If you read nothing more on Israel's genocide... read this:
"Israel’s Willing Executioners"
"Hundreds of thousands of people are being forced to flee, once again, after more than half of Gaza's population took sanctuary in the border town of Rafah. This is part of Israel's sadistic playbook.
"Run for your lives..from Rafah the way you ran from Gaza City..Jabalia..Deir al-Balah..Beit Hanoun..Bani Suheila..Khan Yunis. Run or we will kill you."
"Run for your lives. Again and again and again. Pack up the pathetic few belongings you have left. Blankets. A couple of pots. Some clothes. We don’t care how exhausted you are, how hungry you are, how terrified you are, how sick you are, how old, or how young you are. Run. Run. Run. And when you run in terror to one part of Gaza we will make you turn around and run to another. Trapped in a labyrinth of death. Back and forth."
Another urgent request from the Maasai of Tanzania to sign and/or SHARE the petition "Tanzania: Stop the eviction of the Maasai". It has been running since 2022 and initially seemed successful: https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/maasai_evictions_sg_loc
Current appeal [slightly shortened]:
"In a matter of days, 27,000 Maasai could lose their ancestral land! Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan wants to clear the Maasai homeland for #safaris and trophy hunting in the hope of immense profits. A few years ago, 3 million signatories stood up for the Maasai - and the president at the time listened to us. Now they are asking for support again."
“They didn't leave a place that they didn't bomb or leave any place we can safely shelter in. Humiliation. You have no idea how degrading and tiring our displacement has been.” - Seham Al-Athamneh
#Natoaganeg#Chief George Ginnish and other speakers at the event drew parallels between #Canada and #Israel, including the #displacement of Indigenous people from their land and the suffering of children.
"Their own struggle for Indigenous rights and self-determination has turned the Sami into vocal advocates for the Palestinian cause.
“There is an instant urge to stand up for people who are being displaced from their homes,” Ella Marie Haetta Isaksen, a Sami activist and artist widely known for her singing, tells Al Jazeera.
"...Indigenous peoples all over the world have stood up for the Palestinian people because our bodies know the pain of being displaced from our homes and forced out of our own lands,” Isaksen says."
If you have noticed any city or other destruction of #houseless people's structures or possessions, or other disappearance or #displacement around the #twincities please @ us with whatever place/dates you remember.
The draft text also "determines that under current circumstances a major ground offensive into #Rafah would result in further harm to #civilians & their further #displacement including potentially into neighboring countries."
'Death Knell for Shompen People': Genocide Experts Urge President to Stop Great Nicobar Mega Project
By changing the demography and allowing the population on the island to surge by 8,000%, the experts say, the proposal could prove detrimental to the Shompen people, who have lived on the island for thousands of years largely without contact with outsiders.
Gaza pre-war was a pretty densely packed urban area of 2.2 million people with limited open spaces outside the seafront. Gaza has to import basically everything it uses
They’ve been living under embargo for years where dual use military-civilian items are banned, which is a big list if you think about parallel uses
In ‘normal’ times life in Gaza for Palestinians was acceptable living standards, if impoverished and heavily dependent upon UN/NGO/charitable aid as a community
There was the Oct 7 surprise attack by Hamas and the following Israeli reaction since, leading us to right now and the ongoing war. The true number is unknown, but at present there have been over 26,000 civilians killed, and varying from 1 million to 500,000 were forced out of their homes by the war.
The northern half of Gaza is an active war zone, as are areas in the south & south east, resulting in large no-go zones for civilians
Many have gone to the refugee camps near the remaining border crossings, in the south, where the aid does still come in
Some choose to remain in the remaining undamaged and ruins of buildings, owing to massive overcrowding in refugee camps among the usual issues
To add to all this, there has been a reduction of aid coming into Gaza since the war started, ranging from completely being shut off from even water, reduced number of trucks carrying core basics, and currently it’s nowhere near enough.
No land for growing food to feed almost 2 million people, people who are largely displaced from their homes and supply, who at present are entirely reliant on outside assistance for survival. Severely insufficient supplies coming in from outside aid, poor medical availability for both war and normal injuries, illnesses and diseases - diseases that spread rapidly in dense areas like refugee camps.
If nothing changes, it’s going to be an incredible humanitarian crisis. How we, the global community act decides what happens to the Palestinians in Gaza. I hope we don’t repeat history.
In a statement, CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said:
“The campaign of #genocide and #ethniccleansing in Gaza by Israel’s far-right government is clear to anyone who does not turn a blind eye to the countless images of and testimonies to the indiscriminate #slaughter of Palestinian civilians and the forced #displacement and #starvation of almost the entire population of #Gaza. We urge other nations to follow South Africa’s principled example.”
Human Rights Watch: Starvation Used as Weapon of War in Gaza
Yesterday, CAIR called on the #GenocideJoe administration to demand an end to violence by the #farright Israeli government and illegal Israeli #settlers in the West bank following attacks on #Christian#clergy and the release of a U.N. report outlining the “rapid deterioration” of Palestinian rights in the occupied #WestBank.
Addressing the UN Security Council, Majed Bamya says the widescale destruction of Gaza by Israeli operations has made it clear their sole goal is forced displacement.
“They want to make sure that Palestinians in Gaza have no homes to return to,” he said. They want to make sure they have no life to return.”
#Abdullah denounced what he termed global silence on #Israel's attacks, which have killed thousands in #Hamas-“ruled” #Gaza & made >1M homeless, & urged an even-handed approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
As The Government Failed Manipur, Once Peace-Loving People Picked Up Weapons, Fought & Died
The Manipur government’s failure to end the ethnic violence has caused ordinary Meitei and Kuki—a poet, a university student, an ironsmith—to pick up arms and die because they felt they had to defend their people.
The remaining residents of the New Lambulane area in the heart of the State capital said many of them were woken up from sleep and taken in waiting vehicles with only the clothes they were wearing.
U.N. human rights officials denounced Friday what they called the “extreme brutality” of gangs in Haiti, with thousands fleeing several neighborhoods in the country’s capital this week amid a surge in violence....
‘He doesn’t have a home now. It was burned down by a mob’: children from India's Manipur bear the brunt of ethnic conflict
RT’s exclusive report from Imphal, the capital of India’s northeastern state, where clashes between Meitei and Kuki communities have left thousands displaced.
Inside the war India doesn’t want the world to see
From bombings to beheadings, ethnic violence has engulfed Manipur for the last two months. Facing an internet blackout and little word from prime minister Narendra Modi on the crisis, Namita Singh reports from a state that has been pushed to the brink of civil war.
🌍 Beyond Numbers: The Human Side of Displacement 🌍
Western policies often reduce the displaced to numbers, obscuring their real stories. My latest essay explores how data-centric approaches and global capitalism mask the true struggles of the displaced, promising protection while perpetuating power imbalances.
A story from a Gaza journalist's fight for survival all the way down to Rafah and back.
“All we want is to be safe,” she lamented. “We want the world to recognize our humanity and our right to live in freedom and justice. We don’t know when this cycle of fear and death will end. All we know is that we are terrified and exhausted, and we long to return home and resume our normal lives.”
Palestinians are eating grass and drinking polluted water as famine looms across Gaza (www.cnn.com)
UN condemns recent gang attacks in Haiti as Kenya deploys recon mission to troubled nation (www.heraldstandard.com)
U.N. human rights officials denounced Friday what they called the “extreme brutality” of gangs in Haiti, with thousands fleeing several neighborhoods in the country’s capital this week amid a surge in violence....