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  32. <title>Israel is now killing Palestinians in Gaza by starvation&#8211;media downplaying this are complicit in these preventable deaths.</title>
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  47. <description><![CDATA[Merch 10, 2024, RT.com *(blog title updated from original published; blog version slightly longer) -Eva Karene Bartlett Following the February 29 Israeli slaughter of at least 115 starving Palestinians lined up for food aid, there was little or no outrage by the same Western media which would have howled if the perpetrator were Russia or&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2024/03/11/israel-is-now-killing-palestinians-in-gaza-by-starvation-media-downplaying-this-are-complicit-in-these-preventable-deaths/">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">Israel is now killing Palestinians in Gaza by starvation&#8211;media downplaying this are complicit in these preventable&#160;deaths.</span></a>]]></description>
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  50. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Mainstream Western journalists are just as guilty as the henchmen who did this. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GazaHolocaust?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GazaHolocaust</a> <a href="https://t.co/W0WlFl4ADK">pic.twitter.com/W0WlFl4ADK</a></p>&mdash; Seyed Mohammad Marandi (@s_m_marandi) <a href="https://twitter.com/s_m_marandi/status/1767117044858700117?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 11, 2024</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  55. <p>Merch 10, 2024, <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/593994-israel-gaza-starvation-massacre/">RT.com</a> </p>
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  59. <p>*<em>(blog title updated from original published; blog version slightly longer)</em></p>
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  63. <p>-Eva Karene Bartlett</p>
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  67. <p>Following the February 29 <strong>Israeli slaughter of at least 115 starving Palestinians lined up for food aid</strong>, there was little or no outrage by the same Western media which would have howled if the perpetrator were Russia or Syria.</p>
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  71. <p>According to the Gaza Health Ministry, early morning <strong>on Thursday, February 29, Israeli forces opened fire on unarmed Palestinians waiting just southwest of Gaza City for desperately needed food aid. As a result,&nbsp;</strong><strong>at least</strong> <strong><a href="https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6200/In-press-conference,-Euro-Med-confirms-Israel's-full-involvement-in-Gaza-flour-massacre" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">115 civilians were killed</a>&nbsp;and over 750 wounded.</strong></p>
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  75. <p>Popular US commenter Judge Andrew Napolitano said in a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8L1Y2APY9E" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">recent interview</a>&nbsp;with award-winning analyst Professor Jeffery Sachs,&nbsp;<em>“Innocent Gaza civilians were lined up to receive flour and water from an aid truck, and more than 100 were slaughtered, mowed down, by Israeli troops. This has got to be one of the most reprehensible and public slaughterings that they’ve engaged in.”</em></p>
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  80. <div class="embed-youtube"><iframe title="Prof. Jeffrey Sachs:  US Misunderstands Russia" width="900" height="506" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/p8L1Y2APY9E?start=1127&#038;feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
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  85. <p>The official Israeli version of events, unsurprisingly, puts the blame on the Palestinians themselves. The deaths and injuries were supposedly caused by a stampede, and the Israeli soldiers only fired when they felt they were endangered by the crowd. The BBC even&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68454348" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cited</a>&nbsp;one army lieutenant as saying that troops had&nbsp;<em>“cautiously [tried] to disperse the mob with a few warning shots.”</em>&nbsp;Mark Regev, a special adviser to the Israeli prime minister, went as far as to tell CNN that Israeli troops had not been involved directly in any way and that the gunfire had come from&nbsp;<em>“Palestinian armed groups.”</em></p>
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  89. <p>Testimonies from survivors and doctors tell a different story, though, saying the majority of those treated after the incident had been shot by Israeli forces. Legacy media reports, however, use characteristically neutral wording when evidence starts to stack up against Israel.&nbsp;<em>“112 dead in chaotic scenes as Israeli troops open fire near aid trucks, say Gaza officials,”</em>&nbsp;a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/29/more-than-a-hundred-dead-after-israeli-troops-opened-fire-near-aid-trucks-say-gaza-officials?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Guardian headline</a>&nbsp;reads. Palestinians always seem to just&nbsp;<em>“die,”</em>&nbsp;not get killed, and Israeli troops seem to have just&nbsp;<em>“opened fire”</em>&nbsp;nearby. The skewed&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rt.com/news/592196-media-gaza-death-toll/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">wording conventions</a>&nbsp;persist even despite the attribution to Palestinian officials present in that same headline – officials like the Palestinian Foreign Ministry, which was quite clear in accusing Israel of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/29/dozens-killed-injured-by-israeli-fire-in-gaza-while-collecting-food-aid" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">perpetrating a&nbsp;<em>”massacre”</em></a>&nbsp;as part of a&nbsp;<em>“genocidal war.”</em></p>
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  94. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">“Chaos” and “die” in the headline. Israel’s denial (lies) in the sub-heading. A lesson in how to both report on and deny a cold-blooded massacre simultaneously: <a href="https://t.co/rzWeLX0Mrt">https://t.co/rzWeLX0Mrt</a></p>&mdash; Louis Allday (@Louis_Allday) <a href="https://twitter.com/Louis_Allday/status/1763469631090475157?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 1, 2024</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  99. <p>The article does eventually cite the acting <strong>Director of al-Awda hospital as saying most of the 161 casualties treated appeared to have been shot.</strong> The confusing headline was likely intentional, counting on most people not bothering to read the article in full.</p>
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  103. <p>In a report published on March 3, E<strong>uro-Med stated members of its field team were present at the time of the incident and&nbsp;<em>“documented Israeli tanks firing heavily towards Palestinian civilians while trying to receive humanitarian aid.”</em>&nbsp;The report goes on to cite Dr Jadallah Al-Shafi’i, head of nursing at Shifa, Gaza’s main hospital, saying,&nbsp;<em>“paramedics and rescue workers were among the victims,”</em>&nbsp;and that at Shifa&nbsp;<em>“they observed dozens of dead and injured, hit by Israeli gunfire.</em></strong><em>”</em></p>
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  107. <p>The report also cites Dr Amjad Aliwa, an emergency specialist at Shifa who was also on site when Israel opened fire. According to Aliwa, the Israeli fire began,&nbsp;<em>“as soon as the trucks arrived on Thursday at 4 am”</em></p>
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  111. <p>But the February 29 massacre, tragic as it is, is only a part of the current stage of Israel’s war on Gaza: the deliberate starvation of Palestinians. <strong>And like the massacre itself, the whole issue is being subjected to the hands-off wording treatment by establishment media.</strong></p>
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  116. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Fadi Al-Zalat, a six-year-old Palestinian child, is currently battling malnutrition and dehydration at Kamal Adwan Hospital, a consequence of the Israeli blockade in northern Gaza. <a href="https://t.co/PGL0psGDsi">pic.twitter.com/PGL0psGDsi</a></p>&mdash; Quds News Network (@QudsNen) <a href="https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1767178512249614749?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 11, 2024</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  121. <p>On February 29, the New York Times published an&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/29/opinion/gaza-israel-palestinians-starvation.html%20" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">article</a>&nbsp;whose headline,&nbsp;<em>“Starvation Is Stalking Gaza’s Children,”</em>&nbsp;suggests starvation is a mysterious malicious force with a will of its own, skirting the mention of the Israeli siege as its obvious cause.</p>
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  125. <p>Again, as with the Guardian article, a few paragraphs in, the NYT piece does state that the&nbsp;<em>“hunger is a man-made catastrophe,”</em>&nbsp;describing how Israeli forces prevent food delivery and how Israeli bombardments make aid distribution dangerous.</p>
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  129. <p>It mentions the hunger, “is caused but also partly hidden by a pitiless war that has obliterated hospitals, flooded morgues and damaged communication networks, leaving us to cobble together what’s happening from scraps of information.”</p>
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  133. <p>The <em>pitiless</em> Israeli war on Gaza has been documented live since October 7. Cobbling scraps of information is not necessary; Israel&#8217;s destruction of Gaza has been done with the whole world watching.</p>
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  137. <p>As Professor Sachs&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8L1Y2APY9E" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">stated</a>,&nbsp;<em>”&#8230;<strong>Israel has deliberately starved the people of Gaza. Starved! I’m not using an exaggeration, I’m talking literally starving a population. Israel is a criminal, is in non-stop, war crime, status now. I believe in genocidal status.</strong>”</em></p>
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  141. <p>Anyone who’s been paying attention knows that the February 29 massacre was not the first such incident, and likely not the last. A thread on Twitter/X&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1763651267237216587" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">outlines</a>&nbsp;this, noting,&nbsp;<em>”Before yesterday’s “Flour Massacre”, the IDF has been shooting indiscriminately for WEEKS at starved Gazans awaiting aid trucks at the exact same spot, virtually every single day!”</em></p>
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  146. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Before yesterday&#39;s &quot;Flour Massacre&quot;, the IDF has been shooting indiscriminately for WEEKS at starved Gazans awaiting aid trucks at the exact same spot, virtually every single day!<br><br>A <img src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/72x72/1f9f5.png" alt="🧵" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />of some of these incidents:<br><br>Feb 28: IDF soldiers take potshots at famished desperate Gazans <a href="https://t.co/8dOztIzvdk">pic.twitter.com/8dOztIzvdk</a></p>&mdash; Muhammad Shehada (@muhammadshehad2) <a href="https://twitter.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1763651267237216587?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 1, 2024</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  151. <p>The&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1763657116273762341" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">thread</a>&nbsp;(warning: graphic images!), compiled by Gazan analyst and Euro-Med chief of communications Muhammad Shehada, gives examples of Israeli soldiers firing on Palestinians every single day in the week prior to February 29.</p>
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  155. <p>The <a href="https://twitter.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1763657116273762341">final post</a> in the thread, referencing February 18, shows a Palestinian man splayed on the ground, “shot in the head by the IDF at the Rasheed street as he came looking for food.”</p>
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  159. <p>You can bet that, were these Syrian or Russian soldiers firing on starving civilians, the outrage would be front page, 24/7, for weeks. Scratch that, they wouldn’t even have to do it – just a hint of an accusation would have been enough to get the presses going.</p>
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  163. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Starvation in Syria was a media trope</h2>
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  167. <p>The NYT article mentioned above notes that&nbsp;<em>“Reports of death by starvation are difficult to verify from a distance.”</em>&nbsp;But ‘<em>verifying from a distance’</em>&nbsp;is precisely what the NYT and other Western media did repeatedly in Syria over the years.</p>
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  171. <p>In areas occupied by (then) al-Nusra, Jaysh al-Islam, and the other extremist terrorist gangs which the West and corporate media dubbed&nbsp;<em>“rebels,”</em>&nbsp;food aid was&nbsp;<em>always</em>&nbsp;taken by the respective terrorists and withheld from the civilian population, causing starvation in some districts. Madaya, to the west of Damascus, eastern Aleppo, and later eastern Ghouta were districts most loudly&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/EvaKBartlett/status/1750847916091085178" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">campaigned over</a>&nbsp;in legacy media, providing covering fire for the broader US-led campaign to overthrow the Syria government.</p>
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  176. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Palestinians are starving to death, preventable starvation orchestrated by the genocidal Israeli regime &amp; enabled by the majority of Western states.<br><br>Western media was outraged over starvation in Madaya, which media blamed on the Syrian government&#8230;<a href="https://t.co/K0VNG40xUP">https://t.co/K0VNG40xUP</a> <a href="https://t.co/epKQhfi667">https://t.co/epKQhfi667</a></p>&mdash; Eva Karene Bartlett (@EvaKBartlett) <a href="https://twitter.com/EvaKBartlett/status/1750847916091085178?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2024</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  181. <p>Backing the claims that the government was starving civilians were mostly&nbsp;<em>“unnamed activists”</em>&nbsp;or activists whose allegiance to Nusra, or even ISIS,&nbsp;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/07/05/voices-from-syrias-rukban-refugee-camp-belie-corporate-media-reporting/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">was very overt</a>.</p>
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  185. <p>As I would see and hear whenever one of these regions was liberated, ample food and medicine had been sent in, but civilians never saw it. Time and again, in eastern Aleppo,&nbsp;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2017/10/08/syria-war-diary-order-returns-to-western-cities-civilians-recount-horrors-of-rebel-rule/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Madaya, al-Waer</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rt.com/op-ed/429349-syrians-tell-terrorists-white-helmets/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">eastern Ghouta</a>, to name key areas, civilians complained that terrorist factions hoarded food and medicine, and if they sold it to the population, it was at extortionist prices people couldn’t afford.</p>
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  189. <p>In the old city of Homs in 2014, back then dubbed by legacy media as the&nbsp;<em>“capital of the revolution,”</em>&nbsp;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/07/08/liberated-homs-residents-challenge-notion-of-revolution/">starved residents I met told me</a> the West’s precious&nbsp;<em>“rebels”&nbsp;</em>had stolen every morsel of food from them, stealing anything of value as well.</p>
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  193. <p>Yet, media headlines about these regions&nbsp;<a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/deliberate-starvation-of-civilians-in-syria-could-be-war-crime/4090051.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">screamed</a>&nbsp;about starvation, outright blaming the Syrian government, and were&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/06/residents-besieged-syrian-town-madaya-starved-to-death" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">accompanied by</a>&nbsp;disturbing images of emaciated civilians (some of which were&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/EvaKBartlett/status/1750848542493614512" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">not even&nbsp;from&nbsp;Syria</a>) meant to evoke strong emotions among readers and viewers. The same media largely opts not to show you&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/nour_odeh/status/1763540789206843441" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">gaunt, starving, Palestinians</a>&nbsp;in Gaza.</p>
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  198. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">(it wasn&#39;t the government which caused the starvation, the govt sent aid into Madaya, it was the West&#39;s terrorists within Madaya who hoarded food). <br><br>Media were SO outraged..&amp; used photos from places outside of Syria to claim it was in Madaya.<a href="https://t.co/GMnh6pDjB0">https://t.co/GMnh6pDjB0</a></p>&mdash; Eva Karene Bartlett (@EvaKBartlett) <a href="https://twitter.com/EvaKBartlett/status/1750848542493614512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2024</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  203. <p>Tellingly, Syrian&nbsp;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2015/08/18/untold-suffering-in-foua-and-kafraya-two-northwestern-syrian-villages-under-siege-and-assault-by-natos-terrorists/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">towns surrounded by</a>&nbsp;terrorist forces,&nbsp;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2016/09/22/aleppo-and-nearby-villages-ravaged-by-the-wests-moderate-terrorists-photo-essay/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">besieged, bombed</a>, sniped and starved, got virtually no media coverage. It didn’t fit NATO’s narrative of&nbsp;<em>“rebels”</em>=good, Assad=bad.</p>
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  207. <p>But in Gaza the world watches in real time as Palestinians die from the ongoing, preventable, starvation.</p>
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  217. <p>*<a href="https://t.me/QudsNen/98300">Source</a></p>
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  221. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Open the borders</h2>
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  225. <p>Some days ago, the CEO of Medical aid for Palestinians, Melanie Ward, in an interview with CNN, named Israel as the cause of starvation in Gaza.</p>
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  229. <p><em>“It’s very simple: <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline">it’s because the Israeli military won’t let it in. We could end this starvation tomorrow very simply if they would just let us have access to people there. But it’s not being allowed</span></strong>. This is what they said [on October 9], ‘Nothing will go in’,”</em>&nbsp;Ward said.</p>
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  234. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;This is the fastest decline in a population&#39;s nutrition status ever recorded. That means children are being starved at the fastest rate the world has ever seen.&quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/melanie_ward?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@melanie_ward</a> speaks with <a href="https://twitter.com/IsaCNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IsaCNN</a> about the catastrophic levels of hunger that Israel&#39;s blockade is causing in Gaza <a href="https://t.co/FthwccFEBG">pic.twitter.com/FthwccFEBG</a></p>&mdash; Medical Aid for Palestinians (@MedicalAidPal) <a href="https://twitter.com/MedicalAidPal/status/1763172220900151317?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 29, 2024</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  239. <p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline">She described the starvation as&nbsp;<em>“the fastest decline in a population’s nutrition status ever recorded. What that means is that children are being starved at the fastest rate the world has ever seen. And we could finish it tomorrow, we could save them all</em></span></strong><em>. But we’re not being able to.”</em></p>
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  243. <p>This is echoed by UNICEF. The&nbsp;<a href="https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/childrens-lives-threatened-rising-malnutrition-gaza-strip" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">press-release</a>&nbsp;for its February 2024&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nutritioncluster.net/resources/nutrition-vulnerability-and-situation-analysis-gaza" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">report</a>&nbsp;notes that 15.6 % (one in six children) under two years of age are&nbsp;<em>“acutely malnourished”</em>&nbsp;in Gaza’s north.&nbsp;<em>“Of these, almost 3% suffer from severe wasting, the most life-threatening form of malnutrition, which puts young children at highest risk of medical complications and death unless they receive urgent treatment,”</em>&nbsp;UNICEF notes.</p>
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  247. <p>Even worse,&nbsp;<em>“since the data were collected in January, the situation is likely to be even graver today,”&nbsp;</em>UNICEF warns, likewise noting the rapid increase of malnutrition is&nbsp;<em>“dangerous and entirely preventable.”</em></p>
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  251. <p>Professor Sachs made an important point:&nbsp;<em>“<strong><span style="text-decoration: underline">This will stop when the United States stops providing the munitions to Israel. It will not stop by any self control in Israel, there is none&#8230;They believe in ethnic cleansing or worse. And it is the United States which is the sole support&#8230;that is not stopping this slaughter</span></strong>.”</em></p>
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  255. <p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline">Air-dropping paltry amounts of food aid into Gaza is not the answer</span></strong>. It both legitimizes Israel’s deliberate starvation of Gaza and also makes those Palestinians who run toward the aid sitting ducks for the Israeli army to maim or kill. The only solution is to <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline">immediately open the borders</span></strong> and allow in&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/khaberni/status/1763901246694445296" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">the hundreds of</a>&nbsp;aid trucks parked in Egypt. And end the Israeli bombardment of Gaza.</p>
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  260. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Gaza Ministry of Health reports that the death toll of the Israeli aggression has reached 31,045, with 72,654 injuries since October 7 last year. <a href="https://t.co/JXDIDEtha5">pic.twitter.com/JXDIDEtha5</a></p>&mdash; Quds News Network (@QudsNen) <a href="https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1766854187290357844?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 10, 2024</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  273. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2024/02/24/unethical-hypocritical-and-cruel-western-aid-cut-will-cause-more-pain-for-starving-gaza-civilians/">Unethical, hypocritical and cruel: Western aid cut will cause more pain for starving Gaza&nbsp;civilians</a></p>
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  277. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2024/01/09/reporters-without-shame-top-media-rights-organization-ignores-rampant-killings-of-gaza-journalists/">Reporters without shame: Top ‘media rights’ organization ignores rampant killings of Gaza&nbsp;journalists</a></p>
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  281. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/observations-from-occupied-palestine-in-gaza/"><strong>Observations from Occupied Palestine: Gaza</strong></a>&nbsp;(My 2014 overview of my 3 years in Gaza:&nbsp;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/photos-and-videos-zionist-massacre-of-gaza-2008-2009/"><strong>Israel’s 2009 war</strong></a>&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2012/11/"><strong>2012 war</strong></a>&nbsp;on Gaza, Israel’s brutal siege on Gaza, wars on Gaza, assault of farmers &amp; fishers…)</p>
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  285. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/07/08/liberated-homs-residents-challenge-notion-of-revolution/">Liberated Homs Residents Challenge Notion of&nbsp;“Revolution”</a></p>
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  289. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/07/05/voices-from-syrias-rukban-refugee-camp-belie-corporate-media-reporting/">Voices from Syria’s Rukban Refugee Camp Belie Corporate Media&nbsp;Reporting</a></p>
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  293. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2015/08/18/untold-suffering-in-foua-and-kafraya-two-northwestern-syrian-villages-under-siege-and-assault-by-natos-terrorists/">Untold Suffering in Foua and Kafraya: Two Northwestern Syrian Villages Under Siege and Assault by NATO’s&nbsp;Terrorists</a></p>
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  297. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2023/12/07/i-documented-two-israeli-wars-on-gaza-this-current-one-is-the-worst/">I documented two Israeli wars on Gaza. This current one is the&nbsp;worst</a></p>
