"Friends, please allow me to explain a crucial point.
Israel has been building illegal cities (settlements) on Palestinian land for decades - Palestinian land that is supposed to be part of a future Palestinian state. The world has condemned the building of these cities, but Israel keeps building them.
In order to build them, they steal land from Palestinian residents and families. It's been ongoing, even though I can remember presidents as far back as Ronald Reagan strongly condemning Israel for this policy.
The policy is obviously aimed at pushing people out, at emptying Palestinian land of its Palestinian residents, people who have inhabited that land for thousands of years.
It is not a myth or a lie that we are indigenous to the land. As an example, Palestinian Christians have baptismal records proving their existence in Palestine for at least a couple of hundred years.
So now, Israeli companies are holding real estate sales IN THE UNITED STATES to sell homes to Americans in these illegal settlements. It's like selling a vacation home to someone that has been built on the wreckage of someone else's stolen land. This comes after the recent news that Netanyahu approved the building of 30,000 new homes built illegally on Palestinian land.
Please understand that this is not a religious issue. This is an issue about ongoing land theft!
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.
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 ...
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..."
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.
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 ofGaza’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.
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?”
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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.”"
