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[palestinegenocide]

Key Developments

Israel deploys 15,000 soldiers and military police in West Bank and Jerusalem ahead of Ramadan, including 5,000 reservists, 24 battalions, 20 Border Police companies, and two special forces units.

Hamas’s Izz El-Din Al-Qassam Brigades spokesperson rules out any breakthrough in ceasefire talks, and describes Israel’s position as “deceptive.”

Abu Obaida warns that Israel’s campaign of starvation against Palestinians in Gaza is affecting Israeli captives, some of whom “suffer from hunger, malnutrition and dehydration.”

Izz El-Din Al-Qassam Brigades announces names of four out of seven Israeli captives who died “due to the aggressive Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip.”

25 Palestinian children have died of malnutrition and dehydration since March. The total death toll in Gaza surpasses 31,000 people, 72 percent of whom are women and children.

Gaza City municipality says Israel destroyed a one-million-meter square of roads in the Gaza Strip. 

Gaza City municipality needs heavy vehicles and fuel supplies to clean rubble and nearly 70,000 tons of rubbish.

Rescue teams transfer 37 bodies of Palestinian martyrs and 118 injured people to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah overnight.

U.S. to send army vessel to Eastern Mediterranean to deliver aid and supplies to Gaza.

Wafa reports that Israeli bombing of tents of displaced Palestinians killed 15 people in Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis.

Spain is considering recognizing a Palestinian state by 2027, according to Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 25 February 1994, a 37-year-old Zionist extremist from the US massacred 29 Palestinian civilians and wounded over 100 others as they prayed at a mosque in the city of Hebron during Ramadan, the Muslim holy month. The shooter entered the Ibrahimi mosque, also known as the Cave of the Patriarch, and massacred worshippers until members of the crowd were able to disarm and kill him. Protests then broke out against the murders outside the mosque, and the Israeli army responded by killing demonstrators outside the mosque, as well as outside a nearby hospital and at a local cemetery as the dead were being buried. Palestinians estimate the death toll at 50 to 70, with 250 injured, and some survivors believed there was a second gunman who was never apprehended. Many survivors also believe that the Israeli military was involved in the attack. One, Kamal Abdeen, who was paralysed in the shooting, told Al Jazeera: "The soldiers always searched us before we entered the mosque and we had to pass through a metal detector". But "On that day the machine was turned off and no-one searched us. There were fewer soldiers there than usual and they were relaxed and laughing". After the massacre, Israeli authorities forcibly closed down over 500 local businesses and sealed off large portions of the local area to Palestinians. They also partitioned the mosque in two parts, with the biggest part now reserved exclusively for Jewish settlers and visitors. Significant numbers of Israeli citizens also celebrated the massacre, and many Zionist extremists came to pay tribute at the grave of the murderer. One of these was Itamar Ben-Gvir, who visited the grave on his first date with his future wife, and also hung a photo of the murderer on his living room wall for many years. In 2021 Ben-Gvir was elected to Israel's parliament, and the following year he became the minister of national security. More: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9736/ibrahimi-mosque-massacre https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/2217970568388081/?type=3

[leeenuu]

A cross on the grave of a local resident killed by Russian shelling, in the yard of an apartment building in war-hit Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Wednesday, April 12, 2023. (Iryna Rubakova via AP)

Sappers of the Ukrainian State Emergency Service use a demining vehicle as they work at the site near Izium, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko)

Local residents say goodbye to their neighbor as she leaves her home in war-hit Avdiivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Wednesday, April 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Libkos)

Residents, mostly living in basements, lining up to fill plastic bottles from a water pump in Chasiv Yar, in eastern Ukraine, on Wednesday, April 12, 2023. Ongoing fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces near the city has interfered with access to running water and gas since last year. (Mauricio Lima/The New York Times)

Ukrainian servicemen pack the dead body of a Russian soldier, killed in a recent battle in the Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Saturday, April 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko)

Natalia, 37, a patient, sits in her room at a psychiatric hospital in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. In December, the World Health Organization said one in five people in countries that have experienced conflict in the past decade will suffer from a mental health condition, and estimated that about 9.6 million people in Ukraine could be affected. Russia’s invasion in February 2022 resulted in millions of people being displaced, bereaved, forced into basements for months due to incessant shelling or enduring harrowing journeys from Russian-occupied regions. (AP Photo/Vasilisa Stepanenko)

Ukrainian serviceman Olexandre of the 24th brigade plays with a puppy dog in the trenches at the front line, near Niu York, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 4, 2023. (REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach)

Military medics give first aid to a soldier wounded in a battle in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Sunday, April 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Libkos)

Portraits of an 11-year old girl killed by a Russian missile stand near the clock that stopped in the rocket attack in a damaged house in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Sunday, April 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko)

Ukrainian soldiers sharing a joke at their compound as a fierce battle against Russian troops continues in the vicinity of Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine, on Monday, April 10, 2023. (Mauricio Lima/The New York Times)

[soon-palestine]

@RBatniji is one of the most respected entrepreneurs in Silicon valley. He lost 37 members of his family on 18th Nov by an Israeli airstrike. He recently met with Secretary Blinken and here is what he shared,

"I am Rajaie Batniji. I take no pride and no honor in being here.

