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More than 100 Palestinians have been killed and some 700 others wounded after Israeli troops opened fire on hundreds waiting for food aid southwest of Gaza City, health officials say, as the besieged enclave faces an unprecedented hunger crisis. The Gaza Ministry of Health said on Thursday that at least 104 people were killed and more than 750 wounded, with the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemning what it said was a cold-blooded “massacre”. [...] People had congregated at al-Rashid Street, where aid trucks carrying flour were believed to be on the way. Al Jazeera verified footage showing the bodies of dozens of killed and wounded Palestinians being carried onto trucks as no ambulances could reach the area. “We went to get flour. The Israeli army shot at us. There are many martyrs on the ground and until this moment we are withdrawing them. There is no first aid,” said one witness. Reporting from the scene, Al Jazeera’s Ismail al-Ghoul said that after opening fire, Israeli tanks advanced and ran over many of the dead and injured bodies. “It is a massacre, on top of the starvation threatening citizens in Gaza,” he said. The dead and wounded had been taken to four medical centres: al-Shifa, Kamal Adwan, Ahli and the Jordanian hospitals. Ambulances could not reach the area as the roads had been “totally destroyed”, said al-Ghoul. “The numbers will rise. Hospitals are no longer able to accommodate the huge number of patients because they lack fuel, let alone medicine. Hospitals have also run out of blood.” Reporting from occupied East Jerusalem, Al Jazeera’s Bernard Smith said the Israeli military “initially tried to pin the blame on the crowd” saying that dozens were hurt as a consequence of being crushed and trampled when aid trucks arrived. “And then, after some pushing the Israelis went on to say that their troops felt threatened, that hundreds of troops approached their troops in a way they posed a threat to them so they responded by opening fire,” Smith added.
. . . continues at Al Jazeera (29 Feb 2024)
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suetravelblog · 10 months
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Jordan Independence Day Amman
Jordanian Flag Independence Day – Edarabia May 25 is Jordan Independence Day, and the “most important event in the history of the country, marking its independence from the British government in 1946”. The 2023 celebration signifies 75 years since Jordan “officially gained full autonomy in 1948“. King Abdullah I bin Al-Hussein “Jordan’s independence took place during the reign of King Abdullah I…
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Jordanian Army Says Two Pilots Killed in a Plane Crash | World News
Jordanian Army Says Two Pilots Killed in a Plane Crash | World News
AMMAN (Reuters) – Two Jordanian pilots were killed on Sunday in a plane crash in northern Jordan during training exercises, the Jordanian army said, citing a technical error. The training plane crashed in empty land in the Ramtha area near the border with Syria, the army added in a statement. (Reporting by Suleiman Al-Khalidi; Editing by Catherine Evans) Copyright 2022 Thomson…
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fiercynn · 6 months
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black & palestinian solidarities
if you support black liberation but are unsure of your stance on palestinian resistance, here’s a reminder that they are deeply intertwined. after the 1917 balfour declaration by the british government announcing the first support for a zionist state in palestine,  zionism and israeli occupation of palestine have followed similar ideologies and practices to white supremacist settler colonial projects, so solidarity between black and palestinian communities has grown over time, seeing each other as fellow anti-imperialist and anti-racist struggles. (if you get a paywall for any of the sources below, try searching them in google scholar.)
palestinians have been inspired by and shown support for black liberationist struggles as early as the 1930s, when arabic-language newspapers in palestine wrote about the struggle by black folks in the united states and framed it as anti-colonial, as well as opposing the 1935 invasion by fascist italy of ethiopia, the only independent black african state at the time. palestinian support for black struggles grew in the 1960s with the emergence of newly-independent african states, the development of black and third world internationalisms, and the civil rights movement in the united states. palestinian writers have expressed this solidarity too: palestinian activist samih al-qasim showed his admiration for congolese independence leader patrice lumumba in a poem about him, while palestinian poet mahmoud darwish’s “letters to a negro” essays spoke directly to black folks in the united states about shared struggles.
