#Hamas United Nations Red Cross

[yhebrew]

the Finger of God is real!

October 7 War 2023 - Flooding and Earthquakes distract the world from Israel.

Va’era (I APPEARED) * I Made Myself Known Exodus 6:2-9:35, Ezekiel 28:25-29:21. Romans 9:14-17; 2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1 January 13, 2024 * 3 Shevat 5784 Day 100 of October 7 Shemini Atzeret Simchot Torah War Isa 52:6  Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.  Israel is Gathered in Security Eze 28:25  Thus…

[eretzyisrael]

Source

[joemerl]

The United Nations and the Red Cross have both condemned Hamas for the grotesque orgy that they put on while handing over the bodies of the Bibas brothers, Oded Lifshitz, and some random woman who it turns out isn't Shiri Bibas.

Honestly? That pisses me off. It's the epitome of "People Love Dead Jews." These organizations refuse to do jack shit to help the hostages, constantly accuse Israel of "genocide" for *checks notes* refusing to be murdered by terrorists, throw a hissy fit when Israel manages to rescue any hostages themselves...oh, but now, when there's no danger of these people actually surviving, they'll shed crocodile tears and say "Boo-hoo! It's so sad that those dirty Jew-rats died like we wanted them to! Oh, if only we had done anything!"

Fuck you, you sanctimonious Nazi hypocrites. Go to Hell with your Hamas masters, who are at least honest about what kind of "people" they are.

[sw1tchbackli]

Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon presented a picture of Kfir Bibas at a UN Council Security Debate. ‘’ Kfir was nine months old when he was forcibly taken from his bed along with his four year old brother Ariel, and his parents Shiri and Yarden. Since then he has remained in the darkness of Hamas’s terror dungeons. Since then, no news has been received about his condition-neither visits from the Red Cross nor any outcry from the UN.”

[happynowblog]

From Jewish pride always on Instagram 🇮🇱

I am in the same mindset!

UNRWA is disgusting!

Red cross is disgusting!

UN for women is disgusting!

Palestinians and Gazans who cheered this on and participated in this are absolutely disgusting !

College idiots who support this evil are just as disgusting !

Never forget !

Never Forget !

Never Forget !

Oct 7th 2023 !

[infamouslydorky]

I'm about to put this senator in public view for his opinions

Hey bud, it's not antisemitism to want to stop Isreal from using illegal weapons like white phosphorus on Lebanon. It's not antisemitism to call the country out for killing journalists and medical personnel, like the red cross, for trying to report and help the people of Gaza. It's not antisemitism to acknowledge that the IDF is actively destroying family lines of Palestinians, which very much qualifies as genocide. It's not antisemitism to call Isreal out for striking Beruit, a highly civilian populated city, and destroying apartment buildings with bombs designed to obliterate bunkers. It's not antisemitism to point out that Isreal has sabotaged beepers, used only by emergency personnel like doctors, and rigged them to explode upon beeping.

It IS antisemitism to blame Jewish people specifically for the actions of Isreal BECAUSE they are Jewish. Isreal, as a nation, does not speak for every Jewish person and neither does Netanyahu. Isreal never shared the land with Palestinians as much as Isreal forced Palestinians out of their homelands beginning in 1948. Now, historically, Jewish diaspora is and was very much a real thing, as consequence of a largely antisemitic western society, which forced the migration of Jewish people and displacing them from their original homes until they were once again driven out of any given country until after WW2, and westerners decided to shove all the Jewish people in what is now called Isreal. Fun fact: originally, the UN wanted to put displaced Jewish people in Uganda.

In more precise words, this is another form of colonization that capitalized on the suffering of misplaced peoples that lived in a society that largely scapegoated them for their problems instead of treating them like people and now the country of Isreal is doing the exact same thing to Palestinians.

What remains in the United State's interest in keeping support of Isreal is an easy access base of operations for resources like oil as well as military influence in the region. It is neo-colonialism in a claiming antisemitism trenchcoat.

