Palestine

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20052486

Julia Conley

Sep 07, 2024

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20052176

Sam Levin in Los Angeles

Fri 6 Sep 2024 19.48 EDT

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20051980

by Harriet Sherwood

Fri 6 Sep 2024 12.02 EDT

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20051547

by Arwa Mahdawi

Fri 6 Sep 2024 06.07 EDT

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20051098

by Julian Borger and Sufian Taha in Beita and Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem

Sat 7 Sep 2024 14.43 EDT

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20044676

Her trip to the West Bank, where she was shot on Friday, was Ms. Eygi’s latest effort in years of activism that began nearly a decade ago when was still a teenager.

By Ephrat Livni

Published Sept. 6, 2024Updated Sept. 7, 2024, 4:27 a.m. ET

Netanyahu knows that the ongoing battle in Gaza has not extinguished the Palestinian people’s steadfastness and resistance, and today it is intensifying in the West Bank. If things continue as they are, I believe the situation will escalate to a point where neither Netanyahu nor his supporters can contain it.

The only way to stop this aggression is for Netanyahu to accept the initiative presented and approved by the [Hamas] movement. Otherwise, the world must see that the “israelis” are overstepping their bounds, and there must be a complete and decisive stop to the aggression.

The Palestinians are doing their part in defending themselves, putting the entire world in front of a significant question regarding the seriousness of the world in stopping the ongoing genocide. Today I compare the world’s outcry over the killing of six “israeli” captives — whom we wanted to return alive so that our prisoners could return to their families — to the world’s silence over the massacre of 50,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, as if nothing happened.

Are the lives of six “israeli” captives more valuable to the world than the lives of 50,000 Palestinians? This raises questions about all the humanitarian values, the values of freedom, justice, equality and human rights that some claim to uphold but only cry out for when the victim is “israeli.”

The enemy clearly intends to declare the West Bank a battlefield, and the map Netanyahu presented did not include the West Bank and Al-Quds but rather depicted the entirety of Palestine as part of the occupation entity.

This means that the plan Netanyahu and his government devised to seize the West Bank is still entrenched in the minds of this government, and they are committed to it. Declaring the West Bank a battlefield means that he has failed to eliminate the resistance, which he thought he could succeed in within hours or maybe a day or two.

The military operation in the northern West Bank was not expected by “israel” to last as long as it has or for the resistance to perform so effectively. Moreover, they did not expect the resistance to mobilize in other parts of the West Bank as happened in Al-Khalil. The West Bank is now mobilizing, and resistance is escalating and advancing.

The crime “israel” is committing by declaring the West Bank in a state of war does not necessarily mean the fighting will stop. I recall that during the Al-Aqsa Intifada, everything “israel” did did not stop the resistance; instead, it accelerated and led to the withdrawal of the occupation from Gaza. Perhaps the confrontation in the West Bank will also push for additional withdrawals in this phase.

We will not compromise, and we will not be broken. We mourn the martyrs of our steadfast and resilient West Bank, which is writing a new epic of heroism and sacrifice in the face of the arrogance of the despicable occupation, which has launched its aggression on the cities and camps of the northern West Bank, hoping to break the resolve of the resistance, deluded in its ability to uproot the revolution and struggle of our people in the occupied West Bank.

We stand with our brothers, comrades and heroic fighters from all Palestinian factions and the entire heroic people of our nation. We especially mention the fighters of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, the Jenin Brigade, the Nablus Brigade, the Qalqilya Brigade and all the resistance formations that are emerging successively in all areas of our blessed West Bank, expressing the true spirit of our people in confronting the occupier and its ultimate decision to respond to the occupation’s aggression everywhere, regardless of the consequences and no matter how great the sacrifices.

We call on the masses of our people in Al-Quds, the West Bank and in the 1948 occupied Palestine to escalate the anger and continue to respond to the brutal zionist aggression against our people wherever they are.

Let the noble guns speak, let the swords, daggers and knives be sharpened, and let all popular and military means be activated to curb the aggression and defend Al-Quds and Al-Aqsa.

Now is the time to respond and strike the enemy’s fortresses everywhere. Today, all the sons of our people are mobilized to defend the homeland and sanctities and to teach the occupier harsh lessons in the fervor, anger and latent abilities of our people, ready to avenge and make the occupier pay dearly.

The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades and the Palestinian resistance will remain true to the trust placed in them by their people, a solid fortress, a strong and influential support and a sword and shield for the homeland and sanctities. True to the promise made to the martyrs and prisoners, we are an army for Al-Quds and Palestine, with a clear direction, our rifles aimed and our fingers on the trigger.

We will continue our struggle and jihad against this criminal enemy until it is removed from the blessed land of Palestine. Greetings to the souls of our martyrs who ascend every day across the homeland, drawing with their blood the roadmap toward liberation and return.

Greetings to the noble wounded, and greetings to the heroic free prisoners enduring behind bars, challenging the might of the jailer, with a promise of victory and relief. Greetings to all our people in Al-Quds, the West Bank, Gaza, the 1948 occupied Palestine and in exile in the diaspora.

Some enemy prisoners were killed directly by live bullets from the occupation. Netanyahu and his team do not care about the prisoners. When Netanyahu was asked to choose between Philadelphia and the prisoners, he said, “Philadelphia is more important than the prisoners,” and this is publicly known.

Netanyahu displays bravado and attempts to portray false heroics here and there. These six were directly killed by the occupation and were also targeted in bombings and other actions, as were many before them. I provide here an example of one of them, an “israeli” youth who holds U.S. citizenship.

This young man, for purely humanitarian reasons requested by his family and through the intervention of many people via the Qatari brothers, asked for assurances about his life. We responded for humanitarian and political reasons, to push toward progress in concluding a real deal. We handed the Qatari brothers a video of this young man speaking with his mother and father.

