2025-07-16: Genocide Roundup

So far today: 2025-07-17 04:15am GMT

Nashwa Bawab, In These Times. (2025-07-16). The Student Movement For Palestine Continues, Despite Crackdowns. popularresistance.org The Palestine movement is in an especially difficult phase. The genocide in Gaza has been ongoing for more than 20 months; the death toll has become virtually untrackable, but estimates suggest at least 55,000 people have been killed. In the United States, the movement is facing repression not seen since the height of the war on terror. | Empowered by the student movement just a year ago, the moment is now colored by a sense of defeatism and a loss of hope. To discuss where to find hope, where the movement for liberation has made strides and where we go from here, In These Times brought together figures from the…

jborinoco (2025-07-16). Venezuela Attends Emergency Ministerial Meeting in Bogotá on Genocide in Gaza. orinocotribune.com A Venezuelan delegation arrived in Bogotá, Colombia, on Tuesday to participate in the Special Emergency Ministerial Meeting convened by Colombian President Gustavo Petro. The delegation, sent by President Nicolás Maduro, seeks to contribute to a coordinated response to the situation in Palestine, the Venezuelan government reported in an official statement. | The meeting, organized by the Colombian government, aims to coordinate international efforts to address the atrocities that Israel continues to commit against the Palestinian people. The official statement highlights concern over the indifference of internati…

Staff (2025-07-16). Lawyers file case against EU Commission and Council for 'failure to act' on Gaza genocide. defenddemocracy.press by Maria Maggiore* Jul 15, 2025 While we are all holding our breath for the possible initiatives against Israel that Kaja Kallas, the European High Representative for Foreign Affairs, could present on Tuesday (15 July) to the foreign affairs council, the lawyers of the JURDI Association (lawyers for the respect of international law), are taking …

Alaa Shamali (2025-07-16). Generation Genocide: Israel has killed an entire school class of children every day in Gaza. thecanary.co The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has warned of the scale of the humanitarian disaster facing children in the Gaza Strip amid Israel's genocide that has been going on for more than nine months, noting that the average number of children killed every day is equivalent to "an entire school […] | By

Ahmad Abu Shawish (2025-07-16). Not even on the news ticker. electronicintifada.net How the global response to the Iran-Israel conflict shows up world's lack of urgency in ending a genocide in Gaza.

Francesca Albanese (2025-07-16). Video: UN Rapporteur Francesca Albanese Holds Press Conference in Colombia. globalresearch.ca Complicity in Genocide is Punishable | Heads of State and heads of government who have formally endorsed the conduct of Genocide by Israel, are categorized as "Complicit in Genocide" under Article III section e} of the 1948 Genocide Convention. | Article …

David Cronin (2025-07-16). German aristocrats backed Hitler, now they support Israel. electronicintifada.net The EU is kind to genocide advocates and cruel to refugees.

Staff (2025-07-16). President Maduro Condemns Sanctions Against UN Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for Denouncing Israeli Genocide in Palestine. orinocotribune.com

Marjorie Cohn, Truthout. (2025-07-16). Ex-UN Special Rapporteur: Francesca Albanese Deserves Nobel Prize. popularresistance.org The day after Donald Trump welcomed indicted war criminal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the United States for the third time in less than six months, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio imposed sanctions against UN Special Rapporteur on Occupied Palestine Francesca Albanese for her clear-eyed critiques of Israel's genocide. | In a July 9 press statement, Rubio charged that Albanese "has directly engaged with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in efforts to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute nationals of the United States or Israel, without the consent of those two countries."

Adriaan Alsema (2025-07-16). Colombia, The Hague Group announce further sanctions on Israel. colombiareports.com The Foreign Ministry announced that Colombia will impose a weapons ban on Israel after a meeting with the representatives of more than other 30 states in the capital Bogota. The weapons ban was one of multiple measures announced by Deputy Foreign Minister Mauricio Jaramillo at the end of the summit of The Hague Group in …

jborinoco (2025-07-16). UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese Urges World to Cut Ties With Israel. orinocotribune.com In Bogotá, on Tuesday, the UN special rapporteur on Palestine, Francesca Albanese, called on all countries to cut ties with the Israeli entity, expressing her opinion that treating the "occupation" of Palestine as normal means supporting the Zionist state's "illegal presence" in that territory. | "Each state must immediately review and suspend its military, strategic, political, diplomatic, and economic relations with the State of Israel, both imports and exports," Albanese said during the opening of the Hague Group's ministerial meeting in the Colombian capital. | The diplomat added that countries must ensure th…

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