Sanders: ‘The Netanyahu Gov’t Should Not Receive Another Penny from US’

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders

I voted NO on the appropriations bill that the Senate passed last night. While hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children face starvation in Gaza, this bill actually prohibits funding to UNWRA, the key United Nations aid agency delivering life-saving humanitarian support. This will only intensify the already horrific situation in Gaza. This bill also provides another $3.3 billion in U.S. military aid for Netanyahu’s right-wing government to continue this barbaric war. The Netanyahu government should not receive another penny from U.S. taxpayers.

Source: Sanders: ‘The Netanyahu Gov’t Should Not Receive Another Penny from US’

Glenn Greenwald: IDF General Confesses “War Impossible Without US”

Team Dutton duds women; snubs gender equality, bipartisanship and democracy – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The decline in the number of women elected to the House of Representatives, its reluctance to implement practical reforms such as quotas, ought to be a wake-up call for the Liberals, for whom History seems to have decided, “It’s Time.”

Of deeper concern, however, is the re-emergence of veneration for the strong man in politics, a fallacy once believed to have been consigned to the dustbin of history, is now enjoying a type of renaissance across the globe. George Santayana wrote,

Source: Team Dutton duds women; snubs gender equality, bipartisanship and democracy – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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The ‘New Anti-Semitism’

This explains why Time Magazine gave Harvard law professor Noah Feldman space to write an analysis of anti-Semitism, which looks balanced and thoughtful but is yet more propaganda for the Israeli state and its actions. And why the article has attracted attention in cyberspace.

Source: The ‘New Anti-Semitism’

Authorised atrocities – Pearls and Irritations

March on Washington for Gaza The White House, Washington, DC Taken on January 13, 2024

The truth of it has since been demonstrated a hundred times over. Israel has proven a failed experiment, incapable of conducting itself as a legitimate nation-state.

But whose mistake is Israel? It was the West, Britain in the lead, that created Israel by caving to the Zionists at the expense of indigenous Palestinians. This is the reality of power that should weigh most heavily on our shoulders. Israel ‘R’ us.

Britain’s abandonment of the 1920 Mandate brings us to one of the deeper characteristics of our time, our postwar edifice. This is the ever more complete disregard of those in power for the principles, standards and broadly accepted ethics that give form and coherence to a stable civilisation and keep its public space clean and well lit.

Source: Authorised atrocities – Pearls and Irritations

Israel seizes 800 hectares of Palestinian land in occupied West Bank | Occupied West Bank News | Al Jazeera

Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has declared 800 hectares (1,977 acres) in the occupied West Bank as state land, in a move that will facilitate the use of the ground for settlement building.

Source: Israel seizes 800 hectares of Palestinian land in occupied West Bank | Occupied West Bank News | Al Jazeera

Day 168: “Israel Kills Dozens In Gaza, Continues Shifa Hospital Invasion” | – IMEMC News

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Israel has now killed more than 32.000 Palestinians, including about 9.000 women and 13.000 children, in addition to more than 10.000 who remain missing, buried under the rubble of bombarded homes and buildings, and injured more than 74.188, mostly children, since October 7, 2023. Among the slain Palestinians are 4.257 schoolchildren, 227 educators, and 112 journalists.

ِAl-Jazeera reported that the Israeli army also killed 685 medical workers, and injured 902, in addition to damaging 99 medical facilities, including 30 hospitals.

The army also destroyed 76 ambulances; only 9 out of 36 hospitals in the Gaza Strip are still open, although partially functioning, bombed, and lacking essential supplies.

More than %90 of the Gaza Strip population is now displaced, facing famine, diseases, deadly shortages of humanitarian supplies, and lacking access to clean water.

The Israeli army also bombed 154 UNRWA facilities, and destroyed 65.000 residential units, in addition to damaging more than 290.00.

Israel also destroyed 281 governmental schools and 65 UNRWA-run schools and damaged or destroyed %90 of governmental schools, educational facilities, and their various departments.

