Två tredjedelar av dem uppges vara kvinnor och barn. Det är svindlande.
Och ändå har de som säger att det hade kunnat vara många fler dödsoffer rätt. Men de säger det men någon slags övertygelse om att det betyder att Israel inte dödar civila, att den här siffran skulle kunna vara mycket högre om de faktiskt ville göra det.
Tänker man så har man faktiskt inte förstått någonting.
Det som sker runt omkring är själva kärnan i kriget, utrensningen. Det handlar inte bara om antalet döda.
Att driva människor till svält, att skrämma och ständigt leka med dem, säga: evakuera hit, nej, jag bara skojar, åk dit istället!
Att med precision driva människor till desperation, få dem att offra allt för lite mjöl och sen säga: kolla, djur.
Att svälta ut dem och sen spela oskyldig.
Det finns ingen större ondska.
Det skulle väl kanske vara att se att det händer men ändå inte våga sätta ord på det: massaker, folkmord, terror.
Det skulle väl kanske vara att låta det pågå. Titta på filmen på människorna i matkön och tänka: Kolla, de beter sig som djur! De trampar på varandra och slåss om mat. Barbarer!"
"At least 80 people were killed, and 400 people were wounded. At the same time. For the same reason. The same place.
For those who don't know, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians of Gaza are facing a forced starvation in the north of Gaza strip. They're starving to death. And the only way they can get food, is to wait for food.
So, some aid trucks enter from the south to the north of Gaza, via Rashid street, on Gaza beach. And that's why--and because the amount of the aid trucks entering is very limited, maybe once or twice a month--people, fathers and brothers, started to sleep in the streets, for weeks now. They're waiting for any aid trucks at least enter during the night, so they can get some flour to their family.
So tonight, at four A.M., it happened. Some flour bags entered the north of Gaza strip and people started running to get that flour, to get that food for their families.
So the Israeli tanks opened fire on them, shooting and killing more than 80 people, wounding more than 300-400 people.
Their blood was mixed with the flour. The mothers and sisters, the family, will never bake that flour, will never bake that bread, they will never get back to their homes; they said good-bye to the family to get some food, and they will never be back with that food, again.
They were killed. Israel is using the starvation weapon against us. Israel is using the starvation weapon against the north of Gaza strip. To force people to leave, to evacuate, to empty the north. They are starving people, they are killing them when they succeed to get some food.
Israel is preventing any food from entering the north of Gaza strip, and if it entered like that, truck for example, what happened yesterday; they start shooting the people. It's not the first time for people to be killed while taking the aid. But that time the number of people that were killed was really great. Like 80 families, 80 families lost the men of the family, who are trying to get some food. This is insane. This is... This cannot be normal.
The starvation weapon is used against us. Israel is still, until now, using the starvation weapon against Palestinians in the north of Gaza strip.
People do not have anything to do; this is not nothing but the 2024 holocaust. This is a holocaust. This is a real genocide."
"The starvation weapon is used for the first time in history against us! #FeedNorthGaza#CeaseFire"
I've been wanting to do something... less disastrous, for a while, less horrible. Something that, while still bringing up the plight of Palestine, can spark some joy. Then, on the 135:th day of the Israeli genocide on the Palestinian people, Bisan flew a kite. And it was beautiful.
"Simply put, we are people who love life" /Bisan Owda
I've been wanting to do something... less disastrous, for a while, less horrible. Something that, while still bringing up the plight of Palestine, can spark some joy. Then, on the 135:th day of the Israeli genocide on the Palestinian people, Bisan flew a kite. And it was beautiful.
"Simply put, we are people who love life" /Bisan Owda
I guess now's where the Global North might actually start listening; when a white person, a soldier, self-immolates because he does not want to be a part of the genocide.
At least that's how it usually goes; which Aaron Bushnell was very aware of—hence his chosen form of extreme protest.
He was 25. Right about the age, even a bit older, of the people so many of us are following live from Palestine. 25.
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New evidence emerges of Israel killing its own civilians.
'“According to a member of the community security squad, Atun and the soldier got into a fight, and the soldier shot Atun many times, mistaking him for a terrorist,” Haaretz says. “According to Tamar, Ofek was shot dead without any prior struggle.”
Tamar was herself then shot in the stomach by Israeli soldiers, but lived to tell the tale.'