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on public international law’s Yes to humanity through stories that echo its meaning https://fromsaltintears.com radical or root justice for children https://fromsaltintears.com/radical-justice-4-kids & the Ghost crime cahtreaty4kids.org #hope-walking
The more the US and Israel attack civilian objects, the more it creates a pattern that suggests the attacks are intentional (war crimes) not mistakes of fact.
Along with Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school, @who.int has verified 13 attacks on health care www.who.int/news-room/fe....
And now this ⬇️
Will Ireland demand the US account for its attack on the Minab School & other civilian objects in Iran on St Patrick’s Day? #speirgorm
From ICC Ststute
From ICC Statute
From IHL database of customary rules
Targeting a civilian object is a war crime.
Knowingly causing excessive incidental death in attack is a war crime.
Targeting in-use schools and knowingly causing excessive incidental death of children are particularly serious crimes.
From a resident of Tehran following the US/Israeli attacks on the oil depots in the city: “Everyone in the streets is crying” www.instagram.com/stories/blac...
A water desalination plant is presumptively a civilian object & it is an object indispensable to survival.
Targeting a civilian object is a war crime.
Targeting an object indispensable to survival can implicate the starvation war crime.
NB: carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...
This is really terrifying…
In targeting the Minab School did those responsible commit a war crime of attacking a civilian object or excessive incidental death? Or will 165 dead children become a mistake of fact?
FROM SALT IN TEARS Even now, as our multiple screens lay bare, the intention to inflict harm can be barefaced: 'If you hate me so much / don't bother to give me / a name. Supported by the suggestion of relative worth, nothing is conceded. Standing or status as persons is denied as a legal act or actual fact. Sometimes, as Rohingya people know, a line is drawn through our names. I do not exist for you, you have drawn / a line through my name? Other times, as Palestinian and Uyghur people know, a line is drawn under our names. THE BAREFACED THREAT 1 WHERE / THE RIFT IS, THE BREAK IS From Salt In Tears | Chapter 11 (Lines cited from Louise Glūck’s The Wild Iris )
Long Strand at sunset today
Long Strand at sunset today
More succinct and beautiful nonfiction.
Between the rhythms of Dublin & Gaza #speirgorm
and claimed many young lives. In particular, the bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' school in Minab, Iran, in which more than 160 children are reported to have been killed. "This is a reminder that children are among the most vulnerable in armed conflicts, and must never be treated as collateral damage," the Committee said.
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
The Almanac of Ireland has such lovely episodes, this one features Marie Heaney's Over Nine Waves: a Book of Irish Legends.
Presented by Manchán Magan. Produced by: Colette Kinsella of RedHare Media. Music by Blue Dot Sessions
#SpéirGhorm
www.rte.ie/radio/podcas...
A picture of the moon and Fastnet lighthouse flashing
!["So many [impact sites] so close together (relatively speaking) suggests there were one or more targets in close proximity to each other," said satellite image analyst Jamon Van den Hoek from Oregon State University.
"[It] seems it was intentional to hit the area," he said, adding "But we don't know what they intended to strike.'
Oz Smith, a senior analyst from McKenzie Intelligence Services told BBC Verify the crater on the ground floor of the two-story school building indicates that a specialised munition may have been used to "penetrate to the lower levels".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cvp3gpnddge7ddmrnxtauzxc/bafkreid3znyo4zwc3polv446xr3sojosv5q2gl3li3az2ya2euvnrjsifi)
"So many [impact sites] so close together (relatively speaking) suggests there were one or more targets in close proximity to each other," said satellite image analyst Jamon Van den Hoek from Oregon State University. "[It] seems it was intentional to hit the area," he said, adding "But we don't know what they intended to strike.' Oz Smith, a senior analyst from McKenzie Intelligence Services told BBC Verify the crater on the ground floor of the two-story school building indicates that a specialised munition may have been used to "penetrate to the lower levels".
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Is AI target selection + the cutting of IHL expertise the cause of 165 dead children i.e., serious breaches of IHL? www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
From Seamus Heaney’s Weighing In Two sides to every question, yes, yes, yes.. But every now and then, just weighing in Is what it must come down to, and without Any self-exculpation or self-pity.
On Palestinians’ group & fundamental rights, on human rights online in particular children’s rights, on the prohibition on use of force, the Taoiseach et al signify regard for international law.
But it is a mere spectacle. Either the breach is not condemned or not backed by action #speirgorm
Colonial morality has always assumed the inferiority of feelings described as 'irrational'. To feel requires a specific kind of reason—one rich in social knowledge and vocabulary of social critique. To feel is to be more than rational. To feel more fully is to be human.
Fully is beautiful, Khawla; & true.
Sanchez: Women's rights should never be used as a pretext for launching wars that serve other interests. If we truly believe in the freedom of Iranian women, the response cannot be more violence. It must be more diplomacy, more support, and more international law.
Or were they targeted because they are young to undermine resistance to US-Israel military campaign? Is it age persecution of children?
Or were they targeted because they are young to undermine resistance to US-Israel military campaign? Is it age persecution of children?
And when he cried the little children
died in [their school].
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...