#unsc army

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Warhound RDF-- Pike Element-- Pike 1-2

UNSC army unit

[halopedia]

Lore Thursday — UNSC Army

Tasked with the defense of UEG colonies and the long-term occupation of enemy territory, the UNSC Army maintains land, maritime, and airborne forces. The Army is also involved with civil works in support of other UNSC branches.

[sayruq]

The US, on 29 February, vetoed a UN Security Council (UNSC) statement that would have condemned Israel for the mass murder of over 100 Palestinian civilians who were awaiting the delivery of humanitarian aid in Gaza City. “We don’t have all the facts on the ground – that’s the problem,” US deputy ambassador to the UN Robert Wood told reporters on Thursday. He then claimed there are “contradictory reports” about the Israeli army's latest massacre and highlighted that Washington was focused on finding “some language that everyone can agree on.” Thursday's veto is the fifth time Washington has blocked a UNSC statement or ceasefire resolution that would hold Israel accountable for the atrocities it has committed in Gaza.

[agentfascinateur]

Private Military Contractors (PMC) are the problem, not the solution

Bad idea. A world full of Erik Princes and you will have neo-colonialist zealots who can't win a war upending governance, sovereignty and diplomacy. 🤦🏻‍♀️

[tvckerwash]

I personally like carwash half siblings that don't know they're related, and in this specific scenario wash is actually the older sibling (bc he is most likely older than carolina in canon based off the washed hands interview lol).

allison had wash before her and the director were a thing (or they were on an extended break or something lol) but since she was so early on in her military career she didn't want a kid yet, so she gave wash's dad full custody of wash immediately after his birth and then peaced out back to earth.

she never told leonard about wash, and it's by chance that 2 decades later when he's going over potential recruits for pfl with price that he sees wash's picture and just stops because he's memorized allison's face and he sees the ghost of it in this random ass guy. he has her smirk, her nose, and he even bleaches his hair the same shade of blonde allison bleached hers.

so he does a little digging under the guise of a standard background check, and he discovers that this young man has allison's violent temper, her strong beliefs, her long memory, and during price's interview with the him, he learns that he's a hell of a lot smarter and far more aware of whats happening around him than he makes himself out to be, just like allison was.

so the director chooses david to be one of the 50 recruits for his experimental program in spite of price's hesitancy—the young man is more than qualified skill wise, and his circumstances will work greatly in their favor (or that's what he tells himself at least).

one secret dna test later thanks to the standard medical evaluation upon entering freelancer, and he confirms what he's suspected for the last year or so: david is allison's child, and much like with his own daughter, the director is determined to hold on to this fragment of allison.

carwash sibs is such a funny concept bc there's absolutely nothing in show that even slightly suggests wash and lina are possibly related, but we all just kinda went "haha but what if they were siblings?!?!" and went from there

[hero-israel]

DECOLONIZE PALESTINE!

White Eurocentrists are working overtime to colonize Middle Eastern politics, undermine national sovereignty and the rule of law, and make wars longer and deadlier.

The whole point of the ICC's existence is that it can intervene in countries that don't have independent court systems. In addition to Israel not being a party to the ICC anyway, past ICC leaders have said the Israeli court system is perfectly capable of prosecuting their own criminals - it isn't like some anarchic ex-Libyan splinter-statelet or eastern European dictatorship where all the judges are just store mannequins with the leader's face on them. Netanyahu is under active criminal indictment, his judicial overhaul FAILED. For the ICC to step in anyway completely undercuts their own value proposition and reason for existence, and also makes clear that having an independent court system doesn't matter at all AND ISN'T WORTH FIGHTING FOR. But, uhhhh, people should totally still act like their judgments are morally serious!

And then a bunch of Europeans went and "recognized" Palestine, even though Palestine does not have control of its borders, does not have unified leadership, does not have a monopoly of force... what the fuck are they "recognizing"? Why don't they just give a Grammy Award to Palestine as being the best new album? They are corroding language to a point where it means utterly nothing, but expecting us to take it seriously all the same. Oh and they "recognize" Palestine on the "pre-1967 borders," which don't exist, because the armistice - WHICH WAS INTERNATIONAL LAW - flatly says the armistice lines are not national borders and that national borders can only be established by direct negotiations. Europeans ignore the international law set up by Middle Easterners so they can center the process around themselves. (Flashback to COVID vaccine controversy: the international law signed between Israel and Palestine says the latter is responsible for its own vaccines, but Europeans want everybody to talk about the laws signed in Switzerland).

