@CriticsChoice People from certain countries will never understand what politeness, elegance and respect are all about. Sounds familiar? It should. Shame on you.
More than 14,100 children have been killed by Israeli forces.
British parts are used in planes bombing children in Gaza.
The UK government must suspend ALL arms sales to the Government of Israel given the clear risk they might be used to commit serious violations of international humanitarian law.
We're horrified to see schools and shelters continually targeted in airstrikes across Gaza.
Yesterday's airstrike was the sixth school that Israeli Forces have hit in 10 days.
How many children need to die before world leaders take action?
#CeasefireNOW#StopTheWarOnChildren
Horrific. This is happening right now in what Israel 🇮🇱 said was a ‘safe zone’ in Khan Yunis.
Biden and Starmer are giving cover to a genocidal monster in Netanyahu.
The Hague is too good for the lot of them.
Muitos pediram para que eu ignorasse, outros tantos disseram que minha luta era em vão e que eu deveria apenas "jogar futebol".
Mas, como sempre disse, não sou vítima de racismo. Eu sou algoz de racistas. Essa primeira condenação penal da história da Espanha não é por mim. É por todos os pretos.
Que os outros racistas tenham medo, vergonha e se escondam nas sombras. Caso contrário, estarei aqui para cobrar. Obrigado a La Liga e ao Real Madrid por ajudarem nessa condenação histórica. Vem mais por aí… 🙏🏾✊🏿
⬛ Son ya casi ocho meses siendo testigos del horror absoluto que el Gobierno de Israel está infringiendo a la población civil con ataques incesantes e indiscriminados sobre la Franja de Gaza.
#NoConMiSilencio
https://t.co/UwDLQAGz0W
🗣️📢 Difunde y comparte
“We see gunshot wounds now in children from quadcopters, which are basically drones with guns.
And we have been seeing an alarming number of increasing infectious diseases, including hepatitis A outbreaks.” - Dr Amber Alayyan, MSF Deputy Programme Manager for the Middle East.
#TalkAboutGazaMSF
Gaza is one of the great journalistic scandals of our time.
Israeli leaders made it clear from the start they were going to:
- Starve Gaza
- Erase Gaza from the map
- Give Israeli soldiers total impunity
This should have defined media coverage.
But it didn't.
Why?
STARVE OR LEAVE
Let’s cut to the chase: of course Israel deliberately targeted the WCK relief convoy. Not only do all the material facts point to this conclusion. There also aren’t any grounds to doubt it; the heavy burden of proof falls on Israel to demonstrate that it was not a premeditated strike. On October 8, 2023, Israel announced a total blockade of Gaza: no food, fuel, water, or electricity would be allowed in. The rationale behind this order was laid out by former Israeli National Security Council head Giora Eiland: “Israel should not allow any economic assistance. The people should be told that they have two choices: to stay and to starve, or to leave.” For the next two weeks, Israel blocked the entry of any aid into Gaza. Flagrant mass murder not being a good look, President Biden counseled Prime Minister Netanyahu to lighten up a bit. Israel tweaked its murder plan so as to pass muster with its enablers in Washington. But it did not alter the essence of its game-plan. Human Rights Watch documented in December that Israel was “using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare.” Normally reticent senior international and humanitarian officials have in recent weeks openly charged that “Starvation is used as a weapon of war. Israel is provoking famine." (Josop Borrell, EU foreign policy chief) If—as everyone seems to agree—Israel’s declared objective is to starve Gaza’s civilian population, then: HOW COULD IT NOT PLUG THE HOLES IN ITS MURDER PLAN BY TARGETING INTERNATIONAL RELIEF ORGANIZATIONS? And in fact it’s mission accomplished: international aid operations in Gaza have largely ceased “as a result of recent attacks on humanitarian workers by the IDF.” (“Letter to the White House and National Security Council,” April 4, 2024) But it might be wondered: Wasn’t it foolhardy for Israel to risk international opprobrium? Not at all. Israel has targeted by various metrics an historically unprecedented number of hospitals, medics, journalists, and aid workers; it has killed an unprecedented number of women and children. It is ever testing the limits of the permissible. So far, it’s successfully crossed every downward threshold into barbarism with impunity. It’s impossible to predict in advance which story will be picked up by the fickle international media and which story will just get passing notice. The latest atrocity could just as easily have been subsumed in a paragraph on the inside pages under the title “Aid workers killed in Gaza.” The only error Israel might have—it’s too soon to tell—committed was anticipating that it would get another free pass. Indeed, Israel’s news bureau in the US, the New York Times, is already spinning the story to exonerate Israel: “botched operation ... mistakes and misjudgments ... accidental killing.” (“Back-to-Back Israeli Strikes Show Tragic Gaps in Choosing Targets,” April 4, 2024) It’s also being said that it’s not senior Israeli officials but on the contrary IDF field commanders and soldiers who are out of control, or that Israel’s resort to AI is behind the hecatomb in Gaza. That’s all bullshit. During its periodic “mowing-the-lawn” hi-tech murder sprees in Gaza (Operation Cast Lead, Operation Protective Edge), Israel has always used DISCRIMINATELY INDISCRIMINATE firepower to terrorize Gaza’s civilian population into submission. The nub of the problem is neither disciplinary nor technical. It’s Israel’s murder plan: to make Gaza unlivable and to force its people to decide—starve or leave.