#the iof is also shooting at the ambulances

[bisan-is-trying]

21 May, Jenin, West Bank.

At least 7 have been killed and 10 injured (including 3 that are considered very critical injuries) by IOF bullets this morning following the invasion of Jenin camp.

The head of the surgery department at Jenin Governmental Hospital Dr. Osayd Kamal Jabareen, was martyred after being targeted in the vicinity of the hospital. A school teacher, Alam Jaradat was also martyred on his way to work. It should also be noted that most of the casualties are either school students or unarmed civilians.

The Palestinian Red Crescent reports that the occupation forces are preventing medical crews from reaching casualties in the area.

[idontmindifuforgetme]

At least 5 Palestinians, including a 16-year old child, were killed in an Israeli raid on the city of Tulkarem. This marks one of the most violent raids in the West Bank, spanning several days and still ongoing. Israeli settler violence is also seeing an all-time high, aided and abetted by IOF forces that have not only been shooting Palestinians and beating them to death, but also blocking ambulances attempting to rescue them.

[ear-a-corn]

Hind's murder looks more sadistic when you realize that the ambulance who tried to save her were also murdered. I can't believe that women had the nerve to call her a woman. Are you KIDDING me?? she was a child and the Israeli apartheid took away who she was and could've been

it is Genuinely even worse, the red crescent (the aid workers) had 'worked' with the IOF in order for the ambulance to have safe passage to reach Hind, the IOF KNEW there was a 6 year old child in that car. They kept shooting, and they bombed the ambulance, knowing full well what it meant.

Now, people are adultifying her, a literal 6 year old, because black and brown children can never just be children. AND As though it somehow makes it better for an adult woman to have been trapped in a car with the bodies of 7 of her family members for hours, all while the IOF continued to shoot at her. It's sickening, and vile, and makes me so incredibly angry.

[hussyknee]

Just found out that the baby baked in an oven thing Zionists accused Hamas of doing is actually something Zionists themselves did during the Deir Yassin massacre of 1948. And the fetus cut out of the pregnant woman's womb is something that was done in the massacre of the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps by Lebanese militants in concert with Zionists. We already know that they rape women and children in detention. I think the only other huge fucking lie about Oct 7th was the beheaded babies, and I'm legitimately afraid of learning whether or not that was also just something Zionists themselves did at one point.

I mean it's not even improbable because this type of unfathomable cruelty is par for the course with genociders, that only happen when the dominant group has so much disproportionate power in the region that there is only mindless hatred and perfect impunity. (The Brits used to use native infants as crocodile bait.) The reports of IOF ripping babies from their mothers arms, shooting them dead, throwing them aside and dragging the mothers off in front of witnesses were numerous even before this. I've also heard reports of young parents being dragged off and abandoning their toddlers and infants on the roadsides (saw a video of it and I'm going to be haunted to my grave). So those premature babies being left to die of starvation at the hospital was shocking but only surprising because there were so many eyes on the situation due to the efforts of the aid workers and journalists. We thought that Western governments wouldn't pull this shit with the whole world watching. As it turned out, the only reason the last twenty-odd premature babies at Al Shifa Hospital survived was because the director of the place refused to leave them until they were safely shipped off to Egypt (unaccompanied, God knows if the parents will ever get them back. Egyptian governments refused to let the few critically injured people allowed safe passage by the US to go through without visas and passports so they died in the ambulances). Then the IOF kidnapped the director right afterwards. He's still missing.

The organ harvesting thing is also true btw. We've been talking about it ever since they made off with those dead bodies at Al Shifa Hospital. Whether they were going to use them to stage their own propaganda, harvest their organs and skin, or just did it to deprive their families of giving them a burial. Probably all three.

I'm so tired of you people refusing to pay any attention to the news streaming out of Gaza via their own citizen journalists and Al Jazeera and Quds News and families of activists and then accusing us of spreading conspiracy theories! "There's so much misinformation" just say you don't trust Palestinians to tell the truth about their own genocide with your whole chest. Say that your charges of antisemitism is about how much you fear Black people and Muslims. Say that you don't reblog calls for the Jewish community to interrogate their whiteness and their enmeshing with Zionism over the decades because you feel like "it's not your place" to amplify Black and brown people challenging whiteness. Say that you shut us down and police our language about Zionists because you're philosemites who believe Jews could never be as genocidal and bloodthirsty as every other group on the world given the same power. Say that you still don't think Zionists are "as bad as" Nazis because they haven't murdered enough people yet.

I'll take the Zionists cheering over the deaths of people we're mourning over all the hidden polite lethal racism you're hiding under your white liberal tongues. I can't take this death by a thousand cuts shit anymore. Seriously why are you scrolling past? You think we aren't talking about you?

[northgazaupdates]

8 January 2024

Journalist Mahmoud Abusalama interviews Sabreen Bahjat Salem, a woman who recently survived the massacre of her family by the IOF. She tells how most of her family has been wiped out, including her two children, and many of them are still trapped under rubble. She describes being blown into the street by the force of the bomb, and lying there for six hours without help because rescue crews had no way to reach her. The entire interview has been translated by Instagram user faridaek, and is posted under the cut. “M” refers to Mahmoud and “S” refers to Sabreen.