I was born in Gaza and immigrated to California as a young child. I am Rajaie Batniji. I take no pride and no honor in being here. Many of my fellow Palestinian Americans discouraged me from speaking with you today, concerned that this discussion was solely performative. I share their concern.

I come here out of a sense of duty, to try – as futile as it may be – to save my family in Gaza from being killed. I was born in Gaza and immigrated to California as a young child. I grew up visiting Gaza often, and those visits shaped me in many ways. I personally experienced some of the violence of occupation.

I studied the history of the region at Stanford, completed my doctorate in international relations at Oxford as a Marshall Scholar – honoring the legacy of one of your predecessors in this office – and became a physician focused on the health of those that have the least privilege. I’m an entrepreneur who builds teams and technologies that improve American health care.

I would rather not be here today. Mr. Secretary, you have provided the weapons and the political cover that enabled the murder of 65 members of my family, mostly women and children, over the past four months. In strikes in mid-November, three generations of my family were killed by missiles as they sought shelter and safety. I carry their memories with me. I see their crushed bodies when I close my eyes.

The survivors in my family are homeless. Some 70% of homes in Gaza have been destroyed, according to an analysis by The Wall Street Journal, along with almost all the schools, all the universities, many of the hospitals, the mosques, the churches, the historical sites and the public records.

My paternal grandparents’ home in Shejaiya had been among the last homes of my family still standing. This is the home where I was born. It collapsed in a “controlled demolition” just before the new year.

According to our own US intelligence agencies, Israel used 29,000 air-to-ground munitions during the first two months of its assault on Gaza. That’s more than were used in the years of the Iraq War – and Gaza is less than one thousandth the size.

No one I know in Gaza has a home, or possessions beyond what they carried as they fled Israeli bombardment.

My family may be better off than most in Gaza and they are still hungry. I spoke with my mom’s brother this week, and he told me he has lost almost 20 kilograms (44 pounds). Despite your promises, food aid has not been able to reach Gaza to come anywhere near meeting the need. It is blocked at every opportunity, including by Israeli protestors at the Kerem Shalom border crossing, and by Israeli inspections and within Gaza by the Israeli military. According to the United Nations, 4 out of 5 of the hungriest people anywhere in the world are in Gaza. You know that the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, provides food for most Gazans and critical infrastructure for other aid organizations. Yet, after Israel made unverified allegations that a handful of UNRWA staff participated in the October 7 attacks, you cut the funding for UNRWA in what I can understand only as an act of collective punishment. I fear this makes you, and me – as an American – party to the use of starvation as a weapon of war.

My cousins in Gaza, who are physicians like me, have no place to practice medicine. Their hospitals have been destroyed or incapacitated. After moving from Shifa to al-Aqsa hospital, only to be evacuated from each by the Israeli military after seeing patients and colleagues killed, they are now living in tents in Rafah and al-Mawasi, using their surgical skills to repair leaks in their tents while the bodies of wounded Palestinians go untreated, and often unretrieved.

I have worked extensively in global health and wrote a series of research papers in 2009 on what we thought then was a Palestinian health crisis. We could never, though, have imagined this – the complete destruction of Gaza’s health care system is unprecedented.

Even the dead among my family were not spared. Satellite images show that Israeli bulldozers and tanks desecrated the graveyards where my grandparents and great grandparents were resting. I hope to bury their remains again one day.

What do you wish to be your legacy, Secretary Blinken? You cannot say you didn’t know. You cannot say that you did not knowingly and materially support these deaths, which a US federal court and the International Court of Justice have both determined plausibly constitute genocide. I am the father of three young children in San Francisco. As adults, I am certain they will reflect on this “genocide” with horror. It will be taught in our classrooms and remembered in our museums as we vow never to repeat it.

I ask you to use the full power of your office and every bit of leverage the US has to allow aid to reach all of Gaza, including in the north, where hundreds of thousands of people remain in desperation. And, to resume the funding for UNRWA, which will be essential to the distribution of any aid. I ask you to uphold a rules-based order – which serves our long-term interests – by calling Israel’s indiscriminate bombing that has largely killed women and children, the attacks on health care and the use of starvation as a weapon of war as the war crimes you and I know they are. Your words matter, Mr. Secretary.

I feel indignity sitting before you in this comfortable conference room while my family desperately awaits word about a ceasefire, in the dark, hungry, and in tents in fear that the Israeli military will kill them at any moment.

