GAZA (Gernika berria, Palestina) versus Israel (gehi AEB + NATO, Pentagonoa eta EB) (28)

This is a 1947 map issued by National Geographic.

There was no such thing called “Israel”.

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World Children’s Day

Mahmoud Darwich

“We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.”

 Mahmoud Darwish

Sendaezinezko gaixotasuna daukagu: esperantza

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BREAKING: Iran, Russia and China will hold a joint military exercise in the Persian Gulf soon The new anti-NATO “Warsaw Pact” is slowly forming. North Korea can be added to these 4 countries, and we get a powerful military alliance in the world, perhaps the most powerful l in terms of the amount of weapons, advanced technology and military experience.

China and Russia have already agreed on a joint scientific center to develop high military technology.

Iran has confirmed that it is receiving advanced Su-35 warplanes from Russia.

North Korea got its first satellite with the help of Russia as well.

It is incredible how Biden and his incompetent administration managed to create a multipolar world in 2 years.

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Take it or shake it, PERIOD!

Mustafa Barghouti @Mustafa_Barghouti@MustafaBarghou1

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The real goal of the Israeli war on Gaza was and still is the ethnic cleansing of all of the Gaza residents and moving them to Sinai desert in Egypt. That is what Netanyahu and his military spokesperson Richard Hecht announced in the first days of the Israeli attack….

Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman

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BREAKING: BABIES CONTINUE TO BE TARGETED BY THE ISRAELI FORCES

Terrorism

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Shocking list of good things happening in Russia. (From a WaPo article)

Manufacturing is booming, thanks to war economy

Investment is soaring because Russian oligarchs have nowhere else to park their money

Tourism and restaurant business are flourishing. In fact, Russians say that the quality of food is much better now.

Oil/gas exports are robust. Heck, even Europe is buying Russian energy through intermediaries like India & Turkey.

Chinese goods have replaced Western products; and yuan has replaced dollar and Euro.

In January, the IMF said that Russian economy will *shrink* by 2.3%. Now, the same IMF says that Russia’s GDP will grow by 2.2%.

Budget deficit is insignificant (1% of GDP)

And Putin’s approval rate is 80%

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BREAKING: Israel just murdered journalist Montaser Mustafa Al-Sawaf. Montaser is now the 72nd journalist killed by Israel in Gaza, in just 8 weeks. This is the highest toll of journalists killed during a “war” in modern history. Where is the International Criminal Court?

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Israel is bombing Khan Yunis, in south Gaza, now. Israel is telling civilians to leave south Gaza. They have nowhere to go. Clear that Israel wants to push the Palestinians out of Gaza and into the Sinai desert through a terror campaign. This is genocide and ethnic cleansing.

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شهداء القصف الاسرائيلي الجبان اليوم من الاطفال الفلسطينيين الأبرياء! جريمة حرب موثقة

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Only one side treats hostages as humans.

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Trita Parsi@tparsi

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“The siege itself is a genocide.” Former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

@MorenoOcampo1 argues that the siege of Gaza is itself a genocide because it creates the condition to destroy a people and because of the intent expressed by Israeli leaders.

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IDF Chief Rabbi Says Soldiers Can Rape Arab Women To Boost Morale. This is Zionism. “our concern is success in war, Torah permitted [soldiers] to satisfy evil urge under conditions it stipulated for sake of success.”

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The Weeknd, first singer and celebrity to be donate $2.5 million to humanitarian aid in Gaza. Four million meals to feed more than 173,000 families for two weeks. While other celebrities are afraid to speak up to protect their interests.

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The IDF says Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi and the head of the Shin Bet, Ronen Bar, held an assessment today at the Southern Command and approved battle plans for Israel’s ground offensive in Gaza. “We are focused on continuing dismantling Hamas, and on creating conditions for the return of additional hostages,” Halevi says in remarks provided by the IDF.

Scott Ritter@RealScottRitter

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@manniefabian

erabiltzaileari erantzuten

Let me get this straight… These are the guys who were in charge on October 7? And you still tolerate their presence in positions of responsibility when it comes to the security of Israel? And I thought the U.S. mainstream media had sold out…

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This is Gaza now: journalist Saleh Aljfarawi @salehaljafarawi reports from on the ground as the Israeli regime dishes out ever more terror

Clare Daly@ClareDalyMEP

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On the left hand side, political theatre for US voters. On the right, reality. Israel’s carnage continues because the US and the EU refuse to pull the leash. Don’t think you’ll ever wash the blood off your hands, @JoeBiden. This is the West’s genocide too.

