South Africa cites eight elements of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and with statements of INTENT by Israeli officials:
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(1) Killing, including a large proportion of 70% women and children of > than 21,110 fatalities.
(2) Serious mental and bodily harm, maiming, psychological trauma, and inhuman treatment.
(3) Forced displacement of 85% of Gazans, massive destruction of homes, villages, towns, refugee camps, entire areas, which precludes return of Gazans to their homes.
(4) Causing widespread hunger, starvation, dehydration by impeding sufficient humanitarian assistance, cutting off food, water, fuel and electricity, and destroying bakeries, mills, agricultural lands.
(5) Failing to provide and restricting adequate clothing, shelter, hygiene, sanitation, including for 1.9 million displaced.
(6) Failing to ensure the provision of medical care by direct attacks on hospitals, ambulances and killing doctors, medics and nurses. @israel@palestine
Doctors Without Borders (@MSF) confirmed that staff at Al Nasr Hospital in Gaza had to leave babies in #incubators behind as they evacuated southward, driven out by Israeli shelling. (I rarely link Washington Post because it’s behind a paywall) @israel@palestine
@ashmueli@Sherifazuhur@israel@palestine "I hit her because she made me mad" is not a defense at the individual level, why on earth would that be a defense at the society level?
Also lol at Israel having no death penalty, that's a good one. The state puts plenty of people to death through action or through inaction. October 7th is a great example of that - the government sacrificed 1200 people to create a crisis to retain its own power. No light infantry raid could cause that level of casualties without willful negligence.
There is no excuse for civilian-on-civilian violence perpetrated by #Israeli settlers against #Palestinans in the #WestBank. That is civil strife, quite transparently condoned by the Israeli government.
But the #Hamas rocket attacks launched from #Gaza to kill Israeli civilians is a military attack, not civil violence.
It was a surprise military attack, and there is no evidence the Israeli government "created that crisis to retain power"
Israel began bombing Rafah about 4 hours ago and casualties of at least 63 - who knows how many by morning. I just saw ppl shroud a dead baby. @palestine@israel
@Alon@israel@palestine yes - it simply wasn’t posted yet by sources that I trust - of course, naturally one must kill 100+ and bomb a mosque to carry out a rescue in one apartment
@Sherifazuhur@israel@palestine "[the campaign] is being advised by Josh Vlasto, a communications strategist who previously worked for US Senator Chuck Schumer and former Governor of New York"
@ghazi@Sherifazuhur@israel@palestine
Non Sequitur.
Al Jazeera is not a reliable source. They were still publishing Hamas propaganda days after it was proven that the rocket that damaged the hospital was launched from Gaza.
Israel's Bezalel Smotrich repeats call for Palestinians to leave Gaza - to make way for Israelis who could "make the desert bloom." (File under “unironically, in their own words”) @palestine@israel
@Sherifazuhur You're tagging the wrong person, Heretical. Sherifa, if you had noticed who I tagged in my response, you'd already know I wasn't responding to you--I was in fact calling what Heretical said bullshit. And bullshit it remains. Irony doesn't translate into plain text. Never has and never will, so it's on good folks to plain-text indicate that it's irony.
Re treatment of children/minors/youth @palestine
Fadi Quran:
Here’s a personal story about Palestinian child prisoners:
In 2012, I was arrested in Hebron while participating in a march to open Shuhada street, which was a main market street for Palestinians until the Israeli military shut it down, and made it for Israeli settlers only. It’s part of the area @JamaalBowmanNY
visited.
Handcuffed and blinded by pepper spray, and thrown in the back of an Israeli humvee after my head was slammed against it, the soldiers drive off. They suddenly stop, run out, and all I hear is a child screaming and crying.
@palestine They come and take me away. Thirty minutes later kid comes out of interrogation shaken. He says the soldier told him he’d shoot his mother. The poor child told me not to worry though, he only said the truth 🥺.
The case brought against this poor kid was stone throwing, with two soldiers “testifying” they saw him throw a stone.