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  301. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2023/10/26/interview-on-israels-ongoing-genocide-of-gaza/">Interviewed on</a> Scott Ritter’s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjHo5tZ2ftc"><strong>Ask the Inspector, October 24, 2023</strong></a>.</p>
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  305. <p>–<a href="https://opt2007.wordpress.com/category/my-entries-from-occupied-palestine-apr-dec-2007/"><strong>My 2007 West Bank writings</strong></a></p>
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  309. <p>–<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2013/11/05/observations-from-occupied-palestine-part-1/"><strong>Observations from Occupied Palestine, part&nbsp;1</strong></a>&nbsp;(My overview of what I witnessed in 8 months in the West Bank)</p>
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  332. <description><![CDATA[In recent years, I&#8217;ve been more active on my Telegram channel, mainly because I don&#8217;t face the censorship or the idiotic &#8220;community standards&#8221; of big tech. While my Twitter / X followers continue to grow, I routinely have people telling me they never see my posts or thought I&#8217;d left the platform altogether (good idea).&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2024/03/02/follow-my-telegram-channel-for-updates/">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">Follow My Telegram Channel For&#160;Updates</span></a>]]></description>
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  359. <pubDate>Sat, 24 Feb 2024 10:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
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  368. <description><![CDATA[Feb 8, 2024, RT.com -Eva K Bartlett **Note: original article was published ~ 2 weeks ago. I didn&#8217;t have access to my site to publish here until now. Below article will be updated for latest information. Blog version longer than originally published** After more than four months of a bombing campaign that has killed nearly&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2024/02/24/unethical-hypocritical-and-cruel-western-aid-cut-will-cause-more-pain-for-starving-gaza-civilians/">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">Unethical, hypocritical and cruel: Western aid cut will cause more pain for starving Gaza&#160;civilians</span></a>]]></description>
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  370. <figure class="wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  371. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">In just over four months in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gaza?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Gaza</a>, there have been more <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/children?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#children</a>, more journalists, more medical personnel, and more <a href="https://twitter.com/UN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UN</a> staff killed than anywhere in the world during a conflict.<br><br>It is with profound regret that I must now inform you that <a href="https://twitter.com/UNRWA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UNRWA</a> has reached a breaking point,… <a href="https://t.co/JbQVk72avu">pic.twitter.com/JbQVk72avu</a></p>&mdash; Philippe Lazzarini (@UNLazzarini) <a href="https://twitter.com/UNLazzarini/status/1760764594644013287?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 22, 2024</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  376. <p>Feb 8, 2024, <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/592068-un-aid-icj-gaza-civilians/">RT.com</a></p>
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  380. <p>-Eva K Bartlett</p>
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  384. <p>**<em>Note: original article was published ~ 2 weeks ago. I didn&#8217;t have access to my site to publish here until now. Below article will be updated for latest information</em>. <em>Blog version longer than originally published</em>**<br /><br />After more than four months of a bombing campaign that has killed <a href="https://twitter.com/DrMadsGilbert/status/1760763126071349573">nearly 30,000</a> (<s>over 27,000</s>) people in Gaza, Israel’s recent accusations that UNRWA employees were involved in Hamas’ October 7 insurgency led many Western nations to immediately cut critically needed funding.</p>
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  388. <p>This means the most vulnerable Palestinians—over 2 million Palestinians in Gaza, starving and in desperate need of health care and shelter—will go without UNRWA support when the current funding dries up. According <a href="https://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/news-releases/gaza-strip-humanitarian-crisis-deepens-time-funding-suspensions-put-unrwa-aid">to UNRWA</a>, this could be by the end of February, and, “<em>not only in Gaza but also across the region.” </em>The UNRWA also<em> </em>supports Palestine Refugees in the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria.</p>
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  393. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING| UNRWA stated that it would not be able to meet the humanitarian needs of over 2 million people in Gaza due to the decision of 16 donor countries to stop financial support to the agency.<br><br>“It’s difficult to imagine that Gazans will survive this crisis without UNRWA,” the… <a href="https://t.co/l4Q5Z4jpYL">pic.twitter.com/l4Q5Z4jpYL</a></p>&mdash; Quds News Network (@QudsNen) <a href="https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1753039074653339854?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 1, 2024</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  398. <p>Not coincidentally, the Israeli claims against 12 of UNRWA&#8217;s 13,000 Gaza employees came immediately after the International Court of Justice (ICJ)&#8217;s ruling on South Africa’s genocide case against Israel. While the ICJ did not demand a halt to Israel&#8217;s relentless bombing throughout Gaza (including the so-called “safe” regions) and firing on Palestinians lining up for food aid, it did order Israel to not commit genocide (which many, self included, would say Israel has already been doing).</p>
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  403. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Yesterday, the ICJ made it clear that it had trust in UNRWA sources. <br><br>Immediately,  Israel attacked the credibility of those employed by the agency, and now both the US and UK have cut funding to it.</p>&mdash; Lowkey (@Lowkey0nline) <a href="https://twitter.com/Lowkey0nline/status/1751249087930802235?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  408. <p>Under the ruling, Israel is to, “take immediate and effective measures to enable the provision of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance to address the adverse conditions of life faced by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip”. </p>
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  412. <p>The body in place to do this is UNRWA, but Israel wants to ensure it cannot operate.</p>
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  416. <p>Deflecting from the ICJ spotlight (and any media focus on genocide), Israel did the opposite of taking measures to address starvation in Gaza: it caused UNRWA to lose its major funding. UNRWA supports Palestinian refugees&#8217; most basic needs, including notably food aid and healthcare, both urgently needed for Palestinians bombed continuously since October, without drinking water, without food, undergoing mass (preventable) starvation.</p>
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  420. <p>Additionally, many of the Palestinians requiring surgery or amputations due to injuries have undergone these procedures without anesthesiaand in dank conditions causing further illness and disease. After Israel bombed nearly all of Gaza&#8217;s hospitals and attacked medical personal and ambulances, all following a continuously-tightened 16-year-long blockade of Gaza, healthcare is all the more urgently needed in Gaza.</p>
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  425. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It’s almost as if you cannot believe it &#8211; but ISrael has killed 374 healthcare workers in 3 months. <a href="https://twitter.com/HCWWatch?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HCWWatch</a> This in addition to the bombing and strangulation of hospitals and primary care clinics in Gaza. All with full US support. <br>Clear war crimes!<br>Dr. Mads <a href="https://t.co/MfkBoeVg8U">pic.twitter.com/MfkBoeVg8U</a></p>&mdash; Dr. Mads Gilbert (@DrMadsGilbert) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrMadsGilbert/status/1742472126752325883?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2024</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  430. <p>At the end of January, 20 aid organizations <a href="https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/unrwa-funding-cuts-threaten-palestinian-lives-gaza-and-region-say-20-ngos">issued</a> a joint statement of outrage and concern over the cuts to UNRWA, noting it will, “impact life-saving assistance for over two million civilians, over half of whom are children&#8230;The population faces starvation, looming famine and an outbreak of disease under Israel’s continued indiscriminate bombardment and deliberate deprivation of aid in Gaza.”</p>
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  434. <p>The statement noted that 145 UNRWA facilities have been <a href="https://www.unrwa.org/resources/reports/unrwa-situation-report-70-situation-gaza-strip-and-west-bank-including-east-Jerusalem">damaged</a> by Israeli bombing. Many of these facilities are schools in which displaced Palestinians were sheltering. By this point, the Israeli attacks on such schools have been numerous, killing Palestinians who fled bombing elsewhere only to be murdered in what they thought might be off-limits to Israel—a UN school.</p>
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  438. <p>But as we&#8217;ve seen in previous Israeli bombardments, including during <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/588362-israel-gaza-worst-war/">one of the two Israeli wars</a> on Gaza which I documented, Israel routinely <a href="https://twitter.com/EvaKBartlett/status/1726604860509061567">targets such schools</a> housing displaced Palestinian civilians.</p>
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  442. <figure class="wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  443. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Like clockwork, overnight Israel bombed a UN school packed with displaced Palestinians in Al-Rimal neighbourhood in Gaza and killed 10 people.<br>All the incitement against the UNRWA, and the West’s approval, is a license to commit war crimes and massacre more Palestinian families</p>&mdash; Tameem | تميم (@TameeOliveFern) <a href="https://twitter.com/TameeOliveFern/status/1751866056740946316?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 29, 2024</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  445.  
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  447.  
  448. <p>Up to 1.7 million displaced Palestinians are taking <a href="https://www.unrwa.org/resources/reports/unrwa-situation-report-71-situation-gaza-strip-and-west-bank-including-east-Jerusalem">shelter</a>,“in or around 154 UNRWA shelters,” the statement noted. “The countries suspending funds risk further depriving Palestinians in the region of essential food, water, medical assistance and supplies, education, and protection,” it added.</p>
  449.  
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  451.  
  452. <p class="has-medium-font-size"><strong>Where&#8217;s the evidence?</strong></p>
  453.  
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  456. <p>According to Israel, its claims that UNRWA workers were complicit in Hamas attacks are based on intelligence data. However, while&nbsp;a summary of the allegations was shared with media, the intelligence in question was never shown to the media, the public, or apparently even to <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/unrwa-hamas-gaza-canada-1.7107785" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Western officials</a>.</p>
  457.  
  458.  
  459.  
  460. <p>As mentioned earlier, it isn&#8217;t coincidental that Israel sprung the accusations immediately after the ICJ ruling. But what some may not know is that even back in December, The Times of Israel <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-hoping-to-push-unrwa-out-of-gaza-post-war-report/">reported</a> that, Israel is hoping to push UNRWA out of the Gaza Strip post-war. The original source was a “high-level, classified Foreign Ministry report.”</p>
  461.  
  462.  
  463.  
  464. <p>The recommended plan apparently begins with&nbsp;<em>“a comprehensive report on alleged UNRWA cooperation with Hamas.”</em>&nbsp;This would be followed by replacing the UNRWA and transferring its responsibilities to&nbsp;<em>“the body governing Gaza following the war.”</em>&nbsp;It would seem that Israel has now started enacting this plan… after creating the conditions for mass starvation in Gaza.</p>
  465.  
  466.  
  467.  
  468. <p>And we&#8217;re still debating whether Israel is genociding Gaza, instead of doing everything possible to stop Israel&#8217;s bloodbath and at least provide food, water and shelter to Palestinians in Gaza?</p>
  469.  
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  472. <figure class="wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  473. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">But in Gaza we have documentation real time of Palestinians starving, after Israel repeatedly prevented aid distribution, fired on Palestinians gathering for the meagre food aid there is, &amp; the rest of Israel&#39;s depraved, anti-human, policies to create the crisis in Gaza.</p>&mdash; Eva Karene Bartlett (@EvaKBartlett) <a href="https://twitter.com/EvaKBartlett/status/1750848734647275938?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2024</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
  474. </div></figure>
  475.  
  476.  
  477.  
  478. <p>Israel&#8217;s punitive claims against UNRWA are even the more sadistic given many reports in Israeli media attribute significant amounts of the deaths on October 7 to the Israeli army itself, not Hamas.</p>
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  482. <figure class="wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  483. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Haaretz ran separate articles attacking me as a “conspiracist” and “master manipulator” for bringing October 7 friendly fire orders to light<br><br>Now, they finally concede “we need to talk about” the many Israelis killed by Israeli tanks and helicopters <br><br>Will US media wake up too? <a href="https://t.co/fW84HwyVCG">https://t.co/fW84HwyVCG</a></p>&mdash; Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) <a href="https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1735316158490833303?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 14, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
  484. </div></figure>
  485.  
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  488. <p></p>
  489.  
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  491.  
  492. <p class="has-medium-font-size"><strong>Countries that cut support had no qualms supporting actual</strong> <strong>terrorism elsewhere</strong></p>
  493.  
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  496. <figure class="wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  497. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">By cutting off humanitarian aid to Palestinians on the very day that the ICJ ruled it to be plausible that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, <a href="https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JustinTrudeau</a> proved himself to be a depraved and heartless man. He is unfit to lead Canada or any country.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gaza?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Gaza</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cdnpoli?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cdnpoli</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/genocide?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#genocide</a> <a href="https://t.co/6l9qIE7jT2">pic.twitter.com/6l9qIE7jT2</a></p>&mdash; Dimitri Lascaris (@dimitrilascaris) <a href="https://twitter.com/dimitrilascaris/status/1752916463566946461?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 1, 2024</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
  498. </div></figure>
  499.  
  500.  
  501.  
  502. <p>Cutting funding to an agency providing desperately needed life basics to a population under siege is not only unethical – it also goes against UN convention and is inconsistent with the ICJ ruling (albeit the latter only applies to Israel).</p>
  503.  
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  505.  
  506. <p>American human rights lawyer and professor of international law, Francis Boyle, made this point recently, <a href="https://twitter.com/decensorednews/status/1751737693120119259">stating</a>: <em>“For the governments who did this, they are now in violation of article 2(c) of the Genocide Convention: &#8216;Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.&#8217;”</em></p>
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  511. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Francis Boyle states that with States (including US and UK govs) cutting off funding to UNRWA, it is &quot;no longer the case of these States aiding and abetting Israeli Genocide against the Palestinians in violation of Genocide Convention article 3 (e) criminalizing &#39;complicity&#39; in…</p>&mdash; Sam Husseini (@samhusseini) <a href="https://twitter.com/samhusseini/status/1751318841232122202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  513.  
  514.  
  515.  
  516. <p>Boyle also made the point that the US and the UK, among other Western countries have been, “aiding and abetting Israeli genocide against the Palestinians,” and that the US is, “in violation of its own genocide convention implementation act.”</p>
  517.  
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  519.  
  520. <p>Let’s recall that the same Western nations (the US, UK, and Canada) that so hastily cut aid to the UNRWA were happy to fund the White Helmets in Syria, in spite of the abundance of evidence of their participation in crimes against Syrian civilians, as well as of the links that many of them had with Al-Qaeda or other terrorist groups. Their backers wrote this off as <em>“a few bad apples,”</em> but don’t apply the same logic to the 13 Palestinian UNRWA employees (out of 13,000) in Gaza whom Israel condemns.</p>
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  525. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">“Given that the Palestinians’ legal and moral right to pursue armed resistance is clear, endorsement of this position should be uncontroversial and commonplace among supporters of their cause.” <a href="https://t.co/vegIksdb1l">https://t.co/vegIksdb1l</a> <a href="https://t.co/CVWQXN1VWA">https://t.co/CVWQXN1VWA</a></p>&mdash; Louis Allday (@Louis_Allday) <a href="https://twitter.com/Louis_Allday/status/1760638338535497749?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 22, 2024</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
  526. </div></figure>
  527.  
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  529.  
  530. <p>As Israel slaughters and starves Palestinians, the West and its lapdog media do what they do best: whitewash Israel&#8217;s crimes and punish the victims.</p>
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  542. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://www.rt.com/news/592196-media-gaza-death-toll/">Here’s why you shouldn’t trust the ‘declining’ Gaza death toll narrative</a></p>
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  546. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://www.rt.com/op-ed/447385-white-helmets-un-panel/">Organ theft, staged attacks: UN panel details White Helmets’ criminal activities, media yawns</a></p>
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  559. <title>&#8220;Gutsy Women: Eva Bartlett&#8221; (Interview on UK Column)</title>
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  563. <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2024 09:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
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  567. <description><![CDATA[Jan 2, 2024, UK Column Interview I did on UK Column, with Brian Gerrish. Listen to the interview here. My Telegram post has related links &#38; description.]]></description>
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  573. <p>Jan 2, 2024, <a href="https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/gutsy-women-eva-bartlett">UK Column</a></p>
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  577. <p>Interview I did on UK Column, with Brian Gerrish. Listen to the interview <a href="https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/gutsy-women-eva-bartlett">here</a>.</p>
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  592. <title>Reporters without shame: Top ‘media rights’ organization ignores rampant killings of Gaza journalists</title>
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  596. <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2024 08:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
  597. <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category>
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  603. <description><![CDATA[Jan 7, 2024, RT.com -Eva K Bartlett At the end of 2023, Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans Frontieres, RSF), the international organization ostensibly advocating for freedom of information, released its annual report. The paper massively downplays the widespread and deliberate targeting of Palestinian journalists in the Israel-Gaza war. The report&#8217;s&#160;announcement, titled,&#160;“Round-up: 45 journalists killed in&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2024/01/09/reporters-without-shame-top-media-rights-organization-ignores-rampant-killings-of-gaza-journalists/">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">Reporters without shame: Top ‘media rights’ organization ignores rampant killings of Gaza&#160;journalists</span></a>]]></description>
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  609. <p>Jan 7, 2024, <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/590224-gaza-journalists-israel-killed/">RT.com</a></p>
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  612.  
  613. <p>-Eva K Bartlett</p>
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  616.  
  617. <p>At the end of 2023, Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans Frontieres, RSF), the international organization ostensibly advocating for freedom of information, released its annual report. The paper massively downplays the widespread and deliberate targeting of Palestinian journalists in the Israel-Gaza war.</p>
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  621. <p>The report&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href="https://rsf.org/en/rsf-s-2023-round-45-journalists-killed-line-duty-worldwide-drop-despite-tragedy-gaza" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">announcement</a>, titled,&nbsp;<em>“Round-up: 45 journalists killed in the line of duty worldwide – a drop despite the tragedy in Gaza,”</em>&nbsp;excludes most of the Palestinian journalists killed by Israel in 2023, particularly in the past few months. It claims 16 fewer journalists were killed worldwide in 2023 than in 2022. This doesn&#8217;t reflect reality.</p>
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  626. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">UN Secretary-General: In Gaza, more children, more journalists, more UN aid workers killed than anywhere else in the world! <a href="https://t.co/2kH8tNz8OF">pic.twitter.com/2kH8tNz8OF</a></p>&mdash; Ambassador Majed Bamya <img src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/72x72/1f1f5-1f1f8.png" alt="🇵🇸" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> (@majedbamya) <a href="https://twitter.com/majedbamya/status/1721873326589596103?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 7, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  631. <p>The report claims that (as of December 1, 2023), only 13 Palestinian journalists were killed while&nbsp;<em>actively</em>&nbsp;reporting, noting separately that 56 journalists were killed in Gaza,&nbsp;<em>“if we include journalists killed in circumstances unproven to be related to their duties.”</em></p>
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  635. <p>Other sources put the overall number of Palestinian journalists killed in&nbsp;the enclave&nbsp;much higher. The UN&#8217;s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ochaopt.org/content/hostilities-gaza-strip-and-israel-flash-update-56" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">reported</a>&nbsp;on December 1 that 73 journalists and media workers had been killed, citing to the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate (PJS).</p>
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  639. <p>While The Committee to Protect Journalists&#8217; (CPJ) December 20, 2023&nbsp;<a href="https://cpj.org/2023/12/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-gaza-conflict/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">numbers</a>&nbsp;are lower (at least 61 Palestinian journalists killed since October 7), CPJ at least didn&#8217;t disregard dozens of slain Palestinian journalists like RSF did.</p>
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  643. <p>In fact, in contrast to RSF&#8217;s cheerful&nbsp;<em>“things are much better for journalists than previous years”</em>&nbsp;tone, CPJ emphasized that in the first 10 weeks of Israel&#8217;s war on Gaza,&nbsp;<em>“<a href="https://cpj.org/2023/12/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-gaza-conflict/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">more journalists</a>&nbsp;have been killed than have ever been killed in a single country over an entire year.”</em>&nbsp;It voiced its concern about,&nbsp;<em>“an apparent&nbsp;<a href="https://cpj.org/2023/12/father-of-al-jazeeras-anas-al-sharif-killed-in-gaza-after-journalist-receives-threats/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">pattern of targeting</a>&nbsp;of journalists and their families by the Israeli military.”</em></p>
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  646.  