Right after Trump won in 2016, the Obama Administration signed off on a UNSC resolution saying all Israeli presence beyond the armistice line was illegal - thus totally abandoning the "land swaps" framework that all sides had acknowledged for 30+ years. Who could ever expect a Palestinian to negotiate a land swap ever again once the UNSC and USA all agree that Israel is entitled to nothing? This will make future negotiations HARDER and a future state LESS LIKELY. It is blindingly obvious that if Hillary Clinton had won, USA would never have gone along with such a revision; instead, Obama went panic-shopping for a symbolic victory at any price.

Europe - and, sorry to say, the last few Democratic U.S. presidents - is very clearly sending a message to Palestine: "You will never have to negotiate, just hold out longer and keep fighting and dying more." And also sending a message to Israel: "You can never trust a signed legal agreement, we will undermine any arrangement you make with Palestine." This toxic internationalism leaves peace even less likely.

If Europeans and "peace processors" really want to free Palestine, let them send their armies into Gaza and wipe out Hamas to the last man, seize all the weapons and crush all the tunnels, and help stabilize a new unified Palestinian leadership. That is the ONLY intervention they could attempt that would possibly help at all.

[grif-hawaiian-rolls]

Random Chorus headcanons i wanna write out so i dont forget em, part 1:

-The average height of chorusans is on the shorter side of human average height- you have more people who are under 5’8 than over, and very few people who are 6ft or more

- the height skew is partially because of the gravity on chorus being slightly different from earth, not really enough to be Noticed especially in an age where artificial gravity and space travel are common but Enough to cause a slight leaning in the graphs of averages (chorusans also tend to be stronger than your average human from earth because of this too! Little wins)

-its also due to the food and nutrients available to the isolated colony at war with itself like thats a given. The people of chorus aren’t malnourished, mind, but the exact ratios of certain vitamins and proteins and shit weren’t in their “ideals” the way they would be for a more regulated inner colony or a even an outer colony with more consistent imports

-Andersmith is an outlier at a solid 6ft tall, and he knows this, and its part of why he works so hard to be Eloquent and Well Spoken, bc its hard for people to dismiss you as the dumb muscle when you talk like you have three degrees in literature (his in-progress history degree that got interrupted and put on hold when he joined the New Republic is Not related to this, he’s just Like That)

-The age range in the Federal Army of Chorus is a good 5-6 years older than the range in the New Republic— shocker, the rebels are the teenagers and young adults fed up with the existing system and challenging it while even the more sympathetic feds are older and working within the system to the best they can

-again, outliers are a thing but broad strokes, broad strokes

-the Federal Army has a ridiculous categorizing system and requisition forms for everything. Yes those two fed in s13 were being assholes to Kimball about it to bc they didnt have any respect for her, but it is a genuine thing (theres normally just the understanding of doing the paperwork later when a commanding officer snaps at you. They weren’t treating her like a commanding officer) Simmons would have drooled if he had seen it I think. It’s color coordinated!

-Lopez was the only one of the reds and blues who actually learned this system. Donut, Sarge and Wash all kinda half assed it and got either Lopez or one of the Feds they worked with to do the actual paperwork for stuff…. which is to say, Anton and Lopez did the paperwork, and Neko sat with them and translated Lopez’s spanish into english when he felt like it (the armory got really good at figuring out what the spanish words for certain weapons and munition were because Neko is half assed as a translator at best)

-theres actually a decent number of non-native english speakers on Chorus! The number of them that have spanish as their first language is… laughably small. Lopez cannot catch a break, sorry buddy

-French is one of the more common native languages, along side English! Followed by Italian and then Portuguese and Mandarin Chinese (theyre tied)

-Chorus has an insane pizza scene post civil war. Second only to the pastry culture. Grif would singlehandedly fund them both if he could. He certainly tries

-MRE and field rations like jerky are still pretty stable foods regardless of culinary exploits, because it’s both easy and familiar. Its gonna take a while for Chorus to get back on its feet in terms of self sufficient farming again, but honestly having access to the alien temples now really really helps

