“What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestricted, cruel, and criminal killing of civilians.” -former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert
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Two doctors go to work to assist others.Nine of their kids are killed by an Israeli missile targeting their home. Only surviving child, in critical conditions.
Targeting families in the still-standing buildings: distinguishable sadistic pattern of the new phase of the genocide.
Dr. Alaa and Dr. Hamdi Al-Najjar’s home was targeted, 9 of their 10 children brutally killed, the surviving husband, and one child seriously wounded. Dr. Alaa received her killed children while at work in Nasser Hospital.
Dr. Alaa is a paediatrician.
She’s keeps working.
The ISraeli army targets families, hospitals and health care workers in this murderous genocide.
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🚨Smotrich: Gaza Aid Is Just Enough to Avoid ‘War Crimes’ Charges While We ‘Annihilate’ the Strip
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich gave a speech Monday defending Israel’s strategy of mass devastation in Gaza, saying humanitarian aid is only being allowed in “so the world does not stop us and accuse us of war crimes.” The goal, he insisted, is to “conquer, clear, and stay” until Gaza is dismantled beyond recognition.
▪️ On aid, Smotrich said only the care minimum will be allowed: “A few bakeries distributing pitas… a daily portion of cooked food. Citizens in Gaza will get a pita and a plate of food, and that’s it. That’s exactly what we see in the videos—people standing in line, waiting for a plate of soup.” The purpose, he admitted, is not relief but optics: “It allows the world to continue providing us with international protection.”
▪️ “We are annihilating everything that remains in the Strip,” he declared, “simply because it is one big city of terror.” He described the new military strategy as one of permanent occupation: “No more raids with ins and outs… we are conquering, clearing, and staying until Hamas is destroyed.”
▪️ He welcomed the shift toward targeting Gaza’s civil infrastructure: “The IDF is finally conducting a campaign against the civilian rule of Hamas… eliminating ministers, officials, money changers, and figures in the economic and governmental apparatus.”
▪️ Boasting of the scale of destruction, Smotrich said: “We are dismantling Gaza, leaving it in ruins with unprecedented destruction, and the world still hasn’t stopped us.”
▪️ He added that, personally, he would prefer a total blockade: “Until the last of the hostages returns, we should also not let water into the Gaza Strip.”
▪️ Smotrich endorsed ethnic cleansing as official policy: “The population will reach the south of the Strip, and from there, God willing, to third countries, as part of President Trump’s plan.”
➡️ Drop Site’s @JeremyScahill unpacks all this and more in his latest report: “Gaza Aid Scheme Offers Israel Symbolic Cover to Finish the Genocide.” Link in reply.
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Israel is explaining, with fully transparency, how they are navigating the international "rules-based" order to get away with genocide. They recognize that extermination in one fell swoop might trigger international intervention, so they normalize it by carrying it out strategically - "responsibly."
⚡️NEW at @DropSiteNews Netanyahu: Gaza Aid Scheme Offers Israel Symbolic Cover to Finish the Genocide
In order to conquer and seize Gaza, “We need to do it in a way” where the world “won’t stop us," Netanyahu says.
Story by @JeremyScahill
dropsitenews.com/p/netanyahu…
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Israeli Forces Bombed Two Gaza Hospitals in One Day
Story by @KaviChek for @DropSiteNews
dropsitenews.com/p/european-…
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Israel is intentionally destroying as many Palestinians it can—irrespective of age, gender, health, or religion—using all means available. This is a genocide in plain sight, and it is absolutely outrageous that European states continue to prioritize their economic/financial/military ties with Israel over stopping this massacre.
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My new report is out - available in all UN official languages: undocs.org/A/79/384
Genocide is a complex and insidious crime; proving destructive intent is an onerous task - yet not when it is so ostentatious, sustained by a political doctrine of ideological hatred and articulated through institutional structures and policies.
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Israel’s army has released fabricated dossiers framing us, the last remaining journalists in North Gaza reporting on Israel’s extermination and ethnic-cleansing campaign, as “terrorists”.