  647. <p>That summary is far more honest, and shocking, than the watered-down RSF report.</p>
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  652. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I hope western journalists look into his eyes and watch this well.<br> <br>It has even been translated for you.<a href="https://t.co/rh3pOpdnPu">pic.twitter.com/rh3pOpdnPu</a></p>&mdash; Lowkey (@Lowkey0nline) <a href="https://twitter.com/Lowkey0nline/status/1744446685923664024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2024</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  654.  
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  656.  
  657. <p>It isn&#8217;t clear how RSF discerns which circumstances were&nbsp;<em>“unproven to be related”</em>&nbsp;to the duties of slain Gazan journalists, nor who is&nbsp;<em>“actively reporting”</em>&nbsp;when Gaza is under relentless Israeli bombardment and suffers frequent internet cuts. In fact, given the nonstop Israeli bombing (and sniping) throughout the Strip, it would be nearly impossible to discern whether journalists were reporting (including from their homes) at the time of their death.</p>
  658.  
  659.  
  660.  
  661. <p>However, in the methodology section near the end of its more detailed&nbsp;<a href="https://rsf.org/sites/default/files/medias/file/2023/12/Bilan_2023_EN_0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">report</a>, RSF notes it&nbsp;<em>“logs a journalist’s death in its press freedom barometer when they are killed in the exercise of their duties or in connection with their status as a journalist.”</em></p>
  662.  
  663.  
  664.  
  665. <p>Many Palestinian journalists in Gaza have received death threats from officers in the Israeli army precisely due to their status as journalists. And many of those threatened have subsequently been killed, along with family members, when Israeli airstrikes targeted their homes or places of shelter.</p>
  666.  
  667.  
  668.  
  669. <p>We also have the precedent in prior wars (in 2009, 2012, 2014, and 2021) of Israel bombing Gazan media buildings (including one I was in in 2009) with varying severity, damaging and finally&nbsp;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2021/05/15/israel-is-deliberately-obliterating-media-buildings-in-gaza-to-cover-up-the-war-crimes-that-will-follow/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">destroying two major media buildings</a>&nbsp;in 2021. This is clearly intended to stop the flow of reports from Gaza under Israeli bombs, and so is the killing of journalists.</p>
  670.  
  671.  
  672.  
  673. <p>On December 15, the Palestinian Journalists&#8217; Syndicate&nbsp;<a href="https://www.pjs.ps/?p=2708" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">criticized</a>&nbsp;the RSF report, going as far as accusing RSF of complicity with Israel&#8217;s war crimes against Palestinian journalists through whitewashing.</p>
  674.  
  675.  
  676.  
  677. <p>This is the same PJS whose statistics the UN&#8217;s OCHA&nbsp;cites, statistics which PJS says are<em>&nbsp;“accurate and based on professional and legal documentation that follows the highest standards in documenting crimes against journalists.”</em>&nbsp;This documentation includes journalists who Israeli airstrikes targeted in their homes, killed precisely because they are journalists.</p>
  678.  
  679.  
  680.  
  681. <p>In&nbsp;<a href="https://rsf.org/en/rsf-s-response-palestinian-journalists-syndicate-allegations-about-annual-round-killed-journalists" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">response</a>, RSF claimed it,&nbsp;<em>“did not yet have sufficient evidence or indications,”</em>&nbsp;to state that any more than 14 journalists in the Gaza Strip (as of December 23, the date of its response)&nbsp;<em>“had been killed in the course of their work or because of it.”</em></p>
  682.  
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  684.  
  685. <p>RSF called the PJS accusations&nbsp;<em>“inane,”</em>&nbsp;complaining that they&nbsp;<em>“damage our organisation’s image,”</em>&nbsp;and chastised the PSJ to not&nbsp;<em>“impugn our motives,”</em>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<em>“quarrel”</em>&nbsp;over numbers. “Quarreling over numbers” is a pretty cavalier objection from an organization espousing concern over journalists being targeted.</p>
  686.  
  687.  
  688.  
  689. <p>At least three journalists were shot dead, at least three killed by an Israeli airstrike on media outlets in central Gaza City, and many more were killed by Israeli airstrikes on “safe” areas – areas south of Wadi Gaza, which Israel had commanded civilians to flee to for their “safety.” In spite of this command, Israeli bombings continued all over the strip, including all the way south to Rafah.</p>
  690.  
  691.  
  692.  
  693. <p>Still many more – in Gaza City, as well as to the north and to the south of it – were killed at home with their families, including&nbsp;<a href="https://cpj.org/data/people/mohammed-abu-hatab/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">one</a>&nbsp;journalist in Khan Younis, killed along with 11 members of his family when an Israeli airstrike targeted his home on November 2. On November 23, a journalist was&nbsp;<a href="https://cpj.org/data/people/mohamed-mouin-ayyash/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">killed</a>&nbsp;in an Israeli airstrike on his home in Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, along with 20 family members.</p>
  694.  
  695.  
  696.  
  697. <p>The Cradle&nbsp;<a href="https://new.thecradle.co/articles/nearly-50-journalists-in-gaza-killed-by-israeli-bombs" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">reported</a>&nbsp;that,&nbsp;<em>“The Israeli army sent a letter to legacy news outlets, Reuters and AFP.”</em>&nbsp;The letter said,&nbsp;<em>“The [Israeli Army] is targeting all Hamas military activity throughout Gaza. Under these circumstances, we cannot guarantee your employees&#8217; safety.”</em></p>
  698.  
  699.  
  700.  
  701. <p>One Israeli bombing of a journalist&#8217;s home on November 7&nbsp;<a href="https://cpj.org/data/people/mohamed-abu-hassira/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">killed</a>&nbsp;him and 42 family members. Like many of his slain colleagues, he was a journalist for Palestinian Authority-run Wafa news. Many of the other murdered journalists worked for: Palestinian Authority-run Palestine TV, independent news agencies, local TV and radio programs, and larger outlets like al Jazeera. Others worked with Hamas-affiliated media and radio. Still others were freelancers.</p>
  702.  
  703.  
  704.  
  705. <p>On November 5, PJS&nbsp;<a href="https://www.liberationnews.org/palestinian-journalists-syndicate-statement-some-of-the-global-medias-unethical-coverage-is-facilitating-genocide-in-gaza/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">reported</a>&nbsp;that at least 20 of the journalists killed (since October 7)&nbsp;<em>“were intentionally targeted by strikes on their homes or during their work covering Israel’s attacks.”</em>&nbsp;This tally is already greater than RSF&#8217;s reported total of 13 journalists killed at work or because of their work, even though the RSF report covers a period of almost a month more.</p>
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  708.  
  709. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Israel threatens journalists, kills family members</h2>
  710.  
  711.  
  712.  
  713. <p>Many Gaza journalists&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/QuzmarAnan/status/1738053724759523510" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">report</a>&nbsp;being threatened by the Israeli army. CPJ&nbsp;<a href="https://cpj.org/2023/12/father-of-al-jazeeras-anas-al-sharif-killed-in-gaza-after-journalist-receives-threats/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">noted</a>&nbsp;it is&nbsp;<em>“deeply alarmed by the pattern of journalists in Gaza reporting receiving threats, and subsequently, their family members being killed.”</em></p>
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  717. <figure class="wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  718. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The majority of journalists have received direct threats over the last 10 weeks. Sari Mansour and Saeed Al-Taweel were subjected to incitement, receiving direct threats before being targeted.<br>Anas Al-Sharif received threats to his life relating to his work in northern Gaza.</p>&mdash; Anan Quzmar (@QuzmarAnan) <a href="https://twitter.com/QuzmarAnan/status/1738053724759523510?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 22, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
  719. </div></figure>
  720.  
  721.  
  722.  
  723. <p>One such incident followed a threat to Al-Jazeera Arabic reporter Anas Al-Sharif. CPJ&nbsp;<a href="https://cpj.org/2023/12/attacks-arrests-threats-censorship-the-high-risks-of-reporting-the-israel-hamas-war/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">noted</a>&nbsp;he had received multiple phone calls from officers in the Israeli army instructing him to cease coverage and leave northern Gaza. Additionally, he received voice notes on WhatsApp disclosing his location. His 90-year-old father was killed on December 11 by an Israeli airstrike on their home in the Jabalia refugee camp.</p>
  724.  
  725.  
  726.  
  727. <p>On November 13, CPJ&nbsp;<a href="https://cpj.org/2023/12/attacks-arrests-threats-censorship-the-high-risks-of-reporting-the-israel-hamas-war/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">noted</a>,&nbsp;<em>“eight family members of photojournalist Yasser Qudih were killed when their house in southern Gaza was struck by four missiles. Qudih survived the attack.”</em></p>
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  729.  
  730.  
  731. <p>On October 25, an Israel airstrike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in the center of Gaza killed the wife, son, daughter, and grandson of Al-Jazeera’s bureau chief for Gaza, Wael Al Dahdouh.</p>
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  735. <figure class="wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  736. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Hossam Shabat threatened by Israeli occupation forces<br><br>Gazan journalist Hossam Shabat received an intimidating call from Israeli forces to stop documenting their actions in northern Gaza and to remove the material he had published online. <a href="https://t.co/Q2AemkoFoQ">pic.twitter.com/Q2AemkoFoQ</a></p>&mdash; MintPress News (@MintPressNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/MintPressNews/status/1740017839887577365?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 27, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
  737. </div></figure>
  738.  
  739.  
  740.  
  741. <p>The popular young independent journalist, Motaz Azaiza, reported receiving multiple threats from anonymous numbers urging him to cease his coverage, CPJ <a href="https://cpj.org/2023/12/attacks-arrests-threats-censorship-the-high-risks-of-reporting-the-israel-hamas-war/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">reported</a>, noting that another Al-Jazeera correspondent, Youmna El-Sayed, said her husband received a threatening phone call from a man who identified himself as a member of the IDF and told the family <em>“to leave or die.”</em></p>
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  745. <figure class="wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  746. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">PEGASUS: ISRAEL’S WAR ON JOURNALISTS <br><br>A new report from Amnesty International reveals a spike in the use of Israeli “ Pegasus” spyware tools used by Israeli spyware companies to target journalists’ privacy &#8211; including used to track and directly threaten the safety of journalists… <a href="https://t.co/E50fxfc3XT">pic.twitter.com/E50fxfc3XT</a></p>&mdash; Patrick Henningsen (@21WIRE) <a href="https://twitter.com/21WIRE/status/1744610882163011593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 9, 2024</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
  747. </div></figure>
  748.  
  749.  
  750.  
  751. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">RSF bias: Not only in Palestine</h2>
  752.  
  753.  
  754.  
  755. <p>Whereas RSF only reluctantly, as an afterthought, mentioned Palestinian journalists killed in “circumstances unproven to be related to their duties,” in a 2021&nbsp;<a href="https://rsf.org/en/toll-ten-years-civil-war-journalists-syria" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">report</a>&nbsp;on Syria, it stated,&nbsp;<em>“at least 300 professional and non-professional journalists have been killed while covering artillery bombardments and airstrikes or murdered by the various parties to the conflict,”</em>&nbsp;since 2011, going on to say,&nbsp;<em>“this figure could in reality be even higher.”</em></p>
  756.  
  757.  
  758.  
  759. <p>It cited a&nbsp;<a href="https://sn4hr.org/blog/2020/05/03/54947/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">report</a>&nbsp;by the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) claiming the number could be up to 700. While endorsing these numbers, the RSF also gave a caveat, albeit a much meeker one than the one about Gaza journalists:&nbsp;<em>“Confirming such estimates is not currently possible because of the difficulty of accessing information.”</em></p>
  760.  
  761.  
  762.  
  763. <p>Aside from reporting numbers it could not confirm, RSF cited a body in no way impartial or credible. As an&nbsp;<a href="https://thegrayzone.com/2019/06/14/syrian-network-for-human-rights-opposition-snhr/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">investigative article</a>&nbsp;noted, the SNHR is&nbsp;<em>“based in Qatar&#8230; funded by foreign governments and staffed by top opposition leaders,”</em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>“has openly clamored for Western military intervention.”</em></p>
  764.  
  765.  
  766.  
  767. <p>In 2017, Stephen Lendman&nbsp;<a href="https://stephenlendman.org/2017/12/01/reporters-without-borders-opposes-claims-support/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">wrote</a>&nbsp;of RSF&#8217;s attempt to shut down a panel sponsored by the Swiss Press Club in which British journalist Vanessa Beeley would be participating.&nbsp;<em>“An organization that defends freedom of information is asking me to censor a press conference,”</em>&nbsp;the club&#8217;s executive director Guy Mettan said at the time. He refused to cancel the event.</p>
  768.  
  769.  
  770.  
  771. <p>RSF&#8217;s 2023 roundup also didn&#8217;t include two Russian journalists killed this year, one by a Ukrainian cluster bomb strike and the other by a Ukrainian drone attack (targeting journalists).</p>
  772.  
  773.  
  774.  
  775. <p>Sputnik&nbsp;<a href="https://en.sputniknews.africa/20231220/reporters-without-borders-fails-to-explain-disregard-of-russian-war-correspondents-deaths-1064222822.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">pursued</a>&nbsp;the matter and reported that RSF,&nbsp;<em>“refused to give any comments to Sputnik”</em>&nbsp;citing&nbsp;<em>“editorial policy.”</em></p>
  776.  
  777.  
  778.  
  779. <p>Journalist Christelle Neant likewise noted RSF&#8217;s glaring omission of the Russian journalists. She&nbsp;<a href="https://www.donbass-insider.com/2023/12/22/for-reporters-without-borders-censorship-is-freedom-of-speech-and-the-death-of-russian-journalists-does-not-count/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">wrote</a>&nbsp;about the body&#8217;s funding from various governments, and more notably from regime change agencies: the Open Society foundation, The Ford Foundation, and the National Endowment for Democracy, funded by the US Congress.</p>
  780.  
  781.  
  782.  
  783. <p>RSF&#8217;s notorious funders explain why it cherry picks or inflates its reports. The borderless organization has lines it won&#8217;t cross. It reports a grain of truth but otherwise whitewashes the crimes of Israel and Washington.</p>
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  787. <p></p>
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  791. <p></p>
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  795. <p></p>
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  798.  
  799. <p class="has-large-font-size">Additional Notes:</p>
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  802.  
  803. <p>On December 19, freelance journalist Adel Zorob <a href="https://cpj.org/2024/01/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-gaza-conflict/">was killed</a> in an Israeli&nbsp;airstrike&nbsp;on his home&nbsp;in Rafah, southern Gaza, along with 25 family members.</p>
  804.  
  805.  
  806.  
  807. <p>On <a href="https://t.me/PalestineResist/24510">December 30</a>, journalist Jabr Abu Hadrous ascended as a martyr with several of his family members after the IOF bombed his home in Nusseirat camp, central #Gaza, becoming the 106th journalist in Gaza to be martyred since October 7th.</p>
  808.  
  809.  
  810.  
  811. <p>On January 7, 2024, journalist Hamza Al Dahdouh (son of Al-Jazeera Gaza bureau chief Wael Al Dahdouh), was killed in an Israeli drone strike along with freelance journalist Mustafa Thuraya, according to Al-Jazeera Arabic. They were driving to an assignment in southern Gaza when the strike occurred.</p>
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  816. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">All that remains for Al Jazeera Journalist Wael Al-Dahdouh in his family is his daughter.<br>Israel took the lives of his entire family after they killed his oldest son Hamza today.<br><br>Israel is a terrorist entity. <a href="https://t.co/itOR8gJD42">pic.twitter.com/itOR8gJD42</a></p>&mdash; Marwa Osman || مروة عثمان (@Marwa__Osman) <a href="https://twitter.com/Marwa__Osman/status/1743997154887163964?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2024</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  872. <p>-by Eva K Bartlett</p>
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  876. <p><em>*Blog version slightly longer than originally published.*</em></p>
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  880. <p>After seven weeks of relentless Israeli bombing throughout Gaza, according to the modest estimates&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ochaopt.org/content/hostilities-gaza-strip-and-israel-flash-update-49" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">of the UN</a>&nbsp;as of November 23 (right before a humanitarian ceasefire came into effect), <strong>more than 14,800 people have been killed in the enclave, including about 6,000 children and 4,000 women.</strong></p>
  881.  
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  883.  
  884. <p>While these Israeli attacks on Gaza are by far the worst yet, with <strong>Israel dropping&nbsp;<a href="https://t.me/PalestineResist/20921" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">a reported</a>&nbsp;40,000 tons (update: now <a href="https://t.me/QudsNen/89698">50,000 tons</a>) of explosives in less than two months</strong>, it is worth recalling that<strong> Israel has repeatedly waged assaults against the Palestinians of Gaza over the past 15 years</strong>.</p>
  885.  
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  887.  
  888. <p>Living in Gaza for years between late 2008 to March 2013, I was witness to two major Israeli assaults (and countless smaller ones over the years). Here, I will highlight what I saw and documented, to show that <strong>the horrific Israeli war crimes we are seeing coming out of Gaza are not new</strong>, even if <strong>they are&nbsp;<em>exponentially</em>&nbsp;worse this time around</strong>.</p>
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  893. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/2-1-1.webp"><img loading="lazy" width="1024" height="768" data-attachment-id="29989" data-permalink="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2023/12/07/i-documented-two-israeli-wars-on-gaza-this-current-one-is-the-worst/2-1-1-2/" data-orig-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/2-1-1.webp" data-orig-size="1024,768" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="2-1-1" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/2-1-1.webp?w=300" data-large-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/2-1-1.webp?w=900" data-id="29989" src="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/2-1-1.webp?w=1024" alt="" class="wp-image-29989" srcset="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/2-1-1.webp 1024w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/2-1-1.webp?w=150 150w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/2-1-1.webp?w=300 300w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/2-1-1.webp?w=768 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a></figure>
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  897. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/4-1.webp"><img loading="lazy" width="300" height="225" data-attachment-id="29991" data-permalink="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2023/12/07/i-documented-two-israeli-wars-on-gaza-this-current-one-is-the-worst/4-1/" data-orig-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/4-1.webp" data-orig-size="300,225" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="4-1" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/4-1.webp?w=300" data-large-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/4-1.webp?w=300" data-id="29991" src="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/4-1.webp?w=300" alt="" class="wp-image-29991" srcset="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/4-1.webp 300w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/4-1.webp?w=150 150w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a></figure>
  898. </figure>
  899.  
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  901.  
  902. <p>On&nbsp;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2008/12/28/widespread-attacks-on-gaza-leave-at-least-227-dead-hundreds-seriously-injured/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">December 27, 2008</a>, Israel&nbsp;unloaded 100 bombs on Gaza within the first minutes of what would be its three week war on Gaza Lead. I saw a large crowd, some running from the direction in which I headed, others running in that direction. Some ran to escape, others ran to help pull bodies to safety. Around the corner and down Omar Mukthar street I saw the remains of a police station, rubble and blood strewn everywhere. As I watched Palestinians approach the station to begin extracting bodies, I witness a last rocket hit the street 150 meters away, where crowds had already gathered to try to extract the dead bodies.&nbsp;</p>
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  906. <p>The Shifa Hospital (Gaza&#8217;s main), was receiving the dead and&nbsp;<a href="https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9/shifa-hospital-brain-matter-out:3" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">the injured</a>&nbsp;non-stop. The ICU beds were filled, and doctors&nbsp;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2008/12/28/shifa-icu-a-glimpse-of-hospital-critical-injuries/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">told me</a>&nbsp;that as soon as one patient died another took their place.</p>
  907.  
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  909.  
