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gothhabiba · 6 months

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From the Palestinian Red Crescent's twitter, 13 November 2023:

🔴 Al-Quds Hospital still under intense gunfire.

🔴 The IDF claims to be attacking a "Hamas terrorist" who is firing a rocket-propelled grenade launcher from Al-Quds.

🔴 The main power generator at Al-Amal Hospital stopped working. The hospital is currently relying on a very small generator to supply electricity only to the maternity ward and emergency lighting. Remaining fuel is expected to run out within the next 24 hours.

11:01 AM:

"🚨 The vicinity of Al-Quds Hospital 🏥 is still witnessing intense gunfire, with the presence of Israeli military vehicles. Our staff are trapped with patients and the wounded, without electricity, water, or food. We hope for their safety. 🙏"

1:10 PM, in response to this tweet from @IDF:

[ID: Tweet by Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) at 3:22pm on November 13 reading: "What could these Hamas terrorists possibly be doing with an RPG at the Quds Hospital?" Attached is a 20-second drone video of the hospital with overlaid text reading "Enemy fire from the entrance of the 'Al-Quds' Hospital towards IDF troops: terrorist with RPG launcher."

The PRCS issued a statement reading:

🚨 The Palestine RCS strongly condemns the false claims by the occupying forces about armed individuals launching projectiles from inside Al-Quds Hospital. The PRCS sees these claims as a blatant attempt to incite further targeting and besieging of the hospital, constituting a clear violation of international humanitarian law. ❌ PRCS rejects these baseless allegations, as the published video clearly shows that the armed individuals approached from the street while the occupation tanks were stationed in front of and shielded by the hospital, endangering the lives of medical teams and patients. The PRCS confirms that there are no armed individuals inside the hospital, and no shots have been fired from within. Everyone within the hospital are patients, their families, and the medical staff. 📣 PRCS calls on the international community to intervene immediately to protect its teams besieged inside the hospital, facing imminent danger with each passing moment.

4:22 PM:

"🛑 Today's attempt to evacuate Al-Quds Hospital failed after the IOF decided to return the designated evacuation convoy to the association's branch in Khan Younis, despite receiving prior approval.

"🚨 The decision was rationalized by referring to a security incident in the vicinity, despite the convoy undergoing thorough inspection. It is noteworthy that yesterday, displaced individuals were allowed to exit through a route specified by the occupation forces, under specific and challenging conditions.

"🧑‍⚕ Our medical teams, patients,and the wounded, along with their companions, remain trapped inside the hospital without food, water, or electricity, and their is 300 person."

4:49 PM:

"🚨 ⚠️ Today, the sole power generator at Al-Amal Hospital, affiliated with the PRCS in Khan Younis, stopped working. This threatens the lives of 90 patients receiving treatment, including 25 in the medical rehabilitation section who now face the risk of death at any moment. Additionally, around 9,000 displaced individuals have sought refuge in the PRCS premises and the hospital.

" 🏥 The hospital is currently relying on a very small generator to supply electricity only to the maternity ward and emergency lighting. It's important to note that the remaining fuel is expected to run out within the next 24 hours.

"🛑 The power generator's failure is impacting the operations of both the PRCS headquarters and Al-Amal Hospital, which includes the emergency operations room for the Gaza Strip. This has resulted in a loss of communication with the operation rooms scattered across the Gaza sector and the cessation of VHF communication services."

#Palestine #Gaza #PRCS #al quds hospital #al amal hospital

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sayruq · 7 days

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Reuters: Gaza hospital staff questioned by ICC war crimes prosecutors, sources say

