Vibeke Løkkeberg is a Norwegian film director who has recently made a film on Gaza, which she never has visited. Mads Gilbert has been her consultant for the film. Today Løkkeberg disseminted the Palestinian narrative on NRK radio.
During the interview Løkkeberg regurgitated the main propagandistic bullet points on the 2008/2009 Gaza war, insisting that it was a war upon an innocent civilian population which had done no wrong. Løkkeberg jeered at the idea that Hamas could possibly constitute a threat.
This is how the lobby hammers away, day in, day out.
Jerusalem- A protest movement called “The Wheels of Justice,” composed of residents of Jerusalem, will stage a vigil outside of the East Jerusalem headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Monday to protest the presence of three wanted Hamas leaders in the building. The protest will be continued on a weekly basis, said movement leader David Ish Shalom, until Israeli security forces move to arrest the three men.
The fugitives in question, Ahmad Atoun, Khaled Abu Arafa, and Muhhamad Totach, are all representatives of Hamas’ Change and Reform list in the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), and have camped out in the Sheikh Jarrah building since the June 30 arrest of Hamas MP and former Al Qassam Brigades leader Muhhamad Abu Tir.
Alerted to the presence of Hamas personnel in Jerusalem by an article in the Five Towns Jewish Times, Ish Shalom, National Union MK Michael Ben-Ari and Professor Hagi Ben Artzi, the brother-in-law of current Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu, organized to protest the unwillingness of the Israeli police to arrest the three fugitives.
“I hope to use this vigil to raise awareness of this issue and to bring it into the public debate,” Ish Shalom explained. “I am concerned that while Hamas in undertaking attacks against Israeli civilians and has promised to resume the use of suicide bombers, the leaders of this movement have found refuge in Jerusalem with the Red Cross.”
Ish Shalom also took issue with a recent statement made by the ICRC regarding captive Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit. According to Pierre Dorbes, deputy head of the ICRC in Israel, Hamas “is not obligated to allow family visits or visits by the Red Cross [to Schalit], but it is obligated to make family ties possible.”
Comparing Dorbes’ position to a statement issued by Red Cross spokeswoman Dorothea Krimitsas calling the Hamas MPs “protected persons” under international law, Ish Shalom decided that the slogan of his movement would be “Schalit is a prisoner of Hamas and Hamas is a guest of the Red Cross.”
“Israel, as the occupying power, has an obligation to protect the Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem and cannot lawfully undertake to forcibly transfer them from their homes,” Krimitsas stated. “Under Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, forcible transfers of protected persons are explicitly prohibited regardless of their motive,” referring to an Israeli court order distancing the three men from Jerusalem upon penalty of incarceration.
She also indicated that the ICRC does not categorize Hamas as a terror organization.
Read the full piece here:
https://www.5tjt.com/international-news/8082-israelis-to-protest-hamas-outside-of-red-cross-jerusalem-compound