  910. <p>Together with a handful of international activists in Gaza I made the decision to ride in ambulances with Palestinian medics as they searched for the wounded and took them to hospitals. We did so aware that Israel barred journalists from Gaza, and knowing that, in the past, medics and ambulances had been targets for the Israeli army.</p>
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  914. <figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><a href="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/97-2.jpg"><img loading="lazy" width="639" height="426" data-attachment-id="30011" data-permalink="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2023/12/07/i-documented-two-israeli-wars-on-gaza-this-current-one-is-the-worst/97-2-2/" data-orig-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/97-2.jpg" data-orig-size="639,426" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="97-2" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/97-2.jpg?w=300" data-large-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/97-2.jpg?w=639" src="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/97-2.jpg?w=639" alt="" class="wp-image-30011" style="width:479px;height:auto" srcset="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/97-2.jpg 639w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/97-2.jpg?w=150 150w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/97-2.jpg?w=300 300w" sizes="(max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px" /></a></figure></div>
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  917. <p>I would see this first-hand soon after first joining the medics, when <strong>an Israeli sniper&nbsp;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/israeli-sniper-targets-uniformed-medics-what-i-witnessed-in-gaza/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">targeted</a>&nbsp;the ambulance I rode in, injuring one medic in the leg. The last of at least 14 bullets hit the rear of the car as we sped away.</strong></p>
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  922. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">ISRAELIS ALWAYS TARGETED MEDICS<br><br>In 2009, an Israeli sniper fired at least 14 shots at <a href="https://twitter.com/EvaKBartlett?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EvaKBartlett</a> and medics she was with. <a href="https://t.co/izneS3DfXY">pic.twitter.com/izneS3DfXY</a></p>&mdash; Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) <a href="https://twitter.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/1729115354629337482?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 27, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  927. <p>This was <strong>during the January 7, 2009 “<em>humanitarian cease-fire</em>” hours.</strong> The Geneva Conventions explicitly state that “<strong><em>medical personnel searching, collecting, transporting or treating the wounded should be protected and respected in all circumstances</em>.</strong>”</p>
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  932. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">During Israel&#39;s horrific December 2008/January 2009 bombardment of Gaza, I rode in ambulances of Palestinian medics, primarily the Palestinian Red Crescent but also sometimes government ambulances.<br><br>THERE WERE NO WEAPONS IN THE AMBULANCES. <br>WE WENT TO THE AREAS HARDEST HIT BY&#8230; <a href="https://t.co/AI6benSfEC">https://t.co/AI6benSfEC</a></p>&mdash; Eva Karene Bartlett (@EvaKBartlett) <a href="https://twitter.com/EvaKBartlett/status/1712735828076531930?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 13, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  936.  
  937. <p>Some days prior, Israeli shelling had killed Arafa abd al-Dayem, a medic&nbsp;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/israeli-army-kills-palestinian-medic-with-dart-bomb/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">I knew</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/01/03/what-the-medics-see-do-and-are-subjected-to-uncensored/">had accompanied</a>   <a href="https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9/with-palestinian-medics-looking-for:e?r=E8uNUooSJGayyRFr7WTWAzLhLGSMsTZi" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">(video)</a>. </p>
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  942. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/night-work53.webp"><img loading="lazy" width="300" height="225" data-attachment-id="29952" data-permalink="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2023/12/07/i-documented-two-israeli-wars-on-gaza-this-current-one-is-the-worst/night-work53-2/" data-orig-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/night-work53.webp" data-orig-size="300,225" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="night-work53" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/night-work53.webp?w=300" data-large-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/night-work53.webp?w=300" data-id="29952" src="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/night-work53.webp?w=300" alt="" class="wp-image-29952" srcset="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/night-work53.webp 300w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/night-work53.webp?w=150 150w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a></figure>
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  946. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/33.webp"><img loading="lazy" width="225" height="300" data-attachment-id="29953" data-permalink="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2023/12/07/i-documented-two-israeli-wars-on-gaza-this-current-one-is-the-worst/33-6/" data-orig-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/33.webp" data-orig-size="225,300" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="33" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/33.webp?w=225" data-large-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/33.webp?w=225" data-id="29953" src="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/33.webp?w=225" alt="" class="wp-image-29953" srcset="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/33.webp 225w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/33.webp?w=113 113w" sizes="(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px" /></a></figure>
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  950. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/arafa-ambulance-1.jpg"><img loading="lazy" width="480" height="640" data-attachment-id="29954" data-permalink="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2023/12/07/i-documented-two-israeli-wars-on-gaza-this-current-one-is-the-worst/arafa-ambulance-1-3/" data-orig-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/arafa-ambulance-1.jpg" data-orig-size="480,640" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="arafa-ambulance-1" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/arafa-ambulance-1.jpg?w=225" data-large-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/arafa-ambulance-1.jpg?w=480" data-id="29954" src="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/arafa-ambulance-1.jpg?w=480" alt="" class="wp-image-29954" srcset="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/arafa-ambulance-1.jpg 480w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/arafa-ambulance-1.jpg?w=113 113w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/arafa-ambulance-1.jpg?w=225 225w" sizes="(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px" /></a></figure>
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  954. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/arafa-ambulance2.webp"><img loading="lazy" width="225" height="300" data-attachment-id="29971" data-permalink="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2023/12/07/i-documented-two-israeli-wars-on-gaza-this-current-one-is-the-worst/arafa-ambulance2-3/" data-orig-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/arafa-ambulance2.webp" data-orig-size="225,300" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="arafa-ambulance2" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/arafa-ambulance2.webp?w=225" data-large-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/arafa-ambulance2.webp?w=225" data-id="29971" src="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/arafa-ambulance2.webp?w=225" alt="" class="wp-image-29971" srcset="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/arafa-ambulance2.webp 225w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/arafa-ambulance2.webp?w=113 113w" sizes="(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px" /></a></figure>
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  958. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/arafa.webp"><img loading="lazy" width="225" height="300" data-attachment-id="29970" data-permalink="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2023/12/07/i-documented-two-israeli-wars-on-gaza-this-current-one-is-the-worst/arafa-6/" data-orig-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/arafa.webp" data-orig-size="225,300" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="arafa" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/arafa.webp?w=225" data-large-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/arafa.webp?w=225" data-id="29970" src="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/arafa.webp?w=225" alt="" class="wp-image-29970" srcset="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/arafa.webp 225w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/arafa.webp?w=113 113w" sizes="(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px" /></a></figure>
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  963. <p>He was rescuing injured Palestinians, standing at the rear of the ambulance when it was hit with a shell containing flechettes. Flechette munitions are&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2009/01/israeli-army-used-flechettes-against-gaza-civilians-20090127/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">designed to spray</a>&nbsp;thousands of <a href="https://www.btselem.org/press_releases/20080417">small metal darts</a> in a wide arc, increasing the chance of injuries and death. The dart&#8217;s sharp head is designed to break away, increasing the amount of internal damage done. Another 21-year-old medic, a volunteer, was injured, his legs lacerated.</p>
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  967. <div class="wp-block-cover aligncenter"><span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim"></span><img loading="lazy" width="483" height="362" data-attachment-id="29957" data-permalink="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2023/12/07/i-documented-two-israeli-wars-on-gaza-this-current-one-is-the-worst/090316-bartlett-flechette-3-2/" data-orig-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/090316-bartlett-flechette-3.jpg" data-orig-size="483,362" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="090316-bartlett-flechette-3" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/090316-bartlett-flechette-3.jpg?w=300" data-large-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/090316-bartlett-flechette-3.jpg?w=483" class="wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-29957" alt="" src="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/090316-bartlett-flechette-3.jpg?w=483" data-object-fit="cover" srcset="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/090316-bartlett-flechette-3.jpg 483w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/090316-bartlett-flechette-3.jpg?w=150 150w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/090316-bartlett-flechette-3.jpg?w=300 300w" sizes="(max-width: 483px) 100vw, 483px" /><div class="wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow">
  968. <p class="has-text-align-center has-large-font-size"><em>Photo | Eva K Bartlett (2009)</em></p>
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  973. <p>The day after Arafa was killed, the Israeli army fired three times within two minutes on the neighborhood where family and neighbors had gathered to pay their respects. The shelling,&nbsp;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/03/16/ensuring-maximum-casualties-in-gaza/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">again with flechettes</a>, killed six more civilians, including a young pregnant mother, and injured 25 more.</p>
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  986. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/xray-1.webp"><img loading="lazy" width="225" height="300" data-attachment-id="29966" data-permalink="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2023/12/07/i-documented-two-israeli-wars-on-gaza-this-current-one-is-the-worst/xray-1/" data-orig-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/xray-1.webp" data-orig-size="225,300" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="xray-1" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/xray-1.webp?w=225" data-large-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/xray-1.webp?w=225" data-id="29966" src="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/xray-1.webp?w=225" alt="" class="wp-image-29966" srcset="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/xray-1.webp 225w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/xray-1.webp?w=113 113w" sizes="(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px" /></a></figure>
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  1007. <p>Before his murder, I&#8217;d gone with Arafa the northwest, just after 4 am, where a high school has been bombed. I <a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/01/03/what-the-medics-see-do-and-are-subjected-to-uncensored/">wrote</a>: &#8220;<em>We have to navigate roads that are more than pot-holed, destroyed by time, lack of construction materials (the siege), and more recently, the F-16 missiles. Finding only the one injured man, we take him to hospital, returning after daybreak to find the corpse.</em>&#8220;</p>
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  1036. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/dsc019161.jpg"><img loading="lazy" width="480" height="640" data-attachment-id="30000" data-permalink="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2023/12/07/i-documented-two-israeli-wars-on-gaza-this-current-one-is-the-worst/dsc019161/" data-orig-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/dsc019161.jpg" data-orig-size="480,640" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="dsc019161" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/dsc019161.jpg?w=225" data-large-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/dsc019161.jpg?w=480" data-id="30000" src="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/dsc019161.jpg?w=480" alt="" class="wp-image-30000" srcset="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/dsc019161.jpg 480w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/dsc019161.jpg?w=113 113w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/dsc019161.jpg?w=225 225w" sizes="(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px" /></a></figure>
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  1044. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/dsc018971.jpg"><img loading="lazy" width="768" height="1024" data-attachment-id="30005" data-permalink="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2023/12/07/i-documented-two-israeli-wars-on-gaza-this-current-one-is-the-worst/dsc018971/" data-orig-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/dsc018971.jpg" data-orig-size="3000,4000" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DSC-W200&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1230964365&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;7.6&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.05&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="dsc018971" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/dsc018971.jpg?w=225" data-large-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/dsc018971.jpg?w=768" data-id="30005" src="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/dsc018971.jpg?w=768" alt="" class="wp-image-30005" srcset="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/dsc018971.jpg?w=768 768w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/dsc018971.jpg?w=1536 1536w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/dsc018971.jpg?w=113 113w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/dsc018971.jpg?w=225 225w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" /></a></figure>
  1045. </figure>
  1046.  
  1047.  
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  1049. <p>*video <a href="https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9/with-palestinian-medics-looking-for:e?r=E8uNUooSJGayyRFr7WTWAzLhLGSMsTZi">HERE</a></p>
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  1052.  
  1053. <p>&#8220;<em>The medics work to load the corpse, first having to replace the flat tire.&nbsp; Working frantically, still fearful of potential strikes, they crowd the ambulance, hoist the van, replace the flat.&nbsp; A missile hits 50 metres away.&nbsp; Surely, undoubtedly, those warplanes above us know –from the markings of the ambulance, the clothes of the medics, the crystal clear photos their drones can take –that we are civilians and medics below. Yet they fire.</em></p>
  1054.  
  1055.  
  1056.  
  1057. <p><em>They change the tire, load the body, and we’re off, screeching as much as the tired ambulance and mangled roads will allow.&nbsp; It’s straight around the back of the hospital, to the mortuary, where men mourning the latest dead before ours are ushered out, ordered to make room for this new body.&nbsp; In the cold room, the body is transferred to the fridge shelf, but while that happens the blanket comes undone.&nbsp; The patch of burned skin, in no way human, reveals itself to be a half-body, the head hanging loosely by what neck remains.</em></p>
  1058.  
  1059.  
  1060.  
  1061. <p><em>The medics have seen ghastly things and urge me to keep it in, keep working.&nbsp; They must, and so I do. We return to the centre, I leave them intending to return a day later, to spend my day reporting and writing.</em>&#8221;&nbsp;It is later this day that Arafa is murdered.</p>
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  1064.  
  1065. <p>The night the Israeli land invasion began, on January 3, shells flew dangerously close to the Red Crescent station in the district east of Jabaliya&nbsp;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/01/04/they-know-no-limits-now-a-new-nakba/">I w</a><a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/01/04/they-know-no-limits-now-a-new-nakba/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">as then based in</a>, when not in one of the ambulances. By morning it was impossible to access, and by the end of the war, we returned to find it riddled with bullet holes from machine-gun fire and blasted by shelling.</p>
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  1074. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/rc.jpg"><img loading="lazy" width="480" height="640" data-attachment-id="29976" data-permalink="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2023/12/07/i-documented-two-israeli-wars-on-gaza-this-current-one-is-the-worst/rc-4/" data-orig-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/rc.jpg" data-orig-size="480,640" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="rc" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/rc.jpg?w=225" data-large-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/rc.jpg?w=480" data-id="29976" src="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/rc.jpg?w=480" alt="" class="wp-image-29976" srcset="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/rc.jpg 480w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/rc.jpg?w=113 113w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/rc.jpg?w=225 225w" sizes="(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px" /></a></figure>
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  1082. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/rc2.jpg"><img loading="lazy" width="480" height="640" data-attachment-id="29974" data-permalink="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2023/12/07/i-documented-two-israeli-wars-on-gaza-this-current-one-is-the-worst/rc2-3/" data-orig-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/rc2.jpg" data-orig-size="480,640" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="rc2" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/rc2.jpg?w=225" data-large-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/rc2.jpg?w=480" data-id="29974" src="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/rc2.jpg?w=480" alt="" class="wp-image-29974" srcset="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/rc2.jpg 480w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/rc2.jpg?w=113 113w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/rc2.jpg?w=225 225w" sizes="(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px" /></a></figure>
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  1086. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/rc6.jpg"><img loading="lazy" width="640" height="480" data-attachment-id="29975" data-permalink="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2023/12/07/i-documented-two-israeli-wars-on-gaza-this-current-one-is-the-worst/rc6-3/" data-orig-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/rc6.jpg" data-orig-size="640,480" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="rc6" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/rc6.jpg?w=300" data-large-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/rc6.jpg?w=640" data-id="29975" src="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/rc6.jpg?w=640" alt="" class="wp-image-29975" srcset="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/rc6.jpg 640w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/rc6.jpg?w=150 150w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/rc6.jpg?w=300 300w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></a></figure>
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  1091. <p>The ambulances and their medical equipment were some of the most bare-bone I&#8217;ve seen, supplies depleted by the long Israeli siege and blockade of Gaza. The medics&nbsp;<a href="https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9/palestinian-medics-transporting-victims:7?r=E8uNUooSJGayyRFr7WTWAzLhLGSMsTZi&amp;lid=ce33a0a4910ada76a21dffe25319f136eb6e96f6" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">drove quickly (video)</a>&nbsp;over bumpy roads to get to the people in need, wasted little time collecting them, and bolted away, trying to avoid being targeted by the Israeli army.</p>
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  1095. <p>After invading the Tel al-Hawa district in the third week of its war on Gaza, the Israeli army repeatedly bombed the Quds hospital, while Israeli snipers targeted Palestinians fleeing residential areas. I was&nbsp;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/01/17/burning-al-quds-one-of-gazas-remaining-functional-hospitals-destroyed-in-israels-war-on-gaza/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">with an ambulance that went to evacuate</a>&nbsp;civilians from the hospital and take them to the Shifa hospital (which had no space), going back repeatedly to save Palestinian civilians, each time at risk of being shot by Israeli soldiers. [Evacuations video <a href="https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9/al-quds-fire-jan-15-2009-mpg:9?r=E8uNUooSJGayyRFr7WTWAzLhLGSMsTZi&amp;lid=ce33a0a4910ada76a21dffe25319f136eb6e96f6">HERE</a>]</p>
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  1099. <p><strong>By the end of the 2009 war, the Israeli army had killed 23 medics, and injured 57 more, destroying at least nine ambulances and damaging 16 more. None of the journalists or medics that I knew had protective body armor – including me. </strong>Given the massive bombs which Israel was dropping on us, it would&#8217;ve made little difference.</p>
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  1103. <p>One evening, after giving an interview to RT about what I’d seen while riding in ambulances in the extremely dangerous areas of Gaza’s north, just after finishing the interview, <strong>Israel&nbsp;<a href="https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9/israel-bombed-the-news-building-i-was-in:8?r=E8uNUooSJGayyRFr7WTWAzLhLGSMsTZi&amp;lid=ce33a0a4910ada76a21dffe25319f136eb6e96f6" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">shelled the building</a>&nbsp;at least seven times. </strong>We scrambled down&nbsp;ten flights of stairs, thankfully intact. Incidentally, <strong>in 2021, Israeli airstrikes&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rt.com/op-ed/523875-israel-gaza-air-strikes-war-crimes/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">destroyed</a>&nbsp;the same building as well as another, collectively housing 20 media outlets</strong>. <strong>By now, Israeli forces have <a href="https://t.me/PalestineResist/21402">killed at least 73 Palestinian journalists</a> during the past two months.</strong></p>
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  1106.  
  1107. <p>During and after the 2008-2009 war, I took countless testimonies of <strong>Palestinian parents who said their children were deliberately murdered by Israeli soldiers:&nbsp;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/while-eating-chips-and-chocolate-israeli-soldiers-murder-2-and-7-year-old/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">shot point blank</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/all-weve-got-left-of-him/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">drone struck</a>&nbsp;during ceasefire hours, shot&nbsp;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/they-killed-me-three-times/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">by a sniper</a>. </strong></p>
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  1111. <figure class="wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  1112. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I&#39;m writing an article, referencing past Israeli crimes I&#39;ve written about.<br>  <br>(2009 Israeli war on Gaza):<br><br>This is about 2 &amp; 7 year old girls gunned down point-blank by Israeli soldiers. Their 4 year old sister survived multiple shots, paralyzed&#8230; <a href="https://t.co/rmul8XWWEy">https://t.co/rmul8XWWEy</a></p>&mdash; Eva Karene Bartlett (@EvaKBartlett) <a href="https://twitter.com/EvaKBartlett/status/1718289926028959760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  1117. <p>In Shifa hospital, I met the mutilated survivors <strong>whose home had been shelled with white phosphorus munitions, killing six family members, including an infant burned alive. </strong>I followed up on their story afterwards, learning more chilling details and seeing their bombed-out home with my own eyes. Graffiti, apparently left on the walls by Israeli soldiers, included hate messages and threats, like&nbsp;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/next-time-it-will-hurt-more-israeli-threat-against-surviving-family-members-of-white-phosphorous-attack/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>“it will hurt more next time.”</em>&nbsp;(Warning: disturbing images)</a> <strong>I knew the medic who found baby Shahed&#8217;s, “</strong><em>burned, gnawed corpse,” </em><strong>as <a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/rescuers-targeted-one-year-on/">he told me</a>. Her charred remains had first been found by street dogs. </strong><em>“For the rest of my life I’ll remember that day. I’ll never get over it.”</em></p>
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  1121. <figure class="wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  1122. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This is about an infant girl, Shahed, who was burned alive by the White Phosphorous (WP) Israeli soldiers fired onto a civilian home in northern Gaza. Five other family members were murdered by the WP &amp; shelling. <a href="https://t.co/n8pfpHajwP">https://t.co/n8pfpHajwP</a></p>&mdash; Eva Karene Bartlett (@EvaKBartlett) <a href="https://twitter.com/EvaKBartlett/status/1718293098076262898?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  1127. <p>In the last two months, Israel has repeatedly bombed schools, including UN-affiliated ones that housed displaced Palestinians seeking safe shelter. It did the same back in January 2009, bombing numerous UN schools,&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/EvaKBartlett/status/1726604860509061567" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">including the Fakhoura school</a>&nbsp;that has suffered in the current war as well.</p>
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  1131. <figure class="wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  1132. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The 4th shell, from Israel&#39;s bombing of Fakhoura in 2009, hit near the Deeb home, killing 10 in 1 family.<br><br>In Kamal Adwan hospital I met Ahlam (19), who had shrapnel lacerations all over her body. She didn’t know 10 of her family were killed. <a href="https://t.co/YxcEnXGluH">https://t.co/YxcEnXGluH</a> <a href="https://t.co/5HOEM6mREI">pic.twitter.com/5HOEM6mREI</a></p>&mdash; Eva Karene Bartlett (@EvaKBartlett) <a href="https://twitter.com/EvaKBartlett/status/1726604860509061567?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 20, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
  1133. </div></figure>
  1134.  