Prosecutors from the International Criminal Court have interviewed staff from Gaza's two biggest hospitals, two sources told Reuters, the first confirmation that ICC investigators were speaking to medics about possible crimes in the Gaza Strip. The sources, who asked not to be identified due to the sensitivity of the subject, told Reuters ICC investigators had taken testimony from staff who had worked in the main hospital in Gaza City in the north of the enclave, Al Shifa, and the main hospital in Khan Younis in the south, Nasser. The sources declined to provide more details, citing concerns about the safety of potential witnesses.One of the sources said that events surrounding the hospitals could become part of the investigation by the ICC, which hears criminal cases against individuals for war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and aggression. The ICC's office of the prosecutor refused to comment on operational matters in ongoing investigations citing the need to ensure the safety of victims and witnesses. The ICC has said it is investigating both sides in the conflict, including both the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas fighters on Israel and the subsequent Israeli offensive in Gaza. During the conflict, the two main Gaza hospitals have both been high profile Israeli targets - surrounded, besieged and stormed by Israeli forces who accused Hamas militants of using them for military purposes, which Hamas and medical staff deny. In recent days, Palestinian officials have also demanded investigations after hundreds of bodies were exhumed in mass graves at Nasser. The two sources were not able to say whether such graves formed part of any questioning.

#yemen #jerusalem #tel aviv #current events #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #news on gaza #palestine news #news update #war news #war on gaza #icc #international criminal court #gaza genocide #genocide

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allthecanadianpolitics · 3 months

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Content Warning for graphic depictions of violence and discussion of the ongoing genocide in Palestine.

Maher Alanqar sat and watched his nephew suffer. The video — shot by a CBC News freelancer — captured every scream, every spasm as 10-year-old Adam Abu Ajwa called out for help after the home where he was sheltering with his parents and siblings in Khan Younis, Gaza was hit by a grenade on Jan. 17. Adam suffered third-degree burns; his older sister Zeina, 26, escaped with burns and broken bones after being trapped under rubble for hours. They were the only ones in the house to survive. Their mother Hana and oldest brother Amr died and were buried in the courtyard of Nasser Hospital, one of the main hospitals in the central Gaza Strip. Alanqar's mouth twitched with every scream as he watched doctors work to treat the boy's wounds without anesthesia. He told CBC News on Feb. 4 he had applied to get his sister and her kids out of Gaza under a special immigration measures program for extended family members of Palestinian Canadians. They were waiting for news when their home was hit.

Tagging @politicsofcanada @allthegeopolitics

#cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news #palestine #palestinian genocide #ethnic cleansing #refugees #immigration #border violence

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donnaajah · 3 months

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Israel began to record its worst defeat in the attack on Gaza, Palestine. On Tuesday (23/1/2024), the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said 24 of its members had died in one day.

Spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said 21 soldiers were killed when two buildings they were mining for demolition exploded after Hamas militia opened fire on nearby tanks. Previously, three soldiers were reported killed in separate attacks in South Gaza.

"Yesterday we experienced one of the most difficult days since the war broke out," said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, quoted by Reuters.

"In the name of our heroes, in the name of our lives, we will not stop fighting until absolute victory."

This large death toll occurred when the IDF attacked the western part of Khan Younis, the main city in southern Gaza. Israel says the city is now a major base for Hamas, the Islamist group that controls the Palestinian enclave.

"Over the past few days, IDF forces carried out a large-scale operation in which they surrounded Khan Younis and deepened operations in the area. The area is an important stronghold of Hamas' Khan Younis Brigade," the military said.

"Ground forces engaged in close combat, directed (air) strikes, and used intelligence to coordinate fire, resulting in the elimination of dozens of terrorists."

On the other hand, as news of Israel's defeat spread throughout Gaza, Palestinians celebrated what they considered a victory.

"The resistance said they would make Gaza a graveyard for the occupation, and this is what happened," said resident Abu Khaled.

"The longer they persist, the more we will suffer, but they will also suffer more."

Israel has carried out prolonged air and ground attacks on the densely populated Gaza enclave since a cross-border attack on October 7 by the Palestinian militant group Hamas.

At least 25,295 Gazans have been confirmed dead, according to Palestinian authorities. Many of the dead were scattered in the rubble of the coastal strip.

Gaza residents say that currently Israeli troops have advanced since and stormed four hospitals in the city of Khan Younis. This leaves the injured and dead isolated beyond the reach of rescue teams.

