#israel hamas war gaza live stream

[worldnews90]

Trump has given Netanyahu political "ammunition," analyst says

President Donald Trump has provided Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with political power during the Israeli leader’s visit to the White House, a former US Middle East peace negotiator said on CNN.

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[nando161mando]

It can't be that people are horrified about a genocide being live streamed, it's Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis and others that are grooming people.

[scottishcommune]

Below the cut is a template email to send to Edinburgh Pride regarding sponsorship from Aegon, who have investments linked to the genocide in Palestine. Please feel free to use this text or edit it and make it your own and send it to contact@prideedinburgh.co.uk

Dear Edinburgh Pride,

As a queer person living in Edinburgh, I was deeply saddened to learn that the march partner for Edinburgh Pride 2024 is Aegon.

In December 2023 the ‘Don’t Buy Into Occupation Coalition’ published a report that showed Aegon have US$564million invested via shares and bonds in companies operating in illegal settlements in Occupied Palestinian Territories. Source: https://dontbuyintooccupation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2023_DBIO-III-Report_11-December-2023.pdf

We are watching a live-streamed genocide every day - over 36,000 people in Palestine have been murdered by Israeli forces, including at least 15,000 children. The brutality of these atrocities are unthinkable, with evidence of torture and targeting of hospitals, ambulances and refugee camps.

We all have a responsibility to do what we can to end this genocide. As queer people, we are part of a rich history of resisting oppression and dehumanisation - of both ourselves and those we stand in solidarity with. Pride started as a protest against homophobia, transphobia and police violence. It is an important moment to come together as a community to celebrate queer joy and resilience.

But how can we celebrate using profits stained with the blood of our siblings in Palestine?

Aegon has $564million invested in companies that have been listed by the UN as “raising human rights concerns” for their operations in illegal settlements in Occupied Palestinian Territories, In 1948, 750,000 Palestinian people were displaced from their homes and lands and since then, Israeli settlements have been used to spread this process of colonisation.

In addition to this figure, Aegon also has major investments in Eaton Corp Plc., who supply parts for helicopters and fighter jets to the Israeli military and have recently been the target of major protests at their factory in Dorset. They also invest in Amazon, who support the Israeli military with surveillance technology used against Palestians.

Israel has long used ‘pinkwashing’ as a tactic to justify the brutal repression of Palestinians, using queer people to legitimise this horrific violence. We refuse to allow this to be done in our name.

The tide is turning on companies like Aegon that profit from investments in the companies complicit in genocide. Recently, both Hay and Edinburgh Book Festival have dropped Baillie Gifford as a sponsor after over 800 authors called on them to divest from companies involved in Israel and the fossil fuel industry.

I ask that Edinburgh Pride:

Calls on Aegon to commit to divest from companies involved in supplying technology to Israel and operating in illegal settlements.

Drop Aegon as a sponsor until they are able to show evidence of divestment.

Publicly call for a ceasefire and a free Palestine.

There is no pride in genocide.

I look forward to hearing your response.

XX

Sources:

Investments in companies operating in illegal settlements https://dontbuyintooccupation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2023_DBIO-III-Report_11-December-2023.pdf

Investments in Eaton https://extranet.secure.aegon.co.uk/static/sxhub/pdf/client-pen-distribution.pdf

Investments in Amazon https://www.aegon.co.uk/content/dam/auk/assets/publication/fund-factsheet/standard_bkj9zs0.pdf

Israel’s pinkwashing: https://bdsmovement.net/pinkwashing

War on Gaza statistics: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-hamas-war-in-maps-and-charts-live-tracker

Edinburgh book festival ends Baillie Gifford sponsorship: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm553zrr3e4o

[humusboii2thereturnoftheking]

"Israel targets Journalists"

The IDF is constantly accused of targeting 'journalists' in Gaza by the pro-Hamas crowd. These same people recognize that Hamas never acknowledges its combatants’ deaths and instead labels everyone as a civilian, yet they never stop to ask why so many casualties are also labeled as 'journalists.'

In the following photo, are these journalists or Hamas members?

Does holding a camera make you an untouchable civilian, even if you're wearing a Hamas uniform? Even if you're working alongside Hamas? Even if, say, your such close buds with Hamas that the leader of Hamas in Gaza himself, Yahya Sinwar, is giving you a kiss on the cheek?

On the left, Hassan Eslaiah is seen reporting from inside Israel after joining Hamas fighters in their invasion on October 7th. On the right, he’s being kissed by Yahya Sinwar. He’s believed to have had prior knowledge of the attack. Before October 7th, Eslaiah won an award for his journalism. He was a freelancer who worked with AP and other media outlets.

Mohammed Fayq Abu Mostafa, another freelancer working for Reuters, described on October 7th what he saw at the border and deep inside Israel, in Sderot. He detailed breaking into a room where Israelis were hiding before they were taken by Hamas terrorists. Later, he went live on Instagram, saying, 'Advice: whoever can go—go. This is a one-time event that will not happen again.'

This live broadcast featured another so-called freelance "journalist" named Ashraf Amra, who worked for AP and Reuters, among others. In the broadcast, Amra can be seen laughing and smiling as Abu Mostafa recalls his experience invading Israel, even joining the call for Gazans to invade Israel by adding, 'Really, it [the invasion] will not repeat itself.'

