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New Israeli Regime Moves Toward “Cleansing” All Palestinians From Palestine​

Israel’s new fascist government has increased the collective punishment of Palestinians — a war crime.​

By Prof. Marjorie Cohn
Global Research, February 15, 2023
Truthout 12 February 2023

Link: https://www.globalresearch.ca/new-i...nsing-all-palestinians-from-palestine/5808742/

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s religious Zionist coalition, which was sworn in on December 29, 2022, declared in its manifesto that Jews have the “exclusive and inalienable right to all parts of the Land of Israel.” To that end, in a little over a month, the Israeli regime has killed Palestinians, demolished their homes, mounted incursions into occupied Palestinian territory and endeavored to change laws and policies to accelerate the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians from Palestine.
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the Nakba — the Arabic word for “catastrophe.” In 1948, Israel assumed control over more than three-quarters of Palestine. Upwards of 700,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes or forced to flee and Israel confiscated much of their land.
Now, Israel’s new extremist regime — the most anti-Palestinian in Israeli history — aims to finish the job by incorporating all of the occupied Palestinian territories into Israel.
Many people in the new government want an “out-of-state solution” in which Palestinians would be forcibly transferred (or in desperation, leave) to nearby Arab countries, “dispossessing them of their homeland,” Michel Moushabeck, a Palestinian American writer and publisher, wrote at Truthout.
Bezalel Smotrich, head of the Religious Zionism Party, is the new minister of finance. In 2021, he told Arab members of the Israeli Knesset that they were “here by mistake because Ben Gurion didn’t finish the job and throw you out in 1948.”
In its effort to “Judaize” the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, Israel may be trying to cleanse the Palestinians from them.
“The new Israeli government is the culmination of decades of apartheid subjugation of the Palestinian people in their own homeland,” Richard Falk, former UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, wrote in an email to Truthout. “The long game of the Zionist Project was openly proclaimed in the 2018 Basic Law of Israel confirming the intention of maintaining Jewish supremacy and exclusive rights of self-determination in the entire territory stretching from ‘the river to the sea.’”

Israel Wants to Take Over Occupied Palestine​

The “Green Line,” drawn in 1948 to separate Israel from the occupied Palestinian territories, set the boundaries at the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. Nearly 15 million people live between the river and the sea. Jews make up 7.454 million — or 49.84 percent. Palestinians on both sides of the Green Line, including Gaza, encompass 7.503 million — or 51.16 percent, a majority. Between 59 and 65 percent of people living between the river and the sea oppose the Israeli occupation.
Israel’s “undisclosed Zionist Long Game,” Falk wrote at Just World Educational, “aims at extending Israeli sovereignty over the whole of Occupied Palestine, with the possible exception of Gaza.”
“Gaza, with its 2+ million Palestinians, is not part of the traditional Jewish conception of the promised land, and thus not integral to the Zionist conception of an Israeli one-state solution,” Falk told Truthout. “It is rather perceived by Israeli leadership as a dangerous ‘demographic bomb,’ hence a security threat, if it is incorporated into the Zionist vision of a solution to the underlying conflict. Israel would prefer that Gaza is administered by Jordan or Egypt, as before 1967, or even as an independent mini-state neighbor.”

In 1967, Israel (falsely claiming self-defense) attacked Egypt, Jordan and Syria and seized the Palestinian territories of the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem, as well as the Golan Heights and the Sinai Peninsula. Palestinians call this the Naksa (“setback” in Arabic). It ushered in Israel’s prolonged occupation of Palestinian territory. But UN Security Council Resolution 242, passed in 1967 and reaffirmed in 2016, stipulates “the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war.”

Israel’s Collective Punishment of Palestinians Constitutes a War Crime​

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) has documented killings, house demolitions and incursions by the Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) against Palestinians since the beginning of 2023. Forty-three Palestinians, including nineteen civilians (seven of whom were children) were killed by the IOF. Three Palestinians were killed by settlers, allegedly in retaliation for shooting and stabbing attacks. And dozens were injured in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
The Fourth Geneva Convention forbids the punishment of people in an occupied territory for offenses they didn’t personally commit. Israel’s reprisals against families and the community for actions they did not take constitutes collective punishment, which is considered a war crime.
In addition, the IOF rendered 33 families homeless (a total of 229 individuals, including 43 women and 108 children). This was the result of IOF demolitions of 34 houses. Six were forced to demolish their own homes and three were demolished in an exercise of collective punishment. The “IOF also demolished 39 other civilian objects, razed other property, and delivered dozens of notices of demolition, cease-construction, and evacuation in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem,” PCHR reported.
The IOF conducted 1,449 incursions into the West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem, since the beginning of the year. During these incursions, 638 Palestinians were arrested, including 11 women and 61 children.
Moreover, 2022 was the deadliest year for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank in 18 years. The IOF killed at least 146 Palestinians, including 34 children.

