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Hostages tortured to death. Parents executed in front of their children. Doctors beaten. Babies murdered. Sexual assault weaponised. No, not Hamas crimes. This is part of an ever-growing list of documented atrocities committed by Israel in the five months since 7 October – quite separate from the carpet bombing of 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza and a famine induced by Israel’s obstruction of aid. And yet while the western establishment media has been chock full of the most lurid allegations of savagery directed against Hamas, sometimes with little or no supporting evidence, Israeli atrocities are excused or quickly forgotten. Accusations against Hamas are endlessly reheated to paint a picture of a supremely dangerous and bestial militant group, in turn rationalising the slaughter and starvation of Gaza’s population to “eradicate” it as a terrorist organisation. But equally barbarous atrocities committed by Israel – not in the heat of battle, but in cold blood – are treated as unfortunate, isolated incidents that cannot be connected, that paint no picture, that reveal nothing of import about the military that carried them out. If Hamas’ crimes were so savage and sadistic they still need to be reported months after they took place, why does the establishment media never feel the need to express equal horror and indignation at equivalent or worse acts of cruelty and sadism being inflicted by Israel on Gaza – not five months ago, but right now? Israel's torture of doctors, its sexual assaults of Palestinian women, it's leaving premature babies to die after its forces stormed a hospital. Where is the outrage? This is part of a pattern of behaviour by the western media that leads to only one possible deduction: Israel’s five-month-long attack on Gaza is not being reported. Rather, it is being selectively narrated – and for the most obscene of purposes. Through consistent and glaring failures in their coverage, establishment media – including supposedly liberal outlets, from the BBC and CNN to the Guardian and New York Times – have smoothed the way for Israel to carry out mass slaughter in Gaza, what the World Court has assessed as plausibly a genocide. The role of the media has not been to keep us, their audiences, informed about one of the greatest crimes in living memory. It has been to buy time for US President Joe Biden to keep arming his most useful of client states in the oil-rich Middle East, and to do so without damaging his prospects for re-election in November’s US presidential vote. If Russian President Vladimir Putin was a madman and a barbarous war criminal for invading Ukraine, as every western media outlet agrees, what does that make Israeli officials, when every one of them supports far worse atrocities in Gaza, directed overwhelmingly at civilians? And more to the point, what does that make Biden and the US political class for materially backing Israel to the hilt: sending bombs, vetoing demands for a ceasefire at the United Nations, and freezing desperately needed aid? Worrying about the optics, the president expresses his discomfort, but he carries on helping Israel regardless. While western politicians and commentators worry about some imaginary existential threat those brief events of five months ago pose to the nuclear-armed state of Israel, Israel is quite literally wiping Gaza off the map day by day, quite undisturbed.

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I'm sorry for being so sappy, but I wanted to show you guys something.

When I first donated to PCRF in December 2023, it was barely 10% close to its goal. Now in March 2024, they're also 100%. Everyone of you has helped support a better future for Gaza.

They're so close to their goal. Please donate or share this post so that they can get to their goal🇵🇸

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his gfm has been stuck at 420 euros for a week!! please help him out by sharing & donating!!!

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Please help the family of a non-verbal autistic child (who has been losing weight because he only eats certain kinds of food, largely unavailable during this time) leave Gaza!

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goodnight everyone (:

do your daily click

spreadsheet of families in Gaza you can help today

donate to:

Buy an e-sim

Help diabetics in Gaza

The PCRF

Anera

UNRWA

Taawon

Help Gaza Children

Sudan Tarada Initiative

Help a Sudanese family escape conflict

Darfur Women Action

Ramadan for Sudan

Period products in Sudan

Sudan Emergency Appeal

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The agency who registers Palestinians for evacuation has said they may close registration in just 2 weeks. My friend Saed’s family fundraiser is still €36,500 away from their goal. It costs $5000-$6500 per person just to register for evacuation. They will also need funds for when they get to Cairo, including for housing and basic needs. This is extremely urgent because of the promised invasion and the agency threatening to close to people on the ground. To meet their full goal, we’d need to manage €3000 in donations per day. We really owe reparations to Palestinians directly and not NGOs. Please considering donating, especially if yesterday was pay day, and sharing on socials or to others directly. Saed’s internet has been awful due to airstrikes and he can’t share himself .

❤️🖤🤍💚

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Israel has killed more children in Gaza since October than in four years of worldwide conflict

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Bombing kids is not self defense

Bombing kids is not self defense

Bombing kids is not self defense

Bombing kids is not self defense

Bombing kids is not self defense

Bombing kids is not self defense

Bombing kids is not self defense

Bombing kids is not self defense

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there have been multiple flour massacres since 29 Feb including two today!!

there were flour massacres before 29 Feb

From mid-January to the end of February 2024, the Office has recorded at least 14 incidents involving shooting and shelling of people gathered to receive desperately needed supplies at Al Kuwait Roundabout on Salah Ad Deen Road and Al Nabulsi Roundabout - two entrances to Gaza City - with a majority of these incidents resulting in casualties.

so-called Israel has an established pattern of targeting starving, desperate civilians — including children — as they seek food and other necessities

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here are some verified charities (rated by charitywatch.org) helping palestinians. several of these organisations also provide aid to others in need, such as people suffering in ukraine & haiti. please donate if you're able to.

doctors without borders are an impartial humanitarian organisation providing medical assistance to palestinians in gaza.

project hope are working to deliver medical aid too, along with mental health support.

anera are delivering humanitarian aid (blankets, blood bags, mattresses, hygiene kits & food) to palestinians in gaza & the west bank.

world central kitchen have partnered with anera & have limited access to gaza via supply trucks to deliver water, food & food prep equipment.

muslim aid USA are working with their partners on the ground in gaza to deliver food packages, hygiene kits & medical equipment.

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Shame on us!

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MASSIVE RALLIES ACROSS YEMEN IN SUPPORT OF PALESTINE

📹 Scenes of stunningly massive rallies across Yemen in support of Palestine, Abdullatif al-Washali reports for Iranian news agency Press TV in Sana'a, the Yemeni capital.

#videosource

@WorkerSolidarityNews

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Repost of Instagram post by alessandra_sanguinetti:

“In 2004 I worked as an intern in Newsweek and had to go through the wires coming in from the Middle East.

The Iraq war was raging. Israel was committing its routine violations and killings.

The images were devastating and unequivocally condemning of both the USA and Israel, but I remember the editors would reject all my picks and demand images of burnt cars or vague images of destruction.

So I brought a hard drive and collected everything they didn't publish.

It was my first live glimpse of the lack of ethics or integrity in most US media.

Not the journalists on the ground, but of the senior editors making the calls - in their self important glass cubicles.

And no, to the cynics out there..it's not all too complicated to discuss on social media.

Social media is the only reason we know what's happening in Palestine.

And the only reason mainstream news has to keep up and sprinkle some actual news now and then.

Meanwhile we are seeing much less footage coming out of Gaza - Israel has been killing off all the journalists.

This is terrifying.”

Photo credits: Nasser Ishtayeh, Yossi Alon, Saif Dahlah, Jaafar Ashtiyeh, Musa Al-Shaer, Abed Onar Qusini

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the destruction of knowledge and culture

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aidyn ♪ on X: "It pains me that people genuinely just see these names as numbers. Each name belonged to a life, a life that Israel took. Do not stop talking about Palestine." / X