#Ceasefire and the wars in the Middle East

[poliphoon]

Is the war in Lebanon really ending?

This is a classic example of a delicate deal. So delicate that the deal is brittle, fragile and flimsy. Worse, the deal between Israel and Hizbullah, effective November 27th, is complex too. So much so that the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hizbullah seems to have been concluded just to end American president Joe Biden’s career on a high. At least, Mr Biden can now walk into the sunset with…

[reasonsforhope]

Where can I find Free Palestine protests and Ceasefire protests?

A super international and continually updated list of actions can be found at Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network's:

Calendar of Resistance for Palestine 2024

They list events by date, then alphabetically by country, then by city - and it's common for them to have dozens of actions listed for a single date, especially on the weekends.

The United States especially often has 40+ events on a single day, especially on the weekends.

Events are posted with links to the event info posted by whoever's hosting the vast majority of the time.

Look blow the read-more for a list of many of the countries that have been on this protest calendar, in alphabetical order, since I know so many websites/lists of actions are country-specific

*Obviously this isn't the only good source of listings for protest events - there are many others. This is by far the biggest/most international roundup I've found, though, so I started with this. If you know another good place for finding ceasefire protests/events, please feel free to add it in the notes, bc I'm planning to put a bigger roundup together once I find enough other sites

Countries that Samidoun has listed/does list protests for include (in alphabetical order):

North America:

United States

Canada

Mexico

Puerto Rico (listed separately in anti-colonial solidarity)

Hawai'i (listed separately in anti-colonial solidarity)

Europe:

Austria

Belgium

Bulgaria

Denmark

England

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Iceland

Ireland

Italy

Netherlands

Norway

Portugal

Romania

Scotland

Serbia

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Wales

SWANA Region (Southwest Asia/North Africa)*:

Bahrain

Iraq

Jordan

Kuwait

Lebanon

Palestine

Tunisia

Turkiye (Turkey)

*Samidoun notes that "We know that these events are mainly international and that the Arab people are marching everywhere for Palestine – we will be honored to add more Arab events whenever we are informed!"

Asia:

Bangladesh

India

Indonesia

Japan

Malaysia

Maldives

Pakistan

South Korea

Africa:

Kenya

Mauritius

Nigeria

South Africa

Tanzania

Tunisia

*Duplicating North African countries (well, Tunisia) here from the SWANA list btw

South America:

Brazil

Colombia

Chile

Peru

Venezuela

Australia and Oceania:

Aotearoa (New Zealand)

Australia

[cavalierzee]

Israeli Pilots Who Bombed Hospitals In Gaza Identified

Reports on the Israeli pilots involved in the airstrikes that targeted hospitals and civilians in Gaza have been published by Nournews.

Tal Zahavi, pictured on the left, boasting over 23 years in the Israeli Air Force, has been involved in air operations against civilians in Gaza for the past 73 days, including the bombing of Deir al-Balah’s residential areas on October 19 and November 7, and the bombing of Rafah on October 26 and December 12, leading to the tragic killing of at least 675 Palestinians, including 230 children.

Guy Isaac Alon, pictured on the right, has also been actively involved in the last 73 days, participating in the bombing of two hospitals, namely Gaza’s Baptist Hospital and Al-Shifa Hospital. He also played a role in the bombing of six mosques, Al Amal Hospital in Khan Yunis, as well as other densely populated civilian areas, resulting in the tragic killing of at least 500 Palestinians, including 165 children.

Via: Mint Press News

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

The air is heavy with the smell of death. It’s inescapable, in every corner, and worse with every body taken out of the ground.

Every time they dig, they find more corpses, sometimes in places they never expect. Sometimes they only find parts of a person, or a corpse decomposed beyond recognition.

According to the Gaza government media office, some bodies were found decapitated, or had their skin and organs removed. Children, elderly women and young men are said to be among the dead.

Rescue workers say they found bodies with their hands tied behind their backs, which the UN human rights office said “indicates serious violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law”.

Israel denies it buried the Palestinian bodies, claiming instead that it had “respectfully” exhumed the dead searching for Israeli captives.

There are so many tears at Nasser hospital today and so much pain. It’s hard for me to find the words to describe this scene.

The feeling of seeing someone find their relative is indescribable, the way mothers cover their dead sons in a shroud and accompany them to the cemeteries.

Every sight we capture as journalists we do so silently. We can’t speak, we cry blood as we film. Our hands are shaking so much our cameras lose focus. But we start over and try again.

Moatasim Mortaja is a Palestinian video journalist in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. Over recent days, he has been documenting mass graves uncovered in Nasser hospital, where more than 300 bodies have been discovered since Israeli forces withdrew. On Monday, his video of a woman in grey holding the recently uncovered body of her son spread across social media. This is his descriptions of the scenes at Nasser hospital.

