And the pushback.... to rejoin the genocide train.
Sickening but not surprising!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8rg0xvdm8po
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And the pushback.... to rejoin the genocide train.
Sickening but not surprising!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8rg0xvdm8po
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...atima-hassouna
As a young photojournalist living in Gaza, Fatima Hassouna knew that death was always at her doorstep. As she spent the past 18 months of war documenting airstrikes, the demolition of her home, the endless displacement and the killing of 11 family members, all she demanded was that she not be allowed to go quietly.
“If I die, I want a loud death,” Hassouna wrote on social media. “I don’t want to be just breaking news, or a number in a group, I want a death that the world will hear, an impact that will remain through time, and a timeless image that cannot be buried by time or place.”
On Wednesday, just days before her wedding, 25-year-old Hassouna was killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit her home in northern Gaza. Ten members of her family, including her pregnant sister, were also killed.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...i-aid-blockade
Gaza has been pushed to new depths of despair, civilians, medics and humanitarian workers say, by the unprecedented seven-week-long Israeli military blockade that has cut off all aid to the strip.
The siege has left the Palestinian territory facing conditions unmatched in severity since the beginning of the war as residents grapple with sweeping new evacuation orders, the renewed bombing of civilian infrastructure such as hospitals, and the exhaustion of food, fuel for generators and medical supplies.
Israel unilaterally abandoned a two-month ceasefire with Palestinian militant group Hamas on 2 March, cutting off vital supplies. Just over two weeks later, it resumed large-scale bombing and redeployed ground troops withdrawn during the truce.
Since then, political figures and security officials have repeatedly vowed that aid deliveries will not resume until Hamas releases the remaining hostages seized during the 7 October 2023 attacks that ignited the conflict. Israel’s government has framed the new siege as a security measure and has repeatedly denied using starvation as a weapon, which would constitute a war crime.
The blockade is now entering its eighth week, making it the longest continuous total siege the strip has faced to date in the 18-month war.
Firmly supported by the US, its most important ally under Donald Trump, Israel appears confident that it can maintain the siege with little international pushback.
It is also moving ahead with large-scale seizures of Palestinian land for security buffer zones, and plans to shift control of aid delivery to the army and private contractors, exacerbating fears in Gaza that Israel intends to maintain boots on the ground in the territory long-term and permanently displace its residents.
A lame PR exercise to minimise the damage until the world moves on and forgets.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
This was an atrocity.
Other, much more credible evidence, contradicts the IDF revised story.
If the phones hadn’t been found in the mass grave there wouldn’t even have been this mealy mouthed partial admission.
Arrests? Prosecutions? No - just one officer removed from post. That is normally code for re-deployed with no other consequences.
This was an atrocity.
Mistakes .....?Quote:
Originally Posted by jon1959
Well basically that's nonsense , it was execution of innocent people
Nothing would have been said if they weren't sussed out
And of course now it has been exposed....nothing will be done
And people wonder why hamas exist and still have support ?
If that had happened to our loved ones we would be supporting resistance of some kind too
Failure ? That's so pathetic it's almost laughableQuote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
It's a massacre by the IDF
Of innocent medical staff
Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp317zx3r93o
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has described an Israeli military report into a deadly attack on its paramedics as "full of lies".
The Israeli military said in its report that "professional failures" led to the killing of the 15 workers in Gaza. It dismissed the deputy commander of the unit involved.
A spokeswoman for the PRCS said the report was "invalid" as it "justifies and shifts the responsibility to a personal error in the field command when the truth is quite different".
There will never be an end to this 💔Quote:
Originally Posted by jon1959
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr4n90g6v9qo
I was 11 at the time of the Six Day War and my childishly simplistic view at the time was that Israel were the "goodies" abd the Arabs "the baddies". This had something to do with my looking in an Atlas and seeing the size of Israel compared to their enemies, but it would also have been influenced by the way the War was reported and, as I recall, it was more pro Israel than the reporting we see today. I think many of the attitudes which drive the "classical" USA/Israel relationship were formed around the time of the Six Days War and I'm hopeful that things might look a lot different in fifteen to twenty years time - that's hardly going to do Gaza any good though given what Israel appearing to be preparing to do now.
I hope they at least erect a huge plaque with the names of the many many innocents who have needlessly been slaughtered to facilitate the creation of the future Gaza Riviera project.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org...cles-for-you_1
The UK lawyer’s group that has been a key apologist for the genocide in Gaza is now suggesting that mass starvation may be a positive thing - a cure for obesity! It is beyond sickening.