In a dignified world, I would be asking for justice, not mercy. That day will come.

I hope that you, and this administration, can act quickly to bring our nation to the right side of history before it is far too late.I ask you to uphold a rules-based order – which serves our long-term interests – by calling Israel’s indiscriminate bombing that has largely killed women and children, the attacks on health care and the use of starvation as a weapon of war as the war crimes you and I know they are. Your words matter, Mr. Secretary.

I feel indignity sitting before you in this comfortable conference room while my family desperately awaits word about a ceasefire, in the dark, hungry, and in tents in fear that the Israeli military will kill them at any moment.

In a dignified world, I would be asking for justice, not mercy. That day will come.

I hope that you, and this administration, can act quickly to bring our nation to the right side of history before it is far too late.

[stephobrien]

Lately, I've seen several people claiming that the destruction in Gaza should be blamed entirely on Hamas, because it operates in residential areas.

It is true that Hamas operates from civilian buildings, turning them into military targets and endangering nearby civilians. However...

It's common for IDF soldiers in Gaza to loot displaced civilians' homes, and then set those homes on fire or blow them up. There were no active Hamas militants in these houses at the time to justify this destruction.

Satellite images analysed by the United Nations Satellite Centre show that 35% of the Gaza Strip's buildings - around 88,868 structures - have been destroyed or damaged. Among these, it identified 31,198 structures as destroyed, 16,908 as severely damaged, and 40,762 as moderately damaged.

A Human Rights Watch investigation published recently said an Israeli attack on a Gaza building in October had no apparent militant target, but killed 106 civilians, including 54 children, making it an “apparent war crime.”

Nearly every day, strikes level buildings with Palestinian families inside, killing men, women and children, with no explanation of the target or independent accountability over the proportionality of the strike. Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, a doctor with Medical Aid for Palestinians who just returned from two weeks at a Gaza hospital, said staff regularly treated children and elderly shot by snipers. “It’s not an anomaly. It’s actually the pattern,” she told journalists in a briefing this week. “I don’t think it’s that children in particular are singled out as targets. The understanding and kind of the conclusion you reach … is that everybody’s a target.”

Clean water is unavailable for most living in Gaza, and Israeli airstrikes targeted water infrastructure and wells. Of 581 key water and sanitation facilities, 37 were destroyed and 226 had suspected damage by November 14. Depriving civilians of objects indispensable to their survival - including water and food - is a war crime.

These are just a few examples of the many pieces of evidence that the IDF is NOT, in fact, "doing everything it can to minimize harm to civilians" or "abiding by international law," as its supporters claim.

So yes, Hamas bears some responsibility for the destruction in Gaza. But the Israeli army is also deliberately targeting civilian people, buildings, infrastructure, and sources of vital resources, even when Hamas fighters are not present to justify the destruction.

[lulu2992]

I’m not sure I had seen it before, but in this article, Dan Hay, Executive Producer, Creative Director, and Writer on Far Cry 5, said that Jacob “had 20 years in the Army.”

If he meant that literally and Jacob’s military career really lasted 20 years, since The Book of Joseph says he joined the army at the end of his sentence in juvie, so when he was at least 17 (unless he lied about his age), that means he was 37 or older when he was discharged. In the game, we know the cult has been in Hope County at least since August 2009, 9 years before the Deputy arrived, so that would mean the youngest Jacob can be in 2018 is 46 years old.

He spent some time in a military hospital and then ended up living on the streets before Joseph found him, though, so I suppose several months or years went by between the moment he was declared unfit for service and the day the brothers were reunited. Also, the Project at Eden’s Gate already had several months of existence when they settled in Hope County, which would mean Jacob probably is closer to 50 in the game.

Again, maybe “20 years” was just a saying or an approximation and Jacob is younger, but I still think it’s interesting!

[devilsrains]

aoike character guide book

places visited in yasuko aoike's works (translation under the cut by the lovely @asnowperson)

ENGLAND 1- London (Midnight Collector side story among others) 2- The National Gallery (London) (Pt.1 A Thousand Kisses) 3- British Museum (London) (Pt.1) 4- Salibury Military Base (Lieutenant Colonel Eberbach side story) 5- Heathrow Airport (No.11 Seven Days in September among others)

GERMANY 6- Plymouth (El halcón) 7- Bonn 8- NATO Bonn Office 9- Cologne 10- Thermal Spas on the Rhine River and the old castles (Eroica, among others) 11- Lilienthal Monastery (Shuudoushi Falco) 12- Berlin (No. 15 Nosferatu, among otheres) 13- Trier (No.17 Trojan Horse) 14- German Military Hospital (Intermission side story) 15- Dresden (No.16 The Panda’s Maze) 16-Hamburg (From Lawrence with Love side story) 17- Eberbach Mansion

