Nicola Perugini
@PeruginiNic
Associate professor, politics and IR, Edinburgh. “The Human Right to Dominate” (OUP 2015). “Human Shields” (UCP 2020). RT and likes are not endorsements.
In "Humanitarian Camouflage," the latest issue of @PalStudies' Current Issues in Depth, @FranceskAlbs, @luigidaniele10 and I examine how Israel has been appropriating and distorting international humanitarian law to justify genocide. palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656283
Empty words from the Foreign Secretary - the statement lacks any resolve, leadership or action to help end the genocide in Gaza. 1/4🧵
The suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths. Alongside 25 other partners, the UK message is clear: the war in Gaza must end now. We need an immediate ceasefire, release of all hostages and a full resumption of aid. gov.uk/government/new…
Another Gaza hospital director kidnapped by the Israeli military in the “safe area” of al-Mawasi. In front of the Red Cross.
An Israeli special forces unit has kidnapped Dr. Marwan Al-Hams, Director of Abu Youssef Al-Najjar Hospital, and injured the driver of their ambulance. This is happened in front of the Red Cross field hospital in Almwasi area.
Israel has launched a major ground and air attack on the Gazan city of Deir-al-Balah - a day after the military ordered residents to leave. At least eight people have been killed as tanks and military vehicles moved into parts of the city.
#BREAKING : Israeli tanks have begun an assault on Deir Al-Balah in central #Gaza Deir Al - Balah the same area the Israeli army previously declared “safe” and urged civilians to flee to ..
🚨A recent video shows hundreds of food trucks lined up on the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing, denied entry to the starving population in Gaza. UNRWA stated that its warehouses in Egypt hold enough supplies to feed Gaza for no less than three months.
Accountability now. No freedom of movement for the genocidaires.
🔴 BREAKTHROUGH: Two Israeli soldiers accused of war crimes in #Gaza were Arrested and interrogated at #Tomorrowland after a joint complaint by the #HindRajabFoundation & @GLAN_LAW. This is historical! More info ⬇️ hindrajabfoundation.org/perpetrators/b… #JusticeForGaza #NoSafeHaven…
The Israeli military is targeting everything that remains to sustain human survival in Gaza.
Alex de Waal on how Israel has deliberately chosen and calculatedly planned to inflict genocide by starvation in spite of the ICJ orders on humanitarian aid.
"There is no case since WW2 of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled" Famine expert Alex de Waal on Israel deliberately starving an entire civilian population
The children were trying to have a "normal" day in spite of the genocide. The Israeli military bombarded the kindergarten during their lessons.
Breaking: Israel bombed a building housing the Modern Al-Jinan Kindergarten in central Gaza City. Most of the casualties are children from the kindergarten.
“Breaking: Director of Medical Relief in Gaza: Many are trying to donate blood but are unable to due to malnutrition and anemia.”
عاجل| مدير الإغاثة الطبية في غزة: كثيرون يحاولون التبرع بالدم لكنهم لا يستطيعون بسبب سوء التغذية وفقر الدم
It’s a death maze. Either starve to death or be killed.
The UN is currently the only institution able to keep Palestinians alive, and the very few UN personnel allowed into Gaza are among the few international witnesses of Israel’s annihilation. As part of its strategy of destruction, Israel is trying to erase any UN presence in Gaza.
NEW: Israel Expels Senior UN Humanitarian Official for Exposing Starvation and War Crimes in Gaza Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar has confirmed that he ordered the expulsion of Jonathan Whittall, the head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian…
Israel is smashing what remains of the humanitarian system in Gaza. Our vital polyclinic is being forced to evacuate. There is nowhere safe to go. This must end now, and so must UK complicity @DavidLammy @HFalconerMP @JennyChapman
🚨One of our lifesaving clinics has been forced to close after the Israeli military issued new forced displacement orders. This is an attack on humanitarian operations that will sever the last remaining threads of Gaza’s health and aid system. Read more: map.org.uk/news/archive/p…
Countries complicit in the genocide are once again discussing airdrops, now that Palestinians are on the verge of collective death by starvation, instead of breaking the siege, opening the crossings, and forcing the Israeli army to withdraw.
Airdrops of aid into Gaza are currently being discussed with three regional countries, I'm told by a senior Israeli official. One of those countries is actively planning to proceed with airdrops. These discussions started three weeks ago. This answer was in response to a…
An open letter from the presidents of Gaza universities: Our campuses may have been razed, but our universities continue to exist. google.com/amp/s/www.alja…
The Director of Al Shifa: all hospitals in northern Gaza will stop functioning in the next 30 hours as a result of Israel’s fuel blockade.
عاجل | الدكتور محمد أبو سلمية، مدير مستشفى الشفاء الطبي: عدم إمداد المستشفيات بالوقود سيؤدي إلى ما يلي: ▪️ توقف مستشفى الخدمة العامة عن العمل بشكل كامل ▪️ خلال أقل من 12 ساعة، سيتوقف مستشفى المعمداني ▪️ خلال أقل من 12 ساعة، سيتوقف مستشفى الأقصى ▪️ خلال أقل من 30 ساعة، سيتوقف…
Urgent | Gaza Ministry of Health: We recorded 18 deaths due to hunger in the Strip within the past 24 hours
عاجل | وزارة الصحة في غزة: سجلنا 18 وفاة بسبب الجوع في القطاع خلال 24 ساعة