#we are responsible. and so we must center palestinians.

[27moremoons]

Government Media Office, Gaza:

The “israeli” occupation army intensifies the practice of genocide in Jabalia and North Gaza Governorate, preventing rescue and civil defense teams from recovering more than 75 martyrs so far.

On the eighth consecutive day of the siege on Jabalia and North Gaza, the “israeli” occupation army continues to block rescue and civil defense teams from recovering more than 75 martyrs out of the 285 killed by the occupation over the past eight days.

The occupation army is committing crimes against humanity and deliberate killings by bombing displacement and shelter centers. It has committed several heinous massacres against civilians by deliberately targeting gatherings of children and women.

In this context, the occupation army is working to completely destroy the health system by putting all northern hospitals out of service and directly firing at them. Additionally, the occupation army has targeted all vital sectors in northern Gaza, aiming to turn the North Gaza Governorate into a zone of devastation and death as part of its plan to displace our Palestinian people.

What Jabalia and the North Gaza Governorate are facing constitutes a crime of extermination, a violation of international law, and a crime against humanity. The international community must stop this humanitarian catastrophe.

We condemn the “israeli” occupation’s massacres against our Palestinian people in Jabalia and North Gaza, and we call on all countries worldwide to condemn these brutal crimes.

We hold the “israeli” occupation and the U.S. administration fully responsible for the continued genocide and the ongoing targeting and killing of civilians in Jabalia and North Gaza, especially the killing of children and women.

We demand that the international community and all global and international organizations stop the genocide and end the bloodshed in Gaza.

Government Media Office

Gaza Strip - Palestine

Saturday, October 12, 2024

[low-cole-timothy]

Hamas Guidlines to Social Media

Here are excerpts from the guidlines Hamas has given as to how to post on social media:

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

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

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

"Avoid publishing pictures of rockets fired into Israel from [Gaza] city centers. This [would] provide a pretext for attacking residential areas in the Gaza Strip. Do not publish or share photos or video clips showing rocket launching sites or the movement of resistance [forces] in Gaza.

"To the administrators of news pages on Facebook: Do not publish close-ups of masked men with heavy weapons, so that your page will not be shut down [by Facebook] on the claim that you are inciting violence. In your coverage, be sure that you say: 'The locally manufactured shells fired by the resistance are a natural response to the Israeli occupation that deliberately fires rockets against civilians in the West Bank and Gaza'..."

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

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

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

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

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

This is literally from their own website! They instruct people to lie and and the useful idiots just share the lies as if they are fact.

Anyone who supports Hamas is an idiot at best and a terrorist at worst....

[eretzyisrael]

by Corey Walker

Anti-Israel activists are slamming a prominent anti-Israel group for mentioning the death of Israelis in a statement marking the one-year anniversary of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre across southern Israel.

In a lengthy statement which condemned Israel for causing “genocide, death, and destruction” in Gaza, Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) also mourned “every life taken in the past year — Palestinian, Israeli, Lebanese.” The group also said that “our commitment to Palestinian liberation is grounded in our belief that every human must have the right to live in safety and freedom.”

JVP, a so-called “anti-Zionist Jewish advocacy organization,” was emphatically condemned by pro-Palestinian activists for showing sympathy to the Israeli people in its official statement. Some of these commenters on social media directly compared Israeli Jews to Nazis — an antisemitic trope known as Holocaust inversion.  

“‘Every German life taken during the Auschwitz Uprising was valuable and a loss'” one commenter sarcastically posted on X/Twitter. 

“You are the Jewish voice for fascism not for peace. caring for the Nazis makes you a Nazi,” another commenter wrote on the social media platform. 

“This is a poorly crafted statement, perhaps not with [malice] but all the same,” an X user said.

“We really should really only be centering Palestinians here and not Israelis! This lessens the impact of any activism, and while I don’t think this is an intentional misstep or attempt at counterinsurgency we still have to take responsibility for our own habits!” another commenter posted.

“Your leadership is going to be hauled in front of a military tribunal when all your fellow Zionists are made to answer for their crimes,” one individual wrote.

JVP, an organization that purports to fight for “Palestinian liberation,” has positioned itself as a staunch adversary of the Jewish state. The organization;s explicit anti-Zionist stance places it among an extreme fringe within the Jewish community. 

The group argued in a recently resurfaced 2021 booklet that Jews should not write Hebrew liturgy because hearing the language would be “deeply traumatizing””to Palestinians.

JVP has repeatedly defended the Oct. 7 massacre of roughly 1,200 people in southern Israel by Hamas as a justified “resistance.” Chapters of the organization have urged other self-described “progressives” to throw their support behind  Hamas and other terrorist groups against Israel while expressing praise for terrorists such as Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. JVP has also argued that the Israeli state should be dissolved, asserting that its existence actually makes Jews less safe.

Critics of the organization often point out that many JVP chapters do not possess a single person of Jewish faith. The organization does not require a Jewish person to found a chapter and has even helped orchestrate anti-Israel demonstrations in front of synagogues.

[workersolidarity]

[ 📹 Wounded civilians, including a young child, are brought to a hospital in Gaza after the Israeli occupation forces bombed a residential home belonging to the Shaat family in the Maraj neighborhood, northeast of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Wednesday. 📈 The death toll in Gaza has risen again, now exceeding 36'171 Palestinians killed, while another 81'420 others have been wounded since Oct. 7th, 2023. ]

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236 DAYS OF GENOCIDE IN GAZA: ISRAELI TANKS ROLL THROUGH CENTRAL RAFAH, WHITE HOUSE CLAIMS ISRAELI OCCUPATION DOES NOT VIOLATE BIDEN'S RED LINE, OCCUPATION BOMBS TENTS IN 'SAFE ZONE' OF AL-MAWASI, GENOCIDE CONTINUES UNABATED

On 236th day of the Israeli occupation's ongoing special genocide operation in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) committed a total of 6 new massacres of Palestinian families, resulting in the deaths of no less than 75 Palestinian civilians, mostly women and children, while another 284 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.

"The Israelis have said this was a tragic mistake," US National Security spokesperson, John Kirby, makes excuses for the Israeli occupation's bombing of a UNRWA displacement camp for Palestinian refugees in the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood, north of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, two nights ago that resulted in the deaths of at least 45 Palestinians and wounded 249 others.

The response came after Kirby was asked whether the slaughter in the displacement camp qualified as the kind of "death and destruction" Biden claimed he didn't want to see in Rafah, drawing a "red line" at an Israeli invasion of Gaza's southernmost city.