afro-palestinians have a rich history of freedom fighting against israeli apartheid, where they face oppression at the intersections of their black and palestinian identities. some families trace their roots back hundreds of years, while others came to jerusalem in the nineteenth century from chad, sudan, nigeria, and senegal after performing the hajj (the islamic pilgrimage to mecca) and settled down. still others came to palestine in the 1940s specifically to join the arab liberation army, where they fought against israel’s ethnic cleansing of palestinians during the 1948 nakba (“catastrophe”). afro-palestinian freedom fighter fatima bernawi, who was of nigerian, palestinian, and jordanian descent, became, in 1967, the first palestinian woman to be organize an operation against israel, and subsequently the first palestinian woman to be imprisoned by israel. the history of afro-palestinian resistance continues today: even as the small afro-palestinian community in jerusalem is highly-surveilled, over-policed, disproportionately incarcerated, and subjected to racist violence, they continue to organize and fight for palestinian liberation.
black revolutionaries and leaders in the united states have supported the palestinian struggle for decades, with a ramp-up since the 1960s. malcolm x became a huge opponent of zionism after traveling to southwest asia and north africa (SWANA), publishing “zionist logic” in 1964, and becoming one of the first black leaders from the united states to meet with the newly formed palestine liberation organization. the black panther party and the third world women’s alliance, a revolutionary socialist organization for women of color, also supported palestinian resistance in the 1970s. writers like maya angelou, june jordan, and james baldwin have long spoken out for palestinians. dr. angela davis (who received support from palestinian political prisoners when she was incarcerated) has made black and palestinian solidarity a key piece of her work. and many, many more black leaders and revolutionaries in the united states have supported palestinian freedom.
while israel has long courted relationships with the african union and its members, there has been ongoing tension between them since at least the 1970s, when all but four african states (malawi, lesotho, swaziland, and mauritius) cut off diplomatic ties with israel after the 1973 october war. while many of those diplomatic relationships were reestablished in subsequent decades, they remain rocky, and earlier this year, the african union booted an israeli diplomat from their annual summit in addis ababa, ethiopia, and issued a draft declaration on the situation in palestine and the middle east that expressed “full support for the palestinian people in their legitimate struggle against the israeli occupation”, naming israeli settlements as illegal and calling for boycotts and sanctions with israel. grassroots organizations like africa 4 palestine have also been key in the BDS (boycott, divestment, sanctions) movement.
in south africa, comparisons between israel and south african apartheid have been prevalent since the 1990s and early 2000s. israel historically allied with apartheid-era south africa, while palestinians opposed south african apartheid, leading nelson mandela to support the palestinian liberation organization as "fighting for the right of self-determination"; over the years his statements have been joined by fellow black african freedom fighters like nozizwe madlala-routledge and desmond tutu. post-apartheid south africa has continued to be a strong ally to palestine, calling for israel to be declared “apartheid state”.
black and palestinian solidarities have continued into the 21st century. palestinian people raised money to send to survivors of hurricane katrina in the united states in 2005 (which disproportionately harmed black communities in new orleans and the gulf of mexico) and the devastating earthquake in haiti in 2010. in the past decade, the global black lives matter struggle has brought new emphasis to shared struggles. prison and police abolitionists have long noted the deadly exchange which brings together police, ICE, border patrol, and FBI agents from the united states to train with soldiers, police, and border agents from israel. palestinian freedom fighters supported the 2014 uprising in ferguson in the united states, and shared strategies for resisting state violence. over a thousand black leaders signed onto the 2015 black solidarity statement with palestine. the murder of george floyd by american cops in 2020 has sparked further allyship, including black lives matter protests in palestine, with organizations like the dream defenders making connections between palestinian and black activists.
this is just a short summary that i came up because i've been researching black and asian solidarities recently so i had some sources on hand; there's obviously so much more that i haven't covered, so please feel free to reblog with further additions to this history!
