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   From: governor.swill@gmail.com   
      
   On Tue, 02 Jul 2024 13:26:14 -0400, NefeshBarYochai  wrote:   
      
   >Over the past few months, the Israeli military assault in Gaza has   
   >killed and injured more than 100,000 people and has decimated health   
   >care, education, and housing infrastructure. While international   
   >attention has been focused on the catastrophe in Gaza, another crisis   
   >is unfolding in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.   
   >   
   >Since October 7, 2023, more than 544 Palestinians have been killed   
   >(including 126 children) and over 5,200 injured (including 800   
   >children) by the Israeli military and Jewish settlers in Jerusalem and   
   >the West Bank (6/16/24). The UN Human Rights Office of the High   
   >Commissioner decries “day after day of unprecedented bloodshed…The   
   >killing, destruction and widespread human rights violations are   
   >unacceptable, and must cease immediately. Israel must not only adopt   
   >but enforce rules of engagement that are fully in line with applicable   
   >human rights norms and standards.”   
   >   
   >The Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council would like to   
   >highlight the following urgent concerns:   
   >   
   >The Israeli military has intensified land incursions since October,   
   >especially targeting refugee camps. Before the Hamas attack, the   
   >Israeli military launched an average of 600 raids per month. Since   
   >then, the number has risen to over 1,000 monthly, with increased   
   >closures and blockades, including in Area A, ostensibly under the   
   >civil and security control of the Palestinian Authority.   
   >   
   >Israeli armored vehicles deploy unprovoked lethal force against   
   >Palestinian protesters who pose no imminent threat. These attacks have   
   >been accompanied by a systematic denial of medical assistance to the   
   >injured.   
   >   
   > Israeli forces have carried out airstrikes in blatant disregard for   
   >“collateral damage.” Over 29 attacks on refugee camps and densely   
   >populated areas by unmanned aerial vehicles, planes and the firing of   
   >ground-to-ground missiles have occurred since October 2023. An   
   >Intercept investigation documented at least 37 air, drone, and   
   >helicopter strikes since June 2023. Of the 55 Palestinians killed by   
   >airstrikes, 24 were children, ranging in ages from 11 to 17. Drone   
   >attacks in residential areas result in high levels of physical   
   >displacement and physical and psychological trauma.   
   >   
   >A campaign of targeted assassination by air has also killed many   
   >civilians, a violation of international law.   
   >   
   >Jewish settlers have repeatedly vandalized and destroyed more than   
   >43,600 Palestinian-owned trees, as well as buildings, fencing, and   
   >solar equipment. Armed and supported by the Israeli military and   
   >police, settlers create a coercive environment designed to dispossess   
   >local inhabitants and take their land. Since October 2023, 968 settler   
   >attacks have been documented.   
   >   
   >The demolition of 991 structures, 34% of them homes, due to lack of   
   >Israeli-issued permits, as punishment, or as part of military   
   >activities, has displaced 2,155 Palestinians in the West Bank since   
   >October. In East Jerusalem, many Palestinian-owned structures have   
   >been demolished for lacking impossible-to-obtain Israeli-issued   
   >building permits, displacing 183 people since January 2024.   
   >   
   >Serious economic hardship has been caused by the military actions,   
   >restrictions on mobility, and the denial since October of permits for   
   >Palestinians to work in Israel.   
   >   
   >The withholding of Palestinian Authority tax revenue has resulted in   
   >50% pay cuts to monthly salaries of civil servants.   
   >   
   >Attacks on health care facilities in the West Bank have killed 16   
   >people and injured 95, and affected 319 ambulances, 54 health   
   >facilities and 20 mobile clinics between October 7 and May 28, in 480   
   >instances documented by WHO.   
   >   
   >Water supply was restricted to only two days over the past week in   
   >East Jerusalem’s Kufr Aqab. The local water company says Israel   
   >diminished the area’s supply.   
   >   
   >There has been no response from the U.S. government to the increased   
   >number and lethality of Israeli attacks on Palestinians in the West   
   >Bank. These attacks violate international law and the Geneva   
   >Conventions. The UN Special Rapporteur on Counter-terrorism and Human   
   >Rights stated that the obligations of humanitarian law and   
   >international human rights law apply to the West Bank.   
   >   
   >The Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council, as a U.S.-based   
   >organization of healthcare workers, calls on the U.S. State Department   
   >and the Biden Administration to hold Israel accountable for violations   
   >of International Law and International Humanitarian Law in the West   
   >Bank, as documented above.   
   >   
   >We call for:   
   >   
   >An impartial investigation into Israel’s use of lethal force,   
   >collective punishment, violations of the right of movement,   
   >demolitions of homes, villages, farming land, olive groves, etc. Such   
   >an investigation cannot be carried out by the perpetrator of these   
   >actions, but rather by an international body such as an international   
   >human rights NGO or the appropriate body of the United Nations;   
   >   
   >An end to U.S. funding of Israel’s military as long as any weapons or   
   >technology are being used in violation of human rights and   
   >international law;   
   >   
   >An immediate halt to Israeli military assaults on health care   
   >facilities (including attacks on ambulances and health care workers),   
   >as these are internationally protected sites;   
   >   
   >An immediate ceasefire in Gaza and a return to the negotiating table   
   >to implement a path to Palestinian self-determination and a just and   
   >sustainable peace.   
   >   
   >We urge all healthcare workers to urgently speak out and contact their   
   >elected members of Congress and the Biden Administration about the   
   >health and human crisis faced by Palestinians in the West Bank and   
   >East Jerusalem.   
   >   
   >President Joe Biden https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/share/   
   >202-456-1111, TTY 202-456-6213   
   >   
   >Secretary of State Anthony Blinken   
   >https://register.state.gov/contactus/contactusform (202) 456-1111   
   >   
   >find your senator:   
   >https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm   
   >   
   >find your representative: https://www.house.gov/representatives   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   >jvphealth.org statement   
   >https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6387dd858383bb3ab421fb9b   
   t/667ad3c0d01bc508d6a9e434/1719325633280/west_bank_health_alert_JVP_HAC.pdf   
   >   
   >   
      
   Hamas should have thought about the ramifications of their attack before they   
   made it.   
      
   Kill them all.   
      
   Problem solved.   
      
   Swill   
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