"The #Israeli#Lavender system, supported by artificial intelligence, identifies Palestinians by tracking their communications via WhatsApp or the groups they join."
from #CommonDreams
We Risked Our Lives to Treat Patients in Gaza. Now President Biden Must Act to Save Lives
As I think about my colleagues who put their lives at stake to save #Palestinians wounded in #Gaza, the question I must ask is: when will President #Biden force the #Israeli government to stop this slaughter?
The #Republican-led UnitedStates House of
Representatives passed a bill on Thurs that would force President Joe #Biden to send weapons to Israel, seeking to rebuke the Democrat for delaying bomb shipments as he urges Israel to do more to protect #civilians during its war w/ #Hamas.
"Disturbing deep history of how IL’s radical RW religious terrorist fringe led by outlaw West Bank settlers has, over 50 yrs, moved into the mainstream, wrecked democracy & now taken over the country.
The parallels with the US right are chilling."
-K Anderson
"To counter this insidious attempt at #Nakba memoricide by U.S. politicians and others, it is instructive to review the archives of U.S. diplomats stationed in #Palestine and surrounding Arab countries who witnessed the Nakba unfold and reported back to the #StateDepartment on the magnitude and gravity of #Israel’s dispossession of Palestine’s indigenous inhabitants." - #JoshRuebner
"The US actually understood quite early on that the partition plan as proposed by #UNSCOP was not workable and not feasible [..] The US did more than think about going back on partition. In March 1948 [..] the US actually proposed in the Security Council that an international trusteeship be appointed for #Palestine instead of partition." - #JoshRuebner
15th May is Nakba Memorial Day (ذكرى النكبة, Dhikra an-Nakba, 'Memory of the Catastrophe'). It is the day of commemoration for the Nakba, also known as the Palestinian Catastrophe, which comprised the destruction of Palestinian society and homeland in 1948, and the permanent displacement of a majority of the Palestinian people.
Palestinians living in Israel hold Palestinian flags as they take part in the annual Return March to mark the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, the catastrophe of their mass dispossession in the 1948 war surrounding Israel’s creation, near Haifa, in northern Israel. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
#FarhanHaq, a #UN spokesperson, said the new smaller numbers reflected those bodies which had been fully identified. The bigger figures included corpses for whom identification has so far not been completed.
American Medical Missions Trapped in #Gaza, Facing Death by Dehydration as Population Clings to Life
“We’re continuing to work around the clock with the government of Israel and with the government of Egypt to work on this issue,” the State Department said.
by Ryan Grim, Hind Khoudary
May 13 2024
"Upward of 20 American doctors are trapped in Gaza as a result of Israel’s post-invasion closure of the #Rafah border crossing into Egypt, according to sources with knowledge of the plight of two ill-fated medical missions.
"Israel has blocked #fuel, #food, and #water from entering Rafah for over a week, leading to severe #dehydration among the general population, as well as among the doctors on mission."
JERUSALEM — #Hamas leader #YehiaSinwar has for years overseen a secret police force in the Gaza Strip that conducted surveillance on everyday #Palestinians and built files on young people, #journalists and those who questioned the government, according to intelligence officials and a trove of internal documents reviewed by The New York Times.
The #Biden admin paused the shipment of thousands of weapons to #Israel, including controversial 2k-pound bombs, amid mounting concern about the country’s plan to expand a military operation in southern #Gaza that could dramatically increase the conflict’s death toll, U.S. ofcls said Tues.
The disclosure marks the 1st known instance of a pause in #US#arms transfers since the #Oct7#Hamas-led attack into #Israel…. Since then, the #UnitedStates has sent tens of thousands of #bombs & #missiles to its #ally as huge swaths of #Gaza have been turned to rubble & the death toll among #Palestinians has ballooned to >34k, many of them women & children…. #POTUS#Biden described the bombing as “indiscriminate,” but has been reluctant to leverage weapons transfers to…change…Israel’s behavior.
A 2nd #US ofcl…described the move as a “shot across the bow” intended to underscore to Israeli ldrs the seriousness of #UnitedStates concerns about the offensive in #Rafah, where ~1.5M displaced #Palestinians are massed in camps near #Gaza’s border w/ Egypt.
…The shipment being prepped for delivery to #Israel last wk included 1,800 2k-pound bombs & 1,700 500-pound bombs….That decision will be felt quickly as Israel continues to rapidly expend munitions as the conflict passes the 7-month mark.
But in recent days, it became clear to the #Biden admin that “Israeli leaders seemed to approach a decision point on such an operation,” forcing Washington to initiate its review of proposed transfers.
Despite the pause, the #IDF has enough #weapons supplied by the #US & other partners to conduct the #Rafah op if it chooses to cast aside US objections, the 1st ofcl said.
When asked about the delays earlier Tues, #StateDepartment spox Matthew Miller declined to offer a rationale but said that US support for Israel’s right to defend itself against #Hamas remains intact.
[nonanswer answer]
In Washington, #US military support for #Israel receives overwhelming support from #Republicans & #Democrats in #Congress…
…powerful pro-Israel interest groups including the American Israel Public Affairs Cmte… is spending tens of millions …this #election cycle to unseat #Democrats it views as insufficiently pro- #Israel.
#Republicans assailed news of a delay in #weapons approvals as a “reprehensible” betrayal. “The #UnitedStates must stand with Israel. Period,” said Rep. Russell Fry (R-SC).
I really hope the majority #Gazan#Palestinians make it of out this genocide alive. It’s an obvious statement for me but the world is 🤷♀️
I just wonder if in future they will look to friendly Westerners/ random countries that recognise Palestine and people online for help instead of other Arabs and Muslim majority countries because most have let them down.
They’re probably getting more help from people donating to their GoFundMes and TIk Tok campaigns than “official talks” and “aid”. Yes that’s partly Israeli interference but it’s also partly bullshit.
(Yes I realise there are Palestinian Christians & Jews in Gaza too but they’re a small minority and nobody is listening to them either. Most are Arab though.)
The IDF are killing Christians hiding in Churches in West Bank and nobody gives a shit about them either. There’s no Hamas there, so why is there a ‘military operation’ going on there as well? wtf. The only good thing about this is the Christian churches are working together to save each other, at least in Jerusalem. I’m not particularly religious but the unity is nice.
How is humanity going to come back from this? It’s not as if nobody knows what going on. It’s being live streamed online. It’s the worst stuff I’ve seen in my life and the perpetrators really don’t care.
One lesson learned is just how much money is invested in Israel. I had no idea it is a gold mine for the West. Another is how much our schools have failed us.
"“We are horrified at details emerging from mass graves recently unearthed in the #Gaza Strip. Over 390 bodies have been discovered at Nasser and Al Shifa #hospitals, including of #women and #children, with many reportedly showing signs of #torture and summary executions, and potential instances of people buried alive,” the experts said.
"In this conversation, Said addresses comparatively his years of experience during #ForeignPolicy briefings, notably on Palestine, at the #USStateDepartment and #WhiteHouse, with focus on the current war on #Gaza."