-Chorus adopts a bit more Sangheili/Forerunner culture than most human colonies because of said temples, and bc Santa is straight up helping them rebuild their government with President Kimball— plus as they are technically neutral, not part of the UNSC/UEC/whatever the fuck its called, they have a bit more freedom in how they deal with aliens diplomatically and politically (Tucker hates his job as a human-sangheili diplomat so much. He’s supposed to be retired damn it) (the alternative is leaving it to Santa alone though, so Tucker does it and just whines about it in true Tucker fashion)

-I’m a firm believer in Chorus having WACK wildlife, but also i think its funniest if its also like, a lot closer to earth than you’d expect??? Theres still like spider wasps that both bite and sting with a venom that paralyzes your lungs and you slowly suffocate to death— but their natural predator is just… a normal fucking bird. It looks like a big ass pigeon with gills, so the lung paralyzer doesn’t work on it or some shit idk

-SANTA’S TEMPLES ARENT THE ONLY ONES - look. Look. Hear me out. Santa’s true warrior temple system isnt alone, it just survived the best. Thats why it has such a weird range from like the PURGE to just Long Distance Call to Everyone to Interior Decorating. There were other temples that required a different “test” like the Gateway to gain access to them. The Great Key is still the skeleton key to all of them but not all of them demand a True Warrior of Strength and Clarity. Most of them are hella busted tho; and didn’t survive the tests of time but that just means theyre more prone to Shenanigans if you do find and trigger them

-Santa is hella integrated into a lot of Chorus’ tech. It wasn’t super intentional, honestly, but a lot of what they’re working with otherwise is outdated, gerry-rigged and field stripped to hell and back. Santa’s set up get referenced because it is the best maintained form of accessible (when he’s feeling generous enough to share blueprints and not annoyed with being roped into things that are Not His Job) tech to build off of as theyre repairing and updating infrastructure, and that overlap in how it works means he can really easily access a lot of stuff! Which would be concerning! If he cared. But he doesn’t so, no one has bothered to figure out a work around

-there’s also a lot of coding and programs that read and sound like Epsilon’s work because… a lot of them are? Theyre based on shit he left behind, both intentionally and on accident (look he meant to delete that one code but he just didn’t get around to it okay? He has other shit going on) and again even the ones that aren’t Epsilon’s doing, theyre built by chorusans to communicate with his and are often based off of his as a reference for how to make it work, so he’s part of Chorus now too in a way that’s really bitter sweet! He left behind more of a legacy than he ever realized

[workersolidarity]

[ 📹 Scenes of carnage and horror following another Israeli occupation airstrike on the tents of displaced Palestinian families in the so-called "safe area" of Al-Mawasi, where civilians are being directed by the occupation. The bombing occurred shortly before publishing, where a number of civilians were killed, including women, and others wounded in the strike. ]

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235 DAYS OF GENOCIDE IN GAZA: ISRAELI OCCUPATION FORCES HAMMER RAFAH OVERNIGHT, DISPLACE THOUSANDS MORE CIVILIANS, UNRWA: OVER A MILLION DISPLACED FROM RAFAH, NEW TENT MASSACRE KILLS 16, ALL HOSPITALS IN THE RAFAH AREA CLOSED, SECURITY COUNCIL TO MEET OVER ISRAELI ATTACKS ON RAFAH

On 235th day of the Israeli occupation's ongoing special genocide operation in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) committed a total of 5 new massacres of Palestinian families, resulting in the deaths of no less than 46 Palestinian civilians, mostly women and children, while another 110 others were wounded over the previous 24-hours.

It should be noted that as a result of the constant Israeli bombardment of Gaza's healthcare system, infrastructure, residential and commercial buildings, local paramedic and civil defense crews are unable to recover countless hundreds, even thousands, of victims who remain trapped under the rubble, or who's bodies remain strewn across the streets of Gaza.

This leaves the official death toll vastly undercounted, as Gaza's healthcare officials are unable to accurately tally those killed and maimed in this genocide, which must be kept in mind when considering the scale of the mass murder.

Member-state Algeria called a meeting of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) after the occurrence of the "Khiam massacre", when, over the weekend, Israeli warplanes fired several missiles which exploded into a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (UNRWA) camp for displaced families in Gaza's southernmost city of Rafah, resulting in a conflagration among resident's tents that took the lives of around 50 Palestinian civilians, mostly women and children, and wounded 250 others.