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violottie · 1 month
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"Palestinians flock to the shores of Gaza in an attempt to reach aid packages dropped by the Jordanian army, which conducted multiple food air drops along the central and southern coastal areas." from Wissamgaza, 26/Feb/2024:
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zvaigzdelasas · 5 months
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Jordan said on Monday it was leaving "all options" open in its response to what it called Israel's failure to discriminate between military and civilian targets in its intensifying bombardment and invasion of the Gaza Strip. Prime Minister Bisher al Khasawneh did not elaborate on what steps Jordan would take, days after it recalled its ambassador from Israel in protest at Israel's offensive in Gaza [...] Jordan also announced last week that Israel's ambassador, who left Amman shortly after Hamas' attack, would not be allowed to come back, effectively declaring him persona non grata.
"All options are on the table for Jordan in our dealing with the Israeli aggression on Gaza and its repercussions," Khasawneh, whose country signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1994, told state media. Khasawneh said Israel's siege of the densely populated Gaza was not self-defence as it maintains. "The brutal Israeli attack does not discriminate between civilian and military targets and is extending to safe areas and ambulances," he said.
In a statement, Israel's foreign ministry said the country's "relations with Jordan are of strategic importance to both countries and we regret the inflammatory statements from Jordan's leadership."
Jordan is reviewing its economic, security and political ties with Israel and may freeze or revoke parts of its peace treaty if the Gaza conflict worsens, diplomats familiar with Jordanian thinking said.[...]
Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said any move to drive Palestinians across to Jordan, which shares a border with the West Bank, was a "red line" amounting to a declaration of war. "Any attempt to expel Palestinians in an attempt by Israel to change geography and demography we will confront," Safadi said last week. The Jordanian army has already fortified its positions along its borders, security sources said.
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Do we have a name for the time hundreds of thousands of jews were kicked out of the surrounding middle eastern countries in and after the 1948 war? I know that the Palestinians call theirs the nakba, but, is it just that, even though those particular groups of jews had been living there for hundreds or even thousands of years, we as a whole ethnoreligious group have been kicked out so many times we don't name them any more? Or is there a name I don't know?
Hi, lovely Nonnie!
That's an excellent question.
There is a national memorial day in Israel, to remember the at least 850,000 Jews from Arab countries and Iran who were abused, persecuted, and eventually expelled. This is a process that actually started in the 1930's, before the establishment of the State of Israel, but very much intensified in the 1940's. By the 1960's, the Middle East was basically ethnically cleansed of Jews.
Here's a New York Times headline from May 16, 1948 (days into the invasion of Arab armies during Israel's War of Independence):
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There was an ethnic cleansing of Jews in the Land of Israel as it existed under the British Mandate, too. For example, a Jewish community on the east bank of the Jordan River was established in 1928 for Jewish workers, and destroyed by the Jordanians in 1948. There were Jewish communities in east Jerusalem, in Judea and Samaria (re-named by the Jordanians as 'The West Bank' in 1948, after they occupied that land and tried to cement the Jordanian claim to it), in Gaza... all were ethnically cleansed of Jews between 1929 and 1948.
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In Israel, there are also monuments to commemorate the fate of the Jews from Arab countries and Iran. Here's one in Jerusalem:
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So, since there's a remembrance day and memorials, you'd think there would be one unifying, easily identifiable term for this event, right? But sadly, there hasn't been one. Different people have used different terms, such as 'the expulsion of Jews from Arab countries and Iran' (the official term), 'the crisis of Jewish refugees from Arab countries' or 'the Jewish exodus from Arab countries,' and so on.
I have also seen people referring to it repeatedly (and of course unofficially) as the Jewish Nakba.
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'Nakba' is an Arabic word which means catastrophe, so it's a fitting term for how these Jewish communities experienced what was done to them, I also think it's appropriate since most of them were Arabic speakers before the expulsion, and lastly, I think it is right to remind people that the Palestinian Nakba (a disaster of their own leadership's making, which I'm so sorry for them that they lost their homes, because their leaders rejected the 1947 two state solution) wasn't a one sided case of abuse. There was abuse of Jews in the Middle East, and it started before the State of Israel was even established. And ANY narrative that erases that part, that erases the suffering of Middle Eastern and North African Jews, is inherently antisemitic.
To any Jews who may be reading this, who come from Arab countries and from Iran, I love you, my beautiful brothers and sisters. Your story and your pain deserves to be heard and remembered.
