"For three-and-a-half long hours on Jan. 29, the cellphone in 6-year old Hind Rajab’s hands was the closest thing she had to a lifeline. Alone in the back seat of a car outside a #Gaza City gas station, she was drifting in and out of consciousness, surrounded by bodies, as she told emergency dispatchers that #Israeli tanks were rumbling closer.
...Paramedics were on their way, the dispatchers kept telling her: Hold on."
"Humanitarian officials have warned that a system of coordination with Israel’s military, designed to protect their aid deliveries and lifesaving ambulance maneuvers, is broken. #Israeli strikes on a #WorldCentralKitchen convoy that killed seven aid workers in #Gaza on April 1 and stirred global outrage...
Hind’s case touched a nerve around the world... her recorded cries for help offered a glimpse into the terrors faced by civilians." #GiftArticle https://wapo.st/4aCoCqA
The Israeli army bombed Gazans in their tents in the "safe zone" where it told them to go. Eyewitnesses told Mondoweiss most of the dead were burned alive or decapitated and dismembered, many of them children.
4 Israeli #hostages have been #rescued alive from #Gaza, the Israeli military said Sat. #Israel’s forces rescued Noa Argamani, 26; Almog Meir Jan, 22; Andrey Kozlov, 27; & Shlomi Ziv, 41, from 2 locations in #Nuseirat in central Gaza, the #IDF said in a stmnt. ≥125 people were #killed in the operation.
All “are in good medical condition” & have been transferred to a hospital for further medical examinations, the IDF said.
There are dangerous signs Israel intends to escalate attacks on Lebanon and raise the stakes with Hezbollah. If it does, the risk of a regional war grows enormously. The only way out is to end the fighting in Gaza.
Families of Palestinian prisoners are kept in the dark about the fate of their loved ones at a time when Israeli prison authorities are creating conditions unfit for human life.
The unfolding genocide in Gaza is the latest chapter in Israel’s attempt to remove Palestinians from their land. All those calling for a ceasefire should join in the longer-term efforts to dismantle Israeli apartheid.
#ClimateDiary A short 🧵 on why #Gaza is, and should be, a concern for the climate movement. I know the vast majority of you lovely people on here do see the connection, but just in case some of you don't, I wanted to briefly outline this. For me, there are four separate, key reasons why Gaza is not a "distraction"; why all climate activists should speak out on it. #ClimateAction 1/5
The first reason is the simple fact that the bombardment of Gaza is a complete disaster also in terms of environmental destruction and CO2 emissions. This point is somewhat secondary for me (or rather, should not be paramount for anyone, given the suffering of the people in Gaza), but one that does also need to be made.
Western support for Israel is directly linked to the fossil fuel industry's decades long hold on Western governments. Please listen to this Breakdown podcast with Adam Hanieh, where he explains how the history of Palestine is bound up with the oil economy and Western imperialism, and why Palestine and the climate crisis demand mutual solidarity.
Unwavering Western support for Israel's onslaught on Gaza has made it crystal clear that our governments do not care about killing of 10,000s of people; about the wholesale destruction of a land. These are not the people to rely on for climate action! They will not do it! The climate movement needs to see this, and indeed many do: there is a real shift in tactics from trying to appeal to those in power to act, to active resistance. #Gaza is teaching us this.
Blinken arrives in Cairo on his eighth tour to the Middle East since the beginning of the war in the hopes of pushing for a ceasefire and prisoner exchange deal.
"The #protesters carried a banner that said “It is right to rebel, #Hillel go to hell,” with an inverted red triangle on it, which has come to signify support for #Hamas on social media because the terror group uses the symbol in videos of its attacks. The student demonstrators repeatedly formed inverted triangles with their hands, flashing the symbol at the counter-protesters. Another protester brandished a banner that had a #swastika inside a Star of David while shouting: “#Synagogue of Satan.”
The pro- #Palestinian, anti- #Israel demonstrators chanted “From #CUNY to #Gaza, globalize the #intifada,” and “Hillel, Hillel, what do you say? How many kids did you kill today?”
I get real sick of some of the purity-testing lefty bullshit on here and then I run into a buzzsaw of "you support GENOCIDE OF JEWS" comments elsewhere for supporting Biden's restraint of Netanyahu's government and it's like "oh yeah. It's all fucking terrible, now I remember. All the time. All of it."
I wasn't going to link to this here, but now I am, because what the commenter replied to isn't even primarily about Gaza, it's mostly about how you reward - or punish - politicians with the granting and removal of power.
Even so, just supporting Biden's restraint as an illustration was enough to get me accused of supporting genocide of Jews.
#GazaPier repaired, #US to resume #aid, #Pentagon says
US & #Israel reattached a floating pier to the #Gaza coastline Fri, ofcls said, as the #UnitedStates prepares to resume #humanitarian ops. Vice Adm Brad Cooper, a snr US military officer overseeing the mission, said deliveries of food & other badly needed supplies will begin “in coming days.” The first will include 500k pounds of aid, w/thousands of tons more in the pipeline behind it.
It might take a while before the US and Israel confirm this tragic information. I don’t see any reason for Hamas to lie about this since they have a strong interest in keeping hostages alive. #gaza
Israel continues to pound Gaza day after Nuseirat camp ‘massacre’ (www.aljazeera.com)
At least 274 killed, 698 injured in Israeli attack on Nuseirat refugee camp, many women, children among victims....