Direct testimony from aid worker in Gaza -
“The situation on the ground is dire. Everyone here is quite afraid. To say that there’s not an incursion in Rafah right now is patently false.”
“People are really anxious. Patients are worried about where they’re going to be able to access healthcare, because as the incursion becomes closer and the threat of the Israeli army approaching the hospitals becomes more real, patients are afraid to go to the hospitals”
“Twenty years of blockade in the Gaza Strip means that the healthcare sector was already low-resourced. This is exacerbated by this depraved war that Palestinians have been living through for the past seven months.”
“You’re seeing people moving with things in hand, because they just have no other way of shifting from where they are into a supposed safe zone, because, let’s make it very clear, there is no safe zone in Gaza. Every single area of Gaza is subject to attack.“
We strongly denounce Sciences Po's ambiguous stance on the ongoing genocide in Gaza and condemn the university's repression of students calling on the administration to take a principled stance against apartheid and genocide.
Police officers remove a pro-Palestinian protester outside the University of Amsterdam during a protest in #Amsterdam, Netherlands. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw
Aaah for a minute I thought Israel exploited water and grabbed land in the West Bank, relied on tens of thousands of cheap laborers, tested weapons & surveillance systems before exporting them, and sold goods to millions of Palestinians.
Ruba's story
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"We are today on day 215 of the war, and the attacks do not stop, the situation is heading towards genocide, dispersal, and displacement. We have no shelter, and everything we had has been bombed, and there are no words to describe the magnitude of the collapse we are suffering and the suffering we are going through. We are in danger, and at any moment we may lose our lives."
Ruba's story
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"We ventured out amidst growing tension, carrying a faint hope that we would return to our homes within two or three days, but reality was harsher than we imagined.
On our way, civilian evacuees were subjected to targeted attacks, and innocent victims fell everywhere. We reached Rafah, a city where we knew no one. We began to build our tents amidst the sand and stones, in a desperate attempt to create a temporary shelter..."
"The story began suddenly; we woke up to the sound of deafening rockets and violent explosions shaking the ground. These loud screams haven't stopped until now, and fear ran deep within us with every new roar.
Then came the shocking news: we had to leave our homes immediately and evacuate south towards Rafah. The orders were clear; everything in the north was vulnerable to bombing and invasion."
76 universities in #Spain decided to sever cooperation relations with #Israeli#universities and research centers and linked the return of cooperation to the occupation universities’ condemnation of the #occupation army’s invasion of the #Gaza Strip.
“The closure of the crossings means no fuel. It means no trucks, no generators, no water, no electricity and no movement of people or goods. It means no aid.”
“Civilians in Gaza are being starved and killed and we are prevented from helping them. This is Gaza today even after seven months of horrors.”
Martin Griffiths, the UN’s emergency relief coordinator
‘Five hundred twenty bodies have been uncovered across three Gaza Strip hospitals in recent weeks after attacks and sieges by the Israeli military. Attacking hospitals is a war crime.’
TikTok CEO #ShouZiChew has said the company will take the fight against the new law to the courts, but some experts believe that for the #US#SupremeCourt, national security considerations could outweigh #FreeSpeech protection.
A senior Israeli official says that the latest round of indirect negotiations in #Cairo to halt hostilities in #Gaza had ended and Israel would proceed with its operation in #Rafah and other parts of the #GazaStrip as planned