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BREAKING: Israeli army attacks a ‘Doctors without Borders -MFS’ convoy in Gaza!

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50k in the streets for Palestine today in Montreal.

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My final article on the IDF campaign against Shifa Hospital confirms IDF found no evidence that Hamas ever used the hospital itself to wage war. In fact IDF did not even know when or if it had ever been used by Hamas.

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Peddling Propaganda About al-Shifa

(https://consortiumnews.com/2023/12/01/peddling-propaganda-about-al-shifa/9

December 1, 2023

Gareth Porter begins his dissection of a U.S. journalist’s unequivocal backing of Israel’s justification for closing down Gaza’s largest hospital with a simple test: Who is the source?

Major General Herzi Halevi, at left, with other members of the Israeli military at the Egypt–Israel border in June. (IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0)

By Gareth Porter

Special to Consortium News

The argument over the Israeli accusation that Hamas used Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital as a shield for its military effort against the Israel Defense Forces has continued, even as the headlines have shifted to the Israel-Hamas prisoner swap. 

On Nov. 23, well-known author and online journalist Fred Kaplan weighed in forcefully in favor of the Israeli charge.

In a post on “X,” Kaplan, who writes a weekly column on defense and foreign affairs for Slate magazine, posted a comment supporting the conclusion of an article in the Israeli daily Haaretz unequivocally supporting the IDF’s position.  

Kaplan’s post declared, “Clear evidence in Ha’aretz (which is often critical of Israel govt), that Hamas used tunnels under Al-Shifa hospital as a command center.”   

With that, Kaplan defended the IDF’s justification for closing down Gaza’s largest hospital while carrying out a war designed to destroy vast areas of the world’s most densely populated urban enclave. That hard-line view does not stand up to closer scrutiny.  

The Haaretz article in question fails to provide a convincing case for the Israeli government’s claim that Hamas was using the tunnel under al-Shifa Hospital as command center, and therefore that the hospital was being used as a ‘human shield.” Instead it merely shows that the article’s author, Janiv Kubovich, military correspondent for Haaretz, reflects the IDF view of the conflict on the Haaretz staff. 

Daniel Hagari in March 2023. (IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, Wikipedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0)

Kubovich does not cite a single piece of evidence for Hamas’ culpability in using the hospital for military purposes that did not come directly from the military spokesman.

The reporter recommended by Kaplan with such high confidence relied completely on the most self-interested sources imaginable on the issue — the IDF’s leading propagandist. It is a source lacking in any independent judgment. 

The IDF’s position on Gaza’s hospitals, as articulated by its chief spokesperson, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, has been extremely rigid and unyielding, in line with the Israeli policy aim of imposing maximum human costs not only on Hamas but on the entire civilian population of Gaza.

That policy requires that all the hospitals must be shut down, and the society be systematically deprived of food and fuel and put under military pressure. 

First Rantisi Hospital, Then al-Shifa 

When hospitals are used for military purposes, they can lose their protected status under international laws of war.  

A common denominator in IDF operations regarding hospitals in Gaza is to repeatedly release videos showing weapons either inside or next to a medical facility to justify shutting it down.

Before the IDF spokesman and his staff had even moved to al-Shifa, the IDF ordered Rantisi Hospital for Children closed after Hagari showed footage of an alleged Hamas weapons cache in the basement.  

After Rantisi Hospital it was al-Shifa’s turn.  On Nov. 11, the IDF began a drumbeat of propaganda ahead of its takeover, calling al-Shifa “the main hub of Hamas activity.”  

The Pentagon, which has extremely close ties to the IDF, gave its wholehearted support to the accusation. 

To its credit, Haaretz picked up an AP report saying that Israel, “without providing evidence, has accused Hamas of concealing a command post inside and under the compound, allegations denied by Hamas and hospital staff.”

We now know, however, that this well-organized propaganda campaign against al-Shifa could not have been based on actual intelligence on what lay in the tunnel under the hospital.  No outsider could have possibly been inside the tunnel to report on what was to be found there, because the entrance to the tunnel had been sealed for an unknown period of time. 

Also, the IDF was recently found exaggerating evidence of a Hamas command center under the hospital. As Consortium News reported last week, the IDF on Oct. 27 provided a visual depiction of a vast Hamas presence in no fewer than five buildings of al-Shifa’s enormous campus, as well as what it called a “Hamas underground complex” below the main building.  Spokesman Hagari also claimed that there was an entrance to that underground floor from within the hospital building, further incriminating the management of al-Shifa. 

