Gaza’s Health Ministry said on Wednesday that Israeli strikes killed at least 82 Palestinians and wounded 262 over the previous 24-hour period, as aid that has entered Gaza still hasn’t reached the starving population.
The Health Ministry’s figures are based on the number of dead and wounded Palestinians brought to hospitals and morgues. “There are still a number of victims under the rubble and on the streets, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them,” the ministry said.
UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters on Wednesday that the majority of the supplies from a few dozen aid trucks Israel allowed to enter Gaza this week have been loaded onto UN trucks. But he said the supplies couldn’t be taken out of the Kerem Shalom crossing area because the road the Israeli military had given them permission to use was too unsafe.
Dujarric said that the limited supplies that have entered Gaza are “nowhere near enough to meet the needs in Gaza, which are vast, which are tremendous. Much, much more aid needs to get in.”
Israel allowed a small number of aid trucks to enter this week after more than 70 days of a total blockade, a step Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made clear was being taken to ensure continued US support for his genocidal war.
Palestinians are facing starvation as the Israeli military has significantly escalated its attacks and ordered more forced displacements, including in the southern city of Khan Younis. According to The Associated Press, Israeli strikes killed 24 people in Khan Younis on Wednesday, including 14 members of the same family.
AP also reported that a week-old baby was killed by an Israeli strike in central Gaza, and in Jabalia, northern Gaza, an Israeli attack killed two children along with their parents.
The Health Ministry said that since Israel resumed full-scale military operations on March 18, at least 3,509 Palestinians have been killed, and 9,909 were injured. The numbers account for dead and wounded Palestinians brought to hospitals and morgues.
Since October 7, 2023, the ministry’s death toll has reached 53,655, and the number of wounded has climbed to 121,950, figures that don’t account for thousands missing and presumed dead under the rubble or indirect deaths caused by the Israeli siege.
How is the US government supposed to lecture anybody about "human rights" and "international law" ever again without being laughed at by the rest of the world? Every American should be saddened and ashamed at that since our government is clearly complicit in these ongoing Israeli War crimes. Nobody can say "We didn't know" like they did in the 1940s.
We arm and protect our friends and allies, especially from terrorist organizations.
As for the 1940's—-had Arabs accepted the 1947 UN Partition Resolution, offering two stateless people an opportunity to build two independent nations, Palestinian Arabs would be celebrating 77 years of independent statehood today with pre-1967 lines.
In 1948 Israel chose independence and collective Arab Countries chose war instead, and they lost. They chose war several more times, and they lost. If you risk everything to gain it all, when you lose, you don't get go back to the status quo each time with no consequences.
Israel did accept UNR 181 — and its borders remain the same now as were set in that UN resolution.
Why doesn’t it stay within those borders?
Continuous wars and terrorism changes things. For the first 20 years there was not a single Israeli or Israeli settlement in the West Bank or Gaza when they were occupied by Egypt and Jordan, and yet Israel was a constant target. So it was never about settlements.
Yes, continuous wars and terrorism have changed things.
What continuous wars and terrorism haven’t changed, though, is Israel’s borders.
Wars change borders. In the year 1900 there were only 53 independent nations. Today there are approximately 200, and one of them is the tiny Israel.
The banner of Islam flies over 99.9% of the MENA region. You are just pisssed that it is not 100% — you only have to look at the map.
Continuous wars and terrorism changes things.
The American Indian Holocaust, known as the “500 year war” and the World’s Longest Holocaust In The History Of Mankind.
https://www.dewereldmorgen.be/community/the-american-indian-holocaust-known-as-the-%C2%93500-year-war%C2%94-and-the-world%C2%92s-longest-holocaust-in-the-history-of-mankind/
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I am part Comanche… my ancestor is Quanah Parker
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/parker-quanah
That’s very interesting and also a sad story.
Read the history of Spain in in So. America. In Argentina there were no reservations, they just shot the indigenous peoples.
What people would vote in favor of giving away half of their country to newly arrived immigrants? That's ridiculous.
Israel is the first independent nation on that piece of real estate since the Romans sacked Jerusalem 2000 years ago.
Before Israel, there was a British mandate, not a Palestinian state .
-Before the British Mandate, there was the Ottoman Empire, not a Palestinian state.
-Before the Ottoman Empire, there was the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, not a Palestinian state.
-Before the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, there was the Ayubid Empire, not a Palestinian state.
-Godfrey IV of Boulogne, known as Godfrey de Bouillon, conqueror of Jerusalem in 1099
-Before the Ayubid Empire, there was the Frankish and Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem, not a Palestinian state.
-Before the Kingdom of Jerusalem, there was the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, not a Palestinian state.
-Before the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, there was the Byzantine empire, not a Palestinian state.