Source: Day 168: “Israel Kills Dozens In Gaza, Continues Shifa Hospital Invasion” | – IMEMC News

Does Zionism Lead to Genocide? – ScheerPost

“The Israel lobby has sought to consolidate October 7th as something that towers even above Pearl Harbor, January 6th and 9/11 as a date that represents a new holocaust …They’ve done that in order to decontextualize the event and erase all the history that preceded it, which helps us understand why it took place,” Blumenthal tells Scheer.

Scheer and Blumenthal also detail how, through censorship, false reporting and other aspects of the information war, the stories of Palestinians continue to get lost and misrepresented, especially with the strength of Israeli propaganda.

“Zionism as applied in Palestine will always lead towards genocide. That’s the ultimate goal. They have to finish 1948. There’s no way to do it without genocide,” Blumenthal said.

Source: Does Zionism Lead to Genocide? – ScheerPost

When Criticizing Israel Wasn’t Anti-Semitic

Politics and AIPAC in 20 years

At a conference in Berlin about anti-semitism in 2004, then U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said the following: “It is not antisemitic to criticize the policies of the state of Israel.” 

Nearly 20 years later, on Dec. 5, 2023 the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution by 311 to 14 votes equating criticism of Israel with anti-semitism. 

The resolution says: “Resolved, That the House of Representatives … clearly and firmly states that anti-Zionism is antisemitism.”

Source: When Criticizing Israel Wasn’t Anti-Semitic

Human potential is crushed by disaster capitalism – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Schoolbooks arrive at Cisarua Refugee Learning Centre

We must speak to the people who require assistance and listen to their needs instead of speaking over them. In the case of Australia’s refugee policy, we wasted billions on toxic cruelty when we could have done much better in ways that cooperated internationally and supported people humanely.

Source: Human potential is crushed by disaster capitalism – » The Australian Independent Media Network

What has age got to do with it? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

In 2016 I described Trump as follows:

“Australians see Trump as a sick, deluded, and sexually abusive narcissist and corrupt criminal with a limited understanding of complex world problems. He is a crash-through politician with a ubiquitous mouth who is entertaining to some but lacks the worldly character required for leadership.”

And that, has nothing to do with his age.

Source: What has age got to do with it? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Opinion | The False Charges of ‘Antisemitism’ by Apologists for Israel’s Atrocities in Gaza | Common Dreams

Person holding sign "Stop Arming Israel"

The gist of the trick is to equate Israel with the Jewish religion—and then to equate opposition to Israel with antisemitism.

Source: Opinion | The False Charges of ‘Antisemitism’ by Apologists for Israel’s Atrocities in Gaza | Common Dreams

Human Rights or the Right to Discriminate? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

At least that is what is looks like to this citizen. Religious schools can discriminate when employing staff, ensuring that all teachers comply with a morality standard and that will inevitably affect the way education is delivered, especially when dealing with ethics and morality.

How easy would it be to make the UN Declaration of Human Rights, which Australia was involved in setting up and is a signatory to, actually make that law. There are thirty articles in the Declaration and Article 2 is an overarching statement:

Source: Human Rights or the Right to Discriminate? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Analysis, Commentary, Israel, Palestine

WATCH: Hedges & Finkelstein on Gaza

March 21, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvGY0His5bU

Biden’s Sanctions on Israeli Settlers Are Just for Show

Joe Biden has announced sanctions on Israeli settlers in Palestinian territory. But the sanctions themselves are toothless — a way to signal displeasure with the Israeli government without actually doing anything to change the situation.

Source: Biden’s Sanctions on Israeli Settlers Are Just for Show

Armed by Washington, Israel Trashes the Genocide Convention – CounterPunch.org

It’s been almost two months since the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to stop killing Gazans and destroying their means of subsistence. So let’s look back and ask (1) how Israel has responded to its “orders,” and (2) how hard the Biden administration has pushed Israel to abide by those orders. Spoiler alert: the short answers are (1) not well and (2) not very.

Source: Armed by Washington, Israel Trashes the Genocide Convention – CounterPunch.org

Eyewitnesses Report ‘Unlawful Killings’ by IDF as Raid on al-Shifa Hospital Continues

al-Shifa Hospital

One eyewitness said that “Israeli soldiers repeatedly took prisoners into the hospital’s morgue area, that gunshots were then heard, and that the soldiers left without the prisoners.”