"The bodies were buried in the grounds of Nasser's main hospital in Khan Younis because it was not safe to go to the cemetery. Another Khan Younis hospital, Al Khair, was stormed by Israeli forces who arrested staff there, and a third hospital, Al Amal, was managed by the Palestinian Red Crescent, it cannot be reached," according to Palestinian officials.

The Red Crescent said a tank shell hit its headquarters on the fourth floor of the hospital, and Israeli forces fired drones at anyone moving nearby. This condition makes sending ambulances to the entire Khan Younis area impossible

Israel says Hamas militias operate in and around the hospital, making it a legitimate target. Hospital staff and Hamas deny this.

#palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #israel #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #genocide #indonesia protest #indonesia supports palestine #colonialism

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auyouni · 2 years

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you’re standing at the altar baby // avidanders

“Please don’t marry him,” Danny whispers, face half-buried in Thomas’s hair as he spoons him from behind. It’s the first time in a while either of them has acknowledged the upcoming union out loud, both avoiding it for their own sanity, both terrified it would break this fragile affair. Danny feels almost worse asking than leaving it to hover over them constantly, getting heavier and heavier as the wedding draws closer. And now… now it’s the night before Thomas is getting married, and he’s here, with him. He can feel Thomas tense in his arms, and knows he feels the same, but… but he has to try. If he doesn’t try, then what will he have? If Thomas keeps coming back to him, he will always be drowning in guilt and this burning love that he can do almost nothing about, and he’ll be terrified for the day to come that Thomas doesn’t come back. If Thomas leaves him… he can’t even bear to think of it, is afraid of what his life would become without being able to touch, hold, kiss, love this sweet, Sunshine boy.

“D…” Thomas says softly, voice full of misery, and Danny’s gut twists further with guilt and pain.

“I-I mean it. I don’t… I don’t even know what would happen if you married him. Would you keep us both? Cos… I wouldn’t say no. If you still come back to me, I would never say no.” Thomas twists in his arms so he can look up at him, eyes big and shiny with unshed tears, guilt and pain on his face. Danny cups his cheek softly, thumb stroking over his cheekbone, and he hates himself for ruining this. “But what if, one day… you don’t come back?”

“I always will,” Thomas says softly, a promise, though there’s an edge of uncertainty to it that burns Danny.

“You can’t promise that,” Danny whispers, and Thomas watches him, eyes even sadder, not answering, finding truth in those words, and god but that hurts. “I would never stop waiting for you, y’know? Even if you said it was over, forever, no chance for me. You’re… all I want, Sunshine. My world wouldn’t turn without you. If you were gone, I’d be like one of those stories of a dog waiting there, exactly where their best friend left them, until the day I die. Long after I’ve given up hope, I’d… I would be there, missing you.” His voice cracks a little on his last sentence, and Thomas looks like he’s teetering on the edge of a full breakdown.

“Danny, please, I-I don’t…” Thomas squeezes his eyes shut, tears leaking out, and Danny wishes he could take it all back.

“We’d break each other’s hearts,” he replies softly, voice a pained murmur, and he can already feel it. Only four months into this, and he can already tell how utterly crushing losing Thomas would be.

“I-I never w-wanna break your heart, Moonlight.”

Maybe he already has. But every single ounce of heartbreak, even an infinite amount, would be worth it if he got to keep Thomas, at the end of it all.

“I know, Tommy.” Danny can’t seem to stop looking at Thomas, just taking in his every feature, memorizing him from up close. Who knows when he can have this again, after all? Or if he ever will? “If you want to… e-end this now, you can.” He’ll probably leave him a lot of voicemails when he’s wasted, though, after leaving the wedding early. He might not even be able to go.

Thomas doesn’t answer, just clings to him tighter, and Danny wishes he didn’t know what that silence means. He doesn’t know why he’d even asked him, why he couldn’t just ride this out until it inevitably crashed and burned, until Danny was eventually left broken and alone and Thomas got his happily ever after with someone who wasn’t him, who would never be him. At least then, he’d get to keep him for longer.

