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“The report on children and armed conflict… verified more cases of war crimes against children in the occupied territories and Israel than anywhere else, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar, Somalia, Nigeria and Sudan.”theguardian.com/world/articl…
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In 2010, I learned about the Khan Younis massacre through #JoeSacco’s Footnotes in Gaza. I carried the book on a trip to Gaza. At Erez, a UN official asked me to cover it-lest we upset the Israeli guards.
How long have we normalised Palestinian massacres by keeping them unspoken?
Today marked the 70th anniversary of the Khan Yunis Massacre.
On November 3, 1956, during the Tripartite Aggression against Egypt, Israeli forces killed hundreds of Palestinians in Khan Yunis. According to figures documented by UNRWA, 275 Palestinians were killed, including 140 refugees and 135 local residents. Just nine days later, another 111 people were reported killed in Rafah, bringing the combined reported death toll to 386.
Palestinian survivors described horrifying acts of brutality: Israeli soldiers raiding homes, dragging men into the streets, separating fathers and sons from their families, lining up unarmed civilians against walls, and opening fire with machine guns. Witnesses also described bodies lying in the streets and grieving families unable to bury their loved ones because of military curfews.
Palestinian historian Salman Abu Sitta recounts how Israeli soldiers rounded up men from Khan Yunis, including teachers, shopkeepers, farmers, and other ordinary civilians, and marched them toward the historic Barquq Castle. According to his account, soldiers lined the men against a wall near a school, ordered them to jump across a ditch, and opened fire with machine guns, turning the ditch into a grave.
Palestinian historian Ihsan Khalil al-Agha documented a higher death toll, estimating approximately 520 victims of executions and other killings during the broader assault and occupation. Survivor testimonies also describe women being left to collect the bodies of their husbands, sons, and brothers and bury them in mass graves.
The attached image shows some of the victims.
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AJA CEO Robert Gregory has admitted the AJA has special access to “senior people in social media companies” who remove restrictions after their accounts are banned for hateful or racist content—& that “ordinary Australians have no ability to do this.”
There you have it. #auspol
israelis routinely kill Palestinian engineers/workers who are trying to repair infrastructure - even if they coordinate movements in advance!
Palestinian Hamas’s own videos show it digging up water pipes and turning them into rockets to attack Israel.
Infrastructure meant to serve Gazans is sacrificed to fuel Hamas’s war.
When the rains come and sewage floods Gaza’s streets, outrage should be directed at Hamas.
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These were agricultural pipes from a failed Israeli colony in Gaza (Gush Katif) & had nothing to do with sewage or sanitation infrastructure.
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🇵🇸 President Trump's Board of Peace said Monday that flooding had swamped "tens of thousands of tents and makeshift shelters" in Gaza and called on Israel to let in shelter, drainage and sewage materials and called the response from COGAT, Israel's military aid agency, "insufficient."
It admitted that Israel's delays had "significantly delayed the start of the decommissioning of weapons." But then it split the blame on the lack of progress on the ceasefire plan, demanding that Hamas "lay down its arms."
In July, the @BoardOfPeace reached a deal with Hamas to decommission its heavy weapons as Israeli forces withdrew in stages. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly rejected the deal in August and @jaredkushner “green lit” the daily killings in Gaza. The Board, which oversees the ceasefire, has stood by as Israel went on to continue the daily slaughter of Palestinian civilians since that rejection, with Kushner highlighting Israeli domestic political considerations ahead of elections. At least 1,613 Palestinians have been killed since the Board of Peace began overseeing the ceasefire.
@maureenclarem, senior editor at The Electronic Intifada, called the board a "body created to provide diplomatic cover for Israel to proceed with the total destruction of Gaza." Hamas' weapons have nothing to do with what Israel lets through the crossings it fully controls.
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Trump’s Board of Peace acknowledges that the disasterous winter storm flooded tens of thousands of tents and temporary shelters in Gaza - and that Israel has blocked the shelter materials needed to avoid the horrific and needless suffering of Gaza’s civilians.
What they omit is that Israel even has blocked NRC, as the humanitarian shelter coordinator, access to Gaza and removed our longstanding registration in Israel. History will judge this severely.
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Sad farewell procession for the little babies and their mother who died under wet sand that buried their tent last night in Deir al Balah..