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M: We bring you a story amidst dozens of reports of Israeli massacres of civilians in the Gaza Strip. This account focuses on the Salem family massacre, where 143 of 153 displaced individuals were killed in their home. We're joined by Sabreen Bahjat Salem, a mother who lost her two children, parents, and the majority of her family members, who were also seeking refuge in that house. My sincerest condolences, Sabreen.

S: May God reward your endeavours/efforts.

M: Please tell us what happened, from the beginning.

S: We were displaced from Jabalia Camp, we thought we were safe in our homes but the Israelis warned us the camp was dangerous, so we evacuated. Our destination was Al-Rimal, deemed “safe” by the Israelis, but it was far from safe. We went there and got trapped two nights before we were bombed. We were stuck in this house, unable to leave or flee the area. The next night, they bombed us.

M: What time did the attack happen?

S: The attack happened around midnight, and I was lying in the street from midnight till 6 in the morning, with no ambulances or anyone to help. Most of my family is still under the rubble. Of the 153 people in the massacre, only 12 of us survived, and we all ended up scattered in the streets.

M: So, we're talking about 153 people and displaced people all under the house, how many people were rescued?

S: 77 people were retrieved then buried, 77 people. But most of them remained under the rubble, and only 12 of us who were pulled out are alive, all of us scattered in the streets.

M: While you were on the street, were there army vehicles and tanks there?

S: Yes. They were there. They first came in around 1AM, and people were crushed by their tanks and bulldozers.

M: So, we're talking about Israeli tanks going over the bodies of the wounded or martyrs from the family?

S: Yes, exactly. They ran over the bodies and crushed them, killing them, and there were pregnant women amongst those crushed! And we were on the other side of the street, and the tank passed us at 6 AM, once the tanks and bulldozers finally left, then the neighbors were able to help us, and even then, when they were helping us, the helicopter was shooting at them directly, so nobody could help us except with great difficulty/danger.

M: Who did you lose in this massacre?

S: I lost both my children, my father and mother, and my two siblings, meaning most of my family is gone. I am the only surviving member left. Most of those who were pulled out were the sole survivors of their families, meaning the majority of people lost their mother, father, and siblings.

M: Was there any specific target in the house? Were you warned or informed to evacuate the house?

S: No, we were all civilians in the house; no one informed us to leave. No one told us to evacuate. According to the Israelis, it was a safe area, so we headed there under the pretext that we would be safe, but it turned out to be a disaster-stricken area, according to the Israelis, it was a safe area, so we headed there under the pretext that we would be safe, but it turned out to be a disaster-stricken area, according to them. May God avenge us.

M: This testimony comes from one of the survivors who endured the bombardment of the Israeli forces. It recounts the tragic Salem family massacre in the Al-Rimal neighborhood. Originally from the northern Jabalia camp, they had relocated to Gaza city, believing it to be safe. Tragically, this attack resulted in the loss of 143 members of the Salem family. May God greatly reward their endurance/patience.

[workersolidarity]

[ 📹 Scenes from the botched air drop of food aid to starving Palestinian families in Gaza City. The parachutes from the packages do not properly deploy, causing the aid packages to come crashing down onto the heads of the hungry civilians below, killing two and wounding a number of others.]

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ISRAELI OCCUPATION FORCES CONTINUE WITH MASS ATROCITIES ON 154TH DAY OF GENOCIDE IN THE GAZA STRIP

On the 154th day of Israel's ongoing war on genocide in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) committed a total of 8 new massacres of Palestinian families, resulting in the deaths of 78 Palestinian civilians, and wounded another 104 others over the previous 24-hours.

As Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip continues to enforce starvation onto the Palestinian people, an attempted air drop of humanitarian aid into Gaza City led to the deaths of two Palestinians and caused several others to be wounded. The aid packages failed to deploy its parachutes properly, causing food packages to fall hundreds of feet onto the heads of starving civilians below.

Video from the incident shows aid boxes being released from a large military plane with parachutes either collapsing or not deploying at all, before the boxes begin raining down onto the waiting civilians on the ground. Palestinians can be seen running for shelter as aid boxes crash heavily around them.

Meanwhile, in continued war crimes and atrocities, the IOF renewed its bombardment of the southern Gaza Strip, with local ambulance and civil defense crews managing the recovery of 14 bodies from the Khan Yunis area after occupation warplanes bombed several homes, including the home of the Barbakh family, four of whom were killed as a result.

Another strike in the Al-Mawasi neighborhood also resulted in at least one civilian death.

Similarly, occupation bombing late on Thursday targeted the Al-Attar family home, in the Al-Hakar neighborhood of Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, leading to the deaths of 7 civilians and wounding a number of others.

