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Doctors who have volunteered in the Gaza Strip during the ongoing Israeli genocide have described unprecedentedly horrifying conditions in hospitals. This dire situation results from Israel’s inhumane blockade of aid and medicine, combined with its relentless bombardment of residential areas across the strip.
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At least 91 journalists have been detained by the Israeli army since the outbreak of the conflict in the Gaza Strip last Oct. 7, according to a local nongovernmental organization on Thursday.
Fifty-three journalists remain in detention, including six women journalists, the Palestinian Prisoner Society said in a statement.
The detained journalists include 16 from the Gaza Strip and 17 held without trial or charge under Israel’s policy of administrative detention, it added.
According to the NGO, at least 9,800 Palestinians have been rounded up by the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank since Oct. 7, 2023 according to Anadolu.
Tensions have been running high across the occupied West Bank amid a deadly Israeli offensive that killed nearly 39,200 people in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, 2023.
At least 590 Palestinians have since been killed and nearly 5,400 others injured by Israeli army fire in the occupied West Bank, according to the Health Ministry.
In a landmark opinion on July 19, the International Court of Justice declared Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian land “illegal” and called for the evacuation of all existing settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
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Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib representing Detroit had this to say for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu when he was addressing the US Congress, Tuesday.
Her image continues to trend, setting with all the other Congressmen and Congresswomen as if this was the most natural thing in the world with signs of “War Criminal” and “Guilty in Genocide” staring Netanyahu in the face.
In protest of Netanyahu’s visit to Congress, activists in Washington dyed multiple fountains around Capitol Hill with red and projections cast demanding the arrest of war criminal Netanyahu.
Tlaib had wrote: “Netanyahu is a war criminal committing genocide against the Palestinian people. It is utterly disgraceful that leaders from both parties have invited him to address Congress. He should be arrested and sent to the International Criminal Court.”
In a statement on her website she clarified: “Since 1948, the US has provided more than $141 billion in weapons to the Israeli government to fund the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, including $17.9 billion since October.
Netanyahu’s apartheid regime has already slaughtered over 39,000 Palestinians in Gaza, including 15,000 children. Yet my colleagues and the Biden administration continue to approve more funding and send more weapons – even as innocent children like Hind Rajab are targeted with 355 bullets, shot in the heart by Israeli sniper, burned to death in their tents with US-made weapon, bombed while playing at school, deliberately starved to death, and Palestinians are bombed in refugee camps and discovered in mass graves, naked and with their hands tied, all live-streamed for the world to see.
These are undeniably wore crimes under international law.
Make no mistake: This event is a celebration of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. It is a sad day for our democracy when my colleagues will smile for a photo op with a man who is actively committing genocide.
It is hypocritical to claim to be concerned about the massive death toll of innocent civilians, and then turn around and welcome the person responsible for these war crimes to our Capitol. Their silence is betrayal, and history will remember them accordingly.
Our government must stop supporting and funding this genocide now,” Tlaib ends by saying.
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In what appears to be a direct clash with the Israeli Knesset, the US government does not regard UNRWA as a “terrorism organization.”
US State Department spokesman Mathew Miller said, Wednesday “UNRWA is not a terrorist organization, and we urge the Israeli government and the Knesset to halt the movement of this legislation.”
Miller was responding to the fact that the Israeli parliament, last Monday, introduced a draft bill, in its first reading, designating UNRWA as a terrorism organization and that Israel is set to cut relations with this UN body.
“We have been clear about the important role that UNRWA plays in delivering humanitarian assistance and other critical assistance to Palestinians in Gaza – and throughout the region, not just in Gaza…the United States provides the majority of its funding for – a majority of the funding for humanitarian efforts in Gaza through the UN. We expect to continue to do so…” he added.
“…the attacks that the Israeli Government has leveled on UNRWA are incredibly unhelpful. They do nothing to advance the cause of getting humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza. So we’re going to continue to support the work that UNRWA does in the region, while also recognizing the need for reform…” he maintained.
The UN organization employs 30,000 employs working to serve 5.9 Palestinians in the region. Israel is accusing the organization of employing more than 400 terrorists in the Gaza Strip.
As a result the USA suspended its financial contribution to the agency after the Israeli accusations which were not proven by Israel.
Since then, US law has prohibited Washington from releasing funds to the agency, while several countries have resumed their contributions to the agency, including the UK, Germany, EU, Sweden, Japan, and France.
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Secretary-General of the Palestinian National Initiative Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, described Netanyahu’s speech as disgusting in a shameful session of the US Congress, which accepted to host and give a platform to the war criminal Netanyahu, who is committing crimes of genocide, ethnic cleansing, collective punishment and starvation in Gaza as reported in the Jo24.net website.
Barghouti added that the civilization he speaks of led to the martyrdom of 48,000 Palestinians in Gaza, including 17,000 children, amputation of the hands and feet of 1,200 Palestinian children and the displacement of two million Palestinians after the demolition of their homes.
He said: “This is not civilization, but decadence.”
Barghouti said Netanyahu’s speech was full of lies, even surpassing the Nazi propagandist Goebbels, especially when he claimed that Israel was delivering aid to the residents of the Gaza Strip while the whole world know that is a lie.
“Unfortunately, the US Congress witnessed a disgusting speech by Netanyahu in a shameful session in support of a war criminal, which was boycotted by honorable American representatives who are not subject to the Israeli lobby’s money, and thousands of supporters of the Palestinian struggle demonstrated against it, including thousands of American Jewish protesters who refuse to support Israel with weapons and who call for the freedom of Palestine.”
Barghouti pointed out Netanyahu has made himself and Israel a symbol of reactionism, fundamentalist racism, and a barbaric colonial mentality, and has practiced dangerous propaganda to spread Islamophobia.
Barghouti warned of the danger of Netanyahu’s plan of what he call “the next day for Gaza,” which includes “continuing the aggression against Gaza, maintaining the Israeli occupation there, establishing an entity that is an agent of the occupation…and continuing to use normalization with Arab countries to liquidate the Palestinian issue and restructure Palestinian consciousness to submit to the occupation.”
Barghouti stressed confronting Netanyahu’s vision would be through the rapid implementation of what was stated in the Beijing Declaration, especially the formation of a national reconciliation government that would foil Netanyahu’s tricks and plans and consolidate the unity of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Jerusalem,” he concluded.
