Disappointed the BBC cancelled my interview on Israel's killing of Hind Rajab
2 producers eagerly reached out. They confirmed the time & one called to prepare a brief for the anchor
She asked me whether Israel's announcement is positive, I explained in detail it was a cover up.
The IDF is blaming the killing of Hind, her uncle, aunt & 4 cousins on the family itself for trying to flee by car & on the ambulance sent to rescue her for "failures in the co-ordination of the movement."
None of this is remotely true! The Red Cross immediately informed the IDF about 5-year-old Hind who was hiding in that motionless car, & they requested permission from Israel to allow an ambulance to rescue them.
After multiple long hours, Israel granted greenlight to the ambulance & provided them with a designated route on a GPS to drive on.
As soon as the ambulance reached Hind's car, the IDF ambushed & bombed them immediately with an American made anti-tank missile then opened fire on Hind's car. The car was hit with 355 bullets.
Israel then kept that area under lockdown for 12 days, & prevented anyone from approaching.
Hind's mom went daily to the Ahli baptist hospital hoping to find her daughter, until her lifeless body was brought in along with the charred remains of the ambulance men.
Israel then claimed after an "initial investigation" that its troops were NEVER in that area to begin with. They maintained that claim for 2 years despite ample recordings & satellite images debunking this lie.
The only reason Israel is now making this new announcement of a deeper investigation is to shield its soldiers & generals from the International Criminal Court by invoking the principle of "complementarity;" that the ICC cannot investigate a state that is already investigating itself in good faith.
I told the BBC producer Israel today also quietly shut down the investigation into the triple tap killing of American, Canadian, British, Australian & Polish citizens in the WCK massacre. Israel blamed the massacre on the aid workers themselves for "deviating from the predesignated route" & for hiring an armed security guard "without informing the IDF" (both claims where debunked by WCK themselves, who had coordinates their every step with the IDF).
I told the producer the Israeli commander responsible for this massacre, Nochi Mendel, is a fanatical settler who had signed a petition calling for starving Gaza & that he was celebrated by settler leaders & supported by Israeli government leaders after what he did.
Mendel even received a box of chocolate from the settler council's leader & a letter of support for what he did.
Mendel was initially dismissed by the IDF & blamed for the massacre, but was quickly & quietly reinstated & promoted in the Defence Ministry as the head of the settlements and national infrastructure unit.
It's abundantly clear Israel is NOT serious about prosecuting any of the atrocities committed in Gaza. Since the genocide began, only two soldiers were punished by the IDF; one for microwaving a living frog & another for cooking sausages in the army kitchen on Shabbat.
The producer asked me: What about the 150 cases the IDF said are pending review?
I answered: it's just a number designed to give the appearance of seriousness, but it's essentially meaningless.
If it took the IDF two whole years to admit the simplest of facts that the entire world had already known, which is that their troops were the ones who fired on Hind Rajab's car, how do you expect them to do with the remaining cases that are not as high profile?
Five minutes after the call, the producer wrote me that they decided to cancel the interview & will not even host anyone else to comment on the issue, & instead they'll play archival footage!
Smotrich is rapidly expanding Israeli settlements in the West Bank, during his last months in office as Minister of Finance, co-Minister of Defence and Governor of the West Bank Civil Administration (yes, he is holding all of these titles)
Mainstream news outlets aren’t over their obsession with Hasan Piker just yet, here is Gayle King assuming Angie Nixon had campaigned with Hasan, followed by King’s seeming disbelief regarding Nixon saying she doesn’t know Piker
Nixon: “I have not campaigned with Mr. Piker at all, not sure where that came from”
King: “Alright my apologies, I thought that you had…would you want him to campaign with you?”
Nixon: “I don’t really know who Mr. Piker is, I’ve heard about him…”
King: “You don’t know who he is?”
Nixon: “I said I don’t really know who he is personally or anything like that I’m actually focused on Florida…”
Palestinian human rights attorney Diana Buttu says Israel’s settler campaign in the occupied West Bank is 1948 and 1967 repeating, “except this time people have cameras.”
The playbook, she tells Drop Site: settlers seize remote Palestinian land knowing the army will protect them, the state wires the outpost with water, power and internet, and years later it is legalized, the history of nearly every settlement.
She rejects any settler-vs.-state distinction as “trying to unscramble an egg.”
@dianabuttu | @sharifkouddous
A video clip documented a verbal altercation in a cafe in Vietnam, following the anger of an Israeli tourist after attendees refused to take pictures of her on a transparent boat in the middle of a lake filled with flowers.
The refusal came as an affirmation of not wanting to work for free. The tourist then began asking repetitive questions trying to know the reason for the refusal, until she received the clear and explicit answer at the end: Yes, because you are from that country.
وثق مقطع فيديو مشادة كلامية في أحد المقاهي بـ فيتنام، إثر غضب سائحة "إسرائيلية" بعد أن رفض الحاضرون التقاط صور لها على متن قارب شفاف وسط بحيرة مليئة بالزهور.
