Friday, March 8, 2024
Thursday, March 7, 2024
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Displaced Palestinian families prepare for Ramadan in Rafah, Gaza.❤ photo by Fares Abulebda
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| Displaced Palestinian families prepare for Ramadan in Rafah, Gaza.❤ photo by Fares Abulebda |
Monday, March 4, 2024
WARNING: “Children in the Gaza Strip are dying slowly [of starvation] before the eyes of the world.”
The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (@UNRWA) warned on Sunday that “children in the Gaza Strip are dying slowly before the eyes of the world.”
The agency made its comment on X in response to a statement by UNICEF, following the death of fifteen children as a result of dehydration and malnutrition in Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip.
“The children’s deaths that we feared would happen have become a reality, while malnutrition is sweeping the Gaza Strip,” said UNICEF’s Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, Adele Khader.
The ongoing Israeli offensive against the Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip has killed more than 30,000 Palestinians, most of them children and women.
Moreover, it has created a humanitarian crisis wherein the vast majority of the population of Gaza faces the threat of mass starvation.
Sunday, March 3, 2024
Saturday, March 2, 2024
In 1948 Israel could have chosen to include all indigenous Arabs- Christian and Muslim- as part of the process to make a real democracy for all human beings, but Zionists did the opposite by creating a huge refugee crisis.
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Old PHOTO: Palestine, 1948. Refugees [try to] return to their village after
surrendering in the war against Israel. The conflict forced 85 percent
of the Palestinian population living in what became Israel to leave
their homes. Their right to return was writen into a U.N. resolution
that year, but 65 years later this issue has yet to be resolved. |
Dear President Biden,
It is villainous for American leadership to empower Israel's ongoing quest to ethnically cleanse the Holy Land from the river to the sea.
Israel is a cruel war machine: We should not be arming and enabling Israel's violations of international law and basic human rights.
Every IDF soldier and Zionist settler is forced to look back knowing
their crimes against humanity. They have to live with themselves either
by feeling remorse & soul crushing guilt, OR by finding solace in a
boundless DENIAL that what Israel has been doing to the native
non-Jewish Palestinians is absolutely wicked and wrong.
Denial is a major component of Israeli life and public relations as
Zionists seek to gather funds and support from individuals and
governments every where and in every way worldwide. Our Congress and our
national newspapers are pawns for racist Israel as they foolishly
foster monstrous misinformation provided by the nefarious agents of a
foreign country.
I abhor HAMAS, but please start noticing that for the past 100 years
Zionists have set the example of arming religion and using terrorism to
gain land and political power. Israel wants HAMAS to thrive, to demonize and further
undermine Palestinians' quest for real freedom, justice, and true
democracy.
In 1948 Israel could have chosen to include all indigenous Arabs-
Christian and Muslim- as part of the process to make a real democracy
for all human beings, but Zionists did the opposite by creating a huge
refugee crisis.
Air dropping food to the starving people trapped in Gaza while also
arming Apartheid
Israel with lethal weaponry, money AND a green light to further
impoverish and displace Palestinian men, women and children is a PR
stunt. A more honorable and helpful way forward is to PLEASE RESTORE
FUNDING TO UNWRA ...
& Please STOP FUNDING ISRAEL for everyone's sake.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
NOTES https://anniesnewletters.blogspot.com/search/label/Notes
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Gary Burge, Wheaton College professor, explaining why he is no longer a Christian Zionist.
Famous #Gaza artist Fathi Ghaben passed away this morning while awaiting Israeli permission to travel abroad for medical treatment, despite numerous appeals.
The New Yorker: My Family’s Daily Struggle to Find Food in Gaza by Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha
Jews don watermelon kippahs in Gaza solidarity #Palestine
Where you stand matters
Every nation that has divested funding from UNWRA is complicit in the starvation of human beings... and the torture of children
Our beloved "friend" Israel has been actively oppressing, demonizing, impoverishing, and displacing the native non-Jewish people of historic Palestine and has been since 1948.
"I cannot understand how raw, naked evidence can be overridden by American intellectuals just because the “security” of Israel demands it" Edward Said
Violence is the feel good answer in movies & on TV- not in real life
Religion should be a personal choice, not a state funded project.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights "Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world..."
A tenth child in a Gaza hospital has been registered as dying from starvation and warns 'real figure is likely to be higher'
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An 8-year-old child waits her turn to receive food in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. (file)
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Gaza: Worst famine fears realised as 10th child reportedly ‘starves to death’
Peace and Security
Repeated warnings from humanitarians over desperate food insecurity and imminent famine in Gaza came into focus on Friday amid reports from the enclave’s authorities that a tenth child had died from malnutrition and dehydration.