At the same time, intense Israeli bombing and shelling of the Al-Nuseirat Refugee Camp resulted in large numbers of dead and wounded, according to local reporting.

In the southern Gaza Strip, Zionist air forces bombarded the Abu Salima family home in the Al-Ezba neighborhood, west of Rafah city, leading to the martyredom of five civilians and wounding several others.

Zionist soldiers on Thursday night again opened fire with machine guns on starving civilians waiting for food aid at the Nabulsi roundabout, to the southwest of Gaza City.

According to local reporting, Israeli tanks surrounded crowds of hungry Palestinians at the Nabulsi roundabout as they awaited food aid trucks to arrive, opening fire on them and forcing hundreds of civilians to flee the area.

Another shooting by Israeli soldiers in the Al-Mafraq area resulted in the killing of two Palestinians and the wounding a number of others.

Two additional civilians were wounded as a result of Israeli artillery shelling of the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood of Gaza City, with local ambulance crews transporting the two to Al-Shifa Hospital.

Occupation air forces also bombarded two civilian homes in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, a third home in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood, and a fourth in the Al-Sabra neighborhood, killing four Palestinians and wounding at least 15 others.

At least one member of the Al-Atout family was killed after IOF warplanes bombed their home in Jabalia, in the north of the Gaza Strip, while heavy artillery shelling also targeted the city of Beit Hanoun.

Meanwhile, Zionist fighter jets bombarded the Abu Salimia family home in the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, martyring at least five civilians, while another airstrike in the same area resulted in the wounding of at least 22 Palestinian civilians, mostly women and children, who were transported to Abu Yousef al-Najjar Hospital.

At the same time, occupation artillery fire shelled several tents of displaced Palestinian families in the Al-Mawasi neighborhood of Rafah city, wounding nine civilians who were taken to the Al-Kuwaiti Hospital.

Zionist Merkava tanks also shelled civilians near the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, wounding seven Palestinians who were taken to the local hospital.

As a result of Israel's ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, the death toll has risen in excess of 30'878 Palestinians killed, more than 25'000 of which being women and children according to the United States Pentagon, and another 72'402 civilians have been wounded in Israeli crimes since October 7th, 2023.

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@WorkerSolidarityNews

[athena5898]

GAZA STRIP(Praxis Redacted) (RNN) — Since this morning, 28 martyrs have ascended in the Gaza Strip, 20 of them in the besieged north.

Heavy shelling targeted south of Gaza City and areas of the center at dawn today, and the IOF began moving vehicles in the north and center of Rafah, coinciding with demolitions in the area.

In Jabalia and Beit Lahia, the situation remains dire as the three-week siege continues, with continuous shelling and gunfire, as well as intermittently in Tal Al-Hawa and Al-Zaytoun in Gaza City.

At 7 AM, a martyr ascended and number of citizens were wounded by quadcopters dropping bombs in Jabalia Al-Nazla, while artillery shelling continued for hours on Jabalia and Beit Lahia. This coincided with demolitions east of Jabalia, and shelling west of Rafah.

In the morning, three more martyrs and injuries were reported due to artillery shelling in Jabalia Al-Balad, as the IOF once again besieged the Khalifa School in Beit Lahia (Media 2), which houses displaced people.

The IOF continued to bomb the vicinity of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, and the hospital remains besieged. All staff were abducted except for the director Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, one medical staff worker, and a cleaner.

The female medical staff were held in an isolated room without food or water, and the men were taken away, stripped and handcuffed, to an unknown location. Dr. Abu Safiya's son Ibrahim also ascended to martyrdom. Hours later, a few doctors and nurses were released and arrived at Sheikh Radwan Clinic. However, at 3:00 PM, the IOF abducted Dr. Mohammed Obaid, head of the Reconstructive and Orthopedic Surgery Department in Al-Awda Hospital in Tal Al-Zaatar, from Kamal Adwan Hospital.

The Civil Defense put out an urgent call stating that they are unable to respond to numerous distress calls in Jabalia and Jabalia Al-Nazla, reminding that Civil Defense is completely disabled in the northern Gaza Strip.

Coinciding with gunfire east of Khan Younis, shelling and gunfire persisted northwest of Rafah at 9:00 AM. A martyr had also ascended by a drone strike in Zuweida in the central #Gaza Strip. A martyr also ascended by quadcopter shooting east of Bureij camp.

At this time, the IOF withdrew from the vicinity of Kamal Adwan Hospital and returned to Beit Lahia, having burned ambulances and destroyed the hospitals facilities and its surroundings. Dozens of unidentified, unreported martyrs remain in the yard, unburied. At least 8 martyrs were recovered hours later. The attached media shows some scenes of the vicinity of Kamal Adwan afterwards.

The director of field hospitals stated:

"The smell of death pervades the surroundings of Kamal Adwan Hospital. The occupation destroyed the medicines in Kamal Adwan to prevent us from saving the wounded. We don't know the fate of the detained medical personnel."