The UNSC will meet in a closed-door session at the request of Algeria to discuss the situation in Rafah, and the latest Israeli massacre in the Governate.

The massacre comes just days after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague ordered an "immediate halt" to any and all Israeli operations in the Rafah Governate, and ordered the Israeli occupation to cease actions which could inflict on Palestinians "conditions of life that could bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part."

The Israeli occupation, for its part, continues to ignore the ICJ orders, deploying yet another brigade to Rafah today, the Bislamach Brigade, belonging to the School for Infantry Corps Professions and Squad Commanders during War Time, which joins the other Brigades of the 162nd Division operating in the Rafah area since earlier this month.

The additional brigade was deployed along the "Philadelphi Corridor" overnight, which will attack so-called "terrorist infrastructure" in the Rafah Governate.

According to the Israeli occupation army, troops belonging to the Bislamach Brigade located "tunnels, weapons and killed numerous [Resistance] operatives in the Rafah area."

In other news, Ireland has joined Norway and Spain in officially recognizing a Palestinian state today, implementing the decision by the three states issued last week.

The three countries hope their recognition of Palestinian statehood may excellerate a peaceful resolution to the war, and the eventual implementation of a two-state solution.

In a statement, the Irish government said "The Government recognises Palestine as a sovereign and independent state and agreed to establish full diplomatic relations between Dublin and Ramallah."

“An Ambassador of Ireland to the State of Palestine will be appointed along with a full Embassy of Ireland in Ramallah," the statement said.

"This decision of Ireland is about keeping hope alive. It is about believing that a two-state solution is the only way for Israel and Palestine to live side by side in peace and security,” the statement added, concluding with "I again call on Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel to listen to the world and stop the humanitarian catastrophe we are seeing in Gaza.”

In more news, the UNRWA said on Tuesday that approximately one million Palestinians have now been displaced from the Rafah over the past couple weeks as the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) intensified airstrikes and shelling on Gaza's southernmost Governate.

"This happened with no safe place to go amid the bombing, food and water shortages, and piles of waste," the UNRWA said in a statement.

The organization for Palestinian refugees emphasized that providing assistance or protections has become almost impossible in the Gaza Strip as Israeli attacks continue.

Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation committed a new tent massacre over Monday night, bombing civilian tents in the vicinity of the UNRWA barracks in the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood, northwest of Rafah, resulting in the deaths of another 16 civilians and wounding a number of others.

Initial reporting put the number of deaths at 7 in the strike, however, updates have since revised that number upwards, to 16 killed, and dozens of others wounded.

Bombing and shelling hammered the Rafah Governate overnight, hitting various homes and sites, resulting in several casualties, while thousands of civilians were forced to leave their homes and shelters to escape the occupation's American-made shells.

As a result of the intensifying bombing and shelling campaign in the Rafah Governate, all hospitals in Rafah are now out of service, with the sole exception being the Tal al-Sultan Maternity Hospital, which struggles to stay open under the continued blockade and bombing of the city.

Since the start of the Israeli assault on Rafah, 6 hospitals in the area have been forced to close under intense bombardment, including Abu Youssef Al-Najjar Hospital, the Abu Al-Walid Central Clinic, the Rafah Field Hospital, the Kuwait Specialized Hospital, the Indonesian Field Hospital, and the Tal al-Sultan Clinic.

At the same time, occupation bombing and shelling effected areas across the Gaza Strip, pummeling areas of Gaza City, the Bureij Camp, and the Jabalia Camp, along with several other neighborhoods.

Local medical sources said that a number of civilians were killed, including several children, while others were wounded, after the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) bombed a house belonging to the Aqel family in the Bureij Refugee Camp, in the central Gaza Strip.

At least two more citizens were killed, and a number of others wounded, following an Israeli air raid on another house in the Bureij Camp, while IOF fighter jets bombed a residential home belonging to the Al-Ghussein family, in the Al-Daraj neighborhood of Gaza City, killing two more Palestinians.

In another criminal attack, occupation forces bombed a tent for the displaced belonging to the Abu Jarad family at the UNRWA barracks gate in the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood, west of the city of Rafah, killing at least three civilians and wounding several others.

