Palestine

[from a Special Series
A year since Oct. 7]

October 12, 2024 7:58 AM ET
By Kat Lonsdorf

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[Bias alert - #NYT usually favors Israel]
By Ben Hubbard, Sergey Ponomarev, Leanne Abraham and Marco Hernandez
Oct. 13, 2024

Jake Johnson October 12, 2024

Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Oct 09, 2024

Drop Site News
Oct 10, 2024

Brett Wilkins
Oct 11, 2024

From - The Picture Show
Photo Stories From NPR

October 8, 20247:28 AM ET
By Ayman Oghanna

Oct 11 (Reuters) - Nicaragua is breaking off diplomatic relations with Israel, the Central American nation said on Friday, calling the Israeli government "fascist" and "genocidal."

İsmail Beheşti was on his way to check on his ship, the Conscience, at the Port of Istanbul. It was the end of August, and he hoped the 220-foot passenger yacht would soon be loaded with aid and volunteers, sailing for Gaza to break Israel’s illegal blockade. But as he entered the port, where the ship had been moored for months, he was physically stopped.

“The security forces did not allow me to enter the port. They kicked me out by force,” recalled Beheşti. To his great surprise, he said, the security officers told him “‘No, you are on the blacklist. We will not let you go and see your ship.’”

It was the latest roadblock for Beheşti and his fellow activists from an international coalition that has been trying since April to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. They had already struggled to find countries that would lend their flags to the ships in the flotilla, as such a move could be seen as antagonistic to Israel. Once they did obtain flags, the flotilla planned to depart from Turkey, which famously supported a 2010 effort to break Israel’s siege of Gaza. But now, even though the Conscience has secured a flag and the support of U.N. rapporteurs, Turkish authorities are continually blocking its departure.

Julia Conley
Oct 11, 2024

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society on Friday said that all its ambulances in northern Gaza were forced to stop over the lack of fuel due to the Israeli army’s incursion and siege for the sixth consecutive day.

“Six ambulances are completely put out of service due to lack of fuel, as the Israeli occupation prevents the entry of fuel into northern Gaza,” Raed Al-Nems, Red Crescent Society’s spokesman in Gaza, told Anadolu.

He added that the halt of the ambulances paralyzed providing the ambulance service to patients and wounded people in northern Gaza.

Commenting on the situation in northern Gaza, Al-Nems said the humanitarian situation is “quickly deteriorating with the continuation of the Israeli siege. The siege is preventing the arrival of basic humanitarian, medical and relief supplies to northern Gaza,” he added.

Malak A Tantesh in Gaza, Emma Graham-Harrison and Jason Burke
Thu 10 Oct 2024 14.35 EDT

Germany will send more weapons to Israel soon, Scholz says
(Reuters, 2024-10-10)

https://www.reuters.com/world/germany-will-send-more-weapons-israel-soon-scholz-says-2024-10-10/
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"'We have not decided not to supply weapons. We have supplied weapons and we will supply weapons,' Scholz told parliament at an event to commemorate the victims of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, countering an accusation from opposition leader Friedrich Merz*."

"Commenting on the fall in exports, the German government has said there is no arms export boycott on Israel, and export permits are issued case-by-case after careful review, taking into account international law, foreign policy and security considerations."

*) Friedrich Merz: present CDU chief and wannabe Chancellor, former member of the board of BlackRock Germany and chairman of the Atlantik-Brücke association (promoting German-American understanding and Atlanticism)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantik-Br%C3%BCcke

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Paris Marx is joined by Spencer Ackerman to discuss the past year of Israel's actions in Palestine and the innovations in war technology being used to carry out what the ICJ has deemed a "plausible" genocide in Gaza.

Special Series
A year since Oct. 7

By Daniel Wood
October 10, 20245:00 AM ET

By Mohammed al-Hajjar and Ahmed Dremly in Gaza, occupied Palestine and Katherine Hearst in London. Published date: 10 October 2024 16:02 BST

Inside Western media’s reporting on Gaza | The Listening Post
(Al Jazeera English, 2024-10-05)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAmk4efA2t0&pp=QACIAgE%3D&rco=1

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Over the past year, for the Palestinians of Gaza, "[genocide] again" has become reality - mass casualties broadcast almost in real time by its victims.

This film is about an alternative version of that reality - the one told by major Western news organisations - and how it has provided cover for Israel's war on Gaza.

Based on interviews with more than a dozen insiders, it lifts the curtain on the inner workings of agenda-setting outlets like CNN, the BBC and The New York Times.

Contributors:
"Adam" – journalist, #CNN
"Sara" – former journalist, #BBC
#GhassanAbuSitta – reconstructive surgeon
Jodi Rudoren – former Jerusalem bureau chief, The #NewYorkTimes
Jeremy Scahill – co-founder, #DropSiteNews
#CraigMokhiber – former senior human rights official, United Nations

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By Brett Wilkins October 9, 2024

By Brett Wilkins October 9, 2024

Ed Pillington October 9, 2024

By Fayha Shalash in Ramallah, occupied Palestine
Published date: 6 October 2024 12:35 BST

The lady, who has not been named, works in a school in Nazareth and posted a picture of herself dancing to a song called ‘Good Times‘ with the caption “On this day 7/10/23.”

In a post on X, Ben-Gvir wrote: “I forwarded the video to the team for dealing with incitement in the network I set up at the Israel Police, and she was immediately arrested at her home in Tamra. Zero tolerance for incitement and supporters of terrorism!”

However activists have been quick to point out that the video is in keeping with the lady’s social media presence and none of her captions or videos glorified the Palestinian resistance’s infiltration of Palestinian towns and villages on 7 October 2023.

“She was arrested, her eyes were covered like they do to terrorists, she was photographed humiliatingly and then her detention was extended,” Co-Director of the Jewish-Arab Movement for Peace, Equality & Social Justice in Israel, Alon-Lee Green, wrote on X.

I just saw this 2-minute #video that was posted on social media by someone in #JewishVoiceforPeace. Using a very original and powerful approach to present the #Gaza genocide, it could be shown to someone who is not doing anything about it. [FYI -There are no shocking close-up depictions of violence.]

Please take a look at it and comment if you wish.

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