Thank you for the ask, Nonnie. I hope I sort of managed to answer it, and that you have a great day! xoxox
(for all of my updates and ask replies regarding Israel, click here)
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More than 100 Palestinians have been killed and some 700 others wounded after Israeli troops opened fire on hundreds waiting for food aid southwest of Gaza City, health officials say, as the besieged enclave faces an unprecedented hunger crisis.
The Gaza Ministry of Health said on Thursday said at least 112 people were killed and more than 750 wounded, with the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemning what it said was a cold-blooded “massacre”.
People had congregated at al-Rashid Street, where aid trucks carrying flour were believed to be on the way. Al Jazeera verified footage showing the bodies of dozens of killed and wounded Palestinians being carried onto trucks as no ambulances could reach the area.
“We went to get flour. The Israeli army shot at us. There are many martyrs on the ground and until this moment we are withdrawing them. There is no first aid,” said one witness.
Reporting from the scene, Al Jazeera’s Ismail al-Ghoul said that after opening fire, Israeli tanks advanced and ran over many of the dead and injured bodies. “It is a massacre, on top of the starvation threatening citizens in Gaza,” he said.
The dead and wounded had been taken to four medical centres: al-Shifa, Kamal Adwan, Ahli and the Jordanian hospitals. Ambulances could not reach the area as the roads had been “totally destroyed”, said al-Ghoul.
“The numbers will rise. Hospitals are no longer able to accommodate the huge number of patients because they lack fuel, let alone medicine. Hospitals have also run out of blood.”
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girlactionfigure · 5 months
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If you have 26 minutes and want to become more wholistic about the conflict, watch the Israeli narrative that beats the Arab narrative by a mile. There are a few things that should be added here. The British switched sides from Jewish to Arab after 1939 for fear that the Arabs (much bigger population than Jews) would join the Nazi camp. The British were also disappointed that the French conceded to Nazis and London believed that it should take the whole Mideast to itself. When the French came back in 1945, they took Israel's side while Britain was on the Arab side until 1956, when Nasser's nationalization of Suez brought them back together against him. To understand how the British took the Arab side against Israel, think who took the West Bank and East Jerusalem from Israel. It was the Jordanian Army led by British general Glubb Pasha. My professor at AUB left Haifa while a kid with his family in 1948 to Alexandria. He used to tell us in class that they left everything in their house as is thinking they would come back from a summer vacation in Alexandria. They were told that the Iraqi Army was coming, would destroy Israel, then they could come back. The Arab armies did come, but they only took the West Bank that Jordanian King Abdullah I wanted to annex. His rivals, at the time the Saudis, vetoed the move at the Arab League, and that's why the West Bank stayed in limbo, a former mandate land without any recognized sovereignty over it (until today). In 1964, Nasser was engaged in war against Saudi and Jordan, in Yemen, and wanted to undermine Saudis and Jordanians, so he instigated the Arabs of the West Bank to secede by proclaiming Palestine in the West Bank and Gaza (then join him in union after Syria had exited the United Arab Republic in 1961). The Palestinians gathered in East Jerusalem and planned to proclaim their state in the West Bank and Gaza, but the Saudis shot down the creation of Palestine at the Arab League because they didn't want to allow their rival Nasser an easy win. Instead, the Saudis propped up their own Palestinian faction that doubled down by saying Palestine would not be West Bank and Gaza only, but all of Mandate Palestine. This was Yasser Arafat. After losing in 1967 and 1973, Saudi and Egypt came to the conclusion that the eradication of Israel was impossible, and decided to share the land with Israel and create Palestine on West Bank and Gaza only, but now it was the radical crazies (Iraq, Syria, Libya) who shot down such plan and propped up Palestinian radical militias. When these Arab regimes weakened, Iran picked up the tab in 1979, has been doing so since. The rest is history.
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Good News From Israel
In the 3rd Mar 24 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
An IDF veteran drove over 130 miles to take charge of Oct 7 rescue operations.
Israeli sunshine can help grow large families.
A mother of 3 secretly oversees the development of David’s Sling.
