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Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Isabella Hammad "... many, many people who don’t have anything to do with Palestine are devastated by what they’re seeing, which has shattered all sorts of illusions they had about their societies and their governments and about what’s humanly possible in terms of destruction."

 You refer to Israel as “a militarised society in which dissent is punished” and liken 7 October to an “incredibly violent jailbreak”.
I was being precise. The idea that 7 October was an invasion is completely wrong. This is a captive population in a ghetto, basically. You can’t exercise self-defence against a population that you are occupying militarily. The BBC will shout down a Palestinian guest and say, well, that’s not what the Israelis would say. Of course it’s not what the Israelis would say – they’re upholding an apartheid regime in which they’re exacting a genocide on a captive population. To say that Israel is a militarised state in which dissent is punished is precise. They don’t let journalists into the Gaza Strip; they put in prison people who like a social media post from Gaza. I’m just trying to be precise with language – that’s the least we can do.

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‘I remember being very taken by a poem that described waves breaking on a shore like eggshells’: Isabella Hammad. Photograph: Maria Spann/for The Observer
Isabella Hammad: ‘I heard Edward Said speak when I was seven’

How do you feel about the future?
I’m not an oracle. But many, many people who don’t have anything to do with Palestine are devastated by what they’re seeing, which has shattered all sorts of illusions they had about their societies and their governments and about what’s humanly possible in terms of destruction. I don’t know that it’s necessarily an optimistic thing to say, but there’s no going back from this, whatever that means.

At least 35 children killed in Israeli airstrikes as thousands flee their homes amid fresh attack on Lebanon

 

At least 35 children killed and thousands of people fleeing amid airport chaos as new wave of Israeli airstrikes hits Lebanon

Israel’s army radio and Lebanon’s National News Agency both reported a fresh wave of Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon on Tuesday morning as thousands continued to take to the roads to flee the south of the country.

An official from Unicef said that at least 35 children had been killed so far in the airstrikes, which have killed nearly 500 people and wounded thousands of others. Reuters, citing an official from the World Health Organization, reports that some hospitals have been overwhelmed by the number of dead and injured, which come on top of last week’s pager and walkie-talkie detonations that killed dozens and wounded thousands of others. That attack was widely attributed to an Israeli attempt to target Hezbollah operatives, although nobody has claimed responsibility for the mass sabotage of the electronic devices.

READ MORE  https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/24/middle-east-crisis-live-israel-lebanon-hezbollah-war-news

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