“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.”
IDF are conducting operations in several areas of Rafah city, according to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic, while reports are emerging of heavy clashes between Palestinian armed groups and Israel’s military in the east of the city.
Video showed a Palestinian family cowering in a residence as the sounds of heavy machine-gun fire & explosions could be heard nearby in what is being described as a “night of fire”
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.”
“People are really anxious. Patients are worried about where they’re going to be able to access healthcare, because as the incursion becomes closer and the threat of the Israeli army approaching the hospitals becomes more real, patients are afraid to go to the hospitals”
“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.”
“You’re seeing people moving with things in hand, because they just have no other way of shifting from where they are into a supposed safe zone, because, let’s make it very clear, there is no safe zone in Gaza. Every single area of Gaza is subject to attack.“
‘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.’
An interview with human rights activist Maung Zarni.
"What we are seeing is rather unprincipled state behaviors, on the part of the veto power holders at the Security Council." #genocide#gaza#palestine#myanmar
University of #Vermont made the same raggedy argument about their lack of transparency. Poor excuses on either side of the border.
“U of T claims it can’t reveal its investments because it would compromise their sweet deal. Apparently the school is more than willing to be complicit in #genocide as long as it retains access to ‘best-in-class third-party investment managers.’
AFTER RAIDS, NYPD DENIED STUDENT PROTESTERS WATER AND FOOD IN JAIL
STUDENTS ARRESTED DURING the police crackdown on protests at universities in New York City last week were denied water and food for 16 hours, according to two faculty members at Columbia University’s Barnard College who collected reports from students who were inside.
Other students reported that they were beaten by New York City Police Department officers after their arrests and taken to the hospital for injuries before being returned to central booking. Photos of the injuries were provided to The Intercept.
Even the sanitation facilities of Gaza have been damaged by the Israel forces. Can they stoop lower than this?
Hundreds of Gaza's water and sanitation facilities have been damaged or destroyed since Israel began military action against Hamas, satellite analysis by BBC Verify has found.
“Israel is trying to control the narrative, and it is trying to deprive even the Israeli audience from seeing the atrocities in Gaza,” said Jamil Dakwar, a law professor at New York University and a founding attorney of Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel.