Palestine

By Mera Aladam
Published date: 30 December 2024 14:12 GMT

By Ahmed Aziz in Khan Younis, occupied Palestine and Mera Aladam
Published date: 31 December 2024 16:00 GMT

Peter Beaumont Tue 31 Dec 2024 10.39 EST

A Year in German Culture: Gaza and censorship. (Thomas Meaney | Sidecar, 2024-12-15)

https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/a-year-in-german-culture
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A good (and trist) collection of unbearable denialism among German public discourse about Palestine, throughout the year 2024.

[An excerpt, from 3 June]
"The images from Gaza are not real. So, in as many words, says Herta Müller in the FAZ. An expert on totalitarianism, having grown up in Communist Romania, she knows it when she sees it. ‘Hamas controls the selection of images and orchestrates our emotions’, she writes. ‘Our feelings are their strongest weapon against Israel’. In order to counteract this mass manipulation of feeling, she counsels keeping faith with the Israeli military forces, and renewed scepticism toward images of burning people, pulverized buildings, starving children, whether or not they are staged by Hamas’s Hollywood division..."

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Palestinian MP calls on Israeli defence minister to release Dr Abu Safiya | Middle East Eye (2024-12-30)

https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-palestinian-mp-calls-israeli-defense-minister-release-dr-abu
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"Ahmad Tibi, a Palestinian member of the Knesset, asked Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz to visit Dr Hossam Abu Safiya, director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, reportedly detained in the Sde Teiman detention centre.

"He also called for Dr Abu Safiya’s release."

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By Mark MazzettiSheera Frenkel and Ronen Bergman
Reporting from Tel Aviv and Jerusalem

Dec. 29, 2024

By Aryn Baker
Dec. 30, 2024 Updated 9:27 a.m. ET
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2024 Word of the Year: Genocide (as in, Gaza) (Juan Cole | Informed Comment, 2024-12-29)

https://www.juancole.com/2024/12/2024-word-genocide.html
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“… the most powerful man in the world, Joe Biden, insisted that what Israel is doing in Gaza is not genocide. In fact, most US politicians of both parties have either issued similar denials or have just been quiet on the issue.”

“If a country cavalierly throws aside this requirement [to minimize civilian casualties] and deliberately and consciously adopts rules of engagement allowing a hundred civilian casualties for each high-value militant killed, as both Israel’s +972 Mag and the New York Times* say Israel has done, that course of action could fall under the heading of genocide.”

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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-gaza-bombing.html?unlocked%5C_article%5C_code=1.k04.k8y3.XYhYw9NpYRrn

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Opinion | A consensus is emerging: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Where is the action? | Nesrine Malik (Guardian, 2024-12-23)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/23/israel-gaza-war-genocide-where-is-the-action
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“Despite the overwhelming evidence we see before us, still nothing changes. The war continues…”

“But the failure is not in the descriptions of what is happening in Gaza. The failure, as Lina Mounzer wrote, is ‘of the rotten substructure of the world within which this language is meant to function’. … Israel’s allies force an adaptation on to the world after which it simply becomes accepted that rights are not bestowed by humanity, but by the parties who decide who is human.”

“As the murder continues, what stops it from being a perfect crime is that people remain on the scene, loudly call it murder, point to the culprit, say the names of the dead, mourn them, hold vigils, and fiercely protect their rights for restitution.”

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#NameGenocideGenocide #NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine

GAZA....

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from #DropSiteNews [may be paywall, or request to sign up for free access]
Shuaib Almosawa
Dec 27, 2024

It's antisemitic to share and like this post.

#Israel went from blaming #Hamas for attacks against #hospitals into destroying every single one of them, torturing & murdering the #doctors & nurces, blowing up #ambulances & setting the hospitals on fire with total impunity.

But we who expose their crimes are being isolated, punished & attacked.