He just wants him for as long as he can have him.

“No.”

Danny’s eyebrows furrow slightly, confused by the simple word. He draws back a little, but Thomas just leans into the distance he tries to place between them. “No?” Thomas’s eyes open to look up at him, brighter now, more alive - though there’s the everlasting wisps of guilt and sadness that almost always seem to be there nowadays.

“I don’t want to. E-end this, I mean. I don’t… I can’t say goodbye to you. Not ever. I-I don’t… Danny, you’re… the most important person ever to me.”

“Ever?” Danny can’t help asking, gaze full of confusion and vague pain. “Even including--”

“Yes, including Ethan,” Thomas admits, voice a little quieter now, but firm.

“You love him.”

“I love you, too.” It’s the first time either of them have ever said those words to each other with so much meaning behind them, and Danny’s breath catches slightly, eyes searching his for any insincerity. “I love you, Leigh Daniel Avidan. More… more than anyone, more than him, more than I thought could be possible. I… I’m not leaving you on the side of the road, ever, and I’m never… never going to leave you, period.”

Danny feels an odd warmth seeping into him from his heart out, slowly taking pain’s place. “But… you’re marrying him,” he argues a little weakly, unable to say those words back, not now, not when everything’s still so god damn uncertain.

Thomas hesitates a little, glancing to the side, clear conflict crossing his expression, and Danny watches, slightly awed that he’s actually considering…

He might not marry him.

Danny doesn’t breathe for a second, just watching him as he seems to make up his mind. Their eyes meet again, and Thomas gives a small, nervous smile - he’s so clearly terrified of whatever he decided, panicking even, and Danny’s hand slides down his arm and slips into his hand, gripping it to try and bring comfort, his own heart pounding. Thomas leans into him and kisses him softly, maybe in an attempt to calm them both, and it does. “Run away with me instead?” Thomas whispers against his lips, and Danny’s sure he couldn’t have heard him right.

“You… you’re choosing me?” he asks, voice hushed and awed as he pulls back enough to look at him properly.

Thomas swallows hard, nodding. “I… I’ve been getting cold feet lately - since the night he asked, really… And I think that, in the long run, he’d make me happy, but… I think there’s someone else that’d make me happier.” Danny makes a small, breathy noise, gripping him just a little tighter. “Y-you, I mean. You make me so happy, D…”

He could weep, he truly could.

Before the tears building can start to fall, he pulls Thomas into his lap, kissing him soundly, desperately, like he won’t ever get another chance to. But he will. He will get every chance to, and a million more, and he’s not sure he’s ever been this happy before. Thomas. He has Thomas, his Thomas, and it’s a miracle, it’s salvation, it’s Heaven in its purest form.

Thomas is kissing him back just as desperately, and for once… there’s hope.

“You didn’t answer my question,” Thomas murmurs with a soft (slightly choked) laugh.

“Question?” Danny asks a little dazedly, smiling at him.

“Will you run away with me?”

“Right now?”

“I’d rather not be here for the… fallout. And I do have a fully paid honeymoon that we can go on. O-or not, if…” Danny can tell he doesn’t want to say the words, and there’s a slight queasiness in his stomach, but he smiles. “But I wanna go somewhere, with you. Where none of it matters.”

“Let’s go somewhere that’s like, the complete opposite, then. A place for just you and me.”

“What’s the opposite of Paris?” Thomas asks with a small laugh, squeezing him a little.

“Las Vegas?” Danny tries, honestly just saying the first thing to pop into his mind, but Thomas lights up at the suggestion, nodding eagerly.