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The settler movement runs on charity money. Like any charity, it competes for donors. That means public campaigns to justify the funding. Little of what they do is secret. Here, the settlers are celebrating the takeover of Palestinian homes in Jericho, it's promotional material.
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In Israel the choice is 10 days in prison or take part in genocide and 99.9% of them choose genocide.
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🚨 BREAKING | Gaza Civil Defense: Our vehicles have stopped responding to humanitarian emergencies in the Central and Gaza governorates due to a lack of spare parts.
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Argentina, not Gaza, is responsible for "the worst loss in the history of the Jewish people going back to the Holocaust". In Argentina's Dirty War, 3000 Jewish people were killed
In Sabra & Shatila (1982), Israel killed 4500 Palestinian civilians in a single attack; 562.5% the number of Israeli civilians killed on Oct 7
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and for those like Simon S. Montefiore who always search for the validation of the right beholder/Western gaze, the term "Palestinians" was also used by Western figures to refer explicitly to the Arabs of Palestine in the 19th cent./before the 1st Aliyah. nitter.gq/lorenzokamel/status/20…
Filastin (screenshot 1), 3 Sept. 1921. “We are Palestinians first, and Arabs second.” Other examples: nitter.gq/lorenzokamel/status/18…
“#Palestinians” was used—in explicit reference to the Arabs of Palestine—also by Western observers (screenshot 2).
As for the WB: nitter.gq/lorenzokamel/status/17…
And why, you may ask, is there a lack of oil? Well because the cruel and repulsive @Israel @cogatonline block it!!!
It Survived the War, Only to Be Grounded by an Oil Shortage!
This truck survived the destruction and returned to the streets to collect waste. Today, however, it has been forced out of service due to a lack of the oil supplies needed to operate and maintain it.
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So far I've seen multiple Zionists cursing out the bike riders, throwing tacks on the ground to cause flat tires, and one attacking a business for displaying a Palestinian flag. Who are the violent ones again?
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I stayed with this family last year. They couldn’t farm or herd, & the kids’d stopped going to school on account of escalating terrorism by marauding filth. They’re in an esp isolated, vulnerable area, steadily encroached on by squatters who’ve since set up camp outside the gate.
israelis only get 10 days imprisonment for being conscientious objectors to conscriptions!! There is no excuse for participating in illegal occupation & the erasure of Palestinians
סרבן המצפון רפאל בן עמי נשפט ל-10 ימים בכלא הצבאי בשל סירובו לקחת חלק בפשעי הכיבוש. זה מה שהוא אמר לפני שנכלא: "אני מתנגד לקחת חלק פעיל בשירות צבאי כיוון שאינו עולה בקנה אחד עם עמדותיי המוסריות כאדם וכאזרח"
רוצות לחזק אותו? כתבו לו מכתב סולידריות. כל המכתבים יעברו אליו - לינק 👇
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The children in al-Marajim love these puppies so much. That’s exactly why the settlers are stealing them.
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🟢 Hamas: Israel’s Refusal to Allow Shelter Supplies Into Gaza Responsible for Worsening Humanitarian Catastrophe
Hamas condemned the Israeli military’s claims that it is coordinating with international organizations to address Gaza’s winter emergency as a “blatant attempt to evade responsibility” for the catastrophe caused by its destruction of homes, ongoing blockade, and refusal to allow shelter supplies into Gaza.
“Tens of thousands of tents” have flooded and hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians have been left exposed to the cold and rain, Hamas said, accusing Israel of continuing to block shelter materials, reconstruction supplies, and essential equipment.
“The occupation’s blatant attempt to present itself as responding to Gaza’s humanitarian needs fools no one,” Hamas said, accusing Israel of deliberately delaying implementation of the ceasefire’s humanitarian provisions.
Hamas rejected Israel’s attempts to condition reconstruction and humanitarian assistance on political or security demands, insisting that shelter, food, medicine, and a dignified life are fundamental rights, “not a tool for blackmail.”
Heavy rainfall triggered flooding through displacement camps in Gaza City, with Palestinians saying their belongings, including their bedding, have all become soaked reut.rs/3VcFphx
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Why was this not covered by the Australian media?
'(Segal's) appointment followed a period of intense lobbying from the US State Department which was not covered by Australian media.'
michaelwest.com.au/foreign-a… via @MichaelWestBiz
