This morning, Israel dropped 122 bombs in 25 minutes in a residential neighbourhood in Gaza city.
In my book, if you say: "Using torture is fine, because we're fighting terrorists." "Killing civilians and journalists is acceptable, bcause we're fighting terrorists." "Bombing schools, hospitals and press offices is OK, because we're fighting terrorists." You certainly make a pretty good terrorist.
"What would you do if thousands [hundreds, actually] of rockets had been fired at you state?" asks Israel's ambassador at the United Nations assembly. Well, for starters: 1. End the violent occupation of their country. 2. Stop stealing their homes and their land. 3. Lift the blockade of their coastline
The latest raids came as Palestinian groups launched more rockets
towards cities in southern Israel. There were no immediate reports of injuries.
Earlier, Israeli forces shot dead four other Palestinians and
wounded scores more during protests and a historic general strike in the
occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
The strike was called in support of Palestinians under Israeli bombardment in Gaza.
At least 227 Palestinians, including 64 children (among these, 11 were receiving psychosocial care from the Norwegian Refugee Council to help them deal with trauma from Israeli previous bombings),have been killed in Gaza since the latest violence flared on May 10. About 1,600 Palestinians have been seriously injured.
Twelve people in Israel have died, including two children and soldiers, while around 300 Israelis have been wounded.
Despite the escalating violence – now in its tenth day – diplomatic efforts for a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers have failed to make much headway. The United States continued to block the UN Security Council from issuing a joint statement urging an end to the hostilities, telling diplomats that a public statement would not help calm the tensions.France, however, said it was working with Israel’s neighbours, Egypt and Jordan, on a new ceasefire resolution. China said it was “supportive” of the French proposal.
A fourth journalist was killed in Israel’s continuing raids on Gaza Strip. Yusef Abu Hussein worked at the radio station, al-Aqsa Voice.
Meanwhile, more than 250 Google employees have signed an internal letter calling on the company to support Palestinians and protect anti-Zionist speech. It's part of a new employee resource group that formed in response to the cencorship towards pro-palestinians narrative. Union members were involved in drafting this petition, which calls on Google to condemn these attacks, fund Palestinian relief organizations and investigate any contracts "taht support Israeli violations of Palestinian rights."
«When a rubber bullet pierces the eye of a child in occupied East
Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood and when a woman is doused in “skunk
water”, a cocktail of chemicals that smell like rotten eggs and sewerage, these
are clear acts of violence and dehumanisation targeting Palestinians. But the
oppression Palestinians suffer at the hands of Israel is not limited to such
attacks.
There are multiple structures of exclusion and discrimination that
govern Palestinian lives and that – like the violence unleashed upon them daily
– affect their health and wellbeing. They all necessitate a humanitarian
response from organisations like Doctors Without Borders (Médecins sans
Frontieres, or MSF).
However, when MSF patches up a wound, treats a COVID-19 patient, provides
mental healthcare, or receives trauma patients in an emergency room, we are not
treating patients in a political vacuum. We are treating the consequences of settler
colonialism and apartheid, for which we have no medical cure.
Settler colonialism, which has led to the forced displacement of
Palestinians and the rapid expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank,
occurs in the context of the longest-running military occupation in history,
now more than 70 years long. Settler colonialism includes the transfer of the
occupying power’s citizens into the territory it occupies. This has been going
on in Palestine since 1948 and the dispossession of Palestinians from their
land in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood is the latest example of this continuing
process.
Palestinians are forcibly displaced and isolated in enclaves where they are
governed by rules that ensure their continuous dispossession and subjugation.
The oppressive rules that govern Palestinian lives do not apply to the settlers
who live on the hills above them, or in the confiscated houses next to them.
This is apartheid in real time.
Humanitarian organisations like MSF have difficulties addressing the root
causes of humanitarian crises. We are an emergency organisation, the ambulance
of NGOs. This makes us ill-suited to treat the socioeconomic and political
conditions designed to enrich a ruling class. But it is from this ambulance
that we see how settler colonialism and apartheid affect the health of our
patients and necessitate our work.
An MSF
clinic in Gaza was damaged in an Israeli air raid on May 15 [Courtesy of MSF]For example, only a few months ago, MSF
medical teams witnessed how the population of Israel were vaccinated while
Palestinians living in the occupied territories were purposefully excluded.
Every day, our patients’ access to healthcare is impeded by checkpoints,
barriers, permit requirements, discrimination, economic collapse and the
devastation caused by a forever occupation.
Until today, our humanitarian action is not needed in Israel because even
when rockets are fired on civilian areas, people have access to healthcare
and protection from their state.
The crime of apartheid is defined as “inhuman acts committed for the
purpose of establishing and maintaining domination by one racial group of
persons over any other racial group of persons and systematically oppressing
them”. Israel today is, by design, either the sole governing power or exerts
primary control over Palestinians from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea;
its policies towards the Palestinian people undeniably constitute apartheid.
Israeli apartheid policies have dispossessed, besieged, killed, maimed,
jailed and orphaned Palestinians, with the unwavering support of some Western
governments.
They forbid Palestinians from travelling on “Israeli only” roads and
restrict them from crossing certain checkpoints without proper permits. They
routinely result in the detention of children and torture of prisoners. They
enable the forced removal of Palestinians from their homes. They protect armed
Israeli settlers and enable the use of indiscriminate violence on Palestinians.
This reality has been denounced by Palestinians and acknowledged by civil
society groups, jurists, human rights organisations
and countless others. It is disputed only by the perpetrators
and their backers.
Over the past week, bombs have continued to fall on Gaza, killing some 198
people, including multiple family members of MSF staff. An MSF clinic has been
damaged and ambulances are barely able to pass the bomb craters in the road
leading up the main al-Shifa Hospital. Elsewhere across Palestine, protesters
continue to be mobbed, beaten and shot at with rubber bullets.
MSF will continue treating the wounds of this violence, but the
cure for Palestinian suffering will only come with the end of settler
colonialism and apartheid. »
Written by two MSF officials in the Middle East : Jehan Bseiso and Jonathan Whittal.
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Gaza Fights for Freedom
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