“we go to Amman, Jordan, where we’re joined by prof. Abdel Razzaq Takriti, a Palestinian historian, endowed chair in Arab studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He’s published widely on the history of colonialism & anti-colonialism in Palestine & the Middle East” https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/15/nakba_day
from #CommonDreams
'Most Thorough Legal Analysis' Yet Concludes #Israel Committing Genocide in #Gaza
The report also stresses that other nations are legally obligated to "refrain from recognizing Israel's breaches as legal or taking any actions that may amount to complicity."
“For an update, we’re joined by Dr. Adam Hamawy. He is a plastic surgeon, Army veteran from New Jersey who’s part of the volunteer mission with the Palestinian American Medical Association at European Hospital in Khan Younis”
“We are kind of their hope here in terms of safety. They feel secure that our presence is here, as well as the hospital, because of what happened at places like Shifa and Nasser. They feel that as long as there are foreigners here, that they are protected.”
‘So, he said that they all passed away and died, were killed while they were sleeping. He said, “I wish that would have happened to us, because at least we wouldn’t have to go through what we’re going through.”
"I can no longer in good conscience continue to represent this administration amid President Biden's disastrous, continued support for #Israel 's genocide in Gaza."
“They deported us from the north of Gaza Strip. Here we are thrown on the streets. They destroyed our houses. They killed four children. They were martyred, among them a doctor and a head of department. My four older children died.”
“In the occupied West Bank, Palestinian truck drivers say they fear for their lives after Jewish settlers attacked a convoy of 98 Gaza-bound aid trucks on Monday”
“On Tuesday, a group of far-right Israelis, including a number of government ministers, marched in Sderot calling for the resettlement of Gaza and the expulsion of Palestinians living there”
“President Garber has made it very clear from the beginning they (Harvard) had no interest in negotiating with us. But we showed that we had the student power to actually bring him to discussions
A US Department of the Interior staffer has become the first Jewish political appointee to publicly resign in protest of #US support for Israel’s #genocide.
Lily Greenberg Call, a special assistant to the chief of staff, accuses #JoeBiden of using Jews to justify US policy.
[Eloquent and moving article summing up what the student protests for Gaza have been and where they fit into history. Includes links to 3 very moving videos]
The new shipment was announced "right after the #StateDepartment admits Israel has 'likely' used #US -supplied weapons in violation of humanitarian law," said one journalist.
Are all those who recently told me I should support Biden because he said he would put pressure on Netanyahu stop supplying weapons to support genocide in Gaza going to change course now that it is clear this was another lie? Biden is sending another billion dollars worth of weapons to Israel as the attack on Rafah is in progress. #ceasefirenow
‘For more on the latest, we go to Gaza to speak with journalist Akram al-Satarri. He’s joined us multiple times over the past several months from Rafah in the south, but today he’s joining us from outside the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza‘
“the lucky ones who are surviving the bombardments are seeing with their own eyes that there is no safe haven in Gaza Strip. Death is the one major risk enveloping the lives of the people of Gaza.”
“the whole situation is dire, is extremely catastrophic, is aggravating into something extremely ugly, unacceptable and unbearable, is not justifiable according to the dictates of international humanitarian law”
“We have around 10,000 Gazans who are still under the rubble, who are still — their condition is unknown. Absolutely, they are dead, which makes the number, the true number, of people dead 45,000, not 35,000.”