Johan Schaar retweeted
There are speeches and there are speeches, but King Abdullah II 🇯🇴 certainly spoke up about the situation on the West Bank in 🇺🇳 today.
Johan Schaar retweeted
Israeli human rights org @btselem just published a thorough report on Israel's systematic dismantling of Palestinian life in the West Bank, with over 2,000 testimonies. Something I have been documenting and writing about for years, and care deeply about.
btselem.org/the_elimination_…
Johan Schaar retweeted
"Att ta emot färre kvotflyktingar är en politisk ståndpunkt.
Att ta emot noll är något helt annat. Det är att ge upp vår humanitet och det samhälle de flesta av oss brukar säga att vi vill vara."
Bra av Åsa Widell, generalsekreterare vid Sverige för UNHCR. Om vikten av att stå emot, inte vaska våra humanitära principer och inte ge efter för de högerauktoritära strömningar som präglar tidsandan. dn.se/debatt/med-kvotflyktin… #svpol
Johan Schaar retweeted
My video report from the perilous front lines of what President Trump described as “war-ravaged” Portland, a city “on fire,” requiring troops to come save us.
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Despite the delicate ceasefire now in place between Israel and Iran, there has been no respite for the #WestBank. Out of the spotlight of the regional escalation, camps in the northern West Bank have faced ongoing destruction, with dozens of buildings demolished in the last twelve days.
Even now, Israeli Security Forces are continuing to demolish homes and buildings in Jenin, Tulkarm, and Nur Shams camps. Stripped of basic dignity, many families have not even been able to save their belongings ahead of anticipated bulldozing.
Once full of life, these refugee camps are now reduced to rubble. This is not just destruction: it is part of systematic #ForcedDisplacement, a violation of international law, and a form of collective punishment.
The residents of these camps must be allowed to have access to their homes, and permitted to return without delay. @UNRWA schools and teachers prepare for children to start the new school year, and health centres stand ready to receive patients again. #PalestineRefugees must be supported to rebuild and recover.
Johan Schaar retweeted
Number of Israelis killed today: ZERO
Number of Gazans killed today: OVER 100
Yet not a single headline about Gaza right now on the websites of CNN, NYTimes, Washington Post, BBC... (dozens of headlines about Israel)
Gaza is being deliberately disappeared!
Johan Schaar retweeted
Important initiative by Belgium.
Coincidentally just today, a thorough study on exactly this topic has been published - written by 2 leading legal experts and commissioned by 5 Members of EU Parliament: barryandrews.ie/post/expert-…
Now the EU has to act on it.
Belgium, together with eight other EU Member States - Finland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden - asks the European Commission to examine how trade in goods and services linked to illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory can be brought into line with international law.
This follows the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice, which clearly states that third countries must refrain from any trade or investment that helps sustain an illegal situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Upholding international law is a shared responsibility. In a rules-based international order, legal clarity must guide political choices. A united European approach can help ensure that our policies reflect our values.
@BelgiumMFA
Johan Schaar retweeted
Det är ett krigsbrott att bomba sjukhus - oavsett om sjukhusen ligger i Tel Aviv eller i Gaza.
Johan Schaar retweeted
Haaretz just published an article detailing the scale of destruction in Gaza over the past 20 months. The devastation caused by the IDF stands out, even when compared to some of the most extreme cases in modern history. Here are a few astonishing key findings from the article:
ALT Credit: Activestills, Mohammed Zaanoun
Johan Schaar retweeted
Israel can surgically bomb a specific apartment in Tehran to kill a top general without collapsing the whole building
But in Gaza, they carpet bomb & annihilate a whole neighbourhood to “target” a rank & file member (the destruction is the goal, the “target” is the pretext)
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The EU immediately activates a "special mechanism" to flood Israel with everything it needs to fight wild fires
Same EU hasn't once tried to airdrop a single parcel of food on Gaza since Israel's total siege began, let alone press Israel to end the starvation!
Shared values...
Johan Schaar retweeted
In Gaza, an entire population is being starved.
They could be reached - there are hundreds of trucks waiting to go in, currently denied entry.
Women, children, families, living crammed together in unsanitary conditions, and facing dozens on airstrikes everyday:
Johan Schaar retweeted
UNRWA schools in #EastJerusalem are under threat, with closure orders issued against six of them today by Israeli officials who entered by force together with armed police. These schools serve some 800 boys and girls, who have no alternatives for their #RightToEducation. (1/3)
Johan Schaar retweeted
❌ALARMING❌The Israeli government's formally announced intention to permanently annex the entire occupied West Bank is such a serious and egregious violation of int'l law, that if not halted, the collapse of the multilateral system built on universal principles (such as sovereignty, self-determination, primacy of int'l law) will be unavoidable.
BREAKING: In a joint statement, #Israel's co-ministers of defense @Israel_katz (Likud) and @bezalelsm (Religious Zionism) confirm the government's intention to permanently acquire, colonize, and annex the entirety of the occupied West Bank, at the expense of #Palestinian sovereignty.
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The Israeli army attacked a convoy of Red Crescent ambulances.
They handcuffed the paramedics.
They executed them by shooting them in the head and chest.
Then they threw their bodies into a mass grave.
What. Does. It. Take.
theguardian.com/world/2025/a…
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A tragedy against humanitarian work.
The Red Crescent emblem, meant to protect you, has instead become the shroud that wrapped your bodies.
Mustafa Khafaja, Ezzedine Shaat, Saleh Ma’amar, Rifaat Radwan, Mohammad Bahloul, Ashraf Abu Labda, Mohammad Al-Heila, and Raed Al-Sharif.
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1/6 First responders should never be a target. Yet today @UNOCHA supported @PalestineRCS and Civil Defense to retrieve colleagues from a mass grave in #Rafah #Gaza that was marked with the emergency light from one of their crushed ambulances.