This blatant and belligerent attempt to transform us, the last witnesses in the north, into killable targets is an assassination threat and obvious attempt to preemptively justify our murder.
We would like to remind everyone that after murdering our colleague Ismail Al Ghoul, Israel released a document that claimed he supposedly received a military ranking on July 1, 2007, when he would have been a 10 year old child.
This public threat was made without any evidence and is part of a systematic propaganda campaign to justify the unjustifiable as Israel continues to target civilians in Gaza, including doctors, aid workers, children and us journalists.
We call on our colleagues and media institutions around the world to show their solidarity with us.
Despite these dangerous and untrue threats made against us, we remain committed to our profession and will continue to report the facts on the ground as the genocide regretfully continues unabated.
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What needs to be understood about the unprecedented number of doctors, nurses, and medical and ambulance staff Israel is killing in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon is that they are increasingly being deliberately targeted and assassinated rather than being killed as a result of indiscriminate bombing.
Rules of warfare, such as the inviolability of hospitals, that have survived intact throughout human history, and whose violation was previously roundly condemned, are today being systematically dismantled by Israel. More accurately, they are today being systematically dismantled on account of the active support and passive acquiescence with respect to Israel's crimes by its Western sponsors and allies (including most recently, and all too loudly and proudly, by the German Green Party).
The laws of war are being sacrificed one after the other on the altar of Israeli impunity. Those who delude themselves into believing the consequences will be limited to dead Arabs destroyed Arab institutions are playing with fire. A law, norm, or value once eliminated no longer exists, for anybody.
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🚨The Israeli military has just publicly accused 6 Al Jazeera journalists of being "terrorists" in Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. This is an assassination threat and an attempt to preemptively justify their murder.
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Netanyahu is committing human rights abuses over and over again—bombing hospitals, burning Palestinians alive, blocking food aid, and killing aid workers.
This evil genocide must end and President Biden has to stop enabling it. That starts with cutting off military aid.
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So, at the United Nations Netanyahu just framed Lebanese schools and hospitals as rocket launching bases. He is preparing the terrain for expanding total destruction—and its justification—from Gaza to Lebanon, obliterating all civilian structures and infrastructures. – at Edinburgh, Scotland
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"A lot of the children are so young, I don't think they understand the significance of some of the injuries they have sustained."
UK doctor Victoria Rose, who has just returned from Gaza, says she was shocked by the number of children she operated on.
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Reading the health experts, I am starting to think with horror that if it's not stopped, Israel's assault could end up exterminating almost the entire population in Gaza over the next couple of years.
The range of presumable direct and indirect deaths could be between 15 and 20% of the population already by the end of this year, according to Prof. @devisridhar (and that's in line with the work of other academics).
Once the dust settles, I can't imagine how the world will go on after having allowed that.
Again.
teapawt.net/guardian/status/183165…
Scientists are closing in on the true, horrifying scale of death and disease in Gaza | Devi Sridhar theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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When we look at the countries that are held up as success stories, we find that the green energy transition is being paid for by fossil fuel production. It’s being paid for by the logging and mining industries that deplete and poison our clean water.
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US funding of Israeli #Genocide is ballooning as the Israeli army uses ever more lethal bombs. The ones used yesterday in the #AlTabinSchool massacre sliced bodies to the point of making them unrecognizable. They are now identified by weight: 70kg bag = 1 adult. Revolting.
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Israel’s operation to free four captives held by Hamas killed more than 270 Palestinians and injured around 700 others in Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp.
What’s being praised as a success in Israel has been condemned by several countries and international organisations.
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Genocide is a process, with a tragically collective dimension. In order to happen, genocide must be supported by the majority of a society, indoctrinated to dehumanise the Other against which genocide is committed.
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@wizardbisan finds devastation on an almost unimaginable scale when she returns to Khan Younis.
As more than 80% of buildings have been destroyed, she spends time with the Palestinians who are trying to make homes among used bullet casings and bomb shells.