FRANCE/ITALY/GREECE 18- Paris (No.17 Trojan Horse) 19- Louvre Museum (No.1 A Thousand Kisses) 20- Charles de Gaulle Airport (No.11 Seven Days in September) 21- Nice (No.17 Trojan Horse) 22- Avignon (Alcazar Oujo) 23- Catacombes (No.8 Veni Vidi Vici) 24- St.Peter’s Basilica (No.8 Veni Vidi Vici) 25- St.Peter’s Square (No.8 Veni Vidi Vici) 26- Parthenon Temple (No.4 Love in Greece)

SPAIN/PORTUGAL 27- Sevilla (Alcazar Oujo) 28- Sigüenza (Alcazar Oujo) 29- Toledo (Alcazar Oujo) 30- Jerez Castle (Alcazar Oujo) 31- Jerez Monastery (Alcazar Oujo) 32- Jaén (No.18 Judgment of Paris) 33- Plaza de Toros de Jaén (No.18 Judgment of Paris) 34- Córdoba (Eroica) 35- Zuera, Alcala (No.11 Seven Days in September) 36- Aragon region (Eroica) 37- Calatayud (Alcazar Oujo) 38- Granada (Alcazar Oujo) 39- Barcelona (Eroica) 40- Valencia (Alcazar Oujo) 41- Lisbon (No.3 Achilles’ Last Stand)

SWITZERLAND/AUSTRIA/LICHTENSTEIN/ROMANIA 42- Zürich (No.13 The Seventh Seal) 43- Luzern (No.12 The Laughing Cardinals) 44- Vienna State Opera (No.14 Emperor Waltz) 45- Vienna Central Cemetery (No.14 Emperor Waltz) 46- Innsbruck (No.14 Emperor Waltz) 47- Innsbruck Airport (No.14 Emperor Waltz) 48- Hofburg Palace (No.14 Emperor Waltz) 49- Tyrol region (No.14 Emperor Waltz) 50- Lichtenstein (No.13 The Seventh Seal) 51- Romania military base (No. 15 Nosferatu)

THE NETHERLANDS/BELGIUM 52- Amsterdam (Eroica, Madan no Shashu) 53- Bruxelles (No.17 Trojan Horse) 54- NATO HQ (No.19 Poseidon 2000) 55- European Commission HQ (No.13 The Seventh Seal) 56- Antwerp (No.17 Trojan Horse)

NORWAY/SWEDEN/DENMARK 57- Oslo Airport (No.11 Seven Days in September) 58- Mora (No.13 The Seventh Seal) 59- Copenhagen (No.19 Poseidon 2000) 60- Kronborg Castle (No.19 Poseidon 2000) 61- Lousiana Museum of Modern Art (No.19 Poseidon 2000)

TURKEY/SYRIA/LEBANON/ISRAEL/PALESTINE/IRAN 62- İstanbul (No.13 The Seventh Seal) 63- Rumeli Hisarı (No.11 Seven Days in September) 64- Turkish air base (No.6 Inshallah) 65- National borders of Anatolian plateau (No.6 Inshallah) 66- Historical remains of Palmyra (No.6 Inshallah) 67- Beirut (No.6 Inshallah) 68- Jerusalam (Saladin no Hi) 69- Gaza (Saladin no Hi) 70- Tehran (No.6 Inshallah)

EGYPT/TUNISIA 71- Ancient remains outside Cairo (No.6 Inshallah) 72- El Alameyn (No.6 Inshallah) 73- Giza Pyramids (No.11 Seven Days in September) 74- Alexandria (No.11 Seven Days in September) 75- Hotel Rosetta (No.11 Seven Days in September) 76- Carthage (No.17 Trojan Horse)

RUSSIA/JAPAN/USA/OTHERS 77- Moscow (No.19 Poseidon 2000) 78- St. Petersburg (No.18 Judgment of Paris) 79- Hermitage Museum (No.18 Judgment of Paris) 80- Siberia (A Tale of Alaska side story) 81- Uspensky Air Base (Eroica) 82- Tokyo Tower (Hiiro no Yuuwaku) 83- Alaska (A Tale of Alaska side story) 84- FBI Fairbanks Office (No.9 The Alaskan Front) 85- Tazlina Lake (No.9 The Alaskan Front) 86- Hawaii (No.9 The Alaskan Front) 87- West of Eden (Eve no Musukotachi) 88- Olympos (Eve no Musukotachi)

[tieflingkisser]

Ecocide in Gaza: The environmental impact of Israel's war

In-depth: Bombed fields, destroyed greenhouses, and soil contaminated with white phosphorus. In Gaza, the environment is a silent victim of Israel's war.

