#Journalists in Gaza

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“Terrorist, Fascist, Illegal Occupier of Palestine 🇵🇸, Apartheid, the Bastard Child of the United States and the West, War Criminal Zionist 🐖 Isra-hell’s” attacks in Gaza, Forever Palestine 🇵🇸, have Killed at least 100 Innocent Palestinian Journalists and Media Workers. Others have been Severely Wounded, forcibly displaced or lost entire families. These journalists report on Israel's attacks, the resulting starvation and humanitarian crisis in Gaza, all while experiencing it themselves.

Now, Palestinian Journalists are calling on U.S. Reporters to Boycott the White House Correspondents' Dinner in protest of the War Criminal Genocidal Biden Administration's Actions Toward Gaza. "It is Unacceptable to Stay Silent out of fear or Professional concern while Journalists in Gaza continue to be Detained, Tortured, and Killed for doing our jobs," the Journalists wrote in a letter Calling for the Boycott.

[intersectionalpraxis]

X/Formerly known as twitter user states: Hi. It's day 42, and as a Palestinian and a journalist and a woman and a Muslim let me take this opportunity to remind you: Gaza is not your poverty porn. My extended family and my people are not a charity case. My roots and my culture are not tragic or unfortunate /1 I see the US and Canadian mainstream media have woken up to Gaza coverage but from a humanitarian perspective alone. Palestinians are being portrayed as dirt poor and unsanitary and so very desperate -thus leading this part of the world to see them -at best -as mere unlucky souls. 2/ And it's become normalized here to see these unlucky souls as sacrificial lambs in pursuit of some idealized greater good. Usually an illusion, and through a Western lens. 3/ Palestinians are threatened, harassed, detained, tortured, maimed, and killed by the Israeli occupation. This has been the case for decades while most of you looked away. You don't get to look back in now just to run a sad story that makes you feel good about yourself. 4/4

X/formerly Twitter account: @ yasmineelsabawi

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Israel’s attacks in Gaza have killed at least 100 Palestinian journalists and media workers. Others have been severely wounded, forcibly displaced or lost entire families. These journalists report on Israel’s attacks, the resulting starvation and humanitarian crisis in Gaza, all while experiencing it themselves.

Now, Palestinian journalists are calling on U.S. reporters to boycott the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in protest of the Biden administration’s actions toward Gaza. “It is unacceptable to stay silent out of fear or professional concern while journalists in Gaza continue to be detained, tortured, and killed for doing our jobs,” the journalists wrote in a letter calling for the boycott.

As press organizations continue to raise concerns about Israel’s deliberate targeting of journalists, the Biden administration has made over one hundred military sales to Israel since Oct. 7.

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Associate Producer: Katherine Conner

#Palestine #Gaza #Biden #Journalist #WhiteHouse #Boycott #Palestinian #Israel

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March 5 to March 7, 2024 update from Let's Talk Palestine (instagram channel)

March 5

• 97 Palestinians killed, 123 injured in Gaza in past 24 hours

• Israeli forces recapture 2 Palestinian women who were previously released in the November hostage exchange deal — total 11 Palestinian women and children recaptured since their release, a clear violation of the agreement

​​• WHO: 1 in 6 children under age of 2 is “acutely malnourished” in north Gaza; 16+ kids killed by starvation in past week. Israel continues to block entry & distribution of aid + attacks aid convoys & aid seekers attempting to receive what little aid reaches the north

• Journalist Mohamad Salama killed by Israeli strike in Deir el-Balah; 133 journalists killed in Gaza since Oct 7

​​🇦🇺 Australian lawyers refer Australian PM to ICC for “accessory to genocide in Gaza”, citing the halt of UNRWA funds, military aid to Israel & deploying Australian troops

• Israeli airstrike on home in southern Lebanon killed a Hezbollah fighter and 2 family members amid rising Hezbollah-Israel tensions

March 6

• 86 Palestinians killed, 113 injured in Gaza in past 24 hours

🇺🇳 UNRWA accuses Israel of detaining & torturing its staff to extract false confessions on ties to Hamas. The unpublished UNRWA report details multiple incidents of abuse incl. torture, sexual abuse & deprivation of basic needs

🇺🇸 Washington Post: US quietly approved 100+ foreign military sales to Israel since Oct 7, disclosed in a classified congress briefing. The sales bypassed public scrutiny as their value didn’t meet the threshold requiring congressional notification, yet in total they amount to a “massive transfer of firepower”

• 20 Palestinians killed by starvation from malnutrition & dehydration, while Israel continues to block aid + attacking aid seekers, injuring 8 in Gaza City

🇨🇦 Canada was meant to announce its reinstatement of funding to UNRWA on March 6, but last minute decided to cancel the press conference. Leaving this decision unconfirmed. Canada was originally planned to announce they would resume UNRWA funding with a scheduled payment of $25m for April. Canada was one of the first countries that followed the US in halting funding due to the unsupported allegations made by Israel in January.