-Before the Byzantine Empire, there were the Sassanids, not a Palestinian state.
-Before the Sassanid Empire, there was the Byzantine Empire, not a Palestinian state.
-Before the Byzantine Empire, there was the Roman Empire, not a Palestinian state.
-Before the Roman Empire, there was the Hasmonean state, not a Palestinian state.
-Before the Hasmonean state, there was the Seleucid, not a Palestinian state.
-Before the Seleucid empire, there was the empire of Alexander the Great, not a Palestinian state.
-Before the empire of Alexander the Great, there was the Persian empire, not a Palestinian state.
-Before the Persian Empire, there was the Babylonian Empire, not a Palestinian state.
-Before the Babylonian Empire, there were the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, not a Palestinian state.
-Before the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, there was the Kingdom of Israel, not a Palestinian state.
-Before the kingdom of Israel, there was the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, not a Palestinian state.
Before Zionism, hasbara trolls didn't exist.
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Before a group of Canaanites started concentrating on just the unreasonable angry war/storm god Yahweh, and started picking fights with neighbors who were also just Canaanites, there were just a bunch of Canaanites.
And none of these people adhered to Rabbinical Judaism, a creation dating to when Greek was the local language and Romans owned and ran the place. Where was the Septuagint written? Alexandria. Who paid for and organized it? The Ptolemaic Kingdom, Greeks in Alexandria, Egypt.
If we're going to use theology and history to make multiple thousand year old land claims (!) is it too much to ask they be rooted in any form of reality?
You just listed over a dozen land claims that are stronger than "my very white Polish great-grandfather had a religion that isn't the religion that people we aren't related to organized in a different place."
Before a group of polytheist Canaanites started concentrating on just the unreasonable angry war/storm god Yahweh, and started picking fights with neighbors who were also just Canaanites, there were just a bunch of polytheist Canaanites.
And none of these people adhered to Rabbinical Judaism, a creation dating to when Greek was the local language and Romans owned and ran the place. Where was the Septuagint written? Alexandria. Who paid for and organized it? The Ptolemaic Kingdom, Greeks in Alexandria, Egypt.
If we're going to use theology and history to make multiple thousand year old land claims (!) is it too much to ask they be rooted in any form of reality?
You just listed over a dozen land claims that are stronger than "my very white Polish great-grandfather had a religion that isn't the religion that people we aren't related to organized in a different place."
Who is "we," Kimosabe, your cubicle farm in Bangalore, or is it Tel Aviv?
The only terrorist organization in the Middle East is ISRAEL! Every group that opposes it is labelled "terrorist". It's pretty obvious to those who aren't wearing blinders made in Tel Aviv!
Those who defend Israel are exactly like Holocaust deniers defending Nazis. It ought to be seen as a crime, and it is certainly shameful.
I agree to the point to which I'm tired of the entire internet somehow not classifying genocide apologetics as 'hate speech.' Either hate speech is a concept we're going to have as a social norm on private platforms, or is isn't. I don't need Animal Farm-style "All hate speech is equal but some hate speech is more equal than others."
Well said.
It must be very disconcerting for @peepsqueek:disqus to keep writing the same apology for genocide and no one even pretends to give it any consideration. Another thing I find ironic –before Hamas when the PA was being led into endless negotiations– Secretary of State Rice and the US mediators would berate the PA when they complained about the past. "We don't want to hear about the past. You have to face the facts on the ground. let's talk about the road map going forward." Well Israel is living in the past, can't cope with its surroundings and has no plans for the future –at a dead end you might say.
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Watch for the 'Sampson Option' if things don't go the way Tel Aviv thinks they should.
For the love of humanity, Hamas, please lay down your arms and release all the hostages to end this mess that you initiated on Oct 7th. That offer has been on the table for 19 months.
Statement: 3 December 2023
ICC Prosecutor Karim A. A. Khan KC
"I called for the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages taken by Hamas and other terror organisations. There can be no justification for the holding of any hostages, and in particular the egregious breach of fundamental principles of humanity through the taking and continued holding of children. Hostages cannot be treated as human shields or bargaining chips."
Why won't Israel agree to a five year ceasefire? https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-04-26/ty-article/hamas-reportedly-willing-to-release-all-hostages-at-once-for-five-year-cease-fire-in-gaza/00000196-717b-dc28-a3f6-7bffc74a0000
or why didn't they keep up their end of the ceasefire in place back in January?
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/19/nx-s1-5332204/israel-breaks-ceasefire-as-it-strikes-gaza-killing-hundreds
its because it was never about the hostages; it was always about gaining land for additional settlements https://www.timesofisrael.com/smotrich-says-returning-hostages-not-the-most-important-thing-sparking-fierce-backlash/
"Why won't Israel agree to a five year ceasefire?"–Because that would be a win for Hamas who has to be finished if Israel want to prevent anymore Oct 7's, and Hamas has promised their will be more.
