you must live
to tell my story
to sell my things
to buy a piece of cloth
and some strings
(make it white with a long tail)
so that a child, somewhere in Gaza
while looking heaven in the eye
awaiting his dad, who left in a blaze
and bid no one farewell
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Veteran war correspondent Janine di Giovanni drops the uncomfortable truth:
"If a missile hits a hospital in Ukraine, Europe calls it a war crime.
But if missiles hit a hospital in Gaza and 100 people die, it’s suddenly Israel’s right to defend itself."
This isn't journalism. This is selective outrage.
Western capitals that rallied sanctions, weapons, and moral condemnation against Russia in Ukraine suddenly lose their voice or invent excuses when the same horrors unfold in Gaza. Hospitals. Schools. Civilian shelters.
Where is the consistency? Where is the universal application of international law?
The Global South sees it clearly: Some victims are more equal than others. Hypocrisy isn't a bug in the system it's the operating manual.
Africa watches. The world watches. History will judge this double standard harshly.
It's pretty disgraceful that there has been absolutely no mention of this from the Prime Minister.
It's increasingly clear that some attacks, correctly, warrant disgust, emergency measures and days of media coverage.
Others seem to be met with silence.
“Four young teenage boys were brought in, all of whom had been shot in the testicles.”
In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Nick Maynard, a British surgeon who has worked repeatedly in Gaza since 2010, describes a pattern of shootings at food distribution points where children were shot in specific body parts on different days.
“The pattern of injuries that we all witnessed was so striking, that it was it was clearly beyond coincidental, and it seemed to us that there was a game of target practice.”
He also details quadcopters hovering over tents and spraying bullets indiscriminately, and recounts the death of six neonates left in incubators at Al-Nasr pediatric hospital after Israeli forces evacuated the hospital and left them to rot.
“This surgeon’s mode of torture was being raped to death.”
In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Nick Maynard, a British surgeon who has worked repeatedly in Gaza since 2010, highlights evidence and testimonies regarding the killing of Palestinian surgeon in an Israeli prison
These are the pants of the child, #Jawad Abu Nasser — who was totured in Gaza by Israeli soldiers, a small piece of fabric that stands as powerful evidence of the crime.
They bear traces of his blood, reflecting the abuse he endured. A visible hole can also be seen, indicating the insertion of a sharp object, resembling a metal rod, into his foot, with a clear exit point through both the foot and the fabric.
The evidence does not end there; there are also marks that appear to be burns, likely caused by cigarettes being extinguished on them.
The pants of a child not yet a year and a half old… yet they tell a story that cannot be justified.
OMG!
Jewish-American doctor recounts how Israeli soldiers took two Palestinian children, tied their hands behind their backs, and buried them alive.
"Their cries being muffled by the dirt as it was poured upon them while they were being buried alive."
These were children!
Six months have passed since the publishing of our report, which documented the arbitrary detention of more than 100 medical personnel from Gaza. Since the report’s publication, our organization has visited more than 25 of them and gathered additional testimonies about ongoing physical violence, repeated cell raids, lack of food and medical treatment, and months of detention in dirty clothes. All detainees are currently being held without charge, some for more than a year, in violation of due process and in serious breach of the right to health of Gaza's population.
https://t.co/kinQAjFYT7
Dr. Abu Safiya requested to be examined by a doctor because of Scabies and heart problems, but his request was ignored. He takes regular medication for high blood pressure, but he testified that he has not been examined by an IPS doctor since his arrest. He has remained in the same clothes since his arrest and did not receive a new set of clothes until the morning of his visit.
Dr. Abu Safiya described the violence perpetrated by prison guards during frequent cell searches. According to him, detainees receive very small amounts of food, many of them have lost a significant amount of weight, and they have been held in dirty clothes for months.
During our successfully conducted visit today to Dr. Husam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, who was arrested in December 2024 and remains incarcerated in Israel, a serious and alarming picture emerged.
Since his arrest, Dr. Abu Safiya has lost approximately 25 kilograms. He suffers from serious scabies and heart problems but is not receiving any medical treatment. It became clear during the visit that Dr. Abu Safiya has not been brought before a judge, investigated, or given any information about the reason for his arrest since March.
In what world is this acceptable?
This is a young man who lost his leg in a previous Israel attack.
