The Israeli military announced that it plans to relocate the 1.5 million Palestinians taking refuge in Rafah to “humanitarian islands.” After Tel Aviv said it was planning to attack Rafah, the White House urged Israel to develop a strategy for evacuating civilians first.
Israel’s chief military spokesman, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, said the Palestinians would be relocated to other areas of Gaza. “We need to make sure that 1.4 million people or at least a significant amount of the 1.4 million will move. Where? To humanitarian islands that we will create with the international community,” he told reporters.
Several top US officials have stated that before attacking, Israel must have a plan for the Palestinian civilians sheltering in Rafah, the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip. The White House issued similar demands before Tel Aviv commenced on other cities in the Strip, such as Khan Younis.
Israel has responded by issuing Palestinians convoluted instructions on where to evacuate. Additionally, the communications blackout in Gaza caused by the Israeli war makes obtaining accurate information difficult for hundreds of thousands of war-weary residents and refugees.
Israeli forces have repeatedly attacked regions deemed “safe zones,” as well as civilians traveling along the paths that were marked as evacuation routes by Israel.
Hagari claimed Palestinians would find food and shelter provided by international aid organizations in the “humanitarian islands.” However, those who have fled to other safe zones have reported a lack of aid and facilities. The military spokesman did not say when the evacuation or the assault on Rafah would begin.
Rafah is the last city in the Strip not decimated by the five-month-long Israeli onslaught, which has destroyed most of the infrastructure in the Strip and killed more than 31,000. Combined with the bombardment, Israel severely limited aid shipments to Gaza, putting hundreds of thousands of Palestinians on the verge of famine.
On Wednesday, Israel attacked a UN food distribution center, claiming to target a Hamas commander. Martin Griffiths, the UN humanitarian chief, said aid organizations are struggling to continue operating due to the Israeli attacks. “How are we to maintain aid operations when our teams and supplies are constantly under threat?” he wrote. “They must be protected. This war has to stop.”
Kyle Anzalone is the opinion editor of Antiwar.com, news editor of the Libertarian Institute, and co-host of Conflicts of Interest.
Into camps? They are going to concentrate the people in camps? Hmm what shall we call these? Any plans for water, food, shelter or medicine?
The US called them “Reservations”; the South Africans, “Bantustans”; the Nazis, “Work Camps”; the Soviets, “Gulags”; and now the Zionists, “Humanitarian Islands” … much nicer ring to it, don’t you think?
Zionists excel at false propaganda.
The transfers will be civilized I hope. Maybe load them into boxcars and transported to concentration camps where they can be “deloused” and “resettled”?
Suggest a better way that will reduce the Hamas threat.
Not genocide.
Pay for the property stolen would be a good start:
https://www.plands.org/en/articles-speeches/articles/2019/when-the-denial-bubble-bursts-an-israeli-kibbutz-faces-the-nakba
Another con game. Nothing being reported is either true or matters. The only thing that matters is when the Axis of Resistance finally goes all in.
There is little doubt that Israel intends to invade Lebanon, and once there the war will expand to Syria, and between Hezbollah, the Syrian military, the militias in Syria, the militias missiles from Iraq, and the Houthis, Israel will lose. If the US gets involved, the US will lose worse because it will also attack Iran and then you can add Iran’s 500-750 missile arsenal dumped on Israel along with Hezbollah’s 100,000+ and Syria’s missiles and Iraqi militia missiles. The combined ground forces of the Axis of Resistance will match or exceed Israel’s forces and the US can’t logistically support enough boots on the ground to make a difference.
It’s the end of Israel and the US presence in the Middle East and that can’t come too soon.
Way too optimistic in my view, but hope you are correct. that it ends badly, for the Zionist genociders.
The only genocide was the Oct 7 attack on Israel by Hamas.
Just for a little comparison.
In the early days of the war, Biden underscored the scale of the Hamas attack by saying it was equivalent to 15 9/11s for a nation of Israel’s size. The equivalent figure for Gaza, where more than 20,000 people have been killed, is now approaching 900.
That’s 900 (compared to 15) at 20,000. Do the math.
Israel is rehashing the “emigration” and “transfer” that the NAZIs conducted from 1938 until 1942. There is no way that the Zionists will allow free flow of humanitarian aid no matter where the camps are located.
