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NIGHT SHIFT NEWS ++ 🆘🚨 Civilian casualties in Gaza mount, humanitarian aid remains blocked ++ 🚨 Violation of UN Res. 1701: Israel launches strikes on Beirut ++🕯👨🏾‍🚒👩🏽‍⚕️ Estimated 1100* int'l hospital staff killed or detained, 452* aid workers and Civil Defence members killed, 225* journalists/media workers killed in Gaza and the West Bank ++ 90% of hospitals out of service: UN ++ 🆘 🚼 65,000 children facing death from Israeli starvation policy ++ 🚨 40 states to participate in ICJ public hearings on Israel's #warcrimes ++ 🚨 #crimesagainsthumanity More than 4000* have been killed since Israel resumed war on Gaza civilians MAR-18 ++ * (updated 2025-JUN-09)

Humanitarian Service Directory for Palestinian People, State of Palestine

🆘 To help people access aid, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and its partners launched a public version of the online Humanitarian Service Directory: PRIME SOURCE

Do you have a missing family member in Syria?

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🚨 PRESS RELEASE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT - ARREST WARRANTS

NOV-21 2024 State of Palestine -- ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I rejects the State of Israel’s challenges to jurisdiction and issues warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant PRIME SOURCE

PRESS RELEASE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT

JUN-06 2025 Presidency of the Assembly of States Parties expresses deep concern and rejects U.S. measures targeting ICC officials as a threat to international justice PRIME SOURCE

PRESS RELEASE & VIDEO LAW FOR PALESTINE

JUN-05 2025 Legal Experts urge States to uphold legal duties and support diplomatic convoy to Gaza amid deliberate starvation

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PRESS RELEASE LAW FOR PALESTINE

🆘 MAY-12 2025 UNIFIED CALL TO CONFRONT FAMINE IN GAZA: LAUNCH THE DIPLOMATIC HUMANITARIAN CONVOY NOW

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PRESS RELEASE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT

APR-24 2025 State of Palestine -- Appeals Chamber reverses the Pre-Trial Chamber’s decision on Israel’s challenge to the jurisdiction of the Court and remands the matter to the Pre-Trial Chamber PRIME SOURCE

PRESS RELEASE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS

MAR-30 2025 ICRC appalled by killing of PRCS medics and first responders PRIME SOURCE

FEB-25 2025 Al-Haq calls on ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan to hold Biden, Blinken and Austin accountable for aiding and abetting genocide in Gaza PRIME SOURCE

PRESS RELEASE THE HAGUE GROUP

JAN-31 2025 INAUGURAL JOINT STATEMENT The Hague Group PRIME SOURCE

PRESS RELEASE EURO-MED HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

JAN-02 2025 Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya's life in danger due to torture: Immediate international intervention needed for his release PRIME SOURCE

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The Gaza Strip is among the most densely populated places in the world. More than two-thirds of its inhabitants are refugees, and more than half are under the age of eighteen years of age. Since 2004, Israel has launched eight devastating "operations" against Gaza's largely defenseless population. Thousands have perished, and tens of thousands have been left homeless. In the meantime, Israel has subjected Gaza to a merciless illegal blockade.

Author: Norman G. Finkelstein
Publisher: University of California Press

ISBN 978-0-520-29571-1 (English)

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Deutsche im Widerstand: Die VÖ-Rechte der Ethik-Texte von Dietrich Bonhoeffer wurden 2019 freigegeben. Dieses Buch ist ein #mustread für alle, die die Lücke zum heutigen Deutschland schließen möchten und nach Antworten suchen.

Bonhoeffer war V-Mann, Widerständler, christlicher Theologe. Von der Gestapo 1939 verhaftet, wurde er zwei Wochen vor Kriegsende 1945 im KZ Flossenbürg hingerichtet.

Herausgeber: Peter Zimmerling

ISBN 978-3-7655-3763-9 (Deutsch)

LATEST VIDEOS ON HUMAN RIGHTS

On 12 March 2025, four independent experts appointed by the Human Rights Council spoke to the press at the United Nations Office at Geneva on the human rights situation across the occupied Palestinian territory. • Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967 • Ben Saul, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism • Margaret Satterthwaite, Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers • Michael Fakhri, Special Rapporteur on the right to food - Video credit: UN HRC

On 27 February 2025, Hanaa Eltigani, Assistant Secretary-General of Youth Citizens Observers Network, spoke about Sudan to the Human Rights Council at its 58th session.

