š¢ Two Palestinian minors were injured by Israeli live fire last night near the junction of Al-Mazraāa al-Sharqiya, east of #ramallah
#westbank #cisjordanie #news
#annexation #UNfail
š¹ The two boys, aged 14 and 15, from the town of Silwad, were shot after ISR forces opened fire at a vehicle
š° Report WAFA FEB-27 08:30 local-t
#israel #palestine : #westbank / #opt / #annexation / #ngo / #statutoryviolations
āSince Dec. 2025, Israeli authorities have unleashed a series of unlawful measures deliberately designed to dispossess Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and to make the annexation of the territory an irreversible reality, #AmnestyInternational said today.ā
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āGlobal impunity fueling Israelās annexation in the West Bankā
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/02/israel-opt-global-impunity-fueling-israels-unlawful-annexation-measures-in-the-west-bank/
#usa #israel #palestine : #westbank / #internationallaw / #occupation / #usforeignpolicy / #settlers / #annexation
āPalestinians and Israelis on the right and left all say that the move is a step toward legitimizing the Israeli settlements, which most of the world considers illegal.ā
Today in Labor History February 25, 1843: Lord George Paulet, naval captain, occupied the Kingdom of Hawaii in the name of Great Britain. Paulet and his men controlled the islands for five months, until the U.S. sent warships to expel them. Great Britain supposedly never authorized the invasion. The Hawaiian Kingdom was a sovereign state from 1795-1883. King Kamehameha, from the island of Hawaii, created the state by conquering four other Hawaiian islands and unifying them in 1795. The U.S. acted as its āprotectorā during these years, preventing the UK and Japan from asserting hegemony. However, in 1898, the U.S. annexed the islands, after U.S. businessmen participated in the overthrow of the monarchy in 1893.
The Hawaiian flag, depicted here, is based on KÄnÄwai MÄmalahoe, or Law of the Splintered Paddle, a precept in Hawaiian law, originating with King Kamehameha I in 1797. The law states "Let every elderly person, woman and child lie by the roadside in safety," (i.e., safely protected whenever there is a battle). The law is enshrined in the Hawaiian state constitution, Article 9, Section 10, and has become a model for modern human rights law regarding the treatment of civilians and other non-combatants during times of war. The law was came as a result of an incident when Kamehameha was on a military expedition in Puna and chased after a fisherman. However, Kamehameha's leg got caught in the reef. The fisherman hit him on the head with a paddle in defense, which broke into pieces, but the fisherman stopped after this and spared him his life. Kamehameha later brought the fisherman before him in judgement. Instead of ordering a death sentence on the fisherman, he ruled that the fisherman had only been protecting his land and family, and so the Law of the Splintered Paddle was declared.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #hawaii #nativehawaiian #indigenous #imperialism #Kamehameha #civilians #annexation #humanrights
š¢ #UnitedStates embassy in Israel announced on Tuesday that it plans to provide consular services to #US citizens inside settlements in the occupied #westbank, marking a first-of-its-kind move
š¹ Statement did not distinguish between settlements in the occupied West Bank, which are regarded as illegal under #internationallaw, and cities within Israelās internationally recognised borders
#law #warcrimes #annexation #palestine #humanrights
š° Report MEMO FEB-25 #news
#israel #palestine : #westbank / #annexation / #protest
(Talk is cheap - where is the threat ā and, if necessary, the implementation ā of sanctions?)
