#War Refugees

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Otto Frisch greets his mother, Theresa Frisch, in Brooklyn, where she arrived aboard the Spanish freighter Navemar, September 12, 1941. Her husband, Julius, died aboard the boat while enroute to the United States.

Photo: Associated Press

[odinsblog]

Al Shifa Hospital

At first Gazans were told to evacuate to a safe zone in the south. And then they were forced to evacuate to so-called “safe zones,” farther and farther south, until they finally arrived at Rafah, the southernmost point in Gaza. And now Gazans are being bombed in Rafah.

Some Gazans have evacuated and relocated more than 5, 6, and 7 times. These evacuees include noncombatant civilians who are the sick, the starved, the elderly, children, pregnant people, nursing mothers and their children, disabled people and those who are otherwise unable or unwilling to keep repeatedly being forcibly displaced.

And they have been bombed by Israel at every step of the way of their forced displacement, their Nakba.

Literally everywhere that Israel has directed Palestinian civilians to evacuate to, the IDF has subsequently bombed those “safe zones” where civilians were told to evacuate to.

Israel has bombed civilians in safe zones, Israel has bombed civilians en route to safe zones, Israel has bombed civilians in churches and mosques, Israel has bombed civilians in refugee camps, in food lines, in UN schools, in ambulances, and in hospitals. Israel has murdered its own unarmed citizens waving white flags, because they thought they were unarmed Palestinians. Israel has violated practically every Geneva convention regarding the human rights of civilians in a war zone. Israel is indiscriminately targeting, attacking and killing noncombatant Palestinian civilians no matter where they are in Gaza. There is no “safe area” from Israel’s bombing. Israel is committing ethnic cleansing, war crimes and genocide, in plain sight of the entire world.

Now, under cover of darkness, Gazans are once again being fired upon as they are forcibly expelled from yet another Geneva convention and UN recognized “safe zone” - this time a hospital. In the dark. With no food, no water, no electricity, no heat, and no medicine.

This is collective punishment.

It’s barbaric and uncivilized.

It’s disproportionate, and it’s not self-protection, it’s sadistic revenge.

It’s cruelty and inhumanity that isn’t justified, not even by the Hamas attacks on October 7th. I am not siding with or trying to excuse Hamas, because Hamas is NOT Palestine, and regardless of how you might feel about Hamas, Israel has now murdered well over 31,000 unarmed noncombatant Palestinian civilians in retaliation, most of whom were very young children—Israel has gotten its eye-for-an-eye, tens of thousands of murders ago.

Simply saying, “Hamas! Hamas! Hamas!” doesn’t excuse Israel’s ongoing war crimes and crimes against humanity.

This has to stop.

[plethoraworldatlas]

War, conflict, and environmental disasters displaced a record 75.9 million people from their homes at the end of 2023, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center reported Tuesday.

The vast majority of the displaced—68.3 million—were forced from their homes due to conflicts, the highest number since data became available 15 years ago.

"Millions of families are having their lives torn apart by conflict and violence," Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council—which houses IDMC—said in a statement. "We have never, ever recorded so many people forced away from their homes and communities. It is a damning verdict on the failures of conflict prevention and peacemaking

The IDMC publishes its Global Report on Internal Displacement every year, which is considered the definitive source for data on internal displacements worldwide. This year's report notes that the number of people displaced within their own countries increased by 51% in the last five years while the number displaced by conflict alone swelled by 49%, spiking in 2022 and 2023. The uptick was primarily due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine as well as renewed or ongoing conflicts in Congo, Ethiopia, and Sudan.

"Over the past two years, we've seen alarming new levels of people having to flee their homes due to conflict and violence, even in regions where the trend had been improving," said IDMC director Alexandra Bilak. "Conflict, and the devastation it leaves behind, is keeping millions from re-building their lives, often for years on end."

