Unbelievable pile of crap : US President Joe #Biden: #Gaza and the #WestBank should be reunited under one governance structure and ultimately under the leadership of the Palestinian Authority
Were the fuck can Palestinians in west bank live? Through Israeli checkpoints, apartheid wall, under daily attack by Jewish #Taliban settlers and humiliated by #IDF protecting the criminals? Where was he when Israel killed American citizen and Al Jazeera reporter? Where was he when Netanyahu keep expanding illegal settlements and destroyed homes, farms and schools of palestinians in occupied West Bank since the day he got into power?
It's so sickening to read such drivel every time Israel bombs and kills Palestinians and they fight back.
Specially coming from the disgusting hypocrite worse than #Trump Biden who has done nothing to stop the fascist coalition government of #Netanyahu Ben-Gvir in the past 3 years and now suddenly thinks he can sell the snake oil of 2 state solution under unelected and corrupt PA and their gang of criminals?
I am begging you all once more to understand - the point of bringing up the decades long and systematic abuse, apartheid, and Occupation by the Israeli government of Palestinians ISN'T to "excuse" Hamas. It's to point out that it will be IMPOSSIBLE to build a lasting peace even IF Hamas is removed, as long the deliberate and ongoing IDF and Occupation violence continues.
Verified: The Israeli army reportedly stole 10 million shekels ($2.76 million) from various money exchange shops in the West Bank during their raids last night.
Multiple jewelry shops were also broken into and looted by IDF soldiers.
Once again, the issue is portrayed as a bunch of extremists who took over Israel. This is not untrue, but it hides the fact that before these extremists were anywhere near power, Israel was already systematically dispossessing, colonizing, and brutalizing Palestinians.
Every Israeli I know hates Netanyahu, Israel's messianic far right, settlements, and settlers. And I mean HATES them.
But Israeli society is still overwhelmingly supportive of the war.
"Many Israeli settlers have openly called for Palestinians to be wiped off the map," said one advocacy group. "Now, Israel is giving them the guns to achieve that vision."
While the world watches Israel's military pulverize Gaza amid anticipation of an imminent ground invasion of the besieged strip, Israeli soldiers and settlers—who are receiving thousands of assault rifles
@Mastodon seriously? You are the very last people I'd expect to censor #Palestinian#media. Are you really that desperate to become like #Twitter or mainstream social media? I really hope that this is a sincere mistake, and that whoever pressed that #suspend button is reprimanded. This gives a very wrong signal to #Palestinians and independent #journalists / #press people who are seeking a friendly platform for their voices in the #fediverse.
If you dear reader are reading this post, please boost both Mondoweiss's original post (which will be displayed as a RE: link if you're in #Mastodon) to show your support for @mondoweiss as well as this quote #boost so that it may reach mastodon.social (because for all we know they could decide to just #fediblock their self-hosted instance altogether, thankfully that didn't happen yet and it's an account suspension for now)
"The #Palestinians who live (or lived) in this hilltop hamlet had decamped in terror a few weeks earlier. A gang of #Israeli settlers... had been tormenting them for weeks... beating them up & threatening #murder if they didn’t leave.
Similar scenes are playing out across the #WestBank these days as Israeli settlers, backed & sometimes aided by #soldiers, force Arabs out of villages, farmlands & herding pastures."
CCTV footage of Israeli special forces attacking a hospital in Jenin, harassing patients, stealing wheelchairs and then later (off camera) assassinating 3 patients before leaving the hospital has been released (you can see it on my telegram channel)
Israel is completely out of control and have 0 regards for human lives or international laws. While the western leaders standing on the pedestals of morality and humanity, they turn a blind eye on war crimes comitted by IDF and unconditionally supporting this rouge nations under the false cover of the "right to defence".
Israel did the same in the past, but we were not able to see them, their leaders and supporters and an army of "activists" called the accusations for false, Palestinians for liars and human rights groups for antisemitic.
