Episode 109 - Christmas is Cancelled

To consult the sources used in the preparation of this episode, please see:

Background/Contextualizing Sources

• IV Geneva Convention_Civilian Protections (UN.org)

• Rome-Statute.pdf  

• FactSheet10rev.1en.pdf (ohchr.org)

• Convention on the Rights of the Child | OHCHR

• Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: crime against humanity (Amnesty International)

• A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid (B'Tselem)

• A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution (HRW)

• Israel’s 55-year occupation of Palestinian Territory is Apartheid (OHCHR) 

• Quick Facts: The Palestinian Nakba ("Catastrophe") (IMEU)

• Noura Erakat_The Sovereign Right to Kill (Academia.edu)

• Mariam Barghouti_The ongoing Nakba means ongoing resistance (Mondoweiss)

• Rabea Eghbariah_The ongoing Nakba: Towards a legal framework for Palestine (The Nation)

• ‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza (972Mag)

Videos/Social Media References

• Biden_20,000 Palestinian Death Toll (YouTube)

• Rev. Munther Isaac_Christ in the Rubble (YouTube)

• @gazangirl on Instagram 

• ‎@joegaza93 on Instagram

• @mohammedharar2 on Instagram

• @wizard_bisan1 on Instagram

• @hindkhoudary on Instagram

• @motaz_azaiza on Instagram

• @plestia.alaqad on Instagram

• @eid_yara on Instagram

• @dr.ghassan.as on Instagram

• ‎@mariambarghouti on Instagram

• @nida_aljazeera on Instagram

• @eye.on.palestine on Instagram

Articles

• Dec 22, 2023_Flash Update #76 (OCHA)

• Gaza Strip: States are obliged to prevent crimes against humanity and genocide (OHCHR)

• 50,000 women pregnant in Gaza amid ‘decimation’ of its health system (Al Jazeera)

• Disturbing reports from the north of Gaza of mass detentions, ill-treatment and enforced disappearances of possibly thousands of Palestinians (OHCHR) 

• Investigating the assault on al-Shifa, Gaza’s largest hospital (The Washington Post)

• A Times Investigation Tracked Israel’s Use of One of Its Most Destructive Bombs in South Gaza (NYT)

• NYT Investigation: Israel Used 'Most Destructive' Bombs in Areas Designated as Safe in South Gaza Strip (Haaretz)

• Oct 15, 2023_Did Israel bomb a civilian evacuation route in Gaza? (Financial Times)

• Netanyahu wants to 'thin out' Gaza by pushing population into the sea: Report (Middle East Eye)

• Destruction Of Medical Infrastructure In Gaza ← Forensic Architecture (Forensic Architecture)

• IDF says deaths of 20 out of 105 soldiers killed in Gaza op were friendly fire (The Times of Israel)

• What we know about the killing of 3 Israeli hostages by the IDF (CNN)

• Israeli army 'shot pregnant women, ran over bodies (NewArab)

• Survivors recount harrowing Israeli field executions (Middle East Eye)

• Following shocking testimonies of Israeli killings and field executions of Palestinians in Gaza, the Red Cross must step up to fulfil its obligations (euromedmonitor.org)

• Euro-Med Monitor sends UN rapporteurs, ICC Prosecutor primary report documenting dozens of field execution cases in Gaza (ReliefWeb)

• Dec 20, 2023_UN Human Rights Office - OPT: Unlawful killings in Gaza City (ReliefWeb)

• Palestinian paramedic Razan al-Najjar was ‘deliberately and fatally shot’ by Israeli sniper — B’Tselem (Mondoweiss)

• Shireen Abu Akleh was ‘shot dead in targeted attack’ by Israel, CNN investigation concludes (Mondoweiss)

• Preserving Rimal: My neighbourhood was vibrant and beautiful. Israel turned it into a wasteland (Middle East Eye)

• War Crimes Will Be Televised - Israeli Soldiers' ‘Dehumanizing’ Videos from Gaza (Palestine Chronicle)

• Israeli shelling destroys 56 buildings in Shuja’iyya neighbourhood in Gaza (Middle East Monitor)

• Dec 20, 2023_Flash Update #74 (ReliefWeb)

• 5 reasons why Jews must not bemoan Gaza in public (The Times of Israel)

• Protest barred from bid to block aid trucks at Gaza crossing (The Times of Israel)

• Poll_November-2023_Question 10 (tau.ac.il)

• UN warns thousands of pregnant women and nursing mothers in Gaza face risk of death (Middle East Monitor)

• Dec 21, 2023_IPC_Gaza_Acute_Food_Insecurity (ipcinfo.org)

• UN: Aid entering Gaza is 5% of what entered before 7 October (Middle East Monitor)

• Euro-Med Monitor at HRC: Gazans are slowly poisoned as 97% of Gaza’s water is undrinkable (euromedmonitor.org)

• 'Desperate, hungry, terrified': Gazans stopping aid trucks in search of food (UN News)

• Desperation intensifies in Gaza amid uncertainty of ‘safe zones’ (UN News)

• Gaza: Destroying civilian housing and infrastructure is an international crime, warns (OHCHR)

• Dec 19, 2023_Over 60% homes destroyed (ochaopt.org)

• Gaza ‘fast becoming unlivable’ (Al Jazeera)

• Israel-Palestine-and-the-Doppelganger-Effect.pdf (naomiklein.org)

• The anatomy of Zionist genocide | Israel-Palestine conflict (Al Jazeera)

• River to the Sea: The Inevitable End of Settler Colonialism in Palestine (Mint Press News)

• It’s Time to Confront Israel’s Version of “From the River to the Sea” (The Nation)

• From the River to the Sea: The undying promise of Palestinian liberation in the face of genocide (Mondoweiss)

• Original Party Platform of the Likud Party (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)

• Netanyahu’s corruption trial resumes amid Israeli war on Gaza (Al Jazeera)

• Bethlehem cancels all Christmas festivities in solidarity with the people of Gaza (Euronews)

• In Jerusalem’s Christian Quarter, ‘it doesn’t even feel like Christmas’ (Al Jazeera)