His connection to Hamas leadership is obvious—Ismail Haniyeh, a senior Hamas leader, was even filmed visiting him in the hospital and kissing his injured hand.

It's clear that anyone can be called a journalist these days. All it takes is selling your photos to a news outlet, and suddenly, you're not a proud Hamas member but a valuable journalist who must be protected!

This post isn’t meant to label every journalist in Gaza as a Hamas member, nor is it an attempt to justify the deaths of journalists in war. It’s about exposing how the title "journalist" is blatantly misused by Hamas and its supporters. I'm tired of people pushing this asinine yet convenient argument—most of them don’t even know what they’re saying. They just know it sounds good.

If you're worried that Gazans won’t have their voices heard because fake journalists are being targeted, don’t be. Go on TikTok or Instagram and see the endless stream of videos and images Gazans upload every single day. The deaths of Hamas members holding cameras have no effect on the actual news coming out of Gaza.

[girlactionfigure]

melissaschapman

397 days ago, today. On october 7, 2023 Hamas raped Jewish women, burned families alive, shot babies in their cribs, while proudly live-streaming it. The vast majority of the Palestinians living in gaza celebrated this.  These hamas palestinians living in gaza are still holding 101 hostages in gaza.  This is why Israel is at war, if anyone asks.

[words-on-a-tightrope]

Hunger Games Relevance

(Please read/boost if you’ve ever read/watched the hunger games or you care about what’s going on)

I don’t know if other people feel the same way but especially with the new hunger games film coming out I’ve been absolutely floored by some of the parallels between the world in the series and the current conflict in Palestine.

Firstly, Suzanne Collins did say that she partially got the idea from flicking between channels showing reality TV interspersed with footage from the Iraq war so I guess there’s a good reason for me to be seeing similarities now.

But the fact it’s being live-streamed - the carnage - the propaganda - the fact that lots of us have been following the same few (often very young) journalists who have become the ‘face’ of Palestinian resistance (because right now journalism IS resistance being actively targeted by Israel) - it’s all crazy familiar.

I saw a clip of Israeli’s sitting on a hill watching and laughing at the bombs dropping on Gaza today as though they were fireworks just minutes before Israel bombed the 3rd floor of a paediatric hospital. The same ‘Sderot Cinema’ where Israeli’s bought deck chairs and snacks to ‘watch the spectacle’ of the 2014 bombing campaign on Gaza.

The way not everyone in the capitol was evil or bad and some people actively supported the districts but realistically they were still complicit in the exploitation - even if just through ignorance.

The incredible amount of children dying - the bombing of hospitals and withholding of resources (like in District 8 in Mockingjay), the taking of people not involved in Hamas into administrative detention (hundreds arrested in the West Bank - like how the victors were taken in Catching Fire even the ones who weren’t involved in the rebellion), the collective punishment of Gaza (the firebombing of District 12).

The way Israel dropped pamphlets from the sky to tell Gazans to evacuate south and then bombed the route (literally straight out of the games I swear - the video of the pamphlets falling was like the scene with the parachutes in Mockingjay which represent hope and then detonate).

It’s so eerily similar and I just wonder how so many watched those films and read those books and are silent now - why could they identify resistance and oppression and desperation and exploitation in fiction and not reality?

And I wonder if maybe it’s because we have to remind ourselves that we aren’t Katniss in this situation - we aren’t the heroes - we are the Capitol and District citizens watching it all happen on our screens - and that’s an unfortunate and uncomfortable concept to grapple with.

[jewishwarriorprincess]

Things that boggle my mind:

How Hamas bodycam and live stream footage is considered Israeli propaganda

Why those who celebrated what happened are also denying it happened

Any images and videos from Oct 7th is immediately called fake and Israeli propaganda

How people will still claim that Jews..oh sorry Zionists control the media and governments yet the media and governments are constantly condemning or spreading misinformation about Israel

How fast people will use photos from Syria to claim it's Gaza

How no one actually does any digging and research into what they see and immediately believe it as fact

The revisionism of history, including claims that Jews lived peacefully with Muslims in the MENA ignoring the fact that Jews were forced to pay a protection tax (Dhimmi) and could not be above Muslims in any way, often stripping them of their Jewish identities and the violence that occurred before the establishment of Israel

How the Left will immediately retweet and share screenshots of literal white supremacists because it's against "Israel" even though they are mainly extremely false or full of hate

How promoting the boycott of Jewish businesses, even ones owned by Israelis who have nothing to do with the government is not considered antisemitic (according to the Left)

And while promoting BDS, they still use Israeli and Jewish products, technology, medication, etc

How what Hamas did is still being considered by the Left as "freedom fighting"

How literally none of my Leftie goy friends posted any support for Israel and the Jewish people but will scream ceasefire

How people scream ceasefire and don't mention the hostages

How quick people were able to forget or brush off the atrocities of Oct 7th

How Hamas' literal war crimes are not being mentioned or condemned by the UN, WHO, etc but these organizations are so quick to throw Israel under the bus and scream war crimes when the retaliation and ways of retaliation are adhering to international law

How corrupt the UN is. How can you let Iran be on your Human Rights council and still be seen as legitimate? How can you turn a blind eye to your schools and hospitals being used by Hamas for firing rockets and teaching children that their only purpose in life is to kill Jews and be martyred?

How no one, including the media (besides Israeli Media) talks about the continuous rocket attacks done by Hamas and the PIJ since Oct 7th which is aimed at targeting civilians (also a war crime).