الرفض جاء تأكيداً على عدم الرغبة بالعمل المجاني، لتبدأ السائحة بطرح أسئلة متكررة محاولةً معرفة سبب الرفض، ليأتيها الجواب الواضح والصريح في النهاية: نعم، لأنك من تلك الدولة.
Painful and harsh moments... The screams and tears of a Palestinian boy bidding farewell to his martyred father, who was killed in a raid in Gaza City: ‘I told you not to go to work, dad!’
Today in the village of Ghwein: settlers who arrived from "Anim Farm"—among them Daniel Peretz—once again invaded the village, drove away residents who were ploughing their land with a tractor, blocked solidarity activists who tried to reach the residents' homes
جنازات مؤجلة منذ سنوات .. بعد القصف والبقاء طويلًا تحت الركام.
غزة على موعد غدًا الخميس مع تشييع جثامين 50 شهيدًا دفعة واحدة، ممن استشهدوا خلال الحرب، وبقيت جثامينهم مدفونة تحت أنقاض منازلهم حتى جرى انتشالها.
وبحسب الدفاع المدني، فإن الشهداء الخمسين هم من عائلات السوافيري والبطنيجي وكرم.
استشهدوا قبل سنوات .. وغدًا فقط يحين موعد جنازتهم.
سنوات مرت على عائلاتهم بين الفقد والركام وانتظار لحظة الوداع الأخيرة .. حتى أصبح في غزة شهداء تأخرت جنازاتهم أعوامًا، ولم يتأخر وجع أهلهم يومًا واحدًا.
غدًا .. 50 شهيدًا في موكب وداع جديد .. و50 حكاية بقيت عالقة تحت الركام حتى كُتب لها أن تُوارى الثرى.
Gaza’s Ministry of Interior shares photographs of eight police officers and a 13-year-old displaced Palestinian girl killed in an Israeli strike on a police headquarters in Gaza City this afternoon.
Among those killed were the head of Gaza’s women’s police department and other senior police officials:
▪️ Brig. Gen. Ayman Mahmoud Jundiya, 47, acting director of Gaza Governorate Police
▪️ Col. Osama Hashem al-Hajin, 43, director of operations
▪️ Col. Fatina Abdul Jabbar al-Sahhar, 42, head of the Women’s Police Department
▪️ Col. Ibrahim Abdul Rahman Tamraz, 47
▪️ Col. Alaa Ali Alyan, 47
▪️ Lt. Col. Hazem Jabr Khalaf, 52
▪️ Maj. Othman Shehata Abu Samaan, 42
▪️ Lt. Samaher Misbah Hamada, 39
▪️ Dana Haitham al-Jamasi, 13, who had been displaced near the targeted headquarters
The ministry said the strike was part of Israel’s continuing campaign of attacks and assassinations against Gaza’s civilian police, saying Israel is deliberately dismantling the force to destroy public order and deepen chaos across the Strip.
Under Israeli occupation, finding safe drinking water in Gaza has become a daily struggle.
@wizardbisan visits one of the few desalination plants still operating to see what it takes to provide families with safe water.
Surprise! The IDF officer fired for the killing of 7 WCK aid workers is a West Bank settler from Gush Etzion
LTC Nochi Mendel got a box of chocolate from the settler council's head to celebrate him after what he's done!
Many IDF commanders are just genocidal settlers in uniform
لمن لم يستوعب المشهد :
السهمان الأبيضان: جنديان اسرائيليان في الحراسة.
السهم الأحمر: دبابة مريكافاه متحفزة ومجهزة.
أما السهم الأخضر يا مؤمن: فهو لمجـ ـاهد يتقدم وهو مكشوف بالكامل ويضع عبوة في قمرة القيادة لدبابة ثانية بكل هدوء وسكينة.
هل نحتاج دليلا آخر على قدرة الله ؟
A mother brings her young daughter and baby with her to find our water trucks. In their hands is a homemade doll - stuffed with cotton and sewn together from scraps of different fabric. https://t.co/6l9JFjWInX. Both children want it. Because this simple handmade doll is one of the only distractions they have, one of the few things that still resembles childhood and play.
The deprivation in Gaza can be seen everywhere.
It is in the mother who cannot afford a new prayer robe. The child without a toy. The patient without medication. The family without enough food. The tent without hygiene supplies. And the mother carrying her children to search for something as fundamental as water.
These are the ordinary pieces of a dignified life that have been stripped away one by one. We cannot replace everything that has been taken from these families. But we can bring them water. A live essential.
Help The Sameer Project bring back water. Help us give families one less thing to search for, worry about, and go without.
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We strongly condemn the Israeli military prosecutor’s account of the deaths of our seven colleagues on April 1, 2024. And we fundamentally disagree with their decision about criminal investigations into the IDF airstrikes that killed our team.
Read our full statement here: https://t.co/yqCUHjnvSK