"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.

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 …

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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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.

• 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

Killed in an IDF in an air strike on Gaza in October 13, 2023.

Zagout gained a dedicated following on Instagram from all around the world. Viewers responded to her vibrant paintings of cityscapes and portraits that documented aspects of Palestinian culture; I wrote and illustrated this comic to honor Heba and her art. As a Palestinian artist myself, I wanted to offer a fraction of her life and what her work meant to the people of the world.

But in working on this comic, the only thought running through my mind was: How can anyone possibly capture the scale and severity of this destruction, this dehumanization? With every minute, more and more Palestinian martyrs become statistics. I recalled the words of the writer Khalil in Gaza (@khalilo1 …

A small group of volunteers from Israel’s tech sector is working tirelessly to remove content it says doesn’t belong on platforms like Facebook and TikTok, tapping personal connections at those and other Big Tech companies to have posts deleted outside official channels, the project’s founder told The Intercept.

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.

“Frustration that he’s not actually here to respond to the very obvious censorship that is afoot in all of the major dailies in the United States. Said could have broken through and found a hearing, at a moment when so many more people around the world are seeing for the first time what the Zionist project really is in practice.”

there can be no way of satisfactorily conducting a life whose main concern is to prevent the past from recurring.

In many instances, there is an unmistakable coincidence between the experiences of Arab Palestinians at the hands of Zionism and the experiences of those black, yellow, and brown people who were described as inferior and subhuman by nineteenth-century imperialists.

I cannot understand how raw, naked evidence can …

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.

Part one linked above and part two:

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2024/01/your-man-in-the-hague-in-a-good-way-part-2/

AI-assisted genocide

Egypt gas to Israel to resume by 4 March #a7a #pullovershafi2 #eshkhor #jan25 #egypt http://is.gd/q4EgwX

Palestinian & Israeli civilian deaths since 1988

Retired Israeli general: Egypt's generals urged us to pummel Gaza

Cornered? #Israel #Palestine #Intifada http://twitpic.com/4x72et

IDF break into a flat at dawn execute the WRONG man WHILE ASLEEP, then arrest the right man from the floor below

Unacceptable statement by HRW.

قائد بالتزوير..قائد بالفوتوشوب

ffs wtf is this?

Here it's illegal for migrant workers to have children.

The bastards want to enslave African migrants in concentration camps because they are too cheap to pay them minimum wage and can boldly claim that they "will spread diseases".

Arafat is a ‘terrorist in a diplomat’s suit, while Hamas can be hit unmercifully… there won’t be any international protests’.