Let’s be clear. Palestinian journalists said this since Day 1 and those who believed them were ridiculed or called antisemitic.
Now the NYT confirms “Israel claims it protects civilians, but a NYT investigation found at least 200 times Israel dropped its most destructive bombs in areas it designated as safe for civilians in Gaza.”
That’s no accident—it’s policy. Where is the accountability? #CeasefireNOW
“Words fail us to describe the absolute horror being inflicted on Palestinian civilians by Israel as it carries out incessant and indiscriminate warfare in Gaza for all the world to see.”
– Dr Christos Christou, International President, Médecins Sans Frontières
Following a communications blackout in #gaza over 7,000 Palestinian lives lost and over a million more displaced, hundreds of Jewish Americans were arrested at #GrandCentral Station in what may be the biggest mass civil disobedience NYC has seen in two decades #CeaseFire#CeaseFireNow images via JVPNY on IG https://www.instagram.com/p/Cy67JZoAcsI/
"The BBC has edited out multiple calls for a ceasefire in Gaza from the Scottish Bafta Awards ceremony – including the presentation of an entire award."
"One award presentation and speech by winners referencing calls for a ceasefire has been completely removed from the ceremony coverage".
@TheNational "BBC edits out stars' calls for Gaza ceasefire at Scottish Baftas".
“7,000 children and minors have died in Gaza, which the UN secretary general has styled ‘a graveyard for children’. Nothing can justify this massacre of the innocents. No politics. No grievance. No strategy. No history. No revenge. Every day that it continues, our collective humanity dies a little bit more. To accept that this massacre is justifiable self-defence by Israel is to abdicate all conscience.”
Mehdi Hasan to Mark Regev, senior Netanyahu advisor:
“If Hamas gunmen were hiding out in a school in Tel Aviv or in an apartment block in Haifa, would you be OK with the Israeli military dropping bombs on those buildings, leveling them, killing the innocent Israelis inside in order to get the Hamas gunmen? Would you do that?”
Al Jazeera is showing thousands in protest in Tel Aviv, #Israel, calling for Netanyhu’s resignation. They have completely taken over the streets. Their demand is for an “all for all release” and demands all Palestinians be released in exchange for the Israeli hostages. They are also outside of Netanyahu’s house in Jerusalem.
CNN speaks to settlers in Israel who are blocking food from getting to Palestinians in Gaza. Even confronted with the fact that children are starving to death in Gaza, they say "not one loaf of bread should get in until we have our hostages"
Little children, babies are starving to death and they do not give a fuck
Killing journalists via targeted missiles
Killing hostages waving a white flag via rifle
Killing Christians hiding in a church via sniper
Killing patients by burying them alive via bulldozer
All while Netanyahu proudly boasts he will never allow a Palestinian state😐
If IDF doesn't face justice and int'l human rights law, the atrocities will get worse. #CeasefireNOW
Take note: Aharon Barak is an Israeli judge appointed by the Govt of Israel to the ICJ in the case of South Africa v Israel. Barak is the former Attorney General of Israel, former Justice on the Israeli Supreme Court, and former President of the Israeli Supreme Court.
Justice Aharon Barak joined the ICJ ruling against Israel, “on the points of preventing and punishing incitement to genocidal acts and allowing enough humanitarian aid to stop severe deprivation”. #CeasefireNOW
One out of every 200 people in Gaza have been killed by the Israeli army — and the bombing still hasn’t stopped.
Let that sink in for a moment, then remember how Israeli authorities are trying to make Western publics believe they aren’t targeting civilians. This is a massacre.
There is still a widely accepted narrative in the U.K. media that the fact that the people of the U.K. are so in favour of a ceasefire in Gaza is down to the U.K.s' large Muslim population.
I hate to let basic arithmetic get in the way of a cool story, but -