So, no, it is not antisemitism to hold Isreal accountable for their actions.

It is, however, Islamophobic and racist to continue to state that Hamas beheaded babies with no evidence of such claims.

Also, a devastating hurricane destroyed massive amounts of the state of Florida as well as states like Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, North Carolina, and Tennessee with another two potentially on the way and no amount of support from the federal government because FEMA has no money but we sure as hell see it shipped off in the billions to kill innocent civilians for the military industrial complex, I tell ya hwat 🙃

[reasonsforhope]

Additional humanitarian aid trucks started rolling over the Rafah Crossing from Egypt to Gaza early Friday [November 24] morning, as the planned four-day ceasefire began. The aid trucks, fuel tankers among them, were a welcome sight amid the seven-week-long war between Israel and Hamas.

Since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, killing 1,200 people and taking more than 200 hostage, Israel has periodically [note: imho, this language is wildly minimizing the extent of the long-term, near-total blockade] cut off water, fuel and electricity to Gaza. An estimated 14,000 people have been killed by Israeli bombardment of the territory, the Hamas-run health ministry has said.

People in Gaza experienced reprieve on Friday after the warring sides implemented a new deal that included a temporary pause in fighting, delivery of more aid, and the planned exchange of a possible 50 Hamas hostages for 150 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.

International organizations and Qatar’s foreign minister, who helped broker the deal, have said the new aid will not be enough to address the dire humanitarian disaster in Gaza. More than half of the territory’s two million-plus residents are internally displaced, with food and clean water now running out in north Gaza.

The United Nations and many aid groups have been calling for a permanent ceasefire.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that the country will continue its war to eliminate Hamas after the truce. Hamas told Al Jazeera in an interview that they want a permanent ceasefire, but said the group is “ready to deal with all situations imposed by Israel.”

What aid is entering Gaza? 

Between Oct. 21 and Nov. 23, more than 1,723 truckloads of humanitarian supplies entered Gaza through the Egyptian border, the U.N. said. Before the war, a monthly average of nearly 10,000 trucks of commercial and humanitarian commodities came in.

The U.N. said Israel allowed 19,812 U.S. gallons (75,000 liters) of fuel to enter Gaza on Nov. 23. Israel had previously prohibited fuel over fears it would be used by Hamas for military purposes. Fuel is now being distributed by the U.N. to support food distribution and to operate generators at hospitals, water and sanitation facilities, shelters and other critical services, the agency said. 

The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement shared on various social media channels that four tankers of fuel and four tankers of cooking gas were transferred from Egypt on Friday morning. 

Videos showed more trucks started passing into Gaza after the temporary ceasefire started at 7 a.m. local time. 

As of 10:30 a.m., 60 trucks of a total of 230 expected on Friday had entered Gaza, Al Arabiya reported, citing a Rafah crossing border official.

The Palestinian Red Crescent received two ambulances and 85 trucks loaded with aid through the crossing, carrying food, water, relief items, medical equipment, and medications, the group wrote on X (formerly Twitter)...

Multiple U.N. agencies have called for a humanitarian ceasefire, with U.N.’s Secretary-General saying in a statement on Nov. 19 that “this must stop.”

In a news conference Friday morning, Jens Laerke, spokesman for the U.N. humanitarian agency OCHA, told reporters: “We hope that this humanitarian pause leads to a longer term humanitarian ceasefire for the benefit of the people of Gaza, Israel and others.”

-via Time, November 24, 2023

[honesty-my-policy]

Resources/Sources against HAMAS + more [re-organization of previous posted resources]

LONG POST - WILL PUT A READ MORE - SEE UNDER IT FOR MORE RESOURCES.

Sources/places that have uncensored footage from the Oct. 7th attack. For anyone who needs a reality check or needs to smack someone with a reality check.