But we have video after vide,o showing clear violations of palestinians rights and assassination of injured, elderly, children and in this case hospital patients. But still we hear 0 reaction from the disgusting leaders of the west who rather starve millions of desperate Palestinians, than condemn crimes of war comitted by Israeli forces.
Update: The video has been restored thanks to interventions from allies.
We just had a video removed immediately upon publication on Instagram. The platform claimed it contained "praise or support" of "people and organizations we define as dangerous." The video did nothing of the sort.
It was a video report - from our journalists – about increased arrests in the occupied West Bank.
#Palestine / Israel announces largest West Bank land seizure since 1993 during Blinken visit
Israel's settlements in the occupied West Bank are widely viewed as a violation of international law, which prohibits the transfer of civilian populations to territories seized through military force. Despite this legal standing, the Israeli government has continued to expand its control over Palestinian lands in the West Bank through various mechanisms, including land appropriation orders.
[…] “If the Israelis annex this area near Maale Adumim, it will be a catastrophe for Palestinians who live in the south, […] Palestinian traders, especially in the south, will be cut off, and it will become impossible to have any independent Palestinian ways of life.”
The Palestine Red Crescent (PRCS) is reporting that the Israeli army is besieging both Jenin Governmental Hospital and Ibn Sina Hospital in the occupied West Bank.
In a post on X, the PRCS also said that the Israeli army is obstructing and preventing their emergency medical services teams from reaching the injured and continuously inspecting its ambulance vehicles.
[…] Since October up until today, there are 16 entire villages in the West Bank that have been depopulated. In one village, the settlers burned houses. In another village, they shot somebody and people got scared, so they started leaving. I think that if this is not stopped, and if there aren’t more international sanctions against settlers who are using violence, then this process will continue.
Israeli settlers destroy 70 olive trees in West Bank village
Israeli settlers have cut down dozens of olive trees in the village of Yasouf in the central occupied West Bank.
The head of the Yasouf Village Council, Saleh Yassin, told the state-run Wafa news agency that dozens of settlers destroyed about 70 olive trees, aged between 50 to 70 years, and owned by some citizens in Yasouf.
"'I do not think we should be appropriating $10.1 billion for the right-wing, extremist Netanyahu government to continue its current military approach. What the Netanyahu government is doing is immoral, it is in violation of international law, and the United States should not be complicit in those actions,' Sanders argued on the Senate floor."
#Israel / Gaza is only the beginning, Ben Gvir and Smotrich's goal is to "cleanse" the West Bank of Palestinians and clear the Al-Aqsa mosque of its Muslim worshippers [Ehud Olmert]
[...] The supreme goal of Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich is not primarily the conquest of the Gaza Strip. Nor is the settlement of the ruins of #Gaza the cherished aim of this group of messianic fanatics who have seized power in the State of Israel. Gaza is the introductory chapter, the platform they want to build as a foundation from which to wage the real campaign on which they have set their sights: the battle for the West Bank and the Temple Mount.
[...] Ultimately (or perhaps initially) Netanyahu is willing to forgo the captives and undermine the peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan which are a fundamental pillar of Israel's security infrastructure. He is willing to undermine relations with the US to the point of an open crisis with the most committed president in history to Israel's security, Joe Biden. Netanyahu understands that the continued reckless unraveling will isolate Israel in the international community as never before.
[...] As hard as it is, there is no escaping saying it: Netanyahu, this will end in much bloodshed. You have been warned.
Pentagon chief says civilian death toll in Gaza ‘far too high’
"Yet, despite Washington’s increased criticism of Israel, US officials stress that they will continue to provide Israel with the weapons it needs to continue its war on Gaza."
"When asked about their own preference, Gazans’ support for continued Hamas control over the Gaza Strip has increased to more than 50%, a 14-point rise. Indeed, given the magnitude of the suffering in the Gaza Strip, this seems to be the most counter intuitive finding of the entire poll."