An Israeli pesticide makes weeds infertile.
A war cannot stop Israelis from starting new companies.
More sports gold medals for Israelis.
A brave rescued Israeli female hostage has returned to army service.
Read More: Good News From Israel
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Not even a war can stop Israel building on its 75-years of success in rebuilding a Jewish State. Israel continues to build up its basket of subsidized medical treatments, create new remedies for global diseases, discover the secret for building bigger families, and construct medical centers for rehabilitating the injured. The latest news includes the Israeli woman who oversees the building of Israel's missile defense system; an Israeli app that rebuilds broken speech into coherent conversation; and 30 Israeli NGOs rebuilding lives in Africa. Israeli startups are restoring the environment, while building efficient EV batteries, hydrogen-powered flying cars, and creating sustainable aviation fuel. Meanwhile, many Jewish citizens of Europe and the US are realizing that now it is the time to build a new life in Israel. The photo (TY Sharon) is of Jerusalem's Hurva and the Tiferet synagogues, rebuilt and being rebuilt, after being blown up by the Jordanian army in 1948.
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gothhabiba · 4 months
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Jordan: Anti-Israel Boycott Campaigns Target American, British, French Products, Companies
Daoud Kuttab, 11/01/2023.
Consumer revolt in Jordan targets multinational chains accused of backing Israel
Jordanian citizens launched a strong boycott campaign via social media platforms against American products and brands that they say “support Israel.” Jordanian restaurants and shops published pictures of products that they feel are local alternatives to soft drinks like Coke and Pepsi, while supermarkets placed warning signs on their shelves alerting consumers if a product is American and should be boycotted. 
The campaign began on October 20, when the Israeli branch of McDonald’s distributed meals to soldiers of the Israeli army.
Jordanians considered that these companies were contributing to Israel in its war on Gaza. A posting on X confirmed that McDonald’s Israel, the Israeli master franchise of the fast food restaurant chain McDonald’s, does give IDF soldiers a discount.
The boycott has expanded beyond McDonald’s to include other American restaurants in the kingdom, such as the Starbucks coffee chain, KFC, and Pizza Hut, in addition to French products such as Carrefour markets—despite these stores issuing statements confirming that they are locally owned companies, with a franchise agreement, and that they are employing Jordanians.
The Starbucks coffee shop in the plush Abdoun neighborhood of the Jordanian capital is usually full in the early morning hours. But on Monday, October 30, just a few cars were in the parking lot—most likely belonging to the shop’s staff. In another part of the city, the mall’s main grocery store, Carrefour, was empty. Social media highlighted a poster said to be produced by the French company that had the words ‘Standing with Israel’ next to its logo. The BDS movement has called on its supporters worldwide to boycott Carrefour.
[...] Al-Saghir revealed to The Media Line that the Amman Chamber of Commerce is in the process of compiling lists of companies that support [Israel] so that the consumer will be aware of this.
Muhammad Al-Absi, coordinator of the Action Group to Support the Resistance and Confront Normalization (an alliance of parties and independents), also called on the public to be careful in verifying companies that support Israel. “The size of the boycott is large and there are inaccurate lists of products included in the boycott.”
Al Absi said that there are organized boycott campaigns for the BDS movement and lists published on their website, even though their standards for boycott are lower than the standards of Arab boycott movements.
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wingedalpacacupcake · 13 days
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Jordanian army airdrops aid across Gaza
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workersolidarity · 2 months
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EURO-MED HUMAN RIGHTS MONITOR ALARMED BY MASS DISPLACEMENT RESULTING FROM ISRAEL'S WAR OF GENOCIDE
In a statement issued Sunday by the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, a human rights organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, warned of the mass displacement of Palestinian families in the Gaza Strip.
Pointing to Israeli operations, which have expanded recently to include ground operations in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Euro-Med emphasized the extreme hardships faced by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as Israel's war of genocide continues unabated for the 114th day
"The Israeli army is expanding the scope of forced displacement in the southern Gaza Strip’s Khan Yunis Governorate, with mass killing, destruction, and comprehensive abuse," Euro-Med Monitor said in its statement, citing evidence for Israel's ongoing genocide of Palestinians.