✍️: Lubna Masarwa/MEE

[workersolidarity]

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JEWISH PEACE ACTIVIST: "THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT DOES EVERYTHING IT CAN TO SILENCE US."

📹 Jewish German peace activist, Udi Raz, based in Berlin, accuses the German government of suppressing peace protests against the Israeli occupation's genocide in Gaza.

According to Raz, the German authorities continue to suppress the Palestine solidarity movement, accusing the German authorities of doing all it can to silence protesters.

The activist slams the Israeli occupation, which publicly accuses the pro-Palestine peace movement of antisemitism, while at the same time, the Zionist occupation declares its ability to speak for all Jews around the world.

"Israel cannot speak in the name of Jews," Raz tells Anadolu News Agency. "Whoever claims otherwise, to my understanding, this is an antisemitic claim."

"Jews are diverse. Jews live in diverse and different geopolitical contexts and national contexts," the Jewish peace activist continues.

"We Jews who live here in Germany, of course, we care about other Jews who live elsewhere, but it does not mean that we are ambassadors of a racist state called the state of Israel," Raz added.

#source

@WorkerSolidarityNews

[sunbeamedskies]

Please do real research before you participate in the Blockout. There are celebrities that I’ve seen be on lists who have spoken up for Gaza, like Selena Gomez, who seem to only be on those lists because they’ve also spoken up for the Israeli hostages. Gen Z and millennials always make fun of boomers for blindly believing things, yet many do little to no research when something like this gets popular. Advocating for Palestine is not antisemitic, but when you start blocking people because they also advocate for Israelis, it is. Also see if the people who you don’t block have spoken up about the many other wars going on that don’t get much attention, like Sudan and the Congo, and ask them to do more

[progressivemillennial]

[historyforfuture]

V. Hard scenes 💔❤️‍🔥

Agenocide again in Al Nusirat camp _ Gaza today

[nothingelsetobe]

Exclusive: Israeli drones hit a car near a children's event in Gaza

[gazagfmboost]

Muhammad Rafiq Badran

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Muhammad lost every single person in his family to bombing except for his Father & His sister Yousra, who has already evacuated to Egypt for treatment. He lost his eye, & sustained severe injuries in his right shoulder. He requires complex operations on his remaining eye & will need an artificial eye implant.

I invite you to support, & help save the life of Muhammad, he is suffering from psychological & nervous shock, vision disorders & constant headaches. Let us all be with him & support him in joining his sister, Yousra, in Egypt for treatment of his wounds & complex post-traumatic stress disorder. Thank you for considering any sized contributions towards Muhammads wellbeing & future- & for any hearts or re-shares of his story!

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[palestinegenocide]

‘Operation al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 304: Israel kills Palestinians across Gaza and the West Bank as it braces for response to assassinations 

As Israel awaits Iran's and Hezbollah's responses to assassinations carried out last week, Israeli forces bombed three shelters in Gaza, killing 47 Palestinians, and escalated attacks in the northern West Bank, killing 12.

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[cavalierzee]

Dear ZioNazis Of Israel

I have never experienced such intense heartache.

Dear ZioNazis of Israel, particularly those supporting this genocide, I hope you never find peace and comfort in life. I hope the ghosts of our 30,000 killed haunt you until you rot out of existence.

Of course, in reality you have proven to everyone that you are completely devoid of empathy and morality. If witnessing our 10,000 viciously murdered children in 4K UHD cannot lead you to question your racist and sick ideology, nothing will. You are all barbaric lunatics.

To the silent bystanders, sincerely fuck you. Submissive and irrelevant losers, totally unworthy of friendship and respect.

Yes, this is hateful language. Don’t expect me to be full of love and professionalism as this holocaust continues to unfold against my deeply oppressed people.

While I have never felt so much hate and anger, what I don’t feel is hopelessness and fear. Despite the senseless carnage being committed, it is more clear than ever that Israel has no future in this world. IDGAF who that may offend.

– Afif Aqrabawi

[noperopesaredope]

Disclaimer: I barely know what I'm talking about. I'm just putting some thoughts out there because I'm honestly confused about some things. These are the words of someone who can barely understand what anyone is saying and also trusts no one on the internet. I've accepted that I am too stupid to understand this conflict and no matter how much research I try to do, I will never understand any of it. Believe me, I have tried. These are the ramblings of a confused idiot who is out of the loop on everything and will never really be in the loop.

You can add your own thoughts or disagree. But don't yell at me for my thoughts. I've tried to educate myself, but that has failed. But I still want to throw some thoughts into the discussion using my limited understand of everything. I will likely be turning off notifications to this post if too many people shout at me for not understand shit or agreeing with them, so probably don't try to change my mind. Just say what you want to say and add your own essays in the reblogs.

