The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) food distribution center in Gaza was hit by an Israeli airstrike, killing five. The bombing of the facility is the latest in a series of Israeli attacks on food distribution in Gaza. The Israeli military operations in Gaza and restrictions on aid entering the Strip have placed hundreds of thousands of Palestinians on the brink of starvation.
Witnesses, Gazan health officials, and the UN reported that Israel attacked the UNRWA warehouse in Rafah on Wednesday, killing five people, including one UNRWA worker. Officials reported that scores were injured in the attack without providing a number. The Israeli onslaught in Gaza has had a massive impact on aid workers.
One Palestinian in Rafah said the attack was particularly concerning because UNRWA sites are generally considered safer. “It’s a UNRWA center, expected to be secure,” one resident said. Over the past five months, 165 UNRWA workers have been killed, and over 150 of the agency’s buildings in Gaza have been hit.
The attack on the food distribution center comes as famine is taking hold in Gaza. Over two dozen people, mostly children, have starved to death in recent weeks. Israel has significantly reduced aid transfers into Gaza since hostilities flared last October.
What little aid makes it into the Strip has been, at times, attacked by Israeli forces. Earlier this month, Israeli forces opened fire on a crowd that attempted to take food from a convoy of aid trucks, killing over 100 people.
According to the Tel Aviv-based +972 Magazine, Israeli forces regularly hit “power targets,” such as “public buildings,” “universities, banks, and government offices” to “exert ‘civil pressure’ on Hamas.” The practice is a form of collective punishment, a war crime.
While numerous Israeli officials have publicly stated they intend to destroy all of Gaza and ethnically cleanse the 2.3 million Palestinians living in the Strip, the White House has largely refused to condemn Israel’s war crimes or limit US military support to Tel Aviv.
Kyle Anzalone is the opinion editor of Antiwar.com, news editor of the Libertarian Institute, and co-host of Conflicts of Interest.
Mehdi Hassan challenges Piers Morgan
Israeli is greatest terrorist state in modern history. It is comparable only with Nazi Germany.
Some might claim the US is the greatest terrorist state.
Israel seems to only threaten its neighbors.
The US has at one time or another – threatened or continues to threaten most of the world!
Add in the invasions, coups, and periodic infrastructure destruction visited upon recalcitrant nations, and we are some pretty serious monsters!
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No, your comment was deleted by anti-Zionist me.
You know perfectly well that what I had written is true.
I have no concern over whether what you had written was true. Determining truth or falsehood isn’t my job. Enforcing the site’s guidelines is.
It is important to understand how we got to this situation where we are now and why. One can’t improve it by silencing problems.
We are quite good at all of it. We taught the Zionists well. Through our actions.
It was other way around
Gee, I wonder why Fake News CNN abruptly cancelled Mehdi’s program? It’s a mystery.
Over the past five months, 165 UNRWA workers have been killed, and over 150 of the agency’s buildings in Gaza have been hit.
that’s about one building every day
There are some bad news for Zionists and their sponsors: Yemen successfully tested a hypersonic missile. Speed 8000 km per hour.
Define “successfully tested.”
The US has had “successfully tested” and working hypersonic missiles for decades (ICBMs, for example), as has every other country that’s put things into space. That doesn’t mean those missiles are well-suited to particular tasks (like hitting moving ships).
They made those missiles exactly for this purpose. It is highly likely they will use them by the end of this year.
Impunity, thy name is Israel. Thankfully, their behavior has no future. Their economy is a shambles. Their biggest enabler is bankrupt both financially and morally. Both nations are headed for the ashcan of history. It can’t happen soon enough.
What makes all of this unbearable, is that so called civilized Governments do NOT care? Leaders of the “Free World” are COWARDS!
Its business. Israel has loads of “battle tested” stuff that the West and others gobble up. Go against the Zionist and that country does not get to the front of the line for the goodies.
