“Words fail us to describe the absolute horror being inflicted on Palestinian civilians by Israel as it carries out incessant and indiscriminate warfare in Gaza for all the world to see.”
– Dr Christos Christou, International President, Médecins Sans Frontières
I am not pro-Palestine or anti-Israel. This isn’t a football game between two equally-matched teams where you support your favourite. I am anti-genocide and Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people.
“7,000 children and minors have died in Gaza, which the UN secretary general has styled ‘a graveyard for children’. Nothing can justify this massacre of the innocents. No politics. No grievance. No strategy. No history. No revenge. Every day that it continues, our collective humanity dies a little bit more. To accept that this massacre is justifiable self-defence by Israel is to abdicate all conscience.”
“Palestinians are forbidden from gathering rain water for domestic or agricultural needs.”
– Third Periodic Report of Israel’s violations of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights with regard to the human rights to water and sanitation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
Mehdi Hasan to Mark Regev, senior Netanyahu advisor:
“If Hamas gunmen were hiding out in a school in Tel Aviv or in an apartment block in Haifa, would you be OK with the Israeli military dropping bombs on those buildings, leveling them, killing the innocent Israelis inside in order to get the Hamas gunmen? Would you do that?”
86 years ago, sirens sounded in Guernica as the Nazis carpet-bombed civilians. Today, they sound again for the Palestinian people in Gaza being slaughtered by Israel.
Amazing how there’s no media coverage of this to speak of in the West although even Times of Israel covered Guernica’s 80th anniversary.
Folks, I’m going to ask you to please consider that over 31,000 people – including over 13,000 children – have already been murdered by Israel in the last handful of months before stating that the person from your own country that was just murdered by Israel is your red line or the point where you think Israel’s genocide has finally gone too far. I really need you to understand that Palestinians are people too.
Israel—a terrorist state committing genocide in Palestine backed by the US, Canada, and the UK—has just destroyed the office building of the Belgian Agency for Development Cooperation in Gaza as retaliation a day after Belgium announced it would continue to fund the vital humanitarian work of UNRWA.
Good to see the conservative government being shamed by the ICJ into at least considering to do the right thing. (Hey, at least the conservatives in Ireland still seem to know what shame is, which is more than can be said for those in other places. I’ll take my little wins where I can get them.)
Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu has suggested using nuclear weapons against Gaza.
Minister without Portfolio Gideon Sa’ar has suggested annexing parts of Gaza.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Intelligence Minister Gila Gamliel have separately advocated for resettling Palestinians outside of Gaza.
Gamliel’s ministry circulated a paper on expelling the population of Gaza into the Sinai desert.
Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter said that Israel is “rolling out the Gaza Nakba.”
Minister of Heritage Amichai Eliyahu has threatened to hand over Gaza’s land to former Israeli settlers and current Israeli soldiers.
It’s really hard to understand the Israeli state’s explicit policy as anything other than ethnic cleansing, at the mildest—of killing enough Palestinians and making life sufficiently unbearable for the survivors that they have to flee.
“‘I welcome the initiative of the voluntary emigration of Gaza Arabs to countries around the world,’ Smotrich said in a statement. ‘This is the right humanitarian solution for the residents of Gaza and the entire region after 75 years of refugees, poverty and danger.’”
– Israeli Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich
It’s not ethnic cleansing if it’s “voluntary emigration” after displacing 2 million people and killing over ten thousand, is it, you motherfucker?