New Israeli Government Seeks to Weaken Supreme Court and Annex West Bank​

Israel’s new religious Zionist coalition government has begun the process to prevent the Israeli Supreme Court from overruling legislation passed by the Knesset (parliament). There are proposals for the coalition to select judges and replace professional legal advisers with political appointees.
The new regime has also withheld nearly $40 million in Palestinian tax revenues and plans to divert that money to victims of Palestinian attacks.
Meanwhile, guidelines published by the government call for more construction of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, legalization of illegal outposts and eventual full annexation of the West Bank.

Jewish Settlements on Palestinian Land Violate the Geneva Convention​

The Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits an occupying power from transferring “parts of its own civilian population into the territories it occupies.” It is illegal for Israel to directly or tacitly support the building of Jewish settlements on Palestinian land.
In 2016, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 2334, which condemned Israel for the establishment of settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem. It says that the building of settlements “has no legal validity and constitutes a flagrant violation under international law.”
Approximately 650,000 Jewish settlers live in 164 settlements and 116 outposts in the occupied West Bank.
Settlers who illegally build settlements on Palestinian territory have been emboldened by the new regime, which includes leaders of the settler movement among its key ministers.

Resistance to Israeli Regime Repression​

“The resistance in Gaza is doing its duties and defending our people in Gaza,” Hazem Qassem, spokesperson for Hamas, said in a statement. Al-Qassam Bridges, the armed wing of Hamas, declared that Israeli warplanes would be met by anti-aircraft and ground-to-air defense.
Additional Palestinian factions expressed support for an armed Palestinian response to the January 26 attack in Jenin, when Israeli forces killed 9 Palestinians in a “massacre.” The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said that Palestinian factions in Gaza have the right to respond accordingly. Lion’s Den, an armed Palestinian resistance group in the occupied West Bank whose members are considered heroes by many Palestinians, has mounted dozens of attacks against Israeli troops and civilians during the past six months.
Under international law, the Palestinians have a right to resist Israel’s occupation of their land, including by armed struggle. In 1982, the UN General Assembly“reaffirmed the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for independence, territorial integrity, national unity and liberation from colonial and foreign domination and foreign occupation by all available means, including armed struggle.”
The day after the Jenin massacre, 21-year-old Khairy Alqam killed seven people outside a synagogue in East Jerusalem in retaliation for the killing of his young relative by Israeli forces two days before. After the synagogue attack, Alqam was shot and killed by police and, in an act of collective punishment, his family’s home was demolished.
Tens of thousands of Israelis from different ideological perspectives demonstrate every Saturday night against the new right-wing government.
“The Israeli government is slaughtering Palestinians every night, massacring people in their homes, schools, and hospitals,” Jewish Voice for Peace Executive Director Stefanie Fox said in a statement. “There are no sidelines. Jewish tradition commands action in the face of grave injustice, and the time to rise in solidarity with Palestinians is now.”

 

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‘How is Israel a democracy?’ Amna Nawaz grills Naftali Bennett​

Link: https://mondoweiss.net/2023/04/how-is-israel-a-democracy-amna-nawaz-grills-naftali-bennett/

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In a breakthrough for mainstream media, Amna Nawaz of PBS grilled former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett, and observed that Israel is not a democracy because 5 million Palestinians can't vote.

BY PHILIP WEISS APRIL 19, 2023 12
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Last year the PBS News Hour was anchored by Judy Woodruff, who in two marquee interviews, exhibited a callous indifference to the Palestinian perspective. One was her interview with Secretary of State Antony Blinken last June, barely a month after Israel killed Shireen Abu Akleh. Woodruff pressed Blinken about the Saudis’ murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 but said nothing about Abu Akleh. Then last fall, Woodruff did a softball interview of then former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, promoting his new book, allowing him to push for a military threats against Iran — and treating Palestinians as an afterthought, toward whom Netanyahu might have good faith:

“What sort of life do you foresee for them in the years, generations to come?… And do you see a home for Palestinians in years to come?”

