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« The NAACP urged President Joe Biden to 'indefinitely' halt all weapons deliveries to Israel and pressure the US ally to end its war in the Gaza Strip, sending a reminder that his support for Israel could hurt him among Black voters in November's election. »
« … the good people of this country want a ceasefire, and they want the arms trade to Israel to come to an end… the good people of this country want peace … »
« Pope Francis called on the international community to act for an end to the fighting in Gaza during his speech on Sunday in the Vatican City. »
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« Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares says his country will join South Africa’s genocide case before the International Court of Justice against Israel’s actions in Gaza. »
“The strike happened around 2 a.m. And from what we understand, there are between 35 & 45 people killed. Many of them are children.
We also remind that this being an UNRWA shelter, up to 6,000 people had sought refuge & safety inside that school”
“We’ve been hearing about precision strikes and about reports that some of the UNRWA or U.N. installations have been used by Palestinian armed groups. We hear about this every time a strike kills scores of civilians in or near our buildings.”
“Since the beginning of this war, Gazans have been issued what the Israeli government calls evacuation orders. In reality, these are orders for forced displacement.”
“A ceasefire is what everyone in Gaza needs right now, just to take a breath and have some respite. But in addition to the ceasefire, there has to be a much increased flow of humanitarian assistance going in”
‘We turn now to that new film, that explores the struggle of the Palestinian people under Israeli occupation through themes of loss, trauma and the fight for justice. It’s called Where Olive Trees Weep.’
“And that was my first experience of being held down and attacked by the soldiers. And I was on the floor, and the cameras were flashing. And they were beating me with sticks on my knees, trying to break my knees… And I was only 16”
“this whole Western theory about balanced reporting. If you’re being balanced in a situation of a genocide, then you’re complicit in genocide. There’s no white and black in this.”
‘14 members of his family were killed in an airstrike on his home in Gaza City. When he & his parents & siblings moved to Rafah, they were bombed & buried beneath the rubble, & his mother was killed.’
‘Israel has killed at least 75 Palestinians in Gaza over the past 24 hours as Israeli forces attack the Bureij and al-Maghazi refugee camps in central Gaza’
Biden scrambles to make concessions as 'Israel' collapses from within
"Though Biden said “Israel” had “devastated” Hamas forces over the last 8 months, the US President’s haste and urgency in urging a ceasefire was motivated by the reality of the opposite"
What follows is a scathing analysis of where Israel is at.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Abu Hamza: "...it is “the horror of attrition that will drive the enemy out of Gaza.”"
🚨MSF: ‘Insane escalation of hostilities’ across the Gaza Strip over the last 24-48 hours: ‘apocalyptic’.
We need to have a #ceasefire.
MED teams at Al-Aqsa Hospital are currently trying to deal with a huge influx of patients, many of whom arrived with severe burns, shrapnel wounds, fractures, and other traumatic injuries.
~70 dead & 300 wounded -majority: women & children—have been brought to Al-Aqsa hospital since yesterday.
“My husband's siblings and their children now need urgent medical care. In order to achieve this, they need to leave the Gaza Strip for treatment, including the fitting of prosthetic limbs for my brother-in-law.”