  1135.  
  1136.  
  1137. <p>With medics elsewhere in Gaza&#8217;s north when Israel fired four shells at Fakhoura, I <a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/after-israeli-bombing-of-un-fakhoura-school-no-room-for-the-dead-no-room-for-the-living/%20">went there the next day</a> and learned 43 civilians were killed in that bombing, including from homes nearby. A medic I knew told me of being there when the bombing happened and seeing people “shredded” in front of him.</p>
  1138.  
  1139.  
  1140.  
  1141. <p>Another medic arrived after the shelling. “<em>I saw dead bodies everywhere. I helped carry 15 dead. I had to change my clothes 3 times. These people thought they were safe in the UN school, but the Israeli army killed them.</em>”</p>
  1142.  
  1143.  
  1144.  
  1145. <p>I could, unfortunately, write pages more on what I saw and heard in those three weeks of Israeli bombing, and also during the November 2012 Israeli campaign (when I was&nbsp;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/killing-before-the-calm-israeli-attacks-on-palestinian-civilians-escalated-before-cease-fire/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">based at a hospital</a>&nbsp;in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza), but for the sake of some brevity will stop. What did not stop were the Israeli bombings and shooting immediately post ceasefire, both&nbsp;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/its-a-ceasefirejust-not-on-the-beach-not-in-your-home/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">in 2009</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/zionists-violated-cease-fire-from-the-start-and-still-are/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">in 2012</a>.</p>
  1146.  
  1147.  
  1148.  
  1149. <p>I saw the mangled bodies of civilians, especially children, <a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/killing-before-the-calm-israeli-attacks-on-palestinian-civilians-escalated-before-cease-fire/">pour into the </a><a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/killing-before-the-calm-israeli-attacks-on-palestinian-civilians-escalated-before-cease-fire/">A</a><a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/killing-before-the-calm-israeli-attacks-on-palestinian-civilians-escalated-before-cease-fire/">qsa hospital</a> in Deir al-Balah. Two of the <a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2013/01/12/the-hardest-thing-parents-speak-of-their-children-killed-by-israeli-bombings/">children were killed just hours before</a> a ceasefire—already agreed upon—was to be implemented.</p>
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  1151.  
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  1154. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/reham3.webp"><img loading="lazy" width="300" height="199" data-attachment-id="29985" data-permalink="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2023/12/07/i-documented-two-israeli-wars-on-gaza-this-current-one-is-the-worst/reham3-3/" data-orig-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/reham3.webp" data-orig-size="300,199" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="reham3" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/reham3.webp?w=300" data-large-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/reham3.webp?w=300" data-id="29985" src="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/reham3.webp?w=300" alt="" class="wp-image-29985" srcset="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/reham3.webp 300w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/reham3.webp?w=150 150w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a></figure>
  1155.  
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  1157.  
  1158. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/nader-abu-mghaseeb1.webp"><img loading="lazy" width="300" height="199" data-attachment-id="29986" data-permalink="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2023/12/07/i-documented-two-israeli-wars-on-gaza-this-current-one-is-the-worst/nader-abu-mghaseeb1-5/" data-orig-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/nader-abu-mghaseeb1.webp" data-orig-size="300,199" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="nader-abu-mghaseeb1" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/nader-abu-mghaseeb1.webp?w=300" data-large-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/nader-abu-mghaseeb1.webp?w=300" data-id="29986" src="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/nader-abu-mghaseeb1.webp?w=300" alt="" class="wp-image-29986" srcset="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/nader-abu-mghaseeb1.webp 300w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/nader-abu-mghaseeb1.webp?w=150 150w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a></figure>
  1159. </figure>
  1160.  
  1161.  
  1162.  
  1163. <p>The four year old girl&#8217;s family had returned to their home, from which they&#8217;d fled, thinking it would be safe since the ceasefire was coming. Israeli forces shelled their district, shattering their hopes of calm. The girl, Reham, died of shrapnel to her temple, standing next to the door of her home. Nader, the fourteen year old, likewise thought the pending ceasefire meant he was safe to move, walking to a small shop up the lane to buy food for his siblings who&#8217;d only had bread the past five days. He was targeted by a precision drone strike which tore his body into <a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/killing-before-the-calm-israeli-attacks-on-palestinian-civilians-escalated-before-cease-fire/">the shreds I saw in the hospital</a>.</p>
  1164.  
  1165.  
  1166.  
  1167. <p>But almost as brutal as the Israeli bombing campaigns has been the over-16-year-long strangling siege on Gaza. I&#8217;ve&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rt.com/op-ed/517532-gaza-longest-barbaric-lockdown/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">written about it</a>&nbsp;at length, but which in summary it has caused a vast increase in poverty, food insecurity, malnutrition, anemia, stunted growth, diabetes, treatable illnesses going untreated, water that was 95% undrinkable (already back in 2014).</p>
  1168.  
  1169.  
  1170.  
  1171. <figure class="wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  1172. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Israel&#39;s blocking of the entry of the most basics of life (medicines, water, electricity, food) into Gaza didn&#39;t start 2 weeks ago.  It started 16+ years ago. <a href="https://t.co/erUpD6pjPo">https://t.co/erUpD6pjPo</a></p>&mdash; Eva Karene Bartlett (@EvaKBartlett) <a href="https://twitter.com/EvaKBartlett/status/1716465067506409813?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  1174.  
  1175.  
  1176.  
  1177. <p>The Israeli tactics have been so sadistic that Israel in 2008, “went as far as to <strong><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/2-279-calories-per-person-how-israel-made-sure-gaza-didn-t-starve.premium-1.470419" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">calculate the minimum amount of calories needed</a></strong><strong> </strong>to keep Palestinians not quite fully starving.” Alive, just barely.</p>
  1178.  
  1179.  
  1180.  
  1181. <p>But in addition to the myriad serious issues of Israel&#8217;s siege (forced poverty, education abroad denied, medical care abroad denied), compounding the brutality of living in Gaza is Israel&#8217;s <strong>relentless, near-daily, deadly firing on Palestinian farmers and fishers</strong>, <a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/02/03/shooting-at-farmers-what-gives-israel-the-right/">under the pretext of “security”</a>.</p>
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  1184. <div class="wp-block-image">
  1185. <figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><a href="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/f1.png"><img loading="lazy" width="1024" height="819" data-attachment-id="30019" data-permalink="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2023/12/07/i-documented-two-israeli-wars-on-gaza-this-current-one-is-the-worst/f1-2/" data-orig-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/f1.png" data-orig-size="1054,843" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="f1" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/f1.png?w=300" data-large-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/f1.png?w=900" src="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/f1.png?w=1024" alt="" class="wp-image-30019" style="width:574px;height:auto" srcset="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/f1.png?w=1024 1024w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/f1.png?w=150 150w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/f1.png?w=300 300w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/f1.png?w=768 768w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/f1.png 1054w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a></figure></div>
  1186.  
  1187.  
  1188. <p>I witnessed this on countless occasions during my three years in Gaza, <a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/04/06/lost-in-the-buffer-zone/">accompanying farmers</a> while they were on land. <strong>We routinely <a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/dirty-tricks-israeli-soldiers-shoot-deaf-palestinian-farmer-4th-farmer-shot-in-3-weeks/">came under Israeli gunfire</a></strong>. I can state definitively that in those many, many, many experiences of coming under Israeli gunfire, none of us were armed: not myself, not the elderly grandmothers, not the children, not the paid labourers. They posed zero threat to Israel other than simply existing.</p>
  1189.  
  1190.  
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  1192. <figure class="aligncenter size-large"><a href="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/dsc03825.jpg"><img loading="lazy" width="480" height="640" data-attachment-id="30017" data-permalink="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2023/12/07/i-documented-two-israeli-wars-on-gaza-this-current-one-is-the-worst/dsc03825-5/" data-orig-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/dsc03825.jpg" data-orig-size="480,640" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="dsc03825" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/dsc03825.jpg?w=225" data-large-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/dsc03825.jpg?w=480" src="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/dsc03825.jpg?w=480" alt="" class="wp-image-30017" srcset="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/dsc03825.jpg 480w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/dsc03825.jpg?w=113 113w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/dsc03825.jpg?w=225 225w" sizes="(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px" /></a></figure></div>
  1193.  
  1194.  
  1195. <p></p>
  1196.  
  1197.  
  1198.  
  1199. <p>I <a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/observations-from-occupied-palestine-in-gaza/">wrote</a> about going, on June 14, 2009, to Gaza’s northern region of Beit Hanoun to<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/06/14/54-days/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">&nbsp;search for the corpse of a young man gone missing</a>&nbsp;two months prior. A shepherd in the area had reported having smelled what seemed to be a dead body in the northeastern region near the border fence. As we walked in a line, combing the ground for the body, Israeli soldiers began firing on us. The dead man’s father walked with us, ducking with each shot fired our way. The bullets came closer and more quickly as we located the badly decomposed body, loaded him onto a sheet, and hauled him away, the father wailing. The Israelis deny Palestinians even the dignity of recovering the bodies of their loved ones.</p>
  1200.  
  1201.  
  1202.  
  1203. <p>Likewise, <strong>Israeli attacks on Palestinian fishers (machine gun fire, heavy duty water cannoning, shelling) is a daily occurrence</strong> which I&#8217;ve <a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/israeli-terrorism-at-sea-israelis-destroy-boats-and-lives/">written about</a> at length, but which many outside of Gaza don&#8217;t know about and would be horrified at the extent of this <strong>Israeli terrorism against fishers. This includes <a href="https://www.rt.com/op-ed/israel-pirating-palestinian-waters-309/">kidnapping fishers and stealing</a> their boats.</strong></p>
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  1205.  
  1206.  
  1207. <p><strong>[ </strong><strong><a href="https://www.rt.com/op-ed/israel-pirating-palestinian-waters-309/">https://www.rt.com/op-ed/israel-pirating-palestinian-waters-309/</a></strong><strong> ]</strong></p>
  1208.  
  1209.  
  1210.  
  1211. <p>Further, what many don&#8217;t realize is that <strong>even when Israel is not officially warring upon Gaza, it still routinely bombs throughout the tiny Strip.</strong></p>
  1212.  
  1213.  
  1214.  
  1215. <p>Before the 2008/9 Israeli war on Gaza, I&#8217;d been there since November 8, having <a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2008/11/08/on-board-the-dignity-en-route-to-besieged-gaza/">gotten to Gaza by boat</a> from Cyprus, along with a number of European MPs who were gravely concerned about the brutal siege Israel had imposed on Gaza the year prior (and imposes to this day). Israeli journalist Amira Hass was <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/2008-11-09/ty-article/haniyeh-hamas-willing-to-accept-palestinian-state-with-1967-borders/0000017f-ded0-df9c-a17f-fed882750000">also on the boat</a> and spent a few days in Gaza. When the delegation left, I stayed, my only means of getting to and staying in Gaza.</p>
  1216.  
  1217.  
  1218.  
  1219. <p>Prior to the late 2008 January 2009 Israel bombardment of Gaza, <strong>Israel had been <a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/more-missile-strikes-more-victims/">bombing and killing</a> Palestinian civilians</strong>, some of whose families I visited. Many others times in Gaza there would be relative quiet<strong> and then <a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2011/08/06/stars-and-bombs/">Israeli bombings nearby</a>.</strong></p>
  1220.  
  1221.  
  1222.  
  1223. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">&#8220;Truce&#8221;</h2>
  1224.  
  1225.  
  1226.  
  1227. <p>On November 24 of this year, a four-day ceasefire was implemented, to allow for exchange of Hamas hostages for Palestinians imprisoned by Israel, as well as for deliveries of desperately needed food, water, fuel and medical aid, of which the 2.4-million population of Gaza had been deprived for weeks. Unsurprisingly, there were&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/azaizamotaz9/status/1728462369377202562" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">reports</a>&nbsp;of the truce being violated, including snipers firing on Palestinian civilians.</p>
  1228.  
  1229.  
  1230.  
  1231. <p>In the first day after the ceasefire expired, over 100 Palestinians were killed, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, as Israel started to deliver the promised&nbsp;<em>“<a href="https://www.rt.com/news/588353-gaza-civilians-killed-israel-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">mother of all thumpings</a>,”&nbsp;</em>ostensibly to Hamas militants.</p>
  1232.  
  1233.  
  1234.  
  1235. <p>There is no space for me here to outline all the horrors inflicted upon Gaza in the past two months, nor do I need to: social media and Telegram channels are filled with horrific scenes of schools housing displaced civilians getting bombarded again, entire blocks of refugee camps bombed, hospitals and churches housing tens of thousands of displaced civilians bombed, white phosphorous again rained down on densely inhabited residential areas, and on, and on. </p>
  1236.  
  1237.  
  1238.  
  1239. <p>What I do what to highlight is that there is no doubt in my mind, or in the minds of numerous other international reporters and observers who have seen the situation on the ground first-hand, that Israel has committed&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rt.com/news/585967-un-israel-war-crimes/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">war crimes</a>&nbsp;in Gaza, and the intent, if not the reality, is genocidal.</p>
  1240.  
  1241.  
  1242.  
  1243. <p>We have globally watched as Israel commits the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">definition</a>&nbsp;of genocide: <strong>“<em>The intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such</em>.” Raz Segal, a genocide expert,&nbsp;<a href="https://jewishcurrents.org/a-textbook-case-of-genocide" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">wrote of this</a>&nbsp;after only one week of Israel&#8217;s bombardment, since which Israel has committed uncountable heinous crimes.</strong></p>
  1244.  
  1245.  
  1246.  
  1247. <p>In late October, former Director of the UN&#8217;s New York (OHCHR) office, Craig Mokhiber, resigned from his position in protest and disgust, stating, “<strong><em>Once again, we are seeing a genocide unfolding before our eyes, and the organization that we serve appears powerless to stop it. As someone who has investigated human rights in Palestine since the 1980s, lived in Gaza as a UN human rights advisor in the 1990s, and carried out several human rights missions to the country before and since, this is deeply personal to me</em>.</strong>”</p>
  1248.  
  1249.  
  1250.  
  1251. <p>He explicitly&nbsp;<a href="https://hrvoices.org/assets/attachments/documents/cm_final_letter_signed_pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">stated</a>&nbsp;that <strong>Israel&#8217;s “<em>wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian people&#8230;coupled with explicit statements of intent by leaders in the Israeli government and military, leaves no room for doubt, this is a textbook case of genocide</em>.”</strong> </p>
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  1256. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Director of the UN&#39;s New York office just resigned after thirty years at the organisation over the UN&#39;s handling of the ongoing genocide of Palestinians. <br><br>The entirety of his resignation letter is a necessary read but this first page blew me away. <a href="https://t.co/3y9NwgIofP">pic.twitter.com/3y9NwgIofP</a></p>&mdash; ayan. (@artan_ayan) <a href="https://twitter.com/artan_ayan/status/1719453324284452944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 31, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  1334. <title>Interviewed by Fiorella Isabel: &#8220;Israel-Palestine, 4 Day Ceasefire Begins, with Eva Bartlett&#8221;</title>
  1335. <link>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2023/11/30/interviewed-by-fiorella-isabel-israel-palestine-4-day-ceasefire-begins-with-eva-bartlett/</link>
  1336. <comments>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2023/11/30/interviewed-by-fiorella-isabel-israel-palestine-4-day-ceasefire-begins-with-eva-bartlett/#comments</comments>
  1337. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Eva Bartlett]]></dc:creator>
  1338. <pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 13:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
  1339. <category><![CDATA[censorship]]></category>
  1340. <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category>
  1341. <category><![CDATA[manufactured poverty Gaza]]></category>
  1342. <category><![CDATA[Zionists wars on Gaza]]></category>
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  1344.  
  1345. <description><![CDATA[Thanks to Fiorella for having my on her show to discuss Palestine. Related Links: &#8211;Resistance News Network (Telegram channel) &#8211;Quds News Network (Telegram channel) -On Palestinian Political Prisoners (Telegram channel) &#8211;Israel&#8217;s war on Palestinians of Gaza 2008/2009 &#8211;Israel&#8217;s war on Palestinians of Gaza 2012 &#8211;All we’ve got left of him: parents speak of son killed&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2023/11/30/interviewed-by-fiorella-isabel-israel-palestine-4-day-ceasefire-begins-with-eva-bartlett/">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">Interviewed by Fiorella Isabel: &#8220;Israel-Palestine, 4 Day Ceasefire Begins, with Eva&#160;Bartlett&#8221;</span></a>]]></description>
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  1348. <div class="jetpack-video-wrapper"><iframe class="youtube-player" width="900" height="507" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1zui2U3-RpY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></div>
  1349. </div></figure>
  1350.  
  1351.  
  1352.  
  1353. <p>Thanks to Fiorella for having my on her show to discuss Palestine.</p>
  1354.  
  1355.  
  1356.  
  1357. <p></p>
  1358.  
  1359.  
  1360.  
  1361. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Related Links:<br /></h2>
  1362.  
  1363.  
  1364.  
  1365. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://t.me/PalestineResist">Resistance News Network</a> (Telegram channel)</p>
  1366.  
  1367.  
  1368.  
  1369. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://t.me/QudsNen">Quds News Network</a> (Telegram channel)</p>
  1370.  
  1371.  
  1372.  
  1373. <p>-On Palestinian Political Prisoners (<a href="https://t.me/RNN_Prisoners">Telegram channel</a>)</p>
  1374.  
  1375.  
  1376.  
  1377. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/photos-and-videos-zionist-massacre-of-gaza-2008-2009/">Israel&#8217;s war on Palestinians of Gaza 2008/2009</a></p>
  1378.  
  1379.  
  1380.  
  1381. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2012/11/">Israel&#8217;s war on Palestinians of Gaza 2012</a></p>
  1382.  
  1383.  
  1384.  
  1385. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/all-weve-got-left-of-him/">All we’ve got left of him: parents speak of son killed by Israeli drone strike during ceasefire hours</a></p>
  1386.  
  1387.  
  1388.  
  1389. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/israeli-sniper-targets-uniformed-medics-what-i-witnessed-in-gaza/">Israeli Sniper Targets Uniformed Medics: what I witnessed in&nbsp;Gaza</a> (with video)</p>
  1390.  
  1391.  
  1392.  
  1393. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/its-a-ceasefirejust-not-on-the-beach-not-in-your-home/">It’s a ceasefire…just not on the beach, not in your home</a>: Israeli soldier shoots 7 year old boy in&nbsp;head, Israeli gunboat shelling injure 6, mostly children (2009)</p>
  1394.  
  1395.  
  1396.  
  1397. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/killing-before-the-calm-israeli-attacks-on-palestinian-civilians-escalated-before-cease-fire/">Killing before the Calm: Israeli Attacks on Palestinian Civilians Escalated before&nbsp;Cease-fire</a> (2012)</p>
  1398.  
  1399.  
  1400.  
  1401. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2012/11/22/zionist-drones-and-warplanes-pollute-gazas-skies-immediately-after-9-pm-cease-fire/">Israeli drones and warplanes pollute Gaza&#8217;s skies immediately after 9 pm &#8220;cease-fire&#8221;</a> (2012)</p>
  1402.  
  1403.  
  1404.  
  1405. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/zionists-violated-cease-fire-from-the-start-and-still-are/">Israel violated cease-fire from the start&#8230;and still is</a> (2012)</p>
  1406.  
  1407.  
  1408.  