"The environment is not just collateral damage, but a target of the Israeli army," Lucia Rebolino, co-author of a study by Forensic Architecture, a collective that works with open-source satellite data, tells The New Arab. Israeli bulldozers have razed fields and orchards to clear a buffer zone more than 300 meters deep along the northern border between Israel and the Gaza Strip, she says. "The army builds dikes and mounds of earth to protect its tanks and clear the view." The figures in her study speak for themselves: of the 170 km2 of farmland that existed in Gaza before the war - half the territory - a total of 40% has been destroyed. Two thousand agricultural buildings have also been razed in Gaza – including 90% of all greenhouses in the northern districts. By targeting agricultural fields, Israel is attacking an important part of the Gazan economy and ecosystems. A joint study by the UN, the World Bank, and the European Union (EU) estimates the damage to agriculture at $629 million. Combined with the destruction of natural areas, waste treatment infrastructure, and debris removal, this amounts to over $1.5 billion - not even counting environmental restoration and reconstruction costs.

Israel's military infrastructure

According to Rebolino, this destruction is an integral part of an asserted Israeli strategy, particularly around the border buffer zone, over the last ten years. "We regularly observed Israeli planes dropping herbicides on border agricultural areas at the beginning and end of the harvest seasons from 2014 to 2019, taking advantage of favourable winds to hit the maximum surface area," she says. Forensic Architecture has published several reports on this "herbicidal war", which has forced many farmers to leave their land. Further south, investigators from the media group Bellingcat claim that around 1,740 hectares of land have been cleared where the Israeli army has built a new road, called Route 749. Also known as the ‘Netzarim Corridor’, this no-man's-land is being used to transport troops and to divide the north of the Gaza Strip from the south.

[...]

Significant water, air, and soil pollution

From the sky to the sea, from the earth to the groundwater, Gaza has been contaminated for many years, even generations, experts say. The greenhouse gas emissions generated during the first two months of the war in Gaza were greater than the annual carbon footprint of more than 20 of the world's most climate-vulnerable nations, according to a British-American study. It estimates that the climate cost of the first 60 days of Israel's war is equivalent to burning at least 150,000 tons of coal. The UN further stated that Israeli bombardments have created 37 million tons of debris. "That's more than the whole of Ukraine in two years," points out Wim Zwijnenburg, a researcher on the effects of conflict on the environment at PAX, a Dutch organisation that has documented, and denounced, how Israel’s war is making Gaza uninhabitable.

[...]

"The destruction of land is a systematic genocidal practice in the same way as the destruction of food production, schools, and hospitals, which is well documented in situ," says Lucia Rebolino of Forensic Architecture.

[howtofightwrite]

Hey I'm trying to write a fantasy AU following the plot of a series that takes place partially during the Second Sino-Japanese War, but it is very much a romance drama. So China sends volunteer female nurses stationed right next battlefield and it appears they have no clue how to fight and are very much unarmed. One nurse had to arm herself with dad's gun and barely knew how to use it. This isn't how war medics work...??? Maybe I can make it a little more realistic in my AU?

Given we're talking about Republic of China forces in the late 30s and early 40s, it might not be that far off.

So, an important piece of context about the Second Sino-Japanese War, when Japan invaded mainland China in 1937 they were attacking a nation that had already been in a state of civil war for over a decade, with many provinces seceding from China. (China had been mostly reunified by '37. But, there were continuing hostilities, until the Japanese invasion tabled most of those differences for the duration of the war.) If you're wanting to be realistic, you probably do want to read up on Chinese history from the First Opium War (1839) until the rise of the PRC in '49.

In an invasion scenario it's fairly common to see volunteer specialists, especially doctors and nurses, brought in to support to the defending forces. At this point, it's important to remember, they are still civilians, not military personnel, and it's entirely plausible that they have no combat training whatsoever.

Intentionally targeting medical personnel (or civilians) is a war crime, so that's entirely consistent with Imperial Japan's behavior throughout the Second World War. (Worth noting, the specific relevant treaties would have been The Hague Convention of 1907, and the Geneva Convention of 1929. Both China and Japan were signatories of The Hague Convention of 1907.)

Specifically, the first paragraph of Article 9 reads:

The personnel engaged exclusively in the collection, transport and treatment of the wounded and sick, and in the administration of medical formations and establishments, and chaplains attached to armies, shall be respected and protected under all circumstances. If they fall into the hands of the enemy they shall not be treated as prisoners of war.

The first paragraph of Article 10 continues:

The personnel of Voluntary Aid Societies, duly recognized and authorized by their Government, who may be employed on the same duties as those of the personnel mentioned in the rust paragraph of Article 9, are placed on the same footing as the personnel contemplated in that paragraph, provided that the personnel of such societies are subject to military law and regulations.

So, there are your nurses, protected under international law, as it existed in 1937.

Beyond that, Article 12 specifies that if a belligerent nation should capture medical personnel, they are to return them as quickly as possible, and if they cannot, that they can be instructed to continue to provide aid to their own people, but they can't be ordered to treat enemy soldiers.

