Israeli Bombs Forces 100s Out of Al Shuejaiya

The battle for Al Shuejaiya is fierce. Israeli forces are trying to move into the neighborhood under the protection of Israel warplanes which are bombing the area indiscriminately with the number of those killed climbing from eight to 15 being martyred and 105 injured.  

Under heavy Israel bombardment, Thursday, at least 100s of families are being forced to evacuate the Al Shuejaiya neighborhood.

This is the umpteenth time, the town has been under heavy bombardment by Israeli warplanes. Scores of injuries are being reported while Israeli forces are moving into the town under the protection of heavy artillery shelling.

All neighborhoods in east Gaza are being targeted by Israeli warplanes including Al Zaitoon and Al Tufah.

Reports say the raids and shelling first forced people to stay in their homes but then forced them to leave and join the 100s of thousands of displaced people.  For many this has been a constant struggle with people forced to leave six or seven times.

In Al Shuejaiya there is now indiscriminate tank shelling and this is forcing people to leave their homes in a process being described as mass displacement and dismemberment.

The shelling of Shuejaiya is trending under different tags including #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust #ZionistTerrorism under intense airstrikes and heavy artillery shelling with no respite.

Spokesman of the Civil Defence told Al Jazeera that 7 victims arrived at Al Ahili Baptist Hospital. He called upon international organizations to intervene to protect the civilians and especially children.

He said there are victims and injured people Al Shejaiya whom our teams have not been able to reach.

Finally, he adds tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians have been displaced due to the intense Israeli bombing of the neighborhood.  Further, reports say that Israeli warplanes fired at Palestinians fleeing the neighborhood.

At one point shrapnel from an Israeli artillery shelling targeting Al-Shuja’iyya nearly hit Al-Jazeera correspondent Ismael Al-Goul as he was covering the Israeli attack on the area today.

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Dr. Marwan Asmar holds a PhD from Leeds University and is a freelance writer specializing on the Middle East. He has worked as a journalist since the early 1990s in Jordan and the Gulf countries, and been widely published, including at Albawaba, Gulf News, Al Ghad, World Press Review and others.

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When I finally gave up, it stood before me on the rock, quiet, and let the distance between us disappear.

Perhaps it thought hunger had changed the meaning of things, that in a time of famine, the hand holding a camera might become a hand searching for food.

But it did not know that we do not eat birds like this.
And even if we could, I would choose to leave it in the sky rather than place it on my children’s table.

Once, during the famine, I caught a bird that was considered edible. When I came to slaughter it, our eyes met.
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So I let it go.

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The signatories include prominent directors Ari Folman, Shlomi Elkabetz, Ran Tal and Michal Aviad.

“The central role of art and journalism is to hold a mirror up to the society in which they exist,” the petition said.

The initiative came amid growing criticism and threats directed at the film’s creators, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, after the documentary won the Special Jury Prize at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival.

Israeli Culture and Sports Minister Miki Zohar branded the filmmakers’ work an act of “treason” and said he would seek to revoke their Israeli citizenship.

The culture minister does not have the power to revoke citizenship unilaterally. Such a measure would require a formal legal process involving the interior minister and the courts under Israeli law.

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The film takes its name from the Hebrew military abbreviation for “collateral damage,” referring to the estimated number of civilians expected to be killed in an attack.

Interviewees describe the use of artificial intelligence and mass surveillance to identify targets as well as attacks approved despite anticipated civilian casualties.

Abraham and Szor said the documentary focuses on institutional policies, orders and operational practices rather than isolated misconduct by individual soldiers.

The Israeli army rejected the film’s allegations and questioned the reliability of testimony from anonymous sources whose identities, ranks and areas of responsibility could not be verified.

It also denied that artificial intelligence determines which targets are attacked, saying strike selection and authorization decisions are made by human personnel in accordance with military directives.

Abraham and Szor previously worked on the Academy Award-winning documentary No Other Land alongside Palestinian filmmakers Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal. Anadolu

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