Thread mastodor sur le nettoyage ethnique de Gaza par le pouvoir israëlien, par
Erin Conroy @chargrille@progressives.social
Politely (or impolitely) calling my senators and representatives & supposedly anti-fascist president to tell them, repeatedly, to stop backing a corrupt autocrat while he murders hundreds of children every week & conducts a genocide out in the open, & stop giving him tens of billions of $ in weapons to keep at it, makes me fucking miserable and depressed, how about you.
▻https://progressives.social/@pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green/111554226704377285
Black and white photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt holding up a large printed out sheet of the Declaration of Human Rights. She is holding it to her left side, looking on it herself, face in profile. Taken on 10th December 1948 
Either “bear hug diplomacy” is a lie, or else he tried but is so weak he has zero effective power to stop Netanyahu’s ethnic cleansing, or else he wants Netanyahu to starve 2.3 million people to death and bomb the most densely populated place on earth until it is unlivable.
If this is what “self-defense” looks like then I am against self-defense.
George Zimmerman was not supposed to be a role model for anybody.
“Israel’s military is pushing ahead with its punishing air & ground offensive in Gaza, bolstered by a US veto derailing UN Security Council efforts to end the war.
Another boost came Saturday with word that Washington had approved an emergency sale of $106 million worth of tank ammunition.
Unable to leave tiny Gaza, more than 2 million Palestinians faced more bombardment, even in areas that Israel had described as safe zones.”
IDF’s “rounding up” all Palestinian men
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR_C5kh8CDs
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Israel presses on with its Gaza offensive after US veto derails Security Council efforts to halt war
Israel’s military is pushing ahead with its punishing air and ground offensive in Gaza, bolstered by a U.S. veto derailing U.N. Security Council efforts to e.. . My mental state is of course not the point. The point is all the people that Netanyahu is murdering with our support, despite the fact that 75% of Democratic voters want a permanent cease fire, and 61% of the entire US public wants a permanent #ceasefire.
Yet the Biden Admin just vetoed the UN Security Council effort to achieve such a ceasefire.
Today, the fascists governing Israel are now “rounding up” [cattle term] all Palestinian men in Gaza. Will the West Bank be next?
“Biden administration has opposed an open-ended cease-fire...State Department bypassed Congress...to sell Israel nearly 14,000 rounds of tank ammunition worth over $106m”
“Several men & a teenage boy told the AP Saturday they were beaten by Israeli troops, given only minimal water, & often prevented from using the bathroom while being detained & interrogated for five days. [Photos of] men stripped down to their underwear...hands tied behind their backs in Gazan streets”
▻https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/israel-hamas/2023/12/09/israel-hamas-war-updates/71862557007
The Biden administration has opposed an open-ended cease-fire, arguing it would allow Hamas to continue its fight against Israel. The State Department bypassed Congress under emergency provisions to sell Israel nearly 14,000 rounds of tank ammunition worth over $106 million. Image: Smoke rises following an Israeli bombardment in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel. December 8, 2023.
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Updated 5:49 AM PST, Dec 9, 2023
“The United States vetoed a United Nations resolution Friday backed by almost all other Security Council members & dozens of other nations demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza.
The vote in the 15-member council was 13-1, with the United Kingdom abstaining. The United States’ isolated stand reflected a growing fracture between Washington & some of its closest allies over Israel’s monthslong bombardment of Gaza”
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US blocks UN resolution demanding humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza
Par EDITH M. LEDERER
►https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-un-resolution-ceasefire-humanitarian-6d3bfd31d6c25168e82
Reporters raise their hands to ask questions as Foreign Ministers, from left, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs Riyad al-Maliki, Qatari Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan, Jordan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Ayman Safadi, and Egyptian Foreign Affairs Minister Sameh Shoukry, attend a news conference about the Israel-Hamas war, and pressure to reduce civilian casualties, Friday, Dec. 8, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
“France and Japan were among those supporting the call for a cease-fire.
In a vain effort to press the Biden administration to drop its opposition to calling for a halt to the fighting, the foreign ministers of Egypt, Jordan, the Palestinian Authority, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey were all in Washington on Friday. But their meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken took place only after the U.N. vote.”
US’s “deputy ambassador Robert Wood [complained the resolution] would allow Hamas to continue to rule Gaza...
“Hamas has no desire to see a durable peace, to see a two-state solution,” Wood said”
Netanyahu to Likud 3/2019:
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a #Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas & transferring money to #Hamas. This is part of our strategy - to isolate the Palestinians in #Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.”