Quadcopter drones continued to fire in Jabalia in the north, wounding several, and dozens of homes were burned by the IOF in the Faluja neighborhood and Beit Lahia (Media 3). Two more martyrs ascended by artillery shelling in Jabalia Al-Balad, a martyr in Beit Lahia, a martyr near Abu Tamam School, two martyrs by shelling in Jabalia camp, and several more martyrs and wounded were reported due to the IOF bombing the Maqat family home in Sheikh Radwan, north of Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip. Civil Defense crews tried to recover a large number of martyrs near the Maqat family home with minimal means, but were able to rescue a young boy alive, in addition to two martyrs and four wounded (Media 7-10)

Bombings persisted in Tal Al-Hawa and Beit Lahia at 11:00 AM. Later, the IOF bombed the vicinity of the Shimaa School, which houses thousands of displaced people.

[vyorei]

Israel's having a tantrum again because Turkey called Hamas a Liberation Group

Also hey Lior tell me real quick, how many Palestinian children has the IOF slaughtered over the last 2 weeks?

Ah yes, at least 2704

Intentionally dropping bombs on schools, hospitals, mosques, churches, ambulances, intentionally denying food, water, fuel, medical supplies, shooting, raiding, drone strikes, thousands of Palestinians rounded up and incarcerated without cause or trial (hostage-y much?) on a 41km strip of land with 2.3million people trapped in it.

These are Israel's crimes.

[bigfrood]

Dr Hammam Allooh was murdered by the Israeli occupation along with his father and other family members during the occupation's attacks on Al Shifa Hospital and around it. He was martyred because he didn't forsake his patients the same way the world had forsaken them. Because he thought about their lives as well, not just his own.

As a medical student myself, this is one of the most humbling moments of my life. What strength and what faith did he have to stay put in a situation like this??

And as inspiring as Dr. Hammam was, he wasn't the only medical professional this dedicated in Al Shifa, let alone all of Gaza

There are still doctors in Al Shifa hospital right now (along with patients and people taking shelter and the corpses of those who were killed by the occupation that the living had to bury in mass graves in the hospital's courtyard because all of them are trapped there due to the occupation's attacks)

If Al Shifa Hospital sounds familiar to you, that's because there's been news that 3 out of the 39 (real) premature babies that were in incubators there died due to the hospital running out of fuel.

(the occupation very generously offered them enough fuel to run their generators for HALF AN HOUR, btw)

It has been bombarded by the occupation 6 times, including the intensive care unit, according to the doctors there.

The IOF also bombed an ambulance convoy departing from it, killing 15 people. I'm sure we all know what their excuse was by now.

You might've also heard that the IOF said they were raiding it last night, and they probably have. With the same excuse as always.

Please read this article by The Guardian about the terrifying situation there:

And please don't let the heroism of the medical staff in Gaza and their sacrifices go to waste.

Take any direct action within your means.

Never forget the crimes of the occupation.

And don't stop talking about Palestine.

[favroitecrime]

This is a joke. The burning baby was a lie btw they ran through AI and surprise it was AI. So were the beheaded babies as said so by israeli soldiers on the scene themselves.

Hamas is merely a reaction to israel’s brutal occupation. If you didn’t want to deal with them, you shouldn’t have created them.

Saying Gazans have no homes is still not a lie cause those were hotels.

Again, those links *do* go to Humanitarian Orgs because they also provide proof of everything they buy and donate with the money. Besides, how do we confirm the money being given to these israeli links is funding healthcare and not the military?

israel has one of the best militaries in the world please let’s not pretend they’re weaker than Hamas.

The money from the UN, EU, & “Iran” is a joke because you just proved that Palestine receives nothing. Showing me Hamas as billionaires doesn’t negate the fact that Palestine still receives nothing.

I’ve watched the UN stand back and say nothing as this entire week Gaza has been massacred. Btw, these are some of the resolutions against israel.

They said don’t kill people. How horrible of them.

I don’t think “tunnels are under houses” is the defense you think it is for bombing people and displacing them. Nor bombing a school. A university. A mosque. A church. A synagogue. A refugee camp. A hospital. An ambulance. A journalist. But like okay.

israelis have been mandated to serve in the IOF once they turn 18 for years and I’ve never seen them complain about the Palestinians they kill, beat, or falsely imprison. And considering they keep electing governments who repeatedly have expressed their desire to annihilate Gaza, I think I know what they’re feeling. Also the telegram chat with them laughing about the martyred babies. Also them chanting to flatten Gaza. Also them calling for another nakba (while denying the first existed). Also them chanting ‘Death to Arabs’. Like idk I think I get it.

There are 4. israel bombed the one in Egypt. Saying “they should’ve left if they didn’t want to die” isn’t the dunk you think it is lol. Why do they have to leave for you to not kill them? And why should they leave when they know they won’t be allowed to return?

No, I stand by it they’re dropping bombs for funsies. The government said they’re going for a genocide. Some IOF soldiers admitted to not caring about precision. Bombing them *as* they were leaving also seems like dropping bombs for funsies.

