#BRUTAL #BOMBING CONTINUES
#BBC
Many are afraid to go into the Sinai Desert because of a lack of food and supplies. They also fear leaving their homeland permanently. Bisan is now making her way back north to find shelter in Deir al-Balah in #Gaza’s middle area.
‘It’s Bisan From Gaza, And Israel Is Trying to Push Us Into The Desert’
A few quotes:
(...) Right now, of course, the world is witnessing yet another U.S. bombing campaign, the latest in a series that seems all too predictable (and futile), meant to teach the restless rebels of Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and possibly even Iran a lesson when it comes to messing with the United States of America. (...)
Israel is systematically destroying Gaza, rendering it essentially uninhabitable for those Palestinians who survive the ongoing rampage. In fact, early in its war of annihilation, Israeli leaders cited the Allied destruction of the German city of Dresden in 1945 in support of their own atrocious air and ground campaign against the Palestinians.
Looking at this dispassionately as a military historian, the Dresden reference makes a certain twisted sense. In World War II, the Americans and their British allies in their “combined bomber offensive” destroyed German cities indiscriminately, seeing all Germans as essentially Nazis, complicit in the crimes of their government, and so legitimate targets. Something similar is true of the right-wing Israeli government today. It sees all Palestinians as essentially members of Hamas and thus complicit in last year’s brutal October 7th attacks on Israel, making them legitimate targets of war, Israeli- (and American-) style. Just like the United States, Israel claims to be “defending democracy” whatever it does. Little wonder, then, that Washington has been so willing to send bombs and bullets to its protégé as it seeks “peace” through massive firepower and genocidal destruction. (...)
Putting [the issue of genocide] aside, it’s undeniable that Israel has been using indiscriminate bombing attacks and a devastating invasion in a near-total war against Palestinians living on that 25-mile-long strip of land, an approach that calls to mind the harrowing catchphrase “Exterminate all the brutes!” from Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness. (...)
Try to imagine such events from the perspective of a historian writing in the year 2200. Might that future scribe not refer to repeated U.S. invasions of, incursions into, and bombing campaigns across the Middle East as a bloody crusade, launched under the (false) banner of democracy with righteous vengeance, if not godly purpose, in mind? Might that historian not suggest that such a “crusade” was ultimately more about power and profit, domination and control than (as advertised) “freedom”? And might that historian not be impressed (if not depressed) by the remarkable way the U.S. brought seemingly unending chaos and death to the region over such a broad span of time?
Consider these facts. More than 22 years after the 9/11 attacks, the U.S. still has at least 30,000 troops scattered across the Middle East. At least one Navy carrier strike group, and often two, dominate the regional waters, while striking numbers of military bases (“Little Americas”) are still sprinkled across countries ranging from Kuwait to Bahrain, from Qatar to the United Arab Emirates and beyond. So many years later, about 900 U.S. troops still illegally occupy part of Syria (not coincidentally, where that country produces most of its oil) and 2,500 more remain in Iraq, even though the government there would like them to depart. (...)
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#Israeli #bombing of #Gaza #leaves #110000 #dead , #wounded , #missing #Israel #Palestine
"The #death toll in Gaza has reached #35096 , including #12345 #children and #7656 #women , along with #309 #health #workers, #41 #civil #defense #members , and #121 #journalists"
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Based on the poem For Warmth by Thich Nhat Hanh
https://youtu.be/rfkujnf6JKM?si=C0Dol82DDmAFw43L
#BetsyRose #ThichNhatHanh #song #music #anger #war #suffering #bombing
Poem by Thich Nhat Hanh
I hold my face in my two hands.
No, I am not crying.
I hold my face in my two hands
to keep the loneliness warm—
two hands protecting,
two hands nourishing,
two hands preventing
my soul from leaving me
in anger.
Written during the Vietnam war, after the bombing of the village Ben Tre, after an American officer made the comment "We had to destroy the town in order to save it"
“Bury me with him!” This is the moment Palestinian boy Saaed farewells his brother Mohammad who was killed in an Israeli air strike on Gaza City. More than 7...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Bombing #Boy #Brother #Gaza #GazaCity #Israel #IsraeliAttack #Killed #Mourns #Palestinian #Strike #Truce #War #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #latestnews #newsheadlines
Palestinian boy mourns his brother killed by Israeli strike on Gaza | AJ #shorts
Because the western empire has been raining military explosives upon the middle east continuously for many years now, westerners have become desensitized to news reports about bombings happening there.
— Caitin Johnstone, in her article We Don't Think Hard Enough About What Bombs Are And What They Do
In the past 24 hours, six media professionals have been killed by Israeli bombing, including journalists Sari Mansour and Hassouneh Salim. They were hit by a...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Bureij #HassounehSalim #Israeli #SariMansour #Two #airstrike #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #bombing #camp #journalists #killed #latestnews #media #newsheadlines #professionals #refugee #workers
Two journalists killed by Israeli bombing on Bureij refugee camp | AJ #shorts
It was after 7pm local time in Gaza on Friday when we heard that most people there lost contact with the world. Internet and phone services went down as the ...#aljazeeralive #aljazeeraenglish #aljazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #AlJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #aljazeeralatest #latestnews #newsheadlines #aljazeeravideo #gaza #gazablackout #blackout #internet #internetblackout #israel #bombing #palestine
With communications cut off, Gaza goes dark amid Israeli attacks | The Take
The Israeli military has expanded its operations in Gaza and communications have been cut off. In an interview with Al Jazeera the director of the Palestinia...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Gaza #Hamas #Israel #Palestine #RedCrescent #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #bombardment #bombing #ceasefire #groundinvasion #humanitarian #latestnews #newsheadlines #war
Palestinian Red Crescent says there is no safe place in Gaza | AJ #Shorts
Israel has bombed the occupied West Bank as its bombardment of Gaza enters a third week. An air strike demolished a mosque in the Jenin refugee camp, which I...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Israeli #Jenin #Jeninrefugeecamp #Palestinian #air #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #bomb #bombing #fighters #latestnews #mosque #newsheadlines #route #strike #underground
Jenin mosque bombed in Israeli air strike | Al Jazeera Newsfeed
Doctors tried to comfort this Palestinian boy who was showing signs of shock after an Israeli attack in Rafah in southern Gaza. Subscribe to our channel htt...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #bombing #children #gaza #gazabombing #gazawar #idf #israel #latestnews #newsheadlines
Palestinian child in shock after surviving Israeli attack in Gaza | AJ #shorts
#Bombing #Kids And #Blaming It On #Hamas #Gaza #Palestine #Israel
"There’s no “collateral damage” in Gaza. Collateral damage is when you unintentionally kill civilians. You can’t drop military explosives on places you know are densely packed with children and then call their deaths unintentional."
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Hamas has shocked Israel with a surprise military offensive dubbed ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ which began with rocket fire and Palestinian fighters capturing ...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Al-Aqsa #Gaza #Hamas #Israelis #OperationAl-AqsaFlood #Palestinian #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #bombing #capturing #fighters #fire #latestnews #military #newsheadlines #offensive #operation #retaliating #rocket #surprise #war
Israel ‘at war’ with Hamas as ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ under way | Al Jazeera Newsfeed
#USA Calls for #Bombing #Taiwan’s Industry…
#Biden to #olaf #Nord-Stream #Sabotage #Redux #Taiwan’s #Semiconductor
Power play