Source: Eyewitnesses Report ‘Unlawful Killings’ by IDF as Raid on al-Shifa Hospital Continues

“Humanitarian Violence” in Gaza: Architect Eyal Weizman on Mapping Israel’s “Genocidal Campaign” | Democracy Now!

“We cannot see it as anything else but part of the genocidal campaign,” says Forensic Architecture director Eyal Weizman, who accuses Israel of using humanitarian principles as yet another weapon against Palestinians in Gaza. He says Israel’s objective is to “exercise pain on the civilian population” in order to deter “ongoing resistance to the Israeli occupation.”

Source: “Humanitarian Violence” in Gaza: Architect Eyal Weizman on Mapping Israel’s “Genocidal Campaign” | Democracy Now!

There is no moral argument that justifies the sale of weapons to Israel | Mary Lawlor | The Guardian

With black smoke billowing behind them, two soldiers in tactical gear stand on the cab of a pickup truck loaded with seated people, alongside a jeep full of other soldiers in tactical gear.

The international human rights architecture is creaking under the weight of the hypocrisy of countries who profess support for a rules-based order yet continue to provide weapons to Israel that kill more innocent Palestinians. Above all, this is a war on human rights.

Source: There is no moral argument that justifies the sale of weapons to Israel | Mary Lawlor | The Guardian

Censors Celebrated: Misinformation and Disinformation Down Under – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The proposed bill on assessing, parcelling and dictating information (mis-, dis-, mal-) is a nasty little experiment in censoring communication and discussion. When the state decides, through its agencies, to tell readers what is appropriate to read and what can be accessed, the sirens should be going off.

Source: Censors Celebrated: Misinformation and Disinformation Down Under – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Trump fears Alzheimer’s – WaPo — RT World News

Trump fears Alzheimer’s – WaPo

The outlet claimed to have spoken to a former senior executive at the Trump Organization, who said they had seen Donald Trump interact with his father Fred Trump Sr. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source claimed that “Donald is no doubt fearful of Alzheimer’s.”

Source: Trump fears Alzheimer’s – WaPo — RT World News

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Intercepted: “We Have to Start Thinking in Terms of Decolonization”

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Palestinian human rights lawyer Diana Buttu on Israel’s ongoing nakba and the fight for freedom from Gaza to the West Bank.

Source: Intercepted: “We Have to Start Thinking in Terms of Decolonization”

Palestinians in Israel also face a Nakba | Israel War on Gaza | Al Jazeera

Arab Israelis lift Palestinian flags and placards during a protest outside the Megiddo prison in northern Israel on August 22, 2021, to demand the release of prisoners from their community jailed following clashes with Jewish Israelis in May in Lod and other cities. (Photo by Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

The Nakba that Palestinians with Israeli citizenship are facing may not be as violent and brutal as the one their brothers and sisters in Gaza and the West Bank are enduring. But its consequences and ultimate goal are the same: the complete elimination of Palestinian presence in historical Palestine.

Source: Palestinians in Israel also face a Nakba | Israel War on Gaza | Al Jazeera

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Authorized Atrocities

It is remarked often enough, including in this space, that Israel’s savagery in its determination to exterminate the Palestinians of Gaza — and we had better brace for what is next on the West Bank of the Jordan — marks a turn for all of humanity.

In its descent into depravity the Zionist state drags the West altogether down with it. 

Source: PATRICK LAWRENCE: Authorized Atrocities

Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner calls for ethnic cleansing of Gaza to ‘Finish the Job’ – Pearls and Irritations

September 20, 2022, New York City, New York, USA: JARED KUSHNER attends the 2022 Concordia Annual Summit held at the SheratonTimes Square Hotel. Image: Alamy/Nancy Kaszerman/ZUMA Press Wire

Trump Heights already exists in the occupied Golan Heights make room for a Trump development in Gaza

Kushner, who served as a key Middle East adviser to Trump, said that Gaza’s “waterfront property could be very valuable” and urged Israel to “clean it up.”