Truly embarrassing.
What a difference a year makes. Woodruff has become a senior correspondent, and one of the new co-anchors is Amna Nawaz, an Asian-American and Muslim, who obviously is familiar with the Palestinian narrative and grants it honor.
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Last night Nawaz interviewed former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett and repeatedly asked him about Palestinians’ lack of rights under occupation, culminating with her comment: “We have seen Palestinian families en masse evicted from properties they have occupied for generations.”
What a breakthrough! Nawaz clearly feels supported by a trend she brought up: the Gallup poll findings that Democrats are now more sympathetic to Palestinians than Israelis, and by a whopping 49 to 38 percent. “That’s a real reversal in just a matter of years,” she observed. “Seven years ago, sympathy was 30 percent greater for Israelis than for Palestinians.”
Bennett looked to be thrown by her questioning. He aimed to mend relations with the U.S. establishment last night, pooh-poohing the contretemps between Biden and Israel and declaring that Israeli democracy has been redeemed by Netanyahu’s decision last month under tremendous pressure to put off his judicial overhaul plans.

“I can now openly declare that the democracy in Israel has prevailed… It’ll take a while until everyone understands it, but I think what Israel got was a great gift for its 75th birthday.

Nawaz was having none of it. She brought up the Gallup numbers, and Bennett said the usual– Israel just needs to do a better job of explaining its beautiful complexity to America. Israel is an “imperfect” democracy.
Nawaz pressed the Palestinian experience– it’s not a democracy for them:

Critics will say, how is this a real democracy, though, when you have five million Palestinians who have no voting rights, no access to government? I mean, in a true democracy, wouldn’t everyone have equal rights?

Bennett said Palestinians elected the P.A. and Hamas. Nawaz pushed back with the occupation. “But under occupation… in the West Bank, specifically, Palestinians do not have voting rights or access to government…. they do live under a military occupation of Israeli forces.”
Bennett claimed that apart from Israeli “security” concerns, Palestinians have “full freedom.”
Again, Nawaz was unmoved. She said, “people and critics who watch the mistreatment and the unequal treatment of Palestinian and Israeli citizens” have said that the U.S. and Israel don’t share values and the U.S. should condition military aid– a reference to the congressional letter signed by 14 last week.
Bennett bridled, calling that impulse a “profound mistake,” and said that “Israel is a full-fledged democracy,” with two million Palestinian citizens voting for the Knesset.
Nawaz again addressed the “five million Palestinians who are not Israeli citizens” and went on to bring up “settlement expansions,” and “the eviction of Palestinian families” and “the demolitions of their homes” as factors that the U.N. sees as “fueling… violence.”
When Bennett said that Israel doesn’t evict anyone who is legally in a home, Nawaz had the presence of mind to say, “Legal by whose determination, though?” — and added that “we have seen Palestinian families en masse evicted from properties they have occupied for generations.”
Amazing to hear those words coming from a mainstream American news anchor. Bennett appeared a bit flustered by the uncommon treatment.

FORMER ISRAELI PM NAFTALI BENNETT, APPEARING A BIT FLUSTERED UNDER AMNA NAWAZ’S QUESTIONING ON PBS NEWS HOUR, APRIL 18, 2023. SCREENSHOT.
In the remainder of the interview, Nawaz pressed Bennett about “settlement expansion” and said that Saudi Arabia, having resumed relations with Iran, “is calling Israel an occupation government again.”
Nawaz was surely biting her tongue. It’s too bad that she could not bring herself to say “apartheid” and cite the many human rights reports describing Israel as an apartheid state.
That day will come. Nawaz plainly feels buttressed by Israel’s critics in Congress and its sinking sympathy among Democrats, but she took it upon herself to grant Palestinians dignity on a mainstream platform. It’s a pity that we need to celebrate the discovery that Palestinians are human beings, but it was thrilling to watch this interview and see an Israeli politician on his back foot for once.

 

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Palestine at the centre of free-speech battle on US campuses, academics say​

Methods used to blacklist pro-Palestinian academics are now being deployed against students and academics in other fields, experts say

Members of the Palestinian community protest against violence in the Gaza Strip, during a rally in Times Square, on 18 May 2018 in New York City (AFP)

By MEE staff
Published date: 25 August 2023 22:01 BST | Last update: 2 days 20 hours ago

Link: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestine-centre-free-speech-battle-us-campuses-academics-say