“Las Vegas. You and me,” he whispers, leaning in a little closer, pressing a sweet kiss to Danny’s lips. “Get away from it all for a little… I’ll call ahead, you pack a bag? I’ll just borrow some of your clothes till we get down there…” God, but the image of that in Danny’s mind is so tantalizing, and he nods quickly. “And then we can be together.” Thomas’s small smile is full of wonder, and hope. Danny can’t help but return it. “We won’t have to worry about a thing… it’ll just be us, and happiness, and lots of kissing and…”

“You and me, Sunny T.”

“Mark?” Thomas asks, voice colored with surprise as he answers the phone, one hand on the wheel and a quick glance to the sleeping wonder in the seat beside him. “I, uh, was actually just about to call you… What’s up?”

“I’m heading over to your room now - you haven’t started getting ready yet, have you?”

“Uh, no, I--”

“Good. Come open the door.”

“I’m…….. not there, right now.”

There’s a beat of silence.

“You too?”

“Too?”

“Ethan, uh… he just called me, told me… he can’t go through with the wedding.”

Thomas doesn’t know how to feel about that.

“Oh.”

“He’s in love with someone else.”

“Who? A-actually, none of my business, but…”

“Are you okay?”

He is, he really is. “It’s Tyler, isn’t it?”

“...Yes.”

Thomas breathes out a shaky sigh, both relieved and hurt. But… well, he’d done the same thing, hadn’t he? “Okay. I’m fine, Mark, I promise. I’ll see you in a few weeks?”

“A few weeks?? Where--”

“Probably more. Don’t worry about it. I’m happy. Give Ethan my best, alright? I still… I’m happy for him, I am. Be happy for me too, okay?”

“...Okay. But I… I’m worried.”

“I love you, kiddo. Thanks for worrying, really, but… I’m fine. More than fine.” He glances over at Danny again as he hangs up, smiling slowly. Just him, this beautiful boy, and a road they’re paving together.

#avidanders #sandarling #thomas #danny #ethan #mark #tyler #main youni #cheating au #fic

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iamyounicorn · 1 year

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This podcast is so fucking wet

#youni originals #malevolent #<- listening to it right now and this is my main thought #it's like 30% creepy 80% wet. 20% creepy and wet. and 10% gay

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a-eo-iu · 1 year

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Fantasy Story fun fact of the day Ylika's original concept looked like Nul but all gray because he used to be more shapeshifter-ish and was copying Nul's shape

#youni originals #fantasy story #ylika #also he originally did not work with revina. i changed his job because i wanted to make him closer to the main characters

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decolonize-the-left · 1 month

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Here are the day's main developments. At least 82 Palestinians have been killed and 98 injured in Israeli strikes in the past 24 hours, according to the latest figures from the Gaza health ministry. At least 32,705 Palestinians have been killed and 75,190 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October. Truce talks between Israel and Hamas will resume on Sunday in Cairo, Egypt's Al Qahera News TV reported on Saturday, citing a security source. To mark the 48th anniversary of Land Day on Saturday afternoon, thousands of Palestinians marched through the town of Deir Hanna. On 30 March 1976, six Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces as thousands of Palestinians in Israel's northern Galilee region rose up against the Israeli expropriation and occupation of Palestinian lands. The event became known as Land Day and a symbol of the national struggle that unites Palestinians around the world. According to a statement issued by the Colonisation and Wall Resistance Commission (CWRC), Israel has seized 27 sq km of land in the occupied West Bank since 7 October. World Health Organisation director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said around 9,000 patients urgently needed to be evacuated from Gaza for lifesaving treatment abroad. These patients had suffered wounds in Israeli bombing, or needed cancer treatment, kidney dialysis or treatment for other chronic conditions, Tedros wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter. Other key developments included: The British government has received advice from its own lawyers stating that Israel has breached international humanitarian law in Gaza but has failed to make it public, according to advice received from its own lawyers, according to a leaked recording obtained by the UK's Observer newspaper. At least five people were killed and dozens injured by gunfire during an aid delivery in Gaza. The incident happened after thousands of people gathered in the Kuwait roundabout in northern Gaza, awaiting the arrival of 15 food aid trucks. Al Jazeera Arabic reported that Israel had intensified its shelling on the eastern parts of the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis. The air strikes targeted al-Mughraqa in the north of Khan Younis. UN peacekeeping mission Unifil confirmed that four of its personnel were injured in an explosion in the southern Lebanese border town of Rmeish. A group of around 20 relatives of Israeli captives held in the Gaza Strip on Saturday called for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's resignation, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported. Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said on Saturday that the "famine" in Gaza could be dealt with in a short time if Israel opened the land crossings for aid to enter.

