Israel has order the evacuation of parts of Gaza’s southern city of Rafah ahead of an imminent ground offensive in the region. "To all the residents and displaced people in Rafah area ... you are in a dangerous combat zone,” the evacuation leaflets read, before specifying certain parts of the region....
"What is taking place in occupied Palestine is not a conflict between more or less equals"
It is "a straightforward case of illegal military occupation, apartheid, ethnic cleansing & outright genocide by one, heavily-armed side — Israel — against the largely unarmed other, the Palestinians."
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."
~Desmond Tutu.
"The courageous stance of students across the country in defiance of genocide is accompanied by a near total blackout of their voices. Their words are the ones we most need to hear.
"The genocide has awakened a sleeping giant. Let us pray the giant prevails."
At a military base that now doubles as a detention center in Israel’s Negev desert, an Israeli working at the facility snapped two photographs of a scene that he says continues to haunt him.
"What is taking place in occupied Palestine is not a conflict between more or less equals"
It is "a straightforward case of illegal military occupation, apartheid, ethnic cleansing & outright genocide by one, heavily-armed side — Israel — against the largely unarmed other, the Palestinians."
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."
~Desmond Tutu.
"What is taking place in occupied Palestine is not a conflict between more or less equals"
It is "a straightforward case of illegal military occupation, apartheid, ethnic cleansing & outright genocide by one, heavily-armed side — Israel — against the largely unarmed other, the Palestinians."
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."
~Desmond Tutu.
The same Nelson Mandela who said "Our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.”
Lammy sinking ever lower to try to justify the genocide enabling and incipient authoritarianism.
Just seen on Aljazeera that no aid trucks have entered Rafah since Sunday, when ZOF took it over, and the food and fuel supplies are due to run out ... today. It's reminded me of this story I saw in The Onion the other day.
“So, it is very simple for Biden to end this and to have ended this a long time ago. And it’s not by threatening to pause a small portion of the weapons that are coming in.”
Direct testimony from aid worker in Gaza -
“The situation on the ground is dire. Everyone here is quite afraid. To say that there’s not an incursion in Rafah right now is patently false.”
“Twenty years of blockade in the Gaza Strip means that the healthcare sector was already low-resourced. This is exacerbated by this depraved war that Palestinians have been living through for the past seven months.”
‘Five hundred twenty bodies have been uncovered across three Gaza Strip hospitals in recent weeks after attacks and sieges by the Israeli military. Attacking hospitals is a war crime.’
Rafah faces evacuation as UN warns food supplies will ‘run out tomorrow’ - live (www.independent.co.uk)
Israel has order the evacuation of parts of Gaza’s southern city of Rafah ahead of an imminent ground offensive in the region. "To all the residents and displaced people in Rafah area ... you are in a dangerous combat zone,” the evacuation leaflets read, before specifying certain parts of the region....
Israeli whistleblowers detail horror of shadowy detention facility for Palestinians | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
At a military base that now doubles as a detention center in Israel’s Negev desert, an Israeli working at the facility snapped two photographs of a scene that he says continues to haunt him.