Israel bombed two Al Jazeera journalists then prevented medical workers from reaching cameraman Samer Abu Daqqa for about five hours as he bled to death.
"The world should be outraged about this killing," says independent journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous.
The moral depravity of our world. Here is footage, photos, evidence of a mass execution. Bullet holes in the back of the head and backs of Palestinian men, blood on the walls and not a single western outlet reported this. https://t.co/TfJJFwSwXD
Driving in Palestine now is more dangerous than ever.
Yesterday, I drove from Ramallah to Dura, a village near Hebron to attend the funeral of Ahed, my friend’s baby sister, who had just become a mother. She was shot by an Israeli sniper. A heartbreaking loss.
If I could use Israel’s apartheid roads designated for settlers, it would be an 80-90 minute drive, but it took me 4 hours.
Why?
First, we’re forced to take segregated Palestinian only roads which make it a 2.5 hour drive because of checkpoints.
But these days, it’s even worse as Israel has imposed an even more strict strangulation policy over the West Bank, which means even some of those segregated roads are blocked and there are 10 times as many checkpoints.
Taking this drive outside our village/cities of residence is extremely dangerous for three reasons:
1. *Settler attacks*: Israeli settlers are in rampage mode, and you don’t know when you could get hit by a rock or bullet from one of their raging mobs.
2. *Soldiers at the end of a wrong turn*: There are no signs for what “roads” are currently opened or closed for us, you have to guess or stop to ask locals every few miles. If you make a wrong turn and end up face to face with soldiers, they can shoot you, and claim you attacked them.
3. *Arrests for social media posts*: If you’re stopped at a checkpoint, soldiers these days are taking folks’ phones and checking their WhatsApp’s and telegram and instagram. If you have a message standing in solidarity with Gaza, or anything the Israeli soldiers see as offensive, they’ll beat you to a pulp, and could even arrest you. My friend Diala, a human rights lawyer, was just arrested at one of these checkpoints this evening. We don’t know why, but it likely relates to her work and messages they found on her phone about it.
On my end, driving back at night was a nightmare, mainly because I had a friend in the car and was worried about him.
As we drove back, these historically busy streets were ghostly empty because nobody is taking the risk of driving at night unless necessary.
Every turn I’d take, I’d slow down to a crawl to make sure there was no trigger happy soldier or angry settler ready to pounce.
I got lucky as, although we waited at a checkpoint for an hour, the soldiers got bored and literally opened the checkpoint for all the cars to pass without any security check — proof they’re using these checkpoints arbitrarily as collective punishment.
In Dura, I saw where Ahed was shot.
The soldiers had stormed her village as part of their intimidation tactics in the West Bank to keep people anxious. Ahed ran to her roof to warn her husband to come home. An Israeli sniper shot her in the head.
As I drove home, thinking of Ahed, her heart broken family, the families of my friends in Gaza, all the souls we’ve lost, and how easy my life could be taken for simply driving across my ancestral lands to help my friend in her grief.
It shouldn’t have to be said, but our lives are precious. They’re beautiful. They’re equally worthy of joy and basic dignity.
I’m committed to one day being able to drive across my people’s ancestral land a free man, surrounded by my liberated people.
If Israel’s death machine is haunting us around every corner, we might as well live fighting for a life worth dying for.
Rafah | A very ugly massacre
8 Palestinians murdered (so far) and many others injured in an Israeli airstrike on Zmili family’s home in Janinah Neighborhood.
𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 & 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻. (𝟲 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻 & 𝟮 𝘄𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻)
Is this what killed Sherman and other Israeli PoWs and hostages? If so, how common is IDF's use of this kind of chemical warfare? Does Israel use it against Palestinian civilians as well?
How many gassed?
The world must act. The west has to stop backing this monster of a country.
BREAKING: After killing at least 24,000 Palestinians in Gaza - 70% of them women and children - Israel has not killed even one senior Hamas leader, according to US intelligence officials. From an article buried deep in the @nytimes.
Israel faces a genocide trial for a reason.⤵️
The Israeli military killed captive soldier Ron Sherman with poison gas, according to his mother
Maayan Sherman, mother of Ron Sherman, a captive Israeli soldier whose body was recovered from a tunnel in Jabalia refugee camp by Israeli forces in December, writes on Facebook that her son was killed by Israeli military poison gas, not by Hamas, as was originally claimed.
"The results of the investigation:
Ron was indeed murdered
Not by Hamas
Think more in the direction of Auschwitz and the showers but without Nazis and without Hamas as the cause
Not an accidental shooting
Not friendly fire
Premeditated murder
Bombs with poisonous gasses
Ron was kidnapped because of the criminal negligence of all the senior military and damned government officials who gave an order to eliminate him in order to settle a score with some terrorist from Jabaliya.
Oh yes, and they also found that he also had several crushed fingers, apparently due to his desperate attempts to get out of the poison grave that the IDF buried him in when he tried to breathe air but breathed only IDF poison.
My love.. May I die in your place.. What a nightmare you went through! Death in terrible agony! And all at the behest of the Israel Defense Forces, which you trusted and appreciated so much, and the government cabinet.
There is no future for this country if this is what they did to you after they abandoned you that Shabbat.
What was the decision if Bibi's son was there in the terrorist's tunnel or Gallant's grandson?? Or the son of Herzi Halevi?
Would they also have been poisoned with gas bombs?"
I've read South Africa's case alleging genocide against Israel.
It is one of the most shocking things I've ever read.
It feels like you're reading a gruesome historical document about how a genocide was allowed to happen, then you realise this is now.
https://t.co/wg2jwJcCNc
A boundless mentality of brutality!
Oren Schindler, the commander of the 74th battalion in the 188th brigade, stated, "Our goal is to ensure that wherever the IDF encounters Gaza, there is widespread destruction. In every location we visited, only sand remained, and houses were leveled to the ground."
✍️ “Gaza would make a great parking lot!”
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The Tragedy of the Palestinians -
so many bright & opinionated people remain completely ignorant of their history of dispossession and subjugation, and go out of their way not to even try to understand it. There are no well known movies about the Nakba in English, no TV series telling of the Palestinian plight & while, rightfully, all UK schoolchildren by law learn about the Holocaust, few, if any, study the Nakba. The Palestinian cause drowns in that well of ignorance and indifference.
It's one of the great injustices of our world and never has that been more obvious than in the last three months, in the way the West has lined up to enable and assist in the mass murder of the people of Gaza and the levelling of their refugee camps.
Today I met with UNRWA officials in Jordan, visited one of their schools for Palestinian refugees and met with a dynamic group of their youth parliamentarians, elected by their peers to be their voices. Their passion for education and human rights is inspiring.
Germany, a country that claims it has learned from its own history, has failed this test: even at a point where Palestinian babies and children will die in masses of the impact of malnutrition and lack of water the German government is silent. A deadly silence that will haunt us.
Stop what you're doing and read this medic's account of being tortured by Israeli and American soldiers in Gaza.
Literal hell. These soldiers have no humanity whatsoever.
Please read it to the end and share.
https://t.co/9ey11YgZ0E
.@MustafaBarghou1 explains that Israel has three options. Either a two state solution, which they reject, one democratic state with equal rights for all, which they reject, or ethnically cleanse the Palestinian people from all of Palestine, which is what they've been trying to do
The UN Secretary-General’s Special Advisor on Genocide has issued a statement of concern on a #genocide that happened 30 years ago, while still remaining silent on the genocide happening on her watch in #Gaza. The UN is failing the people of #Palestine- again.
#Gaza_Genocide