Also, lol, no we left this bullshit deflection years ago. I said zionists. I said israelis. You do not get to out words in my mouth and say I said Jewish people.

I provided instagram accounts with actual footage from the people of Palestine and Gaza :). Those accounts do, in fact, have the video I reference where a settler with a gun walks right up to a Palestinian group and shoots one right in the stomach. I thought nothing justified murder?🤔 Lol, no, the settlers have been armed since forever and even then. Hamas isn’t outside Gaza. Who are you arming the settlers for? Palestinians not ruled by Gaza? Mmkay.

4 Palestinians in the West Bank were killed the day prior to the attack. Nearly 300 the whole year. You tear gassed and attacked Muslims in Masjid Al-Aqsa over some bs excuse. You shot a fucking two year old. Let’s not.

“Appalling how your lies run for so long” take a hike babe. People are dying as we speak I’m not debating the value of their lives with a freak who thinks they deserve to die because *checks notes* they didn’t leave their home and everything they’ve ever known.

And again the tag says “mine”. Like no babe this is mine. Stealing land and tumblr posts smh 🙄.

For the last time :)

It is not a neutral “conflict”. Palestinians don’t have:

an army

police officers littered around the streets fighting off attacking settlers

$3.8B funding from the US

bomb shelters

homes (hello they’re being evicted and bombed?)

immediate access to medical care (settlers are blocking ambulances and throwing grenades)

citizen acknowledgement from the government that supposedly wants to help them

means of defending themselves

the right to properly mourn (a funeral was recently attacked by settlers)

justice

Anyone who chooses to claim neutrality is choosing to claim the side of genocide. Neutral = complicit. The number of Palestinian deaths remains staggering and I promise, the occupying state’s numbers are nothing compared to it. Thousands more deaths and fatalities have occurred to the Palestinian people. When the death toll defers by roughly 9,000, I think it’s safe to say that the situation isn’t neutral.*

I repeat, if you are neutral, you side with genocide.

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As a bonus:

[brick-van-dyke]

Okay, for those who say "abolish the police is unrealistic and stupid" or "well if we just get rid of the bad ones it'll be okay", I have some stories to tell from the last year of rallying for Palestine that'll probably make you think twice about these pig bastards in blue.

First and foremost, let me just start by saying the worst thing: they have threatened literal children for having brown skin. Yeah, you read that correctly, literal fucking children who are like 12 or 13 years old because they were at a rally and weren't in the centre of it enough, so they thought it'd be easier to target someone small and vulnerable. And this isn't the first time they've targeted people.

Let's start with some context first. A group of locals have been protesting the decisions of a steel manufacturer that has been proven to (in fact it says it on their official website and their employees have bragged about it) sell the steel they temper to Israel's weapons and defence industry where they have, provably with evidence, used said steel for tank armour and bulldozer parts in the IOF. The tanks are used in the genocide on Palestinians and the bulldozers are used in Gaza and he West Bank currently to flatten land and get it ready for Israeli settlers. We have local Palestinians who live here who have voiced concern for this being done essentially in their own backyard and community. In my local area, there have been protests since October last year against Israel's response to Oct 7 and calling for a ceasefire. This has developed over the course of their escalation of violence to call for an end to the apartheid state and to call out our governments complicity. This includes speeches and marches set on the same day each week, as well as other actions like pickets as complicit manufacturing companies and shooting local university encampments.

I've never liked the police, but I've never hated and feared them like how I have this year. My main criticism was that they're used in social and health issues when there's no need for them to be there, especially since the only contact I've had with them until the above have been purely due to my mental health issues and having had them called on me which left me more intimidated by the idea of having them there for a mental health emergency rather than feeling helped. I was able to get help luckily, but not because of them, rather, the ambulance, social workers and psychologists who actually sorted out the situation. Admittedly, I was also intimidated due to how many stories of violence I've heard from fellow disabled people and how many news stories have come out recently of police becoming violent towards mentally ill people in particular, poor people (especially the homeless) and drug users. While I've heard of stories from friends, I never saw them act up face to face in a way that really made me hate or fear them. That changed when I saw how they treated people with darker skin.

"You're free to have your opinion, but you can't cause disruptions and you have to respect the law". On its own, that sounds reasonable. But you need to understand that this was a police constable saying this to a group of Palestinian mothers, fathers and their children, local community members who consisted of the elderly, disabled and, again, children and young people, who had only just arrived at the site of a planned action that had been given the go ahead by the police. They were not inside said industrial site and were standing around on the grass and cement path that led to the gates. For those unaware, the purpose of a picket is to block the entrance of a given place in protest of their conduct or the higher ups' decisions.