How ripping down posters, even smearing dog shit onto posters of hostages, especially children is considered ok and an act of protesting

How Jews are told to hide their identities, not wave their flags, literally just not exist around the pro Hamas, sorry pro Palestinian crowds due to safety concerns or a risk of upsetting the protesters

How the people claiming to care for Palestinians don't speak up about the conditions Hamas keeps their people under in Gaza, executing them for speaking out, stealing aid supplies and money, how their leaders are worth billions and reside in Qatar while they tell their people to be martyrs for the cause

Kapos... I don't understand the anti-Zionist Jews to be honest. Especially seeing how they help spread misinformation and support those who want to kill them.

How targeting Jewish social media creators, especially those who are Orthodox, and making videos to smear them and encourage harassment because they are Jewish, spoke out about what happened on Oct 7, and support Israel is seen as ok... trying to destroy their livelihood, their mental health, and even threaten their lives.

How organizations like JVP, INN, etc are not being investigated in regards to their legitimacy

How indigenous people in the West are being tokenized and allowing it to happen, not researching history to see that the Jewish people are actually indigenous to the land and are an example of decolonization

That there are politicians who refuse to condemn Hamas but are not being investigated even though there have been proof of ties to Hamas

There are so many videos of Imams around the world preaching to kill Jews and if you call it out you're Islamophobic

The silence from women, especially those in the MeToo movement and UN Women organization in regards to the rape of Israeli women during Oct 7th

How people misread a headline regarding babies being decapitated and somehow blame Israel for saying 40 babies were beheaded when that is not what the reporter said at all

People saying that everything Israel has said about the attacks has been proven to be a lie yet refuse to provide any sources and if they do provide a source it's usually from Quds, Al Jazeera, or Electronic Intifada

Speaking of Intifada, how the Left will proudly shout for an Intifada without knowing what it is or what happened during the 1st and 2nd Intifadas

How the words Genocide, Ethnically Cleansing, Apartheid, and War Crimes have become buzzwords that have lost all meaning since they are so often used incorrectly

How watermelons have been ruined for me because now every time I see even the emoji I think about how people use it to promote a Jewish genocide

How people will post onto social media very antisemitic crap but if you call them out, try to educate, or post anything relating to Israel it is removed by the platform for violating some kind of imaginary rules. Saying death to Jews is ok but calling them out on it is not?

That people don't understand this wasn't a war we wanted to fight but were forced into it

That Israelis are not the government and we are not Bibi

How people will use Ethiopian Jews as a "gotcha" but when Ethiopian Jews call them out on tokenizing them and to STFU they are Israeli propagandist

That apparently I am a paid by Israel to engage in combatting disinformation....still waiting on that check because I could desperately use the money

People saying Jews are wealthy with privilege. I grew up a poor Jew and I'm still a poor Jew, my bank account is crying, again I'm waiting on that Israeli check lol

How people are calling Jews white supremacist oppressors....huh?

How the LGBTQ+ crowd are openly participating in calls for a genocide to the Jews and to eliminate Israel, even though it's the only country in the Middle East they can be openly themselves in

How Hamas top leaders openly talk about their desires, their plans, and how they mistreat their people in their goal to kill Jews, and how they have the Left on their side and brag about it but when posting those interviews it's considered Israeli Propaganda

How people are telling Jews to leave Israel...telling them to go back to Europe even though a majority of Jews in Israel are from MENA countries that forced them to flee, taking their property, money, valuables, documents. And when confronted about this, they say they can go back to Iraq, Iran, Yemen.... showing how dumb they really are. Also considering a lot of Israelis ages newborn to 40 are a mix. For example, my husband is Mizrahi and Ashkenazi, where is he supposed to go and our children? These countries are unsafe for Jews and we refuse to go back to Dhimmi status

How people ignore and or support that there are so many Islamic countries but a tiny Jewish one is seen as a threat... that a Jewish country is not allowed or is "racist", but the Islamic majority countries are ok? Even Christian ones?

Honestly just how stupid people are, how the same people who call themselves free thinkers aren't at all. How the same people who chanted to punch a Nazi are participating in Nazi like behaviors. The same people who said they would hide Jews during the Holocaust are the same ones participating in the rounding up of Jews.

I have so many more thoughts and I needed to vent it out. I remember my grandmother, who was able to escape the camps as a child because her parents had her baptized and sent off with other children, feared that another Holocaust would happen. That so many older Jews, especially Israelis, have an emergency pack in case they had to flee... cash, valuables, documents, family heirlooms all hidden in a secure spot just in case.

[mariacallous]

For months the international film community has rallied behind a documentary about the Israeli military’s destruction of a Palestinian village in the West Bank that has failed to land a U.S. distributor despite widespread acclaim.

Now, “No Other Land” has another feather in its cap. On Thursday the movie, co-directed by an Israeli-Palestinian filmmaking collective, received an Oscar nomination for best documentary — a rare feat for an undistributed film.

In a thank-you message following the nomination, the film’s Israeli co-director, Yuval Abraham, wrote on X in Hebrew, “It was created thanks to the community of Masafer Yatta and countless human rights activists who documented the ongoing expulsion over the course of 20 years.”

Asked for a reaction to the Oscar nomination, representatives for the filmmakers said they didn’t have one yet as “things have been quite intense in the West Bank the last 48 hours.” 