The young man addressed the “israeli” government. After this video, and before some time, Al-Qassam announced that they had lost contact with him and those guarding him, clearly indicating that he was subjected to a direct strike by the “israeli” occupation. Since that day, nothing was known about his life, and today he was found dead with a group of others, which is clear evidence that the occupation targets these individuals.

All stages of negotiation have shown that Netanyahu is not interested in reaching a deal. Instead of sending his army to kill and destroy an entire area to recover two or three prisoners, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of Palestinians, he could have retrieved them through a real exchange deal, as we did last November.

In November and December, more than 115 to 125 “israelis” and foreigners returned through negotiations conducted with the desire, will and mediation of Qatar. This is an example of how, if Netanyahu truly wanted a prisoner exchange, we were immediately ready. We have shown great flexibility and made significant concessions to achieve an exchange deal, halt aggression and war, and end the suffering of the people.

The United States is responsible for obstructing the negotiations; it does not want to reach a deal and has withdrawn from its previous commitments. Briefly looking back, since last March there have been indirect negotiations between us, the mediator brothers and the occupation. We stopped at the points of a ceasefire, prisoner exchange, the withdrawal of the occupation and reconstruction.

Our demand for the exchange included high standards, such as 500 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for every soldier and female soldier and 250 for others. When the mediators indicated there would be a significant opportunity if we showed flexibility in the exchange criteria, we immediately responded, reducing from 500 to 50 for the female soldiers and from 250 to 30 for the civilians.

The mediators, including those from the U.S., received this flexibility positively. But what did the occupation do? They disregarded it and began a new maneuver in May. In May, the Egyptian mediator brothers presented a complete agreement, to which we immediately agreed. The next day, what did the occupation do? They stormed the Rafah crossing, which remains closed.

The vaccination campaign will be supervised by the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestine Refugees.

The campaign targets children from 1 day old to 10 years old, and involves administering two drops of the vaccine orally. This vaccine is approved by the World Health Organization, and over 1.2 billion doses have been produced worldwide so far.

According to the plan to be implemented, 640,000 Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip are expected to receive this vaccination, representing over 95% of children aged from 1 day old to 10 years old.

A comprehensive plan has been finalized to ensure the success of this campaign in all governorates and neighborhoods of the Gaza Strip. The campaign will start in the Central Governorate from September 1 to 4, 2024, then move to the Khan Younis and Rafah governorates from September 5 to 8, 2024, and finally to the Gaza and North Gaza governorates from September 9 to 12, 2024.

Dozens of field teams will participate in the vaccination campaign, covering all neighborhoods, alleys and centers in the Gaza Strip, as well as displacement and shelter camps and all locations where children are present in the Gaza Strip. The vaccination campaign is crucial and requires a ceasefire — so that these health teams can perform their duties effectively.

It is also essential to ensure that children and their families are not endangered while traveling from their homes to the vaccination centers and to protect these teams from the constant threat of bombardment by the “israeli” occupation, which continues its genocidal war against our Palestinian people without pause.

See also: Polio vaccination in Gaza proceeds despite war

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20022105

by #JuliaConley

Sep 06, 2024

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20021783

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20021669

by Jessica Corbett

Sep 06, 2024

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20019766

by Ryan Grim

Sep 06, 2024

“It’s an indictable criminal offence for an air carrier to transport munitions or dangerous goods over Irish sovereign airspace without an exemption from the minister for transport,” The Ditch editors wrote in their post. “The Department of Transport says no such exemptions were granted to Challenge Airlines in 2023 or 2024.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20019564

by #JeremyScahill

Sep 03, 2024

This was among the information Edward Snowden also had that he shared with this guy (aaaaand a further reminder of why I despise liberals; cause instead of hating Kamala, Biden and Obama, they despise Edward Snowden).

I don't even know what to say; I don't even know if I should advise Palestinians not to talk to their relatives in Gaza or if perhaps there's some amount of selectivity going on in who the IOF murders from those Gazans, although it does seem as though they're trying to stop information from leaving Gaza as genocidally as they can.

I recall a (post? bad empanada video? article?) that frankly called it out correctly that America is Israel's (willing) accomplice in the genocide and not a shot at putting an end to the killings.

https://x.com/zunguzungu/status/1831095086811373825

Israelis are defending themselves from people weaker than them, so brave.
It's a unilateral massacre of civilians, nothing like a war, and the result of indoctrinating israelis since their birth to f*cking hate palestinians.
At least Russia's claim about n.a.t.o.'s encroaching the Black Sea and the surroundings of Moscow is more valid, and could have easily been avoided(, if we listened to their demands of a "sphere of influence"). A few millions of poor palestinians can't manage to defend themselves or their territory, they're not a threat justifying a ~~war~~ unilateral massacre

And by creating much more palestinian terrorists/resistants than they've murdered, their security has been lowered, if "Bibi" wasn't already on this path, now any future peace plan is even more compromised, Yigal Amir has won.

There may not be anyone right now to stop them from taking always more, but perhaps that, one day, israelis will be treated like they treated palestinians for a change. And we(sterners) will also be treated like we treated the rest of the world(, e.g., maintained in poverty/inequality, used in proxy wars, feeling our powerlessness, etc.). Or we could also evolve to avoid international domination/hegemony.

(Still think that one day every nation will fragment into city-states and borders will be meaningless, for Israel as well. Or not. And that a good plan could be to change them into something closer to islam and the policies/decisions of the islamic states, perhaps)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19981663

By MEE staff

Published date: 5 September 2024 14:43 BST

I hope you'll also note the black person they're racistly depicting also has a star of David necklace which I'm assuming means they're trying to make it clear they're being racist towards fellow Jewish people who happen to be black.