“The official records yesterday or this morning said there was a tenth child officially registered in a hospital as having starved to death,” said UN health agency spokesperson Christian Lindmeier. “A very sad threshold…(but) the unofficial numbers can unfortunately be expected to be higher.”
The development followed media reports overnight that four children had died in northern Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, in addition to six other youngsters who died on Wednesday at the same facility and at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
Hunger ‘catastrophe’
A two-year-old girl in Gaza is screened, indicating severe acute malnutrition and drastic weight loss and muscle atrophy.
The deepening food insecurity crisis in the enclave – which UN aid coordination office OCHA said had left one in four facing catastrophic levels of food insecurity – prompted renewed international alarm on Thursday, when more than 100 Palestinians were apparently killed and hundreds were injured trying to get aid from a relief convoy stopped at a roundabout southwest of Gaza City.
Swift condemnation of the incident by UN Secretary-General António Guterres – who also called for an independent investigation – was echoed by other top UN officials, including UN relief chief Martin Griffiths, amid reports of continuing intense Israeli bombardment from air, land and sea across much of the Gaza Strip.
“We saw pictures from Al-Shifa (hospital) where victims of the killings were lying next to each other waiting for any treatment,” the UN World Health Organization (WHO)’s Mr. Lindmeier told journalists in Geneva.
Water and power cut
“The system in Gaza – we’ve said it many times that it’s on its knees – it’s more than on its knees,” the WHO official continued, explaining that all of Gaza’s “lifelines have more or less been cut”, notably water and electricity, since immediately after Hamas-led terror attacks on Israeli communities on 7 October.
OCHA spokesperson Jens Laerke meanwhile insisted that before the conflict “people had food; people were able to produce their own food.”
Today, finding food within Gaza itself, whether from farming or fishing, “is almost impossible”, Mr. Laerke continued. “Putting food on the table…has completely stopped. The very foundation for people's daily sustenance is being ripped away.”
Latest humanitarian food insecurity assessments – the IPC classification index which is used as a reference by aid agencies – indicate that the entire population of Gaza – 2.2 million people – face "crisis" levels of food insecurity, the OCHA spokesperson said. Of that number, around 1.17 million face "emergency" levels of food insecurity, and the plight for another 500,000 is "catastrophic".
'Dire situation'
"We have a dire situation coming towards us at very high speed," Mr. Laerke said, his comments echoing a recent UN humanitarians' warning to the Security Council that famine in the enclave is "almost inevitable" unless aid is massively scaled up.
According to UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, the quantity of aid supplies reaching Gaza in February was just half of January’s total, “and we know that January was not enough at all”, the WHO spokesperson said.
Just last week, the Council heard briefings from top humanitarian organisations, including medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières, which reported that a pattern of attacks by Israeli forces against hospitals and other civilian buildings, together with humanitarian personnel and convoys, was “either intentional or indicative of reckless incompetence”.
Thursday evening, the Security Council held closed consultations, but were deadlocked over a presidential statement related to the aid emergency, according to media reports.
Vital signs
Reiterating repeated UN calls for a ceasefire, Mr. Lindmeier maintained that Thursday’s tragic aid convoy deaths had highlighted how desperate Gazans were for food, fresh water and other essentials after nearly five months of war.
“This is the real drama; this is the real catastrophe here, that food and supplies are so scarce that we see these situations coming up, and the food supplies have been cut off deliberately,” he maintained, noting that Gazans were no longer able to provide for themselves.
“The fields which were existing – the greenhouses, the little bit of agriculture – all that needs water supply, or water supply depending on electricity and pumping stations,” he explained. “This is the real drama; this just underlines more and more that we need an urgent ceasefire now. If not now, then when?”
Donate to the humanitarian response in Gaza.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/03/1147112
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Friday, March 1, 2024
Palestinians face assault by [Israeli] gun, bulldozer and attack dog- ‘They took our home, our land, everything’: Palestinians displaced by illegal settlers tell their stories
Salah Abu Awad says he is haunted by memories of the night he was woken up by Israeli settlers who burst into his home and threatened him at gunpoint.
It was one of
the many attacks that forced the 28-year-old shepherd and his family to
dismantle their homes and abandon their land in the village of Widada in
the occupied West Bank’s south Hebron hills.... READ MORE https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/01/they-took-our-home-our-land-everything-palestinians-displaced-by-settlers-tell-their-stories
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Salah
Abu Awad, 28, with his flock on Samoah lands, in the south Hebron
hills. Abu Awad was forced to abandon Widada village due to constant
settler violence and harassment. Photograph: Quique Kierszenbaum/The Guardian
"In July last year, Abu Awad fled Widada, where his family had lived for decades, because he felt “caged and threatened”, he said. “We were afraid all the time, living in fear. It was not life.”