March 7

🚨 SOUTH AFRICA URGENT ICJ REQUEST

South Africa has once again requested the ICJ for additional emergency measures against Israel, urging the Court “to do what is within its power to save Palestinians in Gaza from genocidal starvation.” Its previous request was denied by the Court.

This was prompted by the harrowing deterioration in Gaza since the original measures in January. Using powerful language, South Africa highlights to the Court that “Palestinian children are starving to death as a direct result of the deliberate acts and omissions of Israel.”

Underscoring that Israel is “massacring desperate, starving Palestinians seeking to obtain food for their slowly dying children,” referencing the ‘flour massacre’ that killed 118 Palestinians and injured 760.

South Africa concluded by saying it “fears this Application may be the last opportunity that this Court shall have to save the Palestinian people in Gaza.”

Read the full request here:

https://tinyurl.com/mmy9rvfx

March 7, part 2

• 83 Palestinians killed, 143 injured in Gaza in past 24 hours

🇳🇴 Norway issues official advice against any trade or business with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, which risks contributing to violations of international law. This was prompted by Israel’s recent approval of permits for 3,500 new units in 3 settlements in the West Bank, the first since Oct 7. This has faced global condemnation incl. from close allies like the US & Germany + many Arab countries

• 60,000 pregnant women in Gaza suffer from dehydration, malnutrition & lack of healthcare; 5,000 women give birth every month in Gaza in extremely unsafe & unhealthy conditions

🇪🇺 EU Foreign Minister says they will probe into Israel’s compliance with human rights obligations stipulated in EU-Israel trade deal following requests from Spain & Ireland

🇪🇸🇶🇦 Spain to send $22 million + $25 million from Qatar in extra funding to UNRWA

• Israel granted access to only 6/24 aid operations to north Gaza last month

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I have been collecting links and resources for and from Palestine as they have come in front of me over the past several months. Here is a full list of what I have so far. CW: Links talk about sexual assault, rape, violence, death, etc. You know genocide and colonization. edit: okay it won't post all of them so i'm going to reblog with the rest.

'Israel' releases detained al-Shifa Hospital chief, 49 others | Al Mayadeen English

"May Gaza burn": The flood of genocidal rhetoric from Israel's soldiers

About | Israelism

Germany: Parliament rejects proposal to stop arms exports to Israel – Middle East Monitor

The Failure to Protect Palestinian Cultural Heritage

Air Force Engineer Resigns as Dissent Against Gaza War Spreads in Military

Palestinian journalist describes torture, abuse at Israeli detention camp

Palestinians protest against Israel land theft in Kafr Qaddum

Fears rise for Gaza's starving children | The Electronic Intifada

British far-right and pro-Israel activists are fighting the Palestinian movement together | Middle East Eye

'Israel' commits horrendous massacre on refugee tent, over 20 killed | Al Mayadeen English

On October 7, Gaza broke out of prison | Gaza | Al Jazeera

The Night Won’t End: Biden’s War on Gaza | Fault Lines Documentary - YouTube

US To Remove Aid Pier From Gaza Coast - ac.news

Gloom about the ‘day after’ the Gaza war pervasive among Mideast scholars | Brookings

Israel's use of bombs in 6 'emblematic' attacks likely violated laws of war, UN says

Running Amok | Mary Turfah

The destruction of press infrastructure in Gaza: A strategy to blind the public - Forbidden Stories

‘The grey zone’: how IDF views some journalists in Gaza as legitimate targets | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian

Exclusive: Israeli documents show expansive government effort to shape US discourse around Gaza war | Israel | The Guardian

Exclusive: Israeli documents show expansive government effort to shape US discourse around Gaza war | Israel | The Guardian

Doctor admits Israeli pathologists harvested organs without consent | Israel | The Guardian

Israelis are celebrating mass slaughter in Gaza

Israel's skin bank raises ethical concerns on organ consent...

“Genocide Denial”: House Votes to Bar State Dept. From Citing Gaza Death Toll | Truthout

Biden Has Not Seen Pictures Of Beheaded Israeli Children, White House Says | HuffPost

A compound crime: Israeli army hits Gaza family, uses them as human shields, and runs over their mother

UK election 2024: Labour's non-Zionist Jews complain of 'disdain' | Middle East Eye

Israel announces largest Palestinian land grab in over 30 years | Middle East Eye

Israel turbocharges West Bank settlement expansion with largest land grab in decades | AP News

How Israel destroyed Gaza’s ability to feed itself | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera

‘More horrific than Abu Ghraib’: Lawyer recounts visit to Israeli detention center

Inside Sde Teiman, the Base Where Israel Detains Gazans - The New York Times

Palestinian Released From Israeli Prison Describes Beatings, Sexual Abuse and Torture - Twilight Zone - Haaretz.com

PAST AND FUTURE PRESENT(S): No Palestinians Involved: An Open Letter to My Colleagues

Report: Israel demolished 318 facilities, uprooted 10,000 olive trees in West Bank this year – Middle East Monitor

The Luxury of Death | Institute for Palestine Studies

Pro-Israel tycoon gives Labour half a million pounds

We Spoke Up For Palestine and Got Kicked Out of the White House Pride Party | Autostraddle