But that entire Israeli-U.S. propaganda line was discredited by the subsequent discovery by the IDF — never widely covered by the Western press — that a tunnel below the above-ground office of Hamas held what the IDF believed was the actual high command headquarters of Hamas, as reported by The Jerusalem Post on Nov. 14.  

 

The IDF spokesman then explained that the map he had previously presented to the media was meant only to be “conceptual” and, according to a Nov. 23 AP report, not to be taken “literally.” 

Evacuation Strategy 

By Nov. 12, the IDF strategy for emptying al-Shifa Hospital was already well underway.  Haaretz reported on that date that the IDF had phoned the office of the hospital to demand it be completely evacuated.  

 Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1730210746536018400

That was well before the IDF spokesman arrived at al-Shifa with his staff early in the morning of Nov. 15 (a day after The Jerusalem Post report) to prepare a video displaying Hamas weapons, uniforms and a computer said to have been discovered in the hospital’s MRI rooms just hours earlier that morning.

Haaretz’s Kubovich declares firmly, “There is no way the hospital administrators didn’t know what was happening.” This assertion is based entirely on the fact that the tunnel had siphoned off electricity from the hospital’s above-ground generator.  

That certainty depends on the assumption that the hospital’s management had evidence of an extraordinary addition to the normal load.  And that would have depended on a relatively long-term use of the facility by Hamas before and during the war that began in May.

The IDF’s Hagari clearly did not know how long Hamas had maintained a presence in the tunnel, which was devoid of any sign of recent use when Israeli forces opened it up.  

In his own video Hagari speculated that Hamas had left the tunnel when it knew that the IDF was going to enter al-Shifa. However, Associated Press correspondent Josef Federman, who was also taken on a tour of the tunnel facility, observed that rooms were “bare, small and rusted,” suggesting a long period of disuse. 

Which War Was It?

But despite Kubovich’s flat statement that “there is no doubt they were used by Hamas company, brigade and battalion commanders,” it turns out that he was not at all sure the tunnel was used in the current war. Kubovich goes on to say that “fighting was directed from there in recent rounds, if not in the current war [emphasis added].”  

In other words, the last time it had been used might have been the previous Israel-Hamas war in 2014.  It cannot be taken for granted, therefore, that the al-Shifa Hospital management was aware of the Hamas use of the facility, as Kubovich had asserted.

BREAKING

Director of the Al-Shifa hospital Mohammed Abu Salmiya, along with a number of other doctors have been arrested by Israeli forces. pic.twitter.com/kiz4XIgeIL

The current director of the hospital, Mohammed Abu Salmiya, who was arrested this week for questioning about the alleged Hamas use of the hospital, only assumed his duties in 2019, and in all probability was unaware of any Hamas military use of a tunnel underneath the hospital.

But the IDF’s concern is not with truth. Its concern is for the extreme right-wing Likud government’s intention (based on numerous statements of genocidal intent) to not only destroy Hamas, but impose the greatest number of deaths on the Palestinian population.  That required an elaborate effort to indict hospitals as active participants in the war on Hamas’ behalf and dismantling all the hospitals in Gaza, and especially of al-Shifa. 

The article touted by Kaplan offers no “clear evidence” of Hamas’ use of al-Shifa Hospital as “command center” in the current war. 

Kaplan’s apparent belief that the IDF narrative about al-Shifa Hospital was somehow accurate or truthful fails to take seriously the powerful genocidal threat this extremist Israeli government poses.

Gareth Porter is an independent investigative journalist and historian writing on U.S. national security policy. His latest book, Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare, was published in February of 2014. Follow him on Twitter: @GarethPorter.

The views expressed are solely those of the author and may or may not reflect those of Consortium News.

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Scott Ritter@RealScottRitter

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My latest:

Husam Zomlot@hzomlot·

Reposting this interview with @Channel4News before the resumption of airstrikes on #Gaza because it includes Israel’s actual plan, and what could be a counter plan.

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Israel has categorised all Palestinians in Gaza into one of three groups: either terrorists, terrorist sympathisers or human shields. Speaking at @OxfordUnion just before #Israel resumed its mass murder and destruction in which hundreds of Palestinian innocent civilians were killed over the last 48 hours. The full speech and Q&A are below:

https://youtu.be/VFbqxRDnC3s?si=o9rj-qkqX5kxn8mU

https://youtu.be/__3I-_RLwqQ?si=J0kwJYzA03l1C2XS

https://youtube.com/watch?v=8ujzc

Husam Zomlot@hzomlot

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This is why we refuse the condemnation paradigm repeated by mainstream media for decades

including on @BBCNews last night.

