"A displaced child from the #Gaza Strip is looking for food in the midst of the disastrous conditions that the people of this strip experience as a result of the continued siege and war of #famine and destruction."
The occupation police prevent young men from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan.
This is just an amazing image.
Young people (under 40) are not allowed into Palestinian AlAqsa mosque during Ramadan.
This is the compromise Netanyahu and IDF made with Ben-Gvir who wanted to block all Palestinians from entering the mosque during the month of Ramadan.
But, I'm sure no one cares. It's Israel who has the right to defend itself from young Palestinians praying in a mosque. It's their god given right guaranteed by billions of dollars from US and 1000s of tons of weapons from US, UK, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Canada, Denmark, Sweden and other lovely civilized western nations.
The Israel lobby is attempting to indoctrinate Americans that the context for the October 7 attack is the Holocaust. This is a misrepresentation. The Palestinians had nothing to do with the Holocaust.
As I’m sure you are well aware Bossito, there is now a considerable amount of credible (as opposed to IDF) evidence which clearly shows that it is the #Israeli#military and other security services who are committing the mass murder, child torture/ murder, raping of women and girls, prisoner humiliation/ torture/ and other heinous war crimes and crimes against humanity!
So #Mondoweiss is absolutely correct to say that there is a context and it isn’t the #Holocaust! It’s the 75+ years of #SettlerColonial oppression that the #Apartheid state of Israel has been imposing on the indigenous #Palestinian population!
#Ramadan / Israeli Police Beating Worshipers in Al-Aqsa
[…] Police prevented hundreds of young Palestinians from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque for the first prayer of the month of Ramadan, contrary to Netanyahu's promises that there would be no restrictions on freedom of worship. In several cases, dozens of people gathered at the entrance and officers used batons to keep the crowd away.
We need to stop trying to make antisemites like us.
When #Churchill carpet-bombed Hamburg, Essen, Cologne, and Dresden, he was not trying to win a popularity contest. When Harry #Truman dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he was not looking to win a Nobel Peace Prize.
Those who protect and enable #Hamas’ #genocide, like the utterly antisemitic and immoral United Nations and #Qatar, must be resisted and their reputations destroyed. American abominations like Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and American Taliban like Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) must have their hatred, bigotry, and antisemitism attacked and exposed in the media nonstop.
They will never like us. Let’s make sure they fear us.
Top Israeli commanders killed by the dozens in Gaza: Report
Dozens of Israeli army commanders have been killed by the Palestinian resistance in ground battles across the Gaza Strip since October.
Israeli army radio reported on the morning of 7 March that four brigade commanders, 39 platoon commanders, 13 company commanders, six lieutenant colonels, and one staff officer were among them.
Ynet also reported that seven additional reserve commanders are among those killed and that the military is taking steps to refill its ranks.
Ynet reported on 5 March that 586 Israeli soldiers have been killed since 7 October, including 246 since the start of ground operations on 27 October.
Over 3,000 have been wounded since the war began, with 475 of them in serious condition. Ynet added that over 1,400 were wounded since the beginning of the ground war, including over 300 in serious condition.
Israeli Army Radio:
Unprecedented preparations for the #Israeli army in the West Bank for the month of #Ramadan: 24 battalions, 20 companies and two special units will be deployed in the West Bank, in addition to 5,000 reserve soldiers from West Bank settlements, meaning a total of more than 15,000 soldiers who will work in the occupied West Bank.
Israeli authorities distributed leaflets to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, wishing them a happy Ramadan and threatening them of "attempting, thinking, inciting, or writing anything against Israel, or taking part in protests or events."
They also order people not to write anything about the resistance or even make dua' for them "or, otherwise, your families will be denied their permits."
Abolish U.S. veto power in the UN Security Council!
"Yet throughout the existence of the UN, the U.S. Mission has continually exploited its veto power to assert its dominance over the world. "
"The U.S. use of its Security Council veto in practice has been one of the sources, if not the leading source, of inaction towards war crimes and crimes against humanity — Israel’s genocide of Gaza and subsequent vetoes by the United States being the most pronounced example.
It is time to recognize the undemocratic nature of the Security Council and abolish U.S. veto power."
Reuters cites an #UNRWA report as stating that kidnapped staffers of the agency were pressured by Israeli authorities into falsely stating that the agency has #Hamas links and that staff took part in the Oct. 7 military operation.
The reports added that Israel's ill-treatment of UNRWA staffers included severe physical beatings, waterboarding, and threats of harm to family members.
Israeli warplanes have targeted the 12-story residential tower in #Rafah, #Gaza with four strikes.
The tower, which contained nearly 50 apartments, was one of the largest residential towers in Rafah and it used to shelter hundreds of displaced civilians.
The Ministry of Health: Three children have died at Al Shifa Hospital due to malnutrition, bringing the death toll of Israel's war of starvation to 23.
"Today he is a baby, tomorrow he is a fighter." - Rabbi Eliyahu Mali, head of the settlers' yeshiva school in occupied Jaffa, incited his students serving in the Israeli occupation forces to kill everyone in Gaza, including babies.
He referenced Jewish principles of war, stating, "The law - no soul shall live. If you don't kill them, they will kill you." When asked if babies were included, he responded, "Same, shoot them."
Mali also encouraged his audience to kill children and women of Gaza, claiming, "Today's terrorists are the children of the previous operations that you kept alive. The women are actually the ones who create the terrorists."
12 Palestinians were killed, and there are reports of many missing as a result of Israeli airstrikes on multiple residential houses in the town of Al-Qarara, northeast of Khan Younis.
Casualties reported among Palestinian civilians following Israeli airstrikes targeting a residential house in the Tuffah neighborhood, east of #Gaza.
Two Palestinians were killed and others injured west of Gaza City after being hit by airdropped humanitarian aid due to the failure of the parachute to open.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in #Gaza urgently appeals to international institutions, including the World Health Organization (#WHO) and the #RedCross, to provide blood units and components of all types to save injured Palestinian lives amid a critical shortage.
[…] "I think that a large number of those countries who suspended are (having) second thoughts," Barth Eide told Reuters in an interview, citing the recognition from these nations that "they cannot punish the whole Palestinian society".
[…] "But then, of course, they need an honourable way out, which means they are hoping, I think - without speaking for individual countries - that they will get something from these investigations that suggest that they can say: "well, we needed to suspend, but now we're back'."