Another bombing in Rafah City killed a young man last night, while occupation artillery shelling and gunfire targeted various areas of the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood.

Yet another war crime occurred with the occupation's bombing of the upper floors of the Indonesian Hospital in the same neighborhood of Rafah.

Dozens of civilians were also displaced by the bombing of the Zionist army in the vicinity of local shelters, camps, schools and the Tal al-Sultan Clinic, all of which were struck by occupation shells.

IOF warplanes further bombed a residential apartment west of Rafah, killing a civilian and injuring another, while several other homes and apartments were also targeted in occupation shelling.

Violent bombing also targeted in the vicinity of the Zoroub roundabout, in the city of Rafah, coinciding with sounds of gunfire and tank shelling, while occupation aircraft buzzed overhead in between the sounds of exploding munitions.

Families were seen fleeing the city at sunrise, fearing the bombs and missiles flying overhead, migrating towards coastal areas of Khan Yunis, and moving other areas in southern and central Gaza, and towards the west of Deir al-Balah.

Zionist army tanks and armored vehicles were also seen advancing towards the Zoroub roundabout area, while occupation forces were also seen excavating inside the Zoroub cemetery in Rafah, while continuing to fire machine guns, along with tank and artillery shells into the city.

Occupation artillery shelling also targeted Haret Tabasi, Barika, Zaarub, Al-Zar Street, the Indonesian Hospital, and the Tal al-Sultan Clinic, west of the city of Rafah.

Meanwhile in the north, Israeli fighter jets bombed a gathering of civilians attempting to return to the Al-Faluga area in Jabalia, resulting in several injuries, some serious.

Zionist armored vehicles and tanks stationed along the "Netzarim Corridor" fired dozens of shells towards various neighborhoods of Gaza City, including the Tal al-Hawa, Sheikh Ajlin, Al-Zaytoun, Al-Sabra and Juhr al-Dik neighborhoods.

In another incident, IOF soldiers opened fire near Kamal Adwan Hospital, in the town of Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip, killing at least 6 Palestinians and wounding a number of others, including a doctor with the hospital.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) also reported that three people were murdered and others wounded, following their targeting by the Israeli occupation army in the Al-Iskan Al-Abyad area, west of Rafah.

As a result of the Israeli occupation's ongoing special genocide operation in the Gaza Strip, the death toll in Gaza has risen to exceed 36'096 Palestinians killed, including over 15'000 children and more than 10'000 women, while another 81'136 others have been wounded since the start of the current round of Zionist aggression, beginning with the events of October 7th, 2023.

May 28th, 2024.

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[thecountofs]

Viscount Fyle, acting head of the Vyrant Family and the Commander-In-Chief of the 1st Hildago Army, leading the GPSR against the CMA and later, the fearsome UNSC

[helix-enterprises117]

Halo Reloaded: Master Chief & more about Spartans

Born and raised on Eridanus-II, John Downes was the son of bioengineers and gardeners, who wanted to genetically modify Earth-plants to be sustainable on other planets (everyone, up until this point, had just been using the indigenous plants from the alien worlds they colonized); up until he was taken into the Spartan Program, John attended a school known as "The Reach For Life Foundation," a prestigious upper-class school (that was created on Reach before expanding out to the rest of the galaxy) designed to turn all of it's students into the next generation of pioneers, colonizers and explorers who will bring life into the uncharted reaches of space. Humanity came in contact with The Covenant in the year 2511. The Spartan Program saw production in 2517; most of the Spartans were born in the year 2528, while John Downes was born in the year 2530. That two year gap may as well have been a chasm between him and his brothers-&-sisters-in-arms. But, like in canon, the main reason why John was chosen despite being everyone's junior was because he still exhibited the exact same unique genetic-markers that all of the others do. With John being the youngest, he's needed to prove himself to the others by working and training thrice as hard as everyone else; his angst comes from the fact that, because he's the youngest, he's the most generic one of the group. He's not the fastest (that's Kelly), not the strongest (that's Samuel), not the biggest (that's Jorge), the best combatant (Fred), the best at weaponry (Vannak), the best at demolitions (James), the best shot (both Linda & Kai, who are rivals to each other, beat John out), the smartest (Riz), the best pilot (Daisy), the best at technology (Joshua), the one with the best intuition (Kurt), or the most charismatic leader (Jerome); he's only really impressive in comparison to the standard marine, this angst he faces is something he later comes to accept as he gets older. He eventually embraces his status as 'The Generic One' and becomes the Jack-of-all-trades, the one everyone can lean on for just about anything; the "Swiss-Army Spartan," if you will. They all got augmented, and the rest is history; but it wasn't until Operation SILENT STORM, the Spartans' FIRST mission as Spartans, where John was given the rank of "Master Chief Petty Officer," the highest rank a non-commissioned serviceman in the Navy can attain; he even got his first metal, "The Purple Heart," after he got shot on the line of duty (and survived, obviously). When he was a kid, before being inducted, John had discovered an ancient Forerunner rock (not that anyone knew what it was) that had almost possessed him; his obssession over it resulted in his father forcing John to bury the drawings he made of it in the backyard. The training and conditioning of the Spartan Progran, while not designed to brainwash anyone, did result in John repressing any memory of the rock. In the present (2552), John had discovered a similar rock during an extraction mission on Biko, which brought a terrifying wave of memories back to him; this drives him to rediscover the rock he found as a kid back on Eridanus-II, in cave beneath the abandoned ruins of his father's old Solar-Paneled Garden Field. After some back and forth battles between The UNSC and The Covenant, John is quick to deduce that the rock he found on Biko is a keystone to the artifact that he found as a kid; with two rocks joined together, they create a starmap that leads to the one thing The Covenant had been after this entire time: Halo.

