Gaza
- Bomb Gaza into rubble
- Continue the violence and land theft in the West Bank
So, to summarize, the State Department does not care and will not be bothered with our complicity in war crimes.
Got it.
U.S. State Department Pressed On Hind Rajab’s Killing For Four Months Straight - YouTube
For four months, Prem Thakker of The Intercept has pressed the U.S. on the killing of Hind Rajab, her family, and the paramedics sent to save her. Over and over, the U.S. has said it is waiting for Israel to investigate itself. Independent investigation from Forensic Architecture finds it “not plausible” that Israeli forces did not see who they shot 335 bullets at. Read the full story...
“What I do have expertise in and what I do have authority to do is make assessments of criminal conduct. And we’ve done that in relation to the recent events and you can see that in the report. And the only conclusion you can draw is that the Israeli army is one of the most criminal armies in the world.”
There's a lot of confusion and contradiction in the recent back and forth between Netanyahu and Blinken on restrictions of weapons shipments to Israel. Biden has denied that he is withholding weapons and, in fact, is pushing against some in his own party:
Biden has pressed forward with aid despite opposition from within his own Democratic party, where progressives have accused Israel of committing genocide in a war that has now killed more than 37,000 Palestinians.
Meanwhile as US claims that Israel supports the ceasefire deal that is being negotiated Netanyahu pledges to “finish the job”.
Israel's plan:
So, the complete removal of all Palestinians. Genocide.
Israel Plots West Bank Settlement Expansion as More States Recognize Palestine | Truthout
The announcement comes amid an unprecedented wave of settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.
Top Israeli officials on Sunday discussed plans to expand illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank as an act of retaliation against countries that recently joined the majority of the international community in recognizing Palestinian statehood.
50,000 Children in Gaza Need to Be Treated for Acute Malnutrition, UNRWA Says | Truthout
Israel’s near-total blockade of humanitarian aid has pushed tens of thousands of children in Gaza to the point of requiring medical treatment for starvation and malnutrition, the UN reported on Saturday.
According to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), there are currently over 50,000 children in Gaza who need to be treated for acute malnutrition — or nearly a tenth of Gaza’s population of children.
It's getting much worse and will keep getting worse.
A war on children.
UNICEF Decries Israel's "War on Children" as Starvation & Deaths Mount in Gaza - YouTube UNICEF spokesperson James Elder in Rafah:
"The physical and psychological exhaustion they face is almost impossible to capture," he says, characterizing Israel's offensive as "a war on children."
Despite huge PR push, is US plan for Gaza doomed to fail? | The Bottom Line - YouTube
How “permanent” is the US/Israeli plan for a “permanent ceasefire” in Gaza? The intentional vagueness of the proposal to bring a “sustainable period of calm” to the Gaza Strip is the biggest obstacle preventing a deal, argues Michael Hanna of the International Crisis Group.
UN: Israel-caused Famine to encompass all Gaza by July, killing as many as 19,800 a Month
A new joint report from the Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Food Program warns that even as North Gaza is now facing famine, “it is highly likely that the rest of the Gaza Strip would be facing a risk of famine through July 2024, in a worst-case scenario.”
..."the situation in Gaza is alarming: the ongoing conflict has significantly worsened child malnutrition from a Global Acute Malnutrition rate of 0.8% to 16% in northern Gaza and 7% in the rest of Gaza.”
After Israel’s massacre in Nuseirat … when will the world see us? | Al Jazeera
Around 11am, I was eating breakfast with my children before heading to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital to work on my stories when everything suddenly turned upside down.
Went to bed disgusted with this nation. Woke up disgusted with this nation. I'll keep saying it over and over because I can't turn away, won't pretend it's not happening. Supporting war criminals makes us war criminals.
The Electronic Intifada reports that hundreds of Palestinians were massacred in "rescue" operation lauded by US.
270+ dead, 400+ wounded. This just 2 days after Israel bombed a UN school in the refugee camp killing at least 33.
As of 5 June, the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza had recorded more than 36,500 fatalities and 83,000 injuries since 7 October.
Another day of US/Israel war crimes and protests.
Reportback from massive "We are your red line" protest for Palestine in Washington DC
The 8th of June was a horrific day in Gaza, as an IOF raid that retrieved only four hostages killed at least 210 Palestinians and wounded over 400 more. Many were seen with limbs blown off by Israel’s bombs.