  1409. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/01/17/burning-al-quds-one-of-gazas-remaining-functional-hospitals-destroyed-in-israels-war-on-gaza/">Burning al Quds: one of Gaza’s remaining functional hospitals bombed in Israel’s war on&nbsp;Gaza</a> (2009)</p>
  1410.  
  1411.  
  1412.  
  1413. <p>Israel destroyed a Palestinian media building. Will organizations to protect journalists condemn this? Unlikely&#8230; During the 2009 Israeli massacre of Gaza, Israeli tanks shelled a media building I was in at least 7 times. It had a number of media outlets including <a href="https://twitter.com/RT_com">@RT_com</a></p>
  1414.  
  1415.  
  1416.  
  1417. <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  1418. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Israel destroyed a Palestinian media building. Will organizations to protect journalists condemn this? Unlikely&#8230; <br>During the 2009 Israeli massacre of Gaza, Israeli tanks shelled a media building I was in at least 7 times. It had a number of media outlets including <a href="https://twitter.com/RT_com?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RT_com</a> <a href="https://t.co/3H2u2FPV3j">https://t.co/3H2u2FPV3j</a></p>&mdash; Eva Karene Bartlett (@EvaKBartlett) <a href="https://twitter.com/EvaKBartlett/status/1392338877466173442?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 12, 2021</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
  1419. </div></figure>
  1420.  
  1421.  
  1422.  
  1423. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2021/05/15/israel-is-deliberately-obliterating-media-buildings-in-gaza-to-cover-up-the-war-crimes-that-will-follow/">Israel is deliberately obliterating media buildings in Gaza to cover up the war crimes that will&nbsp;follow</a> (2021)</p>
  1424.  
  1425.  
  1426.  
  1427. <p>-The Government Media Office said that the death toll among Palestinian journalists during #Israel&#8217;s offensive on #Gaza rose to 67. <a href="https://t.me/QudsNen" rel="nofollow">https://t.me/QudsNen</a> </p>
  1428.  
  1429.  
  1430.  
  1431. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://www.arabobserver.com/two-war-crimes-with-one-stone-israel-bombs-gaza-refugee-full-church/">Two war crimes with one stone: ‘Israel’ Bombs Gaza Refugee-full Church</a> (article also addresses <em>why</em> there is Palestinian resistance)</p>
  1432.  
  1433.  
  1434.  
  1435. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2023/10/08/scott-ritter-israels-massive-intelligence-failure/">SCOTT RITTER: Israel’s Massive Intelligence Failure</a></p>
  1436.  
  1437.  
  1438.  
  1439. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://new.thecradle.co/articles/palestinian-islamic-jihad-al-aqsa-flood-was-a-preemptive-strike-against-the-enemy">Palestinian Islamic Jihad: &#8216;Al-Aqsa Flood was a preemptive strike against the enemy&#8217;</a></p>
  1440.  
  1441.  
  1442.  
  1443. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/12/21/un-predictions-fall-short-gaza-uninhabitable-today/">UN predictions fall short: Gaza uninhabitable&nbsp;today</a> (2014)</p>
  1444.  
  1445.  
  1446.  
  1447. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2021/03/09/gaza-has-suffered-the-longest-most-barbaric-lockdown-in-the-world-i-know-because-i-lived-through-three-years-of-it/">Gaza has suffered the longest, most barbaric, lockdown in the world – I know, because I lived through three years of&nbsp;it</a></p>
  1448.  
  1449.  
  1450.  
  1451. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/observations-from-occupied-palestine-in-gaza/">Observations from Occupied Palestine:&nbsp;Gaza</a> (overview of life in Gaza under brutal Israeli siege, farmers &amp; fishers targeted by Israeli soldiers, my observations from living through 2 Israeli wars on Gaza&#8230;)</p>
  1452.  
  1453.  
  1454.  
  1455. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/israeli-naval-abductions-and-shooting-at-palestinian-fishermen-its-routine/">Israeli naval abductions and shooting at Palestinian fishermen: it’s&nbsp;routine</a></p>
  1456.  
  1457.  
  1458.  
  1459. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/04/06/lost-in-the-buffer-zone/">Lost in the Buffer&nbsp;Zone</a>: how Israel systematically targets farmers &amp; other civilians on Palestinian farmland</p>
  1460.  
  1461.  
  1462.  
  1463. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/01/31/israel-slaps-wrist-of-soldier-for-gaza-tiktok-video-but-allows-orders-countless-others-to-fire-on-kill-palestinian-civilians-without-reprimand/">Israel slaps wrist of soldier for Gaza TikTok video, but allows (orders) countless others to fire on/kill Palestinian civilians without&nbsp;reprimand</a></p>
  1464.  
  1465.  
  1466.  
  1467. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/dirty-tricks-israeli-soldiers-shoot-deaf-palestinian-farmer-4th-farmer-shot-in-3-weeks/">Dirty Tricks: Israeli Soldiers Shoot Deaf Palestinian Farmer, 4th Farmer Shot in 3&nbsp;weeks</a> (with video)</p>
  1468.  
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  1470.  
  1471. <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  1472. <div class="jetpack-video-wrapper"><iframe class="youtube-player" width="900" height="507" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zSECq3kxT4I?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></div>
  1473. </div></figure>
  1474.  
  1475.  
  1476.  
  1477. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/israeli-soldiers-target-gazas-poorest-including-children/">Israeli soldiers target Gaza’s poorest, including&nbsp;children</a></p>
  1478.  
  1479.  
  1480.  
  1481. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2018/04/06/israeli-violence-against-palestinians-will-never-end-as-a-result-of-un-us-hypocrisy/">Israeli violence against Palestinians will never end as a result of UN &amp; US&nbsp;hypocrisy</a></p>
  1482.  
  1483.  
  1484.  
  1485. <p>&#8211;<strong>Haaretz</strong>: <strong><a href="https://archive.ph/sjB95#selection-463.0-463.91">Israeli Security Establishment: Hamas Likely Didn’t Have Advance Knowledge of Nova Festival</a></strong></p>
  1486.  
  1487.  
  1488.  
  1489. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://hrvoices.org/assets/attachments/documents/cm_final_letter_signed_pdf.pdf">Craig Mokhiber resignation statement</a></p>
  1490.  
  1491.  
  1492.  
  1493. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/after-israeli-bombing-of-un-fakhoura-school-no-room-for-the-dead-no-room-for-the-living/">After Israeli bombing of UN Fakhoura school: no room for the dead, no room for the&nbsp;living</a></p>
  1494.  
  1495.  
  1496.  
  1497. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://www.mezan.org/en/post/391/IOF-Shelling-of-a-UN-Shelter-in-Gaza-Kills-42-Civilians-%E2%80%93-Death-Toll-in-the-Gaza-Strip-Rises-to-668;-Including-123-Children-and-44-Women">IOF Shelling of a UN Shelter in Gaza Kills 42 Civilians</a></p>
  1498.  
  1499.  
  1500.  
  1501. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://opt2007.wordpress.com/category/my-entries-from-occupied-palestine-apr-dec-2007/">My entries from 8 months in the WestBa</a>nk, <a href="https://opt2007.wordpress.com/category/my-entries-from-occupied-palestine-apr-dec-2007/">occupied Palestine 2007</a></p>
  1502.  
  1503.  
  1504.  
  1505. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2013/11/05/observations-from-occupied-palestine-part-1/">Observations from Occupied Palestine, part&nbsp;1</a></p>
  1506.  
  1507.  
  1508.  
  1509. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/arrested-for-protesting-illegal-roadblock/">We were arrested for 2 days for protesting Israel’s illegal roadblock cutting Sarra village off from&nbsp;Nablus</a></p>
  1510.  
  1511.  
  1512.  
  1513. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/syria/syria-my-published-articles-from-and-on-syria-2014-2022/">SYRIA: My Published Articles From and on Syria&nbsp;(2014-2023)</a></p>
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  1517. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/the-donbass-my-articles-videos-interviews-from-on-the-donetsk-lugansk-peoples-republics-2019-present/">The Donbass: My Articles, Videos &amp; Interviews From/On&nbsp;the Donetsk &amp; Lugansk People’s Republics&nbsp;(2019-present)</a></p>
  1518.  
  1519.  
  1520.  
  1521. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2008/11/08/on-board-the-dignity-en-route-to-besieged-gaza/">Only way to Gaza: by&nbsp;boat</a></p>
  1522.  
  1523.  
  1524.  
  1525. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2023/10/14/youtube-deleted-my-channel-go-to-odysee/">Youtube deleted my channel, go to Odysee &amp;&nbsp;Rumble</a></p>
  1526.  
  1527.  
  1528.  
  1529. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2021/06/28/many-us-commentators-have-never-been-to-countries-they-comment-on-see-entire-world-from-washington-perspective-stephen-kinzer/">‘Many US commentators have never BEEN to countries they comment on, see entire world from Washington perspective’ – Stephen&nbsp;Kinzer</a></p>
  1530.  
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  1532.  
  1533. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2018/01/06/how-the-mainstream-media-whitewashed-al-qaeda-and-the-white-helmets-in-syria/">How the Mainstream Media Whitewashed Al-Qaeda and the White Helmets in&nbsp;Syria</a></p>
  1534.  
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  1536.  
  1537. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2018/01/20/a-personal-reply-to-the-fact-challenged-smears-of-terrorist-whitewashing-channel-4-snopes-and-la-presse/">A Personal Reply to the Fact-Challenged Smears of Terrorist-Whitewashing Channel 4, Snopes and La&nbsp;Presse</a><br /></p>
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  1550. <title>Israel is Genociding Gaza. It&#8217;s far worse than anything I saw during two brutal Israeli wars on Gaza</title>
  1551. <link>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2023/11/11/israel-is-genociding-gaza-its-far-worse-than-anything-i-saw-during-two-brutal-israeli-wars-on-gaza/</link>
  1552. <comments>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2023/11/11/israel-is-genociding-gaza-its-far-worse-than-anything-i-saw-during-two-brutal-israeli-wars-on-gaza/#comments</comments>
  1553. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Eva Bartlett]]></dc:creator>
  1554. <pubDate>Sat, 11 Nov 2023 15:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
  1555. <category><![CDATA[censorship]]></category>
  1556. <category><![CDATA[children in Gaza]]></category>
  1557. <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category>
  1558. <category><![CDATA[Occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem]]></category>
  1559. <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category>
  1560. <category><![CDATA[siege on Gaza]]></category>
  1561. <category><![CDATA[women in Gaza]]></category>
  1562. <category><![CDATA[Zionists wars on Gaza]]></category>
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  1565. <description><![CDATA[Over one month into Israel&#8217;s ongoing genocide of Gaza, the massacres of Palestinians are so frequent, widespread and endless, it is a scale of horror that even I—having experienced two horrific Israeli wars on Gaza—cannot comprehend. Reports state that Israel has dropped an astounding 24,000 tons of explosives on the Gaza Strip, noting that is&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2023/11/11/israel-is-genociding-gaza-its-far-worse-than-anything-i-saw-during-two-brutal-israeli-wars-on-gaza/">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">Israel is Genociding Gaza. It&#8217;s far worse than anything I saw during two brutal Israeli wars on&#160;Gaza</span></a>]]></description>
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  1567. <figure class="wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  1568. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><img src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/72x72/1f6a8.png" alt="🚨" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /><img src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/72x72/26a0.png" alt="⚠" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />Israeli tanks are 20 meters away from Al-Quds Hospital.<br>Direct shooting at the hospital, creating a state of extreme panic and fear among 14000 displaced people. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gaza?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Gaza</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AlQudsHospital?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AlQudsHospital</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NotATarget?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NotATarget</a> <a href="https://t.co/iRZggCcIkP">pic.twitter.com/iRZggCcIkP</a></p>&mdash; PRCS (@PalestineRCS) <a href="https://twitter.com/PalestineRCS/status/1723337562360598937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 11, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  1573. <p>Over one month into Israel&#8217;s ongoing genocide of Gaza, the massacres of Palestinians are so frequent, widespread and endless,<strong> it is a scale of horror that even I—having experienced two horrific Israeli wars on Gaza—cannot comprehend. </strong></p>
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  1577. <p>Reports <a href="https://t.me/rtnews/50690">state that</a> <strong>Israel has dropped an astounding 24,000 tons of explosives on the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gaza?src=hashtag_click">Gaza</a> Strip, noting that is the size of two of the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima.</strong></p>
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  1582. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><a href="https://t.co/hik2VF43zE">pic.twitter.com/hik2VF43zE</a></p>&mdash; Eva Karene Bartlett (@EvaKBartlett) <a href="https://twitter.com/EvaKBartlett/status/1720042390847713545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 2, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  1587. <p>To give <strong>just one example</strong> of Israel&#8217;s massacres of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, in it&#8217;s fourth week of murdering Palestinians, Israelis warplanes dropped what were <a href="https://twitter.com/MintPressNews/status/1719445144166965733">said to be</a> <strong>six one ton bombs on the densely-inhabited Jabaliya refugee camp north of Gaza City, killing and injuring <a href="https://t.me/PalestineResist/17560">over 400 Palestinians</a> (as of first estimates). </strong></p>
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  1592. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING: JABALIA CAMP MASSACRE &#8211; 500 KILLED AND INJURED <br><br>GENOCIDE <a href="https://t.co/SVBkz30oSP">pic.twitter.com/SVBkz30oSP</a></p>&mdash; Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) <a href="https://twitter.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/1719383508194410577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 31, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  1598. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">An entire residential neighbourhood in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Jabalya?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Jabalya</a> camp was struck with six <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Israeli?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Israeli</a> missiles, totally demolishing between 30-40 residential units.  <br>People searching for loved ones &amp; the dead under the rubble. Numbers of those killed &amp; injured will run in the 100s. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gaza?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Gaza</a>… <a href="https://t.co/m7B7vsMikr">https://t.co/m7B7vsMikr</a> <a href="https://t.co/8UIFuTA1xj">pic.twitter.com/8UIFuTA1xj</a></p>&mdash; Hala Jaber (@HalaJaber) <a href="https://twitter.com/HalaJaber/status/1719363097238905303?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 31, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  1603. <p><strong>The following day, Israeli warplanes bombed the same area anew, <a href="https://t.me/PalestineResist/17664">reportedly firing</a> eight more missiles on the ravaged neighbourhood.</strong></p>
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  1608. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Today, Israel dropped six bombs, each weighing one ton, levelling an entire neighbourhood in Jabalia refugee camp, Gaza. <a href="https://t.co/kkTrHHD7tX">pic.twitter.com/kkTrHHD7tX</a></p>&mdash; MintPress News (@MintPressNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/MintPressNews/status/1719445144166965733?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 31, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  1613. <p><strong>As of November 10, Israel has murdered <a href="https://twitter.com/EuroMedHR/status/1719406267620270215"><u>over 11, 000 Palestinians</u></a> in Gaza, and injured over 27,000, after over 35 days of relentless Israeli airstrikes on a literally imprisoned population who cannot flee by air, land or water. Keep in mind doctors are <a href="https://t.me/PalestineResist/16339">reporting</a> they are treating severe burns and skin melting injuries that they have not seen before, making it difficult to deal with.</strong></p>
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  1617. <p>Still thousands more are likely dead under the rubble.</p>
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  1621. <p>Of those killed, <a href="https://t.me/presstv/79425">roughly 4,500 are children</a>, on average Israel is killing one child <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/child-killed-average-every-10-minutes-gaza-says-who-chief-2023-11-10/">every 10 minutes</a>. <a href="https://www.savethechildren.net/news/gaza-3195-children-killed-three-weeks-surpasses-annual-number-children-killed-conflict-zones">According to</a> Save The Children, October 29, <strong>more children have been killed by Israeli bombings of Gaza in three weeks than, “the number killed in armed conflict globally – across more than 20 countries – over the course of a whole year, for the last three years.”</strong></p>
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  1625. <p><strong>This is a staggering statement which—if the endless images of lifeless Palestinian children being pulled out of rubble or wrapped in white shrouds doesn&#8217;t already shock you—should shock the general public.</strong></p>
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  1629. <p>Due to the <strong>over sixteen year long Israeli <a href="https://www.rt.com/op-ed/517532-gaza-longest-barbaric-lockdown/">siege on Gaza</a>,</strong> there has <strong>consistently been a dearth of the most basic necessities of life, and in particular essential medicines</strong>. When I drafted this article, that dearth was so severe that even <strong>anaesthesia is lacking, meaning children and adults alike who are fortunate enough to get medical care now at all are often being operated on without anaesthesia.</strong></p>
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  1633. <p>Now, <strong>the scant numbers of hospitals that were still somewhat functioning have shut down or are being bombarded.</strong></p>
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  1637. <figure class="wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  1638. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><img src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/72x72/1f6a8.png" alt="🚨" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /><img src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/72x72/26a0.png" alt="⚠" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />Al_Quds Hospital is at risk of closure in the upcoming 3 hours due to the depletion of fuel supplies and the non-arrival of aid.<br>500 patients and injured will be deprived from medical care. Those who are at the ICU and babies in incubators will lose their lives.… <a href="https://t.co/IUGuNg6DBi">pic.twitter.com/IUGuNg6DBi</a></p>&mdash; PRCS (@PalestineRCS) <a href="https://twitter.com/PalestineRCS/status/1723099508135870851?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 10, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  1647. <p class="has-medium-font-size"><strong>Reflections from two prior Israeli massacres of Gaza</strong></p>
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  1651. <p>I watch from afar in horror at Israel&#8217;s ongoing massacre, one which surpasses <a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/photos-and-videos-zionist-massacre-of-gaza-2008-2009/">the 2009</a> and <a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2013/01/12/the-hardest-thing-parents-speak-of-their-children-killed-by-israeli-bombings/">the 2012</a> Israeli wars on Gaza combined, the bloody results of both of which I documented from on the ground.</p>
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  1655. <p>It is difficult to understand <strong>the layers of terror experienced during an Israeli bombardment campaign. In addition to the bombing itself, there is the sense of isolation, not being able to call for help if needed, not knowing if friends and family are still alive, not being able to bury or properly grieve for those who have been killed, not knowing what is going on outside of your district, not knowing when the horror will end <a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2008/12/30/dangerous-nights-in-jabaliya-and-throughout-gaza/">nor when the next</a> nearby bombing will occur.</strong></p>
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  1659. <p>In its December 2009-January 2009 war on Gaza, which <a href="https://imeu.org/article/operation-cast-lead"><u>killed over 1400 Palestinians</u></a>, most of whom civilians, Israel first attacked by <strong>dropping 100 bombs simultaneously in the first minutes</strong>. In Gaza City, <a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2008/12/28/widespread-attacks-on-gaza-leave-at-least-227-dead-hundreds-seriously-injured/">I went to one of the sites bombed</a> in that first wave of attack, a mosque and police station, seeing the chaos of people scrambling to remove rubble and pull out bodies, also seeing a new missile hit roughly 150 metres away.</p>
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  1677. <p>Massive plumes of black smoke rose everywhere around me. The main hospital, Shifa, was nonstop receiving the dead and <a href="https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9/shifa-hospital-brain-matter-out:3">the injured</a>. The ICU beds were filled and doctors <a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2008/12/28/shifa-icu-a-glimpse-of-hospital-critical-injuries/">told me</a> as soon as one patient died another took the place.</p>
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  1692. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">During Israel&#39;s horrific December 2008/January 2009 bombardment of Gaza, I rode in ambulances of Palestinian medics, primarily the Palestinian Red Crescent but also sometimes government ambulances.<br><br>THERE WERE NO WEAPONS IN THE AMBULANCES. <br>WE WENT TO THE AREAS HARDEST HIT BY&#8230; <a href="https://t.co/AI6benSfEC">https://t.co/AI6benSfEC</a></p>&mdash; Eva Karene Bartlett (@EvaKBartlett) <a href="https://twitter.com/EvaKBartlett/status/1712735828076531930?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 13, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  1697. <p>I rode in Palestinian Red Crescent Society ambulances with heroic Palestinian medics who were doing their utmost to save wounded Palestinians, injured by Israeli bombing or sniping. <strong>Israel killed 23 medics, <a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/03/16/ensuring-maximum-casualties-in-gaza/">including firing a flechette (dart) bomb at the ambulance</a> of one medic I knew and had accompanied. He was shredded by the darts, went into shock and died of his injuries. He was a volunteer medic, high school teacher by profession.</strong></p>
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  1706. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/night-work411.webp"><img loading="lazy" width="225" height="300" data-attachment-id="29744" data-permalink="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2023/11/11/israel-is-genociding-gaza-its-far-worse-than-anything-i-saw-during-two-brutal-israeli-wars-on-gaza/night-work411/" data-orig-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/night-work411.webp" data-orig-size="225,300" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="night-work411" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/night-work411.webp?w=225" data-large-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/night-work411.webp?w=225" data-id="29744" src="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/night-work411.webp?w=225" alt="" class="wp-image-29744" srcset="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/night-work411.webp 225w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/night-work411.webp?w=113 113w" sizes="(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px" /></a></figure>
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  1715. <p><strong>Other medics I knew <a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/israeli-sniper-targets-uniformed-medics-what-i-witnessed-in-gaza/">came under Israeli sniper fire</a> when—during “ceasefire hours” an Israeli sniper fired at them and then at our ambulance, </strong><strong>a</strong> bullet puncuring one of the medic&#8217;s legs, the l<strong>a</strong>st of at least 14 bullets hitting the back of the ambulance as we raced away.</p>
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  1751. <p></p>
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  1755. <p>The night the Israeli land invasion began, shells flew dangerously close to the Red Crescent station in the district east of Jabaliya <a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/01/04/they-know-no-limits-now-a-new-nakba/"><u>I w</u><u>as then based in</u></a> when not in one of the ambulances. By morning it was impossible to access, and by the end of the war, we return to find it studded with machine-gun fire and blasted by shelling.</p>
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  1758.  
