What is happening is, quite simply, annihilation. Yet our politicians keep funding it and media outlets normalize it. Gaza is a ‘killing field’ where people are being starved. How long will the world tolerate this? Arwa Mahdawi in The Guardian ... "If the western media did cover every public incitement to genocide made by Israeli politicians and thought leaders, then there would be no space to cover anything else."

‘Palestinians aren’t just being exterminated with US-supplied bombs. The more insidious killer now is disease and starvation.’ Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

Where do I even start? In recent weeks I’ve sat down to try and write about Gaza and, every time I steel myself to write about one atrocity, another atrocity is committed. Palestinian journalists have been burned alive, babies have frozen to death, medics have been executed and buried in mass graves, kids are being killed in their sleep. Meanwhile, in the US and Germany, speaking out about dead Palestinian babies can land you on a deportation list. Arguing that international human rights law should be respected can put you at risk of being snatched off the street and stuck in a detention centre.

I don’t know where to start and I don’t know what is really left to say at this point. After 18 months of endless carnage, it should be clear to everyone that this is not a war. That this is not self-defence. What is happening in Gaza is, quite simply, annihilation. A litany of genocide experts have stated this. Respected international organizations like Amnesty International have concluded that Israel is committing genocide – and yet our politicians are still funding this.

Palestinians aren’t just being exterminated with US-supplied bombs. The more insidious killer now is disease and starvation. On 2 March – more than a month ago – Israel cut off supplies to Gaza in an attempt to change the terms of the ceasefire agreement. Calling this an “aid blockade”, as headlines tend to do, doesn’t do justice to the horror of what is happening: this is not an “aid blockade” so much as it is a starvation campaign.

Gaza, after all, has been reduced to rubble; it’s not like there is food growing in the strip that people can rely on. An analysis of satellite imagery by the UN in November found that more than 90% of cattle had died and about 70% of land for crops in Gaza has been destroyed or damaged since the beginning of this iteration of the war in the territory.

Water is also being used as a weapon of war...  READ MORE  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/13/gaza-killing-starved

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Let's use the best tool we have: EDUCATION against ignorance, prejudice, hatred, genocide

United Nations Geneva

@UNGeneva

 

𝗔𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲. 

𝗔𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗷𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗲. 

𝗔𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘀. 

𝗔𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗱. 

Let's use the best tool we have: #education. 

 #PreventGenocide

Red Cross chief says Gaza is 'hell on earth' as Israeli assault continues... "No state, no party to a conflict... can be exempt from the obligation not to commit war crimes, not to commit genocide, not to commit ethnic cleansing,"

Imogen Foulkes, BBC News Reporting from Geneva

More than 1,500 people are reported killed and nearly 400,000 displaced since Israel resumed fighting last month

The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has told the BBC that Gaza has become "hell on earth", as Israel's military assault there continues.

Mirjana Spoljaric's comments come on the same day the UN human rights office warned that Israel's tactics were threatening the viability of Palestinians continuing to live in Gaza at all.

The ICRC is the guardian of the Geneva Conventions - internationally agreed rules of conduct in war - and normally only speaks confidentially to warring parties when it thinks violations are taking place.

But Ms Spoljaric has now said publicly that what is happening in Gaza is an "extreme hollowing out" of international law.

Israeli bombardment has killed 1,542 people since it renewed the war on 18 March...

....  Under the fourth Geneva Convention, occupying powers, as Israel is in Gaza, must ensure civilians have food and medicine, and protect hospitals and health workers. The convention also prohibits the forcible transfer of entire populations from occupied territories.

"No state, no party to a conflict... can be exempt from the obligation not to commit war crimes, not to commit genocide, not to commit ethnic cleansing," Ms Spoljaric said.

"These rules apply. They are universal."

Civilians were bearing the brunt of a relentless pursuit of military objectives, she added, being displaced multiple times, and their homes reduced to rubble.

Of 36 recent airstrikes verified by the UN human rights office, all those killed were women and children... READ MORE https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g2k4zgvppo  

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"Not only is Palestine on the cross but so too are its inhabitants. The people of Palestine have been occupied, crushed, and oppressed by one empire after the other... It is tough to see one's country as a perpetual battlefield, to see it divided and torn apart. It is enervating to feel that one's country and people are occupied not by an equal but by an empire. Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb, Pastor in Bethlehem, Palestine

Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb, Pastor in Bethlehem, Palestine

Palm Sunday in Gaza: Israel bombs Episcopal Hospital: Anglican Ahli Arab Hospital. One previously injured Palestinian child with a head injury dies during rushed evacuation process.

St Philips Church front entrance a few days before the blast

 

"These are not birds - they are the scattered remains of our brothers, flying through the skies of their occupied land." This is how Egyptian artist Abdullah Wagih described his artwork, in reference to the scene.