Two of the film’s four nominated directors are Palestinians who live in the West Bank, where this week Israel has launched raids on the city of Jenin only days after reaching a ceasefire in Gaza, in an operation seeking the perpetrators of a recent terror attack. The region has also seen a dramatic rise in violent Israeli settler activity in the many months since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war.

Even as it remains in cinematic purgatory, “No Other Land” is still making its way to theaters nationwide. A representative for the film’s sales company, Cinetic Media, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency they were partnering with mTucker Media, which negotiates with movie theaters for independent film releases, to bring the documentary to more than 20 cities in the coming weeks. 

After opening at New York’s Film Forum next week, the movie will roll out to other markets including Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Boston and Washington, D.C. on Feb. 7. It is also available to stream for free for residents of Israel and the Palestinian territories.

Cinetic has declined multiple JTA requests to interview any of the film’s credited directors, Israelis Abraham and Rachel Szor and Palestinians Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal. But elsewhere, the filmmakers have been outspoken about their struggle to secure a stateside release.

“I read it as something that’s completely political,” Abraham recently told Variety about its lack of distribution. “The film is very, very critical of Israeli policies. As an Israeli I think that’s a really good thing, because we need to be critical of these policies so they can change. But I think the conversation in the United States appears to be far less nuanced — there is much less space for this kind of criticism, even when it comes in the form of a film.”

“Americans have a responsibility, I believe,” Palestinian co-director Basel Adra said in the same interview. “And I hope that they watch it and move in the right direction and take any action they can in order to help us change.”

A personal narrative, the film focuses on Adra, a resident of the Masafer Yatta village collective, and Abraham, an Israeli journalist, in the aftermath of a controversial 2022 Israeli Supreme Court order ruling Adra’s home the property of the Israeli military. The title derives from a quote given by a village resident, as she contemplates the potential loss of her home: “We have no other land.”

The film chronicles various IDF demolitions, Palestinian resistance to evacuation orders and violent attacks on the village by Israeli settlers. The two also examine their own friendship and individual futures, which they conclude are built on unequal ground because Abraham is granted more rights as an Israeli citizen.

Shot almost entirely before the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, the film focuses exclusively on the West Bank. A brief coda shows rising Israeli settler attacks on the villages since Oct. 7, and the film’s directors have also used their festival run to speak out against Israel’s military campaign in Gaza.

“This situation of apartheid between us, this inequality, it has to end,” Abraham said during his acceptance speech at the February 2024 Berlin Film Festival, where the movie premiered and won a documentary prize. Adra said Israel was enacting a “massacre” of Palestinians and denounced German arms sales to Israel. Israeli TV said Abraham’s speech was antisemitic, which Abraham said lead to death threats. At the film’s release in Germany this fall, the city of Berlin accused the film of “exhibiting antisemitic content,” a charge the festival’s own director objected to.

American film critics, including several Jewish ones, have fiercely championed the movie. David Ehrlich, the Jewish lead film critic for Indiewire, named it the second-best film of the year and partnered with Adra to launch a fundraiser for the Palestine Red Crescent Society.

“I thought it was more than a film,” Jewish film critic J. Hoberman, who named ”No Other Land” the best movie of the year in Artforum magazine, told JTA. “I was really glad to have a movie that was so outspoken about what I perceive as a terrible injustice.” 

Industry insiders have speculated that the film hasn’t found a distributor because American companies don’t want to deal with the headache of backing a film that criticizes Israel after Oct. 7. 

“No company feels like they can take the risk of the baggage that that film might bring, whether or not they agree with the perspective in it,” Eric Kohn, a Jewish creative head at new-media production studio EDGLRD and former film critic, recently told JTA. (“Israelism,” another documentary critical of Israel, similarly found grassroots success for months before being acquired by newly formed Palestinian distributor Watermelon Films.)

The movie shares themes with “5 Broken Cameras,” an acclaimed 2011 documentary about a Palestinian West Bank resident caught in the middle of an Israeli settlement construction. The earlier film was also co-directed by Israelis and Palestinians, and was also nominated for an Oscar. Unlike “No Other Land,” however, “5 Broken Cameras” was screened widely by an American distributor and eventually aired nationally on PBS.

[workersolidarity]

[ 📹 Scenes from the results of the latest massacre by the Israeli occupation army after bombing the Salah family home in the Al-Shati Refugee Camp, west of Gaza City, killing 7 Palestinians and wounding another 20 others. ]

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ZIONIST ARMY MASSACRES EVER MORE PALESTINIANS, ISRAELI OCCUPATION PREPARING THIRD PHASE OF GENOCIDE

The Israeli occupation forces are preparing for a "third phase" of the genocidal war in the Gaza Strip, according to reporting in the Hebrew media.

According to anonymous political sources speaking with Israeli Channel-12 (N12), the fighting in the Gaza Strip will continue despite the disbandment of the so-called "Rafah Brigade", which this source says will pave the way for a third phase in the war, "all over the Gaza Strip."

The source told N12 that the "security establishment" of the Zionist entity is currently grappling with questions over whether it would be possible to "leverage their achievements" in the Gaza Strip for a hostage exchange deal, and whether it is possible to create new governing structures that could potentially threaten Hamas' political leadership.

"If Hamas thinks that the [occupation army] IDF will leave Gaza without compensation - it is making a bitter mistake. The IDF will stop the fighting only with an agreement."

