from #TheNewYorkTimes [gift article link below]
A witness describes losing four nieces and nephews in an attack that killed several children playing in the street.
"UNRWA staff members were among the released detainees and the report said they were forced to confess to actions they were innocent of."
"I saw people [in detention] 70 years old, very old. There were people with Alzheimer’s, old people who were blind, people with disabilities who couldn’t walk, people who had shrapnel in their backs and couldn’t stand up, people with epilepsy… and torture was for everyone,"
House Dems Voice 'Deep Concern' Over Biden Claim That Israel Is Legally Using US Arms -
"A letter from 26 lawmakers notes the "stark differences and gaps" between what #Biden administration officials say and the opinions of "prominent experts and global institutions" accusing #Israel of genocide."
Meanwhile, in Gaza, the genocide continues, famine grows.
"As the world waits to see how Israel will respond to Iran's attack, in Gaza, the bloodshed continues. Four were killed in overnight airstrikes in the southern city of Rafah, and 11 were killed - including children - in central Gaza. Israeli tanks have re-entered the north of the strip, surrounding schools housing displaced families.
#Palestine Allies Stage Global 'Economic Blockade' of #Gaza Genocide -
Organizer A15Action said the worldwide demonstrations targeted "the global economy for its complicity in Israel's ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people."
Pro-Palestinian feeling in #Ireland has deep roots -
"The slurs that Irish troops faced in the 1970s by the Israelis, such as being called ‘half-naked savages’, can’t have been forgotten, says John Roberts"
[some interesting historical background that I wasn't aware of]
‘Sympathy shifted to Israel’: many fear Iran attack has distracted aid effort -
"The US seems so preoccupied that officials are barely keeping track of shipments they last week said were a priority"
9 min Al Jazeera documentary from 6 years ago. Israel has always been a terrorist state. You can clearly see the violence and the lies to the media. The Israelis don't want to know the truth anyway. They complain if they see anything reported other than the state narrative.
Ahed Tamini's "A Palestinian Girl Fight for Freedom" tells the horrors in the West Bank and what she endured in prison for simply slapping a soldier.
The tsunami of slurry in defence of poor wee vulnerable Israel and its relentlessly oppressed population, defenceless against the Iranian hordes is in full flow this morning across all "public service broadcasters".
"US and UK forces help shoot down Iranian drones over Jordan, Syria and Iraq.
"US defence official says action is part of ‘ironclad commitment to Israel’s security’, with [the] Royal Air Force also involved in regional operations."
In other words, the RAF has been in action, on Israel's side, to defend Israel from the Iranian response to Israel destroying Iran's consulate in Damascus.