"These are not birds - they are the scattered remains of our brothers, flying through the skies of their occupied land."This is how Egyptian artist Abdullah Wagih described his artwork, in reference to the scene.

 Art Is Kinder Than Reality

"The skies of Gaza tonight. Those aren’t streetlights. Those aren’t stars. Those are bombs carrying death and destruction." Dr. Omar Suleiman

Motasem A Dalloul

@AbujomaaGaza

Gaza skies -Your prayers 

Dr. Omar Suleiman

@omarsuleiman

The skies of Gaza tonight. Those aren’t streetlights. Those aren’t stars. Those are bombs carrying death and destruction

Before & After

Gaza

 

There was once a city called Rafah

This is what genocide looks like: Israel has dropped almost 80,000 tons of explosives - this means that Israel has dropped ~36 kilograms of explosives on Gaza for every man, woman, and child. Each red dot shows a bombed place in Gaza.

Israel has dropped almost 80,000 tons of explosives - this means that Israel has dropped ~36 kilograms of explosives on Gaza for every man, woman, and child. Each red dot shows a bombed place in Gaza. (UN Satellite Centre, July 6th) This is what genocide looks like.

Mohamad Safa

@mhdksafa

More journalists have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza than in most major wars combined.

Free Speech & Journalists silenced

 

Jewish Voice for Peace @jvplive  Apr 7

Last night, the Israeli military deliberately bombed a tent in Khan Younis housing several Palestinian journalists next to a hospital. Terrifying video footage shows people frantically trying to save journalist Ahmed Mansour, who was engulfed in flames, still alive. Ahmed is now in critical condition. 

 

Palestinian journalist Ahmed Mansour succumbed to his wounds. (Photo: via social media)

Gaza Journalist Burned Alive in Israeli Airstrike Succumbs to Injuries

 

Israel Bombs Journalists As New Report Marks Grim Milestone For Gaza's Press

The deadly strike burned some media workers alive, days after a report found more journalists have been killed in Gaza's crisis than in most major wars combined.

 

 

An Israeli strike hit the media tent overnight near a hospital in Khan Younis, setting it ablaze and killing Palestine Today journalist Helmi Al-Faqawi, according to local media. Reports have also identified civilian Yousef Al-Khazandar as the second person killed in the strike.

Gruesome footage taken and shared online by other journalists shows a man burning alive in the tent while some witnesses try putting out the fire. The man, now identified as Palestine Today editor Ahmad Mansour, was in critical condition until Monday night, when his colleagues said he died of severe burns.

 

The Monday strike also reportedly wounded freelance photographer Hassan Aslih, Alam24 photographer Ali Aslih, Anadolu photographer Abdallah Al-Attar, BBC Arabic contributor Ahmad Al-Agha, freelance photojournalist Mohammed Fayeq, ABC News cameraman Ihab Al-Bardini, Al Jazeera cameraman Mahmoud Awad and Radio Algerie correspondent Majid Qudeih. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/israel-bombs-media-report-gaza-deadliest-journalists_n_67f44577e4b0743a1e4667da

 

Since the 2000s, national governments and terrorist groups – from Israel, Syria’s Assad regime and the United States to the Islamic State – have found ways to curtail conflict coverage through myriad means, from repressive policies to armed attack. All have killed journalists and helped to foster a culture of impunity, turning conflict zones like Syria and Gaza into “news graveyards.” The war in Gaza has, since October 7, 2023, killed more journalists than the U.S. Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War (including the conflicts in Cambodia and Laos), the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s and 2000s, and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan, combined.

Worldwide, threats to journalists in conflict zones are increasing.

 

 

Israel has been deliberately targeting journalists in Gaza, having killed over 210 so far in its genocidal campaign against the enclave

 

“If Mahmoud can be targeted in this way, simply for speaking out for Palestinians and exercising his constitutionally protected right to free speech, this can happen to anyone over any issue the Trump administration dislikes. We will continue working tirelessly until Mahmoud is free and rightfully returned home to his family and community.”

US judge rules Mahmoud Khalil can be deported for his views

White House has claimed that Khalil’s ‘beliefs and associations’ are counter to US foreign policy interests

• Mahmoud Khalil case – live updates

Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate and Palestinian organizer, is eligible to be deported from the United States, an immigration judge ruled on Friday during a contentious hearing at a remote court in central Louisiana.

The decision sides with the Trump administration’s claim that a short memo written by the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, which stated Khalil’s “current or expected beliefs, statements or associations” were counter to foreign policy interests, is sufficient evidence to remove a lawful permanent resident from the United States. The undated memo, the main piece of evidence submitted by the government, contained no allegations of criminal conduct.

