"For three-and-a-half long hours on Jan. 29, the cellphone in 6-year old Hind Rajab’s hands was the closest thing she had to a lifeline. Alone in the back seat of a car outside a #Gaza City gas station, she was drifting in and out of consciousness, surrounded by bodies, as she told emergency dispatchers that #Israeli tanks were rumbling closer.
...Paramedics were on their way, the dispatchers kept telling her: Hold on."
"Twelve days later, when a #Palestinian civil defense crew finally reached the area, they found Hind’s body in a car riddled with bullets...
The ambulance lay charred roughly 50 meters away (about 164 feet) from the car, its destruction consistent with the use of a round fired by #Israeli tanks, according to six munitions experts." #GiftArticle#GiftLink https://wapo.st/4aCoCqA
It's wonderful that the hostages were freed, but why was there no effort to protect civilians?
Largest hostage rescue op. since the latest war began, taking 4 to safety out of central Gaza amid the MIL’s heavy air & ground assault. At least 94 dead Palestinians,💔incl. children, were brought to local hospitals.
Israelis were jubilant as the army said it freed N Argamani, 25; A Meir Jan, 21; A Kozlov, 27; & S Ziv, 40 -all were well.
More grave violations against children were committed in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel than anywhere else in the world last year, according to a UN report due to be published this week.The report on children and armed conflict, which has been seen by the Guardian, verified more cases of war crimes against children in the...
The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor is urgently investigating allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Darfur city of al-Fashir which has become a new front between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF)....
Multiple news sites report that the Netanyahu govt, via its MIN of Diaspora Affairs, ran a multi-M$ AI-powered disinfo. campaign designed to generate support for their Gaza war among US elected officials & gen. public.
“The strike happened around 2 a.m. And from what we understand, there are between 35 & 45 people killed. Many of them are children.
We also remind that this being an UNRWA shelter, up to 6,000 people had sought refuge & safety inside that school”
While the crises in the Middle East are being escalated, #Turkey's foreign policy is busy meeting the #Taliban & making hypocritical statements about #Israel & #Palestine, actually attempting to take advantage of the situation & continue its genocidal politics against the #Kurds
Putin showed his cards with his absurd war to liberate Ukraine from nazis and then used his Nazi Wagner army to act as shock troops committing genocide of Ukrainians.
Putin's Kompromat owns #Netanyahu who created havoc at Al-Aqsa with Israeli extremists to prepare for #Turkey and #Iran trained and funded former & 2.0 ISIS fighters to rampage in Israel and attack freedom loving Kurds in Syria, Turkey and Iraq.
None of this is random. Putin needed the world to turn its gaze from #Ukraine. How's he doing?
#Netanyahu has escalated his attacks. He has no regard for Pres Biden, will continue the war through yearend, esp. if his wish comes true, that #TFG wins... The famine is worse, there's a lack of water, not enough #humanitarianaid, #warcrimes & #IHL violations are more frequent...
MSF: "MIL strikes continued last night in the Middle Area, Al-Aqsa hospital is barely coping with the influx of patients and dead people. “It’s a scene of devastation. This hospital is a sinking ship.”
UN: honored the 188 personnel who lost their lives in the line of duty in 2023.
135 were women & men who worked for UNRWA, killed during Israeli MIL ops. in Gaza since #Oct7. Many were killed along with their families & within the comms. they served.
“By far the highest number of our personnel killed in a single conflict or nat. disaster since the creation of the UN -Sec-Gen Guterres reiterated his call for “full accountability” for the deaths. https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/06/1150736
‘#Putin Will Do That For Me’: #Trump Drops Campaign Clip Claiming #Russia Will Release @WSJ Reporter Only If He’s Reelected
Trump released a campaign clip on Tues in which he doubled down on the wild claim that Russian President Vladimir Putin will release jailed WSJ reporter #EvanGershkovich if he’s reelected president.