#palestine #gaza #rafah #West Bank #free Palestine #free gaza #free rafah #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #solidarity

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palms-upturned · 6 months

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Al-Shifa Hospital building destroyed, people taken to unknown areas

Nov 16th, 06:32 GMT

From Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud in Khan Younis, southern Gaza

An entire building at al-Shifa Hospital – the specialised surgeries building – has been completely damaged from the inside, in addition to Israeli forces blowing up a warehouse for medicine and medical equipment inside the hospital.

The Israeli military literally tore it apart – all the partitions, walls between the rooms, and all the medical equipment inside the building have been completely destroyed.

Meanwhile, there are reports of some 200 people being blindfolded and interrogated and taken to unknown areas; their fate is unknown. Witnesses inside the hospital who we spoke to said [Israeli troops] started with 30 people who were stripped of their clothes, and taken to the courtyard of the hospital. More people were taken after interrogation, blindfolded and put into groups.

Unfortunately, this failure in confirming [the Israeli allegations of Hamas’s presence in the hospital] just resulted in massive destruction in the hospital and renewed attacks on its building and redeploying troops at the gates of the hospital from all sides.

All of this is happening under the heavy cover of air strikes and tank shells around the al-Shifa Hospital.

#palestine #free palestine #al shifa hospital #al jazeera #what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck

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nikkoliferous · 5 months

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The UN’s top aid official has said the Israeli military campaign in southern Gaza has been just as devastating as in the north, creating “apocalyptic” conditions and ending any possibility of meaningful humanitarian operations.

Martin Griffiths, the UN emergency relief coordinator, said he was speaking on behalf of the entire international aid community in saying the continuing offensive had robbed aid workers of any significant means of helping the 2.3 million people of Gaza, other than to call for an immediate end to the fighting.

His comments came as the Israeli military said it had stormed southern Gaza’s main city in the most intense day of fighting so far, and hospitals struggled to cope with scores of dead and wounded Palestinians.

“What we’re saying today is: that’s enough now. It has to stop,” Griffiths said in an interview with the Guardian, adding that the small amount of aid being allowed into Gaza could no longer be distributed, since the Israeli ground offensive had spread to southern Gaza and the city of Khan Younis, bringing the humanitarian operation effectively to an end.

“It isn’t really a statistically significant operation any more,” said Griffiths, who is also UN undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs. “It’s a bit of a patch on a wound and it doesn’t do the job, and it would be an illusion for the world to think that the people in Gaza can be helped by the humanitarian operation under these conditions.

“This is an apocalyptic situation now, because these are the remnants of a nation being driven into a pocket in the south.”

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched a ground operation into northern Gaza on 27 October, 20 days after Hamas militants killed 1,200 Israelis, most of them civilians, in a cross-border attack. Israel told Palestinian civilians to move into southern Gaza for their own safety before the ground assault, but the south also remained under bombardment. After the breakdown of a week-long ceasefire on 1 December, tanks and infantry have moved into the south, focusing on Khan Younis. The IDF said its troops had reached the heart of the city on Tuesday.

Joe Biden and his top officials had called on Israel to conduct the campaign in the south in a fundamentally different way from the north, with far more attention paid to avoiding civilian casualties, as the Gaza death toll passed 16,000 according to figures issued by the Hamas media office.

The US national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, pointed to an IDF plan to split Gaza into small districts and warn residents of impending military operations in their districts, as a “quite unusual step for a modern military” to avoid civilian deaths. But amid fighting that the IDF said has been the most intense of the ground offensive so far, the civilian toll has remained very high.