As issues of academic freedom and censorship continue to dominate conversations in universities across the US, academics say that many of these issues - as well as the methods of censorship - can be linked back to speech over Palestine.
Dima Khalidi, executive director of Palestine Legal, said that academics have for decades been working to put the issue of Palestinian rights at the forefront of their universities, often leading to attempts by pro-Israel and Zionist groups to censor their voices.
"It is clear that there's a Palestine exception to our free-speech rights, but it's not the only one. And I think it's a sign of our quickly eroding constitutional rights," Khalidi said during a webinar hosted by the Washington-based think tank, the Arab Center, on Friday.
Sites like Canary Mission and Campus Watch have been introduced over the past 20 years, acting as blacklists where students, activists, and academics with pro-Palestinian views or those who criticise Israel are placed and levelled with accusations of antisemitism and supporting terrorism.
Middle East Eye previously spoke to several students who have had to brave smear campaigns because of their pro-Palestinian activism. According to The Intercept, blacklists like Canary Mission have become even more frightening because they are used by law enforcement in Israel and the US.

"While Campus Watch was one of the first groups to create a blacklist against professors who criticise Israel, we've seen that inspire, likely, newer right-wing groups like Professor Watchlist, which is a project of Turning Point USA that supposedly exposes professors who discriminate 'against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom'," Khalidi said.
This year alone, there have been several attempts to censor academics and other individuals critical of Israel on US campuses.
In January, former Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth was denied a fellowship position at Harvard University. Roth told Middle East Eye at the time that the reason for his denial likely had to do with his criticism of Israel.

‘Criticise Israel, you can be cancelled’: Outrage after former HRW chief denied Harvard fellowship
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Roth was eventually given the fellowship at Harvard after a wave of outrage. But Laila El-Haddad, who is originally from Gaza and attended the Harvard Kennedy School in 2002, told MEE at the time that the incident was just one of many showing bias towards Israel and was also a troubling precedent for Palestinian academics who speak out against Israel.
Then this past summer, Zionist groups and the Israeli government called on Princeton University to ban a book discussing Israel's intentional maiming of Palestinians. The issue also led to outrage, and an open letter against the move has received around 400 signatures so far.
Fida Adely, an associate professor and director of Georgetown University's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, said during the webinar that the attempts and methods around the censorship of Palestine can now also be seen in other academic fields, such as critical race theory or gender studies.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis recently signed a bill into law that bans critical race theory from being taught in public classrooms.
"The kinds of censorship we see now around critical race theory, around teaching about gender issues, around teaching about slavery and US history is really kind of like the chickens come home to roost," Adely said.
"We've allowed this kind of censorship around a basic right to boycott, the basic right to critique Israel for decades in the United States. And now we see all kinds of legislation that follows a very similar playbook trying to shut down all kinds of discourse in classrooms in the United States."

 

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Mainstream media covers up Israeli calls to drive two million Palestinians into permanent exile​

CONTACT@IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Link: https://israelpalestinenews.org/mai...wo-million-palestinians-into-permanent-exile/

The mainstream U.S. media is almost totally ignoring incendiary statements by powerful Israeli officials who say openly they want to push Palestinians out of Gaza forever.​

by James North, reposted from Mondoweiss

Stephanie Nolen, now at the New York Times, is a veteran and excellent overseas reporter. She’s spent many years working in South Asia, Latin America and Africa. Her book 28 Stories of AIDS in Africa is a superb look at how that pandemic devastated large swaths of the continent.
So when you see that the Times is running not one but two of her articles on “looming starvation in Gaza,” you have hopes that some important truths are about to be revealed.

But you would be largely disappointed. Nolen does explain that Palestinians in Gaza are going hungry, and one of her reports goes into painful detail about the actual physical impact of severe malnutrition: she notes, for instance, that “children often fail first.”
But nowhere does she report clearly that plenty of people, both in Israel and elsewhere, charge that Israel’s policy is part of a deliberate campaign of ethnic cleansing, designed to force many of the 2 million Gazans to actually leave their homeland permanently, just as Palestinians were displaced in 1948 and 1967.

Nolen’s failure is actually characteristic of the mainstream U.S. media, which is almost totally ignoring incendiary statements by powerful Israeli officials who say openly they want to push Palestinians out of Gaza forever.
(If you read between the lines in one of Nolen’s reports, you can guess what happened behind the scenes at the New York Times. She briefly outlines the “possible starvation,” but then lets an Israeli military spokesman jump in, right at paragraph 7, to “vigorously deny allegations that it is responsible for the shortage of food in Gaza.” He gets six paragraphs to lie and obfuscate, even claiming that “there is a sufficient amount of food in Gaza,” before she can even get back to the real story. There’s no proof, but you can bet that anxious editors butted in and made her add that long section.)…

