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Unbelievable that these warmongers are setting foot in Ireland.
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Israel is following one of the most deceptive approaches to mislead the world, in an attempt to gain its sympathy and distort public opinion about what it is doing to the Palestinians.
It has allowed more than 12 sewage suction trucks to enter, along with equipment to repair water and sewage networks, and fuel to operate treatment plants.
At first glance, you might think that it has finally started allowing the people of Gaza to receive what they need, and that it is trying to help them and save them from the humanitarian and health catastrophe they are living through.
But the truth is entirely different.
It allowed these trucks to enter after pollution and sewage water had spread to coastal areas under Israeli control, where Israelis live, and the contaminated water had begun to pose an environmental and health threat that could reach them. In other words, this was not, as it might appear to the world, about saving families in Gaza, but about eliminating a danger that had begun to threaten them as well.
These efforts did not begin when Palestinian families and their children were drowning in sewage water and facing bacteria, epidemics, and diseases. They began only when the contamination became a threat approaching their areas and endangering their safety.
It is a tragedy that the lives of Palestinians and their health and humanitarian needs are not considered reason enough to take action, while the very same danger becomes an urgent priority as soon as it threatens Israel and its people.
Israel continues to use various means and tactics to mislead the world and portray itself in a way that is completely different from the reality Palestinians are living through. Meanwhile, our suffering continues, our tragedy deepens, and we are left to face death, disease, hunger, and destruction.
Do not allow these limited measures to deceive you or hide the truth from you. Look at what is happening in Gaza, not at the image Israel is trying to sell to the world.
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Lewis Hamilton: "I'm here with the Egyptian Red Crescent as they load these boxes containing aid they have prepared to send to Gaza. They went to the Rafah border today, accompanied by their wonderful volunteers. They have more than 70,000 volunteers across Egypt, and over 2,000 people here volunteer every day to make sure these boxes are ready and packed as well as possible. They're fully ready to be
deployed. So we really need to put pressure on Israel to
reopen the crossing from the Palestinian side, because not enough trucks are getting through each day."
"The people in Gaza and Palestine are in such urgent need that they could hardly need this aid more than they do right now, so we really must apply pressure.
And work together to ensure this aid gets there. There is a great deal of it, and this center is just one of several different sites that also contain such wonderful supplies, full of food, medicine, and things that individuals and families in Palestine really need."
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Gaza is a the modern nazi human experimentation for giant tech fascists and arms dealers where advanced military occupation, border control, and surveillance techniques are tested and exported. Gaza is the peak of western’s civilization in the most dystopian sense.
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From the Rafah border crossing, Lewis Hamilton is pulling no punches on Israel's cruel siege regime.
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Anyone who leaves the flooded concentration camp for higher land is instantly murdered by Israelis, even if they stay in Gaza.
The IDF publicly declared most of Gaza (the parts less likely to flood) a designated kill zone.
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So you did gaslight the public, didn’t you, @Ed_Miliband?
You announced nothing but fig-leaf sanctions and performative gestures while the UK continues to sell arms to the genocidal Israeli war machine and award public contracts to firms linked to illegal Israeli settlements, helping sustain Israel’s system of apartheid.
You’re complicit in the genocide of the Palestinian people. Hope you’re proud of yourself.
AJ EXCLUSIVE: The UK awarded £10.7m ($15m) in new public contracts to firms linked to illegal Israeli West Bank settlements, despite UK gov’t pledges to punish companies that profit from settlement activity, an Al Jazeera investigation reveals.
🔗: aje.news/99ct5z
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These videos from Gaza are being suppressed by some, fearing the truth will be revealed, exposing their false humanity to the world.
Don’t let them silence this.
Share these clips, let the voices of our children be heard, let the world see the full truth… without any masking, without any distortion.
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Dear journalists
Palestine isn't simply “flooding” . Israel destroyed the water pumps, stormwater basins, homes, roads and hospitals, then trapped people on a strip of beach with nowhere to go. No tents, no prosthetics, no basic protection from the cold. Children are facing hypothermia with nowhere safe to seek treatment. And somehow the world is still looking the other way. This isn't a natural disaster. It's a Zionists-made catastrophe.
Do better
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I don’t think people talk about this nearly enough. Israel knew exactly what it was doing when it destroyed Gaza’s infrastructure including its sewage systems. Do people know how many deadly pathogens can spread through sewage-contaminated water? Hepatitis A, Shigella, Rotavirus, Polio, Cholera, and the list goes on. Israel has designed it so that every time it rains in Gaza, sewage floods the streets, contaminates more people so that they don’t have to bomb Gaza at the same rate anymore. They can solely rely on disease killing Palestinians at the same rate post 10/07. Think about it, israel destroyed the hospitals, clean water, and sanitation systems… they’ve literally eliminated any way Palestinians can seek treatment.
