#USAID is #SeekingApplications for a Cooperative Agreement from qualified U.S. Non-Profit Organizations #NGOs & U.S. For Profit Organizations (that forgo profit), to implement a 5 yr program, entitled the “#Gaza#Health#Recovery Activity.”
“The Israeli government needs to stop this indiscriminate killing. It needs to stop restricting humanitarian aid, stop killing civilians and aid workers, and stop using food as a weapon. No more innocent lives lost. Peace starts with our shared humanity. It needs to start now.”
Jose Andres, the founder of the World Central Kitchen
"#NATO fighters will provide air defense for all aid convoys, take out any hostiles attacking internationally recognized humanitarian organizations in #Palestine."
"#US will stop all financial and military aid for #Israel until all #Gazans receive sufficient food and other necessities."
I doubt #Gazans will be grateful to #Michigan if it gets #DonaldTrump elected via a protest vote temper tantrum. Mainly because there won't be any Gazans.
(And before you @ me, protest votes are always fucking disastrous. I know this as a Brit living in post-Brexit UK, and in a fucking Red Wall constituency. You utter simpletons.)
"Since the beginning of the conflict, there have been several protests by Gazan residents against the terrorist organization, but this is still a rather exceptional event."
Yesterday the ICJ directed Israel not to commit genocide & collective punishment.
So, the new US scheme to collectively punish #Gazans is: withdraw all #UNWRA funds & starve Palestinian toddlers to death, while you launch a sham investigation on if <0.00001%* of humanitarian donations are used by baddies, while REFUSING to obey US laws requiring you to investigate whether the hundreds of millions of dollars in weaponry you are giving #Netanyahu are being used to commit his war crimes/genocide.
Canada's taking a "wait-and-see" approach on whether or not to remove its support for Israel's genocide, but preemptively pausing funding for UNRWA over unproven allegation.
Israel wants as many of the remaining ‘live’ population of #Gaza to be pushed to the very limits of survivability so that they will be forced to ‘voluntarily’ give up their homes, their ancestral lands, their ancient olive groves, the graveyards of their parents and grandparents, their entire cultural memory!
So, in addition to murdering as many of them as possible, to complete the job of #Nakba2.0, they literally need to starve the remaining, pitiful ‘rump’ of #Gazans who have somehow managed to survive.
#UNRWA is an obstacle to that evil mission. #Israel has long accused the #UN organisation of being a ‘creature’ of #Hamas. Now we have evidence of former officials going on record as confirming, as part of its #genocidal intentions, the need to ‘destroy’ UNRWA!
...order governed by "law and order" one party (#Hamas) committing savage atrocities (i.e. #HumanRightsAbuses, #terrorism, and #WarCrimes), does not legitimize the attacked party to commence an all-out war in the sense of committing crimes against civilians. Most of the #Gazans are non-combattant civilians.
Once the #IDF leaves and journalists do not become "collateral damage" on an enormous scale...
I do think so.
Its financial infrastructure, apart from Iran, has mostly vanished, I'd say.
To fight a guerrilla war, you need a place to hide inconspicously.
No Gaza. No population. Lebanon overflowing with earlier refugees and no one even wanting the civilian #Gazans? Their tunnels being flooded or destroyed?
The Gazan population is being starved, so potential new recruits.. @TruthSandwich@dung_eater@palestine@NoFlexZone@Lastresponder@Outpatientzero
Agrarian #Jewish#socialists living in kibbutzim, many of whom for decades lived alongside #Gazans and were among the most active peace activists in #Israel were hit first and hardest on Oct 7th.
These photos illustrate why the #IDF has been forced to attack apartment buildings in #Gaza. #Hamas militants are firing on the Israelis from these "apartments" (the room in these photos is almost empty, except for armed men who were killed by an airstrike).
Notice how the Hamas militants are not wearing uniforms. The IDF must carefully evaluate any men who appear to be dressed in civilian clothing.
The pictures were recovered from bodycams on the slain militants.
@leftylabourtech " The occupation has been going on for 75 years. Hamas didn't invent the occupation, Israel did."
That's another lie.
#Israel abandoned #Gaza in 2005. There was no blockade. No settlers. No occupying troops.
Unfortunately, #Gazans believed #Hamas' lies and gave them political power. After Hamas returned to Gaza they drove out their Fatah rivals in a violent insurrection and imposed a brutal dictatorship on Gaza. Then they began attacking Israel.
If you really wanted to be sympathetic to the Palestinian people, you would learn their actual history, not the fantasies spun by militant propaganda teams.
It was never in doubt that another war in the #Gaza Strip would ravage the #environment there.
On November 20, the #TurkishNews agency #TRTWorld reported that experts were raising alarms about the #EnvironmentalIssues that will confront Gazans once the war ends.
[ID: instagram post from @.GazaMedicVoices. Text over the gridded numbered map of Gaza released by the IOF reads: “We are no longer in Rafah, we are in ‘block XX.’ The reality is uglier than anyone can imagine because what is happening to us has never happened before.” - Surgeon displaced to south of Gaza, 1/12/23. The post caption reads: Israel has started using a numbered grid system for evacuation warnings, accessed via a QR code on leaflets dropped from the sky and via social media. This has led to terror and confusion as people struggle to find refuge from the heavy bombardment. /end ID]
These “evacuation zones” are extermination zones. The IOF has 0 intention of letting anyone move freely in #Gaza. They shoot #people who try to move to the places they’re told to evacuate to, and many people can’t move at all because everything around them is under constant bombardment. Most #Gazans don’t have internet to view these “evacuation notices” in the first place, because the #IOF bombed Gaza’s communications infrastructure. This map is another weak attempt to convince the #world that they’re trying to “minimize casualties,” but like most #Zionist#propaganda, it’s just more evidence of their atrocities. They have literally divided Gaza into death chambers.
With rising #Antisemitism & #islamophobia, please know that holding civilians directly responsible for the actions of states or governments is terrorism.
In any act of violence there are three parties; perpetrators, victims, and targets. If your target, or who you’re trying to influence (a state or government), is different from your victim (civilians), then you are a terrorist by definition.
And violence includes physical and psychological harm. Don’t be a terrorist.
It's not possible to move a million people in 24 hours without rehearsal. Even if they are compliant people who trust the information they are given. Who believe they will get to come back.
This is a fig leaf for naked aggression. Not even a very big one.
A recap of main events today (while i was working on a completely different story so details to come later):
-emergency government and war cabinet formed in #Israel
#Gaza 's only power station stopped working, leaving the territory without main electricity
17 Brits, including children are dead or missing after #hamas attack in Israel