Kirby claimed the US doesn't have "a measuring stick here or a quota," going on to add that "We've also said we don't want to see a major ground operation in Rafah that would really make it hard for the Israelis to go after Hamas without causing extensive damage and potentially a large number of deaths. We have not seen that yet."

This comes at the same time as Israeli tanks and armored vehicles have been confirmed to have advanced into eastern, western and central Rafah, including Merkava tanks and remotely controlled M113 armored personnel carriers, which the Israeli media says are conducting operations "east of Rafah and advancing towards the center and west of the city."

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stated that "our forces are operating in Rafah with the aim of disbanding the Hamas battalions in Rafah, rocket launchers, heavy artillery, ammunition and terrorist tunnels."

Occupation forces are also operating along the "Philadelphi axis," south of Rafah, which they claim have discovered dozens of tunnels leading from Gaza into the Egyptian Sinai.

Occupation army officials were quoted in the Hebrew media as saying that "the operation in Rafah is progressing precisely with all the complexities- a million people have already been evacuated [forcefully displaced] from the city."

The Israeli occupation forces also said that the "Nahal Brigade," led by the 162nd Division is fighting in ongoing operations in Rafah, destroying so-called "terrorist infrastructure."

In the meantime, the Israeli occupation committed a new horrific massacre of innocent civilians, when occupation warplanes fired several missiles into the tents of displaced Palestinian refugees in the Al-Mawasi area, northwest of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, killing at least 21 civilians and wounding 64 others, at least 10 of whom remain in critical condition.

In response to the purposeful massacre, the Israeli occupation disavowed their responsibility for the strike, claiming on Tuesday evening that "contrary to reports received in the past few hours, the Israeli army did not attack the humanitarian area in Al-Mawasi," without elucidating on the details.

In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Hamas resistance movement stated that the "Zionist enemy" continues to "target the tents of displaced people west of Rafah, and commit a new massacre that claimed the lives of dozens of martyrs and wounded."

Hamas went on to state that the Israeli occupation is "actively challenging the decisions of the International Court of Justice through his decision to directly and deliberately target the largest number of civilians."

The Israeli occupation authorities had previously designated the Al-Mawasi area a "safe zone," and did not call for the evacuation of civilians from the heavily damaged neighborhood.

According to local reporting, the targeted displacement camp, filled with the tents of civilian families, was located just 100 meters from the American field hospital, west of Rafah.

Meanwhile, a number of civilians, including young children, were slaughtered overnight, while other residents were wounded, in an Israeli airstrike on the Khan Yunis Governate.

According to local correspondants, Zionist warplanes bombed a residential home belonging to the Abu Jazar family in the Ma'an neighborhood, south of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, resulting in the deaths of several civilians, including children, and wounded a number of others who were taken to the European Gaza Hospital in the city.

Several more civilians were killed after Israeli fighter jets bombed a house belonging to the Sharat family, near the government clinic in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza City.

Similarly, Israeli aircraft targeted a residential home belonging to the Yassin family in the Mufti's land area, north of the Nuseirat Camp, in the central Gaza Strip.

IOF Merkava tanks have also been stationed in the central areas of the Yabna Refugee Camp, next to the Al-Huda Mosque in Rafah, in addition to advancing near the Care Junction, adjacent to the Ali Ibn Abi Talib Mosque, and also penetrated areas of the Al-Awda, Al-Najma, and Al-Sharqi neighborhoods.

Occupation Merkava tanks and armored personnel carriers were also witnessed advancing in the Burqa Stadium, and into the central areas of the Shaboura Camp, while Israeli missiles and artillery shelling bombed resident's homes at random, intermittently.

Israeli warplanes and vehicles also fired machine guns towards civilian homes in central and western Rafah, and also in the vicinity of the Tal Zu'rob neighborhood, southwest of the city.

Similarly, Zionist air forces bombed a house belonging to the Al-Ghurra family in the vicinity of the Abdullah Azzam Mosque, in the Al-Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City, resulting in the martyredom of 5 civilians and wounding a number of others.

Israeli occupation forces also killed Dr. Issam Rawhi Muhammad Aql, a doctor with the Al-Quds Hospital, who was murdered in his home in the Bureij Camp, in central Gaza, according to a report by the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS).

The mass murder of Palestinians continued when Zionist air forces targeted a residential house belonging to the Hamdan family in the New Camp area of the Nuseirat Camp, in the central Gaza Strip, wounding three Palestinians who were transported to Al-Awda Hospital in the camp.

Neighborhoods east of Gaza City also experience intense gunfire from Israeli military vehicles, while occupation aircraft bombarded the western neighborhoods of the Jabalia Refugee Camp, in Gaza's north, resulting in several casualties.

Israeli airstrikes also pummeled areas of central and western Rafah, coinciding with artillery and tank shells fired into residential buildings.

In yet another war crime, Zionist warplanes bombed a gathering of civilians in the Kaf al-Mashrou area, east of the city of Rafah, resulting in civilian deaths and dozens of other casualties.

Civilians were also killed in an IOF bombing near Al-Iskan Al-Abyad, west of the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood of Rafah.

At the same time as Israeli tanks station themselves in neighborhoods across Rafah, Merkava tanks were also seen establishing control over neighborhoods east of the Jabalia Camp, in the northern Gaza Strip, advancing through blocks 1-8 while detonating residential homes and buildings in the area.

In another series of assaults, at least 9 civilians were killed, including a doctor, near Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, while several others were killed and wounded in a strike on the town of Beit Hanoun.

As a result of the Israeli occupation's ongoing special genocide operation in the Gaza Strip, the death toll among the Palestinian population has increased to 36'171 killed, including upwards of 10'000 women and over 15'000 children, while another 81'420 others have been wounded since the start of the current round of Zionist aggression, beginning with the events of October 7th, 2023.

May 29th, 2024.