“Transfer” was a Zionist idea before Nazis existed.
It was, but the vast numbers happened later.
Zionism as a Fascist Ideology and Movement: Zionist Relations with Nazi Germany
https://liberatedtexts.com/reviews/zionism-as-a-fascist-ideology-zionist-relations-with-nazi-germany-by-faris-glubb/
OOOOOooooh More diesel therapy, another move to
an even worse places & conditions no doubt…!!!!!
Israel bombed food distribution center. It will bomb these “islands” too. It is on a murder rampage, and won’t stop until someone stops them.
Unless the Houthis can stop them, it ain’t going to happen.
Israel is once again in violation of the basic requirements of the UN Res 181 that created the state:
Israel has thus forfiet its right to exist.
Under UNR 181, the people of Gaza are neither “within the jurisdiction of” Israel or “inhabitants on the ground” that constitutes Israel.
Right, gazans aren’t in Israel’s jurisdiction, it’s just that Israel decides everything that effects the gazans. And the gazans aren’t inhabitants because they have no places to live and are being killed off by Israel as fast as possible. Fine distinctions there.
UN Resolution 181 didn’t create the state. The United Nations has no authority to create states. A few minutes of slightly-informed consideration ought to make it obvious that the nations of the world would never have ceded such authority to an international organization (sadly!). And simply reading the UN Charter makes it clear that they did not.
The State of Israel was created in the usual way, by declaration of independence.
And became a UN member contingent upon its acceptance of the borders set in UNR 181. Which remain its only internationally recognized borders.
When are you going to produce the documentation to support your claim that UN membership was contingent on acceptance of the partition proposal?
I already did. And you whined that it wasn’t enough because you didn’t WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT it to be true.
That’s an unusually stupid and childish post. As for the content: No, you didn’t. You couldn’t. The documentation doesn’t exist. Like many who insist that the fiction is real, you rely on a historical elements that were deliberately tailored to be deceptive, in the context of a reality in which there was loud, sustained objection to attempts to exercise power that the UN doesn’t have and to do so in a way that outrageously violates the principles of self-determination set forth in the Charter.
I won’t waste a lot of time or energy on this now, because it has long been clear that you are unlikely to be able to consider that you’ve misunderstood this matter. But I’ll toss in appropriate references as we go along. I’m sure there will be plenty of opportunities. Here’s one now: Read the UN minutes of the General Assembly discussion on May 5, 1949 of Israel’s application for admission (six days before the vote). The whole discussion should be digested and considered in context (which unfortunately requires a lot more reading), but pay careful attention to Abba Eban’s dodging, bobbing and weaving on the refugees, the boundaries and Jerusalem wrt 181. Brief excerpt on the boundaries:
That is not an acceptance of the proposed partition boundaries. It’s an explanation of Israel’s excuse for not accepting them.
More later, from time to time, probably.
And from Hamas charter section 18, ” The following are considered null and void: the Balfour Declaration, the British Mandate Document, the UN Palestine Partition Resolution, and whatever resolutions
and measures that derive from them or are similar to them. The establishment of “Israel” is entirely illegal
“. The Arabs rejected UNR 181 in 1948 and still do. Since Arabs reject 181 Israel is not bound by 181.
“Since Arabs reject 181 Israel is not bound by 181.”
Logic’s not your strong suit, is it?
His logic is quite correct-it takes two to tango.
The supporters of 181 seem to forget that Arabs /Palestinians have not and continue to not agree to the 181. But somehow, they think that Israel must follow 181. I guess they never studied contract law or international relationships.
Sorry Tom. That is not the way things work. If one party breaks a contract, the other party does not have to abide by the contract. So once the Arabs reject 181, which you have to admit they did, then Israel is not bound by 181.
UNR 181 was not a “contract.” It was a UN resolution.
To the extend that it ever became a de facto “contract,” the parties to it were:
1) Israel, which agreed to UNR 181’s borders as a consideration in return for UN membership; and
2) The UN, which agreed to UN membership as a consideration for Israel accepting UNR 181’s borders.
What’s the point of attacking Rafah if everyone has been evacuated?