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I've been trying not to say too much about the Israel-Palestine conflict (not just Gaza, but in general) since it's so complicated and messy and I'm not informed enough on another country's massive, decades-long conflict for me to feel comfortable commenting on it. However, I have had a little nugget in my brain that has been bothering me for a while now. A common Zionist argument I occasionally see is that Palestinians aren't actually "indigenous" to the region of Israel-Palestine, and that they are invaders. They came from somewhere else to live in that area, and therefore aren't "the true people of Israel." But I find this argument rather silly and a bit hard to believe.

First off, and I'm not even saying this as an argument against Israel, but isn't the whole point of Jewish mythology (mythology is the technical term) that Israel is "the Promised Land?" As in, the end point? The final destination rather than the start? Maybe I'm confused and need to brush up on Jewish mythology, but from what I remember, the Hebrews came from a different region in the Middle East, then migrated to the region where Israel is. Therefore, they didn't exactly "originate" from there either.

It's also kind of hard to believe that there weren't already other people who were living there already. And then Abraham and his family moved to Egypt anyways due to drought, and the Hebrews were there for hundreds of years before coming back to Israel. And by the time they'd come back, a bunch of other ethnic groups had already made their homes in Israel, as people had been doing likely long before Abraham and his family first came to the region.

And even if Abraham and his family originally came from that region, Abraham already lived in civilization. Civilization still existed there, and people were still living there. Abraham was basically part of a different ethnic group before he created the Hebrews. Therefore, the Hebrews would be from Israel, but so would all of the other people already living there who weren't descendants of Abraham.

Whether or not you believe that the region belonged to the Hebrews by the will of God, all those other mfs were still living there first. You can say that you own the land because God said so, but you can't truthfully say that all the people who were there before Abraham was even born are not native to the region.

Even if we're not looking at Biblical accounts, realistically discussing archaeology and patterns throughout history leads us to the conclusion that there was no singular native ethnic group in Israel.

It is well known that Israel has had, like, hundreds of different peoples who have lived there at different points throughout history. It has switched around a lot of times, and has definitely had multiple ethnic groups living there at the same time. It is a region that has historically been diverse, and many have called it home.

On top of that, who is to say that Palestinians aren't actually also natives to that region? I've heard some people say that the Palestinians are decended from Arabs who invaded the region, but is it really true that all of them are of Arab decent? Again, this area is incredibly diverse, and I'm pretty sure it was ethnically diverse even before Israel was founded. It's unlikely that

Also, haven't the Palestinians been living there for thousands of years anyways? Because in that case, I'd say it's questionable to declare a pretty diverse group of Middle Eastern brown folks to not be native to a region they have been living in for hundreds/thousands of years.

Especially when a large number of those who moved to Israel when it was founded (refounded?) back in 1948 were of white European decent. I believe that Israel is still the homeland of the Jewish people, but is a white Jewish person whose family has been living in Europe for hundreds of years really more native to the Middle East than a brown person whose family has been living in Palestine for hundreds of years?

Like, I see these white ass mfs sitting here saying "I belong here more than you" to these brown people who have been there for generations. This statement is not about Jewish folks who have been living in the Middle East for generations, mainly just those of European decent who declare that the land belongs to them more than those who have been there forever.

I still believe that the Hebrews should be considered "indigenous" to Israel, but to say that they are more indigenous seems disingenuous when both groups migrated to the region. No one group has ever been the true native group of that area, and I feel that either side arguing that the other is not native to the region is full of shit.

We don't know who is native to the region. We barely even know if Israelis and Palestinians each are made of singular ethnic groups. So I feel like declaring the "One True Indigenous Group" is pointless and redundant to the discussion. Either both are or neither are. Shut the fuck up.

[workersolidarity]

🇺🇳🇵🇸🇮🇱🚨 ⚠️UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY APPROVES RESOLUTION DEMANDING CEASEFIRE IN GAZA⚠️

The United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution today demanding an "immediate humanitarian ceasefire" in the Gaza Strip.

The resolution passed with resounding support, with 153 Nations voting in favor, 10 nations voting against, and 23 abstentions.

The resolution demands an "immediate humanitarian ceasefire", the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages and "ensuring humanitarian access", according to the United Nations General Assembly newsroom.

The resolution also reiterated the General Assembly's demand that all parties comply with their obligations under International Law, including Humanitarian Law, "notably with regard to the protection of civilians."

According to the UN newsroom, prior to the ceasefire resolution vote, two amendments making specific reference to Hamas were voted down by the Assembly.

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@WorkerSolidarityNews