During a tense hearing on Friday afternoon, Khalil’s attorneys made an array of unsuccessful arguments attempting to both delay a ruling on his eligibility for removal and to terminate proceedings entirely. They argued the broad allegations contained in Rubio’s memo gave them a right to directly cross-examine him.

Khalil held prayer beads as three attorneys for the Department of Homeland Security presented arguments for his removal.... READ MORE  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/mahmoud-khalil-deportation-ruling-immigration

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Israel’s war on Palestinian political life in Jerusalem- by Daoud Kuttab: If Israel truly seeks peace and coexistence, it must begin by recognizing the rights of Palestinians to exist, organize and thrive. That includes respect for international law, the protection of educational and religious institutions, and allowing Palestinians the freedom to engage in normal political and civil life. The international community, in particular Israel’s allies, must also take note: Silence in the face of these violations is complicity. As Israel continues to claim the mantle of democracy, its actions in East Jerusalem tell another story, one of exclusion, repression and systematic erasure.

 "Israeli authorities are redrawing the city not only physically, but socially and spiritually."

Daoud Kuttab

While the world is focused on global economic issues and the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, Israel’s recent harsh policies in East Jerusalem mark an alarming new chapter in a long-standing campaign to eliminate any form of organized Palestinian political or civic presence in the city.

Under the pretext of security, Israel has persistently targeted and dismantled institutions that serve as pillars of Palestinian society, be they unions, schools, cultural centers or political offices.

In the latest examples of this, Israeli authorities this week presented orders to shut down six UN-run schools by May 8, and ordered the immediate closure of the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions.

This pattern is not new. For years, and especially since the signing in 1993 of the Palestinian-Israeli Declaration of Principles, also referred to as the Oslo Accords, Israel has worked to dismantle Palestinian institutions in East Jerusalem. They began with closing the historic Orient House, the Chamber of Commerce, the Arab Higher Council for Tourism, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club, and the Palestinian Center for Social Research.

Such actions reveal an apartheid reality. Despite claiming East Jerusalem as part of its “unified capital,” Israel continues to act in ways that starkly contradict its self-declared identity as a democratic state. By criminalizing Palestinian civic engagement and political expression, it exposes the discriminatory foundations and strategy of Jewish supremacy in areas under Israeli civilian, as well as military, control.... READ MORE   https://www.arabnews.com/node/2596753

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"This is what life is like in Gaza. The children aren’t being raised to hate. They’re being raised to be afraid. Afraid of being seen. Afraid of being heard. Not because of anything they or their families did, but because of the constant fear and violence brought by the Israeli military. This fear is shaping their lives. It’s leaving deep, invisible wounds that will take years—if not generations—to heal." Hani Almadhoun

Hani Almadhoun

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Imagine a world where turning on a light could cost you your life. This isn’t a scene from a dystopian movie—it’s the daily reality for my family in Gaza.

 

Just now, I was on the phone with my mom and the rest of the family there. As we talked, one of the kids switched on a flashlight. It was late, and everything around them was pitch black. My mom reacted instantly, her voice tense: “Turn it off. We stay in the dark, because any light can bring complete—and eternal—darkness.”

 

She wasn’t exaggerating. She meant it literally. Even the smallest light can attract a drone—and she could hear one overhead as we spoke.

 

This is what life is like in Gaza. The children aren’t being raised to hate. They’re being raised to be afraid. Afraid of being seen. Afraid of being heard. Not because of anything they or their families did, but because of the constant fear and violence brought by the Israeli military. This fear is shaping their lives. It’s leaving deep, invisible wounds that will take years—if not generations—to heal.

 

And the hardest part? No one in the world has been able to shine a light bright enough to protect them. The people of Gaza are left with nothing but their faith—and the decisions of a right-wing Israeli government that has brought destruction and despair, not just to Gaza, but far beyond it.

 

This isn’t what survival should look like. This is what it means to live in fear, where even a small flashlight can bring disaster. The world needs to know this. And the world needs to care.

Buying Time for Genocide ...

[March 2025] As Israel ramps up its attacks on Gaza, VP's latest visual exposes how the U.S. and Israel never really wanted a ceasefire. They worked together for months to block international efforts to end the genocide, all while the U.S. continued to supply Israel with weapons.  https://visualizingpalestine.org/visual/buying-time-for-genocide/

Stolen Steps: Child Amputees in Gaza

[April, 2025] This visual created in partnership with Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCIP), tells the stories of children whose lives and limbs have been stolen by Israel in its years-long siege of Gaza, and how Israel’s targeted destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system makes it impossible for them to access much-needed medical supplies and rehabilitation services.   https://visualizingpalestine.org/visual/stolen-steps/

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