He spent 3 months in prison as court hearings kept getting delayed, eventually he was advised by his lawyer to “admit” to stone throwing because that way he’d spend less time in prison because the lawyer could be able to negotiate his release in 4 months, while waiting for a ruling from Israel’s military courts could take a year.
@palestine - In short, working on this issue in Palestine for 12 years, I can tell you the majority of child arrests in Palestine follow this exact pattern:
Israel wants to teach a Palestinian community a lesson, deterring people from protesting its oppression.
It targets the kids, arresting dozens - up to 700 a year.
Majority of kids get abused and interrogated.
Lawyers and kids know it’s better to “confess” even if they didn’t do the crime, as waiting for a ruling and being in uncertainty/limbo is hell. That’s why you have a 95% conviction rate.
Then the Israeli government, when challenged for the systematic abuse, comes out and says: “These kids are terrorists - they attacked our soldiers and admitted to it.”
And because the lives of Palestinian children don’t matter, the world turns a blind eye again and again and again and again.
Remember when Biden said the US will build a pier in Gaza back in early March? To deliver food to be checked by ISR in Cyprus, then in Gaza. US military finally started pier construction off Gaza. May take 60 days to build. No rush. Just starving Gazans. @palestine@israel
No. Never mind. You can't (and the fact you keep switching this thread from Public to "Quiet" only proves my point. You know your arguments won't hold up to Public scrutiny.)
12-year-old Rimas from Gaza sells homemade "ka'ak" to afford her heart disease medication amid the hard conditions resulting from the Israeli occupation's horrific war on Gaza.
t.me/pal_Online9 @palestine
@RememberUsAlways your spam skills are graceful but what you don't realize is that it's all for naught because you come off like a charmless troll. ugh just to prove that I actually read your shit, I don't believe Jews and Arabs live peacefully in Israel as it's a very unstable country where war affects everything.
'The Most Political Act for Jews in Israel Is to Learn Arabic' - “ there is ample need for our project, with less than 0.4 percent of Israel’s Jewish population capable of reading a literary text in Arabic” @israel@palestine
@oatmeal@sane_guy@Sherifazuhur@israel@palestine
Thanks for the correction. His change of last name is fairly recent and I have known him previously as just Shenhav. I don't follow him that closely
The point is: not in academic circles. If all you have is discourse in academic circles, then you have a nice theory.
I don't tell anyone what to do or not to do. I merely report current common practice.
I'm not sure about English fluency in the south :/
It can definitely help but how many schools around the world have more than 1 foreign language class?
Also many schools in Israel include religious studies, it won't be easy to get them to adopt such proposals :(
I think there are more opportunities to teach it in places it's not currently being done, but I don't see a future where 4/5 people are fluently trilingual, and know some MSA too
Israeli high school kids try to lynch the principal of a school because she shared an haaretz article calling for more humanitarian aid in Gaza (not even an anti war article) @israel
מהומה בהפגנת תלמידים בבית הספר עירוני י״ד בתל אביב שמוחים נגד המנהלת שלהם שפרסמה פוסט תמיכה בעזתים
@Sherifazuhur@syria@iran this is devastating news! Not being on either Twitter or Facebook anymore cut me off from the communities of research around Damascus and its urban heritage
A man set himself on fire at the Israeli embassy in DC. Earlier reports did not include this:
“The individual, wearing fatigues, introduces himself as “an active duty member of the U.S. Air Force and I will no longer be complicit in genocide.””
And he continues yelling “Free Palestine.” @palestine
I think you might be using the German, 'kapische' (or maybe Serbian?) in place of the English version, 'capisce' from Italian. Since you are ostensibly spelling German in an English sentence the grammar nazi spelling and wellness check is required.
@Sherifazuhur Descripition:
Black silhouette of a person in fatigues, covered with symbolically depicted flames. Above it: "Refuse to be an accomplice to genocide". Below: "Honor Aaron Bushnell!"