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@WorkerSolidarityNews

[probablyasocialecologist]

We should start with the most important question: the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination.  “Self-determination,” as I understand it, means not only the right to freedom and independence for all peoples, but also the right to determine the tactics and strategies by which people build their own liberation movements. This clearly includes the right to pursue liberation through armed struggle. At the same time, we note that the decision to launch this specific round of armed struggle was made primarily by one Palestinian faction, Hamas. And yet, there are multiple Palestinian organizations with different strategic visions and various levels of support. It is clear nonetheless that the ability of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood to spotlight Israel’s military vulnerability received an enthusiastically positive response from masses of people in Palestine and throughout the Arab/Islamic world. Whatever the varying feelings and positions among Palestinians regarding Hamas’s demonstrable violations of international human rights law, that positive response must be understood in the context of Israel’s 70+ years of international human rights violations and genocidal policies against the people of Gaza and Palestine. We can understand the sentiment that civilian Israeli casualties are, in essence, simply payback for all the Palestinian civilian casualties over the years. Yet we should not let these events pass without commenting on their negative impact. As successful as Hamas’s military action was on its own terms, how much more successful might it have been both on its own terms and in terms of mobilizing support and solidarity on a global stage (a vital question we will turn to shortly), had different strategic choices been made?  At the same time we must completely reject the equals sign that is placed at the center of so many statements which “condemn the violence against civilians on both sides.” There is no moral equivalence between the actions of Hamas and the violence of the Israeli state. We note from this point of view that there has never been a revolt of enslaved people in the history of the world that did not commit excesses of violence which would, today, be classified as war crimes. We nonetheless cheer on those in revolt and hope for their success. Palestinians have not become the slaves of the Israelis. But the dynamic of systemic oppression lasting for generations and leading to actions in this case that can also be properly characterized as “war crimes” is directly parallel. In the end the blame for this, too, lies with the oppressor nation. We should insist, simultaneously, that a genuine war of liberation must strive to keep incidents of this nature to a minimum. A political current that pursues retribution against civilians as a conscious strategy raises the question of whether it represents the best choice to lead a freedom movement. There are times when such formations will be in the lead, of course—whether outside observers approve or disapprove of this fact. In that context, it’s necessary to seek an orientation which clearly supports the movement of the oppressed, even the right of that movement to generate its own leadership (including a leadership some may disapprove of), while not violating our commitment to revolutionary morality or to a strategic orientation that most effectively advances the struggle.

[girlactionfigure]

▪️ Wed night - ISRAEL REALTIME - Connecting to Israel in Realtime

▪️GPS JAMMING - CENTRAL ISRAEL.. residents of the center report inaccurate GPS responses - GPS jamming likely active.  Make sure rocket alert apps are set to a specific city instead of “current location”.

▪️US DEPLOYS C-RAM.. anti-aircraft / drone / missile system, on the floating pier in Gaza right next to the shore.  (( Next to, not on, so no “boots on the ground”. ))

▪️THREE HERO SOLDIERS HAVE FALLEN.. Israel Yodkin, 22, from Kfar Chabad.  Gideon Chai, 33, from Tel Aviv.  Eliyahu Hair Emsallem, 21, from Ra’anana.  All in battle in Gaza.  May their families be comforted among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem, and may G-d AVENGE THEIR BLOOD!

▪️PM SAYS.. "The intention of several European countries to recognize a Palestinian state is a reward for terrorism. 80% of the Palestinians in Judea and Samaria support the terrible massacre of October 7.

This evil must not be given a country. This will be a terrorist state, it will try to repeatedly carry out the massacre of October 7, and we will not agree to that.

A prize for terrorism will not bring peace - and it will not stop us from defeating Hamas either.”

▪️IDF MICRO SUICIDE DRONES?  Al Jazeera: From videos that have come to us, it appears that the IDF used booby-trapped robots in an operation in Jabaliya . The robots were used to attack military operatives and blow up buildings. (( Suicide drones for thee but not for me? ))

▪️PROTESTS.. Demonstrators for the return of the hostages are blocking Derech Begin in Tel Aviv.  Thousands.  Another protest at Karakul junction - a hundred - blocking 1 direction.

♦️COUNTER-TERROR IN JENIN.. continues. A terrorist was eliminated a short time ago in the camp, 9 terrorists were eliminated since the beginning of the activity.

♦️RAFAH.. The IDF is advancing in Rafah: IDF forces are on the outskirts of the Yavna camp in the center of Rafah - intense fighting is going on, "the Israeli fire did not stop all night," said one of the residents - "the tanks advanced under heavy fire.”

⭕ SUICIDE DRONES at Eilat.  IDF says false alarm.

⭕ HEZBOLLAH ROCKETS at Shlomi, Betzet, Hanita, Rosh HaNikra.

[wewebaggit]

I am already not paying for Netflix and will not support ST either, especially after Shawn Levy's open Zionist approach.

Look, no one is saying they cannot support their family in Israel. But what they are doing is basically sitting in the US and calling for an open ethnic cleansing against Palestinians, while cherry-picking their words and spreading false information. As we speak, Gaza is basically being bombed to death, an entire place has its water, electricity and basic resources being taken from them. It may be easy to post random shit on your accounts with millions of followers while living in rich houses. But the reality doesn't match that and both Levy and Noah should have been more sensible and learned better before posting dumb shit on your accounts.

You are free to hate whoever. N I'm not even gonna bother to defend them cuz it's not my job nor do I base my politics off of teen celebs. That being said I've read his statement that is just as passionate and devoid of the complete understanding of everything of it like other impassioned posts. That's what passionate posts do. They appeal to an emotion. I'm not sitting here expecting him or any other jewish celeb to say yaaaaaas Hamas. Nor am I gonna raise my brows if they speak for the Jewish side of things.

The statement that people read and ran with saying he's calling all Palestinians terrorists is as inaccurate as whatever false info y'all are accusing him of spreading. I do not blame him nor do I defend him and him is a placeholder for any Jew celeb, cuz I do not base my sense of right or wrong on what they're saying. I've never once felt the need to publicly anonymously denounce the people I don't agree with because I don't usually find myself overcompensating for anything.

Israel - Palestine conflict is not new. What's new is this one actor who everyone's expecting to say politically correct shit (which in his mind he might be doing just that 🤷‍♀️) and I believe that expecting this in and of itself is stupid and an easy way to pass the blame and do nothing at all to look good.

Palestinians right to self determination is not affected by what a nobody says. Nor is Israel's stance on continuing on with its policies of decades. The fact that people are busy harping on this one thing cuz apparently the only source of knowledge is insta and therefore maybe it seems like it's a must to react to whatever is seen on insta. Well, I cannot relate.

The fact that you or whoever if there are multiple anons find it necessary to approach me on anon so that I can be derisive towards him and that somehow it is the most important thing to discuss here - well, it is laughably easy to post while sitting in your home with food, water and power while others are wont to dangerously struggle for them. See how that works? My post is and has never been about Israel Palestine at all and was always in response to anon (and fandumb) who's been at it for a while.

Are we truly gonna say that he hasn't always be hated upon for things he's done and not done? Is there a comparable backlash against other celebs? That being said you now stop liking a celeb. Good for you. What does it achieve? Were you following them for their immense knowledge and wisdom of politics and geopolitical conflicts? Then I suggest you do not mourn the loss.