  1759. <p>After invading the Tel al-Hawa district in the third week of its war on Gaza, <strong>Israel repeatedly bombed the Quds hospital, Israeli snipers targeting Palestinian civilians fleeing residential areas</strong>. I was <a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/01/17/burning-al-quds-one-of-gazas-remaining-functional-hospitals-destroyed-in-israels-war-on-gaza/">with an ambulance that went to evacuate</a> civilians from the hospital and take them to the Shifa hospital (which had no space), going back repeatedly to save Palestinian civilians, each time at risk of being shot by Israeli soldiers.</p>
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  1764. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">In January 2009, after invading the Tel al-Hawa district, Israel repeatedly bombed the Quds hospital, Israeli snipers targeting Palestinian civilians fleeing residential areas. <br><br>I was with an ambulance that went to evacuate civilians from the hospital&#8230; <a href="https://t.co/OHYT5dd43p">https://t.co/OHYT5dd43p</a></p>&mdash; Eva Karene Bartlett (@EvaKBartlett) <a href="https://twitter.com/EvaKBartlett/status/1713878954090611005?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  1769. <p>During and after the war, I took countless testimonies of Palestinian parents <strong>whose children were deliberately murdered by Israeli soldiers including young children and infants: <a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/while-eating-chips-and-chocolate-israeli-soldiers-murder-2-and-7-year-old/">shot point blank</a>, <a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/all-weve-got-left-of-him/">drone struck</a> during ceasefire hours, shot <a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/they-killed-me-three-times/">by a sniper</a>&#8230;</strong></p>
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  1774. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/farah-el-helo-1.webp"><img loading="lazy" width="300" height="202" data-attachment-id="29834" data-permalink="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2023/11/11/israel-is-genociding-gaza-its-far-worse-than-anything-i-saw-during-two-brutal-israeli-wars-on-gaza/farah-el-helo-1/" data-orig-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/farah-el-helo-1.webp" data-orig-size="300,202" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="farah-el-helo-1" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/farah-el-helo-1.webp?w=300" data-large-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/farah-el-helo-1.webp?w=300" data-id="29834" src="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/farah-el-helo-1.webp?w=300" alt="" class="wp-image-29834" srcset="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/farah-el-helo-1.webp 300w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/farah-el-helo-1.webp?w=150 150w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a></figure>
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  1778. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/shrapnel.webp"><img loading="lazy" width="225" height="300" data-attachment-id="29831" data-permalink="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2023/11/11/israel-is-genociding-gaza-its-far-worse-than-anything-i-saw-during-two-brutal-israeli-wars-on-gaza/shrapnel-2/" data-orig-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/shrapnel.webp" data-orig-size="225,300" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="shrapnel" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/shrapnel.webp?w=225" data-large-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/shrapnel.webp?w=225" data-id="29831" src="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/shrapnel.webp?w=225" alt="" class="wp-image-29831" srcset="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/shrapnel.webp 225w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/shrapnel.webp?w=113 113w" sizes="(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px" /></a></figure>
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  1791. <figure class="wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  1792. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I&#39;m writing an article, referencing past Israeli crimes I&#39;ve written about.<br>  <br>(2009 Israeli war on Gaza):<br><br>This is about 2 &amp; 7 year old girls gunned down point-blank by Israeli soldiers. Their 4 year old sister survived multiple shots, paralyzed&#8230; <a href="https://t.co/rmul8XWWEy">https://t.co/rmul8XWWEy</a></p>&mdash; Eva Karene Bartlett (@EvaKBartlett) <a href="https://twitter.com/EvaKBartlett/status/1718289926028959760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
  1793. </div><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><br /><strong>An infant was was burned alive by the White Phosphorous (WP) Israeli soldiers fired onto a civilian home in northern Gaza</strong>. Five other family members were killed by the WP and shelling. I <a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/01/17/white-phosphorous-mutilated-and-murdered-family-members/">met the mutilated survivors</a> in Shifa hospital during the war, and followed up on their horror story afterwards, <a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/next-time-it-will-hurt-more-israeli-threat-against-surviving-family-members-of-white-phosphorous-attack/">learning the entire sordid story</a> and seeing the hate graffiti left in their home by Israeli soldiers. One included, “it will hurt more next time,” a sadistic and cruel threat.</figcaption></figure>
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  1797. <figure class="wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  1798. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This is about an infant girl, Shahed, who was burned alive by the White Phosphorous (WP) Israeli soldiers fired onto a civilian home in northern Gaza. Five other family members were murdered by the WP &amp; shelling. <a href="https://t.co/n8pfpHajwP">https://t.co/n8pfpHajwP</a></p>&mdash; Eva Karene Bartlett (@EvaKBartlett) <a href="https://twitter.com/EvaKBartlett/status/1718293098076262898?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  1803. <p>I also saw terrified <a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/injured-denied-access/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">civilians who had been kept hostage</a> by the Israeli army, denied food, water, medicines, and in many cases <a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/israeli-soldiers-leave-hate-death-graffiti-in-palestinian-house-they-occupied/">terrorized</a>. People streaming from areas all over northern Gaza, on foot, under the bombs, seeking safety where none was to be had. <strong>I will never forget <a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/01/14/two-strikes/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">the shrill wailing of a man </a>whose wife was caught in a fatal “second tap” bombing just minutes after the first, shrieking as he picked up the pieces of his wife and accompanied her to the morgue</strong>. [Video <a href="https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9/drone-strike-victim-mpg:9">here</a>]</p>
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  1807. <figure class="aligncenter size-large"><a href="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/morgue-jan-151.webp"><img loading="lazy" width="225" height="300" data-attachment-id="29836" data-permalink="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2023/11/11/israel-is-genociding-gaza-its-far-worse-than-anything-i-saw-during-two-brutal-israeli-wars-on-gaza/morgue-jan-151/" data-orig-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/morgue-jan-151.webp" data-orig-size="225,300" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="morgue-jan-151" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/morgue-jan-151.webp?w=225" data-large-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/morgue-jan-151.webp?w=225" src="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/morgue-jan-151.webp?w=225" alt="" class="wp-image-29836" srcset="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/morgue-jan-151.webp 225w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/morgue-jan-151.webp?w=113 113w" sizes="(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px" /></a></figure></div>
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  1809.  
  1810. <p>During the November 2012 war, eight days of Israeli bombing which killed 171 Palestinians, I saw the mangled bodies of civilians, especially children, <a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/killing-before-the-calm-israeli-attacks-on-palestinian-civilians-escalated-before-cease-fire/"><u>pour into the Aqsa hospital</u></a> in Deir al-Balah. <strong>Two of the <a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2013/01/12/the-hardest-thing-parents-speak-of-their-children-killed-by-israeli-bombings/">children were killed just hours before</a> a ceasefire—already agreed upon—was to be implemented.</strong></p>
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  1814. <figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><a href="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/thum.png"><img loading="lazy" width="1024" height="622" data-attachment-id="29751" data-permalink="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2023/11/11/israel-is-genociding-gaza-its-far-worse-than-anything-i-saw-during-two-brutal-israeli-wars-on-gaza/thum/" data-orig-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/thum.png" data-orig-size="1053,640" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="thum" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/thum.png?w=300" data-large-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/thum.png?w=900" src="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/thum.png?w=1024" alt="" class="wp-image-29751" style="width:625px;height:auto" srcset="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/thum.png?w=1024 1024w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/thum.png?w=150 150w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/thum.png?w=300 300w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/thum.png?w=768 768w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/thum.png 1053w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a></figure></div>
  1815.  
  1816.  
  1817. <p>The four year old girl&#8217;s family had returned to their home, from which they&#8217;d fled,<strong> thinking it would be safe since the ceasefire was coming. </strong>She died of shrapnel to her temple, standing next to the door of her home. <strong>Nader, the fourteen year old, likewise thought the pending ceasefire meant he was safe to move, walking to a small shop to buy food for his siblings who&#8217;d only had bread the past five days. He was targeted by a precision drone strike which tore his body into the shreds I saw in the hospital.</strong></p>
  1818.  
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  1820.  
  1821. <p>Not only did the Israeli army massacre more Palestinians, but it also <a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2012/12/25/the-flattening-of-gaza/">wreaked havoc on the Strip’s infrastructure</a>, again <strong><a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/the-bombed-coastal-bridge-and-other-things-post-israeli-attacks/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">destroying key bridges</a>, water and sewage lines, schools, health clinics and hospitals. The near full ban on the entry of construction materials into Gaza meant rebuilding the destroyed homes, buildings and infrastructure was largely impossible.</strong></p>
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  1824.  
  1825. <p>Further, few outside of Gaza ever hear of the <strong>Israeli bombings of civilian areas when not officially warring on Gaza. I <a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2011/08/06/stars-and-bombs/">experienced them</a>, they are a part of the psychological warfare Israel wages incessantly on Palestinians, never letting them know peace, calm, stability.</strong></p>
  1826.  
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  1828.  
  1829. <p>But it&#8217;s not just the bombings, it&#8217;s every aspect of life, which Israel controls, rendered impossible.</p>
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  1832.  
  1833. <p>In September 2023, Save the Children <a href="https://www.savethechildren.net/news/i-can-t-run-play-or-get-treatment-two-children-day-gaza-unable-access-medical-treatment-due-16">reported</a> that, “Nearly 400 children in Gaza were denied permits to go to the West Bank for critical healthcare in the first six months of 2023, leaving them without access to life-saving surgery or urgent medication.”</p>
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  1837. <figure class="wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  1838. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Israel&#39;s blocking of the entry of the most basics of life (medicines, water, electricity, food) into Gaza didn&#39;t start 2 weeks ago.  It started 16+ years ago. <a href="https://t.co/erUpD6pjPo">https://t.co/erUpD6pjPo</a></p>&mdash; Eva Karene Bartlett (@EvaKBartlett) <a href="https://twitter.com/EvaKBartlett/status/1716465067506409813?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  1840.  
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  1842.  
  1843. <p>This is a sadism that Palestinians have been subjected to throughout the duration of the over 16 year Israeli siege on Gaza, which I&#8217;ve <a href="https://www.rt.com/op-ed/517532-gaza-longest-barbaric-lockdown/">written about</a> at length, but which in summary has meant <strong>a vast increase in poverty, food insecurity, malnutrition, anaemia, stunting in growth, diabetes, treatable illnesses going untreated, water that was 95% undrinkable</strong> when (back in 2014) I <a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/observations-from-occupied-palestine-in-gaza/">wrote a lengthy overview</a> on life in Gaza.</p>
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  1847. <figure class="wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-wp-embed is-provider-in-gaza wp-block-embed-in-gaza"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  1848. <blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="Ln9on9HR0u"><a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/observations-from-occupied-palestine-in-gaza/">Observations from Occupied Palestine:&nbsp;Gaza</a></blockquote><iframe class="wp-embedded-content" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" title="&#8220;Observations from Occupied Palestine:&nbsp;Gaza&#8221; &#8212; In Gaza" src="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/observations-from-occupied-palestine-in-gaza/embed/#?secret=a7HDEksPwM#?secret=Ln9on9HR0u" data-secret="Ln9on9HR0u" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>
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  1850.  
  1851.  
  1852.  
  1853. <p>In that article, I highlighted how extremely sadistic the Israeli policies against imprisoned Palestinians in Gaza have been, noting that Israel, <strong>“went as far as to <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/2-279-calories-per-person-how-israel-made-sure-gaza-didn-t-starve.premium-1.470419" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">calculate the minimum amount of calories needed</a> to keep Palestinians not quite fully starving.” Alive, just barely.</strong></p>
  1854.  
  1855.  
  1856.  
  1857. <p>I also highlighted some lesser known facts: that compounding the siege is <strong>Israel&#8217;s relentless, deliberate, deadly firing on Palestinian farmers and fishers, <a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/02/03/shooting-at-farmers-what-gives-israel-the-right/">under the pretext of “security”</a>. </strong>Given that in my three years in Gaza I routinely accompanied <strong>farmers while they were on land and <a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/dirty-tricks-israeli-soldiers-shoot-deaf-palestinian-farmer-4th-farmer-shot-in-3-weeks/">came under Israeli gunfire</a>, I can state definitively that in those many, many, many experiences of coming under Israeli gunfire, none of us were armed: not myself, not the elderly grandmothers, not the children, not the paid labourers. They posed zero threat to Israel other than simply existing.</strong></p>
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  1861. <figure class="wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  1862. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">&amp; at the same time, Israeli soldiers gun down Palestinian farmers, preventing them from earning a living or growing food.<br><br>Israeli bulldozers have ravaged &amp; destroyed Gaza&#39;s fertile farmland.<a href="https://t.co/QadR7emMww">https://t.co/QadR7emMww</a> <a href="https://t.co/ghz0xlZrPQ">pic.twitter.com/ghz0xlZrPQ</a></p>&mdash; Eva Karene Bartlett (@EvaKBartlett) <a href="https://twitter.com/EvaKBartlett/status/1721096647352992082?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 5, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  1877. <p class="has-medium-font-size"><strong>It&#8217;s GENOCIDE</strong></p>
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  1881. <figure class="wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  1882. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A senior Israeli security official has told Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot that they believe Israel has killed 20,000 Palestinians in Gaza since October 7th.</p>&mdash; Lowkey (@Lowkey0nline) <a href="https://twitter.com/Lowkey0nline/status/1721179064067674145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 5, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  1884.  
  1885.  
  1886.  
  1887. <p>When Israel&#8217;s 2009 war on Gaza finally ended after 23 days, I thought it was the worst bombardment Palestinians had endured. I was wrong. <strong>The scenes coming out of Gaza since October 7 are of hideous, horrific, an endless onslaught of Israel murdering civilians in the most sadistic ways, entire families, hundreds of people sheltering where they thought they would be safe, on and on&#8230;</strong></p>
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  1892. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">In <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gaza?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Gaza</a>, every death is personal, without exception.<br><br>Report by Noor Harazeen <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GazaGenocide?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GazaGenocide</a> <a href="https://t.co/ARAsmLNOkz">pic.twitter.com/ARAsmLNOkz</a></p>&mdash; vanessa beeley (@VanessaBeeley) <a href="https://twitter.com/VanessaBeeley/status/1720033644553687181?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 2, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  1897. <p></p>
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  1902. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Al Jazeera has released footage from the Saftawi School massacre, and the visuals are profoundly heart-wrenching.<br><br>Pieces of dead bodies scattered, blood staining the school&#39;s walls. Medical sources estimate that 20 to 30 Palestinians including children were slaughtered <a href="https://t.co/MVo5QGGEml">https://t.co/MVo5QGGEml</a> <a href="https://t.co/Mnro12m2Q4">pic.twitter.com/Mnro12m2Q4</a></p>&mdash; Younis Tirawi | يونس (@ytirawi) <a href="https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1720521274961641876?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 3, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  1908. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Intensification of the Israeli attacks on Gaza hospitals last night. Many targeted simultaneously. Tens of thousands of patients and displaced Palestinians who are sheltering at risk. A war in which destroying hospitals is a key military objective <a href="https://t.co/lFG3LSCNVI">pic.twitter.com/lFG3LSCNVI</a></p>&mdash; Nicola Perugini (@PeruginiNic) <a href="https://twitter.com/PeruginiNic/status/1722856824947577071?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 10, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  1914. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Alastair Crook &#8211; &quot;over 80% of Israelis, left and right, share those sentiments about wanting to erase all Palestinians from Gaza. I mean eradicate all <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Palestinians?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Palestinians</a> from Gaza.&quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GazaHolocaust?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GazaHolocaust</a> <a href="https://t.co/T1uXQjvFZ9">pic.twitter.com/T1uXQjvFZ9</a></p>&mdash; vanessa beeley (@VanessaBeeley) <a href="https://twitter.com/VanessaBeeley/status/1723198159151661163?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 11, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  1916.  
  1917.  
  1918.  
  1919. <p>Further, Israel has killed at least <a href="https://t.me/geopolitics_live/9457">46 journalists</a> in the Gaza Strip since October 7, while another three remain missing. </p>
  1920.  
  1921.  
  1922.  
  1923. <p>According to updates from Gaza&#8217;s Ministry of Health,111 medical staff have been killed, 16 (of 35) hospitals out of service due to bombing and fuel shortages, 39 ambulances destroyed or out of service.</p>
  1924.  
  1925.  
  1926.  
  1927. <figure class="wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  1928. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">With most hospitals running out of service in Gaza due to Israeli bombardment forcing many people, including doctors, to evacuate to a safer place, wounded are arriving at hospitals with no doctors to treat them.<br><br>The situation in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gaza?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Gaza</a> is really CATASTROPHIC, and the world is… <a href="https://t.co/8d2lX97O8t">pic.twitter.com/8d2lX97O8t</a></p>&mdash; Quds News Network (@QudsNen) <a href="https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1723256952891777526?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 11, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
  1929. </div></figure>
  1930.  
  1931.  
  1932.  
  1933. <figure class="wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  1934. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><img src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/72x72/1f6a8.png" alt="🚨" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />Only 7 out of 18 PRCS ambulance vehicles are functioning in Gaza and the northern regions.<br><br> <img src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/72x72/1f691.png" alt="🚑" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> The remaining vehicles are at risk of completely ceasing operations in the coming hours due to fuel depletion.<br><br><img src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/72x72/270b.png" alt="✋" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /><img src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/72x72/1f534.png" alt="🔴" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />Our teams are witnessing numerous casualties and wounded… <a href="https://t.co/euLhbUHbO6">pic.twitter.com/euLhbUHbO6</a></p>&mdash; PRCS (@PalestineRCS) <a href="https://twitter.com/PalestineRCS/status/1723399703725748242?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 11, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
  1935. </div></figure>
  1936.  
  1937.  
  1938.  
  1939. <p>On November 1, the Ministry of Health <a href="https://t.me/PalestineResist/17679%20">announced</a> that Gaza&#8217;s sole cancer treatment hospital has ceased operating due to Israeli bombings and the complete lack of fuel, putting 70 patients immediately at risk.</p>
  1940.  
  1941.  
  1942.  