Abu Awad said that days earlier, Federman tried to steal his sheep at gunpoint while he was out grazing his flock.
It was the last straw for Abu Awad, who was still reeling from the shock of the home invasion in the early hours of 12 March 2023. Abu Awad recalled: “Yinon and Ely broke into my home. Ely came with an attack dog and a M16 rifle.
“They came inside and opened everything, including cabinets, and made a mess with everything. They asked ‘where’s the money’, but I didn’t have any money. My wife and children were so afraid.”
He said he reported the incident to the police, adding: “I got official paperwork saying I’d filed a complaint but nothing happened.”"
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Rev’d Munther Isaac, Pastor of Christmas Lutheran Church, Bethlehem in Palestine: "When churches justify a genocide or are silent...."
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| Rev’d Munther Isaac, Pastor of Christmas Lutheran Church, Bethlehem in Palestine |
Israeli Soldiers Just Murdered 103 Starving Palestinian Civilians, Wounded 700, as the Palestinians waited for aid
The death toll from Israeli attacks on Gaza has now passed 30,000. With
more than 70,000 others injured, and thousands more uncounted victims
buried under the rubble of collapsed buildings, nearly one in 20 of the
prewar population of Gaza are now casualties of attacks.
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Dear (elected officials): Israel, Palestine, Democracy... and the Rule of Fair and Just Laws & Policies- for a true and lasting peace
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| Protest for Palestine 2024 |
America has its Trail of Tears and Jim Crow laws IN THE PAST. The Nazi Holocaust with all its horrors is IN THE PAST... but armed Israeli bigotry, violence and injustice is going on right now.
Arab children are being terrorized and starved in Gaza by Israel,
because racist Israel wants Palestinians either dead or radicalized and
silenced.
Israel claims to be a democracy but Israel is obsessed with
demographics and with demonizing
Palestinians. That is clearly not a democratic value, nor is building a
land grabbing Apartheid Wall on illegally occupied territory- or
bombing refugee camps.
John Stewart has a recent show on the Israel/Palestine conflict "The Futile Crescent" where he makes jokes about American hypocrisy, and the
cruel craziness of Christian Zionism, but Stewart drops the ball totally
when it comes to seeing the full picture from 1948, when Zionists first
chose to impoverish and displace the native non-Jewish Population of
the Holy Land.
One state or two or three to end the Israel/Palestine conflict, a
lasting peace can only start with a fully secular understanding of
democracy... and the rule of fair and just laws.
After WWII the vital importance of respecting every refugee's inalienable right to return to original homes and lands was a known factor in building a better, more just world. Please start there- with full respect for basic human rights, including but not limited to UN Resolution 194 regarding the Palestinian refugees' right to return to original homes and lands.
We should be fully funding UNWRA.
We should not be funding racist Israel and its ongoing violations of
international law and the native non-Jewish Palestinians basic human
rights.
NOTES https://anniesnewletters.blogspot.com/search/label/Notes
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
NOTES
UN’s Palestinian aid agency UNWRA ‘at breaking point’ after $450m budget shortfall
The world should thank South Africa for standing against genocide in Gaza
The Guardian: Israel is deliberately starving Palestinians, United Nations rights expert say
US Air Force member died setting himself on fire outside Israeli Embassy Washington DC #FreePalestine Aaron Bushnell 1999-2024
Gary Burge, Wheaton College professor, explaining why he is no longer a Christian Zionist.
Famous #Gaza artist Fathi Ghaben passed away this morning while awaiting Israeli permission to travel abroad for medical treatment, despite numerous appeals.
The New Yorker: My Family’s Daily Struggle to Find Food in Gaza by Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha
Jews don watermelon kippahs in Gaza solidarity #Palestine
Where you stand matters
Every nation that has divested funding from UNWRA is complicit in the starvation of human beings... and the torture of children
Our beloved "friend" Israel has been actively oppressing, demonizing, impoverishing, and displacing the native non-Jewish people of historic Palestine and has been since 1948.
"I cannot understand how raw, naked evidence can be overridden by American intellectuals just because the “security” of Israel demands it" Edward Said
Violence is the feel good answer in movies & on TV- not in real life
Religion should be a personal choice, not a state funded project.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights "Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world..."
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