THIS FOOTAGE IS UNCENSORED AND HIGHLY DISTURBING BUT IMPORTANT TO HISTORY. I HAVE WATCHED A LARGE COMPILATION AND IT STILL RUNS THROUGH MY MIND ALL DAY.

https://www.october7thattack.com/

https://oct7th.org/

https://www.hamasvideo.com/

https://theworldwatch.com/tags/hamas/

https://www.hamas-massacre.net/

important websites + articles they have posted

UN Watch - https://unwatch.org/about-us/our-work/

Fact Checking UNRWA Claims About Teachers and Education

Hamas stole 36,000 liters of fuel from UN warehouses

Group of 3,000 UNRWA teachers celebrates Hamas massacre and rape

UN staff celebrate Hamas massacre

The Case against UNRWA from UN Watch - link

2023-Report-UNRWA-pdf - link

Report: Red Cross Statements ‘Overwhelmingly’ Biased Against Israel - link

Honest Reporting - https://honestreporting.com/about/

Desperate Media Accuse Israel of ‘War Crime’ Over Killing of Terrorists in Daring Hospital Raid

Media Accused Israel of ‘Strike’ on Palestinians Who Died in Gaza City Aid Truck Stampede

Council on Foreign Relations -https://www.cfr.org/about

What is HAMAS? Link

The Sunni-Shia Divide - link

MeForum - https://www.meforum.org/about/

A Primer on Hamas; Part 4: Who Are the Palestinians? - link

Countering ‘Pro-Palestine’ Propaganda Part 4: Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing - link

Countering ‘Pro-Palestine’ Propaganda Part 5: Gaza is an Open-Air Prison - link

Countering ‘Pro-Palestine’ Propaganda Part 6: Palestinian Refugees’ Right of Return - link

Israel Can Trust Hamas - To Keep Its Promises - link

The Rhetoric of Nonsense - link

The Wilson Center - https://www.wilsoncenter.org/about

Digital Deception: Disinformation’s Impact in the Israel-Hamas War - link

Hamas: Words and Deeds… - link 

Hamas over-reporting civilian casualties in Gaza, again - link

Misc Articles (find the about page yourself if you care enough) -

Hamas use of human shields in Gaza (pdf) - link

Intelligence Reveals Details of U.N. Agency Staff’s Links to Oct. 7th Attack - link

Don’t erase our history: The Jewish people are indigenous to the land of Israel - link

Hamas’s October 7th Attack: Visualizing the Data - link

Teaching Terror: How Hamas Radicalizes Palestinian Society - link

Why Hamas is an Unreliable Source and How Many Reporters Fail to Disclose this - link

Misc Resources -

The Complete List of the 1030 Jewish Expulsions in Human History (pdf) - link

Educational Posts made by rootsmetal -

Palestine and the Holocaust

Hamas's Islamism

we are treated differently

evidence (there's plenty)

teaching hatred

united nations

lies about 1948

was there peace before 1948?

HAMAS Guidelines to Social Media (excerpts)

Anyone killed or martyred is to be called a civilian from Gaza or Palestine, before we talk about his status in jihad or his military rank. Don't forget to always add 'innocent civilian' or 'innocent citizen' in your description of those killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza.

Begin [your reports of] news of resistance actions with the phrase 'In response to the cruel Israeli attack,' and conclude with the phrase 'This many people have been martyred since Israel launched its aggression against Gaza.' Be sure to always perpetuate the principle of 'the role of the occupation is attack, and we in Palestine are fulfilling [the role of] the reaction.'

Beware of spreading rumors from Israeli spokesmen, particularly those that harm the home front. Be wary regarding accepting the occupation's version [of events]. You must always cast doubts on this [version], disprove it, and treat it as false.

The interior ministry prepared a series of suggestions specifically for Palestinian activists who speak to Westerners via social media. The ministry emphasizes that conversations with them should be conducted differently from conversations with other Arabs.