Spartans are much younger here than in canon, being in their early 20s as opposed to being in their 50s like in the show and the games. Their youth, combined with their less traumatizing upbringing, makes them more colorful in their personalities (still professional and their canon personalities are about the same, but they're less sociopathically brusque and terse like in-canon). Super-Soldiers in media are usually portrayed with two major qualities: Extreme Aggression and Complete Obedience. They're designed to be ruthless killers, desensitized to violence, who are more aggressive than the average soldier, as they are more than willing to make the hard-choices and will not stop until their opponents are dead ("They [Spartans] just... keep killing. Until there's nothing. Left. To kill... You in or out?" - Angus; Halo, Season 1 - Episode 1) and the battle is won. As for complete obedience? Well, that's self-explanatory; they are happiest when given an order and only do what's asked of them ("Good soldiers follow orders." - Crosshairs; The Bad-Batch). The Spartans as seen in Halo Reloaded are the opposite. They're trained in: Lateral Thinking, Improvisation and Freestyling. They're very creative, on and off the field, people who are capable of salvaging a busted plan and thinking on their feet in the midst of high-stress situations; which is precisely why they're so good at their jobs, BECAUSE they're not dependant on the word of their superiors. They're less an army of Robocops and moreso an army of Captain Americas. John himself, particularly in his later years at 22, is a more "Commander Shepard' type of person: Swashbuckling, noble, still emotionally guarded but far less traumatized, charismatic (again not as much as Jerome) and often goes with the flow. He's still much more brusque and aggressive in comparison to the other more lively Spartans (the others often call him "the mean one"), but he's still as nice and compassionate as he's always been.

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[opencommunion]

"Israeli troops shot and killed six Palestinians and injured dozens who were waiting for food aid near the Kuwait Roundabout in Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip, late on 13 March. Videos and images circulating social media show dead and injured Palestinians sprawled across an aid delivery truck. 

The attack came hours after at least five Palestinians were killed and several injured by Israeli army shelling on a UNRWA aid distribution center in the Gaza Strip’s southernmost city of Rafah.

Israel has repeatedly attacked aid centers and starving Palestinians lined up for food in recent days. 

The attack on the UNRWA center in Rafah came one day after Israeli forces opened fire at dozens of Palestinians lined up for food aid near the Kuwait Roundabout in north Gaza on Tuesday. 

Israeli troops committed a massacre against Palestinians seeking aid in northern Gaza’s Al-Rashid Street near the Kuwait Roundabout on 29 February. The brutal attack, which killed over a hundred Palestinians, has come to be known as the Flour Massacre.

Israel has deflected blame for the attack through an internal army investigation, and Washington has vetoed a UNSC statement holding it accountable. 

Due to the several attacks on hungry Gazans near the Kuwait Roundabout and Al-Rashid Street, Al-Jazeera’s correspondent Hani Mahmoud said on 14 March that the area 'is now known as a death trap.'

