“I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we will act accordingly.”
– Yoav Gallant, Israel Defense Minister
You won’t have to interrogate them afterward. They’re explicit about the war crimes they’re planning to commit.
“Israel’s military has warned the United Nations that all residents in northern Gaza must relocate to southern Gaza within 24 hours. The U.N. says it’s impossible to safely move more than a million people in that amount of time without devastating humanitarian consequences…The entire territory is under full Israeli siege, with no one allowed out and no fuel, food or even water allowed in.”
The Onion writing editorials not one publication in USA's mainstream media would about their #journalism ethics and how they report about #Israel and #Palestine because they would have to reckon with what does constitute as #genocide
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“We will use this as a teachable moment and redouble our efforts to conceal the anguish of all marginalized and oppressed peoples going forward.” At press time, the Times issued a retraction for incorrectly identifying Palestinians as “human beings.”
@blogdiva It is actually a very serious message/editorial wrapped in Onion's typical wrapping paper. Note that the BBC has provided more balanced reporting on the atrocities of war on both sides. Until anger against Israel is solved via peace deal and patience so a new generation can grow up without anger, destroying one terrorist group will always result in a new one born and starting more attacks against Israel. When Yasser Arafat mellowed from terrorist to politician, new group emerged.
Israel-Hamas War
Panic Grips Gaza as Israel Calls for 1.1 Million People to Evacuate
The Israeli military demanded that Palestinians in northern Gaza move to the south as its troops mass on the border. The U.N. warned that the forced relocation would have “devastating humanitarian consequences.”
Stunning State Department Memo Warns Diplomats: No Gaza 'De-Escalation' Talk
As Israel escalates its offensive, U.S. diplomats are being discouraged from publicly using three phrases that would urge calm.
In messages circulated on Friday, State Department staff wrote that high-level officials do not want press materials to include three specific phrases: “de-escalation/ceasefire,” “end to violence/bloodshed” and “restoring calm.”
'We Must Halt This': US Progressives, Humanitarians Decry Israel's Evacuation Order
"The mass expulsion of over 1 million people in a day is ethnic cleansing," said U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar. "We must use all diplomatic tools to stop this."
Progressive members of the U.S. Congress joined humanitarian groups and the United Nations on Friday in condemning Israel's 24-hour evacuation order for the entire population of the northern Gaza Strip
"Israel’s president Isaac Herzog accused Palestinians in Gaza of being collectively responsible for the attack. “It’s not true this rhetoric about civilians [being] not aware, not involved. It’s absolutely not true,” he said on Friday. “They could have risen up, they could have fought against that evil regime which took over Gaza in a coup d’état.”
Genocide occurs in every time period and on every continent. Using the 1948 U.N. definition of genocide as its departure point, this book examines the main episodes in the history of genocide from the beginning of human history to the present.
Israeli apartheid, blockades, never-ending war of attrition, dispossession, in short, genocide must end. Now.
Israel-Hamas war: Hamas tells people to stay put after Israeli military tells Gaza City residents to evacuate
UN spokesperson says evacuation order affects 1.1 million people and will spark ‘devastating humanitarian consequences’, amid expectations of Israeli ground assault
@GhostOnTheHalfShell
A colonial-settler project, essentially little different from the genocide against Native Americans or the apartheid regime in South Africa. One difference is that you had a population of oppressed people in Europe, a section of whose elites opted to dispossess another people instead of confronting the European ruling classes. That was Herzl's Zionist project. And it further led Zionist leaders to reach agreements with the Nazis, many of whose attributes they emulate today.
Letter from the Editor: We will likely soon see this genocidal impulse spread, as the Israeli government hands out automatic weapons to West Bank settlers, many of whom were already armed eliminationists. In this way, Jewish grief is routed back into the violence of a merciless system of Palestinian subjugation that reigns from the river to the sea.
Nearly 1,800 Palestinians killed, 6,400 injured in Gaza, say health officials
The Palestinian Ministry of Health - Gaza reported in a statement the ‘martyrdom of 1,799 citizens including 583 children and 351 women’, adding that nearly 7,000 people have been wounded.
Humza Yousaf: "This is Elizabeth El-Nakla. She is my mother-in-law. A retired nurse from Dundee, Scotland. She, like the vast majority of people in Gaza, has nothing to do with Hamas. She has been told to leave Gaza but, like the rest of the population, is trapped with nowhere to go."
Do watch it if you can bear to.