When speaking to the West, you must use political, rational, and persuasive discourse, and avoid emotional discourse aimed at begging for sympathy. There are elements with a conscience in the world; you must maintain contact with them and activate them for the benefit of Palestine. Their role is to shame the occupation and expose its violations.

Avoid entering into a political argument with a Westerner aimed at convincing him that the Holocaust is a lie and deceit; instead, equate it with Israel's crimes against Palestinian civilians.

The narrative of life vs. the narrative of blood: [When speaking] to an Arab friend, start with the number of martyrs. [But when speaking] to a Western friend, start with the number of wounded and dead. Be sure to humanize the Palestinian suffering. Try to paint a picture of the suffering of the civilians in Gaza and the West Bank during the occupation's operations and its bombings of cities and villages.

Do not publish photos of military commanders. Do not mention their names in public, and do not praise their achievements in conversations with foreign friends!

Recently I came across a bunch more ancient/old maps of the Middle East, Near East, Levant, Israel, and others. Some are remakes as the old ones were degraded or unable to be scanned, some are historian estimates of what the area looked like at the times, others are actual scans of maps from back in the day. I will link specific maps of interest but also databases below. I will link the maps first and the databases they are from above them.

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection (over 130,000 maps and related images online)

Alte Welt: Städte. (Old world: cities)

No. 1: General map of the countries mentioned in the Bible

No. 2: Map of the journeyings of the Israelites : in the desert

Turkey. Middle East. Ancient World

American Society of Overseas Research (online resources)

The Ancient Near East: The Hellenistic World c. 200 BCE

Neo-Hittite and Aramean States

Iron Age IIIv2 Empires

The National Library of Israel

Specific search for maps of Israel

Map History (part of the virtual library)

Index

Gallica (digital library of the National France Library and its partners + I don’t know if it’s just my browser but switching the language to English didn’t work much so it was mostly in French)

Database

Maps

W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research (Digital Collection)

Palestine of the Old Testament

Historic Map Works

ASIA/recens summa/cura delineata

United Nations Archives

Map Collection of the League of Nations + UNOG

Library of Congress World Digital Library

Map Collection

links to previous posts containing the same resources in case i missed any - link

[mariacallous]

In a series of farewell addresses during his final week in office, U.S. President Joe Biden is making the case that he’s left the United States in a much stronger position than he found it. During his four years, the country has far outpaced Europe, left Russia engulfed in quagmire, outperformed China economically, and hung on to its global leadership role in spite of the nation’s internal divisions.

In a speech at the State Department on Monday, Biden declared that “during my presidency, I have increased America’s power in every dimension.” He said that “thanks to our administration, the United States is winning the worldwide competition” and added that “our adversaries and competitors are weaker.” Washington’s No. 1 competitor, China, “will never surpass us,” Biden added.

And yet, in what has come to be all too characteristic of Biden, the outgoing president also avoided admitting any errors—though clearly, he’s made his share. In the end, it was this stubbornness that was perhaps the biggest pitfall of Biden’s presidency. (His hubris on foreign policy was aligned with his disastrous insistence on running for a second term even though his faculties were obviously failing at age 82, and despite most of his own party opposing the decision.)

No mistake was more impactful than Biden’s precipitous departure from Afghanistan only half a year into his presidency, a debacle that he never recovered from. Biden insisted that the Taliban wouldn’t simply take over, which they did in just two weeks. And then in subsequent years, right up until this week, Biden and his acolytes continued to insist that there was no better way to leave, though his military advisor had predicted havoc if a small contingent of U.S. troops wasn’t left behind, and the projection of U.S. weakness there was arguably a factor in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine.

Even at the time, some European diplomats told me that Biden’s ill-conceived withdrawal plan was brazenly unilateralist—that it was not vetted with major U.S. allies such as Britain, France, and Germany, nations that also sacrificed considerable funding and lives in Afghanistan.