"[Hamas political leader Yahya] Sinwar is mistaken - Israel will continue to operate militarily in Gaza and strongly."

Additionally, the source told N12 that the Zionist army were "in a state of combat and emergency," adding that "The fighters are determined despite the attrition, but there is another problem it faces - the dissolution of the Knesset on the agenda."

According to N12:

"From the point of view of the politicians, the war may be over, but not from the point of view of the army. Issues such as the "draft exemption law" should be dealt with even before the ceasefire And the IDF needs tools in order to continue fighting."

Following that, N12 acknowledges that there is "increasing concern" at the United Nations about the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding before the eyes of the entire world.

N12 quickly denies any responsibility on the part of the Zionist entity, blaming instead the fact that the Israeli occupation forces now control all the border crossings in the Strip, before quickly denying what the whole world can see live-streamed on a daily basis.

N12 then goes on to make the mind-numbing claim that some photos they allege show Deir al-Balah with food has somehow "proven" there is no shortage of food anywhere in Gaza, this despite the constant barrage of photos and videos showing starving children and the affirmation by UN agencies such as UNICEF and the World Food Programme that contradict the occupation's authorities.

Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation army continued with its war of extermination in the Gaza Strip on Friday.

After invading Rafah, while simultaneously invading the most densely populated areas of the northern Gaza Strip for several weeks, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forced into homes and camps in the Central Gaza Governate.

Now the Israeli occupation army bombs wherever the Palestinian population are corralled, including central Gaza, bombing their homes, tents, schools and shelters.

In just one of several of the latest horrendous massacres, on Friday, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) bombed a residential house in the Nuseirat Camp, in the central Gaza Strip, killing two Palestinians and wounding at least 12 others, while heavy Israeli tank shelling hammered several areas of the Maghazi and Bureij Camps.

Earlier, according to rescue crews which spoke with the Palestinian media, the decomposing bodies of three children, along with their mother, all from the Al-Rai family, were recovered from under the rubble of their home after Zionist warplanes bombed the house two days ago.

Additionally, another Palestinian civilian was killed, and several others wounded, after occupation warplanes bombed sites in Deir al-Balah, also in central Gaza.

Similar to central Gaza, after letting many civilians return to their damaged and destroyed homes north of Gaza, the occupation army renewed its airstrikes and artillery shelling of Gaza City.

In one example, IOF warplanes on Thursday bombed a residential home in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, killing 8 civilians and wounding a number of others.

South of Gaza, witnesses reported that the Zionist army continues deliberately and systematically detonating residential buildings in the Saudi neighborhood, west of Rafah, while at the same time, Israeli artillery shelling hammered the Nuseirat Camp, in the central Gaza Strip, in addition to the occupation's Merkava tanks which fire into neighborhoods east of Khan Yunis.

In further assaults, the Israeli occupation forces launched several air raids on the town of Al-Fokhari, east of Khan Yunis, killing three civilians; Yassin Muhammad al-Amour, Mahmoud Adel al-Najjar, and his son Adel.

IOF fighter jets also bombarded two homes, in the Al-Tuffah and Al-Shujaiya neighborhoods, east of Gaza City, resulting in a number of casualties, while occupation artillery shelling pummeled the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, as well as into the north of the Nuseirat Camp in central Gaza, and several other areas, including the city of Deir al-Balah, the town of Al-Masdar, and the Al-Maghazi Camp.

The genocidal occupation forces also opened fire towards the eastern border areas of the city of Khan Yunis, south of Gaza, in the vicinity of the European Gaza Hospital, southeast of the city, while an occupation helicopter opened fire towards neighborhoods east of Rafah.

Further, occupation fighter jets continued with several more raids on the city of Rafah, while simultaneously, the occupation army continued with their destruction of the Saudi neighborhood of the city.

As a result of the Israeli occupation's ongoing war of extermination in the Gaza Strip, the endlessly rising death toll in this live-streamed genocide now exceeds 37'431 Palestinians killed, including at least 10'000 women and over 15'000 children, while another 85'653 others have been wounded since October 7th, 2023.

June 21st, 2024.

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[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

'Shocking display': Bodies of Bibas family, taken hostage by Hamas, returned to Israel

'During the identification process, it was determined that the additional body received is not that of Shiri Bibas,' the IDF said later

By: Courtney Greenberg

Published: Feb 20, 2025

For more than 500 days, the Bibas family has been a symbol of hope and resilience in the face of the horrors of the Israel-Hamas War. At the time of their kidnapping by Hamas terrorists on October 7, Kfir was nearly nine months old, his brother Ariel was four, and their mother Shiri was 32.

Rather than returning home alive, what Hamas said were their bodies — along with hostage Oded Lifshitz, 83-years-old when he was kidnapped — were carried in caskets through crowds of Gazan men, women and children on Thursday in Khan Yunis, a southern Gaza city. News outlets CNBC, CNN and the Associated Press live-streamed the transfer, showing hundreds celebrating as loud music played.

However, later the Israeli Defense Forces stated that the body Hamas claimed was Shiri Bibas was not her.

“During the identification process, it was determined that the additional body received is not that of Shiri Bibas, and no match was found for any other hostage. This is an anonymous, unidentified body,” a statement posted on social media said.

It said the bodies of the two children were identified.

