Following Hama’s brutal October 7 attack on Israel, Israel announced its “revenge” attack on Gaza to destroy Hama’s capacity to endanger Israel. In what looked at first like a human gesture, Israel urged the Palestinian residence of northern Gaza to move south to avoid Israel’s bombing of the north. But it didn’t take long before Israel began to attack Palestinians in the south as well.
“Israeli forces shelled the outskirts of the last refuge on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip on Friday [February 2], where the displaced population, penned against the border fence in their hundreds of thousands, feared a new assault with nowhere left to flee.
“More than half of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents are now homeless and crammed into Rafah. Tens of thousands more have arrived in recent days, carrying belongings in their arms and pulling children on carts, since Israeli forces last week launched one of the biggest assaults of the war to capture adjacent Khan Yunis, the main southern city.
“If the Israeli tanks keep coming, “we will be left with two choices: stay and die or climb the walls into Egypt,” said Emad, 55, a businessman and father of six…. Israeli Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant, said on Thursday that troops would now “eliminate terror elements” in Rafah, one of the few areas not yet taken in an almost four-month-old assault. But this is the same Israeli line used since the start of the war, which has killed and wounded tens of thousands of innocent civilians.
“As the only part of Gaza with access to the limited food and medical aid trickling across the border, Rafah and nearby parts of Khan Yunis have become a warren of makeshift tents, clogged by winter mud.” “Nowhere left to flee-Rafah to become Israel’s new battlefield”
What is Israel trying to accomplish? “Hamas, which Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said on Tuesday ‘must be erased off the face of the planet.’… Israeli officials have vowed a merciless campaign of retribution against ‘human animals.’” “Defending Israel”
Israel’s far right officials have not been shy in proclaiming their purpose. It is to remove Palestinians (one way or another) from Israel’s occupied territories in to enable a democratic Jewish state to rule all of Palestine. Jewish Israelis blocking access of food and medicine to Gaza’s starving Palestinians are equally explicit about their Genocidal objective.
While Israel’s objective is explicitly clear, facts of the war, as with any war, are harder to confirm. The Israeli claims that Gaza invaders on Oct 7 raped women and beheaded babies were never supported with any evidence and are surely propaganda lies of war.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (Unrwa) is the largest relief agency operating in this war zone, delivering critical food and medical suppliers to displaced Palestinians. Its relief work is critical for the survival of hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians.
When Israel claimed that Unrwa had been infiltrated by Hamas, “the international media reproduced without question the ‘dossier’ of alleged evidence Israel distributed to journalists, a dossier which it never formally handed to Unrwa itself…. The UN agency first knew about the allegation that initially 12, then 190, then 1200 of its employees were ‘members of Hamas’ when they read about it in the media. Unrwa regularly shares lists of its employees with Israel….
“The Israeli army that has killed over 152 Unrwa staff in Gaza, turned, in their minds, into the victim of the UN agency which had been ‘infiltrated by Hamas’…. I still find it hard to understand how readily governments across the western world swallowed the bait, without any fact checking, and how, in the blink of an eye, accounting for just over $440m, half of the Unrwa’s operational budget, suspended funding.” “Gaza war-why west is falling to stop Israel’s plan to destroy Unrwa”
Biden’s pleas for Israel to be more careful about killing innocent Palestinians are pathetic. We must demand an immediate cease fire in Gaze and the end of all Jewish settlements in the West Bank and their return to their Palestinian owners or our aid to Israel will end. Jews and Palestinians deserve safety, and fair and equal treatment. Peace and justice will not be achieved in the area without that. “One state solution for Palestine and Israel” More and more Americans and Europeans are speaking up in protest of our complicity with Israel’s atrocities. Even many within the American and European governments are speaking up Over 800 Western Officials Denounce Pro-Israel Policies | TIME American Jew Yoav Litvin put it very bluntly: “Liberation, reconciliation and an end to Israel’s genocidal violence can only be achieved within a steadfast and unwavering anti-Zionist framework that aligns with wider leftist, antiracist, anticolonial values.” Yoav Litvin is a Postdoctoral Fellow in The Laboratory of Neurobiology and Behavior at The Rockefeller University, New York, NY. He was born in Jerusalem. “The anatomy of Zionist genocide”
But our attention is now being distracted by more reckless wars in the Middle East.
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You are so right about the exaggerations re rapes and beheading babies. And they all repe