The Rise of October 7th Tourism

IDF Ordered Hannibal Directive on October 7 to Prevent Hamas Taking Soldiers Captive - Israel News - Haaretz.com

‘I’m bored, so I shoot’: The Israeli army’s approval of free-for-all violence in Gaza

IDF Ordered Hannibal Directive on October 7 to Prevent Hamas Taking Soldiers Captive - Israel News - Haaretz.com

Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essential - The Lancet

IDF Ordered Hannibal Directive on October 7 to Prevent Hamas Taking Soldiers Captive - Israel News - Haaretz.com

Israel turbocharges West Bank settlement expansion with largest land grab in decades | AP News

Palestinians recount abuse inside Israeli prisons

Silenced at School: NYC Public Schools Chancellor suppresses Palestinian voices – Mondoweiss

The Frankfurt Book Fair and multinational publishers are complicit in the Gaza genocide – Mondoweiss

On the Record with Hamas - by Jeremy Scahill

Sabra and Shatila massacre - Wikipedia

Sabra (character) - Wikipedia

‘Israel in collapse’: 46,000 businesses forced to close since 7 Oct

Israel war on Gaza updates: ICJ finds Israel in breach of international law | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera

ICJ says Israel’s presence in Palestinian territory is unlawful | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera

We Volunteered at a Gaza Hospital. What We Saw Was Unspeakable. - POLITICO

The end of Israel’s economy – Mondoweiss

Palestine and “Xinjiang” under Capitalist Rule: An Analysis from the Chinese Left | Chuang

One Name, Two Lists

Devil in the details: How HRW laundered Israel’s 7 October falsehoods

UK drops plans to challenge ICC arrest warrant request against Benjamin Netanyahu | AP News

Palestinian factions strike a reconciliation deal - will this time be any different? – Mondoweiss

Gaza live: UK won't challenge ICC on Netanyahu arrest warrant | Middle East Eye

Only a failing US empire would be so blind as to cheer Netanyahu and his genocide | Middle East Eye

“Oslo Is Over” - by Jeremy Scahill - Drop Site News

Kamala Harris responds to DC protests over Netanyahu visit

Pro-Palestinian protesters vow to push on at UBC, VIU encampments | CBC News

Israel’s Netanyahu dissolves war cabinet | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera

Travel to Israel declines from 533,200 in June 2023 to 97,700, June 2024 - The Jerusalem Post

'Horrifying' Israeli strike on girls' school in Gaza kills at least 30 | Middle East Eye

Remembering Eman Qamom – Mondoweiss

Canada set to revoke Jewish National Fund’s charitable status – Mondoweiss

Operation Olive Branch - Google Sheets

Israel privately pressures Biden admin to fast-track more weapons during Netanyahu visit - POLITICO

Living in a nightmare – Mondoweiss

As US Congress cheered for Netanyahu, protesters gathered to denounce him | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera

After polio detected in wastewater investigators search Gaza for active cases : Goats and Soda : NPR

Despite UN appeal, US and UK don’t fund ‘critical lifeline’ to Palestinians | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera

Christian Zionism and the Unseeing of the People of Palestine – Institute for Christian Socialism

As the Games open in Paris: “Israel” out of the Olympics — Boycott colonial athletics! | Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network

Paris Olympics 2024: Key issues – Israel, Russia, Seine, hijab ban, workers | Paris Olympics 2024 News | Al Jazeera

All the Times Israel Has Rejected Peace With Palestinians

Violence of planting in Israel-Palestine - The Architectural Review

War on Gaza: How Israel is stripping Palestinian women of their dignity | Middle East Eye

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Israel has detained 80 Palestinian journalists since it launched its brutal war on Palestine’s Gaza last October 7, a local nongovernmental organisation reported on June 2.

Forty-nine journalists, including four women reporters, remain in Israeli custody, the Palestinian Prisoner Society said in a statement.

“The occupation authorities escalate [their] policy of arresting journalists, alongside threats, physical assaults, and ongoing legal proceedings,” it added.

The NGO warned that the detained journalists “are subjected to retaliatory and punitive measures, including torture, humiliation, starvation, and systematic medical negligence."

It urged all international human rights institutions “to fulfil their responsibilities regarding the crimes committed by the Israeli occupation against prisoners and detainees."

According to Palestinian figures, at least 148 journalists and media professionals have been killed by Israeli army fire in the past eight months, with Israeli forces injuring hundreds more, targeting their families, and destroying their homes, offices and media headquarters.

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Al Jazeera journalist freed after 12-hour arrest by Israeli forces in Gaza

Media watchdogs decry Ismail al-Ghoul’s arrest from al-Shifa Hospital, where thousands of civilians are trapped.

Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Ismail al-Ghoul has been released after being arrested for 12 hours and severely beaten by Israeli forces in Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital. Al-Ghoul was there early on Monday with his crew and other reporters to cover the Israeli army’s fourth raid into the hospital, where thousands of civilians are trapped, including medical staff, patients and displaced families. Witnesses said the Al Jazeera reporter was dragged away by Israeli forces, who also destroyed the broadcasting vehicles of news crews at the medical facility. He has since been freed after 12 hours in Israeli custody. Al-Ghoul told Al Jazeera after his release that Israeli forces destroyed media equipment and arrested journalists gathered in a room used by media teams. He said the journalists were stripped of their clothes and forced to lie on their stomachs as they were blindfolded and their hands tied. Israeli soldiers would open fire to scare them if there was any movement, al-Ghoul said. He added that he had heard that some of his colleagues were also released, but he did not have enough information about their whereabouts. Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest in the Gaza Strip, has served as a base for journalists to report on Israel’s more than five-month war on the Palestinian enclave. Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Rafah, said al-Ghoul was “tortured, beaten and detained by the Israeli military along with his crew member on the ground”. Mahmoud, quoting witnesses, said many Palestinians were beaten and verbally abused, some blindfolded and their hands tied behind their backs. They were then put inside an Israeli military truck and taken to an unknown location, he said. Gaza’s Ministry of Health said Israeli forces launched missiles and opened fire on one of the hospital’s buildings, killing and injuring Palestinians, and a section of the hospital’s courtyard was bulldozed. According to Mahmoud, Israeli forces had also arrested more than 80 other Palestinians, including “women medical staff and [other] journalists”. “The Israeli army made a list of allegations that they are looking for wanted people inside the complex but so far haven’t provided any substantial evidence … to justify what is happening inside al-Shifa,” Mahmoud said.

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By Brett Wilkins

Common Dreams

April 5, 2024

"The Biden administration's ongoing support for Israel's genocidal policies implicates it directly in the relentless targeting and massacring of journalists in Gaza, including hundreds of our colleagues and their families."

Palestinian journalists this week issued an appeal to their U.S. counterparts urging them to boycott the April 27 White House Correspondents' Association dinner over the Biden administration's complicity in Israel's genocide in Gaza.

"In the past six months alone, the Israeli military has executed over 125 Palestinian journalists in Gaza—10% of Gaza's community of journalists," notes the appeal, which is being organized with the help of Adalah Justice Project and the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights. "The year 2023 marked the bloodiest year for journalists worldwide in over a decade, with over 75% of killed journalists targeted by Israel’s attacks on Gaza."

"As Palestinian journalists, we urgently appeal to you, our colleagues globally, with a demand for immediate and unwavering action against the Biden administration's ongoing complicity in the systematic slaughter and persecution of journalists in Gaza," the authors wrote.

"We bear the enormous burden of exposing the realities of Israel's genocidal campaign to the world while living through it in real-time. Israel has killed more than 32,000 Palestinians as we watch on," the journalists said. The death toll in Gaza now exceeds 33,000—mostly women and children—with at least 75,550 other Palestinians wounded since October 7.

The appeal continues:

In Gaza, journalism is synonymous with putting our lives on the line as Israel methodically targets us in its desperate bid to silence our voices and obscure the grim reality of its genocidal actions and its project of ethnic cleansing in Palestine. For Palestinian journalists in Gaza, the blue press vest does not offer us protection, but rather functions as a red target. The Biden administration's ongoing support for Israel's genocidal policies implicates it directly in the relentless targeting and massacring of journalists in Gaza, including hundreds of our colleagues and their families.

"Western media has played an integral role in manufacturing consent for Israel's ongoing violence against the Palestinian people, while obfuscating U.S. complicity," the journalists continued. "Over the past six months, the mainstream press has become the mouthpiece of the homicidal Israeli regime, promoting dehumanizing anti-Palestinian propaganda and platforming genocide apologists and perpetrators, while simultaneously ignoring, downplaying, and underreporting Israel's war crimes against Palestinians."

"The White House Correspondents' dinner is an embodiment of media manipulation, trading journalistic ethics for access," the appeal argues. "For journalists to fraternize at an event with President [Joe] Biden and Vice President [Kamala] Harris would be to normalize, sanitize, and whitewash the administration's role in genocide."

"As journalists reporting from the belly of the beast, you have a unique responsibility to speak truth to power and uphold journalistic integrity," the Palestinians implored U.S. journalists. "It is unacceptable to stay silent out of fear or professional concern while journalists in Gaza continue to be detained, tortured, and killed for doing our jobs."

The appeal's authors noted that American media professionals have demanded justice for journalists like Palestinian American Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh—who numerous probes found was intentionally killed by Israeli forces in 2022—and Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi Washington Post columnist gruesomely murdered in 2018 by Saudi Arabian operatives in Turkey.

"It is past time journalists take action for journalists in Gaza," the Palestinians asserted. "We call on all journalists of conscience to stand with us and uplift our call to boycott the White House Correspondents' dinner."