Just two days after the International Court of Justice at The Hague, in the Netherlands, ruled that Israel must take actions to mitigate harm to civilians as a result of its war with Hamas, Euro-Med accused the Israeli entity of "infringing on its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide," including, but certainly not limited to, the mass displacement of Palestinian civilians.
Euro-Med Monitor pointed to recent moves by the Israeli military to expand the scope of ground operations in Khan Yunis, where "thousands of people were forcibly evacuated from the Khan Yunis refugee camp and several other parts of the governorate to the Strip’s western coastal areas."
Euro-Med added that, "[Palestinian civilians] were met with bitter cold and rain, Israeli harassment tactics, and a lack of safe shelter and provision of basic humanitarian needs."
Euro-Med confirmed that many Palestinians, particularly in various neighborhoods of Khan Yunis, received new orders from the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) to evacuate their homes and neighborhoods via social media platforms, this at time when communications and Internet are down for the majority of Gazans.
"An estimated 90,000 people live in the targeted areas," Euro-Med said in its statement, adding that "an additional 400,000 internally displaced people who are being housed in 24 schools and shelter centres, including three hospitals: the Nasser Medical Complex (475 beds), Al-Amal (100 beds), and the Jordanian Hospital (50 beds), which, in addition to three health clinics, make up about 20% of the Gaza Strip’s remaining hospitals; all of these medical facilities are only partially operational."
Thousands more Palestinian families have been displaced into Rafah City, in the southern-most tip of the Gaza Strip, near the border with Egypt, after receiving evacuation dictats from IOF authorities as they heavily bombed and shelled Khan Yunis governate, along with several other areas of central and southern Gaza.
Euro-Med said they'd documented the establishment of an Israeli security checkpoint after IOF soldiers closed the side streets residents had been using to evacuate south towards Rafah over recent days.
The humanitarian organization said that residents were being ordered to pass through the checkpoint alone, forcing them to relinquish luggage and belongings. Citizens over the age of 15 must present identification and are being ordered to have their irises scanned by special cameras in the possession of occupation soldiers.
Some civilians are being allowed to pass through the checkpoint, while others are arrested and detained by occupation forces before being forced to strip naked and held outside in open areas under the winter rains.
Euro-Med Monitor documented several violations of International Law, with Israeli soldiers coercing detained Palestinians to chant anti-Palestinian slogans in order to pass through the checkpoints.
Several other documented crimes include the forcing of women to pass through checkpoints by themselves after arresting and detaining the male members of their families, leaving them stranded without their loved ones.
Most of those who make it through the checkpoints are corralled into Rafah, where more than 1.3 million displaced civilians are living in tent cities in "appalling humanitarian conditions" while awaiting assistance. According to the humanitarian organization, some Palestinians have chosen to remain in Khan Yunis under bombardment, while others have left for Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
"About two million people are thought to be internally displaced in the Gaza Strip; many of them have been uprooted multiple times since 7 October, looking for safe heaven," Euro-Med said in its statement.
"Some Gazans have even resorted to living on sewage-filled land. Just five days after Israel’s military attacks began, the Israeli army began forcing the 1.1 million people who typically live in Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip to evacuate to the central and southern sections of the Strip."
Israeli Occupation Forces have continued to forcibly displace the Palestinian population of Gaza, giving them no assurance that they will have safe shelter or even to be able to eventually return to their homes.
Euro-Med emphasized Israel's ongoing policy of displacement, pointing to the occupation army's attacks that include the demolition of entire neighborhoods and the siege of local hospitals and educational institutions housing tens of thousands of displaced civilians, all of whom Euro-Med says are at risk of ongoing targeting by Israeli munitions.
"In the last three days," Euro-Med said in its statement, "several random graves were established in the Khan Yunis camp, Al-Amal Neighbourhood, and the Nasser Medical Complex courtyard to accommodate the growing number of anticipated victims."
For several days, occupation forces have repeatedly shelled and besieged the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis City, which had already been functioning only partially as a result of damage incurred from the bombing and shelling of the city. The hospital staff has said they were unable to receive new sick and wounded patients, or even receive medical supplies, as a result of the siege.