While yes, there are asome blurred lines between trespassing, disruption and the legal allowance and right to protest, the police were well aware of the nature of this event being a picket and had formally allowed it to ahead. There was no notice of a move on order nor any indication that the picket had been called off. This was 100% a tactic to intimidate people into compliance and to essentially say "well I don't like it so you can't protest even though you're fully in your right to". Using the blurred lines between that right and a move on order being binding to claim we were in the wrong was essentially something this guy wanted to wave in front of us to say "we can do what we want, so don't push your luck". During the picket, they made a point of trying to walk around near kids or disabled people and generally look intimidating, they passed up and down, but ultimately left since too many people turned up to the protest and they couldn't arrest 200 or more people with just five police officers and no paddy wagon.

And this is the more minor case for things they've been shitty with. This is more to give an idea of the type of mindset that leads to the next part.

For the weekly protests, we've always had the ability to formally protest as per our right and through an official permit to do so. Last week, that changed after a new constable joined the force and decided that he didn't like anyone protesting (it's unclear if he meant that in relation to being pro Palestine or in general). So, despite our protests being permitted, he initially claimed that that there aren't enough police generally to keep up with protests weekly, then changed it to the claim that there weren't enough to counter the rise in terror threats (this was changed when the ACO raised the national terror threat, knowing full well there's been no change to these protests and we've been entirely peaceful and non violent). Over the last few weeks, they'd come really close to us and march beside us as if we were going to act up at any moment (this has never happened in the 10 months we've been here but suddenly they think we'll start being violent one day after 10 months for some reason). They then outright stopped the road blocking and ordered us to only use the sidewalk. Even then, they decided at the start of the march that they would change which way we would go and stopped us from going on certain pathways. There was no actually meaning in doing so since all the sidewalks were the same and the direction we took for the march didn't really matter. That being said, it was very clear that they wanted to be aggressive and that they wanted more control over the march, so they began to direct us in a direction we actually hadn't agreed on before hand (in previous weeks there had been discussions between them and our police liaison who would determine which route we would take and then organise accordingly). At the end of the rally, they then picked off a young man at the back and surrounded him, demanding to search him. He was just a young guy, maybe a late teen or young adult who seemed really timid. He didn't do anything suspicious at all, but apparently "acted suspicious" on account of "mental issues" (which is already a shit reasons to demand to search someone, I'd know), but he was also visibly Arab. He had nothing on him and he was let go, but this was so obviously a case of racial profiling and the fact they just chose a random Arab person who was at the back enough to harass? Yeah that speaks volume as to what sort of people are "defending" law and order here.

Then comes this week rally and I think this is definitively what filled me with hate towards them. I didn't like them and I've always felt intimidated by them before, and I never trusted them, but this? This made me despise them. At the end of this week's march, we gathered around for a final round of speeches. During this, the police that aggressively matched right next to us had gone off and targeted a young girl, about 12 years old I think, and her mother. The two were trying to get away and, thankfully, there were enough people around to protect them, but the police wanted to interrogate them and particularly talked to the little girl. Did I mention the two wee Arab, but the girl had darker skin than her mother? Yeah. Pretty goddamn fucked up right?

What really surprised me though, both last week and this week, were how not surprised every other Arab person at the rally was and how much they didn't panic. They knew what to do. They were there before anyone could even think. And each time the people harassed bounced back as if nothing happened. So maybe this is just me overthinking, but it seemed to me this wasn't new behaviour.

Several things stand out to me from all of this:

Police are consistently entitled. Everything they do is "allowed" because they're law enforcement, so anything goes. Maybe "not all police" feel this way specifically, but the role itself is one that allows, on a systematic level, to feel in control of others and enables them to feel comfortable doing abhorrent things to those they view as beneath them.

The racism and ableism in their ranks are systemic, widespread and consistent. This isn't abnormal behaviour for them and it's not something a "nice cop" can prevent, not when the apical structure of our society is one that thrives off of black and brown suffering. Arabs are nothing but a terrorist until proven "not a terrorist yet", this goes for children as well. Every black person is a "might be" criminal. But white people? They're given the most grace, but if they think a person in "beneath" them (for example a disabled or elderly person), then anything goes.

They actively seek out aggression and try to start things to make arrests. It's very clear that the idea of someone lashing out against them is a positive, if not even the entire point, of their being there. Consistently, the majority of police officers have tried to purposely start a fight or tried to aggregate protesters. Consistently, they try to target black/ brown people, queer people, children, the elderly, disabled and other vulnerable populations. They are there to feel powerful and have the opportunity to enforce that power in a violent confrontation, not to protect anyone. Maybe there are some who aren't, but the vast majority have acted to the contrary of "wanting peace".

All those targeted by the police are those who "look" disabled, mentally ill, like they're on drugs or like they're poor. All of these are health and social issues that need attention from social and healthcare workers, not a force that evidently thrives off of aggression and control.

All in all, I think it's very clear that law enforcement are both an unnecessary and dangerous force. Every instance of police led force has led to harm to vulnerable populations who needed help from social workers and services or healthcare services. it's evident that those who are seen as "dangerous" by police (and likely by society) are those who actually need the most support and oftentimes a minority who is being profiled as dangerous for being part of a marginalised group.