We are watching another phase of the Holocaust in Gaza. Tens of thousands of tents flooded in a matter of hours. Children buried alive when the ground collapsed beneath them. Families who survived the bombs now have nowhere to sleep, surrounded by sewage, exposed to disease and the freezing cold.
Israel has destroyed the infrastructure necessary for human survival and continues to obstruct the materials needed to rebuild it. This is what extermination looks like beyond the bombs. Through displacement, exposure, disease and the systematic destruction of the conditions necessary to sustain life.
I don’t even know what else there is to say anymore. We have watched every conceivable horror unfold before our eyes and still allowed it to continue. We have failed Gaza. We have failed humanity.
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NEW: The UK government must impose sanctions on Israel over its continued obstruction of aid into Gaza, says @MedicalAidPal – which has branded the apocalyptic scenes of flooded tents “a predictable consequence of the collective punishment of Gaza’s population by Israel”.
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On the flip side, look at how the BBC interviews Israeli guests.
Following on from the compilation we released yesterday of the BBC interrupting its guests with "Israel would say", the double standards, which we've also archived and categorised, become clear when you see how they interview Israeli guests.
In this example, the presenter interviews the "former IDF chief of staff" Dan Halutz on 14 October 2023.
Halutz asserted that Israel was “fully compliant with international law” and “acting in proportion”. The interview ended without a concrete contrary fact or humanitarian objection to those assurances.
Earlier in the same programme, Save the Children’s Gabriella Waaijman warned that forcing people to move without safety or assistance risked forcible transfer. The BBC interjected and put Israel’s civilian-protection rationale to her. It did not put that humanitarian argument back to Halutz.
This was over three years ago, when Israel was just a week into its genocide in Gaza. It is therefore hard not to wonder what could have happened if the media, including the BBC, had practised more moral and ethical journalism.
Our job is to ensure that Western media's role in sanitising a genocide and laundering the perpetrator's propaganda is concretely quantified and never forgotten.
We are working around the clock to update the stats and clips here: newscord.org/editorials/bbc-…
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Palestinians in Gaza are enduring some of the most miserable conditions imaginable right bc Israel refuses to allow building materials into the Gaza Strip.
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Imagine visiting Tel Aviv and being photographed smiling there, eating perhaps. What kind of person would you have to be, what kind of mentality. Soulless, devoid of anything good.
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In front of the entire world, these Jewish terrorists, who are basically unemployed poor white Ukrainians, just openly steal the homes of Palestinians and move right in.
People worked for YEARS to build these homes and these monsters and thieves just move right in.
EVIL.
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Israel did not just commit genocide in Gaza, it committed a systemic ecocide to make the land itself uninhabitable for Palestinians:
Since 2023:
-97% of tree crops have been lost
-95% of shrubland has been lost
-82% of annual crops have been lost
By December 2024, 75% of agricultural land had been damaged or destroyed. 96% of livestock had been lost. 67% of agricultural wells had been destroyed.
34% of Gaza’s coastal zone has been destroyed.
This genocide and ecocide was armed and enabled by the same countries that claim to care about human rights and the environment.
Abby Martin: ‘Wars in the Middle East have gone from GENOCIDE to ECOCIDE.’
‘You look at just the maintenance of a global military empire, the toxification, the dumping, the callous disregard for the environment.
That’s just to maintain the arsenal of military equipment because of the cleaning of the engine parts, the pointless missions of flying these Boeing Pegasuses, which are basically mobile gas stations around, just to keep these machines mission ready.
We're not even talking, we don't know the application of the actual weaponry. We can't even begin to quantify the impact on the environment that war causes.
One just has to look at what is happening across the Middle East today. It is an ecocide in front of our eyes. Genocide turned ecocide.
We see the black soot, the rain, the intentional targeting of oil infrastructure and civilian oil depots and ships. These are crimes against the environment every single day that are not being held to account.
And this isn't even being calculated.
This is just part of the mythology of having a military empire, part of that necessity that's dictated to us by the ruling class that we need this global military empire, that in fact it keeps us safe and in fact it's the solution to climate change.
There's a complete failure of imagination of how we can solve these problems and they just look to the military, the same force that's protecting the fossil fuel corporations and the same force that has exacerbated the crisis that we're in today.’
—@AbbyMartin, Co-Director of ‘Earth’s Greatest Enemy’