Also the fucking hypocrisy of everyone on this site to wake up like the Undertaker when it's israel/palestine (not even out of much real love for the people affected let me remind you as the argument is centered around fucking Noah schnapp/jewish celebs of all the people) and then no reaction to what happens in third world non-glamorous countries. (The glamorous here is Israel to be clear). And before you say well it's a reaction to what he said. Well there have been reactions based on what he should say or hasn't said, too. So like I'm judging y'all atp. Like what's the issue? Your heart bleeds for victims or does your mouth salivate over taking someone down with that pitchfork?

Why should I engage in an argument that's not based on what is says its about but the subject matter is celeb not the thing celeb is talking about. That being said I won't even be talking about the thing the celeb is talking about because there's shit happening in the world all the time and I have my opinions on all of them and I choose to keep them to myself lest people read what's not there and call me a genocidal dogwhister. There are 2 sides to a genocide. (And I'm not saying like 2 sides to a story. But a victim and a perpetrator) And the supporters of both sides will have unfortunate reading comprehension if it means they can take down a nobody in the business of nothing to make themselves feel morally superior.

So should he (Shawn and Noah) be more responsible or considerate or whatever? Idk. They can be or they can choose to show their ass. My respect (if any) for them never did rest on what their political beliefs were because, at the risk of appearing repetitive, I don't care.

I do care about the proxy hatred being spewed under the guise of sloganeering though. I'm way too used to it. It happens on the daily where I come from. I'm not gonna pretend y'all are angels. I see this for what it is.

So good on you for not supporting ST and staying true to your beliefs and code. That is always a respectable position to take. Sometimes people are just not in your position. Like you might not be in theirs. As you so pointed out.

TLDR: I trust celebs to post dumb shit. Where have you been to have expected differently?

[bardonastick]

It's going to be very easy to blame your neighbor for not doing the right thing here, but remember that there are many reasons why this happened on top of the national culture of racism, sexism, xenophobia, and transphobia. No matter how uncomfortable this is, we need to seize the motivation of this moment and start working now so that this never happens again.

Most of my friends have no say in Republican politics, but we can do something about the Democrats. We have to accept the facts about this candidacy and change them so we can win next time.

If you need to grieve, now is not the time to read more. If you're ready for this conversation on how we do better next time, there's more on what went wrong below.

One, the issue that the whole country is talking about: Dems cannot fund a genocide and win our elections anymore. The next candidate must be staunchly anti-genocide or they will lose again. It is a fact that this administration has sent tens of billions to Israel alone while we watch what that money is doing to innocent Palestinians. This behavior will lose in future elections. Genocide IS the red line, and people will not vote for it. We also have proof now that we won't be shamed into voting for it either. Our ONLY option is to change the stance of the democratic seat of power, not the millions of voters who will not sign their name next to genocide ever, or ever again.

Two, Democrats can no longer win by appealing to the right. For months Harris has touted her "200+ Republican nominations" and reiterated that the GOP will have a seat at her table. The same people Dems have spent years calling fascists and the greater evil. Despite the viral posts, there are relatively few never-Trump republicans who flipped to Harris this election because of this.

She has spent her energy appealing to people who won't vote for her, and in the process assured her most vulnerable voters that their biggest enemy will have a seat in making the policy that affects their lives. This strategy failed.

Three, Democrats can no longer alienate and resist the left. For those who aren't aware, American Democrats are globally considered a right wing party. This is defined by their relationship to capitalism (billionaires) and imperialism (attacking other countries for power and resources) - supporting them makes you right, opposing them makes you left.

Leftists (e.g. Socialists, Communists, Anarchists) fight for things like universal healthcare, abolishing the rich, massively defunding police and the military, free education, giving workers collective ownership of their companies, preventing climate change, abolishing the death penalty, and so much more. All of this along with the civil rights we credit Democrats for. Dems didn't give us these - WE the people fought for them.

Notice that none of these have been seriously committed to by the democratic party. Harris quietly dropped opposition to the death penalty from her policy, and when asked if she would support Trans people getting gender affirming care, said "I think we should follow the law" and basically gave an 'all lives matter' response instead of saying yes. When anti-genocide activists disrupted her rallies, her motto was "I'm speaking" as she many times had them ushered away. The DNC refused to allow a Palestinian speaker this year and even removed Dr. Ahmed Ghanim, a Muslim Democrat, from Harris' Michigan rally (that he was invited to) with no just cause.

In short, Harris spent her candidacy rejecting the left and appealing to the right. This strategy failed. Future candidates must be left of center, or they will lose. The base is growing more anti-capitalist by the day. Dem candidates must catch up or we must abandon them.

The voter base has seen through Vote Blue No Matter Who. We see that Dems are using the Trump bogeyman to excuse their every step towards the right. We will no longer vote for the lesser evil because we will no longer vote for evil. The Democratic party will either adapt to that reality or lose again and again and again, taking all our rights out with it. Or maybe we'll finally choose a better party.

There is so much more to be said on the topic, but in short what must be done now is:

- Demand better. Organize and agitate Dems to be the party we need them to be, or jump ship for the Party for Socialism and Liberation like many have already done.

- Organize. Find local political action and mutual aid groups. If they don't exist in your area, make them.

- Educate. U.S. propaganda is dead set on you believing socialists and communists are evil and that capitalism is the only way. Research why they want you to believe that, and what they've done to socialists throughout history. Research what socialists have actually done. Educate yourself and then others.

We will not solve this alone. Start somewhere. Start NOW. Go like a page or join a group on this topic just to get you thinking about it. And in the next Dem primary, remember that a centrist candidate will not win. We have the proof. The strategy must change.

[dailyanarchistposts]

The Path Forward

The human rights discourse that has hijacked the political left in recent decades has drawn us away from a framework of liberation and effective action. It is now clear that we must track back from liberal thinking in order to reestablish strategies that disarm and deconstruct power. The moral complicity with Israel’s crimes that is represented by the ICJ’s refusal to order an immediate cease fire forces us to do this. It offers a convincing argument that we all need to break with the current failed system.

On the other hand, reality will not wait for us to figure things out. We cannot simply take our time and wait to take action until we have developed and popularized new narratives and conceptual frameworks. We have to use whatever means are available to us to act right now.

Does the ICJ offer us any tools we can use? the ICJ is considered the highest instance of international law. Although it has no independent enforcement mechanisms aside from the United Nations Security Council, its rulings and case law are considered the bedrock of international law jurisprudence, and they are often incorporated into the rulings of national courts on these matters. Despite having ordered very few measures against Israel or the ongoing genocide being carried out, the court did determine that there is considerable cause to believe that genocide is taking place.