'We heard from a hungry and largely traumatized population stranded in the Gaza Strip asking what is the purpose of getting those aid trucks into Gaza and its northern area if they’re getting shot at. [The Israeli aggression] also endangers the work of aid workers on the ground,' Mahmoud added. 

UNRWA has lost more than 160 employees due to Israeli bombardment. 

Israel has continued to prevent the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip. Despite recent Israeli-approved air drops by the air forces of Jordan and the US – which have been described as insufficient by Gaza’s civil defense – famine has overtaken the strip.

Since last weekend, at least a dozen children have died from severe hunger and thirst in Gaza."

[silverpelt3600]

Halo 2x5 Spoilers

Alright alright alright! Stream of thoughts part two electric boogaloo. Ep 4’s ending was living rent free in my head all this week so we’ll see how this one goes!

- Alright they really got no break in between. And lmao “is that all you got” and John’s face just really saying to stfu.

- RIZ COME ON MAN good grief why do characters always do that GET WITH THE PROGRAM.

- Also, woah, flashback? What the hell was that?

- Makee being weird as usual <3

- Christ John give yourself a minute! Dragging himself across the floor to get to Riz, breaking my goddamn heart. And can Halsey just cut the man some slack?!

- Aw man his face when he said Kai’s name.

- Ughgggg the realizing setting in about everythingggg. John makes me so sad sometimes. It’s probably why I love him as a character tbh though.

- CORTANA the best fr. TALKING BACK TO MAKEE!!! She’s so cool.

- Alright ALRIGHT I see the writers just want to make me cry. John doing his best to disconnect so quickly from Vannak just kills me.

- John staring at the posters of himself. “Join his fight” but questioning if there’s still a fight left to win?

- John’s little side eye with the “now we’re expendable”, jabbing at how Halsey has always thought of their well being second, and her not catching it!

- John giving words for Vannak’s funeral, oh my gosh. Closing his eyes to truly feel that loss and declaring his goal for revenge.

- And Halsey just poking the bear, John making such a statement with the “I’m already dead”.

- ACK THE OLD LADY. Talk about a jumpscare.

- Makee top ten manipulators of all time fr!

- THE UNSC TOOK SOREN’S KID?

- Ugh the contrast in Riz and John’s grief. These two are gonna have me sobbing.

- And you know what? Good for Riz for deciding to making peace in her own way, even if that means separating from John.

- KAI!!!!!!! GIRLY HOW WE’VE MISSED YOU!!! And with one hell of an army no less!

So to recap, everyone is sad or dead or missing, and I’m not okay 👍

Good episode 10/10

[january-summers]

I know it's probably just there to show that Wash had some whimsy, or it's a reference I'm not getting, but while I was delving in Big Sad headcanons re: wash's court martial backstory, I got attached to the idea the rubber duck in his locker wasn't actually (originally) his.

But that kind of grew, just simmering away in the background radiation of my brain. It belonged to a rookie from Wash's team back when he was David [last name redacted] working for the UNSC, maybe not long before his court martial.

The rookie was bright, in the too intelligent for their own good kind of way, a nervous stimmer who belonged in the highest of higher educations but had to drop out because that's too expensive or too glassed by the covenant to go back to. Too smart for being on the ground, but not officially educated enough to get one of the safer jobs.

And so painfully young.

David thought it was a joke the first time he heard the duck's name, and his laugh was responded to with a stern warning.

"Waddles Von Quackington (the third) is the most educated duck in the universe, and it is smarter than you."

They've had the duck since they were in primary education, having found out about the rubber duck debugging method and finding it worked well for them in many areas of education.

The rookie talks to the damn thing as they work their way through alien tech, fixing it or figuring out how to work it in the field so David and the others can turn the covie weapons back on their owners when their own bullets run low.

The rookie dies, because it's war, and of course people die, and David's worked miracles keeping as many of his people alive as he has, but he's just a corporal, even in line for a promotion, he's far from the top of the food chain, and there's only so much he can do about stupid orders.

They can't take the rookie's body, he barely has time to grab the dog-tags and the duck.

Washington has only ever truly scared South Dakota once during their time working together. Even in the moments before he put a bullet in her head, she wasn't as scared of him as the time she'd tried to take her bad mood out on him and threatened to destroy the rubber duck he kept in his locker.