āThe statement was signed by regional heavyweights #SaudiArabia and #Egypt, European powers #France and #Spain, as well as #Indonesia, #Brazil and #Turkey, among others. It was also endorsed by the secretaries general #LeagueofArabStates, the #OrganizationofIslamicCooperation and the #PalestinianAuthority.ā
Israel's Perfect Storm: The West Bank Has Been Sacrificed for Trump's Gaza Plan ā Haaretz
Israelās Perfect Storm: The West Bank Has Been Sacrificed for Trumpās Gaza Plan HaaretzNearly 20 nations slam Israelās Westā¦
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Analysis #annexation #BezalelSmotrich #DonaldTrump #Israelsettlements #WestBank #World
https://www.newsbeep.com/406660/
Israel Is Expanding Control in West Bank Under Guise of āHeritage Preservationā
New changes could undermine Palestinian sovereignty and pave the way for further illegal settlements in the West Bank.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/20/mike-huckabee-israel-middle-east-tucker-carlson. Is Mike #Huckabee saying anything that Donald #Trump wouldn't want him to say? NO! His remarks would definitely have met with great approval from #Netanyahu & his Cabinet colleagues, & been seen as full support for their #policy of #annexation of the #WestBank. The "Wadi of Egypt" may refer to the Nile (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brook_of_Egypt), and the "Great River", as Huckabee acknowledged, is the Euphrates. The land encompassed would constitute a #racist #Israeli Empire!
West Bank annexation. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.
#israel #palestine : #uno / #gaza / #westbank / #annexation / #settlers / #aidrestrictions
āUN Secretary-General AntĆ³nio Guterres has condemned Israelās decision to resume land registration procedures in a large part of the occupied West Bank, his Spokesman said on Monday.ā
#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #westbank / #annexation / #zionism / #uno / #uspeaceplan / #board
Ā»Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said that attention was not on the U.N. session and that the focus of the international world would be on the Board of Peace meeting.
Saar also accused the council of being "infected with an anti-Israeli obsession" and insisted that no nation has a stronger right than its "historical and documented right to the land of the Bible."Ā«
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260219/p2g/00m/0in/018000c
Israelās far-right minister to push for āmigrationā of Palestinians from West Bank, Gaza
āWe will finally, formally, and in practical terms nullify the cursed Oslo Accords and embark on a path toward sovereignty, while encouraging emigration from both Gaza and Judea and Samaria. There is no other long-term solution,ā said Smotrich, speaking at an event organised by his Religious Zionism Party late on Tuesday.
#usa #israel #palestine : #westbank / #settlers / #annexation / #complicity
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Ā»āUnfortunately, there is a tendency, and it is not only Trumpās, to expect that annexation will happen in a pompous ceremony with a ribbon-cutting and historical declarations,ā Sfard said. āThe truth is that annexation can happen bureaucratically, in windowless offices, in a supposedly boring manner.āĀ«
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/02/18/israel-west-bank-annexation-trump-land-registration/. "Israel has moved aggressively in recent days to deepen its control over the occupied #WestBank, unilaterally adopting policies that... represent a major shift toward #annexation & appear to defy President Donald #Trump, who has said he opposes annexation but has not publicly pushed back on the #Israeli measures." Saying you oppose annexation, but doing nothing to stop it, is supporting annexation, isn't it?
Israeli government approves resolution on de facto annexation of occupied West Bank
The Israeli government has approved a draft resolution to begin the process of settling and registering land in the occupied West Bank for the first time since 1967.
āWe are continuing the settlement revolution to control all our lands,ā said Israelās far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.
#usa #israel #palestine #war #gaza #genocide #opt #westbank #annexation #subjection #internationallaw
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ā¦ any possibility of Palestinian #statehood and force Palestinians to accept permanently subordinate status or leave the West Bank.ā
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āIsraeli forces demolished several Palestinian structures across the occupied West Bank, including homes, citing a lack of permits. Video shows soldiers assaulting and detaining residents during the operations.ā
#usa #israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #genocide / #opt / #westbank / #annexation / #subjection / #internationallaw
āInfluential Israeli government ministers have long argued that the #WestBank must be folded into Israelās political and administrative orbit. A 2017 manifesto penned by Smotrich called the ā#DecisivePlanā laid out the road map: Israel should create irreversible facts on the ground that will foreclose ā¦
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https://www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/israel-quietly-annexing-west-bank
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This process, through which the state determines and finalizes land ownership rights and officially records them in the Stateās land registry has become one of its primary tools for seizing Palestinian land and expanding Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem.