It wasn’t the only time that Biden cost himself credibility with pronouncements meant to signal strength and leadership—but which often only led to policy confusion and flip-flopping.

He telegraphed his entire policy on Ukraine by declaring at the outset that Putin wouldn’t have to worry about direct U.S. military involvement, before crossing his own red lines by gradually ratcheting up U.S. military aid. He initially described the Ukraine conflict as a war for democracy and then, without acknowledging the shift, turned it into a war over territorial norms.

Biden repeatedly inflamed relations with Beijing by coming closer than any other president to saying that he would defend Taiwan—only to have his own administration walk those comments back. He often looked ineffectual on the Middle East with what even his secretary of state, Antony Blinken, conceded were many “Lucy and the football” moments—a reference to the Peanuts cartoon—in which Biden repeatedly, and credulously, allowed both Israel and Hamas to endlessly string along negotiations.

When it came to the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza, Biden found himself in a state of continual self-contradiction over whether he should use real leverage, such as withholding U.S. weapons, in order to moderate Israeli behavior. He threatened to do so several times—but never did.

As a result, anti-American attitudes in the region are at a level not seen since the Iraq War, Brett Holmgren, the acting director of the National Counterterrorism Center, told 60 Minutes recently.

Much of the dysfunctional nature of Biden’s foreign policy can be attributed to the fact that he had very few naysayers around him.

During his presidency, the only senior official who might have been considered a peer was John Kerry, Biden’s erstwhile climate envoy. But in other respects—especially in making his longtime aide, Blinken, the secretary of state, and another former junior aide, Jake Sullivan, his national security advisor—Biden mostly hired his old staffers.

“He doesn’t surround himself with peers,” said one Democratic foreign-policy expert.

As a result, Biden developed a false sense of confidence about his record that likely contributed to his decision to run for a second term. Speaking to reporters the day after the 2022 midterm elections—when the Democrats performed far better than pundits had predicted, which was mistakenly ascribed to anti-Trump sentiment—Biden was asked what he might do differently to address voters’ concerns about the economy and the widespread sentiment that the country was moving in the wrong direction.

He replied, “Nothing.”

And in the subsequent two years, Biden rejected all internal advice that he was almost certainly going to lose in 2024, even as his approval ratings barely budged beyond 40 percent or so.

In his speech on Monday—which is to be followed by a final Oval Office address on Wednesday—Biden ticked off what he saw as his greatest triumphs, saying that he’d made the largest investment in clean energy in U.S. history and beefed up the country’s industrial base. He also touted his leadership of an expanded NATO against Russia’s aggression in Ukraine as well as his shoring up of U.S. power in Asia, including in the form of an agreement between Japan and South Korea to expand security.

All this will benefit Biden’s successor, Donald Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20, even as the president-elect continues to deride the United States as a “disaster” and a “laughingstock all over the world.”

But Biden showed that he hasn’t learned much about adjusting positions to fit changing facts. He failed to come to any substantive deal with China on climate change or artificial intelligence. He boasted of Iran’s new weakness in the post-Oct. 7, 2023, Middle East without noting that his own diplomatic policies had little to do with it. Three years of failed talks with Tehran over resurrecting the 2015 nuclear pact came to nothing—along with so many other negotiations.

It is a mixed record at best, and a decidedly unfinished one, thanks in part to Biden’s unwillingness to change course.

[beardedmrbean]

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations rights chief said on Thursday the parading of the bodies of hostages in Gaza was abhorrent and flew in the face of international law.

Hamas handed over the bodies of four hostages to the Red Cross on Thursday. The coffins had been placed on a stage, with armed Hamas militants in black and camouflage uniforms surrounding the area.

The bodies of Israeli infant Kfir Bibas and his 4-year-old brother Ariel, the two youngest captives taken by Hamas in its October 7, 2023 attack, were transported to Israel.

The bodies of the children's mother Shiri Bibas and a fourth hostage, Oded Lifschitz, were also handed over, under the agreement for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war in the Palestinian enclave that was reached last month.