Wash doesn't know what happened to it after the Mother of Invention crashed, but he has an idea given the state his skateboard was found in. Well, half of it anyway.

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Although I do also like the idea it was a present from one of his sisters, stealthily slipped into his bag before he went of to sign up to the army. he only found it once he'd arrive at training camp and he's kept it with him ever since, as a reminder of his family and what he's fighting for.

[palestinegenocide]

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 168: U.S. advances UN Security Council ceasefire resolution as al-Shifa Hospital siege enters fifth day

The siege of al-Shifa Hospital enters its fifth day as the Israeli army threatens to blow up the hospital, while the U.S.'s proposed UNSC resolution uses nebulous language that does not call for an "immediate" ceasefire.

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[halibellecter]

Is That You?

--

"Is that you in the picture?"

"Yeah. But I mean we're not supposed to talk about that stuff-- so what can I do for you?"

And she's not lying. It is her in the picture...

So far she's headed off every opportunity to ask, oh, is that your husband? is that your daughter in the middle? look at you, you look so happy!

She's in the picture. But she's in the middle, about nine and a half, long braid decorated with little dragonfly clips. Between her mom-- she's the spitting image-- and dad, one of the last pictures of all of them together. You can't see their faces too well, they're scrunched up with laughter. Both of them are tickling her and she's shrieking and wiggling all over the place; it's a wonder the picture isn't more blurry than it is already, her hands and feet smearing details that get dimmer every time she tries to remember what they were.

Her father's next deployment ended, just a few days early and already on the return trip, with her being handed a smartly folded flag that her mother was crying too hard to take. She was ten.

Mom had lasted for another four short years after Dad died. Four years where they barely spoke-- not angry, just busy. Mom was already a successful doctor, already more dedicated than most. Being the single income must have been a good excuse, because she threw herself into her work. Kay-- no, no, not Kayla, no, the person that would be Agent Oklahoma, eventually, proto-agent, not-yet-medic, freelancer-in-the-future, to be worth something later on-- she-- already barely saw her. Between a dad on active duty in the army, and a mom with such a demanding job, she was a career latchkey kid; but sometimes after he died, she could go for weeks without direct contact. It almost seemed like her mom liked it that way. Looking back on it, home must have hurt.

If she'd known she only had four years left with her...

Just like her father, she was on the way home when she died. So close to home-- familiar territory. Got tired and fell asleep at the wheel. Kayla-- no, no, no! that girl, had been on the phone with her. Trying to keep her awake. It's blurry now but she can remember her desperate, raw-throated screaming and the crunch of metal and... and her mother's voice, a little choking whisper. Baby I'm so sorry. I'm not going to make it, there's too much blood. Sweetheart I love you---

But she tries to remember how lucky she is: unlike with her father, at least she got to say goodbye.

They're so happy in the picture.

The challenge coin leaning against the frame was what finally trained her out of that bad habit she used to have where she got attached to other people. A close friend. Nearly a brother. A safe place after the accident, the one who scooped her up and held her as she cried herself out into his chest. He had been all she had left.

If she squeezes the coin hard enough, her pulse throbs in her fingers like his heart thumped under her ear that night. And a lot of nights afterward. They joined up together; they were practically fused at the hip. He was a medic like her, a brilliant fighter, a...

a credit to his unit, and to the UNSC.

The words echo when she remembers them, engraved on her bones on the day they laid him in the ground. The person who loved anyone enough to cry over them like that no longer exists.

Is that you?

Yeah. Well. Not anymore.

[owlbear33]

did anyone else think that at least some elements of Infinity (the wargame), were like heavily influenced by Halo, not saying that it's the only influence (honestly this is mostly superficial) but..

like sure the human sphere is a whole lot more broken up than the UNSC, but it's still got a good mix of regular soldiers and people in power armour, at least some of which is at least reminiscent of spartan armour

vs the combined army, a big multi-species empire bent on humanities domination or destruction, the Morats are even kinda apelike, and the Shasvastii are funky and digitigrade, need I say Jiralhanae(Brutes) and Sangheili (Elites)

like I'm not saying it's the only influence, not by a long shot

but I find it hard to believe that I was the only teenager in idk 2007 ish thinking these two things are similar