“#Israel has razed 77% of healthcare facilities in #Gaza, 68% of telecommunication infrastructure, nearly all municipal and governmental buildings, commercial, industrial and agricultural centers, almost half of all roads, over 60% of Gaza’s 439,000 homes, 68 percent of residential buildings… Gaza’s universities, all of which are now closed, and 60% of other educational facilities, including 13 libraries… at least 195 heritage sites, including 208 mosques, churches”
“The ICJ also ordered Israel to immediately ensure “that its military does not commit acts which constitute a violation of any of the rights of the Palestinians in Gaza as a protected group under the convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide, including by preventing, through any action, the delivery of urgently needed humanitarian assistance””
“The international court of justice has ordered Israel to allow unimpeded access of food aid into Gaza, where sections of the population are facing imminent starvation, in a significant legal rebuke to Israel’s claim it is not blocking aid deliveries.”
“… #famine and #starvation were spreading. “The court observes that #Palestinians in Gaza are no longer facing only a risk of famine … but that famine is setting in”
“U.N. says ‘famine is imminent’ in northern Gaza as Israel launches another raid on the main hospital
The U.N. food agency said Monday that “famine is imminent” in northern Gaza, where 70% of the remaining population is experiencing catastrophic hunger.
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The European Union’s top diplomat said the impending famine was “entirely man-made” as “starvation is used as a weapon of war.””
“RAFAH, Gaza Strip — The U.N. food agency said Monday that “famine is imminent” in northern Gaza, where 70% of the remaining population is experiencing catastrophic hunger, and that a further escalation of the war could push around half of Gaza’s total population to the brink of starvation.“
“Ultimately, he was paid about $800,000 for his work, which was not made public at the time because it did not help Trump, he said…
An invoice reviewed by The Post showed his work was extensive. It included analyzing more than 21 million voter records, reviewing voter data from five swing states…
more work was conducted by another expert firm that was paid more than $1 million. When its work also did not prove fraud, it also was not made public, The Post reported.“
I’m not sorry France did this, but the state shouldn’t need laws confirming that I may remove a tumour from any part of my body, or obtain cancer treatment that may affect my ability to have or bear children, or that I may insert an IUD in my uterus, or donate a kidney, or obtain a D&C for any reason, or obtain treatment for diabetes or depression, or do any of these things only for 14 weeks from diagnosis, because they are ALL private healthcare matters.
““Israeli” right-wing extremist and Heritage Minister, Amihai Eliyahu, called on Friday to “wipe out” the month of Ramadan, adding that “our fear of this month must also be wiped out.” …
Eliyahu, who is part of the “Jewish Power” right-wing and anti-arab fascist party, previously stated in November that “dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza is one of the options.”
He further claimed there are “no civilians in Gaza” and rejected the entry of aid completely into the Strip.”
“Some within the party—the Christian nationalists—seem like they would be satisfied with banning same-sex marriage, abortion, and forcing media companies to run their religious propaganda. But the most extreme set—who can properly be called #Christofascists —will not be satisfied until LGBTQ people are locked up, Muslims are deported and banned, and women are prohibited from having any social or sexual autonomy.“
The number of people who believe - and unabashedly say, publicly, - “the murder of these people is okay because those other people were murdered first” is unbelievably astounding, and scary as hell.
PS - If you’re thinking of coming into my replies to justify the collective punishment and mass starvation of an entire population forcibly displaced and corralled into inhumane conditions by a state military offensive, one million humans of which are children, ONE MILLION CHILDREN, don’t.
@fsinn Then they come out and say "But they're using innocent civilians as human shields!" And like yeah that's bad, but you want to know what's worse?
@fsinn the funny thing about this is, before oct 7. It was considered the most deadly year for Palestinians in the West Bank . Not a word from the media, no call for Palestinians right to self defense. No unconditional weapons for the Palestinians, no 14 billion dollars in aid.
Reproductive choice under attack, and more generally, the right to be free of interference by others in the most private decisions.
Republicans, who straight faced call themselves “conservatives”, increasingly are demanding, and trying to force, the State between you and your doctor. (Also the Canadian CPC party, aligned in intent just less effective so far).
Abortion is a #privacy#law issue. Trans rights, same issue.
Using all the buzz words polls must be telling Trump are bad for him, Trump labels Pres Biden with all the things he, Trump, is, including this doozy:
“Joe [Biden] and his henchmen have you trapped and it’s an express train barreling toward servitude and to ruin – it’s moving at a speed that Joe doesn’t understand because Joe ... I don’t think he knows what the hell’s going on, to be honest with you, but he’s surrounded by some very bad fascists.”