“I know that that’s been refused, but [with] the right diplomacy I think it would be possible,” Kushner added. “But in addition to that, the thing that I would try to do if I was Israel right now is I would just bulldoze something in the Negev, I would try to move people in there. I know that won’t be the popular thing to do, but I think that that’s a better option to do so you can go in and finish the job.”

Source: Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner calls for ethnic cleansing of Gaza to ‘Finish the Job’ – Pearls and Irritations

Israel Is Still Flouting the ICJ’s Genocide Order

Despite the US veto when will the UN propose a resolution that Israel is a terrorist state?

It’s been almost two months since the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to stop killing Gazans and destroying their means of subsistence. But Israel continues to flout the order with impunity — aided and abetted by the Biden administration.

Source: Israel Is Still Flouting the ICJ’s Genocide Order

Shielding the Nation Starving Gaza

This doesn’t typically happen as a result of any grand monolithic conspiracy; it’s mostly just the natural consequence of having all the major news platforms controlled by wealthy and powerful people who each have a vested interest in manufacturing consent for the status quo upon which their wealth and power are premised. 

The oligarchs control the media, and they hire the executives who run the media, and the executives hire the editors who write the headlines and guide the reporters to report a certain way, and this gives rise to a system where everyone working for the outlet conducts themselves in a way that just so happens to suit the powerful people on top.

Then before you know it you’ve got editors at The New York Times — a paper that’s been published by the same family for over a century — packaging a story about starvation caused by an Israeli siege to look like it’s a story about an innocent crop failure.

Odds are nobody told them to do that; they just learned over the years that that’s how you rise to the top in an outlet like The New York Times.

Source: Shielding the Nation Starving Gaza

A Statement from Jewish Americans Opposing AIPAC’s Intervention in Democratic Party Politics – ScheerPost

We are Jewish Americans who have varying perspectives. We’ve agreed to come together to highlight and oppose the unprecedented and damaging role of AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) and allied groups in U.S. elections, especially within Democratic Party primaries. We recognize the purpose of AIPAC’s interventions in electoral politics is to defeat any critics of Israeli Government policy and to support candidates who vow unwavering loyalty to Israel, thereby ensuring the United States’ continuing support for all that Israel does, regardless of its violence and illegality.

Source: A Statement from Jewish Americans Opposing AIPAC’s Intervention in Democratic Party Politics  – ScheerPost

Right-wing media have spent months disparaging liberal and anti-Zionist Jews to undercut support for Palestinians | Media Matters for America

Ari Fleischer on Fox News

Prominent right-wing media figures have spent months deploying antisemitic tropes and accusations to disparage liberal and anti-Zionist Jews who have questioned or opposed Israel’s military offensive in Gaza.

Source: Right-wing media have spent months disparaging liberal and anti-Zionist Jews to undercut support for Palestinians | Media Matters for America

Listen: How the Western media helped build the case for genocide in Gaza

For any journalist, the headline should have written itself: “Israel accused of killing over 100 as crowd waits for Gaza aid.” Or: “Israel fires into food aid crowd. Hundreds killed and injured”

https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-how-the-western-media-helped

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The Israeli public is dispirited. So why is the right euphoric?

Ministers and MKs dance during the 'Victory Conference' for the resettlement of Gaza at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, January 28, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Zionists the “revisionist muscle-minded Jews” have always fomented chaos, division and threat while waiting for a distracted world. Until the formation of Israel in 1948 they were terrorists. They guerillas conducting a war against both  Britain and indigenous Palestinians. They knew the British Empire was decolonising and that the Palestinians would resist their invasion. But India, China and Korea were a bigger distraction. 1967 saw America busy with Vietnam so using their own “Bethlehem Directive” as an excuse they yelled “invasion” and attacked Egypt, Syria and Jordan conducting the 6-day war netting and illegally occupying and settling even more land.

Today it’s Ukraine and Russia that have enabled another perfect storm and an effort to complete more of what was always their intended plan Eretz Israel= The Greater Israel and Final Nakba. All they needed was 7/10 which Israeli intel knew was coming and did nothing about.

The collective despondency derives from various factors, including the lingering trauma of October 7, the soldiers who continue to be killed in Gaza, the hundreds of thousands of Israelis evacuated from the southern and northern regions, the precarious economic situation, and the hostages still held in captivity.

