genocide and
obligates state parties to pursue the enforcement of its prohibition.

Enforcement is more than boycott.

Enforcement is more than Palestine Action.

Enforcement is also not something individuals do.

The state parties are obligated to enforce the prohibition of genocide
.

For a very, very small sliver of hope, by individuals acting where
state parties are failing, where direct action is criminalised, where
calls for boycotts are attacked, where money sharks are pocking half
the donations, is Gaza Verified. Thanks, @joynewacc@mastodon.social
and @aral@mastodon.ar.al.

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