Because the court did not take any real measures against Israel, it should be evident that the responsibility to act falls upon us and our movements. Fortunately, the ruling might also give us some tools to use in the here and now while we are developing new frameworks of liberation. One such example is a recent lawsuit at a California federal court aimed at ordering the US administration to halt military support to Israel. The case was dismissed on the grounds that US foreign policy is outside the court’s jurisdiction, but it did determine that Israel is plausibly committing genocide in Gaza on the basis of the ICJ ruling.

The legal case that governments must refrain from complicity in genocide is not unsubstantiated in US law, as well as in many other countries. A Dutch court recently ordered the government of the Netherlands to halt the delivery of parts for F-35 fighter jets that Israel is using to bombard the Gaza Strip. It might be plausible now to force more governments to impose arms embargos, sanctions, or other measures through national courts.

However, such strategies still reduce us to relying on so-called experts; they will not help us build movements. The genocide will not be stopped from within Israeli society. Pressure to do so must come from outside. It is now time for direct action and bottom-up efforts, like community-driven boycotts on Israeli goods, vendors who trade in them, Israeli cultural and propaganda exports, and anything else that feeds into the global boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement. The blockading of the port of Tacoma or the actions of dock workers around the world who refuse to load Israeli ships and cargo and transport arms to Israel are examples of how we might be able to move forward, building towards a proactive grassroots movement.

We must do everything within our power to stop the genocide that is taking place now, but it is important that we approach doing so as a step towards promoting Palestinian liberation and the dismantling of Israeli settler-colonialism. The portrayal of Palestinians as little more than victims at the mercy of Israeli repression is sometimes well intentioned, but it erases their personhood and agency. While we strive to bring Israel’s war machine to a halt, we must articulate that this is part of the struggle to end Israeli colonialism, and center Palestinians as the protagonists of that story.

[ladycharles]

I have a couple of new charities I ran into for the very distressing situation that those folks on the sea North of the Sinai are being put through and thought I would share -

Saw an ad from Medical Aid for Falesteen - apparently they are able to give out food packages! I donated and here is a link if you have the means.

For that matter, I was thinking about how traumatizing this must be for the children there. I had a garden variety (i.e. not being chased by bombs and tanks) trauma in childhood and knowing how hard it is to deal with I can't imagine what these poor kids are having to deal with. But music, and art in general are healing, and when I saw this next link I thought it was a really noble thing. Again I donated and if you have the means please consider it.

Thanks all - PS sorry for the lack of activity lately, I have had all sorts of issues but it means the world seeing that you're still streaming my stuff. I am currently listening to Oh Boy now FINALLY after so much delay, I send it out for mastering this week so stay tuned 💖

[anyoldfandom]

Why are you anti-Israel as a Jew? genuine question, I'm just curious as a non-Jewish person bc all my irl Jewish friends are pro-Israel

Okay so normally I don't really,,check my inbox so sorry for the late response anon, but thank you for the genuine curiosity! I'm glad you're coming to the table with an open mind.

I am going to put a disclaimer here, however: Jewish people are not the only people impacted by Israel's actions. We're not even the most impacted. I am going to give my perspective because it was asked for, but my biggest suggestion is to listen to Palestinian voices the most before you draw any conclusions, as they are the real victims in the center of Israel's actions.

As for my opinion, however - quite frankly, my dislike of the Israeli state comes from a few places. Yes, it is true that Jewish people lived in Israel in the past, and yes, it is a holy land - but I genuinely do not believe that the Israeli government has Jewish interests in heart. The common narrative that I've heard in a lot of spaces is that Israel is a safe place should the world turn against us again, but quite frankly...it's unrealistic. Not every Jew in the world can move to Israel. Only the wealthy Jews (and I can tell you, many Jews are not wealthy at all) would be able to flee, and the rest of us would be stuck where we are.

And that would be if Israel was not already filled with Palestinians. A phrase I and other Jews have used is "Not in our name".

The Israeli state is breaking international laws - yes, Hamas has also been condemned for breaking international laws, but the Israeli government is also a state. It is a government. A government that has a history of committing genocide - so much that South Africa is trying to sue them for war crimes.

And, to be frank, and I will admit my language is about to be very harsh - please know my anger is directed at the Israeli government, anon, and not you - but I do not want a fucking genocide in my name. I do not want other peoples to suffer because my people have in the past - Israel is not the answer, fighting real, actual antisemitism is. Making the entire world safe is the answer. I also hate that the government is claiming any criticism of Israel is antisemitic - I've spoken out against antisemitism in the past, consistently. I've written in concerns that people will use criticism of Israel in a way where they simply attack Jewish people, which is absolutely antisemitism, but holding a state responsible for their actions is not bigotry.

And, one more point - I do not think the allies of Israel are the allies of Jews. I can only speak as a US citizen, and not for any other country - but I do not, and have never, believed that my country is an ally of the Jewish people. I am constantly hearing antisemitic conspiracy theories being spread by politicians, and I heard the president claim that Israel would be the only safe place for Jews - supporting another genocidal country over the citizens he's supposed to be protecting, by suggesting the only place we will be safe is far away from America.

So, I don't support Israel. I don't support the murder of innocent Palestinians, the killing of journalists and children. I don't support the removal of people from their homes - and I'm frankly disgusted at those who would imply that I must run from my own home to be safe, because they refuse to be the change to keep my people safe.

I hope I explained my position well, anon. I really appreciate it when people, especially people not in the groups centered in a conversation, try to speak to both sides to at least understand all of the issue - though, don't just listen to me. As I said at the beginning, listen to Palestinian voices, as well - listen to the people living through these horrors. While Jews are centered in the conversation, it's important to remember that there are other victims here, who deserve to be listened to a whole hell of a lot more than me.

[alanshemper]

21 Feb 2024

[Daniel Levy is the president of the U.S. / Middle East Project]

The U.S. Government has made its oral statement at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Sadly, if predictably, the position presented constituted a charter for permanent occupation and undermining International Law.

The International Court of Justice was tasked by the UN General Assembly in December of 2022 to provide an advisory opinion on the legal consequences and third party responsibilities arising from Israel’s prolonged occupation of the Palestinian territories. This process includes holding hearings and receiving statements, and it is the first time in 20 years (since the advisory opinion on the construction by Israel of a wall in Occupied Palestinian Territory) that the court has addressed these legal questions. At the hearings, an unprecedented number of states will be appearing to offer testimony – the vast majority will be supporting variations of the case put forward by the Palestinians while a small minority, led by the U.S. will do the opposite.