Mick Wallace@wallacemick

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The #US and #EU are supporting this massacre – The US + EU have lost all moral and political credibility. Shame on them….

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there is an Israeli telegram account with over 110K followers where they just post images and videos of close-ups of killed and wounded Palestinians, especially children, and of them and their family crying, as they celebrate and cheer it on

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Israel sent drones over the West Bank warning people not to resist in any way.

“Residents of Khillat Farra, we warn you. If anyone thinks of doing something we will reach him, and if necessary k*ll him”

It’s like a scene from The Hunger Games…

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“My message to the leaders of the Arab Gulf countries: ‘stop petrol shipments to the West and to the US,” says this infant’s heartbroken grandfather.

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BREAKING: Brazil’s President Lula:

“The Gaza Conflict is a ‘Genocide'”

Lula denounces the Israeli actions in Gaza and points to a failure by the UN and world leaders.

He grieves over the “brutal, inhumane violence against innocent people” in the Gaza strip.

Palestine Highlights@PalHighlight

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US protesters rally outside White House in support of Palestinians in Gaza

Holding Palestinian flags, American protesters have rallied outside the White House in the US capital city of Washington DC to demand an immediate ceasefire in the besieged Gaza Strip.

#GazaGenocide

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Scotland marches in MASSIVE numbers for Palestine today.

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Israeli settlers assault a Palestinian family Remember settlers are Jewish people many from America who come and steal more Palestinian land and homes

Danny HaiphongSpiritofHo

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Them: “But do you condemn Hamas?”

Me:

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Howard Beckett@BeckettUnite

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Read Let This Radicalize You@JoshuaPHilll

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This update from Bisan today is heartbreaking. People are being forced to evacuate what they thought was the safest place in Gaza. There’s nowhere else to go. “This is Nakba”

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“This is a war on children”

UNICEF spokesman James Elder describes the conditions from inside a hospital in Gaza after the end of the temporary truce.

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Authorities in Israel employ various forms of torture, physical and psychological pressure against prisoners, especially during the interrogation period. Here are some of these methods:

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@tiathedoll

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BREAKING: Israel is intensely bombing South Lebanon right now, dropping white phosphorus bombs on multiple villages.

Don’t expect a peep from the so-called international community.

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@ecomarxi

erabiltzaileari erantzuten

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A life of displacement

Displaced from Lod in 1948 and now displaced again from Gaza

#Israe

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Thousands of Yemeni soldiers marched on the border with Saudi in solidarity with Gaza.

They asked Saudi to let them go through to join the war.

While this may get them attention, they know Saudi won’t accept it.

If they were serious about their intent to join Hamas, why not go by air or by sea?

From their own personal band to the clips of them dancing on the ships they ceased, and now this, the Houthis live in a world of their own, utterly detached from reality

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Gaza, you are the soul of our soul.

Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis @DrLoupis

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@Israel trying to FORCE their hostages to PRETEND to like their Israeli captors. The propaganda is simply not working.

They HATE you @IDF

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May Allah safeguard Motaz, Muhammad, Bisan, and all the courageous journalists risking their lives to reveal the truth of the situation.

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I met Marwa earlier this week. She will break your heart too. #Gaza is FULL of this potential.

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Never forget the UAE warmly welcoming Israeli President after the Zionist killing machine had already slaughtered 20,000 Palestinians, including 8,000 children.

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Razwan Nazir@RazNazir

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Al Jazeera English@AJEnglish

Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman

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Sam Hab@Samehahabeeb

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Such a relief to know @NATOis committed to reducing greenhouse emissions. Pity it forgot about that when it came to blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines. https://nato.int/cps/en/natohq/opinions_220990.htm?selectedLocale=en

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TIMES OF GAZA@Timesofgaza

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Thousands of fighters from Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement recruited to back up Palestinian group Hamas in its struggle against Israel have staged a parade in the Yemeni capital city of Sana’a, before heading to the Gaza Strip to help their Palestinian brethren.

sarah@sahouraxo

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Thank you, Toronto!

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Al-Qassam operation kills 60 Israeli soldiers: Hamas

#AlAqsaStorm

https://presstv.ir/Detail/2023/12

Palestine Highlights@PalHighlight

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Despite the weather being freezing cold, people in the Finnish city of Turku stand in support of Gazans and demand an end to Israeli onslaughts in the strip.

#WeAreAllGaza #GazaGenocide

Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1731174626238005585

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“We will not forget this GENOCIDE and we will not let others forget it. Sooner or later, Israel will certainly pay for it.” – President Erdogan (who is still supplying oil to Israel)!

