World Central Kitchen says it has 276 trucks with eight million meals ready and will resume distributing food in Gaza nearly a month after seven workers were killed in an Israeli airstrike. "Ultimately, we decided we must keep feeding," the charity said on Sunday. BBC News reports: https://flip.it/moViEt #News#WorldNews#Israel#Gaza#Hamas#Palestine
I am begging you all once more to understand - the point of bringing up the decades long and systematic abuse, apartheid, and Occupation by the Israeli government of Palestinians ISN'T to "excuse" Hamas. It's to point out that it will be IMPOSSIBLE to build a lasting peace even IF Hamas is removed, as long the deliberate and ongoing IDF and Occupation violence continues.
Jews aren't allowed to risk their lives to follow Jewish law. If the choice is eat non-kosher or starve, you eat. If the choice is violate the Sabbath or a sick person can't get medical care, you violate the Sabbath.
There are only 3 commandments you're not allowed to break to save your own life. One of them is murder: you can't kill an innocent person to save yourself.
Think about this when you hear #Israel saying that killing all those noncombatants is the only way to take out #Hamas. #Gaza
Poll finds 86% of Israeli Jews "said the surprise attack from Gaza is a failure of the country's leadership" and 56% think Bibi should resign after the conflict ends.
Guessing that's not quite the rally-around-the-flag effect he was hoping for.
Israel has begun pumping seawater into underground tunnels in Gaza, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.
“The negative impact on groundwater quality would last for several generations, depending on the amount that infiltrates into the subsurface"
Prof Eilon Adar of the Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research at Ben-Gurion University
Another tactic of genocide and ethnic cleansing. Poison the wells.
“Northern #Gaza is being razed to the ground, but the entire Strip is also being bombed. There is no #safe place… for #civilians to take shelter. People are being killed & forcibly displaced from their homes, & water & fuel are running dangerously low. Atrocities are being committed on a scale never before seen….”
Anderson Cooper had on a former Israeli intel chief who said, "The noncombatant population in the Gaza strip is really a nonexistent term because all of the Gazans voted for Hamas, and...most of the population in the Gaza strip are Hamas."
Cooper didn't push back.
Again, #Hamas won an election with 44.5% of the vote 17 years ago, before around half of the population of #Gaza were born, and then seized complete power in a bloody civil war with Fatah. #israel#media
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas … This is part of our strategy.”
I would like to remind everyone saying Netanyahu needs to get rid of Hamas, (hence the killing in Gaza), that Netanyahu has been propping up Hamas for YEARS and is still opposed to a functional government in Gaza post-Nakba II. If you're angry that the Palestinians haven't got rid of Hamas, you need to put some of the blame on Netanyahu.
I wonder how different the conversation around this week's attacks might be if people who don't follow ME politics knew that #Israel helped establish and funded #Hamas to be a religious fundie counterweight to the more liberal and secular Fatah before realizing they fucked up and trying to crush them.
Jewish Voice for Peace statement on #Israel vs. #Hamas: "There is only one way to end violence: to address its root cause, 75 years of Israeli military occupation and apartheid. We must end U.S. complicity in this systemic oppression." https://www.commondreams.org/news/jvp-congress-gaza
Killing children anywhere is wrong. Killing civilians is wrong. Taking civilians hostage is wrong. Attacking music festivals is wrong. Shutting off food and water to millions of people is wrong. Apartheid is wrong
Apparently according to right-wingers this statement makes me (Ukrainian Jewish ancestry) an antisemite.
There is not one sentence in this article that I disagree with. Once again, Thunberg shows us how it's done.
"The horrific murders of Israeli civilians by Hamas cannot in any way legitimise Israel’s ongoing war crimes. Genocide is not self-defence, nor is it in any way a proportionate response"
😳 “#Israel officials obtained #Hamas battle plan for Oct 7 terrorist attack more than a year before it happened, documents, emails and interviews show. But Israeli military & intel officials dismissed the plan as aspirational, considering it too difficult for Hamas to carry out.
The approx 40-page doc, which Israeli authorities code-named “Jericho Wall,” outlined, point by point, exactly the kind of devastating invasion that led to the deaths of about 1,200 people”
This is such an important article. I hope people read it.
There is a ceasefire proposal in front of Hamas, one drafted by Arab nations, and Hamas is rejecting it. It would rather see the war continue and the Gazans hurt or killed, rather than provide a reprieve.
Maybe that's because Hamas leadership isn't in Gaza. They live elsewhere, in other countries far away from the fighting, and yet on the ground, Hamas runs Gaza.
What Israel should or should not do, or how it should conduct the war is absolutely a question on the table, but fundamentally a ceasefire must be two ways, a ceasefire from both sides, and if Hamas does not accept one for the sake of the Palestinian people, then it's they should should be attacked by the media.
Gaza must be freed from Hamas so the people there can live full lives, and for the possibility of peace.
Israel drove suitcases stuffed with cash into Gaza to keep Hamas in power (www.businessinsider.com)
Israeli officials are facing backlash after years of Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu quietly allowing Hamas to remain in power....
IDF evidence so far falls well short of al-Shifa hospital being Hamas HQ (www.theguardian.com)
Footage to date fails to prove Gaza complex was nerve centre for attacks on Israel, as military had claimed