►https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-un-resolution-ceasefire-humanitarian-6d3bfd31d6c25168e82
@chargrille@progressives.social to @w7/voa on here, Oct 21, 2023 18:15: “Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a #Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to #Hamas,” #Netanyahu told a meeting of his #Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy - to isolate the Palestinians in #Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.” Link to the Nation article: “We Must Not Let the Truth Become a Casualty...”
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"The council called the emergency meeting to hear from Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who for the first time invoked Article 99...which enables a U.N. chief to raise threats he sees to international peace & security. He warned of an “humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza & urged the council to demand a humanitarian cease-fire.
Guterres said he raised Article 99 [for the 1st time since 1971] because “there is a high risk of the total collapse of the humanitarian support system in Gaza.”
UN Secretary-General said Gaza is at “a breaking point,” & pointed to desperate risk of mass starvation; defense “can never justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.”
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"intense, widespread & ongoing Israeli attacks from air, land & sea...have hit 339 education facilities, 26 hospitals, 56 health care facilities, 88 mosques & 3 churches...“nowhere in Gaza is safe,” Guterres said
Israeli has destroyed or damaged 60% of Gaza’s housing & forced 85% of Gazans into homelessness.
"Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian U.N. ambassador, told the council that Israel’s objective is “the ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip” & “the dispossession & forcible displacement of the Palestinian people.”
Anyway the Biden Admin had the power to abstain from this vote instead of vetoing it.
It also did not have to rush more weapons to Netanyahu in the midst of the IDF rounding up Palestinians, stripping them to their underwear, & forcing them to kneel in the streets of Gaza.
Biden’s use of emergency powers to avoid Congressional review in order to send Israel more tank rounds “directly contradicts a promise Blinken made to Congress during his confirmation hearing": i.e., that after Trump used the same maneuver to supply Saudi massacres in Yemen, US would “come back to regular order” wrt human rights in arms deals
Also: John Hudson: “NEW: U.S. officials concede that the United States is not conducting real-time assessments of Israel’s adherence to the laws of war”
Haaretz.com & @haaretzcom “Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy" Photo of Netanyahu and other men in control in Israel.
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Stephen Semler @stephensemler Trump used this emergency authority to enable Saudi war crimes in Yemen. Now Biden’s using the same one to fuel Israeli war crimes in Gaza. During his confirmation hearing, said arms sales would “come back to regular order” re human rights. He was lying. [Text in image: December 9, 2023 5:09 PM UTC US skips congressional review to approve emergency sale of tank shells to Israel By Humeyra Pamuk, Mike Stone] 10:52 AM - Dec 9, 2023 - 5,728 Views
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Akbar Shahid Ahmed @AkbarSAhmed - 12h Former State official Josh Paul says the last 24 hours should spark more alarm about the US’s Gaza policy. Between the UN veto & sped-up arms transfers, he says it’s time for “serious consideration” of whether Washington’s stated desire to reduce civilian casualties is “sincere.” Akbar Shahid Ahmed @AkbarSAhmed - 12h Paul says Biden’s decision to use emergency powers to send Israel more tank rounds “directly contradicts a promise Blinken made to Congress during his confirmation hearing.” Blinken told senators the US would “come back to regular order” w/ arms deals given human rights concerns. Shahid Ahmed @AkbarSAhmed In October, I broke the news that Paul quit State after > 11 years overseeing arms deals, including hugely controversial ones, like sales to Saudi Arabia amid the Yemen war. He told me then he left because Biden wouldn’t allow any real debate re: Israel. [photo of Biden & Netanyahu surrounded by US & Israeli flags]
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J ohn Hudson @John Hudson - 6n NEW: U.S. officials concede that the United States is not conducting real-time assessments of Israel’s adherence to the laws of war & John Hudson @John_Hudson - 6h Despite that, the United States has flooded Israel with weapons since Oct. 7, transferring at least 15k bombs, including 2k pound bunker buster bombs. John Hudson @John_Hudson - 6h In the first month and a half, Israel dropped more than 22,000 guided and unguided bombs on Gaza that were supplied by Washington, according to previously undisclosed U.S. intelligence John Hudson @John_Hudson Read more in our report here, with @missy ryan @michaelbirnbaum @ahauslohner: Link to washingtonpost.com 3:54 PM - Dec 9, 2023 from Washington, DC - 24.5K Views
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While doing no checks for compliance with Netanyahu-led coalition’s adherence to the laws of war, “the US has flooded Israel with weapons since Oct. 7, transferring at least 15k bombs, including 2k pound bunker buster bombs”
Worse, HuffPo reporter says “US officials told me they worry Israel is taking arms to attack Lebanon & Israel won’t share its plans for the weapons”
Israel won’t share its plans for the weapons including whether they will use them in Lebanon
The Biden Administration’s decisions over the last 24 hours or so are extremely alarming.
