Episode 108 - “Tell My Story” Dedicated to Refaat Alareer

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)

• Jabalia Camp | UNRWA

• Jabaliya | The Electronic Intifada

• How Israel's use of skunk water is damaging Palestinian health and economy (Middle East Eye)

• Rain of Fire: Israel’s Unlawful Use of White Phosphorus in Gaza (HRW)

• Jewish Settlers Torch Dozens of Olive Trees near Bethlehem (Palestine Chronicle)

• Jewish opposition to Israel is as old as Zionism itself (Middle East Eye)

Videos/Social Media References

• ‎These are familiar weekly scenes in Wadi Joz every Friday (@sara.khairat.tv on Instagram)

• ‎Teargas, ‘skunk’ water, batons and force (@sara.khairat.tv on Instagram)

• Dec 8, 2023_Jabalia_white phosphorus_UNRWA (on Facebook)‎ 

• ‎@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 11, 2023_Flash Update #66 | (ochaopt.org)

• Israel-Hamas war updates: Gaza ‘fast becoming unlivable’ as fighting rages (Al Jazeera)

• Gaza: UN expert condemns ‘unrelenting war’ on health system amid airstrikes on hospitals and health workers (OHCHR)

• UNRWA Situation Report #47 (UNRWA)

• Father of Al Jazeera journalist killed in Israeli air strike on Gaza (Al Jazeera)

• Six Palestinians murdered by Israeli gunfire in Al-Fara'a refugee camp (WAFA)

• Outrage after Israel destroys Gaza's largest, oldest mosque (NewArab)

• Filmmaker Bisan Owda mourns the loss of the historic Al-Omari Mosque (Middle East Monitor)

• Refaat Alareer: eternal echoes of resilience from the Gaza Strip (Mondoweiss)

• “If I Must Die”: IDF Strike Kills Gaza Scholar Refaat Alareer (Democracy Now!)

• Israeli occupation forces suppress worshipers in Jerusalem, block access to Al-Aqsa Mosque (WAFA)

• Israeli occupation forces attack worshipers, block access to Al-Aqsa Mosque (WAFA)

• Israel bombs south Gaza as death toll nears 18,000 (The Peninsula Qatar)

• New report details 104 Gaza cultural landmarks destroyed or damaged (NPR)

• Field executions, torture, and threats of rape: In Gaza, Israel army replicates the crimes committed by Zionist gangs in 1948 (EuromedMonitor)

• Horrific testimonies shared of field executions, forced displacement, and random arrests (ReliefWeb)

• IPC_Gaza_Acute_Food_Insecurity_Dec2023Feb2024.pdf (ipcinfo.org)

• Statement by WFP Deputy Executive Director after visit to Gaza (World Food Programme)

• Women and newborns bearing the brunt of the conflict in Gaza, UN agencies warn (who.int)

• Israel’s attacks on Gaza: The weapons and mapping the scale of destruction (Al Jazeera)

• Gaza: UNICEF defends accuracy of death toll as horror unfolds in ravaged enclave (CNN)

• UNICEF Defends Gaza Death Toll Accuracy After Biden Casts Doubt (AdvocateChannel)

• Israel detains TNA Arabic reporter in Gaza mass arrest (NewArab)

• Hamas condemns Israel over images showing detained Palestinians in underwear (Middle East Monitor)

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

• December 4, 2023 - Matthew Miller_"I have not seen evidence"

• Secretary Antony J. Blinken_75th Anniv UN Dec Human Rights

• Out of 1,542 IDF sexual assault complaints, just 31 indictments filed (The Jerusalem Post)

• Gang rapes in Israel: A spike in cases or business as usual? (The Jerusalem Post)

• Israel: nearly half of reported sexual abuse cases in 2019-20 involved underage girls (Middle East Monitor)

• Mizrahi Jews in Israel faced decades of injustice, and still vote extreme right (Middle East Eye)

• Israel’s Netanyahu calls for deportation of Eritrean refugee ‘rioters’ (Al Jazeera)

• 200th plane carrying military equipment lands in Israel (Defense Min; Israel National News)

• Gaza: Guterres invokes 'most powerful tool' Article 99 (UN News)

• US blocks UN Security Council demand for humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza (Reuters)

• Text - H.Res.888 - 118th Congress (2023-2024) (Congress.gov)