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You know what? I don't condemn Hamas actually

If I lived in Gaza, I wouldn't vote for them for the same reasons I'm not voting for any traditionalists, but seeing as:

there don’t actually seem to have been any gratuitous ISIS-style atrocities such as rapes, indiscriminate massacres or beheadings, rather, ISRAELI GOVERNMENT DEMONSTRABLY BOMBED THEIR OWN PEOPLE with ppl admitting this in mainstream Israeli Newspapers. Israeli Newspapers! Not Hamas, not Al-Jhazeera.

they're not even that extreme in their present form compared to the 80s, & made repeated peace offers (Cooome on. I doubt we'd be seeing so many women Doctors, Poets and Journalists in Gaza if they were like ISIS or even the Taliban.)

that they made sure elderly hostages had their meds (its better to be a hamas hostage than an USA citizen, apparently....)

that there was a concrete military aim (release of unlawfully detained Palestinian Prisoners)

and that Israel has a track record of shooting at or locking up/torturing peaceful protesters even if they're children

I just learned Palestinians are HALF the population. Half the Population can't vote?! And when they got to have their own elections, Israel put Gaza on lockdown cause they didn't like the results.

I am confident calling the attack a legitimate armed resistance operation.

Human rights orgs gave been complaining for YEARS about those prisoners. There have been reports of beatings, rapes, torture, mentally ill teens thrown in solitary… but no one suceeded at getting them free. I wonder if some if the Hamas fighters wanted to save imprisoned family members.

I'm struck by the part of the article where one of the escaped hostages mentions a militant (whom she describes as being at most 20) being star struck with her fruit bowl and sheepishly asking if he could eat a banana. It had probably been a while since he saw one. I wonder what became of him.

Those who made peaceful resistance impossible make violent uprising INEVITABLE.

This is not even about morality, it's cause & effect. It doesn't matter what anyone thinks, or if they "should". You brutalize people, some fraction will always fight back. It's a fact.

EDIT: That said, to be clear: Collective punishment would still be wrong even if they were, in fact, the worst of barbarians. We don't kill all North Koreans for the actions of Kim. We don't pile up the corpses of Russian children because of Putin. They didn't leave German civilians without food or water because of Hitler.

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Can you explain why Hamas is bad?

Easy, they

are a designated terrorist organization in multiple countries

use photographs from tragedies in other countries to demonize Israel and the Israeli people

wish for the extermination of the Jewish people

have begun using the hashtag #hitlerwasright in earnest, praising Hitler, and using nazi symbols

reportedly restrict speech and press in Gaza and detain and torture those they accuse of dissent

attack journalists who criticize their actions

instigated the current conflict

have kidnapped, held hostage, and killed Israeli citizens, some of them teens

are willing to kill their own citizens in order to meet their own ends including but not limited to utilizing suicide bombers and positioning their bases in civilian buildings knowing that they will be targeted through air strikes and do so in order to make martyrs of the people who live in or around those buildings to further demonize the Jewish people and Israel

strive to create an Islamic state with sharia law

have stated they will compromise under absolutely no circumstances and are dedicated to violent means in order to “obliterate” Israel

use foreign “charities” as a cover in order to raise money for their cause or funnel money into their cause (see: International Relief Fund for the Afflicted and Needy, the Holy Land Foundation, and the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund)

are previously affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood

Also have ties to ISIS and allegedly have received weapons from North Korea.

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World News Briefs -- January 22, 2019 (Evening Edition) http://bit.ly/2FJQ4I9

Satellite image shows damage caused by Israeli strike on targets in Damascus International Airport, January 22, 2019. ImageSat International

Haaretz: Israeli Strikes on Syria: Satellite Images Show Damage Caused by Attack on Damascus Airport Photos show extensive Israeli strikes destroyed several buildings and warehouses, including a site reported to serve as secret Iranian headquarters Satellite images released Tuesday evening revealed the destruction caused by Israel Air Force strikes on Syria on sunday overnight. The images, released by Israeli satellite imaging company ImageSat International as part of its intelligence report, show the extent of destruction in the area around the Damascus International Airport, including detsroyed J27 Radar, SA-22 TELAR (Transporter Erector Launchor and Radar), and several buildings identified as storehouses. Read more ....

MIDDLE EAST

Thousands flee Hodeidah as talks to salvage ceasefire fail. US demands security guarantee for Kurdish YPG from Turkey. 12 Iranian soldiers killed in Israeli strike on Syria, watchdog says. Assad blocks access to Damascus for EU envoys: diplomats. Russia says Israel behind thwarted attack targeting airport in Damascus. Israel says it struck Hamas posts in Gaza after shots fired. Turkey planning international investigation into Khashoggi case: minister. US aid cuts hit Palestinians, further dimming hope for peace.

ASIA

Korea talks in Sweden have ended, few details given. Taliban militants kill dozens at Afghan intelligence base. Huge attack shows Taliban strength at outset of talks. North Korea: secret missile HQ uncovered as nuclear summit nears. USFJ plans video edit to clarify that it doesn’t recognize North Korea as a nuclear state. China demands US drop Huawei extradition request with Canada. Former diplomats urge China's President Xi Jinping to 'immediately release' detained Canadians. China’s plans to dominate hi-tech sector hit a stumbling block as US trade war takes its toll. Russia says any deal to end land row with Japan needs public support.