At the same time, patients with the al-Khair hospital, also in Khan Yunis, who'd undergone serious and critical surgeries, were forced to leave the hospital after it was shuttered due to damage and shortages of medical supplies and fuel.
Euro-Med goes on to emphasize the importance of placing pressure on Israeli authorities to end the ethnic cleansing of neighborhoods in the Gaza Strip and to uphold international law which forbids "under any circumstances" the forced displacement of civilians. Euro-Med points out that these violations of International Law "equates to war crimes and crimes against humanity."
Euro-Med Monitor, slamming Israel's "egregious" practices, stressed that "international pressure in all forms is needed to stop the ongoing Israeli crimes against Palestinian civilians, particularly in light of the ICJ’s recent ruling regarding the existence of 'reasonable doubt' that Israel is breaking its obligations as a State party to the Genocide Convention."
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In pictures: ‘Catastrophic’ hunger in Gaza
(13th of March 2024)
As Israel's severe restrictions on aid entering Gaza drain essential supplies, displaced Palestinians told CNN they are struggling to feed their children.
Starving mothers are unable to produce enough milk to breastfeed their babies, doctors say. Parents arrive at overwhelmed health facilities begging for infant formula.
Gaza's entire population of roughly 2.2 million people are facing "crisis or worse levels of acute food insecurity," according to the World Food Programme, which warns child malnutrition in the enclave is "higher than anywhere in the world." Two newborn baby girls died due to malnutrition and dehydration in northern Gaza on Monday, Dr. Samer Libd, a pediatrician at the Kamal Adwan Hospital, told CNN. 
Israel insists there is "no limit" on the amount of aid that can enter Gaza, but its inspection regime on aid trucks has meant that only a tiny fraction of the amount of food and other supplies that used to enter Gaza daily before the war is getting in now. Last month, at least 118 people were killed while trying to access food aid in Gaza City in one of the worst single tragedies of the war so far.
Jamie McGoldrick, a UN humanitarian coordinator who returned from a two-day trip to Gaza, warned that hunger there has reached "catastrophic levels." Adele Khodr, regional director of the UNICEF office in the Middle East and North Africa, said "people are hungry, exhausted and traumatized. Many are clinging to life."
Israel launched its military offensive in Gaza after the militant group Hamas killed at least 1,200 people and kidnapped more than 250 others in southern Israel on October 7.
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Fadi Al-Zanat, 6, is treated at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza on March 10. He was suffering from severe malnutrition and dehydration, according to the health ministry in Gaza. Mousa Salem/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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Palestinians transport bags of flour on the back of trucks as humanitarian aid arrives in Gaza City on March 6. AFP/Getty Images
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Displaced Palestinians receive food aid at a UN relief center in Rafah on January 28. AFP/Getty Images
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A Palestinian fisherman holds a crab from a modest catch in Gaza City on February 20. Omar Qattaa/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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Palestinians wait to receive food at a refugee camp in Rafah on January 27. Saher Alghorra/Middle East Images/AFP/Getty Images
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A worker rests as displaced Palestinians receive food aid in Rafah on January 28. AFP/Getty Images
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Palestinian boy Ahmed Qannan, suffering from malnutrition, receives treatment at a health-care center in Rafah on March 4. Mohammed Salem/Reuters
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Men salvage bread that was found amid the rubble of a family's home in Rafah on March 3. Said Khatib/AFP/Getty Images
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A member of the US Air Force prepares to release humanitarian aid pallets of packaged food over Gaza on March 5. US Air Force/UPI/Shutterstock
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A child in Gaza joins others with empty containers as they wait to receive hot food at a charitable distribution site in Gaza City on February 26. Omar Qattaa/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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Humanitarian aid packages are dropped from the air by Jordanian army planes in Gaza City on March 1. Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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Yazan al-Kafarneh, a 10-year-old Palestinian boy who was suffering from malnourishment, receives medical treatment at a hospital in Rafah on February 28. He later died. Jehad Alshrafi/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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Palestinians with empty containers wait in front of boilers to receive hot food that was distributed in Gaza City on February 26. Omar Qattaa/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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A Palestinian child crouches by her food container after a distribution in Rafah on January 25. Abed Zagout/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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A funeral prayer is performed for Yazan al-Kafarneh, the 10-year-old Palestinian child who died of malnutrition, on March 4. Rabie Abu Noqaira/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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Because of a lack of flour, Palestinians process animal fodder to make bread in Gaza City on January 24. Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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Children suffering from malnutrition receive treatment at a health-care center in Rafah on March 5. Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images
