Children in Gaza are having their names written on their hands to facilitate the identification of their bodies in case they are killed in an Israeli attack.
#Gaza_Genocide#ceasefireInGazaNOW
@georgegalloway It's totally heart-wrenching to see this, if these attacks on innocent and trapped people in GAZA aren't labeled as terrorism, then what on earth would be considered terrorism?
“Why is that the Muslim community’s fault? That’s just Islamophobia.”
Caller Iqbal confronts @WesStreeting over the wording of Sir Keir Starmer’s tweet following his visit to the South Wales Islamic Centre.
So much space continues to be dedicated to the Hamas attack more than two weeks on. But the article linked below is a rare attempt to try to piece together the events of October 7 without simply relying on Israel's official, increasingly strained narrative.
The author refers to the infamous 'Hannibal directive', which compels the Israeli army to kill Israelis rather than let them be taken hostage. It usually applies to military personnel, and has been used a number of times in the past.
But the author points out there are plenty of indications to suggest it was applied *as policy* towards Israeli civilians during the Hamas attack. In other words, the army appears to have preferred to kill both the Israelis and Hamas militants holding them in communities near Gaza rather than try to negotiate a release.
Were a significant number of the 1,400 Israelis who died during the Hamas attack killed as a result of intentional efforts to stop them being taken by Hamas into Gaza? Read on: https://t.co/ajXvQzREFm
Here is a 2009 report by me on Israel's 'Hannibal directive', concerning an Israeli mental patient who was shot dead by Israeli soldiers as he tried to enter Gaza.
It gives a brief history of the highly secret military directive and how it came to light:
https://t.co/dRx2bT3g9p
There are more trucks delivering food to supermarkets on a single road in my constituency than there are for 2.2 million people in Gaza.
End the siege, now.
@Jonathan_K_Cook 1 question I would have is...
Where would the Gazans get they chemical from?
It's a prison. Nothing goes in or out without Israel approval.
So again I would ask how do they get the chemical?
@Jonathan_K_Cook There’s even more to it: I think it signals that Israel may use chemical weapons and this gives them the “out” to say it was Hamas blowing themselves up. They completely control the narrative here.
After peddling the lie of Hamas beheading babies, western media are once again promoting an easily debunked deception from Israel.
President Isaac Herzog says a Hamas fighter killed in Israel was carrying a manual on how to make chemical weapons.
EXCEPT:
The manual is *not* about how to make chemical weapons. It is a short online biography of Ramzi Yousef, who was jailed for trying to bomb the World Trade Center in 1993.
Israel is trying to manipulate westerners into thinking Hamas is the same as al-Qaeda and Islamic State. Why? So we will be more sympathetic to the idea of destroying Gaza and care less about Israel's campaign of atrocities.
Even assuming this document is genuine, and not planted, evidence, it suggests only that Hamas – caged into Gaza, like its other 2.3 million inhabitants – is trying to develop new guerrilla tactics to free Gaza from 15 years of a slow-motion, genocidal siege.
The answer to that isn't to deepen the reasons for Palestinian grievance by speeding up the genocide. It's to stop the genocide.
@SaulStaniforth Pure evil man… he is describing what Israeli’s are doing to Palestinians and not the other way round. He should stop hallucinating and creating fake stories.