Mainstream media failure extends beyond Stephanie Nolen…
Here’s a recent, astonishing example of how the Times tried to hide the Jewish supremacists in the attic…
Other mainstream outlets are even worse than the Times…Read full report. [ck site link, above, top]

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How did Blinken avoid the 'atrocity famine' in Gaza?​

After his trip the Secretary of State said a lot about humanitarian need, but nothing about Israel weaponizing food​

ANALYSIS | MIDDLE EAST

1. Regions Middle East
2. Gaza War

Link: https://responsiblestatecraft.org/gaza-starvation/

DANIEL LARISON
JAN 10, 2024

The people of Gaza are facing one of the worst man-made famines in recent history.
The combined effects of bombing, displacement, and blockade have driven an already vulnerable population into severe, widespread hunger. This is not some accidental byproduct of conflict. Critics like Human Rights Watch charge that it is the result of a deliberate Israeli government policy to punish the entire population of Palestinians in Gaza for the crimes of Hamas.
Now we are seeing the calamitous consequences of that policy for more than two million people, 90% of whom have been displaced from their homes over the last three months.
Last month, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) initiative released a report on Gaza warning that a quarter of the population is now in the worst, catastrophic phase and that the entire population is highly food insecure and at risk of famine. According to the report, this is the highest level of acute food insecurity that the IPC has ever measured in a particular territory. Case in point: everywhere else in the world, there are roughly 130,000 people in IPC 5, the catastrophic phase, and in Gaza there are more than half a million.
Arif Hussain of the World Food Program told the New York Times earlier this month, “I’ve been to pretty much any conflict, whether Yemen, whether it was South Sudan, northeast Nigeria, Ethiopia, you name it. And I have never seen anything like this, both in terms of its scale, its magnitude, but also at the pace that this has unfolded.”
The WFP says that almost every Palestinian in Gaza is going more than a day without eating anything, and when there is an opportunity to eat, there is only a tiny amount to be split among extended families. According to reliable news reports, food is so scarce that people resort to eating whatever spoiled and rancid food they are able to find. Mothers with infants are so malnourished that they cannot nurse their babies, and what little food there is has become prohibitively expensive.
The blockade of commercial imports means there is no way to meet the basic needs of the population. In northern Gaza, where infrastructure has been wiped out and aid deliveries are impossible, conditions are even worse than in the rest of the Strip. The UN emergency relief coordinator, Martin Griffiths, has said, “Gaza has simply become uninhabitable. Its people are witnessing daily threats to their very existence – while the world watches on.”
The Israeli government’s policies are creating this disaster. Based on its analysis of Israeli government actions and official statements since October 7, Human Rights Watch has concluded that the Israeli government is using starvation as a weapon of war, which is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions. The New York Times quoted Omar Shakir, Human Rights Watch’s Israel and Palestine director, “For over two months, Israel has been depriving Gaza’s population of food and water, a policy spurred on or endorsed by high-ranking Israeli officials and reflecting an intent to starve civilians as a method of warfare.”
The Israeli government denies the charges that it is hindering aid, and points to the deliveries that have been let in, but this defense strains credulity. The small amount of food and fuel that is allowed in must first go through a laborious, time-consuming inspection process, and the aid that makes it through is insufficient to meet the needs of millions of uprooted people in a territory otherwise cut off from the outside world.
Scholar Alex de Waal wrote in a new article that “the catastrophic humanitarian crisis in Gaza is a deliberate act. Gaza is a starvation crime scene.” He explains that “[t]he rigor, scale and speed of the destruction of OIS [objects indispensable to survival] and enforcement of the siege surpasses any other case of man-made famine in the last 75 years.”
De Waal has written an important history of modern famine, Mass Starvation, in which he wrote about the recent atrocity famines that have been created in this century in Yemen, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda, Nigeria, Syria, and Somalia.
The U.S. government response to what is a new “atrocity famine” in Gaza has been poor and inadequate. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in Israel Tuesday, and acknowledged the need for aid to get in and said that there “far too many” deaths in Gaza. But he did not assign blame to Israel and like all administration rhetoric, would not put any weight behind it. Continued unconditional support for Israel’s military campaign and Washington’s stubborn opposition to any resolution calling for a ceasefire at the U.N. have meant that there is little or no pressure on the Israeli government to change course.
As Israel’s principal patron and arms supplier, the U.S. bears significant responsibility for both the campaign and the policy of collective punishment to which it belongs.
The only way to avert large-scale loss of life from hunger and disease in Gaza is an immediate ceasefire and a lifting of the siege. The longer it takes to secure a ceasefire, the more innocent people in Gaza will die preventable deaths. Staving off famine in Gaza should be Washington’s top priority. If the U.S. does not act in time, it will be a black mark on our national reputation and one of the greatest foreign policy failures in our history.
In Biden’s first year as president, the State Department made the unpopular move of reversing the previous administration’s designation of Ansar Allah, a.k.a., the Houthis, as a terrorist organization. The decision to remove the Houthis from the list of terrorist organizations was done because of the threat of famine to Yemeni civilians that the designation had created. The administration made the right call then to preserve the lives of innocent civilians, and it must do so again now.

