Israel recovers bodies of 3 hostages from Gaza, military says
Israeli forces on Thursday night rescued the bodies of three hostages from the Gaza Strip, chief military spokesperson Daniel Hagari said on Friday. #press
@w7voa oh, so the #Israelis haven’t murdered all of the people of #Gaza yet? There are still a few people that need “aid”? What type of “aid” do you have in mind? Burial shrouds? Prosthetic limbs for children? Shovels to dig graves?
@faab64@Miro_Collas@palestine@realskibidi
In late October last year the majority of #Israelis showed they supported the #genocidal attacks on #gaza. In fact, many thought the IDF should be killing far more. #Israel is, like South Africa once was, a nation of mostly white supremacists devoted to #apartheid and their own privilege built on oppression, and to treating the occupied, indigenous people as sub-humans.
@realskibidi@Miro_Collas@faab64@palestine
Of course there are other organisations. I know a bit about one (al Mubadara - the PNI) that has long advocated non-violence & a 2 state solution (although they are on the verge of giving up on the latter).
Of course, #Israelis hate PNI as #Hamas, & arrested the Sec Gen (a Doctor) & smashed his knee with a rifle butt.
It seems the only person who could successfully unite Palestinians is Marwan Barghouti, currently serving life sentences in Israel.
from #WorldOutlook, an online journal of political analysis
‘For a Just Peace Enabling #Israelis and Palestinians to Co-Exist with Mutual Respect’
Appeal by African Leader #GraçaMachel, widow of #NelsonMandela
article from [#ProjectSyndicate, a magazine in South Africa. With an introduction by W-O]
"6 April 1994, when a #Palestinian man, dispatched by one of the leaders of Hamas’s armed wing, blew himself up at a bus stop in the northern Israeli city of Afula, killing eight #israelis It was expressly an act of vengeance in response to the massacre of 29 worshippers at the Ibrahimi mosque, carried out two months earlier by an Israeli extremist hoping to derail peace talks between the Israeli government and the #PLO. @palestine @israel #history #civilwar #war https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/21/what-is-the-real-hamas
#Israel has said it has informed the families of 31 people held in the territory since 7 October that their relatives are dead. The news came as the Qatari prime minister said #Hamas had given a “generally positive” response to proposals for a deal trading a break in the fighting and release of #Palestinian prisoners for the return of more #hostages.
"There is a tiny, reed-thin chance that something better might come out of this horror show of a war. To grasp it, the #Palestinians need to be free of #Hamas and #Israelis free of #Netanyahu. Every day those men remain in power is a curse on both peoples – who have surely been cursed long enough." #Israel#Gaza
“People self-censor, people do not even try to report the stories they know won’t get through,” Omer-Man said. “And that is really showing right now in how little regular #Israelis are seeing in the press about what is happening in #Gaza to #Palestinians.”
“The current socio-political reality in Israel is unbearable. Unending occupation feeds violence, fear, and hatred between Israelis and #Palestinians. Economic inequality is widening. Poverty is deepening. #Israel’s Palestinian minority faces increasing discrimination. #Women, Mizrahim [#Israelis who trace their roots to #Arabcountries], immigrants, the LGBTQ+ community, the elderly, and people with disabilities are marginalized socially, economically, and polit
"Extremist settlers, by targeting and killing #Palestinian civilians, are undermining security and stability for both #Israelis and Palestinians.
#Israel must take stronger action to stop settler violence and hold the perpetrators accountable.
We are banning those responsible for settler violence from entering the UK to make sure our country cannot be a home for people who commit these intimidating acts."
Mehdi Hasan to Mark Regev, senior Netanyahu advisor:
“If Hamas gunmen were hiding out in a school in Tel Aviv or in an apartment block in Haifa, would you be OK with the Israeli military dropping bombs on those buildings, leveling them, killing the innocent Israelis inside in order to get the Hamas gunmen? Would you do that?”
Actually, there are substantial indications that the #IDF did exactly that during the #Hamas intrusion. Like firing at cars from helicopters in the hope of killing Hamas operatives but with total disregard of any #Israelis present.
The #Netanyahu Government only cares about its own survival. Not about any innocent #Israeli people's lives and for sure not about any innocent #Palestinian people's lives.
Stern statement from Volker Turk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Jordan yesterday, after his trip to Rafah. Anyone who respects human rights & wants to know what's happening in Israel-Palestine should read this in its entirety.
HCHR calls for Member States to press urgently for an immediate #CeaseFire
"the complete siege now lasting over one month has made it an agony for residents in Gaza...to survive. All forms of #CollectivePunishment must come to an end."
Substantial discussion of the evidence of forced displacements by #Israelis in WB (potential "grave violations of the Geneva Convention") & other #IHL/#WarCrime violations committed by Israelis in the WB. Notes 2023 was already the deadliest year on record for WB Palestinians before Oct 7.
Calls on Israel "urgently" to stop the settler violence & dispossession of land, & forced evictions & intimidation of Palestinians by Israeli state forces.
#CAIRO — After a long journey from #Gaza, more than 100 American citizens and their families have entered #Egypt through the #RafahCrossing. Jonathan Webster, the #USEmbassy in Cairo's consul general, said some of those families are telling him they ran out of food and water during their journeys. #Israel
Thirteen #Israelis and four #Thai nationals were freed Saturday as part of a breakthrough deal between #Israel and #Hamas to pause fighting. As was expected under the agreement, a second-day release of 39 Palestinian prisoners held by Israeli authorities was implemented, a spokesperson for the Israel Prison Service said early Sunday, local time. #GazaTruce#Thailand
On Wednesday night, before the extension was announced, 10 #Israelis and four #Thais had been handed over to the #RedCross in #Gaza. The group included dual citizens with #US, #German and German nationality, Qatar said. The IDF said two hostages with Russian citizenship had crossed into #Egypt. Thirty Palestinian prisoners were later freed, including well-known activist #AhedTamimi.
#Israel bombed the densely-populated #Jabalya#refugee camp in northern #Gaza for the 2nd time in 2 days Wednesday, prompting warnings of #WarCrimes by the UN #HumanRights Council (#OHCHR) & some nations took diplomatic measures & condemned Israel’s offensive in the besieged enclave.
An open letter to Israelis from Israelis: We deserve the truth about October 7
"As Israelis we demand an official commission into the events of October 7. Genocide is being perpetrated in Gaza in the name of Israeli victims and we still do not know who was killed, how they were killed, and who killed them. We demand answers and so should you..."
@HeavenlyPossum The implication that you don’t care about the massacre of #Israelis when you object to this is doubly offensive when it’s pretty obvious that, like, #Netanyahu let that massacre happen so that he could make the current massacre in #Gaza happen (as well as shutting down the protests against him, but that part isn’t going the way he wanted).