Keep in mind, it was Hamas that invited Israel into Gaza on October 7th. Every last Israeli left out of Gaza in 2005 and it appeased no one, as Hamas rockets began to rain down on Israel within weeks.
If Hamas surrendered and disbanded today, the Israeli regime would get right to work finding a similar replacement to fund and support as a “counterweight” to Fatah, just like they did with Hamas.
Statement of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan KC:
On the basis of evidence collected and examined by my Office, I have reasonable grounds to believe that Benjamin NETANYAHU, the Prime Minister of Israel, and Yoav GALLANT, the Minister of Defence of Israel, bear criminal responsibility for the following war crimes and crimes against humanity committed on the territory of the State of Palestine (in the Gaza strip) from at least 8 October 2023:
* Starvation of civilians as a method of warfare as a war crime contrary to article 8(2)(b)(xxv) of the Statute;
* Wilfully causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or health contrary to article 8(2)(a)(iii), or cruel treatment as a war crime contrary to article 8(2)(c)(i);
* Wilful killing contrary to article 8(2)(a)(i), or Murder as a war crime contrary to article 8(2)(c)(i);
* Intentionally directing attacks against a civilian population as a war crime contrary to articles 8(2)(b)(i), or 8(2)(e)(i);
* Extermination and/or murder contrary to articles 7(1)(b) and 7(1)(a), including in the context of deaths caused by starvation, as a crime against humanity;
* Persecution as a crime against humanity contrary to article 7(1)(h);
* Other inhumane acts as crimes against humanity contrary to article 7(1)(k).
Read more here: https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/statement-icc-prosecutor-karim-aa-khan-kc-applications-arrest-warrants-situation-state
"For the love of humanity, Hamas, please lay down yo-"
I'd listen to him if I were you, Hamas – otherwise, 'lover-of-humanity' piss stain here will have no choice but to start pulling the plugs on these here Gazan premie incubators…
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Hamas is not mass murdering Israelis. (they didn't on October 7 either!). Israel IS mass murdering people. Nothing will change FOR THE BETTER unless Israel is held accountable for its actions!
Statement: 3 December 2023
ICC Prosecutor Karim A. A. Khan KC
"I called for the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages taken by Hamas and other terror organisations. There can be no justification for the holding of any hostages, and in particular the egregious breach of fundamental principles of humanity through the taking and continued holding of children. Hostages cannot be treated as human shields or bargaining chips."
Many men, women and children have already laid down their arms, legs, heads and torsos. If they really did stop fighting, there's no doubt IDF would shoot them all.
This is like Israel taking the US' nose and rubbing it in dog shit. How dare you to tell us to allow aid in. And the genocide doesn't even skip a beat. So, day 81 of no aid.
Trump knew and didn’t gaf. After dropsite news talked to Hamas and how Trump broke the deal, it demonstrated that that the US does not negotiate in good faith.
So they put lipstick on a dead pig.
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International outrage, pressure and even threats of sanctions are growing as Israel’s barbaric starvation of Gaza imminently threatens the lives of thousands of children, according to UN aid officials.
But will words finally turn into action as Israel accelerates its massacres?
In Jabaliya, Beit Lahiya and Gaza City in northern Gaza, Israeli airstrikes killed more than 200 Palestinians in a 48-hour period between Friday and Saturday, amid renewed forced displacements of hundreds of thousands of people across the territory.
Yet while some Western governments finally seem to be reflecting – at least rhetorically – the horror and outrage of their own people, they have not let up in their repression of protest against Israel’s genocide.
On The Electronic Intifada Livestream for 22 May, we will talk to Frank Magennis, a barrister with Garden Court Chambers and a member of the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers. His work focuses on challenging rights breaches by the British and other states.
Meanwhile, on Saturday – the annual commemoration of the genocidal famine in Ireland – huge numbers of people rallied in Dublin and across the country in a national march for Palestine.
There are daily actions in dozens of cities and towns across Ireland amid a renewed popular push for the government in Dublin to finally enact the Occupied Territories Bill banning trade with Israeli settlements.
We will be joined from Dublin by Ali Abunimah and a special guest.
Today’s show will be co-hosted by Nora Barrows-Friedman and Asa Winstanley and will start with Nora’s news brief.
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Try to imagine living in a US state whose government was openly pursuing the murder of a million children at some camp where those children and their parents live, where that state is conducting daily bombing and other violent raids on those very same people.
Would you want to continue to reside in such a state? The Israelis most certainly seem to have no such problem.