[masterkirby]

"Ambulance" Mohamed Jabaly 2014

key takeaways from the film & post film talk with Ewa Jasiewicz and Ala Qandil who have been doing activist and reporter work in Gaza since at least 2006

🍉 2014 seems like a testing ground for how far IOF could get with atrocities; first bombings of hospitals, UNRWA schools & targeting medical personnel

🍉 collective punishment after 2006, shooting at farmers in the fields, targeting fishermen with water turrets, bulldozing trees and homes

🍉 the scale of kidnapping Palestinian men and keeping them in prison without a trial is unthinkable; so much so that being put in an Israeli prison has become a kind of a twisted rite of passage

🍉 lots of prisoners released for one IOF soldier, so hostages

🍉 the spoon a symbol of resistance after a group of prisoners broke out using spoons

🍉 Ala, who is Polish-Palestinian, was calling for us to remember that Palestinians are not just victims and that seeing them as such is also dehumanising; we shouldn't romanticise their plight. She told us how she knew both amazing people from Gaza and amazingly awful people, as in every community; and that there is or at least was a whole social and class structure to Gaza, places where certain groups of people, like intellectuals, would hang out

🍉 She told us of how the economy was destroyed by the blockade and by the 2014 attack, how many of the people who lost everything in the bombing had no way of getting up, how many people fell into despair and there were more suicides

🍉 and how the Great March of Return was so despairingly sad in a way because their old homes were just beyond the wall, and lots of people already lost everything in their homes after the displacement, all over again...

🍉 and how she was there and bullets were flying past her

🍉 and the IOF was shooting at them like "at ducks", to calque the Polish expression, at the crowd who might have sometimes thrown rocks or burnt a tyre, but that was nothing against the tanks and armour they had

🍉 and how she remembers when the first espresso bar opened and how coffee places were becoming popular

🍉 and how no place feels so good at living as Gaza

🍉 and how well educated the people of Gaza are but how much of that potential is lost to the international community by imprisoning them in Gaza Strip

🍉 both Ala and Ewa agreed that it's unprecedented that no foreign reporters are allowed in; so in the past on ground reporters were able to verify various events for the international community and now they can't

🍉 and Ewa, the activist, talked about how the "whiteness passport" was also losing its power over the years

🍉 that they used to publicly state they'll be riding in ambulances so that the IOF wouldn't shoot at them or they felt comfortable standing in front of tank; but then Rachel Corrie was killed and other activists and it became increasingly hard to get into Gaza

🍉 Ewa got to Gaza by boat 5 times

🍉 Ala told us about how the beach was the one place of rest and breath in the overcrowded Gaza Strip, even if the sea is foul there because Israel won't let in a team to fix the sewers

🍉 a member of the audience spoke out about boycotting Cinema City and Super-Pharm and some food concern I still have to check because I didn't catch the name

🍉 as I remember more things from the talk I'll update this post

🍉 links to projects by Ala:

🇵🇸 https://obliteratedfamilies.com/

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and Ewa:

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🇵🇸 [pl] https://www.polskieradio.pl/24/112/Artykul/315054,Wstrzasajace-swiadectwo-ze-Strefy-Gazy

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[thethief1996]

Updates on Palestine: June 27th 2021

On the 15th, Israel returned to bombing Gaza during the ceasefire. Two days after, they bombed Gaza again, leaving more than 100.000 people without homes.

Israel has been blackmailing Hamas and other Palestinian leaderships in Gaza, saying they will only let Palestine resume fishing, reopen its borders and let Qatar financially aid them in exchange for political prisoners.

Israel has imposed stricter import restrictions on Palestine, including the import of raw materials, what's directly affecting Palestine's industry and leaving hundreds on job insecurity. Note that Gaza's borders are all tightly controlled by either Israel or Egypt in a blockade (hence why it's called an open air prison)

Because of the 14 year old blockade, Israel doesn't let construction goods in Gaza under the guise it can be used for military purposes. Over 100.000 displaced Palestinians have no material to reconstruct their homes and have to repurpose debris, while some of them are uncertain to rebuild at all under the political climate

A timeline of Nizar Banat's murder and protests

June 24th: Nizar Banat, an outspoken critic of the Palestinian Authority, had his home raided by PA security forces at 3:30 AM, was taken to an unknown location and killed. The body was hidden from the family. Preliminary autopsies say the cause of death was unnatural and he took blows to the head

Still about Banat's murder, his home is in an part of the West Bank occupied by Israel, meaning that the PA couldn't coordinate the attack without help of the Israeli government

To understand better who Banat was and the relationship of Palestinians with the PA, here's an article

Palestinians came together to protest and were met with heavy backlash, being teargassed, beaten with sticks and brutalized by plainclothes officers

Trigger warning for police brutality: here's two videos showing the protestors being repressed by the police

June 25th: Dozens of Palestinians turn up to Banat's funeral to protest and are heavily repressed.