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Palestinians line up for food distribution in Rafah on February 1. Abed Zagout/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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Vendors selling vegetables wait for customers at their roadside stall in Rafah on February 26. Said Khatib/AFP/Getty Images
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An Egyptian truck driver gathers rope used for covering a tarp while humanitarian aid is inspected in Israel before crossing into Gaza on December 22. Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images
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A child waves at a displacement camp in Gaza on January 27. Saher Alghorra/Middle East Images/AFP/Getty Images
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Displaced Palestinians relocate in Gaza City on March 3. Yasser Qudih/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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People in a crowd struggle to buy bread from a bakery in Rafah on February 18. Fatima Shbair/AP
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The whole trip had been a disaster. John had not been able to enjoy a single second. Arabs were loud and pushy. Petra had been broken and dirty. At the Gulf of Aqaba he had had the worst sunburn of his life. And he had diarrhea all the time. He had let every waiter, every guide, every cab driver know that he didn't like it in Jordan at all. He was convinced that these barbarians did not understand English anyway. That's why he insulted everyone through and through. He had not allowed himself to be deprived of this pleasure. John was so rude and so pushy that his reputation had preceded him by a long way. First, hotels had gone to the trouble of trying to appease him with the best rooms and the best service. In the end, he got the treatment he deserved: The worst!
Even on the way to the airport had not withdrawn in the cab. The cab driver found it very difficult to stay calm. But he couldn't resist wishing John a nice day and a good flight in his best English. And then cursing him in Arabic. It was a good curse. And it worked fast.
John didn't even notice that he spoke only Arabic at the Amman airport. As soon as he entered the building, English had completely disappeared from his memory. John was much too busy to hand in his suitcase as quickly as possible, to get his boarding pass and to get through the security check. And actually, that worked out much better and smoother in Arabic than if he had had to struggle through in English. He even calmed down to some extent and finally enjoyed good American cuisine again at Mc Donald's in the terminal.
On the plane, he had the reserved window seat. That had worked out as well. Only his seat neighbor he had not been able to understand at first. So he had to ask. His neighbor was more than happy that the foreign-looking man spoke his language perfectly, and a conversation quickly developed about sports and politics. Both men liked soccer. And both men shared the opinion that the influence of the USA and Israel had to be limited. In Istanbul, both men said goodbye cordially.
Istanbul's new airport was huge. Fortunately, almost all signs were in Turkish, English and Arabic. Still, the passage through security was arduous. He looked a bit enviously at the passengers with passports from Europe and North America. With them, the check went faster. But a Jordanian passport and then also the army backpack as hand luggage did not make things easier. Fortunately, he got through the check quickly enough to get to a prayer room in time. He didn't want to miss the Friday noon prayer while traveling.
Hamza still had some time before his connecting flight to New York. He wanted to eat something in any case, as long as he could get some authentic Arabic cuisine. And take advantage of the fact that there were still standing toilets here at the airport. With the infidels you had to sit down, he had heard. The closer he got to the U.S., the greater his respect for traveling there. Strange food, strange toilets, and a language he didn't speak. He knew a few bits of English from school. But that probably wouldn't help him. He had heard, however, that the people there were supposed to be hospitable and tolerant.
Hamza had a respectful stature. And the wife beater, the kufiya and his tattoos certainly contributed to a badass appearance. But that didn't stop the American retiree behind him from loudly complaining that all Arabs, like the half-naked savage in front of him, were guaranteed terrorists. Thank Allah! Hamza did not understand a word of it.
Realized at the request of @hottfguys. May Allah protect you!
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