So, yeah, targeting a medical facility would be verboten. Interestingly, if you're asking the realism, a nurse picking up a weapon and using it could invalidate some of their Geneva protections. They stop being just a medic, and become an enemy belligerent, though I'm not an expert on international law, so I'm not sure what other factors might kick in.

There's a mistake in thinking of these characters as combat medics, which they’re not. They should be working in a hospital, and while they might be close to the front lines, they would still be at a permanent location. Now, that hospital might have been quickly converted from something else before the war.

If the series is putting them out on the battlefield, then, no. That's probably not right. Again, I'm not an expert on the RoC's military structure, but, generally speaking, these kinds of civilian medics would be kept out of the line of fire if at all possible.

That said, if you're talking about something like the Nanjing Massacre, then yes, Imperial Japanese forces intentionally slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians. (There is question over the exact number, somewhere between 32k, including soldiers, up to over a quarter of a million civilians.) I'm unsure how much reading you've done on Imperial Japan's Pacific campaigns, but it makes for terrible light reading.

I realize I'm leaving you with a lot of reading, but with historical fantasy, that's the nature of the beast. You need read a lot of history, and build that into a concrete grasp for the slice of the world you're writing about. In a lot of cases, that requires starting long before the events you're looking at.

-Starke

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[meliesims]

I decided to switch to my BaCC for a change, and even though I'm in the middle of the round 18, I thought I'd refresh my memory with some statistics.

In the meanwhile, you can check out a recap of all the families I did back in round 17. :)

The Sim Multiplier

37 sims multiplied with 9: Population of 333 sims

Town’s funds

§435,437

Unlocked careers

All service careers

Architecture

Criminal

Education

Gamer: The career is open to any Sim who owns a computer, tv + video game console and arcade game.

Journalism

Law: A position opens up every time a Sim gets furious at someone. To enter the career this way, a Sim needs to have studied Couples Counselling. The career is unlocked for everyone with a University degree in Political Science.

Law enforcement

Music

Politics

Slacker

Athletic (new!)

Business (new!)

Culinary (new!)

Careers to be unlocked

Medical: After a hospital (§70k) is built.

Military: After a military base (§50k) is built.

Science: After James Clifford reaches the top of the career and research facility (§50) is built.

Adventure: After a museum is built and first sim reaches the top of the career.

Dance: After a cultural centre (§50k) is built.

Entertainment: After a cultural centre (§50k) is built.

Intelligence: After the top of the Law Enforcement and Military career have been reached.

Oceanography: After Beth Taylor reaches the top of the career.

So they could definitely afford to build all those facilities, I'll probably build some and use hood deco for some.

[cosmohause]

Assorted Doctor Iceberg Headcanons and Trivia Part 1.

Hi, this is my mega-list of headcanons, theories and general trivia for Iceberg part one! These are based on a mix pseudo-memories (IRL/DA shit dw abt it), dreams and general headcanons.

Below the cut are the long winded list for easy view. Idm inspiration but please don't steal them since as said most of it is based on memories that are very real to me thank you! /gen.

i. Iceberg's full name is Joshua-Ellis Tyler Gills, his name "deadname" being Ellis, but he still enjoyed being called it so he decided to add it apart of his newer name of Joshua, thus it becoming hyphenated. His middle name was something he gave too himself as he is a massive fan of Tyler. The Creator.

ii. He grew up in a small town in Florida, USA. But was born somewhere else during a trip his mother and father was on. He was born in a hospital in Chicago.

iii. Iceberg always had poor eyesight, this was made worse when his anomaly kept freezing his tears which would often stab him in the eyes- this rendered Iceberg to having poorer vision and only really being able to cry in showers, and learn how to bottle everything up. Do Not Cry. Thankfully the prescription he has no allows him to see, but due to factors his vision is considerably a lot worse than for example: Doctor Glass and/or Kondraki, etc.

iv. During his time in the military he was sent on the field a good few times, and Iceberg was great and experienced with both a gun and knowledge in explosives to the point where his behavior grew concerning, enjoying blowing shit up a little too much and very much excited when the enemy stepped on an explosive device he modified. This grew to a level where he was forced to stay the military base instead, which his efforts were put to use. He helped researched on a cryogenics stasis chamber, designing it and overall helped on the engineering of it. But one thing led to another, an argument broke out and Ice was pushed inside the untested chamber. And there he was frozen in time. Who knows how many days if not weeks passed by before the stasis chamber started to malfunction, waking Ice up and exploding. Of course, Iceberg survived, but wasn't left without being injured with burn scars and frostbite and of course earning his anomaly.

v. Iceberg's anomaly itself wasn't an instantaneous affair; rather it slowly became more and more apparent after the incident. It was first just that Iceberg feeling cold and stiff, those who touched his body felt coldness of someone whose been outside on a winters day with little to no protection. Over time this anomaly advanced further his once nominal body temperature of 37 would drop significantly to -7, where it remains today.

