"'There’s only one word to describe this, and this is aid-washing. This is a cynical attempt by the state of Israel and its allies … to use aid to hide the fact that what’s actually going on is people are being starved into submission.'"
Lire une autrice palestinienne.... tandis que ce qui s'apparente de plus en plus à un génocide continue, et qu'il est difficile de ne pas se laisser submerger par un sentiment d'impuissance. Peut-être ne nous restera-t-il bientôt plus que les livres...
Israel carried out its plan to erase Gaza over the course of 18 months. Now that the plan has clearly fallen into place, the Netanyahu government is openly discussing ethnic cleansing. And still, Israel enjoys complete international impunity.
'Civilized People Do Not Starve Children to Death': #Sanders Rips #US-Backed Israel's 68-Day Gaza Aid Blockade
"What we are seeing now is a slow, brutal process of mass starvation and death by the denial of basic necessities," the senator said, calling for an end to U.S. complicity in the humanitarian disaster.
""Today marks 68 days and counting since ANY humanitarian aid was allowed into #Gaza. For more than nine weeks, Israel has blocked all supplies: no food, no water, no medicine, and no fuel."
[He] not only highlighted those conditions in a speech on the Senate floor Thursday but also called out the fact that the worsening humanitarian crisis "gets very little discussion here in the nation's capital or in the halls of Congress," even though #Israel has spent the past 19 months destroying Gaza with …
'Civilized People Do Not Starve Children to Death': #Sanders Rips #US-Backed Israel's 68-Day Gaza Aid Blockade
"What we are seeing now is a slow, brutal process of mass starvation and death by the denial of basic necessities," the senator said, calling for an end to U.S. complicity in the humanitarian disaster.
""Today marks 68 days and counting since ANY humanitarian aid was allowed into #Gaza. For more than nine weeks, Israel has blocked all supplies: no food, no water, no medicine, and no fuel."
[He] not only highlighted those conditions in a speech on the Senate floor Thursday but also called out the fact that the worsening humanitarian crisis "gets very little discussion here in the nation's capital or in the halls of Congress," even though #Israel has spent the past 19 months destroying Gaza with armed and diplomatic support from the United States."
"Roughly 80 pro-Palestine protesters were arrested on Wednesday night after occupying a library on Columbia University’s campus.
"Demonstrators rushed through Butler Library’s security gate at about 3:00 p.m., hanging banners, tagging shelves with graffiti, chanting pro-Palestine slogans, and renaming it the 'Basel Al-Araj Popular University,' a reference to the Palestinian writer who was killed by the Israeli army in 2017."
"For a little over two months, Israel has prevented all food, goods, and medical supplies from entering the Gaza Strip. The consequences have been catastrophic: According to Gaza’s Government Media Office, over 70,000 children are now hospitalized with acute malnutrition, and 1.1 million lack the daily minimum nutritional requirements for survival."
Uithongering als oorlogswapen " “We maken de kinderen van Gaza fysiek en mentaal kapot,” vertelde Michael Ryan, directeur gezondheidscrises bij de WHO, aan journalisten. “Want als we niets doen, zijn we medeplichtig aan wat zich voor onze ogen afspeelt. Kinderen zouden deze prijs niet hoeven te betalen.”
'I killed a boy, now we just laugh about it' IDF soldier admits. Zionism turns people into sociopaths so they can execute children without empathy.
"To See IF I'm Smiling" is a 2007 documentary that features six Israeli soldiers who recount their military service in #Gaza and the #WestBank, revealing incidents of negligence, casualness, immaturity and abuse of power while on duty in Occupied Territories.
"Hij vindt niet dat dat te laat is. "Nee hoor. Ik vind dat we echt op de juiste momenten de juiste dingen hebben gedaan."
Zelden zo'n van zichzelf overtuigde steenezel als #DickSchoof meegemaakt. Als het aan hem had gelegen was zelfs deze minimale symbolische stap niet gezet. Want eigenlijk is ie het wel eens met #Wilders, durf ik te wedden.