According to the UN, the number of Palestinian #refugees, who were expelled from Palestinian villages and cities during the #Nakba to Gaza, is approximately 1.4 million out of a total population of over 2 million, constituting two-thirds of the population in the besieged enclave, which has been suffering a new Israeli Nakba for the past seven months.
Rajha Abu Khalifa is one of many refugees in Gaza, who are older than Israel.
The bar for hospitals to lose protected status under international law is set very high. Those conditions were not met for any of the 36 hospitals in Gaza that Israel destroyed.
Again, about 800,000 people, half of #Rafah's population, are forced to flee due to the Israeli invasion.
The claim that civilians in Gaza can go to safe areas is false
Humanitarian organizations no longer have resources such as food and essential items to prepare
The time has come to agree on a ceasefire and any further escalation will cause more suffering to civilians.
Once again, the issue is portrayed as a bunch of extremists who took over Israel. This is not untrue, but it hides the fact that before these extremists were anywhere near power, Israel was already systematically dispossessing, colonizing, and brutalizing Palestinians.
Every Israeli I know hates Netanyahu, Israel's messianic far right, settlements, and settlers. And I mean HATES them.
But Israeli society is still overwhelmingly supportive of the war.
Generation Z forced the world to stop and respond to the Israeli genocide in Gaza. In return, they are being punished by the same system implicated in the killing.
I am not going to quote from this article the details of the torture meted out to Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons. However, the fish rots from the head.
"Lawyers and prisoners’ rights groups draw a direct line between the abuse of Palestinians detained within the Israeli prison system and far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who oversees it and handpicked its new acting head Kobi Yaakobi for his tough stance"
CBC has whitewashed Israel’s crimes in Gaza. I saw it firsthand
Working for five years as a producer at the public broadcaster, I witnessed the double standards and discrimination in its coverage of Palestine—and experienced directly how CBC disciplines those who speak out
'Show me one thing we have succeeded in': Ben-Barak on war on Gaza
"Talking to the Israeli Army Radio, Ben-Barak, who is the former deputy director of the Mossad and director general of the Ministry of Intelligence Services and the Ministry of Strategic Affairs, concluded that the "war in Gaza is aimless," and the entity is "clearly losing it.""
Israel is in a bind, both militarily and politically, on various fronts.
🐣 ATTN: People with babies will know Ms. Rachel from #YouTube, & the genre of videos that show when she comes on how babies smile. She is the baby whisperer and a beautiful human. Well I opened my phone yesterday to see Ms. Rachel CRYING because after she launched a cameo fundraiser for the babies of #Palestine, #Congo, and #Ukraine Zionists have been bullying her so bad she was in tears!!! The woman who makes babies smile! They have no bottom! Come for Miss Rachel and we will find you!
A Pew poll shows that when it comes to Israel, American Jews are much closer to white evangelicals than they are to Democratic Party numbers. Democrats want to cut off military aid. By and large, Jews don’t.
A couple of posts to introduce a really good broadcast from the Electronic Intifada. Link on the second post.
Israel is trying to continue a war of attrition with the Palestinian resistance, a war that they are losing. If you watch the resistance videos (X, Youtube), you'll see a confident armed, experienced resistance that is far from being annihilated as the IOF would like you to think.
The IOF kills civilians, but they’re no good at fighting ...
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Joe Biden's claim that Hamas’s October 7 attacks were “driven by ancient desire to wipe out the Jewish people" is ahistorical and dangerous. In fact, Jewish history shows that antisemitism is a Western problem.
A recent media flurry over the number of Palestinians killed in Gaza amounts to nothing more than genocide denial. This campaign to discredit the Gaza health ministry is simply a strategy to allow the Gaza genocide to continue.
Aujourd'hui, 18 mai.
Grande manifestation en soutien du peuple palestinien
17h15: rdv devant la basilique Notre-Dame, Genève.
(= Pas contre Israël, mais contre son action militaire, d'occupation de Gaza et en Cisjordanie!) #Genève, #manifestation#palestine
"A handful of powerful businessmen pushed New York City Mayor Eric Adams to use police to crack down on pro-Palestinian student protesters at #Columbia University, donating to the politician and offering to pay for private investigators to help break up the demonstrations, based on leaked WhatsApp conversations"