 

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Bibi's Endgame: A Ghastly Humanitarian Crisis Followed by Forced Expulsion

MIKE WHITNEY • FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Link: https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/bibis-...nitarian-crisis-followed-by-forced-expulsion/


https://twitter.com/MintPressNews/status/1756035770685522335

Having seized upon the October 7 attacks as a pretext, Israel has moved to implement a long-term plan to render Gaza uninhabitable and either kill or expel its population. The assault on Rafah will mark a new stage in this vast crime. Andre Damon, World Socialist Web Site

On Friday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the Israeli military to prepare a plan for the forced expulsion of Palestinians located in Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza where over 1.3 million displaced civilians have taken refuge in tent cities. The announcement was met with howls of protest from political leaders and human rights groups around the world who understand that Israel is now implementing the final phase of its ethnic cleansing operation which began on October 7. Despite the public outcry and mounting opposition, Netanyahu is moving ahead with his plan to drive the non-Jewish population from their historic homeland in order to establish a permanent Jewish majority on Palestinian territory. This is from an article at Politico:

On Friday, Netanyahu announced he had ordered defense forces to “submit to the cabinet a dual plan for both evacuating the population and bringing down the battalions” ahead of an “intensive operation.”…
In preparation of the assault, Israeli forces have ramped up their airstrikes and shelling on the southern Gaza metropolis…. Netanyahu’s plans raised alarm among aid agencies and world leaders alike, who fear the consequences of a ground assault on a city already overcrowded with civilians…
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres expressed similar sentiments, saying that an operation in Rafah would “exponentially increase what is already a humanitarian nightmare with untold regional consequences.” Netanyahu orders Rafah evacuation ahead of expected ground invasion, Politico

Keep in mind, Netanyahu is using a fully-equipped, state-of-the-art military to subdue an unarmed civilian population. This is not a war in any traditional sense of the word. The Palestinians are being terrorized into compliance and forced at gunpoint to move from one location to another. Now they are going to be driven from the urban area in Rafah to a barren plain that is devoid of food, water or protection from the elements. The objective of this maneuver is to create a humanitarian crisis so colossal that foreign leaders will be forced to enact an emergency resettlement program that will address the refugee problem while absolving Israel of any legal responsibility. This is from the Telegraph on Saturday:

Netanyahu said a “massive operation” is needed in Rafah, adding that he has asked security officials to present a “double plan” that would encompass civilian evacuations …
It comes as Israel on Friday bombed targets in Rafah, expanding its Gaza ground offensive to the densely populated southern city where more than half of the territory’s 2.3 million people have sought refuge.
Airstrikes overnight and into Friday hit two residential buildings in Rafah, while two other sites were bombed in central Gaza, including one that damaged a kindergarten-turned-shelter for displaced Palestinians. Twenty-two people were killed, according to AP journalists who saw the bodies arriving at hospitals. Netanyahu orders Rafah evacuation plan, Telegraph

The reason Israel continues to kill non-combatants who are in-no-way connected to Hamas, is because it convinces everyone else that the bombing is “indiscriminate” which, in turn, suggests that the perpetrator is a deranged madman driven by irrational hatred. This is how one terrorizes the public into doing whatever is demanded of them. We expect that much of Israel’s current pysops in Gaza was meticulously worked out with a battery of behavioral psychologists long before the first bomb was dropped, perhaps, years before the Hamas attack on October 7.
It’s also worth noting, that Israel’s unexpected blitz on Rafah comes on the heels of explicit promises from senior-level Israeli officials that Palestinians who willingly left their homes in the North would find safety in the South. Now these same people are being pelted with bombs and pushed into the desert where their prospects for survival are dismal at best. We can only conclude that the reason the Palestinians are being treated so horribly is because they are part of the non-Jewish minority who are widely regarded as inferior to the Israeli Jews. The Palestinians are not being expelled because they pose a national security threat but because they are more prolific than the Jews who want to maintain a sizable majority whatever the cost. In other words, the Palestinians are not being deported for something they’ve done but for who they are. This is from Reuters:

