This is not the most shocking or evil thing that Israel does to the Palestinians, but it does speak to what its true intentions are in a unique way. Like how they killed all the buffalo to help eliminate the American Indians.
Israel's high-tech industry and defense establishment are key actors in the genocide in Gaza.
The least the EU can do is to terminate funding them through Israel’s participation into the Horizon program.
Failure to do that would aggravate EU legal responsibilities.
Today is a day of national and international shame.
This famine could have been prevented, if only our government treated Palestinians as human beings whose lives were worth saving.
How can food be blocked yet arms still flow?
The UN has declared famine in Gaza.
It is the first officially recognized famine in the history of the Middle East.
A human-made crime, not a natural tragedy.
Israel is deliberately starving Gaza before the eyes of the world.
This isn’t war.
It’s calculated extermination.
Today the UN-backed IPC has declared famine in Gaza City and its surrounding areas, which it describes as ‘entirely man-made'. Our new report, authored with @WorldPeaceFdtn, breaks down the architecture of genocidal starvation, concluding that the Israeli model for aid distribution in Gaza has exacerbated mass starvation in Gaza and contributed to the breakdown of Palestinian civil society.
Our analysis shows how Israel's new ‘military model’ for aid, implemented through the GHF and now also airdrops, is deliberately dangerous and ineffectual, and can by no means be considered ‘humanitarian’.
In the words of Alex de Waal, Executive Director of @WorldPeaceFdtn: ‘The dehumanization of Palestinians, the stripping of basic dignity, and the tearing apart of the fabric of the community are not accidental byproducts of the mass starvation inflicted on the people of Gaza. There is every reason to believe that these are what Israel intends through its militarised ration system.’
Read an overview of our findings here: https://t.co/915H9JY3eK, and our full report here: https://t.co/yf7PuCqZMq
We turned off all the lights in the house a short while ago. No one moves. No one speaks. Even the children - we try our best to keep them quiet. The quadcopters keep flying overhead, too close to the houses, as if they're hunting for any movement, any sound. There's no room for mistakes. The feeling of being trapped is indescribable. No electricity, no safety, not even a sense that we’ll make it to tomorrow. What life are you talking about? Everything around us says life here has ended - it just hasn’t been buried yet.
Just when it seems there are no words left to describe the living hell in Gaza, a new one has been added: “famine”.
This is not a mystery — it is a man-made disaster, a moral indictment and a failure of humanity itself. Famine is not only about food; it is the deliberate collapse of the systems needed for human survival. People are starving. Children are dying. And those with the duty to act are failing. As the occupying power, Israel has unequivocal obligations under international law — including the duty of ensuring food and medical supplies of the population. We cannot allow this situation to continue with impunity.
No more excuses. The time for action is not tomorrow — it is now. We need an immediate ceasefire, the immediate release of all hostages and full, unfettered humanitarian access.
People looking back on this period will never understand, because there is no way to understand, how Israel deliberately starved Palestinians in Gaza, how food aid piled up at every border of the Gaza strip and the entire world could not compel Israel to let it through
If you have to use the starvation of women and children to achieve your goals then you’ve already lost in ways that you cannot imagine
#Peace#Palestine#Gaza#ICC#Women#Children
A new report in The Economist (based partly on Lancet medical data research) says that the true Palestinian death toll in Gaza –– of traumatic deaths alone –– could be as high as 109,000.
This is more than double the Gaza health ministry's current figures –– which we've always known was an extremely conservative undercount.
Once you've added in deaths from indirect causes –– deliberately induced starvation and purposely destroyed health care –– there's no doubt that Israel's Gaza Holocaust has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians already.
How many more lives will Zionism consume?
I weep for the Palestinians being murdered in full view of the whole world
Israel will never recover from having done this
The West will never recover from supporting & enabling this
HOW can we teach our children right from wrong when we allow this abomination, this GENOCIDE
I’m excited to share a new collection of paintings of North Berwick. This beautiful East Lothian town is just a stone’s throw from Edinburgh. I’ll be adding them to my website today but please reach out if you’re interested. Thanks and have a great weekend.