"Former State official Josh Paul says the last 24 hours should spark more alarm about the US’s Gaza policy. Between the UN veto & sped-up arms transfers, he says it’s time for “serious consideration” of whether Washington’s stated desire to reduce civilian casualties is “sincere.”
No one talks enough about Netanyahu cabinet’s intent to starve 2.3 million Gazans to death.
“The hunger war has started.” A bag of flour goes for $120 in Gaza...Thousands of people pounce on aid trucks when they arrive; crowds ransacked a warehouse where food had piled up before distribution."
“Almost no one in #Gaza has enough food. In some areas, 9 out of 10 people have gone a full day & night with nothing to eat” (@WFP_Media)
Read the Gaza Food security report here👉
▻https://www.wfp.org/publications/gaza-food-security-assessment-december-2023
@ Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom - Dec 8 “The hunger war has started.” A bag of flour goes for $120 in Gaza. There’s a black market for sugar. Forget about eggs. Thousands of people pounce on aid trucks when they arrive; crowds ransacked a warehouse where food had piled up before distribution. [link to ] ©WFPMedia reply: The latest #Gaza Food Security Assessment is out. The results are alarming. Almost no one in #Gaza has enough food. In some areas, 9 out of 10 people have gone a full day and night with nothing to eat. Read the Gaza Food security report here - bit.ly/3NbsB3V 12:06 AM - Dec 9, 2023 - 18.4K Views
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“The suffering is really apocalyptic,” said Khaled Abu Shaban, 38, an aid worker near Khan Younis. Israel’s intensive shelling has forced agonizing choices...Should he venture out to the supermarket or search for well water, at risk of being killed? Or should he let his young daughters go to sleep hungry & thirsty?"
His 7-year-old cheered Wednesday, he said, when he brought home a tomato..."we are searching for water & anything that we can chew in the 21st century”
►https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-war-southern-gaza-humanitarian-conditions-4da8410ab2e849
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The roads are so ravaged that the dead and wounded arrive by donkey cart. Desperate relatives rush bloodied and dust-covered people, many of them children, to the hospital. Naseem Hassan, a 48-year-old Palestinian medic in the Gaza Strip’s southern town of Khan Younis, said it had become impossible to walk through Nasser Hospital, with people spread out everywhere. Some patients, terrified or semiconscious, tugged at his sleeve when he squeezed through the halls. They groaned, slept and died on those bloodstained floors, he said. His skeletal staff at the 350-bed hospital has struggled to cope with an influx of over 1,000 patients. Without fresh bandages and gauze, Doctors Without Borders said, patients’ wounds have become seriously infected, in many cases septic.
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That 7 yo is going to starve to death if we let the Israeli government do whatever it wants. We need a #Ceasefire.
“There is hunger, there is nothing: There is no flour, no water,” said Etimad Hassan, who sleeps pressed together with 21 family members in a small tent in Deir al-Balah. Her voice trembled with rage. “We are not animals.”
"Without cooking gas, Palestinians chop down whatever trees they find for firewood.
"Adding to the misery, there is little to no treatment available for the 14% of Gaza’s population suffering from diabetes, high blood pressure & other chronic heart conditions, said the [WHO].
“Asthmatics do not find inhalers. Diabetics do not find insulin,” said Ebraheem Matar, a doctor at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah. “Hypertensive patients do not find receptor blockers.”
“Hassan said her husband abruptly stopped taking his blood pressure medication when he ran out, a withdrawal doctors warned would increase his risk of heart attack. “I’m worried it will kill him,” she said.
Junaid said he spends his days begging for food in the streets & scouring pharmacies & health clinics for any anti-inflammatory medication to blunt his throbbing headaches. He checked five pharmacies Thursday & returned home empty-handed.”
“Tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza, many of whom already fled fighting two or three times, have set off for the southern city of Rafah on the Egyptian border. The Israeli military air-dropped fliers and called and texted evacuation warnings to thousands of civilians across Khan Younis while pressing deeper into the city.
Misery spans the horizon in the southern border town. Thousands of people sleep in the cold outside. Others crowd together wherever they find space.”
“You find displaced [families] in the streets, in schools, in mosques, in hospitals,” said Hamza Abu Mustafa, a schoolteacher in Rafah"
“Chaotic scenes of sickness & filth unfold at the UN shelters in Rafah, bursting at the seams. The UN humanitarian office said Wednesday that poor sanitation has led to rampant cases of scabies, lice & diarrhea, raising fears that more serious diseases may soon spread. Aid workers have reported outbreaks of the liver disease hepatitis A”
►https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-war-southern-gaza-humanitarian-conditions-4da8410ab2e849
