UN Special Rapporteur Michael Fakhri says Israel’s intentional starvation of Gaza is unprecedented. “We’ve never seen a civilian population made to go hungry so completely and so quickly,” he tells Mondoweiss. “Never in modern history.”
@mondoweiss@palestine@israel the Netanyahu regime has to be thrown out. Palestinians need to have their lands restored. There's no more room for imperialism and colonialism in the 21st Century
“It’s not just denying humanitarian aid,” Fakhri told Mondoweiss. “It’s not just shooting at civilians trying to get humanitarian aid. It’s not just bombarding convoys of humanitarian trucks, even though those humanitarian trucks are coordinating with them. They’re destroying the food system…they’ve destroyed over 80% of the fishing fleets and fishing nets of small-scale fishers in Gaza. They’re destroying agricultural land, fields, greenhouses, orchards. They’re using white phosphorus, which poisons the land. So it makes it almost impossible to farm on that land in the near future.”
“It’s not just denying humanitarian aid,” Fakhri told Mondoweiss. “It’s not just shooting at civilians trying to get humanitarian aid. It’s not just bombarding convoys of humanitarian trucks, even though those humanitarian trucks are coordinating with them. They’re destroying the food system…they’ve destroyed over 80% of the fishing fleets and fishing nets of small-scale fishers in Gaza. They’re destroying agricultural land, fields, greenhouses, orchards. They’re using white phosphorus, which poisons the land. So it makes it almost impossible to farm on that land in the near future.”
Israel as a country may not be vicious and cruel, but Israel's government is being vicious and cruel in the name of every Israeli, and I see protests there, but no mass walk-outs, no general strike.
@mondoweiss@palestine@israel That's right. Jews are guilty. They stole all the gas in Germany during WWII to poison themselves. You are so nice people, caring of Palestinian children. Do you want to help them. Adopt ten-twenty of them and feed them. May be they won't cut off your smart head, when they'll grow up. I understand that it's much easier to scream, instead of doing something.
If what they report is true then i'd disagree on one point.
Engineered famines have been seen before, look at what Russia did to Ukraine during the period known as the Holodomor caused by Stalin.
Look at what Mao did to the people of
China. Mao was an uneducated son of a farmer who looked down upon educated people and viewed the people of China as beneath. Mao intentionally starved over 60 million people.
Children of Hamas aren't starving. Just the children of those who oppose terrorists & took full advantage of evacuation & got "the hell out of Dodge", even as Hamas was bombing & sniping at them.
To Hamas, peace seeking civilians are great body armor as human shields, & Martyrs to distract the world from their deeds that brought about this carnage.
Pol Pot & Hamas, twins of the same demonic mother.
@FrankFrank@mondoweiss@palestine@israel so you are pro-starving children just as long as their parents are bad and at no point does your brain say "Huh, maybe I'm an asshole?"
That's the typical diversionary response; "So you're for starving & killing children then."
There are really only two camps; the Pro Terrorists, & the Anti-Terroists. My position is; Hamas in league with Iran is completely responsible for all the civilian carnage. All of it.
The other camp, Pro-Terrorist, justify terrorism with caveats.
A BRIGADE: battalions which is anywhere from 3,000 to 5,000 Hamas soldiers attacked Israel while they slept, while under a 'ceasefire'. That ain't bikini shaming.
But feel FREE FREE FREE to chant Genocide Apartheid Occupation Nekba, Colonialization excuses. The terrorists on 911 had their excuses. Care to, "but what was she wearing" logic that?
@FrankFrank@Beeks@mondoweiss@palestine@israel
"The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies -- civilians and military -- is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it, in order to liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque and the holy mosque [Mecca] from their grip, and in order for their armies to move out of all the lands of Islam, defeated and unable to threaten any Muslim." https://irp.fas.org/world/para/docs/980223-fatwa.htm
“There are really only two camps; the Pro Terrorists, & the Anti-Terroists.”- False dichotomy, there is another, much bigger camp. And, that’s those with a fully functioning moral compass and who condemn atrocities regardless of whom the perpetrators are. But as a #genocide supporter you may not be able to comprehend this. Blocked.
No, actually, whoever commits an atrocity is evil. No matter what their motivation, justification, or historical victimhood.
By this rubric, I consider both Hamas and the Netanyahu-led state of Israel to be committing evil acts. There are no innocents, here, except the Jewish and Palestinian victims.
And even then - I don't know how many of them loved Bibi or encouraged their children to join Hamas - even that group of dead people may be qualified.
@northernlights@FrankFrank@mondoweiss@palestine@israel do beware of ‘bothsidism’… according to plenty independent sources it’s apartheid/ oppressed vs oppressor, w 20:1 casualties for many years! Not to justify 7oct, just putting it into context…
Instead, I refuse to diminish the humanity of the Jewish victims of Hamas' sneak attack in Octobeer. All life is valuable, right?
Beware of anti-semitism. You don't know, any more than I do, the political views of those victims. Don't assume they approve(d) of the Israeli occupation.
Hamas are not good guys, any more than is Netanyahu. They're all stone cold killers.
@northernlights@greennomad@FrankFrank@mondoweiss@palestine@israel who says I’m diminishing the humanity of the Israeli victims of 7oct? Not wishing a gen0cide is not antisemitism. There’s lots more geopolitics at play. On 6oct there were 1000+ pal (including many youth!) in admin detention. I’m not condoning H actions. It’s relevant to note they only started after decades of oppression of Pal ppl. Check eg b’telesem (isr).
@mondoweiss@palestine@israel Funny the diseases that parallel famin don’t recognize borders. Israel is heading for typhus, cholera and non stop diarrhea.
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Hamas can end this right now. Surrender. Release the hostages. But they just walked out on negotiations for a cease fire. Now whose fault is this again?
@ffeth@vivienhessel@mondoweiss@palestine@israel
Their leaders sit in posh hotels with AC and plenty to eat and drink. They can stop it all right now. Right now. But I get some of you think men who rape and mutilate women are a “resistance” group.
@Npars01@mondoweiss@palestine@israel finally they’re saying something about the unexploited oil and natural gas fields. Been saying this for months.
Follow the money.