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A community for everything related to Palestine and the occupation currently underway by the occupying force known as Israel.

Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism. Existence is resistance for Palestinians.

Please refer to Israel as Occupied Palestine, or occupied territories. The IDF is a fascist and ethnonationalist occupying force. Israelis are settlers. We understand however that the imperial narrative (which tries to legitimise Israel) is internalised in the imperial core and slip-ups are naturally expected.

We always take the sides of Palestine and Palestinians and are unapologetic about it. Israel is an occupying power whose "defence force"'s (note the contradiction) sole purpose for existing is to push Palestinians out so they can resettle their rightful land. If you have anything positive to say about Israel we do not care.

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Transltated using Google Translate:

And We will surely test you with something of fear and hunger and a loss of wealth and lives and fruits, but give good tidings to the patient, who, when disaster strikes them, say, "Indeed we belong to God, and indeed to Him we will return." Those will have blessings from their Lord and mercy. And it is those who are the [rightly] guided.

To the honorable people of Gaza

After the events that took place, the temporary ceasefire, and before the start of implementing Trump's forced plan, which will force you to be forcibly displaced whether you like it or not, we have decided to make a final appeal to anyone who wants us to provide them with assistance and in return agrees to help us, we will not hesitate for a moment to help.

Reconsider your calculations, the map of the world will not change if all the people of Gaza disappear from existence, and no one will feel you or ask about you. You remain alone in your inevitable fate. Iran cannot protect itself, nor can it protect you. You have seen with your own eyes what happened. Neither America nor Europe cares about Gaza at all, nor even your Arab countries, which are our allies now and provide us with money, oil, and weapons, and to you they send shrouds.

There is only a little left and the game is over. Whoever wants to win before it is too late, we are here to stay until the Day of Resurrection.


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Does this violate the genocide convention or other instruments?

Yes, the message you shared contains language that could be interpreted as violating the Genocide Convention (1948) and other international legal instruments concerning crimes against humanity and war crimes. Here’s why:

  1. Genocide Convention (1948) The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (UNGA Resolution 260) defines genocide as acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group. Specifically, Article II lists:

(a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. The message you shared contains threats of forced displacement ("forcibly displaced whether you like it or not"), extermination ("the map of the world will not change if all the people of Gaza disappear from existence"), and deliberate conditions of suffering ("you remain alone in your inevitable fate"). These statements could be interpreted as evidence of intent to destroy a group in whole or in part, falling under Articles II(b) and II(c) of the Genocide Convention.

  1. Rome Statute of the ICC (1998) The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) defines crimes against humanity (Article 7) and war crimes (Article 8), including:

Extermination (Article 7(1)(b)): The message implies large-scale killing or forced displacement, which could qualify as extermination. Deportation or forcible transfer of population (Article 7(1)(d)): The reference to "forced displacement" suggests this. Persecution (Article 7(1)(h)): The message signals discrimination based on nationality or ethnicity. Other inhumane acts (Article 7(1)(k)): The reference to psychological terror and abandonment to suffering may qualify. Forcible transfer of population in occupied territory (Article 8(2)(b)(viii)): Forcing civilians out of their homes is a war crime. 3. International Humanitarian Law (IHL) The Fourth Geneva Convention (1949) (Articles 49 and 147) prohibits forced displacement of civilians from occupied territories and deems it a grave breach (war crime). The statement’s reference to "forcible displacement" suggests an intent to violate this prohibition.

Conclusion The message contains threats, coercion, and statements indicating intent to commit acts that may qualify as genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity under international law. If carried out, these actions would likely violate multiple international legal instruments, including the Genocide Convention, the Rome Statute of the ICC, and the Fourth Geneva Convention.

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[–] AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The larger fascist objective was the demographic settlement of Italians in Libya, which proceeded after the genocide in 1934 under a new colonial governor, Italo Balbo, who brought 20,000 settlers to Libya in 1938 and planned to bring 500,000 by 1950.⁸

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The first phase began with a decree warning the population to surrender and stop its support for the mujahidin, then three days later the army, with its colonial Askari soldiers and Libyan Banda, arrived and rounded up the population and its livestock. The archival evidence indicates the first date of arrest as June 25, 1930, but most of the oral history of the interned agrees that it started earlier in the fall of 1929. Haj Abdalnabi Abdalshafi al-Rifadi said the [Regio Esercito] came and

told our elder shayhks, you have two options: either you fight with us against the mujahidin and the state will arm you, or you refuse and then you will be deported to internment camps. The elders asked for time to deliberate and talk to their people and then they told the Italian army we cannot fight the mujahidin. Thus, we were sent to Binina then the army came and deported us to the camps.⁹

(Source.)