That has to be a jokeQuote:
Originally Posted by jon1959
Words fail me.Quote:
Originally Posted by jon1959
A small story, but good to see Ben Cohen still making a noise about the Gaza genocide.
https://www.thecanary.co/global/worl...dmarsdn8syijsb
Long, long overdue signs that some western democracies are beginning to grow a pair over Gaza.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn9j1052p2yo
In the past 10 weeks of the latest Israeli blockade of food and medicines, 57 Palestinian children have starved to death. Hundreds more have been killed by being burned, crushed or dismembered by the IDF (a seriously misnamed terror organisation).
https://youtu.be/EdCp_HO5dEY?si=HrLYZi6RhnQGQrf2
Strange that the tick boxers (aka the Independent thinkers) who have so much to say for themselves about Ukraine, have stayed so quiet about the Gaza situation. The last post I could find from one of them was four months ago in which Trump was credited with the first ceasefire to Biden’s exclusion.
I think Netanyahu and his circle are impervious to outside criticism now. Along with the statement yesterday from Britain, France and Canada. There's also some pretty strong criticism from within Israel from the likes of olmert, barak and Yair Golan amongst others. Bibi has lost the plot and appears to be being led by the real scumbags on the extreme far right, he needs to go.
In other news, Looks like the Lebanese are trying to disarm the Palestinian terror groups in the camps in Beirut. Can't see that going well!
Starmer and Lammy sound genuinely angry at Israel
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgnn6ed32eo
The question is - why has it taken so long? The atrocities have been going on for 18 months or more.
I've been wondering the same.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ealth-minister
Twenty-nine children and elderly people have died from starvation in Gaza in the last two days, the Palestinian Authority health minister has said , as Israeli strikes killed at least 52 people since dawn amid a renewed military offensive across the territory.
https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org...cles-for-you_1
We conclude that Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, including mass killing, arbitrary detention and torture, meets the legal threshold for the term
by Sandra L Babcock, Susan M Akram, Thomas Becker and James Cavallaro, The Guardian
We are university professors and human rights advocates who teach and write about Palestine and Israel. We have collectively taught thousands of classes on human rights law, international law and government repression. We have defended death row prisoners in Malawi, documented forced labor in Brazil, helped women seeking gender equality in Burma, chronicled the struggle of the Sahrawi people for self-determination in Western Sahara, and advocated on behalf of families of disappeared immigrants in the United States. As human rights defenders, our job is to expose government abuses of power where we find them. And that includes Israel.
It has never been easy for scholars in the United States to publicly criticize Israel. Now, anyone who does so risks professional suicide. The Trump administration deliberately conflates criticism of the government of Israel with antisemitism and has pressured universities to discipline students and fire faculty who express concern over the slaughter of Palestinians. This has chilled speech on our campuses and is a direct assault on academic freedom. It is also an attempt to stamp out all opposition to US foreign policy with respect to Israel.
Israel has now killed more than 52,000 Palestinians in its attack on Gaza, an estimated 15,000 of whom are children. In 2024, we co-authored a report concluding that Israel’s actions met the international definition of genocide. On Thursday, we issued a second report finding that Israel has also engaged in acts of apartheid against the Palestinian population.
While most people associate apartheid with South Africa, the definition of apartheid – considered a crime against humanity – encompasses inhuman acts of racial subjugation and systematic oppression anywhere in the world. We concluded that Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, which includes mass killing, arbitrary detention, torture, and the imposition of a legal regime that provides far less due process than that provided to Israelis living in the same territory, meets the legal threshold of apartheid as defined by the 1973 United Nations International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid.
We are not the first to reach this conclusion. Last year, the international court of justice determined that Israel is violating the international prohibition on racial segregation and apartheid, while Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Israel’s leading human rights organization, B’Tselem, have each independently found Israel’s laws and policies meet the legal definition of apartheid. Our report details the findings of these groups as well as the dozens of others that indicate there is global consensus that Israel is responsible for this crime against humanity. Additionally, we highlight the obligations of the international community, the Trump administration, and universities, including the ones where we are based, not to bolster Israel’s illegal actions.
A particularly offensive comment from Netanyahu towards European leaders following the shooting of two young Jewish Americans in Washington
Has he no shame at all ?
The next day he will be bombing the crap out of Gaza !
What an asshole
15000 kids killed in GazaQuote:
Originally Posted by jon1959
A Lone, deranged assassin kills two Jewish Americans in Washington and Netanyahu is all over it like a rash
Terrible incident but is he really the leader of Israel ?
He's insane
The media coverage of the deaths, mutilations, tortures and abuses, tells the story…..Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
The agony and death of a Palestinian is worth a fraction of that of a Jewish Israeli.
Both deserve the attention and grief, but only one gets it.
http://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org....TFhIixmYWxzZV0
'Israel’s Revenge Against Palestinian Prisoners'
Thousands have been left with injuries including broken bones and 68 have died since October 7th 2023, the majority almost certainly from the beatings, withdrawal of medical treatment, atrocious conditions and starvation as well as other forms of torture that have been deployed.