US officials said on Monday it was too early to draw conclusions about the conduct of the war in southern Gaza, but Griffiths said it was already clear there had been no improvement and that US diplomatic efforts to influence the IDF had failed.

“The way in which the military operation in the south has been carried out is very similar to what we saw in the north,” he said. “US diplomacy was very much focused on this and [secretary of state] Tony Blinken spoke about it publicly. It does not seem to have worked at all, and so the pace of destruction in the south is as relentless as we see in the north.

“And so we’re left doing very, very little, and frankly facing the inescapable truth which is this is no longer a humanitarian operation, trying to save lives for the people of Gaza. We’ll stay. We’re not leaving … but please don’t think that the humanitarians can save the day. They can’t.”

Speaking in el-Arish, near Egypt’s border with Gaza, the administrator of the US Agency for International Development, Samantha Power, said that civilian toll remained a primary concern for the Biden administration.

“First, as Israel’s military operations continue, Palestinian civilians must be protected,” Power told journalists after overseeing the delivery of 36,000 (16,330 kg) of US humanitarian relief supplies.

“Far too many innocent civilians have been killed. Some parents in Gaza are writing names on their children’s legs, so that they can be identified if they or their families are killed. Other parents are having their children split up, sheltering at different locations, putting them with different relatives, so as to increase the chances that at least some of them will survive. No parent should ever have to make choices like that. Military operations need to be conducted in a way that distinguishes fighters from civilians.”

The UN had sent the coordinates of UN schools and other institutions to the IDF and Hamas, identifying them as havens for civilians, but Griffiths echoed the comments of other UN officials this week, that there was no longer anywhere safe for Palestinians to take shelter in Gaza.

Griffiths said: “I had a 10-point plan last week – it makes me embarrassed to even think about it now – as to how we would respond when people came south. There’s no 10-point plan any more because it’s dependent on a certain number of deconfliction institutions being safe for people to live in. They don’t exist.”

He said that with no safe havens for civilians to gather, there was nowhere where aid could be delivered and distributed. About 100 trucks of humanitarian supplies have been crossing into Gaza daily since the weekend, but Griffiths said it was no longer possible for workers to reach the crossing point at Rafah to unload them or distribute the aid anywhere else on the Gaza Strip.

“There’s a logic to this, which is horrific and tragic and frankly apocalyptic,” he said. “And I can’t think of a better way to create a generation of anger and extremism than this.”

#this is genocide #free palestine #ceasefire now #current events #politics

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sayruq · 13 days

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The development follows the recovery of hundreds of bodies “buried deep in the ground and covered with waste” over the weekend at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, central Gaza, and at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City in the north. A total of 283 bodies were recovered at Nasser Hospital, of which 42 were identified. “Among the deceased were allegedly older people, women and wounded, while others were found tied with their hands…tied and stripped of their clothes,” said Ravina Shamdasani, spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Al-Shifa discovery Citing the local health authorities in Gaza, Ms. Shamdasani added that more bodies had been found at Al-Shifa Hospital. The large health complex was the enclave’s main tertiary facility before war erupted on 7 October. It was the focus of an Israeli military incursion to root out Hamas militants allegedly operating inside which ended at the beginning of this month. After two weeks of intense clashes, UN humanitarians assessed the site and confirmed on 5 April that Al-Shifa was “an empty shell”, with most equipment reduced to ashes. “Reports suggest that there were 30 Palestinian bodies buried in two graves in the courtyard of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City; one in front of the emergency building and the others in front of the dialysis building,” Ms. Shamdasani told journalists in Geneva. The bodies of 12 Palestinians have now been identified from these locations at Al-Shifa, the OHCHR spokesperson continued, but identification has not yet been possible for the remaining individuals. “There are reports that the hands of some of these bodies were also tied,” Ms. Shamdasani said, adding that there could be “many more” victims, “despite the claim by the Israeli Defense Forces to have killed 200 Palestinians during the Al-Shifa medical complex operation”.