vi. To expand on his anomaly Iceberg cannot control it meaning yeah nah he doesn't have "Elsa powers" or anything like that - the most that can happy is when he's really sad and low it can seem like he's getting colder. While he can drink water he has to have it lukewarm, if not he sticks to coffee, varied flavors of soda and sadly has to have lukewarm showers to prevent burning and freezing. Ice does not enjoy it he wants to eat and drink normally like he used to but alas his anomaly is a massive hindrance.

vii. Speaking of Sodas: Iceberg's favorite soda is Pepsi Cola, Coke-Cola and Monster Energy drinks. He used to be a fan of sprite but now it just tastes too bubbly.

viii. Would it surprise anyone when I say Iceberg is a bit of a gamer? No? Okay! He is mostly a fan of the Grand Theft Auto series enjoying San Andreas, IV and V the most though. He has played a few of the Call of Duty, Assassins Creed, and RDR games. And you know what? He also enjoys the Sims and Animal Crossing but its a guilty pleasure since he is a manly man and can't be caught playing such!

ix. Now is there any mental soup stuff with Iceberg? Yes! Due to his childhood (explained more in part 2) which he honestly cannot remember Ice dissociates, has C-PTSD, schizophrenia (Hebephrenic type)*. As well as being hypersexual due to trauma.

x. Finally for part 1 of this so it isn't too long. Um. A list of theme songs, or songs that I think generally vibe with Iceberg but I don't consider themes. Some he probably listens to himself. (listen to it here! hyperlink to spotify) please be aware some songs describe sex, drugs/alcohol, suicide, some may contain swears and the like).

[beardedmrbean]

A complaint has been filed against Russia at the UN, accusing the Russian air force of deliberately attacking a hospital in opposition-held northern Syria five years ago.

It is being brought by a Syrian man, backed by human rights groups, whose relatives were killed in the attack.

Russia launched an air campaign in support of Syria's government in 2015 that helped turn the tide of civil war.

It has repeatedly denied that Russian forces have deliberately targeted hospitals.

The UN’s own investigation into the conflict has documented widespread possible war crimes, including indiscriminate bombing by Russian and Syrian forces.

But so far, apart from a handful of cases in Europe against Syrian asylum seekers alleged to be former members of the Syrian military or its intelligence services, there has been little accountability.

The particular case brought at the United Nations Human Rights Committee in Geneva relates to the bombing of Kafranbel Surgical Hospital in Idlib province on 5 May 2019.

A little-known clause in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - to which Russia is a party - allows individual citizens to bring cases.

Detailed evidence presented to the UN committee suggests the hospital, which was busy that day, was bombed four times in the space of 20 minutes.

During this time flight spotters in the area, the evidence claims, saw a Russian fighter jet taking off from Russia’s Hmeimim airbase, 60km (37 miles) to the west.

The evidence also includes an alleged audio recording of the pilot’s communication with Russian ground control, confirming targets had been successfully hit. The times of the communications match those of the strikes captured on video by people on the ground in Kafranbel.

Two brothers at the hospital, the cousins of the Syrian man who has brought the case to the UN, were killed.

The deliberate targeting of a medical facility is, under international law, a war crime. Human rights experts say such attacked have regularly occurred during the Syrian civil war and other conflicts.

Three other Syrian hospitals were reportedly hit by Russian planes on the same day in May 2019.

Health facilities have also come under in Ukraine, Sudan, and Gaza.

The Open Society Justice Initiative, the organisation backing the complaint, believes it is significant because, it says, “it is the first time Russia is held to account… over violations committed in Syria”.

But the UN Human Rights Committee, although it can hear cases like this one brought by individuals, cannot prosecute. That is the job of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Neither Russia nor Syria are parties to the ICC. Though the UN Security Council, the only body which can refer them to the court, has repeatedly been asked to act, Russia has vetoed attempts to prosecute violations in Syria.

What the committee’s 18 members elected by UN member states can do is issue a decision on whether the attack on Kafranbel hospital was a violation of international law.

It can also issue Russia with recommendations on how to ensure accountability, including launching a criminal investigation, or paying compensation to victims.

Human rights groups point out that in many cases of war crimes or crimes against humanity, the perpetrators are never brought before a formal court. But they say recognition, by a body like the UN committee, that violations have taken place, is at least some measure of justice.

And if this complaint is upheld it could, rights groups argue, serve as a form of deterrence for future attacks on medical facilities.