#Gaza #SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SaveTheChildren
#palestine #Politics #Genocide #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow
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["Humanitarian crisis"? Genocide is a more accurate description]

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By Aryn Baker and Abu Bakr Bashir
Dec. 28, 2024, 5:07 a.m. ET

Kaamil Ahmed
Sat 28 Dec 2024 02.33 EST

December 27, 2024

Award-winning Israeli journalist Gideon Levy [writes for Haaretz] decries the moral decay of Israel, which has gone so far as to open a luxurious rest area for soldiers in northern Gaza

By Ahmed Dremly in #Gaza, occupied #Palestine and Lubna Masarwa in Jerusalem
Published date: 27 December 2024 12:47 GMT

EU Officials Will Claim Ignorance of Israel’s War Crimes. This Leaked Document Shows What They Knew. (The Intercept, 2024-12-23)

https://theintercept.com/2024/12/23/eu-report-israel-war-crimes-complicity/
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“European Union foreign ministers rebuffed a call to end arms sales to Israel last month, despite mounting evidence of war crimes — and, potentially, genocide — presented to them in an internal assessment obtained by The Intercept.

“The contents of the previously unknown 35-page assessment could sway future war crimes trials of EU politicians for complicity in Israel’s assault against Gaza, according to lawyers, experts, and political leaders.

“The appraisal was written by the EU’s special representative for human rights Olof Skoog and sent to EU ministers ahead of a council meeting on November 18, as part of a proposal by the head of the EU’s foreign policy to suspend political dialogue with Israel. The proposal was rejected by the council of foreign ministers from #EU member states.”

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Israel Loosened Its Rules to Bomb Hamas Fighters, Killing Many More Civilians (New York Times, 2024-12-26)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-gaza-bombing.html?unlocked%5C_article%5C_code=1.k04.k8y3.XYhYw9NpYRrn
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Behold, it’s #NYT reporting:

“An investigation by The New York Times found that Israel severely weakened its system of safeguards meant to protect civilians; adopted flawed methods to find targets and assess the risk of civilian casualties; routinely failed to conduct post-strike reviews of civilian harm or punish officers for wrongdoing; and ignored warnings from within its own ranks and from senior U.S. military officials about these failings.

“The Times reviewed dozens of military records and interviewed more than 100 soldiers and officials, including more than 25 people who helped vet, approve or strike targets. Collectively, their accounts provide an unparalleled understanding of how Israel mounted one of the deadliest air wars of this century…”

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The BBC's Civil War Over Gaza (Owen Jones | Drop Site News, 2024-12-19)

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/bbc-civil-war-gaza-israel-biased-coverage
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“Drop Site News spoke to 13 current and former staffers who mapped out the extensive bias in the BBC’s coverage and how their demands for change have been largely met with silence from management. At times, these journalists point out, the coverage has been more credulous about Israeli claims than the UK’s own Conservative leaders and the Israeli media, while devaluing Palestinian life, ignoring atrocities, and creating a false equivalence in an entirely unbalanced conflict.

“The BBC journalists who spoke to Drop Site News believe the imbalance is structural, and has been enforced by the top brass for many years; all of them requested anonymity for fear of professional retribution. The journalists also overwhelmingly point to the role of one person in particular: Raffi Berg, #BBC News online’s Middle East editor…”

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Jadi had gone to al-Awda Hospital with his wife, who was giving birth to their first child.

According to the Wafa news agency, while waiting for his wife, he decided to check in on his colleagues who were outside the hospital in the vehicle.

His brother, photographer Omar al-Jadi, documented the moments after the Israeli strike hit the vehicle.

“Guys, Ayman is inside. Ayman, my brother, is martyred,” he shouted in the video as he helplessly filmed the burning van.

By Rayhan Uddin
Published date: 26 December 2024 10:50 GMT

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By Patrick Kingsley,Natan Odenheimer,Bilal Shbair,Ronen Bergman,John Ismay,Sheera Frenkel and Adam Sella

The reporters interviewed more than 100 soldiers and officials in Israel, dozens of victims of the strikes in Gaza, and experts on the rules of armed conflict.

Dec. 26, 2024

Video: Bedouin communities fear annexation threats from Israel – DW (2024-12-25)

https://www.dw.com/en/bedouin-communities-fear-west-bank-annexation-threats-from-israel/video-71158947
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… What happened to Deutsche Welle (“German Wave”, a German state international broadcaster) ? 🤔

“Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has promised to annex more Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank which are considered illegal under international law. For small Bedouin villages like Khan al-Ahmar, these annexation plans are an existential threat.“

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