Corrine Johnson’s Post

Last week, the Kimberley Process achieved some fragile progress, but it remains insufficient to consider the KP a reliable entity for ensuring responsible diamond sourcing. The renewed engagement of the Central African government offers a delicate opportunity to unlock the stalemate and make diamonds benefit communities rather than rebels, criminals and mercenaries. More in the KP CSC concluding remarks at #KPIntersessional: https://lnkd.in/eZKqAGSE #ResponsibleSourcing #bizhumanrights

Hostage deal announcement between Israel and Hamas could come as soon as Tuesday #ecwinnewsonline #ecwin #cnn #cnnnews #cna #newstoday #breakingnews #bbcnews #balita #worldnews #livenews #livenews #dailynews #newsoftoday #israel #hamas

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All war is hell. There are many roads to hell. I only want to talk about two of them: the High Road and the Low Road. The Low Road is the road taken by Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, Houthis, Iran, Syria, Russia, Nazi Germany (1934-1945), and many other countries too numerous to enumerate here. It is a one-way road from which there is no return. Israel was viciously attacked without warning by an enemy with whom it had mistakenly believed it had a mutually agreeable working relationship on October 7th. Our non-combatant citizens of all ages were kidnapped, sexually molested, tortured, and killed. We might have been forgiven by some, if our response to the attack had been motivated by blind revenge: an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But no, we took the High Road, not to turn the other cheek, because that would have invited this disaster to be repeated again and again until our last man, woman, and child were dead or gone, but to attack the perpetrators of the attack, pressing them to release the remaining hostages, to weed the attackers out, to capture them so that they stand trial for their war crimes, or to kill them in action, and to minimize any harm to non-combatant civilians, theirs or ours. The proof of our intentions and actions is the fact that our forces advance slowly and methodically. True, this protects our troops advancing through treacherous territory to seek out the enemy wherever he waits in ambush or hides. But it also provides the maximum possible protection of non-combatant Gazans. Our soldiers have no intention of killing non-combatants. Often it is unavoidable because Hamas and Jihadis use them as human shields and don't allow their non-combatant citizens into their bunkers and tunnels. If we were to speed up our advance, to blitz through Gaza, I guarantee you that the numbers of non-combatant men, women, and children killed would be far more. The High Road is a two-way road; after the war, our soldiers will return home, hug their wives and children, return to their jobs of tilling the fields or hi-tech, and get on with forgetting the lessons of war. The High Road is the only road from which there can be a return to normality. https://lnkd.in/d_AxWHYB

Hamas on Sunday revived its threat that none of the hostages it is holding will leave Gaza alive unless and until all of its demands are met. Those demands include an end to the war, an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, and the release of all Palestinian security prisoners, including those captured on and since October 7. Put another way, the price of the hostages’ freedom is for Hamas to live to carry out more and worse October 7 massacres — as it has said it fully intends to do — with the additional involvement of all of its currently jailed murderers. This intolerable price runs up against the intolerable situation of the hostages, some of whom are known to be in immediate life-threatening peril, and whose families are understandably demanding that the government prioritize freeing the hostages over the other declared goal of the war, destroying Hamas. This is the internal Israel breach that Hamas, well aware of widespread Israeli lack of faith in the political leadership, is predictably and nauseatingly seeking to widen. https://lnkd.in/dwMWQYy6

A Testament to Leadership: The Finance Department of the Sindh Government, under the guidance of former CM Syed Murad Ali Shah, extends a benevolent act that resonates with goodwill. A true embodiment of public service and statesmanship. 👏🏛️ #PakistanNews #ThePakistanCorner #SindhGovernment #LeadershipInAction #BenevolenceInGovernance

Even from these mutilple and verified reportings, It is clear IDF carried out extrajudicial killings that broke international laws and rules of engagement of the Geneva convention of whom they thought were Palestinian males (who had no chance of carrying weapons because they were Israelis hostages). My question is how many of the 17,000 civilians were murdered like this? UN needs to send in teams NOW to document war crimes so neither innocent Israelis or Palestinians need to die in the hands of demented military men and politicians. Btw. #NYTimes needs to change the piece title of ‘friendly fire’. By all descriptions, it doesn’t fit as it requires a legit battle. Stop the still skewed reporting.