All Hamas fighters will be instructed to stay.
Yes I know, nothing makes any sense.
The most civilized people ever only do kinder, gentler genocides.
“Light unto the Nations”, no less.
So,how would you suggest that peace be arrived at? Should there be amnesty for gang rapists?.
No amnesty for rapists. That goes for the IDF too.
Just won’t give up on that bs story, will you? The Big Lie doesn’t work around here. Only the Religious Right still falls for that canard.
Thanks, you supplied my laugh for the day.
The Israelis are all about humanitarianism, This is appalling, read the whole thing, it gets worse :
Not just the UNRWA report: Countless accounts of Israeli torture in Gaza
Al Jazeera spoke to several released detainees about their ordeals in Israeli holding facilities.
The released detainees included UNRWA staff, women, children, the elderly and vulnerable people living with conditions like Alzheimer’s and cancer – all of whom were taken from Gaza and held at various locations within Israel….
Torture
In detention, the people taken were interrogated, with UNRWA staff being of particular interest to Israeli interrogators who reportedly tried to coerce confessions of complicity with Hamas or the October 7 attack on Israel, which killed 1,139 people and the capture of 253 who were taken back to Gaza.
Practices recorded by UNRWA include the use of a nail gun on prisoners’ knees, sexual abuse against both men and women and the insertion of what appears to be an electrified metal stick into prisoners’ rectums
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/13/after-the-unrwa-report-more-accounts-of-israels-torture-in-gaza
Dude, I can’t even watch one American politician acting indignant on any issue and especially on “Freedom and Democracy.” This exposes the entire charade. The emperors are all naked!
They are naked 100% Zionist idiots.
On Wednesday, Israel attacked a UN food distribution center, claiming to target a Hamas commander.
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/03/13/israel-to-move-civilians-to-humanitarian-islands-before-invasion/
Take note Hamas or any other militia. That’s all you need is a TARGET. It doesn’t matter where it is. There is now no such thing as terrorism.
Still cheerleading for terrorists.
By saying Israel has given others the right to blow up a food distribution center as long as there is a TARGET? Or are you that stupid that you didn’t get my point?
i will guess it is both
Hmmm, if populations can be “moved to safe locations”, why the F were they not from the damn beginning when this genocide started? Why didn’t Israel vet and move the civilians out of the way to safe areas, say camps inside Israel, and then attempt to battle Hamas mano-a-mano in Gaza?
Would have saved a lot of lives.
wow if they stuff 100 civilians into a greyhound bus that holds 50 people it will only take them 1,500 busses to evacuate 1.5 million civilians to some “humanitarian islands” that have yet to be constructed. what a genius effin plan. no wonder the Israelis are considered to be the smartest dudes on the planet.
No it will take 15,000 buses.
100 X 15,000 = 1,500,000
oh you’re right – well if anyone can pull that off it will be the Israelis
Uncle Sammy is a mass murderer!
As was Joe Stalin and Mao.
maybe they are all related
Stalin was Soso };-)>
Ask the millions he murdered.
Ignorant boy.
I doubt that you know much about Stalin, who I’m not defending BTW.
I doubt you know much about anything at all
Mass murder of the local people is foundational for both the US & Israel, but Israel can’t wipe out all the Arabs & other Muslims in the middle east.
End US aid to Israel and the Israelis might come to their senses, but it may be too late for Uncle Sammy already.
Israel is a Criminal State, it is breaking International Laws and getting away with it. Palestinians who are removed, will never be allowed to go back to their land, to rebuild their home, schools, churches, mosques. This can NOT happen, it can NOT be allowed to happen and if it does, they will displace the Lebanese, then displace the Syrians, the Depraved Israelis, the INSANE Israelis have to be STOPPED. Is the USA going to help in KIDNAPPING millions of Palestinians, purging them from their lands? Is the USA going to hold the Palestinians HOSTAGE on some so called island like Haiti? Maybe WW111 is what is needed, it’s like the World Leaders have gone MAD.
Call me antisemitic but I have come to develop a deep, visceral hatred toward Israel and Israelis for what they have done. The slander of being charged with antisemitism has become meaningless because it has been abused to provide cover for genocide by a fascist nation-state. Jewish people certainly have a right to live between the river and the sea, but Israel as racist Apartheid state no longer deserves to exist.
