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From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: shocking video: destruction of a residential block east of Rafah City
URL: https://twitter.com/KhaledYousry22/status/1790680067263099223
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A video of the destruction of a residential block east of Rafah City published by the Israeli occupation army soldier Avichai Shorashan. (watch at link) A few hours ago, the Washington Post published a report that President Joe Biden decided to proceed with providing over a billion dollars’ worth of weapons to Israel, despite announcing a halt to sending weapons to Israel. Officials revealed to the newspaper that the arms deals would include $700 million worth of tank ammunition, $500 million worth of tactical vehicles, and $60 million worth of mortar shells. The United States of America still does not see any evidence indicating a violation of international humanitarian law or American law by Israel. International law prohibits the destruction of civilian homes in war zones through several key articles, most notably Article 53 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which prohibits the destruction of private property, and Article 147 of the same convention, which classifies the unlawful destruction of property as a war crime, in addition to Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions of 1977, which emphasizes the protection of civilians and their property from hostilities. ڤيديو لتدمير مربع سكني شرق مدينة رفح نشره جندي جيش الاحتلال الإسرائيلي أفخاي شورشان منذ ساعات نشرت صحيفة “واشنطن بوست” تقريراً يفيد بأن الرئيس الأمريكي جو بايدن قرر المضي قدماً في تقديم أسلحة بقيمة تتجاوز مليار دولار لإسرائيل بالرغم من إعلانه إيقاف إرسال الأسلحة إلى إسرائيل، حيث كشف مسؤولون للصحيفة أن صفقات الأسلحة ستكون بقيمة 700 مليون دولار من ذخيرة الدبابات، و500 مليون دولار من المركبات التكتيكية، و60 مليون دولار من قذائف الهاون. لا تزال الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية لا ترى أي دلائل تشير إلى انتهاك القانون الدولي الإنساني أو القانون الأمريكي من جانب إسرائيل. القانون الدولي يمنع تدمير منازل المدنيين في مناطق الحروب من خلال عدة مواد أساسية، أهمها المادة 53 من اتفاقية جنيف الرابعة التي تحظر تدمير الممتلكات الخاصة، والمادة 147 من نفس الاتفاقية التي تصنف تدمير الممتلكات بشكل غير قانوني كجريمة حرب، بالإضافة إلى البروتوكول الإضافي الأول لاتفاقيات جنيف لعام 1977 الذي يشدد على حماية المدنيين وممتلكاتهم من الأعمال العدائية. |
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From: ao, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: shocking video: destruction of a residential block east of Rafah...
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Oh no, mr Bill, not another tweet from twit! As to "International law prohibits" I am sure.. positive.. International law prohibits Hamas from their very existence. And hey, those tunnels.. under homes, under hospitals and stores and schools and omg are you gonna start bitching about Hamas? If not, methinks your bitches still ring hollow. Maybe you'll find the folks over on twit to be more encouraging? |
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From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Giving Cover to Israel’s Rafah Atrocity with Phony Gaza Numbers Game
URL: https://www.juancole.com/2024/05/israels-atrocity-numbers.html
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Gaslit to Death: Giving Cover to Israel’s Rafah Atrocity with Phony Gaza Numbers Game JUAN COLE 05/15/2024 Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Playing with the death toll from Israel’s total war on Gaza is not as cruel as actually killing over 35,000 people, the majority women and children. But it is still cruel and heartless. It is also another way we are being gaslit by the pro-Zionist US establishment. There is that scene in the first Star Wars film when Obi Wan Kenobe uses Jedi magic to convince the Storm Troopers looking for R2D2, “These are not the ‘droids you’re looking for.” Congressional staffers once told me that that is the way politics works on the Hill. Now they’re trying to tell us that actually all those little dead children are figments of our imagination. The US government repeatedly warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his extremist, fascist cabinet not to invade Rafah without a practical plan for protecting the nearly two million civilians whom Israel has force-marched into the small enclave, most with no potable water, no toilets, and insufficient food and shelter. Israel is in the process of invading Rafah, forcing some 360,000 internal refugees to flee the area designated as a “safe zone” for wilderness or already-destroyed towns that are still being actively bombed. I think it is in order to take people’s minds off the current additional war crimes being committed by Tel Aviv that Zionist agents provocateurs have signaled their useful idiots to try to make an issue of the Palestinian death toll. It is a phony issue. Netanyahu himself has admitted that 30,000 are dead, though he implausibly alleges that 14,000 are Hamas militants and he leaves out another 5,000 he’s not accounting for. The UN World Health Organization said Monday that 25,000 of the Palestinians in Gaza had been positively identified by the Gaza Health Ministry — which is run by professionals, not by the Hamas politburo. Another 10,000 of the corpses awaited such definite identification, coming to 35,000 total. The identification of 25,000 is an advance, since previously names had not been put to so many of the dead. Persons who hate Palestinians the way the devil hates holy water jumped on the disaggregation of the two figures to allege that the UN was admitting “only” 25,000 had been killed and the MoH numbers were unreliable. These horrid prevaricators included the US Council on Foreign Relations, which thereby lost all credibility, and Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post, which never had any credibility, and Joe Scarborough, long a right wing clown. That isn’t what the WHO said. As a historian I like primary sources. So I’ll let you hear it from the horse’s mouth. Here’s the video: WHO Video: World Health Organization Gaza