Another outdated graph from November 2023, and one reason of many why many of us were calling it a genocide since October.
Since then #Biden hasn't conditioned military and financial aid to #Israel. Instead sending them thousands of tons of bombs and vetoing ceasefire multiple times.
"The six sources — all except one of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity — recounted how Israeli soldiers routinely executed Palestinian civilians simply because they entered an area that the military defined as a 'no-go zone.' The testimonies paint a picture of a landscape littered with civilian corpses, which are left to rot or be eaten by stray animals; the army only hides them from view ahead of the arrival of international aid convoys, so that 'images of people in advanced stages of decay don’t come out.' Two of the soldiers also testified to a systematic policy of setting Palestinian homes on fire after occupying them."
This chart is a comparison of civilian causalities between Ukraine and Palestine. It is from November 2023 and is now outdated but it shows how in 25 days the civilian causalities in Gaza exceeded the civilian causalities in Ukraine after 563 days.
When #Putin and #Netanyahu or Putin and #Biden are equated, it feels like there is a discount on the value of Palestinian lives.
then please, publish also a comparison between how many russian civilians have been killed by #Ukraine and how many #Israel civilians have been killed by Palestinians
"People in Gaza City have reported one of the heaviest attacks by Israeli forces since 7 October, sending thousands of Palestinians fleeing from an area already ravaged in the early weeks of the nine-month-old war.
"The territory’s civil emergency service told Reuters it believed that dozens of people had been killed in Gaza City but that teams were unable to reach them because of offensives in a number of areas."
Artur Szandrowski
artur.szandrowski@proletaren.se
A stylishly filmed documentary with a timely and important message... which unfortunately will not be seen by many.
Journalist Ashira Darwish leads us through this poignant Palestinian documentary, depicting pain, trauma and resilience across generations. Individual human stories are woven into a framework narrative of displacement and occupation. Where the olive trees weep is a powerful and important film that emphasizes what cannot be emphasized enough: that history did not begin on October 7, 2023. It feels liberating to see such a clear and opinionated film in these "on the one hand, on the other hand" times. Sure, there's a bit of meditative fluff towards the end (the Palestinians don't need trauma management courses - they need anti-aircraft guns!), but the pervasive political message is razor-sharp.
Yours truly had the privilege of seeing it at a special screening at the People's Cinema. One would hope for a wider distribution. But unfortunately that is not likely to happen. Which is a shame, because this deserves to reach the people (let's face it - Folkets bio is not super popular).
SVT should take a bite out of it. It has everything - it's a stylishly filmed, elegant documentary with a topical message. But they won't dare.
"However, David Barnea, the chief of the Mossad foreign intelligence service, who was dispatched over the weekend to Qatar, where talks are being held, was reported to have provided the mediators with a list of new reservations, according to Israeli media."
It's called 'hasbara" @fedwards9965 Zionists live in an alternative reality, with its own fabricated history.
Part of the deal with the UN was that Israel would declare its borders. That has happened in part, but not in full. The de jure legitimacy of Israel is therefore questionable. #Israel #Palestine @kindness @israel @palestine
The Israeli army ordered the Hannibal Directive – a controversial Israeli military policy aimed at preventing the capture of Israeli soldiers by enemy forces at any cost – on October 7 last year, according to an investigation by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz
“You will open fire without constraints, in order to prevent the abduction.”
“If Israel’s logic of assimilating and fighting against an entire civilian population [Palestinians in Gaza] to the perceived enemy [Hamas] is condoned and normalised, it will be the beginning of a new era: the era of ‘humanitarian’ genocides.
“Let’s stop this abomination!”
Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur to the occupied Palestinian Territories
“Starving people, bombarding civilians, torturing Palestinians in prisons – stopping these Israeli crimes should never be subject to negotiation, any more than a murderer should negotiate how many more people he will kill before he stops.”
Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director of Democracy for the Arab World Now
@ddrhazy
If by "Jews", you mean Israelis, then the majority should go to prison (some, for the rest of their lives). Where they will be imprisoned, time will tell.
The vast majority of Israelis are Zionists. Israeli Zionism is predicated on people who pretend to be Jewish being the master race from the river to the sea. Those who can live in peace as equals with others could probably stay. That's for the populace (Moslems, Christians, Jews, etc) to work out.
The Lancet points out that a realistic estimate for the number of people killed in Gaza is in the hundreds of thousands now ( www.thelancet.com )