“This is a violation of utmost severity by the Hamas terrorist organization, which is obligated under the agreement to return four deceased hostages,” the IDF said. “We demand that Hamas return Shiri home along with all our hostages.”

The caskets had been showcased on a stage erected by Hamas specifically for the event, as the Jerusalem Post reported. The backdrop revealed a caricature of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a blood-sucking vampire — an antisemitic trope. Below him, the Bibas children, Lifshitz and an unknown body were shown covered in red. Writing in English referred to Netanyahu as a “war criminal.”

The caskets were loaded onto Red Cross trucks and handed over to the Israeli army. IDF sappers inspected the caskets, which were locked without keys, to ensure they were not booby-trapped.

Some videos shared on social media showed children dancing on the stage where the caskets had been. It left Israeli author Hen Mazzig speechless.

“I have no words. Palestinian children in Gaza celebrating after the Bibas babies’ and their mother’s, along with Oded Lipschitz’s coffins were presented on the same stage. Oded used to drive Palestinian children to hospitals in Israel for treatment,” he wrote in a post on X.

The World Jewish Congress condemned Hamas for what it described as its “latest act of inhumanity,” in a news release on Thursday.

“Their bodies were handed over to the Red Cross today after Hamas paraded them in Gaza in a shocking display of cruelty and propaganda,” it said.

“Hamas’s treatment of these victims in death is as abhorrent as their treatment in life. The terror group labelled each casket with ‘Date of arrest: October 7’ — a blatant distortion of the truth. These innocent civilians were not arrested; they were violently kidnapped from their homes during Hamas’s brutal attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, and murdered in captivity.”

The events of Thursday were in stark contrast to previous hostage releases by Hamas. Former hostages who were freed in exchange for Palestinian prisoners were paraded through jeering crowds and gun-wielding terrorists, some forced to smile and take photos with their captors — yet Israelis were able to celebrate their homecoming.

But on Thursday, thousands of mourners carrying Israeli flags and yellow solidarity flags lined Israeli highways to pay tribute as vehicles carrying the remains drove by. As bands of pouring rain moved through the area, they wiped away tears or quietly sang the national anthem as the convoy passed. Just before sunset, a double rainbow unfolded across the sky.

In Tel Aviv, thousands of people gathered at the city’s Hostage Square for a ceremony, including the recitation of traditional mourning prayers. Some in the crowd held orange balloons, in honour of the Bibas boys who had red hair, and the crowd swelled after sundown as musicians performed subdued ballads, matching the nation’s sadness.

“Our hearts — the hearts of an entire nation — lie in tatters,” Israeli President Isaac Herzog said in a statement. “On behalf of the State of Israel, I bow my head and ask for forgiveness. Forgiveness for not protecting you on that terrible day. Forgiveness for not bringing you home safely.”

In a post on X, the Israel Defense Forces said the bodies of what they believed were the three members of the Bibas family and of Lifshitz were being taken to the National Institute of Forensic Medicine to undergo an identification procedure.

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Now you understand why Mosab Hassan Yousef said that there's "no difference between Hamas and the Palestinian people."

Seriously, fuck these people. Fuck Gaza. Fuck "Palestine".

[queeranarchism]

"The quote is from Les Damnes de la terre (Wretched of the Earth), and can only be understood in the context of the fuller argument Fanon is making: “Colonialism is not a thinking machine, nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties. It is violence in its natural state, and it will only yield when confronted with greater violence.” No one can deny Fanon’s brilliance or his pioneering and profound understanding of the psychological effects of colonial violence on the colonised and the coloniser (as a psychiatrist, he treated French colonial officers and Algerians alike and found them to suffer similar psychiatric ailments). But the second and more famously quoted part of Fanon’s argument is not comprehensible without the first part, and the first part – especially in the Israeli context – is in fact profoundly wrong. Colonialism, especially settler colonialism – and even more particularly Zionist settler colonialism – is very much a “thinking machine” with very powerful and longstanding logic and rationalities that are the key to its success. Because of this, considering what “a greater violence” would look like and how it can be measured, never mind achieved, is a crucial task for those analysing and fighting colonial violence alike. I have yet to see any plausible scenarios in which Palestinians acquire the means to deploy “far greater violence” vis-a-vis Israel/the Zionist entity for any length of time in any conceivable geostrategic balance of power. Even if Iran (the only major power that supports Palestine in any meaningful way), for example, wanted to deliver heavier weapons to Palestinians, Israel’s control over access points, as well as Egypt’s and Jordan’s, will prevent that from happening. Palestine is not Ukraine, supported by major powers and able to utilise land, water and air corridors to obtain an unending stream of weapons deliveries to fight a much larger and better-armed adversary. Quite the opposite, in fact. More broadly, Palestine today is not Algeria in 1956, which was Fanon’s most important reference point. Nor is Israel France, with a metropole to which settlers can return (unless we consider Tel Aviv the metropole). There will be no long-fought war of independence resulting in the vast majority of Jews leaving à la française a reconquered Palestine. But there are several scenarios that could lead to a redux of the Nakba, as many Israeli politicians are now screaming for. [...]