Today he was killed by Israel while seeking aid from the Zikim Crossing.
Baby Abdullah abu Zarqa has died of hunger as rate of death among malnourished people in Gaza has been rising steadily due to the enforced Israeli starvation!
Dr. Norman G. Finkelstein on the so-called "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" aid sites:
"How do they distribute the food? You know how they distribute it? They throw it on the floor and then people are supposed to run for it, to reduce them to rats.
Dr. Norman G. Finkelstein on the so-called "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" aid sites:
"How do they distribute the food? You know how they distribute it? They throw it on the floor and then people are supposed to run for it, to reduce them to rats.
Whenever I read about that, it reminds me in the concentration camps, the food they put in the giant vat, it's almost all water. I'm referring to World War II now. It's almost all water, but there are few vegetables, a few vegetables in that vat of soup.
And so, what can you imagine? the people who are lining up, they're pushing each other. They're shoving each other because you have to get to the head of the line or it's just water.
And that's what they do to the people of Gaza, reducing them to scurrying rats. And then as they go for the food, the Israelis because they're scared, they're afraid, they start shooting at the people, killing them as they scramble and scurry for the food."
Full talk: https://t.co/9vYPPUZcz7
🚨Horrific footage : shows the Israeli army targeting a Palestinian little girl in Jabalia, north of Gaza.
She was filling water for her family amid the famine and thirst imposed by Israel when a drone missile struck her.
"As I said before the war... For each one (killed on October 7th), 50 Palestinians should die. It doesn't matter whether (they are) children... They need to (undergo) a Nakba every now and then to feel the price."
Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva, former director of the Israeli Military Intelligence Directorate, in a private conversation, some time in the past few months.
In addition to the genocidal excerpts which were already widely circulated in English, I added two more relevant clips from the recordings exposed yesterday on Channel 12 news.
“When I entered Gaza the Israeli military had a rule: I was only allowed to bring in three kilos of food. As I was weighing out protein bars, trying to get under the limit, I said to my husband: ‘How sinister is this?’ I’m a humanitarian aid worker. Why would there even be a limit on food? I’ve worked in many places with extreme hunger, but what’s so jarring in this context is how cruel it is, how deliberate. I was in Gaza for two months; there’s no way to describe the horror of what’s happening. And I say this as a pediatric ICU doctor who sees children die as part of my work. Among our own staff we have doctors and nurses who are trying to treat patients while hungry, exhausted. They’re living in tents. Some of them have lost fifteen, twenty members of their families. In the hospital there are kids maimed by airstrikes: missing arms, missing legs, third degree burns. Often there’s not enough pain medication. But the children are not screaming about the pain, they’re screaming: ‘I’m hungry! I’m hungry!” I hate to only focus on the kids, because nobody should be starving. But the kids, it just haunts you in a different way. When my two months were finished, I didn’t want to leave. It’s a feeling I haven’t experienced in nearly twenty years of humanitarian assignments. But I felt ashamed. Ashamed to leave my Palestinian colleagues, who were some of the most beautiful and compassionate people that I’ve ever met. I was ashamed as an American, as a human being, that we’ve been unable to stop something that is so clearly a genocide. I remember when our bus pulled out of the buffer zone. Out the window on one side I could see Rafah, which was nothing but rubble. On the other side was lush, green Israel. When we exited the gate, the first thing I saw was a group of Israeli soldiers, sitting at a table, eating lunch. I’ve never felt so nauseous seeing a table full of food.”
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Aqsa Durrani is a pediatric doctor and board member of Doctors Without Borders USA, with nearly twenty years of experience in humanitarian projects. During our interview Aqsa repeatedly expressed a desire to center the voices of her Palestinian colleagues. To this end I’ve spent the past week collecting stories from the Palestinian staff of Doctors Without Borders in Gaza. I will be sharing these stories over the next several days. I’m so grateful for the time that these people gave me; they were sleepless, hungry, traumatized, and often working 24-hour shifts. Because of the unreliable internet connection their images are sometimes grainy. Their words, however, will be crystal clear.
Israel’s overnight killing of 6 Palestinian journalists in #Gaza is not simply a war crime or a crime against humanity, it is a central tool in carrying out genocide and a calculated weapon used to execute this campaign