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About 450 killed in 3 days of the latest Israeli breach of the ceasefire (now surely over for good with US support). At least 183 of them children!
Anyone on this forum still in support of Netanyahu?
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...l-palestinians
The liberal Zionist despair from inside Israel is clear. This is the end of the only democracy in the region bullshit. Netanyahu is moving fast to complete the transformation from a sort of democracy if you are Israeli and Jewish to a rabid authoritarian state with strong elements of fascism.
There is no longer any attempt to mask the political objective of mass ethnic cleansing and creation of a white/Jewish supremacist Greater Israel (from the river to the sea) with the Palestinians murdered or expelled.
The liberal Zionists are much more concerned about the fate of the remaining 20 odd hostages than the hundreds of Palestinian civilians (including more than 200 children) murdered by the IDF this week alone. But their analysis of Netanyahus aims (backed to the hilt by Trump) is still chilling.
Some of the events that created shock a year or even six months ago, now pass as the new normal. Our main broadcast and print media barely bother to report at all.
Ethnic cleansing, apartheid and genocide are openly proclaimed by israeli government ministers and IDF commanders. From the river to the sea white/Jewish supremacy will be achieved as planned. Israel will occupy parts of Lebanon and Syria indefinitely and has eyes on parts of Jordan and the Egyptian Synai.
War crimes are a daily occurrence. Israelis (mostly) dont care. Western governments and media dont care. There is atrocity fatigue in the public. The Trump government is giving total unqualified support. Fascists were in the Israeli government from early 2023 - now they are in the leadership of the IDF and executives of state media. Sin Bet and the judiciary are facing purges and Kahanists ( racist and fascist to the core) are being lined up to take control.
But maybe it is not all bleak. Resistance continues and wide sections of the Jewish diaspora have been in the leadership of solidarity actions. The myth of Israel has been blown. Trumpism has been unwrapped and exposed. Enablers like Biden, Starmer, Schulz and Macron have shattered their base and can no longer hide behind hypocritical liberal weasle words, and the majority of the world has condemned them.
But Palestinian kids are still murdered every day and their home is made uninhabitable and then stolen. It is a shit world.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ssing-in-rafah
Tom Fletcher, head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said that since 18 March, “Israeli airstrikes in densely populated areas have killed hundreds of children and other civilians”.
“Patients killed in their hospital beds. Ambulances shot at. First responders killed,” he said in a statement.
“If the basic principles of humanitarian law still count, the international community must act while it can to uphold them.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...israel-attacks
A nurse, a civil servant and a teacher, among thousands of Palestinians detained without charges, were not informed their relatives had died in Israeli attacks.
(For the Guardian, like the BBC and others, it is still the case that Palestinians 'die' whilst Israelis are 'killed'.)
For six months after it became impossible, Ahmed Wael Dababish still dreamed of a simple reunion: the day he could once again hug his wife, Asma, his two daughters and his young son.
A nurse from Gaza, Dababish last saw his family in the early hours of one night in December 2023, when Israeli troops attacked a school where they had sought shelter.
Soldiers ordered men into the courtyard, then detained many of them, including Dababish. He was held incommunicado for 13 months without charge, trial, access to a lawyer, or any communication with his family. So when an Israeli shell killed Asma, 29, and their youngest daughter, three-year-old Ghina, in August 2024, there was no way to send news to him.
He was released in February under the ceasefire deal after turning 33 in prison, and was briefly overwhelmed when he saw his father and cousins waiting to welcome him home.
“It was amazing to see someone I knew,” he said. The joy at being surrounded by familiar, beloved faces, after a year of hunger, torture and isolation from everyone he knew, lasted until he asked about his wife and children.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...me-catastrophe
Abu Zeid, 48, the headteacher of a primary school funded by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) in Bureij in central Gaza, was arrested along with dozens of other men when Israeli troops raided the school turned shelter in December 2023. He would never see his family again.
“We had no idea where he was the entire time, we were so afraid for his safety,” said Ali, speaking on Alaa’s behalf, as the UN employee is not authorised to speak to media.
“Waiting for him was very difficult. We were happy but it was mixed with deep sorrow. I didn’t know how to tell him his wife and children had been killed.”
Abu Zeid’s family – Hala, 49, a teacher; Nour, 25, an engineer; Alaa, 22, a dentistry student; Riyad, 20, a science student; Walaa, 15, and Mohammed, 13 – were killed in an airstrike on their house in Bureij overnight on 20 August, eight months after he was abducted.
Ali and his sons tried to rescue their loved ones from the rubble, but there were no survivors: just ripped-up body parts. When morning broke, they recovered more remains and, as is Muslim tradition, buried them the same day.
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At least 60 people have died in Israeli custody since October 2023. The headteacher said he was severely beaten on several occasions and his eyesight is now impaired, necessitating surgery. The prison in the Negev desert was overcrowded and often freezing, and prisoners were not allowed to seek medical treatment or wash, leading to outbreaks of scabies and other skin problems.
Abu Zeid was given just enough food to stay alive: he lost 25kg in weight and his gaunt appearance upon release shocked his surviving family.
Interesting documentary on ITV tonight , after the 10pm news
Shows struggle of Palestinians being threatened and intimidated to give up their land by extreme zionist settlers wanting their land to enable more settlers to join them
It's NOT ethnic cleaning though
Nice friendly Israelis, totally innocent
Horrible Arabs
Etc Etc
You should watch this if you can
Mind you the usual suspects on here will be defending the zionist nazis because of what Hitler did
I just checked and the last vaguely supportive posts of Israel’s approach was on 15th of this month. The defenders of Israel who were populating this thread a year and more ago are conspicuous by their absences now - have they changed their minds on the subject or has the penny dropped that, increasingly, they were just making themselves look foolish?
This woman experienced shocking treatment as an occasional visitor
Palestinian people get this sort of thing , and worse , on a regular basis
No wonder hamas and suicide bombers and the awful murders of October 7th happen
Imagine Bristol invading south wales , grabbing more and more land and treating the locals like crap
We would be well up for saying piss right off and fighting back