On this same day, tens of thousands (possibly 100,000) furious protesters descended on Washington DC for a protest organized just weeks earlier to pressure Biden’s administration to half the flow of deadly weapons to Netanyahu’s murderous regime in Israel.
Today's news: Netanyahu will be addressing Congress in July
Yesterday's news: “Apocalyptic”: 40 Killed in Israeli Airstrike on U.N. School Sheltering Displaced Palestinians in Gaza | Democracy Now!
The US and Israel: Partners in war crimes, genocide and violent settler colonialism.
An Israeli airstrike on a U.N. school in central Gaza has killed at least 40 people, including 14 children, according to local authorities. Nearly 80 Palestinians were also wounded in Thursday’s predawn strike that hit the al-Sardi School run by UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees.
Finally, more reporting on famine in Northern Gaza. As expected, it's very grim.
Starvation already causing many deaths and lasting harm in Gaza | The Guardian
The US-based famine early warning system network (Fews Net) said it was “possible, if not likely” that famine began in northern Gaza in April. Two UN organisations said more than 1 million people were “expected to face death and starvation” by mid-July...
“...people are dying of hunger-related causes across Gaza. Acute malnutrition among children is extremely high and this will result in irreversible physiological impacts."
Hamas wants a permanent ceasefire, Netanyahu and the Israeli government do not. Their goal is the elimination of Hamas. According to a Pew poll conducted March and April, released last week, 76% of Jewish Israeli society believes that Israel will achieve its war aims.
Vox reports on what happens if Gaza ceasefire talks fail:
Israel is continuing its assault on Rafah as well as its ground and air operations in other parts of Gaza.. Unless the war ends soon and humanitarian aid can enter Gaza, many more Palestinians — not just the 3,500 projected in the analysis — will die this summer.
“I would like them to stop gaslighting and speak truthfully about what is happening,” says Smith, who says USAID must do more than acknowledge famine is happening in Gaza. “We need to take the next step of saying it is illegal and who is doing the starvation intentionally.” Smith condemns the Biden administration for silencing U.S. experts while supporting Israel, which claims there is no famine in Gaza.
Biden is Alone Amid Global Demand for Gaza Ceasefire | Democracy Now!
It seems the Biden administration has no “red line” that would force him to halt arms shipments to Israel, nor take any other significant punitive action to align the US government with almost every other nation on earth.
ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan included in his Gaza war crimes petition that he “will not hesitate to submit further applications for warrants of arrest.” President Biden and his enablers have the power to end Israel’s war on Gaza and the slaughter of civilians there. Their decision not to is criminal.
There is no red line for Biden.
Mehdi Hasan on the lack of condemnation of Israel’s deadly airstrikes in Rafah.
We live in a world where non-existent images of imaginary beheaded Israeli children can help launch a genocidal war, but actual images of real-life beheaded Palestinian children don’t force the entire world to bring an immediate halt to that war.
A decapitated toddler, a massacre of Palestinians in tents, and a complete rejection of an order from the top U.N. court demanding Israel halt its operations in Rafah – none of it led to the U.S. saying much at all.
Thousands in the streets of London rally for Gaza - YouTube
“I don’t understand how everyone isn’t here right now in the streets demanding that this ends.” Thousands of Londoners took part in Tuesday’s protest to voice their condemnation of Israel’s war on Gaza and the complicity of western countries following two deadly Israeli strikes on camps for displaced Palestinians in and near Rafah. A Palestinian official said an Israeli strike on a camp west of Rafah killed at least 21 people after a similar strike on Sunday killed 45, sparking global outrage.
America: Founded in genocide and violent settler colonialism. And in 2024, Americans refuse to see who we are. We’re still the same.
Burning the Indigenous Population up in their Tents is an old Colonial Technique of Genocide
Burning the tents of the indigenous population has a long history in colonialism. When the Dutch ruled “New Amsterdam,” the capital of the New Netherlands, they brought in more and more settlers who were hungry for land and wanted to displace the Mohawks and Mohicans, who did not take kindly to being pushed around…
The Democratic Party should be scrambling right now to replace Biden as their candidate for president. He has no redline and he is complicit it Israel’s war crimes and genocide.
Fuck Trump. Fuck Biden. Fuck the Democratic and Republican Parties.
America is complicit in war crimes and genocide.