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A thirty-seven-year-old man was shot dead by the Israeli occupation forces this evening at the Ennab Israeli military checkpoint, east of Tulkarem, in the northern occupied West Bank, according to the Ministry of Health. The Ministry said the General Authority for Civil Affairs informed it that a man, who was identified as Fares Khalifa, from Nour Shams refugee camp to the east of Tulkarem, was fatally shot by Israeli gunfire at the said checkpoint. A security source said Israeli soldiers manning the checkpoint opened fire on Khalifa and left him bleeding to death. Ambulance crews were prevented from reaching him and he was left bleeding on the ground until he died. Meanwhile, the Director of the Martyr Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital in Tulkarm, Amin Khader, told WAFA that a 20-year-old youth, from the town of Beit Furik, east of Nablus, was also shot and injured in the hand and abdomen by the Israeli soldiers’ live fire, noting that his condition is stable. The young man was injured while he was inside the 1948-occupied land. The occupation handed his body over to the Palestinian side at the Ennab military checkpoint. With the killing of Khalifa, the number of Palestinians killed today by the Israeli occupation in the West Bank rises to three, including two youths, one of whom is a female, in their early 20s.

-- "A Palestinian man, 37, fatally shot by Israeli soldiers manning military checkpoint east of Tulkarem" from WAFA News Agency, 15 Jan 2024 7:37pm PSST

[princesscatherinemiddleton]

Princess of Wales - 2022 Statistics (FULL YEAR)

In 2022, the new Princess of Wales completed (by my count) 168 engagements, around 53 more than the amount of engagements she completed by my count in 2021 and 39 more than 2020. As well as this, she was sighted (or appeared) 16 times and appeared in a whopping 26 official (or unofficial and leaked!) photographs.

She gained four new patronages throughout the year and finished with 25 patronages. Of her 168 engagements, 67 were related to one of her patronages, averaging at one patronage visit every 0.39 engagements. Her most visited patronage was, of course, the Royal Foundation of the Prince and Princess of Wales (formerly, the Royal Foundation of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge), with 46 visits. This was followed by the Lawn Tennis Association and the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (with 3 visits). She performed no engagements on behalf of The Air Cadet Organisation, the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, Evelina London Children’s Hospital (she unofficially visited the hospital during the Platinum Jubilee celebrations), Family Action (she supported them in an article in Good Housekeeping), the Forward Trust, the National Portrait Gallery (her birthday portraits were released in conjunction with the NPG), the Natural History Museum, Place2Be, the Royal Photographic Society, the Scouts, or the Victoria & Albert Museum.

Of her engagements, 64 have been solo and 73 accompanied by her husband, the Prince of Wales. Five were also with either Prince George or Princess Charlotte, five with a range of foreign royals (including the two in Denmark), as well as 20 with either the whole or most of the working British Royal Family (note: some of the events with foreign royals also included a lot of members of the British Royal Family), and one with one other solo royal (the Princess Royal).

105 of her engagements physically took place in England, with all bar 48 physically occuring in the United Kingdom (with none in the Republic of Ireland). Of the 105 engagements which took place in England, 70 occured in London. Catherine's engagements also took her to 19 other areas of the UK. Only 7 were online or via telephone. Catherine also performed engagements in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. Catherine also undertook a working trip to Denmark, a tour of the Caribbean (which saw her visit Belize, Jamaica and the Bahamas), and an official visit to Boston in the USA.

During the year, she performed engagements on a variety of themes. 32 of those engagements were predominantly related to her Early Years initiative, while 15 were linked to culture and 13 linked to sports. Due to the return of overseas trips, State Visits, and the death of HM Queen Elizabeth II, 35 engagements were diplomatic in nature. 10 engagements were on the theme of mental health, while she also completed 9 engagements linked to children and young people, 7 linked to the military, 5 linked to Covid-19, 3 linked to the outdoors, and 1 which was specifically linked to the Commonwealth. Catherine also completed 38 engagements which could not otherwise be categorised.

Clotheswise, her most worn designer has been Alexander McQueen, with 25 outfits, followed by 10 outfits from Catherine Walker, while 18 items of clothing were unidentified. Her most carried bag designer was Mulberry (12), followed by Emmy London with 9, and 5 which were unidentifed. Mulberry has been her most carried bag designer in every year apart from 2020. Her most worn shoe designer returned to being Gianvito Rossi (with 37 wears), followed by 11 pairs from Emmy London, and 6 from both Rupert Sanderson and Jimmy Choo. Gianvito Rossi was her most worn shoe designer in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020. Despite Kiki McDonough creeping back into her earring rotation (with 18 wears), Catherine predominantly wore pieces inherited from either Diana (20) or the Queen (19). Aside from them, she also wore Annoushka jewellery 11 times. When it comes to accessories, she continued to wear face masks from Amaia Kids (5 times), although the return of hats meant her top accessories designer was Philip Treacy. She also wore 8 unidentified pieces. According to my (100% wrong) calculations - created from my own criteria (where items are counted each time she wears them), she wore £109,654.98 worth of new clothes this year and £271,423.79  worth of clothes in total.