One year ago, a ceasefire was announced in Gaza. Today, Israel continues to:
⚫ Kill Palestinians and destroy civilian infrastructure
⚫ Restrict aid and cut essential services
⚫ Force people into an ever-shrinking space
This is not a ceasefire, this is a genocide.
Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank have been carrying out a campaign of violence and intimidation unmatched in recent memory, attacking and displacing Palestinians and establishing scores of government-backed settlements and illegal outposts. https://t.co/NIs0flJljZ
Palestinian farmers have been forced to flee after Israeli forces fired tear gas and stun guns towards them while they were harvesting olives.
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Video footage shows an Israeli MP smashing a Palestinian monument with a hammer while Israeli soldiers stood nearby.
The Israeli military said it authorised and provided security for the trip, but did not grant permission to demolish the monument.
Sky's @adamparsons reports
“I did a leg amputation on a 5-year-old girl, and the only anesthesia that we had was the anesthesia doctor singing to her… We were praying for her to faint. She stayed awake the whole amputation.”
Absolutely devastating testimony from doctors in Gaza.
Israeli settlers are besieging Palestinian homes, backed by Israeli forces who are blocking access to healthcare in the West Bank.
Three families living in the village of Qusra, just south of Nablus, have been facing regular settler attacks since January.
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GAZA: THE SUFFERING CONTINUES
Today in Gaza, most of the TV cameras are gone and media interest has declined. But, more than nine months after the announcement of a supposed “ceasefire”, the suffering of the Palestinian people continues.
Today, 92% of housing units in Gaza are damaged or destroyed, 70% of the entire population lacks adequate housing and is forced to live in makeshift shelters, 86% of agricultural water wells have been damaged, the vast majority of households report significant challenges in accessing safe and clean sanitation facilities and 90% of all energy infrastructure has been destroyed.
And what about the children? Today in Gaza, 91% of school-aged children do not have sustained access to in-person education, 93% of school buildings will require full reconstruction or major rehabilitation to be functional again and 70% of infants and young children under two years of age are experiencing moderate to severe food insecurity.
All of this is taking place after the horrific destruction that Netanyahu’s extremist government brought to Gaza over the last three years: more than 73,000 Palestinians killed and 173,000 wounded — mostly women, children and the elderly. In addition, virtually the entire infrastructure of Gaza was destroyed.
Israel now controls an estimated 70% of Gaza, well beyond what they agreed to, and has built dozens of military outposts inside Gaza since the “ceasefire” began. In the nine months since the “ceasefire” was announced, Israel has killed at least 1,150 Palestinians, including a family of six last week.
Now, as if to remove any doubt about their intentions, senior leaders of the Netanyahu government are moving to make the occupation permanent. Recently, a number of government ministers led thousands of settlers to the Gaza border demanding new illegal Jewish settlements be built there. National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir stood up and said "Gaza is ours."
The shameful fact is that the United States is complicit in everything that is happening in Gaza. We have funneled tens of billions of dollars in military aid to an Israeli government that has consistently violated international law and whose leader is a war criminal.
The good news is that the American people are catching on. More and more Americans — Democrats, Republicans and independents — are demanding that we stop all military aid to Israel and use our considerable leverage to end the suffering of the Palestinian people.
Enough is enough! Congress must listen to the American people. NO MORE U.S. MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL.
Israel is still bombing Gaza.
Israel is still bombing Gaza.
Israel is still bombing Gaza.
Israel is still bombing Gaza.
Israel is still bombing Gaza.
Israel is still bombing Gaza.
Israel is still bombing Gaza.
Israel is still bombing Gaza.
Israel is still bombing Gaza.
Israel is dropping white phosphorus on South Lebanon, deliberately burning our villages and farm lands.
They have incinerated over 3,000 hectares of South Lebanon since 2023.
This is a war crime in broad daylight.
This is ecocide.
🚨🇮🇱 NEW: Israel today killed the public relations director of the Egyptian Relief Committee in Gaza, an hour before the Argentina-Egypt World Cup match
The committee had been responsible for organising public screenings of the World Cup across Gaza
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Palestinian goalkeeper Saleem Al-Ashqar was shot dead by Israeli forces in Gaza. Married just five months ago, he leaves behind a wife expecting their first child. The Palestinian Football Association says more than 1,000 Palestinian athletes have been killed since October 2023.