However, it also reflects a deep understanding among significant portions of the Jewish public of several things: that the war in Gaza is not going anywhere; that the total defeat of Hamas is not a realistic goal; that the belief that military force will release the hostages is hollow; and that mass population transfer of Palestinians is not possible, both because Palestinians will refuse to leave and because no one wants to take them in.

Source: The Israeli public is dispirited. So why is the right euphoric?

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International Legal Rulings Are Helping Block Arms to Israel

The International Court of Justice’s ruling to prevent genocide in Gaza has triggered cutoffs and legal challenges to military cooperation with Israel. Despite its many problems, international lawmaking is hurting Israel’s ability to wage brutal war.

the ICJ ruling has had notable real-world ripple effects on global military support for Israel’s war. This is true even if it still falls far short of what we would ideally expect to see in a world where international law truly reigned supreme.

Source: International Legal Rulings Are Helping Block Arms to Israel

How AIPAC supports Israel’s far Right Likud Party over Democratic America

 AIPAC has played an important part in shifting Israel to the far right. By consistently promoting Likud’s policies, it has undermined moderate Israeli politicians. Imagine how different Israel might look if AIPAC — easily the biggest, wealthiest and most influential player in the Israel lobby — had advocated for limitations on illegal settlement expansion, thereby fostering a climate more conducive to peace and stability. Instead, Likudniks could rightly tell Israeli voters: We can maintain a harsh occupation, expand Jewish-only settlements, all while continuing to benefit from substantial American military, economic and diplomatic support.

Palestine Never Had a Chance for Statehood, Legally Speaking, an Expert Argues – ScheerPost

Nevertheless, as is widely known, in view of the fact that the Israeli occupation of the OPT remains in place almost 57 years after it began, it appears that the Palestinian recognition of the partition plan may have turned out to be a Faustian bargain of sorts.

Source: Palestine Never Had a Chance for Statehood, Legally Speaking, an Expert Argues – ScheerPost

Netanyahu’s Law of Unintended Consequences – CounterPunch.org

Undaunted, Netanyahu mocks international criticism for his actions. “Reports this week that Israel plans to build a further 3,476 settler homes in Maale Adumin, Efrat, and Kedar fly in the face of international law,” said in a statement Volker Türk, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights responding to the Israeli government latest settlement expansion plans.

Türk also said that Israel is violating the Fourth Geneva Convention by “effectively transferring civilian population of Israel to the occupied territory while displacing the Palestinian population from their land. Such transfers amount to a war crime that may engage the individual responsibility of those involved.”

Source: Netanyahu’s Law of Unintended Consequences – CounterPunch.org

Israel: a nation killing and starving children – Pearls and Irritations

Injured Palestinians, Including children are brought to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Dair El-Balah Injured Palestinians, Includ Children are brought to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Dair El-Balah for treatment following the Israeli attacks in Khan Yunis, Gaza on March 02, 2024. Photo by Omar Ashtawy apaimages Dair EL-Balah Gaza Strip Palestinian Territory 020324_Dair_EL-Balah_OSH_005 Copyright: Alamy/xapaimagesxOmarxAshtawyxxapaimagesx

There is nothing in recent memory that matches the scale of the atrocities being inflicted on the civilians of Gaza, who appear to be being punished for their very existence. Every report and image coming out of this tiny but densely populated piece of land brings despair, horror and incredulity, with the question “How can this be happening?” being uppermost.

His statement was not made lightly:

  • More children have been reported killed in just over 4 months in Gaza (over 12,300) than the number killed in wars globally in the 4 years to 2022 (12,193) (UNRWA, here).
  • “Today no child in Gaza is free from fear, pain and hunger…..All children living in the Gaza Strip have lost their childhood”. (UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, here).
  • UNICEF estimates that at least 17,000 children in the Gaza Strip are unaccompanied or separated from their parents.
  • Children are now dying of starvation, as its use as a weapon intensifies. Mass killings of those desperately seeking food occur (see for example here).

