Palestine

from The Intercept [may have paywall]
Jonah Valdez, Jessica Washington
March 21 2025, 5:34 p.m.

Jonah Valdez, Akela Lacy
March 20 2025, 1:46 p.m.

Daniel Estrin, Daniel Wood, Abu Bakr Bashir, Anas Baba, Ahmad Abuhamda, Mahmoud Rehan, Connie Hanzhang Jin

March 24, 2025

"An Israeli strike on a Gaza apartment building killed 132 members of one family in October 2024. It was one of the deadliest Israeli strikes of the Israel-Hamas war. The few survivors documented the dead."

Meghnad Bose
Mar 23, 2025

So I watched 'No Other Land' last night. I didn't see anything new in it necessarily, but it's a brilliant documentary that everybody should watch.

I feel so sad, so disgustingly deceived, so sick of all the propaganda around me.

How/where do you find hope?

Saturday, April 5 1pm in Washington DC
The coalition includes Palestinian Youth Movement, Jewish Voice for Peace, and others

"For over 16 months, Gaza has endured a brutal, ongoing genocide carried out by Israel with the full backing and support of the US government. Israel continued to violate the terms of the ceasefire reached on January 19th, breaking it over 980 times, and culminating in a complete blockade of the Gaza strip which began on March 1st and a return to all out war on March 17th. In the past week alone Israel has intensified the bombing of Gaza, began a ground invasion and killed over 500 Palestinians within 48 hours.

The movement against genocide in North America has risen time and time again in support of Gaza and will not rest now. The Trump administration, building on the tactics of the Biden administration, is now increasing its attempts to silence pro-Palestine, anti-genocide voices. "

On Tuesday night, in the Qarara area east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, brothers Muhammad and Ibrahim Hamidi decided to take their children and flee to a less dangerous location east of the city. The sound of heavy gunfire from tanks stationed near their home after a brutal night of nonstop shelling and bombardment pushed them to head toward the Mawasi area of Khan Younis, the same coastal stretch of land that had served as a so-called “safe zone” throughout the war.

The brothers arrived and set up their tents. In the middle of the night, Muhammad heard the sound of bombing. He emerged from his tent, hundreds of meters away from his brother Ibrahim’s. He was rushing toward the sound of the bombs to help people who had been hit — a common sight in Gaza — but he didn’t expect that the bombed tent would belong to his brother.

“I ran out, thinking the bombing might have targeted a family we know. When I arrived, I found my brother lying on the ground, covered in blood, and his wife holding their child, both of them on fire,” Muhammad Hamidi told Mondoweiss. “My nephew was lying on the ground, injured in his head and back, and looking at his mother. She was engulfed in flames with his younger baby brother. Then my nephew turned his head toward his father, who was bleeding after the missile struck his head.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/27452900

By Matt Shuham
Mar 19, 2025, 05:28 PM EDT

"Hundreds of Jewish professors, scholars and students have signed a letter condemning the Trump administration for canceling $400 million in federal funding to Columbia University and threatening other universities."

For the past two years, Israel has relentlessly bombed U.N. schools and critical hospitals across the Gaza Strip. Scratch that. For the last seventy years, Israel has bombed schools, hospitals, mosques and public facilities claiming that Palestinians are immoral for hiding arms and fighters in such places.

“Israel’s claims and condemnations are justified. Even terror organisations should obey the basic rules of right and wrong” wrote an Israeli journalist for Haaretz in 2011.

But were Israel’s terror groups (or militias, as the West prefers to call them) bound to the same rules? A declassified CIA report from 1948 learns that Irgun, Lehi, and Haganah (which went on to form the Israeli government & IDF), hid their illegal arms and bombs in schools, synagogues, and hospitals.

Every accusation is a confession. So I began an investigation of my own, taking tips from declassified Mi5 and CIA documents to demonstrate how Zionist / Israeli terror groups used the same tactics they accuse Hamas of today.

Fourteen Palestinians were killed and approximately 30 others were injured on Wednesday evening in an Israeli drone attack targeting a funeral tent in Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip.

Israel Violated the Gaza Ceasefire from the Start. Why Won’t the Media Tell You That? (The Intercept, 2025-03-19)

https://theintercept.com/2025/03/19/israel-gaza-ceasefire-hamas/
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“Some explained Israel’s deadly airstrikes [on Tuesday] as a natural result of ‘fruitless negotiations’ with Hamas... “

“Crucially missing from such coverage… is the fact that leading up to Tuesday’s attacks, Israel had repeatedly violated terms of the ceasefire deal it agreed to in January. With support from the Trump administration, Israel refused to withdraw its soldiers from Gaza, ... It continued its military operations and bombings, and it blocked humanitarian aid and electricity from entering the territory where more than 2 million Palestinians live...”

“This is a constant pattern in the U.S. media where it’s almost as a matter of sacred belief that the Israelis can never be responsible for a breakdown of peace or negotiations…”

#USPol #MediaBias #AmnestyInternational
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/27427179

from #TheForward #Forward
[#Jewish publication from #USA]

By Olivia Haynie March 18, 2025

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/27426620

Archit and Murtaza Hussain Mar 19

"Suri's arrest comes after an exceptionally public media campaign targeting his wife, Mapheze Saleh, by pro-Israel groups. Saleh, a U.S. citizen of Palestinian background, is the daughter of Ahmed Yousef, a former political advisor to the Hamas-led government in the Gaza Strip, after the group gained control there in 2006. Yousef has been a writer and commentator on Hamas in recent years for major Western media publications, including the New York Times and The Guardian."

As horrifying images and accounts of maimed children and grieving mothers circulate online, media outlets in the U.S. spent the day trying to make sense of one of the most brutal single-day bombings of Israel’s war on Palestinians in Gaza.

Some explained Israel’s deadly airstrikes as a natural result of “fruitless negotiations” with Hamas, or as a bargaining tactic to “increase pressure on Hamas.” Other outlets simply repeated, without question or skepticism, Israeli and U.S. government claims that blame Hamas for the strikes

The first phase of the ceasefire, which took effect on January 19, included an exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners. But in that span, Israel continued military operations in Gaza, killing more than 150 Palestinians, including in a bombing that took the lives of journalists and aid workers. And at the start of the second phase on March 2, Israel continued to violate the agreement, refusing to withdraw its soldiers from the Philadelphi Corridor, a crucial crossing point between Gaza and Egypt.

Instead, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went back on the deal and presented Hamas with an alternate plan: the continued military occupation of the territory, the continued release of hostages, and setting aside talks toward a permanent ceasefire.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that a wave of air strikes on Gaza is "only the beginning" of a military campaign against Hamas.

The strikes, which killed at least 404 Palestinians and wounded over 560 others, have shattered a fragile ceasefire that began on January 19. Netanyahu stated that future ceasefire negotiations will "only take place under fire" and that Israel will continue to fight to achieve its goals of releasing hostages, eliminating Hamas, and ensuring Gaza no longer poses a threat to Israel. The conflict has been ongoing, with talks on a second stage of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal stalled due to Israel's insistence on extending the first phase until mid-April.

Abubaker Abed and Jeremy Scahill Mar 18, 2025

[based on eyewitness coverage]

By Jake Johnson Mar 18, 2025

Updated March 18, 20255:03 AM ET By Anas Baba, Daniel Estrin, Kat Lonsdorf