In addition to tracking the number of displaced people, the IDMC also looked at the total number of new displacements in 2023. It recorded 46.9 million new movements—20.5 million due to war and conflict and 26.4 million due to natural disasters.

"As the planet grapples with conflicts and disasters, the staggering numbers of 47 million new internal displacements tells a harrowing tale," International Organization for Migration Deputy Director General Ugochi Daniels said in a statement. "This report is a stark reminder of the urgent and coordinated need to expand disaster risk reduction, support peacebuilding, ensure the protection of human rights, and, whenever possible, prevent the displacement before it happens."

Of the 20.5 million conflict-driven displacements last year, nearly two-thirds were due to violence in Sudan, Congo, and Palestine.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"CHANGSHA - A Jap Rout," Brantford Expositor. May 27, 1942. Page 10. ---- Graveyard Hill was the name of the decisie battle for Changsha in which Chinese scored their great victory. Here Chinese troops hold hill overlooking and dominating the vital Chinese City. Return of the native picture shows Changha residents in a crude sailboat crossing the Hsiang River. They are going back to what was left of their homes. They are still in those homes, too. Rubble of what was once their house greeted these two Chinese, but they were fashioning a new dwelling place with the bricks and other bits left them after the smoke of battle had cleared. Congratulations to victorious Gen. Hsueh Yueh from Harris Forman photographer for NEA Service and The Expositor, who scored a world scop by obtaining these exclusive pictures

[ahmed-ziad]

Urgent 🚨 🚨

My mother makes us bread despite the difficult situation and the lack of necessities of life 😔

The war has entered its ninth month and everything is getting worse 💔

Please help me get my family out of there and protect them from war and bombing🙏🙏

[sayruq]

[alwaysbewoke]

[4ft10tvlandfangirl]

This morning in Motaz's stories he said the IOF have killed all the journalists who had drones so they are no longer able to show the massive scale of destruction as easily as they did before. I don't believe this is accidental especially after watching the day IOF hacked Motaz's drone and took it. Just another fowl attempt to hide the truth from the world.

A few screenshots from his stories today:

If what we can see is already bad, can you imagine what new aerial shots would show? Can you imagine how much we aren't seeing thanks to the continued disruption to internet connection?

[mysharona1987]

[newsfrom-theworld]

Sudanese refugees

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

Reminder that today’s headlines will focus more on the 4 rescued Israeli captives rather than the 210 Palestines murdered in this brutal massacre.

Let’s also remember that Israel holds many Palestinians captive. Yet another Israeli crime that rarely gets mainstream media coverage.

[forcebookish]

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[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"OFT-REJECTED CZECH TAKEN BY R.C.A.F.," Toronto Star. September 17, 1943. Page 4. --- Tried to Get in Czech Army in Europe, U.S. and Canada ---- Special to The Star Montreal, Sept. 17 - Forty-seven-year-old Charles E. Ippen, of Hradec Kralove, Czechoslovakia, fought on the side of Germany in the last war. Yesterday he became an aircraftman upon enlistment in the R. C. A. F. here, after travelling more than 5,000 miles to accomplish his ambition of fighting against Hitler.

Ippen was owner and operator of a factory at Vienna when war began to threaten. He abandoned his $200,000 investment and fled to Paris with $2, four weeks before hostilities began.

Attempts to enlist in the Czechoslovak army at first were futile. The age limit was 40. He was finally accepted and was waiting to be called up when France collapsed. He chartered a plane and flew to Bordeaux. From Bordeaux he went to Bayonne and Casablanca.

He came to New York by steamer. and arrived in Canada March 25. The next day he again applied for admission to the Czech army, and was again rejected because of age. He tried the R.C.A.F. and was аccepted.

[ahmed-ziad]

We were even searching for water and it was no longer there 💔😔

Our lives have become like a fantasy, everything is dark 💔

The simplest necessities of life no longer exist 💔😔

Please help me get my mother and brothers out of there🙏🙏

[sayruq]