Indeed, for over 50 years of occupation, and 30 years of the post-Oslo Palestinian “self-rule” rather than “the native cur[ing] himself of colonial neurosis … through force of arms”, what has occurred (as I learned in interviews with therapists at the few mental health centres in Gaza as far back in the later 1990s through 2000s) is the passing on of trauma, with former Fatah prisoners tortured by Israel torturing Hamas members using the same techniques as the Israelis used on them – often screaming at their victims in Hebrew while torturing them in the very same rooms where they were tortured. Hamas has continued this cycle in the two decades of effective control over Gaza. And now we see this with crowds cheering kidnapped, beaten, and murdered Israelis. Whatever catharsis this constitutes, it is not one that will lead to victory over an Israeli society that has been using violence against Palestinians as its own traumatic catharsis for 75 years, in a world that has a very high tolerance for Palestinian civilian casualties, with most people in the West still supporting Israel whenever there is a high level of Israeli Jewish casualties. [...]

Tragically, Fanon died in 1961, a year before Algeria achieved independence. He did not live to see the realities of postcolonial politics in Algeria, or across Africa for that matter, where, as Kenyan novelist and decolonial thinker Ngugi wa Thiong’o has so powerfully showed, leaders of newly independent states almost immediately began treating their peoples in much the same manner as their former colonisers (a phenomenon also experienced with the Palestinian Authority and Hamas since Oslo). Forty years ago, when he was describing this dynamic of postcolonial governance in his groundbreaking prison memoir Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir, Thiong’o used the term “neocolonial” – not to indicate the continuation of European control by other means, but rather to describe how anticolonial leaders adopted (and adapted) the same brutal and authoritarian techniques of rule as their colonisers to cement and maintain their power; a critique of the “coloniality of power” that is today at the heart of the ever more popular decolonial thought. That coloniality of power fundamentally will never allow for anything approaching actual independence for Palestinians, neither via the neocolonial PA nor with Hamas at the helm. If Palestinians are to defeat Zionist colonialism, it will likely take a much different sort of analysis of its violence and power than Fanon offered three-quarters of a century ago, and it will probably require a paradigm shift in the core concepts of what a nation, freedom and independence are at a moment when the entire world, not just Palestine/Israel, is heading towards conflagration.

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I really like this column. When western media is mindlessly parroting Israeli propaganda and western far-leftists (myself included) are primarily listing all the evils of the Israeli state to make it clear who the real bad guy of the story is, there's very little practical discussion of what is actually happening and what could come next.

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

by Bari Weiss

You are about to withstand a barrage of lies about the war that broke out today in Israel.

Some of those lies will be explicit. Some of them will be lies of omission. Others will be lies of obfuscation. Or lies of minimization. Lies told by people who are simply too afraid to look at such an ugly, barbarous reality. And lies told by people whose true beliefs are too ugly to quite say aloud. Turn on cable news and you can hear some of them right now.

So let’s get some facts straight.

Israel was attacked last night. It was attacked by Hamas terrorists who streamed over the border from Gaza. They came on foot and on motorbikes. They came by truck and by car and by paraglider. They came to Israel to murder and maim and mutilate anyone they could find. And that is what they did.

It is impossible to know the numbers of the dead or the missing or the injured. 

The official numbers as of this writing: 300 Israelis dead; 1,590 wounded. And dozens—maybe many more—taken hostage into Gaza. They include women, elders, and children. 

But none of those words or numbers capture the evil of what unfolded today. 

Young festival-goers running for their lives. Teenage girls dragged by their hair by terrorists. An old woman forced to pose with a Hamas rifle. A mother—a hostage—cradling two redheaded babies in her arms.

I have friends in Israel. Each one of them has a story of someone they know who is missing. Or injured. Or killed. This was not a tit-for-tat. This was not a justifiable military response, or just another day in a cycle of violence. This was the slaughter of innocent civilians.

New York City’s Democratic Socialists of America today announced a protest in honor of the attacks. It’s called All Out for Palestine: “In solidarity with the Palestinian people and their right to resist 75 years of occupation and apartheid.” The anti-Zionist group IfNotNow explained the attacks as Israel’s fault and said of the dead Jews: “Their blood is on the hands of the Israeli government.” 

You will see a lot like this in the coming days. Ancient lies told in new language whose end is always, strangely, the same: a justification for genocide. 

Think about 9/11 and the kind of shock and terror we felt. That is what Israelis feel today. That is the level of devastation Israel is now experiencing. 

[thebrightestwitchofherage]

FAQ and frequent hate anons& comments

I keep getting the same messages/anons since some of my posts are doing well… I am writing and pinning this post to answer these.

Who am I? I’m 22, a Jewish and Israeli queer woman.

No, I don’t condone the death of Palestinians.

-I can hold a place in my heart for the suffering of other people, of “the other side” of the conflict. Obviously I do not wish for the death of anyone. I wish for a peaceful future for all sides.

I just happen to be Israeli and Jewish.

“You’re ignoring the death of Palestinians”

*Once again, I’m not trying to deny any of the suffering of the Palestinians. I am simply trying to bring up awareness of what us Israelis are going through. *

I’m trying to debunk the misinformation and dehumanising rhetoric towards Israelis/ Jews on this site, By telling my story and presenting more reliable information and sources.

“You’re privileged, you’re whining about x while people in Gaza are dying”

News flash,people in Israel die as well.

And HOW THE HELL AM I PRIVILEGED WHEN People from my city were murdered or kidnapped by terrorists???

My city is constantly under rocket fire. Unlike what some people comment under my posts -I am not deluded or privileged.

Wanting to live peacefully is not a privilege. And while I’m describing how war and terror affects my life I am not whining.