It is not the dirt poor, desperate and traumatized Palestinians who need to be “de-radicalized” but racists Zionist Israelis. The ones—PMs, cabinet ministers, presidents and rabbis among others—calling Palestinians “human animals” and “snakes” and “cockroaches”. The ones blocking aid from entering. The ones physically and sexually torturing people it has abducted (including doctors and medical workers). The ones filming themselves stealing Gazan families meagre belonging after they’ve destroyed their homes and killed their children. Utterly, utterly sickening.
Antisemitic or Anti-Zionist? Hmmm?
“Call me antisemitic” OK. You are, congratulation. Israel has exists for 75 years with people like you calling for its destruction. The Arabs armies tried 3 times in the past and have failed. Hamas and its supporters call for the destruction of Israel. There is 120 reasons why that is not going to happen and the reasons involve U-235 and/or Pu-239.
…. There is 120 reasons why that is not going to happen and the reasons involve U-235 and/or Pu-239…..
I seriously doubt the Likud is deranged enough to commit mass suicide using nukes.
Once Israel is harassed enough by Hexbollah and its masters,they will be forced to take definitive action. they will not accept another exile. If China and Russia decide nuke use is in their interests, they will do so,and business as usual will return very shortly.
Why can‘t the Likud simply accept the generous offer of the Arabs and the international community for a safe and secure Israel within the pre-1967 lines ?
Why does the Likud keep doubling down on failure ?
Israel will use them if and only if the destruction of Israel was happening. Just like all the other nuclear powers will also do. The point is that days of Arab armies lining up to attack Israel are in the past and Ned dream of the destruction of Israel will not happen by the Arab armies.
It may very well not happen and, if it does, it won’t be as a result of actions by Hamas or any other non-state or state actor. Neither the Palestinians nor surrounding states have ever posed an existential threat, not even a serious one. Its destruction will be self-inflicted and the carpet bombing of Gaza and wilful killing of thousands of children (whose grandparents where violently expelled with grotesque violence that included rape in the 1940s—according to Israeli historians) could be the first step toward that eventuality. What Israel is doing is the antithesis of genuine Jewish values.
That you implicitly condone what Israel is doing makes you no better than those condoning Hamas war crimes, or OBL because he, like Israel, justified killing civilians because he held them responsible for the actions of their leaders. That you can justify Apartheid in 2014 is unsettling to any decent person.
“Neither the Palestinians nor surrounding states have ever posed an existential threat, not even a serious one. ” The wars 1948, 1967 and 1973 were very much an existential threat to Israel. But as an admitted antisemitic, no doubt you blames those wars on Israel.
Certainly ‘48 and ‘67 were Israeli inspired. So you define antisemitism as opposing Israeli state policies? I guess I’m in good company with the ever increasing number of Jewish people being accused of being antisemitic/self hating for opposing genocide.
It was Hamas torturing and raping,not the other way around. Should every Palestinian,every Arab,be blamed for the Oct 7 massacre? Should every US ethnic minority be blamed for the actions of some of their members? Sending in troops after the Oct 7 massacre is a harsh duty;a few will not behave wisely under deadly fanatic terrorist fire.. Let Hamas stop sheltering among civilians,and pay for their actions.
Utter nonsense and you know it. The NYT Hamas rape story has been exposed to be a fraud, co-authored by a former IDF officer. Evidence free as the baby beheading propaganda. You are on the wrong side of history. We can all see what Israel is doing. Their soldiers and IDF are broadcasting their war crimes. Their leaders, including the president, have openly and explicitly stated their intent. So much “never again”.
Face the truth
How far goeth the rabbit hole to find a shekel of truth?
“Humanitarian islands?” So, is that what we’re calling concentration camps today?
We have a deranged Zionist president, and a deranged Zionist political class and this is what we get.
The INSANITY of it all is incomprehensible, the insanity of western democracies to organize the genocide to look legal and humane certifies the idiots for what they are, dehumanized human animals.
They should go to hell.
eth·nic cleans·ing
/ˌeTHnik ˈklenziNG/
noun
the mass expulsion or killing of members of an unwanted ethnic or religious group in a society.
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