"Under international law, any handover of the remains of deceased must comply with the prohibition of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, ensuring respect for the dignity of the deceased and their families", U.N. rights chief Volker Turk said in an emailed statement in response to Reuters questions.

During the handover, one militant stood beside a poster of a man standing over coffins wrapped in Israeli flags. It read "The Return of the War = The Return of your Prisoners in Coffins".

Red Cross staff held up white screens in an attempt to conceal the coffins from the gaze of the large crowds as they were loaded into their vehicles.

"These operations should be done privately out of the utmost respect for the deceased and for those left grieving," the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said in a statement on Thursday.

The Hamas-directed hostage releases since the January 19 ceasefire have been characterised by large public ceremonies amid the ruins of Gaza and have come under growing criticism.

The ICRC, a neutral intermediary responsible for releasing hostages and Palestinian prisoners under the terms of the ceasefire, has repeatedly called for improvements.

[girlactionfigure]

*ISRAEL REALTIME* - "Connecting the World to Israel in Realtime"

🔻Anti-genocide peace rockets fired from Gaza today (2) at Sderot, and friendly neighbor welcoming rockets and friendly homicide drones were fired by Hezbollah at Kiryat Shmona (3), Arab al-Aramsha, and Katzrin today.

▪️From Wednesday to Friday, 70 buses with "pilgrims" crossed the Iraqi-Syrian border. It is clear that these are not pilgrims, but Iranian and Iraqi fighters who cross into the territory of Syria and Lebanon.

▪️ABOUT ALL THE WARNINGS OF WAR IN THE NORTH.. The IDF does not inform the public or countries near and far about future military operations that it intends to launch into an operation or war.  The messages you have been hearing are NOT from the IDF, but rather efforts of the political echelon to deliver a message to Hezbollah that Israel is getting serious.  And in response you get the opposite, the item above, Iran moving militia fighters closer.

▪️Houthis: American and British ships (war and merchant) became legitimate targets after their attacks on Yemen.

▪️4 U.S. bases attacked in Syria and Iraq overnight.

▪️ANGRY SOLDIERS SAY.. he media does not reflect the reality, we are mowing them down in Gaza!!  According to US estimates, Hamas had approximately 25,000 terrorists before the October 7 war, and that the IDF has eliminated about 10,000 Hamas fighters since Oct. 7 with thousands more are missing and wounded.

▪️JUDEA-SHOMRON STATs.. since the beginning of the war, over 2,950 wanted persons have been arrested throughout the Judea and Samaria Division and the Bekaa and Valleys Division, over 1,350 of whom are associated with the terrorist organization Hamas.

▪️FRANCE has joined the suspend-UNWRA club.

▪️Heavy snow on Mt. Hermon, the site is closed.

▪️(How info spreads…)  Min. Of Foreign Affairs contacted foreign embassies in Israel and checked whether they have generators and satellite phones for backup in case of long power outages.  And noting that all these facilities are in Tel Aviv, Hertzilya or Jerusalem - that spreads the thought “what does the government know that they would ask such a question?”

▪️Noting 10 days after “medication” was delivered with the promise of delivery to hostages - with evidence.  No evidence provided.  Remember the last deal, visits by the Red Cross… never happened.  Why do we keep doing this?

▪️NBC news says Biden administration considering slowing down arms shipments to Israel to force Netanyahu to follow U.S. orders to reduce fighting in Gaza.  WHERE ARE THE BABIES?

▪️Min. Of National Security signs regulations automatically extending gun licenses that would expire in Q1, 2024 for months.

▪️IDF: Two reserve units are withdrawing from Gaza, one reserve unit is DEPLOYING to Gaza.