Here’s why the Biden administration’s disappointing argument should concern anyone who wants to see genuine movement towards peace and justice:

1. A core of the U.S. argument was that the Court and international law do have a role, but those must narrowly center around UN Security Council Resolutions and with a heavy emphasis on 242 and 338. That in itself is a sleight of hand by the United States Government. We know why the Security Council is always so limited and circumscribed – because the U.S. has consistently for decades vetoed anything which offers a broader application of international law to Israel’s actions and to its permanent belligerent occupation. What the U.S. position is saying is that other equally important pre-emptory norms and conventions in international law cannot be applied to the case of Israel/Palestine – for instance the inalienable rights to self-determination, the Genocide Convention, the convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination etc. The U.S. is deploying something of a tautology. It has broken the capacity of the Security Council to act by consistently using its veto and now it wants to apply those broken results to undermine the role of the International Court of Justice.

2. Given the centrality of UNSCRs 242 and 338 to the presentation of the U.S, it is worth placing those resolutions in their correct context. Neither make mention of the Palestinians directly or of the Palestinian right to self-determination, they are very much rooted in the then predominant language of the Israeli/Arab conflict. In approach they resemble the legacy of the 1947 UN Partition Plan – passed by a pre-decolonisation UN consisting of just 56 states, of whom 33 voted for partition (31 from the global north along with apartheid South Africa). Those two resolutions, 242 and 338, both more than half a century old, predate the major legal questions facing the ICJ in this advisory opinion – the massive proliferation of illegal settlements, de facto annexation, changes in the status of Jerusalem and the entrenchment of a discriminatory regime considered to meet the legal definition of apartheid.

3. In its oral statement, the U.S. recognized the illegality of the acquisition of territory by force and stated this is a principle it upholds universally. However, that does not stand up to the most basic scrutiny. The previous Trump administration recognized Israel’s illegal annexation of the Golan Heights and de facto changed its position on the status of the illegal annexation of East Jerusalem by moving the U.S. Embassy there. Neither of these steps have been reversed by the Biden administration.

4. The U.S. position was essentially to endorse the notion of permanent belligerent occupation. It talked about conditions for withdrawal, but of course its own policies prevent the most important condition for that withdrawal, namely the U.S. guaranteeing Israeli impunity and avoidance of costs or consequences for Israel’s continued illegal actions. The USG therefore ends up defending and owning Israel’s ongoing drift toward ever greater extremism.

5. The U.S. testimony conspicuously refused to reassert the illegality of Israel’s settlements – one of the central questions the court has already ruled on and on which there is near total international unanimity. U.S. testimony was an opportunity to assert a policy long neglected. Instead, the USG seems to want us to focus on a few bad apples of extremist settlers when the reality of the illegal settlement project is in it being a central plank of Israeli state policy to control land and resources, to advance demographic re-engineering, and is legally enabled, funded, secured, by every Israeli government of every political persuasion.

6. The U.S. position at the ICJ goes hand in hand with its vetoing of recent resolutions on Gaza at the UN Security Council. That position is to maintain a strict separation between a US-led peace process and international law. It is a separation which enables a 30-year peace process under which Israel’s violations of international law multiply and metastasize rather than being ended, in which numbers of illegal settlers exponentially increase and in which the peace process becomes cover for the enabling and entrenching of a reality of apartheid. It should therefore come as no surprise that of the submissions at the ICJ, 22 states and 2 International Groupings reference the apartheid reality. Reconnecting any future peace effort to international law is what is most necessary and what the USG is trying to prevent.

It is understandable why – if international law is applied to Israel then the legal complicity of the US, for instance, in supplying Israel with weapons, comes under the microscope. If the US can pick and choose and strong-arm – a process sometimes called “the rules based international order” – as a replacement for international law, then it can use the asymmetry of power to bully Palestinians as it has done to others. However, this will only make the situation worse and leave the US more exposed in its attempts to defend the mutual claims of Israel and the US to exceptional impunity. It also ultimately undermines Israel’s security because if international law does not apply to Israel, then it cannot apply to Hamas either and all parties must be in compliance with international law.

7. There were additional shortcomings, oddities, and missed opportunities in the USG’s oral statement. The U.S. was right to raise Israel’s legitimate security needs. However, Israel has defined its security in such an expansive and unreasonable way as to become a pillar underpinning the regime of separate and unequal ethno-nationalism. The U.S. appears to uncritically endorse the Israeli position claiming that security needs to be balanced against any possible future withdrawal of the occupation and thereby green lighting further decades of occupation. It was also noteworthy that without any relevance to international law or the ICJ hearings, the USG frequently promoted its priority of normalisation and integration into the region of Israel – again endorsing the approach of the Trump administration and subordinating international law and legitimate Palestinian rights to a geo-political vision which seeks to strengthen the U.S. but further obfuscate the issue of peace, rights and self-determination for the Palestinians.

8. Why does any of this matter? The court will probably only release its advisory opinion in several months. That outcome is unlikely to align with the arguments made by the U.S.

Another advisory opinion by the court clarifying legal questions around Israel’s prolonged occupation will not offer immediate actions that can be enforced but it matters because it will potentially provide new tools around which voters, consumers, shareholders, activists and national courts can challenge the existing status quo and the ways in which multiple governments and companies, arms suppliers, and apologists are complicit in this ongoing affront to international illegality and indeed to the future wellbeing of not only Palestinians, but of Israelis for whom the role of oppressor can never deliver security or peace of mind.

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

by David Litman

CNN has a shaky relationship with polling data, as CAMERA has documented previously. In a previous, admittedly more egregious case, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour appears to have entirely fabricated the existence of polling data that fit her preferred narrative. On July 14, however, CNN’s Abeer Salman took a slightly different track by using existing polling data, but only some of it.

In an article titled “Palestinian leader calls on world to ‘protect us,’ and his people respond with bitter laughter,” Salman reports on the declining popularity of Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas. To her credit, this is a story that needs to be told.

But Salman, who has a history of slanted coverage (and even uncritically publishing an antisemitic cartoon), doesn’t end there. She portrays the story as one in which Palestinians are frustrated that Abbas is not “protecting” them from “increasing Israeli settler violence and frequent, deadly Israeli military incursions…”

In doing so, Salman shifts the story from one of growing Palestinian extremism and violence into one of Palestinian victimhood. The narrative portrays the situation as one in which Palestinians are mocking Abbas’ “calls for peaceful resistance” (a dubious claim itself) not because they are increasingly supportive of violence against Israelis, but because they are victims of Israeli violence.