The PA brings an unconscious Palestinian to the ER of the Palestinian Medical Complex and closes off the building for other injured

Three lawyers were arrested by the PA

June 26th: Hundreds of protesters gathered in Ramallah demanding that the PA's president resign. Once again they were heavily repressed

Seven Palestinian journalists were brutally beaten by PA officers in plainclothes and uniform alike. Their names are: Shatha Hammad, Saja Al-Alami, Mohammed Ghafri, Najlaa Zeitoon, Fayhaa Khanfar

Here's a graphic video of a PA officer in plainclothes brutalizing Najlaa Zeitoon

Here's a graphic video of the PA dragging an injured protestor down a street

June 27th: PA cuts off internet access in Ramallah.

PA police attacked a group of twenty women trying to keep each other safe. Right now, Palestinian youth are protesting, without knowing if a plainclothes officer or Fatah loyalist will brutalize them with no way of communicating

About Beita

Israel is building a new settlement in Beita, on the West Bank (I want it to be very clear it's not Israeli land either by 1948 or 1967 accords, it's an invasion even to the most liberal person)

Beita has been raided by settlers for weeks now, with deaths, including children, and injured. IOF has been shooting and stopping ambulances coming to aid.

Beita heavily depends on its olive groves, and over 100 olive saplings were burned and older trees chopped down

Residents have come together in something they call night confusion units, where they honk horns, burn tyres and use laser lights to bother settlers. This is what's being compared to the Charlottesville nazis by zionists.

About Sheikh Jarrah

Sheikh Jarrah residents are still being beaten and brutalized for months now. Settlers have thrown stones at palestinians and pepper sprayed four children, leaving 20 hurt, all with cover of the IOF.

Israelis have started fires in Sheikh Jarrah

Here's a graphic video of the IOF choking a resident and beating another (26/06)

The IOF has been abducting people in Sheikh Jarrah by the dozens. Today, they arrested two members of the Abdulatif family, including a 16 year old and two women of the El Qasem family, after making sexual comments to humiliate them

They've also detained Bashar Yaish, a resident from Sheikh Jarrah, for no reason, being released hours later. It can't be more clear theyre doing this to break palestinians' spirits.

Mohammed El Kurd was almost arrested again, while other residents have been arrested for recording the streets of Sheikh Jarrah, under charges of "Tiktok"

About Silwan

Today's the last day before the demolition of Silwan. Over 1500 palestinians have been threatened by the Israeli government to either destroy their own homes or pay the government to destroy it for them

The Bustan neighborhood will be demolished to make space for a biblical park. This thread by Mohammed El Kurd of how this is a systemic excuse to displace palestinians

They've renamed Silwan with a hebrew name in anticipation, attempting to erase them

Not only are the people of Beita, Silwan, Sheikh Jarrah, Gaza and so on being made homeless, they're made homeless in a place where they can't build homes elsewhere and are being systemically repressed, starved and driven out. Be angry and amplify Palestinian voices. Follow Palestinians like Mohammed El Kurd, Linah Al Saafin, Mariam Barghouti and Al Shabaka and share their voices. To quote @/princessmlokhia on twitter, they will demolish these homes if they believe they can do so quietly.

Also found this petition to support Huda, a pakistani student who was harrassed for calling students to learn about Palestine. Feel free to add more

[workersolidarity]

[the moment a young man was shot in the al-Fara'a camp during the occupation army's raid of the occupied West Bank city of Tubas Friday]

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💥ISRAELI OCCUPATION ARMY STORMS THE WEST BANK CITY OF TUBAS IN VIOLENT RAIDS💥

📹 Scenes from the shooting of a young Palestinian man after occupation forces raided the al-Fara'a Camp in the West Bank city of Tubas Friday.

The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) stormed the al-Fara'a camp at approximately 9:30am [local time], operating in the camp for about 4 hours in total, with several rounds of back-up forces entered the camp shortly after the storming began.

The occupation army dispatched its forces from the Hamra military checkpoint on the outskirts of Tubas, deploying snipers on the rooftops of a number of buildings in and around the al-Fara'a Camp.

Violent clashes took place after the occupier arrived. Occupation Forces surrounded the home of Palestinian citizen Fares Sawalma, demanding a group of young men inside the home surrender to the occupation army.

Soon after, IOF soldiers fired ENERGA anti-tank rifle grenades into the besieged residential home, and later arrested the four sons of Fares Sawalma: Falah, Mujahid, Abd, and Aziz Sawalma.

At least one person was shot in the hand and later arrested inside the ambulance addressing his injuries.

Occupation soldiers also wounded two other young men, firing live bullets at them, hitting one of the young men in the chest and the second in his lower torso before being taken to the Turkish hospital in Tubas to receive treatment for their injuries.

Another Palestinian citizen, Mahmoud Ahmed Shubaki, was arrested by occupation soldiers during the raid, bringing the number of detained Palestinian hostages in the raid to six.

Two drones were also shot down during the operation, however it is unclear to whom the drones belonged or who shot them down, though it was likely an occupation drone shot down by local citizens or resistance forces in the area.

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@WorkerSolidarityNews