Egypt is moving to avert a mass exodus from the Gaza Strip into its Sinai Peninsula… Israel’s assault on Gaza has caused alarm in Egypt, which has urged Israel to provide safe passage for civilians from the enclave rather than encouraging them to flee southwest towards Sinai….
Egypt has sent about 40 tanks and armoured personnel carriers to northeastern Sinai within the past two weeks as part of a series of measures to bolster security on its border with Gaza….The military has also taken up new positions close to the border, running patrols to monitor the area…
Rafah is the sole possible crossing point into Sinai for Gaza’s 2.3 million residents. The rest of the densely populated strip is surrounded by the sea, and by Israel…
On Tuesday, the Israeli military revised a recommendation by one of its spokespeople that Palestinians fleeing its air strikes in Gaza head to Egypt. Egypt moves to prevent exodus of Palestinians from besieged Gaza, Reuters

There it is in black and white. Israel is going to drive the Palestinians into the desert, create a ghastly humanitarian crisis, and eventually force the majority of them across the border and into Egypt. This is Netanyahu’s endgame, a Jewish-only homeland from the River to the Sea.
Who will stop him?

 

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Israel Killed 75% of Journalists in War Zones Last Year​

by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 15, 2024

Link: https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/israel-killed-75-of-journalists-in-war-zones-last-year/

The funeral of two Palestinian journalists killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. (Photo: Mahmoud Ajjour, The Palestine Chronicle)

A global watchdog group for the treatment of journalists found that Israeli forces were responsible for about three-quarters of all journalists killed in war zones during 2023. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) found that 72 Palestinian reporters were killed last year.
“More than three-quarters of the 99 journalists and media workers killed worldwide in 2023 died in the Israel-Gaza war, the majority of them Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza,
The CPJ report concluded. “The conflict claimed the lives of more journalists in three months than have ever been killed in a single country over an entire year.”
In the last three months of 2023, Israel killed 72 Palestinian and three Lebanese journalists. Two Israeli journalists were killed in the Hamas attack on October 7. Excluding the Israeli onslaught in Gaza, CPJ found worldwide deaths of journalists last year was less than half of 2022’s total. At least 11 Palestinian journalists have been killed so far in 2024.
CPJ believes some of the Palestinian journalists were targeted by Israel, and the organization is conducting further investigations. The Gaza Strip’s Government Media Office puts the number higher, saying at least 126 Palestinian media workers have been killed. “This war is unprecedented in terms of the threat to journalists,” Jodie Ginsberg, president of the CPJ, said.
She explained that Israel’s killing of journalists prevents war crimes in Gaza from being seen by the international community. “What’s important to remember about this war is that Gazan journalists are the only journalists able to report on what’s happening inside Gaza. International journalists have not been able to get in, have not been allowed in, except on very, very controlled trips that are overseen by the Israeli army.” Ginsberg continued, “So we are entirely reliant on those [Palestinian] journalists, who are risking their lives to bring us this story.”
The head of CPJ went on to express she was “disappointed … at the lack of public solidarity that we have seen” with Palestinian journalists. The Biden administration has denounced and sanctioned several governments over their treatment of journalists. However, President Biden has refused to condition American aid to Israel even as Tel Aviv has ordered the massive slaughter of civilians and journalists in Gaza.

 

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Israel wages war on reproductive rights in Gaza​

Sewar Elejla The Electronic Intifada 18 February 2024

Link: https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-wages-war-reproductive-rights-gaza/44641/

Gaza’s women have been forced to live in unhealthy conditions.
Saeed JarasAPA images
Women in Gaza find themselves on the frontline in a battle for survival. Devoid of shelter, safety, food, water and sanitation, they bear the brunt of a genocidal war.
Around 70 percent of all the people that Israel has killed in Gaza are women and children.
Around 1 million women and girls are displaced. For months, they have been living in a tent or in schools.
Every woman in Gaza is weary and at constant risk.
On average, two mothers are killed per hour.
Such a chilling statistic reflects a very dire reality. What does the future hold for womanhood, motherhood, childhood?
Behind the statistics, there are individuals and families.
The responsibilities shouldered by these women, who are the main pillars of their families, have become even more challenging. More than 3,000 women have become widows and are new heads of households.
They have to take care of and protect their children in inhumane environments.
They strive to prepare scarce food on wood fires for their families in the early hours of the morning. They lack the very basic needs for their own wellbeing, most importantly sanitary needs and privacy.