But the data, including the polling data from Salman’s own source, works against her narrative.

The CNN reporter cites a Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PCPSR) poll, pointing out that “71% were dissatisfied” with Abbas as president and “74% demanded that he resign.”

However, Salman leaves out the other side of the story from those PCPSR polls. As Abbas’ popularity has declined, two other indicators have taken notable and contemporaneous turns: (1) support for the two-state solution has declined; and (2) support for “armed confrontations and intifada” has risen.

Tracking all three questions since March 2015, we see the following trend:

Source: Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research

Shortly after satisfaction with Abbas began dramatically declining (from 37% in 2020 to 32% in 2021, 23% in 2022, and 19% in 2023), support for armed confrontations and intifada” began sharply increasing (from 43% in 2021 to 52% in 2022 and 58% in 2023). Equally important to note is that support for a two-state solution has simultaneously declined in a similarly dramatic fashion (from 40% in 2022 to 27% in 2023).

That is, the story isn’t just one of declining popularity for Abbas. It’s one of greater support for violence and for rejection of living peacefully, side by side with Israel.

While one must always be cautious of reading too much into polling data, as a recent CAMERA study showed, around the same time that polling data began showing these trends, the level of Palestinian violence dramatically surged, jumping from 1,248 attacks in 2020 to 2,063 in 2021 and 2,674 in 2022. And while UN data suggests violence by Israeli settlers has also increased, the data shows quite clearly that settler violence grew more slowly and remains at levels dramatically lower than Palestinian violence, with 358 incidents in 2020, 496 incidents in 2021, and 849 incidents in 2022.

This preempts the suggestion that the growth in support for violence among Palestinians was a response to growing Israeli violence, given that the data shows the surge in violence has been overwhelmingly driven by the Palestinian side.

One other polling point left out: what Palestinians prefer over “peaceful resistance.” While Salman states that many Palestinians mock calls for “peaceful resistance,” she leaves out what the polls show they prefer: “armed struggle.” While the polling question has not been consistently asked over the same period by PCPSR, the March 2023 poll showed Palestinians chose “armed struggle” (54%) over “popular resistance” (21%) as the “most effective” method to end the conflict and achieve statehood (only 18% chose “negotiations”).

This information exposes Salman’s narrative as rather superficial and misleading in its portrayal of the larger context. While she is correct in noting Abbas’ decline in popularity, a story which deserves far more attention than it has gotten in Western media, her misleading narrative leaves works to distort the other highly relevant trends shaping Palestinian societal views.

[eretzyisrael]

By Sheldon L. Freilich

It is with profound concern that I address the recent plans for an anti-Israel protest in front of the Zekelman Holocaust Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan.

This deeply disturbing and offensive protest desecrates the memory of the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust. Drawing false parallels between Israel’s defensive actions and the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany and its collaborators is not only historically inaccurate but also promotes dangerous antisemitic rhetoric.

The anti-Israel Coalition Against Genocide, its partner Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and other Palestinian groups are spreading vicious falsehoods accusing Israel of committing genocide. JVP attributed the Oct. 7 massacre to “Israeli apartheid and occupation and United States complicity in that oppression.”

On Oct. 7, Israel was invaded by 3,000 Hamas terrorists and Gazan civilians who slaughtered 1,200 Israelis simply because they were Jewish. Women were raped and mutilated in front of their families, some are being kept as sex slaves in Gaza. Babies were burned in ovens and decapitated while Hamas terrorists laughed. The massacre was reminiscent of the Hebron massacre of 1929, in which Jews were slaughtered simply for being Jewish, long before the establishment of the State of Israel.

Kenneth Levin, a Harvard University psychiatrist, has said that there are two reasons for Jewish self-hatred: One is a type of Stockholm Syndrome in which “population segments under chronic siege commonly embrace the indictments of their besiegers, however bigoted and outrageous.” The second is that Jews may blame themselves for their predicament: “Everyone hates us so we must be doing something wrong.”

The Holocaust is a reminder of the consequences of unchecked hatred and violence. Exploiting this sacred memory to push a political agenda disrespects the victims and diminishes and trivializes the gravity of their suffering. The actions of these groups feed into the narratives of antisemites who seek to delegitimize and demonize Israel, further endangering Jews worldwide. As a child of Holocaust survivors and proud Zionists, I find these actions despicable.

Accusations of genocide against Israel are a gross misrepresentation of reality. Israel’s military actions are defensive measures against terrorist organizations, including Hamas, which continuously threaten the safety and security of Israeli civilians. By equating these actions with genocide, protesters ignore the legitimate right of a nation to protect its people.

Protests at Michigan’s largest Holocaust museum justify violence against Israelis and Jews by falsely portraying them as perpetrators of heinous crimes. This dangerous rhetoric incites hatred and violence, contributing to rising antisemitic incidents globally. These libelous protests distort historical facts and promote a false narrative that fuels antisemitic sentiments, misuses the memory of the Holocaust to criticize Israel unjustly and feeds into dangerous and false allegations of genocide.

The Coalition Against Genocide, JVP and their supporters are morally corrupt. All community members and leaders need to denounce this protest and its sponsor groups. It is our collective responsibility to protect the memory of the victims of the Holocaust and to ensure that their suffering is not trivialized or misused. Let us stand together against antisemitism, for truth and for Israel’s right to protect itself.

[workersolidarity]

[ 📹 The Israeli occupation army bombs and shells the tents of displaced Palestinian families before they can even evacuate their belongings outside the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday. The occupation forces open machine-gun fire and tank shells into densely populated areas and tent cities built to house displaced families as they advanced on the center of the city. The local Kuwait Specialized Hospital reported receiving 35 bodies of murdered Palestinians, along with 129 wounded civilians over the last day. 📈 The current death toll in the Gaza genocide now exceeds 34'844 Palestinians killed, including 14'690 children and 10'000 women, with another 78'404 wounded since Oct. 7th, 2023. ]

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ISRAELI OCCUPATION FORCES EXPAND OPERATIONS IN RAFAH, CARPET BOMBING CONTINUES, KEREM SHALOM CROSSING STILL CLOSED, NEW MASS GRAVE DISCOVERED AT AL-SHIFA

On the 215th day of "Israel's" ongoing special genocide operation in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) committed a total of 7 new massacres of Palestinian families, resulting in the deaths of no less than 55 Palestinian civilians, mostly children but also women, while another 200 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 reach 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.

In a new horrific atrocity announced by Gaza's media office, a third mass grave was discovered at the Al-Shifa medical complex in Gaza City on Tuesday, from which at least 49 decomposing bodies of murdered Palestinians have been found so far.

