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[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

I just saw the body of a little girl, her skin grayed and covered in ash, being wrapped in a sheet. Her torn leg was laid next to her.

The decline in reporting isn’t because the daily horrors in Gaza are over, Israel is killing Palestinians every day.

[Hammam Farah @HumHum83]

I searched a Gaza war crimes archive for my family.

I quickly realized I wasn’t using it the way most people would. I wasn’t browsing it as an activist, researcher or journalist.

I was looking for my family.

My heart sank as I filtered the archive by the dates we lost them and searched for someone I loved.

I found footage I hadn’t seen before of the bombing of the Church of St. Porphyrius, where my cousin Soliman was killed.

I searched for the day my great aunt Elham was murdered, and the day Nahida and Samar Anton were killed by Israeli snipers at the Holy Family Catholic Church.

Eyewitnesses told us Elham was crushed by an Israeli tank. I have graphic photographs of her body that were sent to me by church workers in Gaza, but I found no footage of what happened.

It made me wonder how many people died without leaving behind any visual record.

The realization stayed with me.

Here was a digital graveyard where pieces of my own family history are preserved for journalists, historians, truth seekers and, undoubtedly, those seeking to exploit or consume human suffering.

I know I won’t be the only person to experience this. Other Palestinians searching for loved ones almost certainly will too. But it struck me that this is a form of grief that could scarcely have existed before our time.

It’s a form of grief I never imagined could exist.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

The International Court of Justice, the world’s highest court, ruled back in 2004 – nearly a quarter of a century ago – that Israel’s Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem violated international law and needed to be dismantled.

It reiterated that demand in a decision two years ago in which it identified Israel as an apartheid state ruling over Palestinians. It warned states to “take steps to prevent trade or investment relations that assists in the maintenance of the illegal situation created by Israel in the occupied Palestinian territory”.

And yet the West has done nothing tangible year after year as the settlements have stolen more land from Palestinians, made their lives there ever more miserable, and trashed any chance of the West’s supposed ambition of two states living alongside each other.

Remember this when Israel’s apologists tell you to wait for the same court’s definitive ruling – in a year or two, or maybe three – on what it deemed in early 2024 to be a “plausible” genocide in Gaza, just three months into Israel’s mass slaughter there.

Not only will any such ruling be far too late to make any difference to the victims of the genocide, but the US, Britain and Europe will do precisely no more to punish Israel for this crime of crimes – one we can see for ourselves without an ICJ ruling – than they have done in punishing Israel for the settlements.

Why? Because most western states no more wish to impose a penalty on Israel for its crimes than you would want to amputate a healthy arm.

If they refuse to lift a finger to stop a live-streamed genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, why on earth would anyone imagine they are ready to do anything to stop Israel’s violent settlers ethnically cleansing the West Bank?

The settlements are as deeply integrated into Israel as your arm is attached to your shoulder. And in turn, Israel is as much the punching fist of the imperial West’s war machine as the City of London – and its former tax-haven colonies – are the beating heart of the imperial West’s financial machine.

Western elites cannot imagine a world without Israel as their military thug in the oil-rich Middle East any more than you can imagine life without your arm.

That explains why no one really believed that EU foreign ministers, meeting once again this week to discuss banning settlement products – the bare minimum they have long been obligated to do under international law – would reach an agreement.

More than 100 legal scholars had earlier written to the European Commission’s top trade and foreign policy officials stressing the EU’s “international legal obligation”.

But as everyone predicted, EU ministers kicked the can down the road – until at least October, when they agreed to more talks about talks.

This is an extract from my latest article The West won't punish the settlements. Its two-state solution was always a sham. Find a link to the rest in the reply post ⬇️

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

Still no journalists allowed to enter Gaza. No journalists complain

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⚠️The Egyptian Relief Committee in Gaza had been organizing public screenings of World Cup matches for displaced families across the Strip. About an hour before today’s Egypt-Argentina match, Israel killed the committee’s public relations director in a strike on his vehicle. Two others, including a child, were also killed.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

I just saw a little girl in Gaza, barely more than a baby, in a blood-soaked shirt and the back of her head split open. She was killed, along with her mother, because Israel is killing Palestinians every day.

The decline in reporting isn’t because the genocide ever stopped. It’s because Israel killed the journalists and their Western colleagues want you to believe there’s a “ceasefire.”

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

The CPJ decision to functionally change the definition of journalist - while our news industry in the U.S. is filled with former IDF soldiers covering the occupation & genocide they helped build and justify, including Barak Ravid who was in the IDF reserves until March 2023 - is not only indicative of the racism under which the entire western journalism order functions but also of the extent of the complicity of this industry in the slaughter of Palestinian journalists.

A dark, shameful day and proof that no, things are not getting “better” - the whole project is to erase and minimize these crimes until everyone forgets and moves on.

[ُ sushi ibushi 𖣂 @svhibe]

that’s 128,000 square meters, 12.8 hectares. about the size of 24 American football fields of olive trees destroyed today by israel.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Why did our ruling class not invest in decarbonising faster to avoid this acceleration in deadly heatwaves that scientists warned would come? Because of the capitalist law of value.

Capital invests in what is most profitable to capital, rather than what is most necessary for humanity, so our ruling class keeps ploughing investment into fossil fuels and SUVs, while we get far too little in renewables and public transit, even while the world burns around us.

We have more than enough capacity (labour, factories, technology) to address the climate crisis, but as long as capital controls investment and production we are prevented from doing it.

We are trapped by the capitalist law of value, living in a miserable shadow of the world we could have.

[Ayesha A. Siddiqi @AyeshaASiddiqi]

they die. thousands of them. and more are dying every year. growing heat risk is increasing excess deaths. this is what the climate scientists were warning about for twenty years. we had two whole decades to intervene. instead Americans especially doubled down.

[Natali Morris @natalimorris]

Israeli soldiers use young boys for "target practice." As in, Mondays, we shoot the stomach, Tuesdays, the knees, etc.

This was reported last year by the BBC and now corroborated by the United Nations' report.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Students were arrested for protesting this.

[OrangeMaxxing FreddyG @OrangeFreddyG]

Just saw a video of a kid in Gaza with a hole in their head that was even more disturbing than the dozen other times I’ve seen that since 10/7. She had a softball sized hole in her head and a Mickey Mouse shirt on.

If anything we are too nice to people who support Israel

[Aidan Simardone @AidanSimardone]

I saw children with their faces ripped off from Israeli attacks and you fuckers called it “self-defense”

[Joe☭🔻 @ScottishCommie]

After watching you lot whitewash a genocide for almost 3 years its no wonder.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Imagine if 8,000 Israeli Jews were missing to this day.

We’d get minute-by-minute updates on their status. We’d know the names of all 8,000 of them.

But because they are Palestinian …. mainstream media is totally indifferent …. they have been completely forgotten.

[Frank.Riot 🍉 @RiotFrank]

Some of those women gave everything so you could sit in that chair, and you repay them by rewriting and erasing their stories, to give cover for genocide. Absolutely pathetic.

[Eve 🇵🇸 @femsocialist]

AI for the poor, actual human teachers for the rich. This is a class issue and we need to recognise it as such, in order to fight this effectively in schools.
The rich wouldn’t accept this for their own kids!