“The Spanish prime minister said the footage from Gaza of people dying, especially boys and girls, was "not acceptable" and he repeated his belief that a solution to the crisis required "recognition of the Palestinian state". He said it was in Europe's interest to address "out of moral conviction. Friendly countries also have to tell each other the truth," he insisted.“
Sanchez is right, and is justified in calling out Israel's war actions. I am proud to be a Spaniard!
Sánchez tiene razón y está justificado al denunciar las acciones bélicas de Israel. Yo soy orgulloso de ser español!
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.
The people of #Israel have been on the streets for over a year, double digit percentages of the population, week after week, demanding Netanyahu's resignation and raging against his #Gaza policy, but you wouldn't know it by looking at US media. All we get to see is how the war is bad for Biden.
UN Special Rapporteur Michael Fakhri says Israel’s intentional starvation of Gaza is unprecedented. “We’ve never seen a civilian population made to go hungry so completely and so quickly,” he tells Mondoweiss. “Never in modern history.”
86 years ago, sirens sounded in Guernica as the Nazis carpet-bombed civilians. Today, they sound again for the Palestinian people in Gaza being slaughtered by Israel.
Amazing how there’s no media coverage of this to speak of in the West although even Times of Israel covered Guernica’s 80th anniversary.
Today in Labor History March 16, 2003: Israeli Defense Forces murdered American activist Rachel Corrie in Rafah by running over her with a bulldozer. She had been defending a Palestinian home that the IDF was trying to demolish as part of their collective punishment of the Palestinian people.
"Watching African women & men fighting to save humanity n the international legal system against the ruthless attacks supported/enabled by most of the West will remain one of the defining images of our time. This will make history whatever happens."
Francesca Albanese UN Special Rapporteur #ICJ#Palestine#Israel
Thousands of miles away from the brutality of war in Gaza, Tareq Hamoud and his wife Manal are in disbelief over the loss of three generations of their family.
“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….”
The biggest “pro-Israel” lobby isn’t AIPAC, it’s Hager’s Christians United for Israel, which counts more white Evangelical members—10 million—than there are Jews in the US.
Given that AIPAC has a lot of Evangelical support, and American Jews prioritize Israel near the bottom of their list of issues, it’d be nice if people stopped conflating Diaspora Jews with #Israel. #judaism
One of the bakeries that Israel bombed in Nuseirat refugee camp had just received a shipment of flour from UNRWA meant to cover the food needs of the entire camp. Israel waited to bomb it once all the flour was unloaded.
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.”
“Israel is killing people based on being in the same Whatsapp group as a suspected militant. Where are they getting this data? Is WhatsApp sharing it?”
I feel we have to make this relevant to USians given how low the exchange rate of Palestinian lives to the US Dollar is: Think of it this way, this probably means your credit score is also affected by the people in your WhatsApp groups.
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.
Remember when the Israeli government and a whole bunch of weirdos were adjusting the death toll from 10/7 to the US population and claiming that Israel had suffered TEN 9/11s!
Not hearing much of that math now that 11,000 Gazans have been killed. (That's five hundred 9/11s, if you're still counting like that.)
Berlin police raided and cut off electricity to the Palestinian Congress conference before banning the three-day event. Organizers say Germany’s antidemocratic authoritarian response to Palestine activism is growing by the day.
Folks, I’m going to ask you to please consider that over 31,000 people – including over 13,000 children – have already been murdered by Israel in the last handful of months before stating that the person from your own country that was just murdered by Israel is your red line or the point where you think Israel’s genocide has finally gone too far. I really need you to understand that Palestinians are people too.
“I visited a school, hosting thousands of displaced persons,” Lazzarini continued. “The place was overcrowded. The level of distress and the unsanitary living conditions were beyond comprehension. Everyone was asking for water and food. Instead of being at school to learn, children were asking for a sip of water and a loaf...
Palestinian American family mourns 42 relatives killed in a single day in Gaza | CNN (www.cnn.com)
Thousands of miles away from the brutality of war in Gaza, Tareq Hamoud and his wife Manal are in disbelief over the loss of three generations of their family.
Gaza 'disconnected from the planet' - but messages of fear trickle out (www.bbc.com)
A connectivity blackout means people cannot contact friends, family or even ambulances to help the injured.
UN describes Gaza as ‘scene of death and destruction’ amid food, water challenges (thehill.com)
“I visited a school, hosting thousands of displaced persons,” Lazzarini continued. “The place was overcrowded. The level of distress and the unsanitary living conditions were beyond comprehension. Everyone was asking for water and food. Instead of being at school to learn, children were asking for a sip of water and a loaf...