This brings the number of mass graves discovered at hospitals in recent weeks to 7, including one mass grave at Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, three at Al-Shifa Hospital in the Al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City, and three at the Nasser medical complex in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

In a statement issued by media office, the office said, “We condemn in the strongest terms the crimes of genocide and the continuous killing committed by the occupation army against our Palestinian people. "

“We hold the US administration, the international community and the occupation fully responsible for these mass graves and this blatant aggression," the office added.

In other news, there are conflicting reports about the reopening of the Kerem Shalom crossing, where the Gaza Strip at Rafah meets the Egyptian border, the crossing where nearly all humanitarian aid has entered the Gaza Strip from.

The Israeli occupation initially announced on Wednesday that the Kerem Shalom crossing had been reopened to aid trucks, while reports on the ground say a single fuel truck was allowed to pass on its way to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine, also known as UNRWA, before the crossing was again closed by the Israeli army forces occupying the site.

Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation army expanded the scope of its operations in Gaza's southernmost city of Rafah.

Zionist Merkava tanks and other armored vehicles were seen firing tank shells into high-rise buildings, apartment complexes, and other civilian infrastructure in central Rafah, passing through the Al-Awda roundabout in the heart of the city, and reaching to the Al-Najma roundabout, near the entrance to the Shaboura Refugee Camp, southeast of the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood.

Israeli artillery shelling and airstrikes hammered from the outskirts of the Al-Geneina neighborhood, to the Brazil neighborhood east of Rafah, while Zionist aircraft bombed in the vicinity of the site of the former Al-Quds Open University.

Merkava tanks were also witnessed to be firing large-caliber shells into the Al-Shoka neighborhood, a densely populated village in Rafah, while Israeli air forces bombarded the same neighborhood.

Palestinian media sources say hundreds of civilian vehicles were seen leaving the city, the last city standing which has yet to have been leveled by the Israeli occupation forces.

The carnage caused by the Israeli bombing and shelling was immediate, with the Kuwait Specialized Hospital, the only operating hospital in Rafah, reporting it had received 35 martyrs and 129 wounded over the previous 24-hours.

Israeli occupation fighter jets and artillery concentrated firepower on the buildings of Zaroub, the Al-Qeshta tower, and Al-Masry in central Rafah, resulting in several intense fires and civilian deaths, while continued Israeli bombardment prevented the arrival of paramedic and civil defense crews.

At the same time, an Israeli airstrike targeted a gathering of Palestinian civilians, killing at least one and wounding several others, while an IOF warplane bombed a residential house in the Al-Geneina neighborhood, east of the city.

The atrocities continued when Israeli warplanes bombed another group of civilians west of the border crossing, wounding two people who were transported to the Kuwait Specialized Hospital.

Occupation air forces further bombarded the Salah al-Din Gate area on the border with Egypt, killing two Palestinians, while two more Palestinians were killed following an Israeli airstrike on a residential home belonging to the Al-Qadiri family in central Rafah.

Elsewhere, occupation artillery shelling targeted the town of Khuza'a, east of Khan Yunis, also in the southern Gaza Strip, slaughtering two women and wounding many others.

Yet another Zionist bombing of the Mufti's land area, north of the Nuseirat Refugee Camp, in central Gaza, wounded several civilians, while occupation artillery shelling targeted the village of Al-Masdar, also in central Gaza.

In other areas of the Palestinian enclave, Zionist aircraft and helicopters opened fire on the east of the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, while further strikes targeted the Al-Mughraqa area, in central Gaza. Israeli army vehicles from the Netzarim Corridor also fired intense waves of shells and gunfire.

According to Palestinian media outlet WAFA, Israeli occupation forces bombed an apartment in a residential building owned by the Al-Louh family, in the vicinity of the Al-Falah School in the Asqoula area of the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, assasinating a man, his wife and their children, while also wounding a number of others. The dead and wounded were transferred by local civil defense personnel to the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City.

In continued Zionist aggression, Israeli aircraft bombarded a gathering of citizens on Street 8, south of Gaza City, killing one civilian and wounding a number of others.

At the same time, an Israeli bombardment targeted near the Indonesian Hospital in Jabalia, in the north of Gaza, while similarly, occupation artillery forces shelled the town of Beit Lahiya.

As a result of the Israeli occupation's ongoing special genocide operation in the Gaza Strip, the death toll among the local population rises endlessly, now exceeding 34'844 Palestinians killed, including over 14'690 children and 10'000 women, while another 78'404 others have been wounded since the start of the current round of Zionist aggression, beginning with the events of October 7th, 2023.

May 8th, 2024.

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[anarchotahdigism]

"Since this morning, and on the occasion of their 24th anniversary, the Mujahideen Brigades in Gaza have launched dozens of rockets towards settlements, IOF sites, and command centers surrounding Gaza in every direction, as well as engaged in clashes in northern Gaza in over 23 separate operations." .... "

Firstly: We extend our salutes to our valiant fighting Palestinian people in Gaza, who gave what was dear and precious and did not skimp on money, children and homes in their defense of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and their embrace of the valiant resistance. Salutes to all our people in the West Bank, Al-Quds, the interior and the diaspora.

Secondly: We affirm that we have continued on the path of resistance until all rights are taken back and all land is liberated. There is no legitimacy for the zionists on our land.

Thirdly: We affirm that the prisoners of the zionist enemy will not be liberated except in accordance with the will of the resistance and the liberation of our brave prisoners who are subjected to the ugliest policies of zionist criminal abuse in an honorable deal.

Fourthly: We affirm that the aggression must be stopped, the enemy forces must withdraw from the cities of the Gaza Strip, reconstruction must be guaranteed, and the unjust siege on the Gaza Strip must be broken, so that any agreement to end the war or the prisoner’s deal sees success.

Fifthly: We call on all our fighter cells, our fighting factions, and all the masses of our people to escalate the resistance work and the intifada in the face of the fascist enemy, especially in the occupied West Bank and Al-Quds.

Sixthly: We call on the masses of our nation and the free people of the world to put more pressure on the interests of the zionist enemy and its American partners and other Western countries, and to bear the legal, humanitarian and moral responsibility to stop the genocidal war being committed against our people in Gaza.

Seventhly: We salute everyone who stood with our people in support of this political and military stance, and we value the jihadist operations carried out by our brothers in Yemen, Lebanon and Iraq, and we call on them to do more.

Mercy to the righteous martyrs, speedy recovery to the injured and wounded, and speedy relief to our brave prisoners."