💔🇵🇸 Dr. Refaat al-Ar’eer received a phone call from the Israeli intelligence, disclosing his location at the school where he sought refuge.
They explicitly stated their intention to kill him. To avoid endangering others, he left the school. Tragically, at 6 p.m., the apartment of his sister, where he sought refuge, was bombed. The attack resulted in the murder of Refaat and his sister and her four children.
You can support Israel, or you can support human rights and international law. You can't do both.
Zionism is built on racism, colonialism and land grabs. It is incompatible with the UN Charter and Geneva Convention; how sad and yet unsurprising that the West support it.
People always wonder how the Holocaust happened.
Why did people look away? How could they let that sort of industrialized genocidal slaughter take place? How could so many remain silent, even supportive?
Now we know how it happened. Gaza is showing us the answer to all of those questions.
Israeli soldiers kidnapped Palestinians, then stripped, blindfolded, and transported them in trucks to a ditch, before performing what looks like a mock-execution *at best*.
This is in addition to the regular assassinations and mass killings of people in Gaza.
💔🇵🇸 One of the Palestinian detainees who were released this morning after their arrest yesterday by the ISRAELI army in Beit Lahiya tells QNN:
🚨 The occupation soldiers stripped us naked when they arrested us in the northern Gaza Strip, put us in trucks and took us to the seashore after blindfolding our eyes.
🚨 They put us in the cold, without clothes, and we stayed until 12 a.m. tied up without moving. Then they ordered some of us to return home and kept others in detention.
🚨 We returned on foot, naked, and were surprised to find that most of the homes we left from had been burned and stolen.
Israel told the World Health Organization that it will bomb their medical supplies in Gaza today, so to distract you from that war crime, Israel has made another push of coordinated propaganda about Oct: not about the fake "beheaded babies", but "mass rapes"!
Israeli soldier laughs about raping a 16yo Palestinian girl.
Now you know the war started in 1948, not Oct 7, and why it's called the "Nakba" (catastrophe).
Even the hostages receive Arab hospitality:
Yemenis told the crew on seized ship: we consider you Yemeni & will get you anything
Hamas gave Israeli hostages food, water, medicine, despite shortages, so Israel banned them from giving interviews & saying Hamas treated them well
🇵🇸🇮🇱 ISRAELI HOSTAGE WRITES A LETTER TO HAMAS:
“To the generals who have accompanied me in recent weeks, it seems we will part ways tomorrow, but I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your extraordinary humanity shown towards my daughter, Emilia.
You were like parents to her, inviting her into your rooms whenever she desired.
She acknowledges feeling like all of you are her friends, not just friends, but truly beloved and good.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for the many hours you spent as caregivers.
Thank you for being patient with her and showering her with sweets, fruits, and everything available even when it was not.
Children should not be in captivity, but thanks to you and other kind people we met along the way, my daughter felt like a queen in Gaza...
In general, she acknowledges feeling like the center of the world. She hasn't met anyone on our long journey, from the rank and file to the leadership, who didn't treat her with gentleness, affection, and love.
I will forever be a prisoner of gratitude because she did not leave here with a lifelong psychological trauma. I will remember your kind behavior, granted here despite the difficult situation you were dealing with yourselves and the severe losses you suffered here in Gaza. I wish in this world we could truly be good friends.
I wish you all health and well-being... Health and love to you and your families' children.
Many thanks.
Danyal and Emilia"
Thoughts?