"The bodies of dozens of Palestinians have been retrieved from the Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood after Israeli forces withdrew from parts of Gaza City, Palestinian rescue workers have said.
"'At least 60 bodies were counted. Some bodies were buried on the spot. Others were taken to nearby hospitals.'"
@Miro_Collas@palestine
It is incomprehensible to me that Israel is the only country to be so vile as to create the need for a dedicated refugee agency covering 4 Countries and is now slaughtering its workers.
Where are our laws?
Palestine needs to be large enough to accommodate all refugees and room for growth.
Realistic contenders to replace Biden won't be better on Palestine than Genocide Joe. And when it comes to Dems and Republicans, you pick your poison, but there's no healthy choice.
@mondoweiss@palestine@israel
When one doesn't discuss #zionism as at least one animating motivation to rain down death and deprivation on #Gaza, they're generating heat, not light.
Today in Labor History July 11, 1947: the Exodus 1947 left France for Palestine carrying 4,500 Jewish Holocaust survivors with no legal immigration certificates for Palestine. The British boarded the ship in international waters and sent the Jews to refugee camps in Europe. Over 100,000 Jews tried to illegally immigrate to Palestine as part of Aliyah Bet. More than half of these immigrant ships were stopped by British patrols, with most of the Jews (roughly 50,000) being sent to internment camps in Cyprus, Palestine, and Mauritius. Over 1,600 of them drowned at sea and only a few thousand reached Palestine. Of the 64 vessels that sailed in the Aliya Bet, Exodus 1947 was the largest, with 4,515 passengers. Many historians believe that the ordeal of the Exodus 1947 played a major role in building international sympathy for the plight of Holocaust survivors and support for a Jewish state in Palestine.
The Jewish paramilitary group, Haganah, bought the Exodus 1947 for Aliyah Bet activities from a wrecking yard precisely because of its dilapidated and dangerous condition. They believed that the British would see the danger to its passengers and allow it through their blockade. However, the British boarded the ship anyway and a battle ensured. An American Jew was clubbed to death. Two passengers died from gunshots and several British sailors were hospitalized. And the passengers were deported. In retaliation, the militant Zionist groups Irgun and Lehi blew up Central Police HQ in Haifa on September 29, 1947. Ten people died and 54 were injured, including 33 Brits, 4 Arab policemen, an Arab woman and a 16-year-old were killed.
Leon Uris wrote about it in his 1958 novel, “Exodus.”
You are correct that the west, particularly the U.S., was refusing to take in Jewish refugees. The U.S., in particular, sent a ship back, resulting in the murder of hundreds of Jews by the Nazis.
However, the zionist plan to takeover Palestine was well in place 50 years prior to World War II, and Jews had already been trying to enter illegally for that purpose.
“What I do not have in common with the people in #Gaza,” Rob Delaney tells Mehdi Hasan, “is once my baby died, I did not have to worry about the safety of my other children.”
"Israeli soldiers describe the near-total absence of firing regulations in the #Gaza war, with troops shooting as they please, setting homes ablaze, and leaving corpses on the streets — all with their commanders’ permission"
#Gaza / U.S. to again ship 500-pound bombs to Israel, reversing suspension
The U.S. is sending 500-pound bombs to Israel again, after previously holding them back. This comes after #Israel and its supporters in the U.S. pushed hard for the shipments to resume.
[…] Janet Abou-Elias, a research fellow at the Center for International Policy, a Washington-based think tank, said the destructive power of 500-pound bombs should not be taken lightly. “In Gaza’sdensely populated areas, the difference in the destructive impact between a 500-pound and a 2,000-pound bomb is negligible, both causing immense destruction and civilian casualties,” she said.
Israeli army to present probe into Kibbutz Be’eri battle
One of the incidents being investigated is why an Israeli tank was ordered to shell a house where 14 civilians were being held by fighters.
Other issues being looked into is why an elite unit abandoned the area without being ordered to do so and why forces that reached the area did not enter the kibbutz to fight.
It kills me that people can look at this child's eyes, and say: Vote for Biden, anyway.
Even Americans' rights are being curtailed and our health compromised (mask bans) due to the genocidal Israeli state and we roll over and take it like the lackeys we are.