Al Jazeera reports: “Israel’s war on Gaza live: Israeli military confirms operations in Rafah.” The Guardian reports: “Two more U.S. officials resign over Biden administration’s position on Gaza war.”
JENNIFER LOEWENSTEIN; sarinj111@gmail.com
Loewenstein is former Associate Director of Middle Eastern Studies and Senior Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She founded the Madison-Rafah Sister City Project in 2003 and is currently active in Jewish Voice for Peace-Tucson and AZPAL, the Arizona-Palestine Network. She is a freelance journalist and editor. She highlights a series of recent articles including from the Israeli journalist Gideon Levy in Haaretz and the Israeli outlet +972 Magazine: “The international legal order needs repair — and Gaza is a part of this.”
+972 Magazine has also conducted an investigation with the Guardian: “Spying, hacking and intimidation: Israel’s nine-year ‘war’ on the ICC exposed.” This was followed up with “Revealed: Israeli spy chief ‘threatened’ ICC prosecutor over war crimes inquiry” which reports that according to accounts shared with ICC officials, then Mossad head Yossi Cohen is alleged to have told then ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, who was deciding whether or not to seek arrest warrants for Israeli officials: “You should help us and let us take care of you. You don’t want to be getting into things that could compromise your security or that of your family.” Also see “Israeli journalist describes threats over reporting on spy chief and ICC” about Haaretz journalist Gur Megiddo.
AISHA JUMAAN, aisha@yemenfoundation.org, @AishaJumaan
Dr. Jumaan is president of the Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation. On Thursday around 5:00 p.m. ET, the U.S. and Britain bombed Yemen. The group Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthi movement, reports that 16 people were killed and 42 injured. In response, Ansar Allah just launched a missile attack on a United States aircraft carrier in the Red Sea.
In the IPA news release “Biden Threatens Houthis in Yemen as They Try to Force Israeli Ceasefire” last year, Dr. Jumaan said that Yemen was being targeted “for reminding the world that they need to end the genocide against the Palestinians and allowing humanitarian aid into Gaza is mind boggling. The UN General Assembly voted for an ‘immediate ceasefire’ nearly a week ago by an overwhelming margin — 153 countries voting for it. But Israel’s bombing and killing continues. The Houthis are stating that they are effectively implementing the will of the world.”