‏Martyrs of Gaza@GazaMartyrs

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All those in the picture are martyrs.

The martyr Abdul Nasser Awad

He is A teacher in UNRWA schools.

A man of noble character, loved by everyone, and everyone attests to his respect and love for helping others.

He dreamt of praying in Al-Aqsa Mosque, and he realized his dream last July, unaware that three months later he would become a martyr.

In this photo, he appears with all his grandchildren. Israel decided to commit a massacre against them, annihilating them all.

He and all members of his family were martyred in a massacre carried out by Israeli planes on October 27, 2023.

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Israel’s mass assassination machine carried out a “deliberate attack against clearly identified [Doctors Without Borders] cars” today, according to @MSF

The attack follows Israel’s flagrant violation of temporary ceasefire terms on humanitarian aid

Quds News Network@QudsNen

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The Government Media Office in Gaza says over 700 Palestinians were killed by Israeli

airstrikes in the besieged Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours.

#GazaGenocide

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US made bombs dropped from a US made aircraft. 300 dead Palestinian civilians. Half of them children. This is a NATO genocide.

#GazaHolocaust

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Thank you, Indonesia!

Mohamad Safa@mhdksafa

It’s unjust and unfair watching journalists Motaz and Bisan lives play out like characters in a hunger game, tell us they’re accepting death.

For all those who remain silent, who hesitate to raise their voices believing they won’t make a difference, who refrain from even the smallest acts of solidarity like sharing or liking posts about Gaza, know this: Your silence is deafening. It’s not just inaction; it’s a refusal to stand for justice and humanity while thousands of children are dying. I strongly condemn your silence.

The fear of journalists and civilians from bombing makes it all the more important that we advocate for them. If this was the only objective activism fulfilled, it would suffice.

Don’t stop talking about Gaza.

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Nothing new, it’s just that the United States is ready and intends to fight with the whole world.

Don’t forget that this will all come back to you in the USA, Austin. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin:

We will not let Hamas or Putin win. And we will not allow our enemies to divide or weaken us.

Therefore, while providing support to Israel, we remain focused on Ukraine. And we remain fully capable of deploying forces to meet our commitments across multiple theaters. The USA is the most powerful country in the world. And we can walk and chew gum at the same time.”

https://t.me/vicktop55/18876

Palestine Highlights@PalHighlight

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New Zelanders march in solidarity with Palestine

#WeAreAllGaza #GazaGenocide

Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده@RamAbdu

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Israel has murdered another Palestinian journalist. Hassan Farajallah lost his life in an Israeli sniper attack north of Gaza. This brings the total number of killed journalists in Gaza up to 74 journalists.

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The people of JORDAN stand with PALESTINE as their government complied with ZIONIST DEMANDS!

Fiona Edwards@Fio_edwards

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Israel is bombarding the south of the Gaza Strip.

Nowhere and nobody in Gaza is safe from this Israeli terror.

Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza is only possible because the West is fully supporting Israel militarily, politically and diplomatically.

Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1731073410950640075

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Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1730970929507844359

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@tobararbulu # mmt@tobararbulu

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https://twitter.com/vicktop55/status/1731276920476631162

Non zaudete Ukraina eta Zelensky pailazoaren alde azaldu zineten txoriburu kaskarin, astakilo, super kazetari, hyper abertzale, politikero, ekonomialari, idazle, progre, ‘intelektual’, iritzi-emaile, eta ‘cantamañanas guztiok? Zertan ari zarete orain?

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A young Palestinian girl trapped under a 5-floor building, bravely asked the rescue teams to prioritize saving her parents, little brother, and grandmother over herself.

Trita Parsi@tparsi

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The words of a Palestinian child in Gaza to his dead, 4-year-old younger brother “My dear brother, I didn’t get enough of you. Where can I get another brother like you?” #CeasefireNOW

Palestine Highlights@PalHighlight

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Hundreds demonstrate in Milan in solidarity with Palestine

#WeAreAllGaza #GazaGenocide

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Another reminder of the oppression #Palestinians have been living under pre October 7th in #ApartheidIsrael !

Double Down News@DoubleDownNews

Don’t Look Away

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Geopolitical Storm Brewing from Palestine to Ukraine

Bideoa: https://rumble.com/v3z09h1-geopolitical-storm-brewing-from-palestine-to-ukraine.html

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@IsraelRadar_com

eta

@kann_news

erabiltzaileei erantzuten

Turkey must order its security services to preempt the Israeli assassination plan. Seriously—who the flying fuck does Israel thinks it is?