“#EvanGershkovich, the reporter for The Wall Street Journal who is being held by #Russia, will be released almost immediately after the election,” #Trump said in the clip, adding:
“But definitely before I assume office, he will be home. He will be safe. Vladimir #Putin, president of Russia, will do that for me. And I don’t believe he’ll do it for anyone else. And we will be paying nothing. Biden likes to pay massive numbers. We will be paying nothing. Thank you very much.”
‘14 members of his family were killed in an airstrike on his home in Gaza City. When he & his parents & siblings moved to Rafah, they were bombed & buried beneath the rubble, & his mother was killed.’
‘Israel has killed at least 75 Palestinians in Gaza over the past 24 hours as Israeli forces attack the Bureij and al-Maghazi refugee camps in central Gaza’
Palestinian children suffering massive trauma, both physical and emotional as war drags on. Homes and schools destroyed, families killed, no hope… Is this what we’ve become? #Gaza#IsraelHamasWar#Palestine#War#Children#WarCrimes
🚨MSF: ‘Insane escalation of hostilities’ across the Gaza Strip over the last 24-48 hours: ‘apocalyptic’.
We need to have a #ceasefire.
MED teams at Al-Aqsa Hospital are currently trying to deal with a huge influx of patients, many of whom arrived with severe burns, shrapnel wounds, fractures, and other traumatic injuries.
~70 dead & 300 wounded -majority: women & children—have been brought to Al-Aqsa hospital since yesterday.
Journalists from the New York Times have conducted an investigation for many months and conducted over 110 interviews to trace a network of Russian politicians kidnapping Ukrainian children - a war crime.
This is very important for future criminal investigations of Russian war crimes.
Israel's disastrous, inhumane, & barbaric response to #Oct7 has led to an unfathomable amount of deaths, injuries, democide... to Palestinians trying to stay alive in Gaza. The ICC's decisions have been correct.
Amount of Israeli bombs dropped on Gaza surpasses that of WWII -Israel dropped 70,000 tons of bombs on Gaza Strip since last Oct, exceeding WWII bombings in Dresden, Hamburg, London combined.
Name another country where 508,000, over half-million people could die in a futile war and still, not only is the country not on the brink of revolt, people are pretty chill about the whole thing.
⚡️A poll released on May 30 by the Levada Center, a Russian independent polling organization, found that 71% of respondents believed Russia is "going in the right direction," and another 87% said they supported Russian President Vladimir Putin.
A lot of external and even emigre observers with a Moscowcentric view of Russia tend to underplay how hierarchically stratified Russian society is in class terms.
The bleeding out of the lower working class and rural poor often just evinces a shrug from other class groups.
Almost no facilities remain to treat the wounded in Gaza's southernmost city, as doctors fear a repeat of Israel's attacks on hospitals across the Strip.
Russian aggression is relentless. It leaves only devastation, ruined cities, and shattered lives. By destroying Ukrainian cities, Russia also seeks to erase their identity and spirit - everything that connects them to #Ukraine.
#ArmUkraineNOW to stop the evil and prevent its crimes from spreading across the continent. Nato into Ukraine! Stop Putin's genocide of Ukrainians.
Russian aggression is relentless. It leaves only devastation, ruined cities, and shattered lives. By destroying Ukrainian cities, Russia also seeks to erase their identity and spirit - everything that connects them to Ukraine. #ArmUkraineNOW to stop the evil and prevent its crimes from spreading across the continent. Nato into Ukraine! Stop Putin's genocide of Ukrainians.
‘Unprecedented scale’ of violations against children in Gaza, West Bank and Israel, UN report says (www.theguardian.com)
More grave violations against children were committed in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel than anywhere else in the world last year, according to a UN report due to be published this week.The report on children and armed conflict, which has been seen by the Guardian, verified more cases of war crimes against children in the...
ICC prosecutor warns of war crimes committed in Darfur's al-Fashir (www.theeastafrican.co.ke)
The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor is urgently investigating allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Darfur city of al-Fashir which has become a new front between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF)....