AFRICA

Dozens of armed fighters killed in Egypt's Northern Sinai. Hundreds of protesters close off main road in north Khartoum. Sudan targets demonstrators, journalists as protests continue. Sudan: 'Shadow army' in deadly crackdown on protests. Zimbabwe president says 'heads will roll' after protest crackdown. Zimbabwe protests: 'Systematic torture of protesters'. Zimbabwe price tags double within a week. Two migrants die, 500 rescued off Libyan coast. Kenya attack: 'Selfless six' mourned in Nairobi after siege.

EUROPE

Car hits Polish policeman, rams into presidential palace. Brexit battle looms as UK lawmakers attack May’s ‘Plan B’. No Brexit deal means hard Irish border, EU says. In Versailles, Macron vows to reform to avoid king's fate. 14 crew pronounced dead as Kerch Strait rescue mission called off. Putin hosting Abe for talks to break 70-year island deadlock. Paul Whelan, accused U.S. spy, had classified docs on him, lawyer says. Russian court refuses bail for accused American Paul Whelan. Leaked tapes allege Russian oligarch planned arrest of escort claiming she had dirt on Trump. Ukrainian former premier Yulia Tymoshenko launches bid for presidency.

AMERICAS

Senate to vote on ending government shutdown, Trump wall impasse. Defying Pelosi, Trump proceeds with State of the Union plans. Trump tells spokeswoman 'not to bother' with press briefings. Venezuela captures troops rebelling in Caracas. Pence urges Venezuelans to back opposition leader ahead of anti-government protests. US faces key test as global support for Venezuela opposition leader grows. Jair Bolsonaro says Brazil is open for business. Mexico sets new murder record with more than 33,000 killed in 2018. Death toll in Mexico gasoline pipeline blast climbs to 94: officials. Trump to put 'game changer' pressure on Cuba, says Mario Diaz-Balart.

TERRORISM/THE LONG WAR

ISIS gearing up for comeback in Syria and beyond. Indonesia backtracks on unconditional release of cleric linked to Bali bombing. Egypt says dozens of militants killed in Sinai peninsula. Taliban promotes training camp for ‘Commando Mujahidin’.

ECONOMY/FINANCE/BUSINESS

Stocks sink on growth fears and possible snag in trade talks. Oil prices extend falls as economic slowdown worries weigh on markets. IMF downgrades 2019 economic growth forecast on U.S.-China concerns. EU fines Mastercard more than half a billion euros. Record private jet flights into Davos as leaders arrive for climate talk. from War News Updates http://bit.ly/2DsUqB2 via IFTTT

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News on Countries of Origin

Africa

Threats to journalist increase in Eastern-Africa from state and non-state actors

Horn of Africa is facing fresh food shortage after delayed start of rains

ALGERIA: Hundreds arrested as Algeria cracks down on protest movement Hirak

BENIN: Attack on trans women must prompt authorities to protect LGBTI people

BURKINA FASO: Armed groups displace at least 17,500 people in 10 day period

CAMEROON: Two transgender women imprisoned in Cameroon over homosexuality law

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Central African troops and Russian mercenaries accused of abuses in anti-rebel offensive

CHAD: Chad protests turn deadly as demonstrators demand civilian rule

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: 

Martial law in North Kivu and Ituri must not be a pretext for abuse

DRC volcano eruption leaves death and trail of destruction

ETHIOPIA:

‘Bodies are being eaten by hyenas’; inside the Tigray conflict

Thousands of ethnic Tigrayans swept into detention across the country

120 former peacekeepers from Ethiopia seek asylum in Sudan

Many people face food insecurity in Tigray as assistance needs are high

‘No food for days’: Starvation stalks Tigray as war drags on 

Ethiopians suffer horrific burns in suspected white phosphorus attacks in Tigray

Ethiopia convicts soldiers of crimes against civilians in Tigray

Six months of Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict: A timeline

MOZAMBIQUE: Nearly 30,000 people displaced by March attacks in northern Mozambique

NIGER: More than 10,000 people flee jihadist attacks in West of Niger

NIGERIA: The climate change factor in Nigeria’s farmer-herder violence

RWANDA: What press freedom looks like in Rwanda: Journalists facing persecution

SOMALIA: Why Somalia’s electoral crisis has tipped into violence

SUDAN:

Attacks on civilians continue in South Kordofan

Resurgence of violence in north Darfur’s city Saraf Omra

In Darfur’s rebel held mountains, war is far from over

SOUTH SUDAN: UNMISS pull-out triggers safety concerns in South Sudan camps

Americas

Atrocities at the Colombia-Venezuela border control people’s everyday lives

No easy solutions for tackling the Central American roots of the migration crisis

BRAZIL: Police raid in Rio de Janeiro leaves 28 people dead

COLOMBIA:

Violence amid Colombian protests escalated amid allegations of police excess

Colombian protests: Poverty and pandemic collide with conflict and migration

Alarming footage shows riot police charging at protesters

Colombia mass demonstration ‘reflect a deep national crisis’ 