[eretzyisrael]

Near my heart, I wear a yellow pin. A pin that symbolizes anticipation, hope, and a resounding cry to all humanity: bring back our tortured children and elderly, our women and men, from the tunnels of terror in Gaza – home, to Israel. We call it “The Hostages Pin”. On the massacre of October 7th, 2023 Hamas terrorists attacked our people, they murdered, raped and mutilated women, tortured, beheaded and burned innocent people and entire families, and kidnapped hundreds of men, women and children.

Amongst our sisters and brothers kidnapped was Omer Neutra, an Israeli and American citizen, whose fate was unknown for well over a year. Omer’s great-grandfather, Yosef Neutra – was a Holocaust survivor and a freedom fighter, who survived the Shoah carrying just a few coins in his pocket. Louise – Omer's aunt, took her grandfather Yosef's coins, and fashioned them into the yellow ribbon hostages symbol - surrounded by barbed wire. The coins that survived humanity's darkest abyss became the canvas for creating a pin that symbolizes the story of a nation.

A symbol of survival, a symbol of faith, a symbol of hope, a symbol of longing, a symbol of remembrance. A symbol of outcry: The outcry of so many generations – calling for justice, for humanity. Omer’s parents, Orna and Ronen Neutra, are here today. For over 400 days, Ronen wore the pin on his lapel, hoping and praying for his son's return.

A few weeks ago, the Neutra family received the devastating news: Captain Omer Neutra fell heroically in the battles of October 7th. His body is being held by murderous terrorists in Gaza. I stand before you as president of a nation that is determined and proud, and yet - anguished and incomplete. Although the Israeli people have been overcome with emotion seeing seven of our daughters at last emerge heroically from hell - still, 90 Israelis and foreign nationals remain in Hamas captivity. We are anxiously awaiting six more to be freed this week, and awaiting all others.

Ensure our hostages return to their homes - every single one of them

I call on all representatives in this General Assembly, all who consider themselves part of the civilized world, to throw your weight to ensure our hostages return to their homes - every single one of them. Bring them home now!

In one of the darkest days of the Holocaust, November 3rd, 1943, Rabbi Klonymus Kalman Shapira – "the Rebbe of Piaseczno" was murdered by the Nazis in the massacre known as "Aktion Erntefest". Shortly before his death, the Rebbe composed a special prayer for our people, the Jews, who were at the hands of the murderers— the Nazis and their accomplices. Here - at the United Nations General Assembly, as President of the Jewish Democratic State of Israel, I wish to recite this prayer for the urgent return of all of our sisters and brothers who are held in brutal captivity by murderous terrorists. The hostages are enduring subhuman conditions, without essential primary health care, without Red Cross visitations, and without any compliance with international law, treaties, or agreements.

“God Almighty. Listen to the voice of our weeping and the sigh of our hearts. Our loved ones, women and children, fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, have been torn from our midst. Be You - Almighty God – the guardian of all the captives, protect them from all trouble and distress, give them strength to endure torment and grant them life, so they may merit return to their families. Amen.”

[soon-palestine]

HAMAS STATEMENT - AL SHIFA HOSPITAL.

"In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

A new crime is committed by the criminal zionist occupation army this dawn in its aggression against the Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City and the surrounding area by directly targeting the hospital buildings without care for the patients, medical staff and displaced people within.

The crimes of the occupation and the ongoing genocide war against our people and all components of life in Gaza will not create any image of victory for Netanyahu and his Nazi army. They are an expression of the state of confusion, chaos, and loss of hope in achieving any military achievement other than targeting defenseless civilians.

The failure of the international community and the United Nations to take action against the occupation army was a green light to continue the war of genocide and ethnic cleansing it is committing against our people, one of the pillars of which is the destruction of medical facilities in the Gaza Strip.

We once again call on the International Committee of the Red Cross, the World Health Organization and other relevant international institutions to fulfill their responsibilities to protect the remaining medical facilities in the Gaza Strip, and to document the crimes of the Nazi zionists against the medical sector, which is protected under the Geneva Conventions and international humanitarian law.