IDF and MOSSAD clearly enjoy following their evil government’s orders. They became the monster indeed…
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A common sense update on Global-Communism versus Sovereign Nations. March 14, 2024 edition:
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https://roninhardjan.substack.com/p/americas-shadow-government-behind
They just F’ing don’t care what they look like any more, do they? Just whatever … starve women and children? check … abuse doctors? check … rape prisoners? check … let’s see … what else is left to do? Oh yes, bomb food distributors …
Put all hospitals out of commission? check.
They are just following Torah teaching. Recently there appeared a video of a rabbi who explained that it is okay to kill Arab children.
You may be thinking of the Talmud.
No, he talked about Torah and he talked quite logically in his way. He said, those who were small kids 10 years ago, now they are terrorists. If they were killed 10 years ago, there would be less of terrorists now. So it is okay to kill small kids now and women who are producing them and so on. He only said what most of them are thinking but don’t dare to say openly. And of course, it is about Lebensraum.
A rabbi in Israel has called for the extermination of all civilians in Gaza,
including women and children.
Eliyahu Mali, who was talking to an audience at the Shirat Moshe religious school in Jaffa, which he heads, said the killing of all civilians in Gaza was in line with Jewish law teachings, known as Halakha.
He was addressing students who serve in the Israeli military.
A video of his speech went viral on social media.
“Do not spare any soul,” which Mali says is the basic rule when fighting a holy war, in this case Gaza, according to Jewish doctrine.
“And the logic of this is very clear. If you don’t kill them, they’ll attempt to kill you,” he claims.
He goes on to say that the women are the one who create “terrorists,” justifying the killing of these women and their
infants.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-rabbi-says-gaza-women-children-should-all-be-killed?amp
But it seems that most western media outlets aren’t reporting this.?
Ironically none of the western media outlets have reported this?
https://youtu.be/3itOp_qNMYg?si=s1qto8J5tRfTtpJ9
Israel’s genocidal policies are the result of “just following Torah teaching”?
1/ No. Weak logic. Weak political analysis.
a/ Like the Israeli religious hard right, Israeli scripture and scripture exegetes – religious authorities interpreting that scripture – have always been present in Israel.
b/ The question is, what social forces – both in Israel and international – have strengthened the most racist, ethno-nationalist parts of Israeli society…
…turned an already ethnonationalist project increasingly genocidal…in the process, producing interpretions that privilege the worst parts of that scripture?
2/ Why does this matter? Not just because it’s weak logic or weak political analysis – but also because i/ it cuts off relationships with antiwar, antizionist religious Jews who – like progressive Christians – use scripture to make antiwar points; and ii/ because saying ‘Jewish scripture is inherently genocidal’ – genocidal Israelis are “just following” its genocidal religious foundations – goes in an antisemitic direction…
…just as quoting Islamic scripture – or pointing to Islamic extremists quoting scripture – to prove it is a threat – is false and anti-Islamic.
Of course, there are different interpretations of Torah. Particular Christians are trying very hard to twist it so that it could look a bit more decent.
My opinion is that even Christianity needs some reform, and Islam, of course, too. Of course, it is unachievable in a foreseeable future. Still it can’t last like this forever.
Barbarians (c.f. the Amalek mitzvah) possessed with high tech weapons.
Likud ordered the IDF to spray and pray on 7.Oct massacring 400+ Israelis.
What more does one need to know ?
Kill fellow Jews who had escaped captivity and were waving white flags. Check
If Moses resurrects… he would be embarrassed to embrace the people of faith…!
I don’t think it is the only reason why he will never resurrect.
Marianne Williamson on ceasefire, Israeli settlements, US aid to Israel and the Houthis
There aren’t enough righteous democrats apparently. She’s getting about 3% of the vote.
Yes. Here in Michigan, she got a little over 20,000 votes while genocide pudding brain got over 600,000. But everyone was boasting about the uncommitted vote.
Israel is so nice. “Israel Bombs Food Distribution Center in Gaza, Killing Five. Israeli forces have attacked multiple aid distribution multiple times in recent weeks.”
Hey hey! Ho ho!
Israel has got to go.