Colombian exiles seek refuge in Spain

Cali emerges as epicentre of unrest in ongoing Colombia protests

EL SALVADOR: ‘Police never turned up’: El Salvador’s devastating epidemic of femicide 

Asia

CAMBODIA: Amnesty: Conviction of five environmental activists must be overturned

CHINA: 

Xinjian birth rate plummeted after coercive fertility policies on Uyghurs

At least 630 Uyghur imams targeted in Xinjiang region since 2014

INDIA: India sacks Kashmir employees for threatening ‘security of state’

MYANMAR:

From complex to chaotic: Myanmar coup shrinks frontline aid

Three year sentence for journalist who covered coup indicated criminalisation

SRI LANKA: Sri Lanka’s muslims face backlash as government ramps up restrictions

TURKMENISTAN:  Security threats against relatives of dissident abroad

Europe

BELARUS: 

Leading news site blocked and journalists interrogated

‘They will kill me’: Belarussian blogger’s descent into horror

RUSSIA: Proposed new laws will criminalise Navalny supporters

UKRAINE: How useful is ‘state in smartphone’ for the internally displaced in Ukraine?

MENA

AFGHANISTAN:

Women, girls and Afghanistan’s missing justice after 40 years of war

Separate blasts kill 11 Afghan civilians on first day of truce

Several worshippers killed in blast at mosque in Kabul

EGYPT: Prisoner’s family detained for filing complaint about alleged torture

PALESTINE:

UNRWA decries deaths in Shateh beach refugee camp in Gaza

Israeli strike hits building housing media offices as conflict intensifies

YEMEN:

Displaced families weary as battle for Marib threatens to uproot them again

Marib descends back into war, but it shouldn't be a surprise

Detained actress at risk of forced virginity test

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Palestine summary for April 24 to April 26, 2024 from LetsTalkPalestine.

[Lets Talk Palestin Link Tree, with ways to help and sources.]

April 24, 2024.

Day 201:

• 79 Palestinians killed, 86 injured in Gaza in last 24 hours

• IOF bombed home in Gaza City, killing a mother & her child and injured 6

🇪🇬 Egypt detained 10+ women, among them lawyers, journalists & civil society leaders, protesting in solidarity w/ Gaza & Sudan

• Beit Lahia, Beit Hanoon & Jabalia in north Gaza under continuous Israeli strikes since ordering evacuation in Beit Lahia, giving them minutes to flee

🇯🇲🇧🇧 Jamaica & Barbados officially recognize a Palestinian State

• Israel built 6 new military outposts since Jan, totaling 9 outposts each within 3 miles of Gaza + plan to transfer 2 combat brigades (4-10 thousand soldiers) from Lebanon’s border down to Gaza — fueling fears of a looming Rafah invasion

🇩🇪 Germany to soon resume coordination w/ UNWRA after Israel failed to provide evidence on its allegations against the agency’s employees

🇺🇸 Biden signed to law aid bill giving $26bn to Israel

• IOF abducts 15 Palestinians including former detainees overnight in West Bank

April 25, 2024.

Day 202:

• 43 Palestinians killed, 64 injured in the last 24 hours

🇺🇳 UN to investigate Nasser Hospital mass graves as Israel denies reports of 392 bodies showing severe signs of torture and mutilation

• Hundreds of Israeli settlers storm Al-Aqsa Compound under IOF protection as raids across West Bank cities intensify

🇧🇪 Belgian aid worker & his 7-year-old son killed among 7 others in targeted bombings on Rafah despite disclosing his location to Israeli forces; 6 aid groups affected by recent attacks

🚢 Freedom Flotilla Coalition delays from departing Turkey due to Israeli pressure on Guinea Bissau in an effort to prevent aid delivery to Gaza

• Israeli forces abduct three 13-year-olds from Ramallah, West Bank as 200 children remain captives in Israeli jails

🇫🇷 France to expand sanctions on Israeli settlers involved in violence against Palestinians, with recent EU sanctions imposed on settlers and organisations for similar reasons

April 26, 2024.

University encampments going global 🌍🔥

🎓 Encampments for Palestine which started in US universities have now spread to France, Australia, and the UK, advocating for divestment from companies & arms manufacturers complicit in the Israeli occupation.

The 42 encampments are mostly in the US, but include 2 in Australia, 1 in France, and 1 in the UK, with more expected.

🤐 Arrests at Columbia (100+), Yale (50), Emerson (100+), NYU (dozens), USC (93), Uni of Texas in Austin (55) & more as US political & corporate elites fear the surging power & popularity of the Palestine solidarity movement.

Columbia canceled in-person classes, NYU built a wall around the encampment.

👩‍🏫 Many faculty have joined in protest of their administrations’ Zionist stances.

Biden admin. & Netanyahu, a foreign leader, released statements condemning the students.