We must never forget that several thousands have been incarcerated under “administrative detention” which means there have been no charges and no due process. These are hostages too.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0eq9lq7xr1o
An Israeli air strike on Gaza hit the home of a doctor and killed nine of her 10 children, the hospital where she works in the city of Khan Younis says.
Nasser hospital said one of Dr Alaa al-Najjar's children and her husband were injured, but survived. Graeme Groom, a British surgeon working in the hospital, said he had operated on her surviving 11-year-old boy.
A video shared by the director of the Hamas-run health ministry and verified by the BBC showed small burned bodies being lifted from the rubble of a strike in Khan Younis on Friday.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-pa...26ffada159701c
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The only times the Palestinian man wasn’t bound or blindfolded, he said, was when he was used by Israeli soldiers as their human shield.
Dressed in army fatigues with a camera fixed to his forehead, Ayman Abu Hamadan was forced into houses in the Gaza Strip to make sure they were clear of bombs and gunmen, he said. When one unit finished with him, he was passed to the next.
“They beat me and told me: ‘You have no other option; do this or we’ll kill you,’” the 36-year-old told The Associated Press, describing the 2 1/2 weeks he was held last summer by the Israeli military in northern Gaza.
Orders often came from the top, and at times nearly every platoon used a Palestinian to clear locations, said an Israeli officer, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal.
Several Palestinians and soldiers told the AP that Israeli troops are systematically forcing Palestinians to act as human shields in Gaza, sending them into buildings and tunnels to check for explosives or militants. The dangerous practice has become ubiquitous during 19 months of war, they said.
The AP spoke with seven Palestinians who described being used as shields in Gaza and the occupied West Bank and with two members of Israel’s military who said they engaged in the practice, which is prohibited by international law. Rights groups are ringing the alarm, saying it’s become standard procedure increasingly used in the war.
“These are not isolated accounts; they point to a systemic failure and a horrifying moral collapse,” said Nadav Weiman, executive director of Breaking the Silence — a whistleblower group of former Israeli soldiers that has collected testimonies about the practice from within the military. “Israel rightly condemns Hamas for using civilians as human shields, but our own soldiers describe doing the very same.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0eq9lq7xr1o
It's genocide.
Simple as.
Anyone defending these cuunts needs to have a word with themselves.
I hope Netanyahu when dies in pain.
He's moderate compared to some of his party ��Quote:
Originally Posted by Jordi Culé
https://us18.campaign-archive.com/?e...&id=52a653bb38
Capt. Ron Feiner (res.) started his 20-day prison sentence after refusing to serve in the IDF's offensive in Gaza. Feiner, 26, an infantry platoon commander who has completed 270 days of reserve duty since October 7, 2023, said that he is "appalled by the unending war in Gaza, the abandonment of the hostages and the non-stop death of innocents. I cannot ethically continue to serve unless there is a change. Prison will not silence nor deter me or my brothers-in-arms."
From the Jewish Voice for Labour:
Dehumanisation and the morality of starving children to death.
While increasing numbers of Israelis are beginning to protest against the slaughter in Gaza, they remain nevertheless a minority. The large majority continue either to turn their eyes away from the images of horror that are so distressing the rest of the world, or applaud them in an utterly unashamed abdication of any remnants of their own humanity.
Here are two recent articles from Ha’aretz, published in the past three weeks. The stories recounted illustrate in a particularly stark, indeed shocking, way the abyss of inhumanity and also self-delusion into which Israel is sinking ever more deeply, and they reveal clearly what we are really confronting, or abetting – for those of us (our Government for a start) who continue so egregiously to abet.
We owe it to those already murdered, and to the hundreds of thousands today facing the annihilation so blatantly promised them, to be fully aware of the lethal narrative of their dehumanisation as exemplified so chillingly in these two reports.
(The second piece follows the first)
https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org...cles-for-you_1
Israel’s Knesset held a first-of-its-kind discussion on the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. During a meeting last Thursday (May 8th Ed), Dr. Sharon Shaul from NATAN, an Israeli-based organization that provides humanitarian aid around the world, made a seemingly trivial remark: “I think that even everyone sitting around this table doesn’t want a suffering child to be unable to receive painkillers or minimal medical treatment.”
Israeli lawmaker Amit Halevi (Likud) angrily interrupted her: “I’m not sure you’re speaking for us when you say we want to treat every child and every woman. I hope you don’t stand behind that statement either. When fighting a group like this, the distinctions that exist in a normal world don’t exist.”
Shaul didn’t back down: “I hope that you too don’t want a 4-year-old whose arm has been amputated to go without painkillers. I hope you have that empathy too.” Lawmaker Limor Son Har-Melech (Religious Zionism) couldn’t hold back: “The only treatment needed here is for you,” she said, pointing at Shaul. Another participant remarked: “You are the sickest doctor I’ve ever seen.”
It begs the question why so many IDF soldiers are happy to continue doing what they’re being asked to.Quote:
Originally Posted by jon1959