No sanitary care​

Dr. Areej Hijazi, an obstetrician, experiences the everyday struggles of Gaza women during this genocidal war.
“Women are in very bad conditions these days,” she said. “The lack of water and proper hygiene significantly impact their health. Sanitary pads are strikingly expensive and sometimes cannot be found.”
“Women who have recently given birth and those experiencing irregular or heavy periods are forced now to use pieces of cloth that they must wash and reuse,” she added. “This carries the risks of bacterial and fungal infections, exacerbating their situation.”
Privacy becomes a distant memory in the cramped tents and schools.
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) include universal access to adequate sanitation and hygiene. That seems like a very remote dream during this humanitarian crisis.
In 2024, women in Gaza plead for the most basic sanitary care – sanitary pads. They are struggling to survive in a world that seems to have forgotten them.
The dire situation escalates for the tens of thousands of pregnant and lactating women who lack access to sufficient care both before and after giving birth.
The critical lack of antenatal care is compounded by the absence of iron supplements.
The scarcity of medical treatment has especially adverse consequences for pregnant women with health issues such as diabetes or high blood pressure.
Antenatal care “is essentially unavailable, except for some scattered field points providing very basic services,” Areej Hijazi pointed out.
“Unfortunately, these services do not reach all areas and not all women know about them. And even if women are aware of them, finding transportation to access them becomes a formidable challenge.”

Shortage of midwives​

Around 180 women give birth per day in Gaza.
The stories of women giving birth in school corridors and tents, without access to hospitals or transportation, are a desperate cry for help.
The lack of basic necessities coupled with constant exposure to traumatic scenes has an immeasurable impact on the physical and mental health of these women.
Al-Helal al-Emirati hospital in Rafah – Gaza’s southernmost city – is the only refuge for women.
The challenges its staff face are overwhelming: a shortage of towels, sutures, medicine and other supplies.
The situation is getting worse, with the amount of aid allowed completely inadequate. Matters will not improve without a ceasefire.
Each day, approximately 80 women give birth through vaginal deliveries at al-Emirati hospital. A further 20 deliveries are made via cesarean sections.
Al-Emirati is the smallest maternity hospital in Gaza. Before 7 October, it was only receiving 10-15 women in labor per day.
Having to deal with a huge increase in patients places immense strain on the hospital’s staff and on an already stretched healthcare system.
Al-Emirati hospital has a shortage of midwives and the responsibilities faced by those midwives working there are overwhelming.
Within a few hours of giving birth, women have to be discharged. They go back to tents or overcrowded schools.
New mothers are “deprived of crucial care and postpartum education, breastfeeding and hygiene,” Areej Hijazi, who works at al-Emirati hospital, noted.
“Complications have surged,” she added.
There have been increases in preterm labor, miscarriages, hemorrhaging, sepsis and postnatal depression.
The consequences will affect a whole generation. Children will be less healthy and a rise in chronic diseases is expected.
Life expectancy will be shorter and there are bound to be delays in the development of many children.

Heartbreaking​

Hijazi has encountered heartbreaking cases of pregnant women who have undergone amputations after being injured by Israel’s relentless violence. Those women have faced immense struggles during childbirth.
There have been a huge number of other cases in which pregnant women were greatly traumatized after surviving Israel’s bombardments. The unfortunate outcomes in such cases have often been the loss of newborns.
Sometimes, hysterectomies had to be performed. As a result those women – frequently quite young – will have no chance of conceiving in the future.
In one case, a woman had become pregnant through in-vitro fertilization – after trying to conceive for 15 years.
She gave birth to quadruplets – three boys and a girl.
This woman and her children were killed during the current war, leaving her husband to mourn alone.
Another woman who became pregnant through IVF gave birth prematurely amid the horrors of bombardment and displacement. Her twin daughters were placed in an incubator but did not survive.
A disturbing pattern can be discerned. Israel is systematically abusing the reproductive rights of Gaza’s women.
These abuses have occurred at a time when there has been little international attention paid to the kidnapping and detention of women and children by Israeli troops invading Gaza. Evidence that these women have been tortured has been gathered by human rights groups.
Israel has fabricated stories of mass rapes on 7 October as a pretext for its genocidal attack on Gaza.
As well as amplifying Israel’s lies, the West’s governments have been complicit in Israel’s assaults on Gaza’s women.
The hypocrisy of the US has been especially stark.
Joe Biden – who promised to make gender equity a cornerstone of his presidency – is a chief enabler of Israel’s war. The fake feminists in his administration are abetting the violations of reproductive rights in Gaza.