#yemen #jerusalem #tel aviv #current events #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #news on gaza #palestine news #news update #war news #war on gaza #al shifa hospital #nasser hospital #nasser medical complex #gaza genocide #genocide #war crimes

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soon-palestine · 2 months

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This is the guy behind charging Palestinians thousands of dollars to flee Gaza. It isn't 5000$ right now though, it's actually 10,000$

His name is Ibrahim Arjani 🧵

By the way, all what I'm talking about is only available in Arabic. I only translated and summarised from another thread that was in Arabic.

Hala is part of Organi Group whose CEO would be Ibrahim Arjani. He is really close to the current regime and has a complicated history.

Ibrahim Arjani was born in northern Sinai to the Tarabin tribe. His father is called Gom'a Arjani from the Tarabin tribe. His mother is Sabiha Sha'er who is from Gaza and he was actually raised with her in Khan Younis before moving back to Sinai.

In 2008, some Police officers clashed with the Bedouins of northern Sinai in suspicion of involvement in the 2004 and 2005 bombings and 3 guys from the Tarabin Bedouin were killed. Those officers left their bodies beside a trash can and no investigation was done regarding this.

Arjani was released in 2010. Now we jump to May 2014, when Sisi met up with Ibrahim Arjani (who appeared as the sheikh of the Tarabin tribe) as part of his campaign during the 2014 elections. He even dressed him in the Sinai abaya.

From here, the relationship between him and Sisi starts He founded the Misr Sinai company for investment which he became its CEO with the help of the military. This company's capital is HUGE with the military contributing to it by 51% while the other 49% are Sinai businessmen

This company's name was later changed to Organi group and he was involved in hundreds of projects with Sisi outside of Sinai.

And in exchange, Sisi helped him form his own armed militia in Sinai. In 2015, Arjani founded Sinai Tribes Union which tens of Sinai tribes are involved in. And part of this Sinai Tribes Union is the Knights of Al-Haytham brigade which serves the interests of Arjani.

And during the Sinai insurgency, these militants helped the Egyptian army and were accused by Sinai for Human Rights of using 37 schools in Sinai as military bases and destroying 59 more schools and there is actually a report by The Guardian about this. theguardian.com/world/2023/mar…

And as a side note, this isn't the only thing they did in Sinai. There was almost no media coverage of what was happening in Sinai as it was hidden from the public so it's been hard to determine the toll on civilians there. But sometimes, vids were leaked:

As well as many testimonies and like hundreds of videos and info leaked by Sinai for Human Rights but it really needs a whole other thread. Sinai for Human Rights is the one who revealed that refugee camp they were building as well.

In any case in 2014 after the aggression on Gaza, the only company that obtained authorization to enter building materials into Gaza during the reconstruction was the Organi group and they monopolized this and became the biggest beneficiary in Gaza out of this aggression.

Zvi Bar'el, a political analyst for Haaretz, said that the main beneficiary from rebuilding Gaza is the Organi group and that Egypt's monopoly benefits Israel's policies. He also said that Arjani does this on behalf of the Egyptian gov't so they don't "get their hands dirty."

Arjani basically controls all the crossings between Sinai and Palestine and Israel. There were even instances of him using these crossings to smuggle drugs and for human trafficking, according to one of the sheikhs in Sinai.

And on the 7th of November 2023, Resolution No. 234 was published on the official Gazette appointing Arjani as a member of the National Authority for the Development of the Sinai Peninsula which means Arjani's control of ALL of Sinai was complete.

This is the same Sinai whose people were displaced and God knows what else happened there because of the heavy media blackout during the insurgency.

Anyway after all of this, the Egyptian media wants us to believe that he is just a businessman. Does this look like "just a businessman" to you? This is one of the reasons why many Egyptians call him the Hemedti of Egypt.

They're so heavily armed from the gov't. Absolutely doesn't look like he just formed his own militias in Sinai with the help of the gov't or anything.

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