🔥 In 1985, students forced University of California to divest $3.1bn from South African apartheid

Inspired? @ pal_actionus posts advice on starting one 🫡

Day 203:

•⁠ 51 Palestinians killed, 75 injured in the last 24 hours

•⁠ ⁠Rising temperatures in Gaza worsens condition of displaced Palestinians in tents, UNRWA added 2 kids so far killed by the heat

•⁠ Former head of HRW accuses Israel of obstructing investigation into Nasser Hospital mass graves

🇳🇱 Netherlands to consider resuming UNWRA funding after Israel failed to provide evidence on its allegations against the agency’s staff’s complicity in Oct 7

•⁠ Eastern Rafah under continuous Israeli shelling, targeting homes, injuring at least 2 Palestinians

🇺🇸 US puts halt on potential sanctions against 1 Israeli military unit, despite allegations since before Oct 7 of severe human rights abuses in West Bank

🇱🇧 2 killed in Israeli strike on a car in south Lebanon

🇪🇺 EU announces $73m in essential aid to Gaza despite refusing to sanction Israel

⚖️ ICJ to soon announce ruling on Nicaragua’s case against Germany, seeking emergency measures to halt German military assistance to Israel

[good-old-gossip]

Israeli "Soldiers" RAPE, TORTURE and KILL Palestinian Hostages

New incidents of abuse suffered by Gaza detainees at the hands of Israeli forces have come to light following a news conference held on Monday by the Commission of Detainees Affairs, a Palestinian prisoner's organisation. ⁠ ⁠

Speakers at the press conference in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, provided updates on the conditions faced by Palestinians taken from Gaza and held in Israeli custody.⁠ ⁠

Khaled Mhajne, the commission’s lawyer, reported on his conversation with Mohammed Arab, Al Araby TV’s Gaza correspondent, who was detained by Israeli forces during their raid on Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital on 18 March.⁠ ⁠

“Mohammed Arab, the journalist with Al Araby TV, informed me of cases of rape of inmates as well as torture in front of everyone,” Mhajne said.⁠ ⁠

Mhajne spoke to Arab in Israel’s Ofer prison in the West Bank, where he was recently transferred along with some prisoners from the notorious Sde Teiman detention centre in Israel's Negev desert.⁠

⁠ “Mohammed also spoke of cases of abuse, where detainees were tied up to walls, with dogs released to attack them,” Mhajne said.⁠ ⁠ Detainees were also beaten with clubs for “hours on end” and “beaten with pistols into their butts”.⁠ ⁠

In an interview with Al Araby TV following the press conference, Mhajne recounted a case Arab informed him of involving a 27-year-old detainee who was raped, forced to sleep on his stomach, attacked by police dogs “and then raped with a fire extinguisher and had the tube inserted into his butt”.⁠ ⁠

The extinguisher was then activated to release its contents into the man’s body, Mhajne said.⁠ ⁠ Mhajne stated that it was impossible to know how many Palestinians from Gaza had died in detention, as Israel is concealing this information.⁠ ⁠

The conditions described by Mhajne have echoed the testimonies of several Palestinian prisoners interviewed by Middle East Eye.⁠ ⁠ Mohammed Arab shares a room with over 20 other Palestinians in Ofer prison, where they are forced to remain tied up even when sleeping, eating or using the bathroom.

[tieflingkisser]

Prisoners held by Israel are going through ‘tragic conditions’: al-Shifa Hospital director

The Israeli military has released a group of Palestinians from prison. They're having medical checks at Al-Aqsa and Nasser Hospitals. Among those released is the director of al-Shifa Hospital, Muhammad Abu Salmiya. He was detained in November, while taking part in a United Nations mission to evacuate patients, from the medical complex. Abu Salamiya says Israeli forces detained him on no legal grounds. Following his release from Israeli detention, the director of al-Shifa Hospital, Muhammad Abu Salmiya, has confirmed that Palestinian prisoners are going through “tragic conditions” due to the lack of food, drink and torture. He said hundreds of medical personnel have been detained by Israeli forces, and that a number of Palestinian detainees were killed while tortured. He stressed that Palestinians in Gaza would rebuild the Strip, including his hospital. Palestinian sources confirmed that Abu Salmiya was subjected to brutal torture during his detention in Israeli-run prisons. Mansour Shouman, a Palestinian journalist and humanitarian who witnessed Israel’s war in Rafah and Khan Younis, has told Al Jazeera that “there are thousands more like Dr Muhammad Abu Salmiya who had been detained by Israel in the wrongful way over the past few months”.

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2016 in the Palestinian territories - Wikipedia

The following lists events that happened during 2016 in the Palestinian territories.

Incumbents[edit]

State of Palestine (UN observer non-member State)

Gaza Strip (Hamas administration unrecognized by the United Nations)

Ayman al-Aloul, Editor-in-Chief of Arab Now Agency in Gaza Strip, and another journalist, Ramzi Herzallah, were detained and allegedly tortured from 3–12 January by Hamas following critical Facebook posts.[1][2]

Israeli troops raided Birzeit University in Ramallah on 11 January, seizing unidentified materials belonging to Hamas.[3]

The Israeli military bombed a site near the border fence in Beit Lahiya, killing one and injuring three before they could set off an IED. While the Israeli government attributed the operation to its Air Force, Hamas accused the Israeli Navy of firing shells.[4]

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