Casualties And here’s the transcript: Storyline In Gaza, as more Palestinian casualties of the Israeli military offensive are identified by the enclave’s health authorities, UN humanitarians reiterated on Tuesday (14 May) that a high proportion of women and children were indeed among the 35,000 dead. UNTV CH Since the beginning of the war in the enclave triggered by Hamas’ deadly 7 October attacks in Israel, the United Nations has consistently relied on casualty figures from the Gaza Ministry of Health, noting that independent verification is not possible. Last week, the health authorities updated the breakdown of the figures based on the number of bodies identified, but the UN has maintained that neither the overall death toll nor the proportion of women and children killed had gone down. Liz Throssell, spokesperson for the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR), told the Press in Geneva: “We’re basically talking about 35,000 people who are dead. And really every life matters, doesn’t it? We know that many and many of those are women and children, and there are thousands missing under the rubble.” Speaking on behalf of the UN’s humanitarian affairs coordination office, OCHA, Jens Laerke clarified that “what has been provided additionally by the Ministry of Health is more detailed information about a subsection of the overall tally” of the 35,000 dead. Christian Lindmeier, spokesperson for the UN World Health Organization (WHO), explained that as the Gaza Ministry of Health “identifies every single body… gives names to people to give closure to their family, their friends – that’s when these figures get updated and the data get updated”. Some 25,000 have been identified, he said, calling the growing number of identified bodies “a step forward” and “a typical and very normal process in any conflict”. Among the 10,000 remaining dead, some are not reachable, including those “in mass graves”. These individuals need to be brought back to a health centre or morgue for identification, Mr. Lindmeier said, insisting that “every single of these figures is a person with a name, a history and a family”. The WHO spokesperson also warned against getting “sidetracked” by the death toll updates and breakdowns. Two recent OCHA situation reports have been widely “scrutinized” for changes in the proportion of women and children killed, he said. However, if one applies the breakdown by gender and age of the 25,000 bodies now identified to the remaining unidentified 10,000 casualties, women and children still represent about 60 per cent. The UN health agency spokesperson also pointed out that under collapsed houses, there is a “high likelihood that you find rather women and children because they are the ones typically staying at home while the men are out looking for food, looking for business, looking for any supplies for their families”. Mr. Lindmeier further insisted on the challenges of identification in a “difficult conflict” where people have been “displaced five, six, seven times”, and where, in certain areas, “not a single health worker, no ambulance” can venture to recover dead bodies. “Once everybody is recovered, you may have a chance to have a name to every person,” he said. “We need a ceasefire now to be able to recover those dead.” Only the malicious could have read the UN reports in any other way but as an affirmation of the vast death toll and a plea for a ceasefire so that the remaining 10,000 Jane Does and John Does can have a decent individual burial, not the mass graves into which Israeli soldiers are bulldozing them. Of course, a ceasefire would also be nice so as to cease racking up such an astonishing death toll. Filed Under: Featured, Israel/ Palestine About the Author Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page Primary Sidebar DONATE Help keep independent journalism alive and donate online, or make checks payable to: "Juan Cole" P. O. Box 4218, Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2548 (No parcels, please) STAY INFORMED Join our newsletter to have sharp analysis delivered to your inbox every day. Warning! Social media will not reliably deliver Informed Comment to you. They are shadowbanning news sites, especially if "controversial." To see new IC posts, please sign up for our email Newsletter. SOCIAL MEDIA Bluesky | Instagram X @jricole | X @infcomment MUHAMMAD: PROPHET OF PEACE AMID THE CLASH OF EMPIRES Click here to Buy Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires. THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM Click here to Buy The Rubaiyat. 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From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: shocking video: destruction of a residential block east of...
URL: https://twitter.com/thrasherxy/status/1790843439765913711
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Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch reposted 🍉Prof. Thrasher is with our students🔻@thrasherxy · 3h Say his name: Journalist Hayel Najjar was killed with members of his family in Jabalia. He is something like the 146th journalist killed in the genocide |
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From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: shocking video: destruction of a residential block east of...
| yeah, another tweet! lol |
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From: old timer, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: shocking video: destruction of a residential block east of...
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really? you and ao are going right back to trolling? i’ve never had a twitter account but it is just a damned media platform that most people including the dnc and biden use regularly. pretty damned stupid to troll akira this way |
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From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: shocking video: destruction of a residential block east of...
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I don't think they understand how twitter works... but more likely they're pretending they don't. I wonder what they get out of that? |
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