This safezone turned refugee camp is now under attack again, and 100.000 people already have to flee by orders of the Israeli military. Far more will have to flee soon, which in most cases won't be their first displacement in this conflict alone. Over 1.000.000 people have arrived in Rafah, hoping to be safe from Israel's bombardment there.
A war in which 90% of deaths are civilians [Wikipedia], so for every 10 murdered civilians you may kill one terrorist, even if you want it to be a “war against terror”, it is a war against the civilian population more than anything else.
There is no other safezone. This is the only place resembling a home for millions of people.
Several former Google employees who were fired from the company for protesting against its cloud contract with the Israeli government have filed a complaint with the U.S. labor board.
The single-page complaint claims Google’s termination of their contracts was illegal and interferes with their rights to advocate for better working conditions, with one former employee claiming he was fired for simply watching the protest. @techspot has more.
Interesting #Arctic reporting as always from Mia Bennet of Cryopolitics, this time on the temporary Israeli base that was built in US state of #Alaska to test defensive space missiles now being used in the #MiddleEast.
A hopeful sign for peace🕊️, a plan for a modified “ceasefire”: “Israel open to discussing "sustainable calm" in Gaza after initial hostage release: officials” #IsraelHamasWar
Google has fired 20 more employees in connection with sit-in protests over its contracts with the Israeli government.
The activist group organizing the protests has said this takes the number of terminated staff to over 50, including “non-participating bystanders.” Here’s more from Associated Press.
‘Not a normal war’: doctors say #children have been targeted by Israeli snipers in #Gaza
IDF says it ‘completely rejects’ charge that its soldiers deliberately fired on any of the thousands of civilians killed in Israeli offensive
"I asked the nurse, what’s the history? She said that they were brought in a couple of hours ago. They had #sniper shots to the brain. They were seven or eight years old."
Less food will reach the ppl in Gaza.💔The deaths of 7 heroic WCK aid workers drove out the charity & UNRWA pushed out: diabolical.
"There was a tragic case of our forces unintentionally hitting innocent ppl in the Gaza Strip -It happens in war-." Netanyahu
11K children killed -unintentional?
"The Israeli defense MIN body in charge of coordinating aid deliveries to Gaza, the charity is responsible for 60% of the non-govt aid getting into the territory." #IsraelHamasWarhttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-68710515
This claim that Hamas infiltrates nearly all groups, is always Netanyahu's excuse for killing innocents💔. The UN demanded a ceasefire 8 days ago.
Haaretz reports “The convoy of the "Central World Kitchen" organization was attacked due to the suspicion that an armed Hamas operative had joined the foreign volunteers, but he remained in the warehouse from where the journey began.”
"An apparent Israeli airstrike killed seven aid workers with World Central Kitchen, leading the charity to suspend delivery Tuesday of vital food aid to Gaza, where Israel's offensive has pushed hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to the brink of starvation."
CBS News reports: "WCK, a nonprofit founded by celebrity chef José Andrés, has shipped more than 37 million meals to Palestinians in Gaza since Oct. 7, the group says."
Not all Israeli Jews support the #IsraelHamasWar – but the peace movement, which was divided before the war began, is even more divided and anguished now.
At university of South #Florida hunger strikers for #palestine are entering their third week.
The university has instructed medical staff on campus to deny medical care to these students, they don’t all have insurance. Some have been hospitalized.
Through all this, the university continues to say they have zero control over their own money, and won’t meet with strikers.
A senior humanitarian official accused the Israeli government of blocking live-saving supplies as hundreds of trucks loaded with food and medical aid sat idle on the roads heading into Gaza. NBC News reports: https://flip.it/C04LIh #News#WorldNews#Israel#Gaza#IsraelHamasWar
Gaza starvation could amount to war crime, UN human rights chief says.
BBC News reports: "After months of warnings, a recent UN-backed report offered hard statistical evidence that the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is turning into a man-made famine."
Two weeks ago we published a subscriber update to our overview #map of territorial administration in #Israel/#Palestine, with detailed timeline of events since December.
The map is still basically correct today, pending possible Israeli offensive on #Rafah.
"#Forensic Architecture has documented the mass displacement of Palestinian civilians being carried out by the Israeli #military [… which] has repeatedly abused the humanitarian measures of evacuation orders, ‘safe routes’, and ‘safe zones’, and failed to comply with the laws governing their application within a wartime context. These patterns of systematic violence and destruction have forced Palestinian civilians from one unsafe area to the next." https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/humanitarian-violence-in-gaza@israel
The #IDF ground invasion in #KhanYounis has pushed Nasser and al-Amal hospitals out of service, in addition to al-Khair, the only hospital in the area inside a supposed ‘safe zone’.