Video credit: UN HRC (HRC58)

Denmark’s welfare authority, Udbetaling Danmark, is using artificial intelligence (AI) tools, including up to 60 fraud-detection algorithms, in its quest to identify benefits fraud. However, the Danish automated welfare system raises concerns about privacy erosion and human dignity. By deploying these fraud-detection algorithms alongside traditional surveillance methods, the authorities are enabling and expanding digitized mass surveillance. Racialized groups, migrants, refugees, and people with disabilities are all at risk of discrimination within this system. Filmmaker: Rolien Creton Credit: Amnesty International 2024

On 4 October, Ariana Tibon-Kilma, chairperson of the Republic of the Marshall Islands National Nuclear Commission, addressed the Human Rights Council at its 57th session during an enhanced interactive dialogue on the nuclear legacy in the Marshall Islands. #HRC57

📑 Read also: The CTBT is an essential component of the international nuclear arms control and disarmament framework.   INFO CTBT - Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

EDUCATIONAL MEDIA

Peace, Propaganda & The Promised Land | FREE FILMS for content on Israel's war on Gaza provided by Media Education Foundation -

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CULTURAL HERITAGE

UNESCO is conducting a preliminary damage assessment for cultural properties through remote monitoring based on satellite imagery and analysis provided by UNITAR/UNOSAT, as on-the-ground assessments are impossible in the current situation.

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HUMANITARIAN LAWS

Gaza: “The first victim of the war is truth”

A report by United Nation's OCHA - Published: 2024-SEP-12

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Environment

Wars make more carbon emissions than many countries, making humanitarian crises into environmental disasters

The US Defense Department, world's largest fossil fuel-using institution, ranks 1st globally in greenhouse gas emissions -- Report by Y. A. Seko for Anadolu

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Schwerpunkt Zivilschutz - Civil Protection

BILINGUAL EN-DE

AMMAN DECLARATION 2024

A UNIFIED CALL FOR FUTURE-READY HUMANITARIAN ACTION
IN THE MENA REGION

Participants representing 17 National Societies from the Middle East & North Africa region in the 11th Red Cross Red Crescent MENA Conference: "We, the leaders of the National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (RCRC) in the Middle East and North Africa, participating in the 11th MENA Conference, held in Amman, Jordan from 2 to 3 September 2024 (...)"

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Humanitäres Völkerrecht

The War on Civilians: Crimes Against Humanity

Krieg ist grundsätzlich verboten. Krieg verursacht unermessliches Leid. Trotzdem ist er allgegenwärtig. Die Nachrichten berichten täglich über bewaffnete Auseinandersetzungen und ihre grausamen Folgen. Massengräber, Minenopfer, Vertreibungen und Vergewaltigungen gehören zu diesem Schreckensszenario.

If War Comes To You –

This is an interactive film. Your choices impact the story.

The Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols form the core of international humanitarian law, which regulates the conduct of armed conflict and seeks to limit its effects. They protect people not taking part in hostilities and those who are no longer doing so. Source: ICRC . International Committee of the Red Cross – Geneva Conventions ++ Updated Commentary brings fresh insights on continued relevance of Geneva Conventions for treatment of prisoners of war ++

ICRC - Law & Policy Blog

The problem of algorithmic bias in AI-based military decision support systems

Algorithmic bias has long been recognized as a key problem affecting decision-making processes that integrate artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The increased use of AI in making military decisions relevant to the use of force has sustained such questions about biases in these technologies and in how human users programme with and rely on data based on hierarchized socio-cultural norms, knowledges, and modes of attention.

In the latest ICRC blog post, Dr Ingvild Bode, Professor at the Center for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark, and Ishmael Bhila, PhD researcher at the “Meaningful Human Control: Between Regulation and Reflexion” project, Paderborn University, unpack the problem of algorithmic bias with reference to AI-based decision support systems (AI DSS). They examine three categories of algorithmic bias – preexisting bias, technical bias, and emergent bias – across four lifecycle stages of an AI DSS, concluding that stakeholders in the ongoing discussion about AI in the military domain should consider the impact of algorithmic bias on AI DSS more seriously.

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GENOCIDE IN GAZA

One Month For Humanity and International Humanitarian Laws: SPECIAL FEATURE on P14E Blog 2025-MARCH

Photo/Visual Idea: Imma G. Tuccillo-Castaldo ~ Artwork: Susan Ville

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HUMANITY HAS THE RIGHT TO DEFEND ITSELF

A project to honour all victims of war and current crimes against humanity – the enemy of wisdom is omniscience.
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