Posts with the tag « gaza » :

🔗 مرصد شيرين

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مرصد شيرين هو جهد تطوعي بحت من صحفيين زملاء للشهيدة الصحفية شيرين أبو عاقلة، بهدف استكمال عملها الذي قدمت حياتها في سبيله في توثيق وفضح جرائم الاحتلال الاسرائيلي بحق الشعب الفلسطيني، ونقل الحقائق حول ما يجري في فلسطين للعالم، ولتصل رسالة الصحفيين الفلسطينيين للاحتلال بأن قتل شرين لم ولن يوقف الصوت الفلسطيني أو يمنعه أن يصل للعالم، وأن اسم شيرين سيبقى حياً في قلوب الفلسطينيين.

🔗 Gaza Memorial

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The goal of The Memorial is to collect the names of the martyrs in the voices of the world, so pronounce them as best you can but most of all just be yourself.

🔗 Mona Chalabi on storytelling, the power of data, and covering Palestine

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It’s funny how a lot of people viewed me as a rigorous journalist on every other topic. And when it came to this, all of a sudden there was this disbelief in my method of research. There was this suspicion that all of a sudden it wasn’t rigorous. I think that really, really speaks to the very, very, very deeply entrenched biases that exist around this subject.

🔗 US plan for temporary pier in Gaza a "glaring distraction"

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"The US plan for a temporary pier in Gaza to increase the flow of humanitarian aid is a glaring distraction from the real problem: Israel’s indiscriminate and disproportionate military campaign and punishing siege. The food, water, and medical supplies so desperately needed by people in Gaza are sitting just across the border. Israel needs to facilitate rather than block the flow of supplies. This is not a logistics problem; it is a political problem. Rather than look to the US military to build a work-around, the US should insist on immediate humanitarian access using the roads and entry points that already exist.

🔗 Doctors Without Borders urgent update on #Gaza to UN Security Council

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Christopher Lock, the organization's representative, discusses the ongoing crisis in Gaza, where over one million people are trapped and living in fear of a ground invasion.

He shares a personal account of a recent attack on an MSF-marked building housing MSF staff and their families, resulting in fatalities and injuries. The speaker condemns the pattern of attacks against humanitarian workers and infrastructure, such as hospitals, which is either intentional or indicative of reckless incompetence.

The situation in Gaza has led to the systematic destruction of a health system that Doctors Without Borders have supported for decades. The humanitarian response is inadequate, with limited space, medicine, food, water, and safety available.

Lock urges the UN Security Council to take effective action to address the conflict in Gaza, adopt a …

🔗 ‘Massacre’: Dozens killed by Israeli fire in Gaza while collecting food aid

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More than 100 Palestinians have been killed and some 700 others wounded after Israeli troops opened fire on hundreds waiting for food aid southwest of Gaza City, health officials say, as the besieged enclave faces an unprecedented hunger crisis.

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People had congregated at al-Rashid Street, where aid trucks carrying flour were believed to be on the way. Al Jazeera verified footage showing the bodies of dozens of killed and wounded Palestinians being carried onto trucks as no ambulances could reach the area.

“We went to get flour. The Israeli army shot at us. There are many martyrs on the ground and until this moment we are withdrawing them. There is no first aid,” said one witness.

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🔗 Arundhati Roy on Gaza: N̶e̶v̶e̶r̶ Again

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The Palestinians, facing down the most powerful countries in the world, left virtually alone even by their allies, have suffered immeasurably. But they have won this war. They, their journalists, their doctors, their rescue teams their poets, academics, spokespeople, and even their children have conducted themselves with a courage and dignity that has inspired the rest of the world. The young generation in the western world, particularly the new generation of young Jewish people in the US, have seen through the brainwashing and propaganda and have recognised apartheid and genocide for what it is. The governments of the most powerful countries in the western world have lost their dignity, and any respect they might have had.

🔗 UN experts appalled by reported human rights violations against Palestinian women and girls

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  • Deliberate targeting and extrajudicial killing of Palestinian women and children in places where they sought refuge, or while fleeing.
  • Arbitrary detention of hundreds of Palestinian women and girls, including human rights defenders, journalists and humanitarian workers, in Gaza and the West Bank since 7 October.
  • Multiple forms of sexual assault, such as being stripped naked and searched by male Israeli army officers.
  • At least two female Palestinian detainees were reportedly raped
  • Others were reportedly threatened with rape and sexual violence
  • Children being separated from their parents, whose whereabouts remain unknown

🔗 Israel not only prevents entry of aid into Gaza, but also kills those who try to receive it

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The Israeli army is not only starving Palestinians in the northern Gaza Valley, but has also killed dozens of individuals who tried to receive the meagre aid that did arrive there, perpetuating the genocide that Israel has been committing against the people of the Gaza Strip since 7 October 2023, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a statement on Tuesday.

🔗 Egypt Threatens Netanyahu with End of Camp David Peace Accords if he Invades Rafah

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It seems clear that even countries that are more or less at peace with Israel, whether formally (Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates) or informally (Saudi Arabia) have their hair on fire about the proposed Rafah operation.

Although American newspapers depict Egypt as broke, desperate and easily manipulated, my own estimation is that Cairo absolutely will not accept the Palestinians of Gaza as refugees on its soil. The Sinai is already a security problem for Cairo, and 2 million radicalized Palestinians would make it ungovernable. No amount of debt forgiveness would make such a bitter pill go down.

🔗 The war in Gaza has been an intense lesson in western hypocrisy. It won’t be forgotten

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That’s where the sense of losing your mind comes from: the fact that it seems, for the first time that I can think of, western powers are unable to credibly pretend that there is some global system of rules that they uphold. They seem to simply say: there are exceptions, and that’s just the way it is. No, it can’t be explained and yes, it will carry on until it doesn’t at some point, which seems to be when Israeli authorities feel like it.