Source: Israel: a nation killing and starving children – Pearls and Irritations

Destroying the Lawn in Gaza – CounterPunch.org

U.S. officials say an Israeli military operation in Rafah would likely lead to a significant shift in U.S. policy — including an end to the defense of Israel at the United Nations and restrictions on the use of U.S. weapons by Israeli Defense Forces in Gaza.

Ever since it withdrew its settlements in 2005, Israel has periodically attacked Gaza. This shelling of locations throughout the narrow strip of land gave rise to the Israeli expression “mowing the lawn.” In other words, Israel was bombing Gaza regularly to “maintain order.”

Source: Destroying the Lawn in Gaza – CounterPunch.org

Dem Donors Warn Biden’s Support for Israeli War on Gaza May Hand Trump the White House

U.S. President Joe Biden

“Because of the disillusionment of a critical portion of the Democratic coalition, the Gaza war is increasing the chances of a Trump victory.”

Source: Dem Donors Warn Biden’s Support for Israeli War on Gaza May Hand Trump the White House

Chris Hedges: Israel’s Trojan Horse – ScheerPost

Piers allow things to come in. They allow things to go out. And Israel, which has no intention of halting its murderous siege of Gaza, including its policy of enforced starvation, appears to have found a solution to its problem of where to expel the 2.3 million Palestinians.

Source: Chris Hedges: Israel’s Trojan Horse – ScheerPost

Trump Son-in-Law Jared Kushner Calls for Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza to ‘Finish the Job’

Jared Kushner

Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of former president and presumptive 2024 Republican nominee Donald Trump, said in a recent interview that if he were in charge of Israeli policy, he would push Gaza civilians into Egypt or Israel’s Negev desert—a proposal that critics denounced as ethnic cleansing.

Source: Trump Son-in-Law Jared Kushner Calls for Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza to ‘Finish the Job’

The Hunger Games of renting. Most liveable cities in the world or dystopian nightmare? – Michael West

The Hunger Games of renters

Source: The Hunger Games of renting. Most liveable cities in the world or dystopian nightmare? – Michael West

Old Dog Thought- Israel has the biggest army, biggest digital presence, biggest lobby, simply the biggest everything and is losing. They call it antisemitism!

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A war on children: Gaza doctors no longer see normal-sized babies – Pearls and Irritations

November 20, 2023, Rafah Border Crossing, Gaza, Palestinian Territory: Medics transfer a premature Palestinian baby in an incubator from Gaza to an ambulance on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossingTwenty-nine premature babies arrived in Egypt on Monday, after being evacuated from the al-Shifa hospital. Image: Alamy/ © Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population/ZUMA Press Wire

Israel’s war on Gaza is a war on children, a war on their childhood and a war on their future. Children are dying at an alarming rate from malnutrition and dehydration and doctors are no longer seeing normal-sized babies.

Source: A war on children: Gaza doctors no longer see normal-sized babies – Pearls and Irritations

Israel besieges, storms al-Shifa Hospital | The Electronic Intifada

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The Bethlehem Directive whatever Israel believes is the truth. If they say your Hamas you’re Hamas.

During the raid on al-Shifa, Israeli forces assassinated Faiq Al-Mabhouh, the commander of Gaza’s civilian police unit.

Source: Israel besieges, storms al-Shifa Hospital | The Electronic Intifada

‘Armchair humanitarianism’: The problem with Gaza’s maritime aid corridor

Palestinians seen at the port of Gaza City, June 13, 2019. (Hassan Jedi/Flash90)

“It makes no sense for humanitarian aid to be coordinated with the same entity that has publicly announced it intends to starve Palestinians in Gaza,” Arraf said. “And in the end, Palestinians don’t want to live on aid. They want, need, and deserve freedom.”

Source: ‘Armchair humanitarianism’: The problem with Gaza’s maritime aid corridor

Borrell Openly Blames Israel for Gaza Famine

“In Gaza we are no longer on the brink of famine; we are in a state of famine, affecting thousands of people,” Borrell said in Brussels at a meeting on humanitarian aid for the besieged enclave. “This is unacceptable. Starvation is used as a weapon of war.”

Source: Borrell Openly Blames Israel for Gaza Famine