Islamic Resistance Movement - Hamas

Monday: 8 Ramadan 1445 AH

Corresponding to: March 18, 2024 AD"

[athena5898]

(RNN) Hamas: — In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

The occupation prevents fuel delivery to hospitals while deceiving the international community with aid claims, (https://t.me/PalestineResist/71371) as it continues its open war against them.

The occupation deliberately exacerbates the healthcare system’s crisis as part of its ongoing plan to destroy Gaza’s health sector.

The occupation continues to deliberately restrict fuel deliveries to hospitals, allowing only very limited quantities that suffice for a few hours. At the same time, it attempts to deceive the international community by claiming to send aid, all while intensifying its open war on hospitals and medical centers, targeting them with bombardment and destruction, and preventing the entry of fuel and essential medical supplies needed to keep them operational.

The criminal zionist occupation is intentionally worsening the health crisis in Gaza Strip, keeping hospitals in a state of constant emergency. This is part of its broader plan to completely destroy the health sector in Gaza, with no regard for the lives of thousands of patients and wounded individuals suffering due to the occupation’s restrictions on hospitals.

We reiterate our call to the United Nations and relevant international organizations, particularly the World Health Organization and the International Committee of the Red Cross, to take immediate action and save Gaza’s health sector from the threat of total collapse under the inhumane restrictions imposed by the occupying forces. Urgent efforts must be made to meet hospitals’ critical needs, including the deployment of specialized medical teams to treat the injured and wounded.

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas Wednesday, 8 Rajab 1446 AH Corresponding to January 8, 2025

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Sanjana Karanth at HuffPost:

The U.S. government’s unconditional financial and diplomatic support of Israel is harming America’s global standing, national security and domestic interests, according to a new report by a policy group focused on U.S. policy toward the Middle East. A New Policy’s report, first obtained Wednesday by HuffPost, describes more than a dozen reasons why the country’s unconditional support for Israel, particularly its actions toward Palestinians in Gaza over the last 15 months, is not in America’s national interest, contrary to bipartisan political messaging. “Whether we’re talking about American taxpayer money or whether we’re talking about American freedoms, there’s this assumption across much of the political establishment, again on a bipartisan basis, that unqualified support for Israel is the right thing. And the answer is, not for America it’s not,” said Josh Paul, who with Tariq Habash co-founded the lobby group A New Policy after they resigned from the Biden administration in protest of its Gaza policy. “Why we’re putting out this paper is in order to help Americans engage in that conversation and understand how the policy approaches and the political approaches that have been taken have been so harmful,” Paul said.

The report’s release comes just one day after Israel and Hamas agreed on a long-awaited ceasefire that involves pausing the violence in Gaza and exchanging captives. Though the deal has brought a sense of relief to those desperate to see the fighting end, some are more cautious about whether Israel will hold up its end of the agreement ― and for Palestinian Americans like Habash, frustration that the Biden administration could have helped achieve such a plan months ago. [...] As the U.S. prepares again for an incoming Trump administration, both Paul and Habash stressed that the arguments in their report against unconditional support for Israel transcend political parties and individual short-term leaders. Instead, they said, the U.S. requires a much bigger upheaval of its foreign policy that over the past year has led to the country’s isolation at the United Nations, projected weakness for letting Israel cross red lines without accountability and loss of international credibility for acting in defiance of the democratic values it preaches. “I think now what you have enabled is the world to believe that they have to move forward without the United States ― and I think that is extremely dangerous for America on a global stage, when people feel like America should not be the first ally they think about,” Habash said.

The U.S. sends billions of dollars to a foreign country’s military, a military that has never been held accountable for harming an American. But at home, Americans who feel as if their government has failed them in its Mideast policy can face punishment for criticizing Israel.

A report from New Policy, as obtained by HuffPost, reveals that the US’s unconditional support for Israel is bad for America, especially after Israel Apartheid State’s instigation of the Gaza Genocide.