  1943. <p><strong>Israel demanded the (impossible) evacuation of Shifa and <a href="https://www.ochaopt.org/content/hostilities-gaza-strip-and-israel-flash-update-23%20">twelve other hospitals</a>, threatening to bomb them. Shifa hospital—which Israel already <a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2023/10/israeli-rabbis-tell-netanyahu-that-israel-has-a-right-to-bomb-al-shifa-hospital-in-gaza/">bombed in July 2014</a>—is under threats of Israeli bombings and is otherwise precariously close to shutting down.</strong></p>
  1944.  
  1945.  
  1946.  
  1947. <p>Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert has countless times over the years made trips to Gaza to work alongside Palestinian doctors in Shifa hospital, particularly during Israeli bombardments of the Gaza Strip. I met him briefly in January 2009, at Shifa Hospital when arriving there with Palestinian medics and the injured Palestinians they had retrieved.</p>
  1948.  
  1949.  
  1950.  
  1951. <p>In a recent interview, he <a href="https://twitter.com/ivan_8848/status/1719460952259584083">addressed</a> the Israeli claims of Shifa being a “command centre” for Palestinian resistance.</p>
  1952.  
  1953.  
  1954.  
  1955. <p>&#8220;<em>I&#8217;ve been working in Shifa for 16 years, in very active periods. I was able to walk freely around, I take lots of pictures, I video film, I&#8217;ve been all over it. I&#8217;ve never been restricted, nobody has ever controlled my picture &amp; documentation material</em>,” Gilbert said. “<em>In accordance with the Geneva Conventions, you can&#8217;t bomb hospitals unless they have very clear military functions.</em>”</p>
  1956.  
  1957.  
  1958.  
  1959. <p>In their October 29 update, the UN&#8217;s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) <a href="https://www.ochaopt.org/content/hostilities-gaza-strip-and-israel-flash-update-23">noted</a> that Israeli bombing had targeted the vicinity of the Shifa and Quds hospitals in Gaza city and the Indonesian hospital in northern Gaza, noting the bombings, “followed renewed calls by the Israeli military to evacuate these facilities immediately.”</p>
  1960.  
  1961.  
  1962.  
  1963. <p>Keep in mind that Shifa and Quds are the two main hospitals in Gaza City, combined they now house over 60,000 displaced Palestinian civilians who&#8217;ve fled Israeli bombing in their home regions. Calling for their evacuation and proceeding to bomb around them are absolutely criminal acts that meet the definition of war crimes.</p>
  1964.  
  1965.  
  1966.  
  1967. <figure class="wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  1968. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><img src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/72x72/1f6a8.png" alt="🚨" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />Israeli Occupation forces opened fire on the intensive care unit at Al-Quds hospital.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AlQudsHospital?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AlQudsHospital</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NotATarget?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NotATarget</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gaza?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Gaza</a> <a href="https://t.co/ocIk0d8XLb">pic.twitter.com/ocIk0d8XLb</a></p>&mdash; PRCS (@PalestineRCS) <a href="https://twitter.com/PalestineRCS/status/1723013116986802547?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 10, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  1970.  
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  1973. <figure class="wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  1974. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BREAKING</a><br>Israeli occupation foreces asked the displaced Palestinian people to leave Al-Nasr Hospital in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gaza?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Gaza</a> City a short while ago after its tanks surrounded it. After the displaced people left the hospital, it carried out a treacherous operation and fired heavy bullets at… <a href="https://t.co/OgpH0W8biA">pic.twitter.com/OgpH0W8biA</a></p>&mdash; Marwa Osman || مروة عثمان (@Marwa__Osman) <a href="https://twitter.com/Marwa__Osman/status/1722988469272592800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 10, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
  1975. </div></figure>
  1976.  
  1977.  
  1978.  
  1979. <p><strong>With the whole world watching, Israel continues to unabashedly bombard the Gaza Strip&#8217;s main hospitals. Most are out of commission for want of electricity or fuel to run generators. </strong></p>
  1980.  
  1981.  
  1982.  
  1983. <figure class="wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  1984. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">“No one can get out from the Shifa hospital. No one can come in. The people who tried to evacuate this morning were being shot in the streets.”<br>Dr Marwan Abu Sada, Head of Surgery at Al Shifa Hospital, describes horrifying scenes as Israel attacks the  Gaza hospital this morning. <a href="https://t.co/gm7X2NqSFD">pic.twitter.com/gm7X2NqSFD</a></p>&mdash; Medical Aid for Palestinians (@MedicalAidPal) <a href="https://twitter.com/MedicalAidPal/status/1723284440799944708?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 11, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  1988.  
  1989. <p></p>
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  1993. <figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><a href="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/photo_2023-11-10_12-09-38.jpg"><img loading="lazy" width="1024" height="695" data-attachment-id="29724" data-permalink="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2023/11/11/israel-is-genociding-gaza-its-far-worse-than-anything-i-saw-during-two-brutal-israeli-wars-on-gaza/photo_2023-11-10_12-09-38/" data-orig-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/photo_2023-11-10_12-09-38.jpg" data-orig-size="1080,734" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="photo_2023-11-10_12-09-38" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/photo_2023-11-10_12-09-38.jpg?w=300" data-large-file="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/photo_2023-11-10_12-09-38.jpg?w=900" src="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/photo_2023-11-10_12-09-38.jpg?w=1024" alt="" class="wp-image-29724" style="width:566px;height:auto" srcset="https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/photo_2023-11-10_12-09-38.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/photo_2023-11-10_12-09-38.jpg?w=150 150w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/photo_2023-11-10_12-09-38.jpg?w=300 300w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/photo_2023-11-10_12-09-38.jpg?w=768 768w, https://ingaza.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/photo_2023-11-10_12-09-38.jpg 1080w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a></figure></div>
  1994.  
  1995.  
  1996. <p>On November 10, journalist Marwa Osman <a href="https://t.me/Marwa_OsmanLB/1482">reported</a>: <strong>“Israel targeted Al-Shifa Hospital with U.S-made R9X non-explosive missiles, as the missile turns into blades that fly over a distance of 100 meters to cut off human limbs in a criminal scene that is chilling to the bone. The U.S. regime is a primary accomplice to Zionist Israel in this Genocide.&#8221;</strong></p>
  1997.  
  1998.  
  1999.  
  2000. <p>Doctor Mads Gilbert, <a href="https://t.me/Reality_Theories/15547">in a video</a> published November 10, said:</p>
  2001.  
  2002.  
  2003.  
  2004. <p>“We just got the report from Shifa Hospital that <strong>the Israeli attack forces have placed snipers around the hospital, and these snipers are shooting through the windows of the hospital, killing, targeting, damaging health care workers trying to save lives inside</strong>.</p>
  2005.  
  2006.  
  2007.  
  2008. <p>One report says a nurse approaching the incubator in the neo-natal unit was killed while trying to care for the babies. The oxygen supply to the incubators are now running out, they&#8217;re destroyed and shut down.</p>
  2009.  
  2010.  
  2011.  
  2012. <p><strong>The doctors report, &#8216;We are minutes away from death as the world is watching.</strong>&#8216;”</p>
  2013.  
  2014.  
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  2017. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING &#8211; <br>This message just in from Shifa:<br><br>Shifa hospital completely besieged. <br>Surrounded by Israeli attack army.<br>Snipers are shooting through the windows. <br>Killing.<br>We are minutes away from death as the world is watching. <a href="https://t.co/EkOTRUUqXn">pic.twitter.com/EkOTRUUqXn</a></p>&mdash; Dr. Mads Gilbert (@DrMadsGilbert) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrMadsGilbert/status/1723298615429304677?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 11, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
  2018. </div></figure>
  2019.  
  2020.  
  2021.  
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  2023. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The ICU of Al Shifa hospital has been bombed. Staff have been shot at and wounded. Power has gone, staff are having to hand ventilate patients, and babies in neonatal ICU are starting to die from lack of oxygen.<br><br>Israel&#39;s war on hospitals must end.<a href="https://t.co/dIJN4RUpmK">https://t.co/dIJN4RUpmK</a> <a href="https://t.co/KodzpgTFFF">pic.twitter.com/KodzpgTFFF</a></p>&mdash; Medical Aid for Palestinians (@MedicalAidPal) <a href="https://twitter.com/MedicalAidPal/status/1723312812892606776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 11, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
  2024. </div></figure>
  2025.  
  2026.  
  2027.  
  2028. <p><a href="https://twitter.com/PalestineRCS/status/1723337562360598937">According to</a> the Palestinian Red Crescent:</p>
  2029.  
  2030.  
  2031.  
  2032. <p><strong>“Israeli tanks are 20 meters away from Al-Quds Hospital. Direct shooting at the hospital, creating a state of extreme panic and fear among 14000 displaced people.”</strong></p>
  2033.  
  2034.  
  2035.  
  2036. <figure class="wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  2037. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Israel has made abudantly clear&#8211;by words &amp; by bombings&#8211;its intent to genocide Gaza &amp; push the 2.4 million (-10,000+ recently murdered) out of Gaza for good.<br><br>Western politicians in their vile manner condem Palestinians to death.<a href="https://t.co/rgFiFE4DKI">https://t.co/rgFiFE4DKI</a></p>&mdash; Eva Karene Bartlett (@EvaKBartlett) <a href="https://twitter.com/EvaKBartlett/status/1721804450627522835?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 7, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
  2038. </div></figure>
  2039.  
  2040.  
  2041.  
  2042. <p><strong>At this point, anyone arguing that Israel is not <a href="https://jewishcurrents.org/a-textbook-case-of-genocide">committing genocide</a> and ethnic cleansing is either ignorant or wilfully complicit.</strong> A week ago, <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/585967-un-israel-war-crimes/"><u>st</u><em>atements</em></a><em> from</em> the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights specified concern, <em>“that war crimes are being committed. Nowhere is safe in Gaza. Compelling people to evacuate in these circumstances&#8230; and while under a complete siege raises serious concerns over forcible transfer, which is a war crime.”</em></p>
  2043.  
  2044.  
  2045.  
  2046. <p>Craig Mokhiber, the Director of the UN&#8217;s New York office, resigned from his position in protest and disgust, stating, “<strong>Once again, we are seeing a genocide unfolding before our eyes, and the organization that we serve appears powerless to stop it. </strong>As someone who has investigated human rights in Palestine since the 1980s, lived in Gaza as a UN human rights advisor in the 1990s, and carried out several human rights missions to the country before and since, this is deeply personal to me.”</p>
  2047.  
  2048.  
  2049.  
  2050. <figure class="wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  2051. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Director of the UN&#39;s New York office just resigned after thirty years at the organisation over the UN&#39;s handling of the ongoing genocide of Palestinians. <br><br>The entirety of his resignation letter is a necessary read but this first page blew me away. <a href="https://t.co/3y9NwgIofP">pic.twitter.com/3y9NwgIofP</a></p>&mdash; ayan. (@artan_ayan) <a href="https://twitter.com/artan_ayan/status/1719453324284452944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 31, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  2053.  
  2054.  
  2055.  
  2056. <p>Regarding the question of whether Israel is committing genocide, Mokhiber, <a href="https://hrvoices.org/assets/attachments/documents/cm_final_letter_signed_pdf.pdf">wrote</a>, <strong>“The current wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian people&#8230;coupled with explicit statements of intent by leaders in the Israeli government and military, leaves no room for doubt or debate&#8230;.This is a textbook case of genocide.”</strong></p>
  2057.  
  2058.  
  2059.  
  2060. <p>I <a href="https://twitter.com/EvaKBartlett/status/1719669696281149657">echo Mokhiber&#8217;s sentiments</a>, including that having lived three years in Gaza and seen the endless, needless, preventable suffering of Palestinians, this is deeply personal to me. I no longer know whether friends and people I knew a decade ago when I still lived there are alive after such relentless Israeli bombardment all over of Gaza.</p>
  2061.  
  2062.  
  2063.  
  2064. <p>But even if it is not personal for you, the slaughter now is so atrocious and endless that I hope it does become so. If this were being done by any country except Israel, the whole world would be outraged.</p>
  2065.  
  2066.  
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  2068. <figure class="wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  2069. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It&#39;s becoming clear that Israeli forces massacred their own people on October 7. In this video, Apache pilots are shown firing on everyone.<br><br>So no beheaded babies, no raped, and no Palestinians massacring Israelis, but still the Gaza Holocaust and ethnic cleansing must continue. <a href="https://t.co/sucVL5F7r9">pic.twitter.com/sucVL5F7r9</a></p>&mdash; Seyed Mohammad Marandi (@s_m_marandi) <a href="https://twitter.com/s_m_marandi/status/1722565519151165887?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 9, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  2072.  
  2073.  
  2074. <figure class="wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  2075. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Israel has spent a month pounding Gaza into rubble and filling the streets with children&#39;s blood. With European and American weapons, and European and American support. Still <a href="https://twitter.com/vonderleyen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@vonderleyen</a> cannot even say the word: &quot;ceasefire.&quot; This isn&#39;t just Israel&#39;s genocide. It&#39;s Europe&#39;s too. <a href="https://t.co/CtuWywBp2g">https://t.co/CtuWywBp2g</a> <a href="https://t.co/pWsrpSUIgU">pic.twitter.com/pWsrpSUIgU</a></p>&mdash; Clare Daly (@ClareDalyMEP) <a href="https://twitter.com/ClareDalyMEP/status/1722904821869469747?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 10, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  2080. <figure class="wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
  2081. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><img src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/72x72/1f6a8.png" alt="🚨" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />Urgent Appeal:<img src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/72x72/1f50a.png" alt="🔊" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /><br><br>The <a href="https://twitter.com/PalestineRCS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PalestineRCS</a> appeals to the international community and humanitarian institutions to intervene immediately and urgently to protect their crews working in AlQuds Hospital and about 500 patients and more than 14000 displaced, mostly women and children.<br><br><img src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/72x72/1f6d1.png" alt="🛑" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />… <a href="https://t.co/6W4bMzbfEE">pic.twitter.com/6W4bMzbfEE</a></p>&mdash; PRCS (@PalestineRCS) <a href="https://twitter.com/PalestineRCS/status/1723356849594945567?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 11, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  2087. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It’s time for a new oil embargo.<br><br>Saudi Arabia is hosting an unprecedented summit of Middle Eastern leaders to discuss Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.<br><br>America is complicit in this genocide.<br><br>If there isn’t an immediate ceasefire and infusion of humanitarian aid, Saudi Arabia…</p>&mdash; Scott Ritter (@RealScottRitter) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealScottRitter/status/1723311391832969261?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 11, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  2090.  
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  2093. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">New: <img src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/72x72/1f1fa-1f1f2.png" alt="🇺🇲" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />US House of representatives approves extra $14,300,000,000 to Israel for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GazaGenocide?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GazaGenocide</a>.<br>226-196.<br><br>44m in the USA face hunger tonight. <a href="https://t.co/KkenSICw6h">pic.twitter.com/KkenSICw6h</a></p>&mdash; Afshin Rattansi (@afshinrattansi) <a href="https://twitter.com/afshinrattansi/status/1720205912088928672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 2, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  2099. <div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The UN workers are Hamas<br>The journalists are Hamas<br>The fishing boats are Hamas<br>The bakeries are Hamas<br>The ambulances are Hamas<br>The hospitals are Hamas<br>The refugee camps are Hamas<br>The water pipes are Hamas<br>The children are Hamas<br>The babies in incubators are Hamas <a href="https://t.co/39RrXLgUEl">https://t.co/39RrXLgUEl</a></p>&mdash; yasmin el nagar <img src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/72x72/1f1ee-1f1ea.png" alt="🇮🇪" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> <img src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/72x72/1f1f5-1f1f8.png" alt="🇵🇸" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> (@wild_situation) <a href="https://twitter.com/wild_situation/status/1723266746382241856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 11, 2023</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>
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  2151. <title>Interview: On Israel&#8217;s Ongoing Genocide of Gaza</title>
  2152. <link>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2023/10/26/interview-on-israels-ongoing-genocide-of-gaza/</link>
  2153. <comments>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2023/10/26/interview-on-israels-ongoing-genocide-of-gaza/#comments</comments>
  2154. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Eva Bartlett]]></dc:creator>
  2155. <pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2023 13:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
  2156. <category><![CDATA[farming under fire]]></category>
  2157. <category><![CDATA[fishing under fire]]></category>
  2158. <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category>
  2159. <category><![CDATA[interviews]]></category>
  2160. <category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category>
  2161. <category><![CDATA[resisting Zionism]]></category>
  2162. <category><![CDATA[siege on Gaza]]></category>
  2163. <category><![CDATA[white phosphorous]]></category>
  2164. <category><![CDATA[Zionists wars on Gaza]]></category>
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  2166.  
  2167. <description><![CDATA[I was interviewed on Scott Ritter&#8217;s Ask the Inspector, October 24, 2023. [My Odysee upload of the interview] Related Links: &#8211;Observations from Occupied Palestine: Gaza (My 2014 overview of my 3 years in Gaza: Israel&#8217;s 2009 war &#38; 2012 war on Gaza, Israel&#8217;s brutal siege on Gaza, wars on Gaza, assault of farmers &#38; fishers…)&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2023/10/26/interview-on-israels-ongoing-genocide-of-gaza/">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">Interview: On Israel&#8217;s Ongoing Genocide of&#160;Gaza</span></a>]]></description>
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  2170.  
  2171.  
  2172. <p>I was interviewed on Scott Ritter&#8217;s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjHo5tZ2ftc">Ask the Inspector, October 24, 2023</a>.</p>
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  2179.  
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  2182. <p></p>
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  2184.  
  2185.  
  2186. <p>[My Odysee <a href="https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9/Scott-Ritter-Extra-Ep.-109_-Ask-the-Inspector:3">upload</a> of the interview]</p>
  2187.  
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  2189.  
  2190. <p><strong>Related Links</strong>:</p>
  2191.  
  2192.  
  2193.  
  2194. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/observations-from-occupied-palestine-in-gaza/">Observations from Occupied Palestine: Gaza</a> (My 2014 overview of my 3 years in Gaza: <a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/photos-and-videos-zionist-massacre-of-gaza-2008-2009/">Israel&#8217;s 2009 war</a> &amp; <a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2012/11/">2012 war</a> on Gaza, Israel&#8217;s brutal siege on Gaza, wars on Gaza, assault of farmers &amp; fishers…)</p>
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  2198. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://opt2007.wordpress.com/category/my-entries-from-occupied-palestine-apr-dec-2007/">My 2007 West Bank writings</a></p>
  2199.  
  2200.  
  2201.  
  2202. <p>&#8211;<a href="https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2013/11/05/observations-from-occupied-palestine-part-1/">Observations from Occupied Palestine, part 1</a> (My overview of what I witnessed in 8 months in the West Bank)<br /></p>
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  2213. <title>Understanding Gaza, under fire and under siege: Interview on UK Column</title>
  2214. <link>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2023/10/20/understanding-gaza-under-fire-and-under-siege-interview-on-uk-column/</link>
  2215. <comments>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2023/10/20/understanding-gaza-under-fire-and-under-siege-interview-on-uk-column/#comments</comments>
  2216. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Eva Bartlett]]></dc:creator>
  2217. <pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2023 12:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
  2218. <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category>
  2219. <category><![CDATA[Zionist propaganda]]></category>
  2220. <category><![CDATA[Zionists attacks on Gaza]]></category>
  2221. <category><![CDATA[Zionists wars on Gaza]]></category>
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  2223.  
  2224. <description><![CDATA[Mike Robinson speaks to Vanessa Beeley, Eva Bartlet and Cynthia McKinney about their experiences of living in Gaza. Listen HERE]]></description>
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  2230. <p>Mike Robinson <a href="https://www.ukcolumn.org/understanding-gaza-under-fire-and-under-siege">speaks to</a> Vanessa Beeley, Eva Bartlet and <a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gAoAgH0H5hc">Cynthia McKinney</a> about their experiences of living in Gaza.</p>
  2231.  
  2232.  
  2233.  
  2234. <p>Listen <a href="https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9/Understanding-Gaza:1">HERE</a></p>
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