How hateful and hypocritical do you have to be in order to tell that to a stranger? The anons and comments I receive shock me every single time .

What are your sources?

-some of y’all literally trust a terror organisation over Jews/ Israelis.

I was asked multiple times to cite my sources for my countries’ borders. Huh? I don’t know, reality??

“What is your proof”

Anti - Zionists and antisemites are constantly asking us for proof, while you immediately believe Hamas.

this is unbelievable considering Hamas filmed their attacks with GoPros and live-streamed it using the victims’ phones and social media accounts.

There are also: surveillance cameras footage,  forensic evidence, post-mortem analysis,eyewitness accounts, interviews and evidence provided by first responders and survivors, etc…

“You’re brainwashed/ deluded”

Maybe, but unlike most of the people who write to me, I live here.

I back all of my claims with resources and facts,and I am more than happy to provide missing information/ clarify my posts.

I’ve cared about this conflict even when it wasn’t trending. I can admit my country’s faults and strive for a better future for my people, and love it at the same time.

The fact that what I’m saying may not fit your narrative doesn’t mean it’s not happening in real life …

Ps- While this is a trend to you - it’s my daily life for me. Don’t assume you know better because you watched a tiktok or read a questionable article (these are actually all things people have said to me …).

ALL DEATH THREATS , SLURS& HATE ANONS, NAZI PROPAGANDA AND CRAZY ALLEGATIONS WILL BE DELETED AND INGONRED.

[gadawg-404]

If a kid pushes a person into traffic, and another kid pushes that person to safety, the pushing each time is morally different.

Hamas committed an horrific mass terror attack on Oct 7, 2024. They brazenly filmed themselves and live streamed it, so we know they did these acts and glorified them. They took hostages (including Americans) and over 100 are still being held to this day. Then they fled to hide behind and blend in with the Gaza population. Gaza overwhelmingly supports Hamas. They have said they will do Oct 7 again and again.

Every death and tragedy is the responsibility of Hamas. Not all acts of war are equally morall. If you support free Palestine you support “terror. You support the total destruction of Israel. Israel has offered a two state solution multiple times. Rejected every time. Israel has over two million Arabs living as full citizens. Women , gays and varies religions all get doing in freedom in Israel. In the Gaza Strip there is no freedom for women, gays or religions other than hardline Islam.

Stop supporting the kid who pushes another person into traffic while hating the kid who pushed the person to safety.

[girlactionfigure]

1. Since October 7th, Hamas fired over 10,000 missiles at Israel while purposefully targeting Israeli civilians - a blatant war crime. The EU condemned Hamas for these acts. 

2. On October 7th, Hamas terrorists purposefully entered civilians’ homes in Israel and tortured, raped, kidnapped and murdered 1,200 Israelis. 240 were kidnapped, including babies, toddlers and elderly - a blatant war crime. 200 independent and foreign reporters viewed unreleased footage from Hamas’s terrorists body cams that show unspeakable horrors committed against Israeli civilians. Many of the atrocities were live-streamed. Look it up, many of the videos are easily available. Note - Hamas recorded these videos. The terrorists were proud of their actions. Many reporters told about the glee and excitement shown by the terrorists as they tortured and raped Israeli girls and babies

3. Hamas is well known for using schools and hospitals as terror sites - a blatant war crime. The EU officially condemned Hamas’s actions, which endanger both Israelis and Palestinians.

 4. IDF footage shows that Israeli hostages, including babies, were held under a Gaza hospital - another blatant war crime.

 5. UNRWA tweeted that Hamas stole fuel and food from its warehouses. They later deleted that tweet. Look up the testimonies of Gaza residents, which are easily available here on X.

 6. Hamas uses Gaza residents as human shields. There are multiple videos and testimonies indicating that Hamas set up road blocks to prevent Gaza residents from fleeing using the IDF’s humanitarian corridors. There are videos showing IDF soldiers securing that corridor since Hamas fired at its own people. There are videos of Gaza residents complaining about the fact that Hamas hides among civilians.

7. Hamas is a listed terror group per the USA, Britain, Canada and the European Union. 

8. Israel is under no obligation to reach a ceasefire with such a murderous terror group - who in fact swore to carry out more of these attacks until Israel is annihilated. 

9. Hamas is the elected ruler in Gaza, and Israel has the right and duty to eliminate it.

[warsofasoiaf]

What do you think about the recent events in Israel? I have seen some videos by Hamas of what they are doing to Israelis that has sickened me to the core will this cause Israel to invade Gaza? Will they have to worry about Iran and Hezbollah?

As I understand it, Israel has already been retaliating in Gaza - last I checked there were about 200 dead, 2000 wounded. But yeah, live-streaming the machine-gunning of civilians, parading corpses around, and openly bragging about what they plan to do to female captives, it's sickening stuff.

How the Israeli security services failed to detect this will be an open question, and heads will roll. This was an intelligence failure on par with the Yom Kippur War of 1973. Whether that was operational tradecraft, complacency, or sabotage we'll have to see, but it won't be good.

Part of me thinks this was an attempt to derail the proposed Saudi-Israeli normalization, because such an action significantly weakens Hamas. Not to spook anyone, but an operation of this breadth and sophistication had state backing. Iran was definitely involved, so this will not be limited to just the Gaza Strip.

Thanks for the question, Anon.

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