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After escaping from Shujaiya neighbourhood with his family yesterday, my friend Mohammed snuck back today to rescue some school books that he had left behind. He took this photo of Israeli tanks perched on the hill above his neighbourhood. Later in the day, there were huge explosions from Shujaiya that were captured in part during an Al Jazeera interview (Hani Mahmoud commented that the noises came from Shujaiya). It appears the area is being flattened by bombardment as have so many other parts of Gaza.
So clear evidence emerges today providing proof of a recent war crime committed by the IDF. But the BBC, which is terrified of being accused of criticising Israel, won't describe it in clear unambiguous terms
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g2z103nqxo
No the video footage doesn't "appear" to contradict Israeli account of the Gaza medic killings, it very clearly does contradict their account.
But such is the power of screaming "anti-semitism" should anyone dare to criticise the far-right genocidal regime in Tel Aviv.
I particularly liked this :
Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Saar earlier this week echoed the army account, saying "the IDF did not randomly attack an ambulance".
Of course they don't, it is deliberate and calculating, after they have carefully identified that it is an ambulance, as are their cover-up stories.
It was rather slack of them to bury the paramedic with his phone after they had murdered him though.
Any government that doesn't call this out - properly call this out, not just "raise a concern" - should be ashamed. And any government continuing to supply military equipment to the Israelis is complicit in war crimes.
The BBC now saying that the IDF confess to having "made a mistake". We've all been there. One minute you're on your sofa, catching up on the latest STW posts, the next minute you're machine gunning an ambulance and executing paramedics. Anyone can make a mistake.
Don't the Israelis mean that they made the mistake of not retrieving the mobile phones of dead Red Crescent workers after they had executed them?
I believe that the paramedic who was filming, Refat Radwan, started praying even before the attack started. I guess every paramedic and first responder in Gaza will be fully aware of the risk of being murdered by the IDF for doing their job of trying to save lives.
Presumably this why Refat Radwan was filming in the first place.
Edited to give the paramedic his name.
How the crap does a country which is arguably best known for its own genocide of millions get to the point where they are deporting people who are against genocide?
I used to have a Palestinian flag on the back of our van alongside a "**** PTN" sticker in the colours fo the Ukrainian flag. Needless to say, given both myself and the GF have dual citizenship here in Germany the flag was removed prior to crossing back into the Vaterland.
Sickening.
How the crap does a country which is arguably best known for its own genocide of millions get to the point where they are deporting people who are against genocide?
Because they've disappeared so far up the genocidal zionist arse that daylight is no longer a possibility.
**** them all, **** every card carrying Netanyahu loving zionist
I no longer care if I upset folk with my opinion.
Israel has a long history of exploiting situations where the world's eyes are focused on other things, now is no exception as they intensify their genocide against the Palestinian people.
"Between 18 March and 9 April 2025, there were some 224 incidents of Israeli strikes on residential buildings and tents for internally displaced people," she told reporters in Geneva.
"In some 36 strikes about which the UN Human Rights Office corroborated information, the fatalities recorded so far were only women and children," she said.
with Israel only intensifying its attacks and Trump cosying up to netenyahu even harder, its hard to he optimistic, but these guys are worth a follow and theres a link to donate in their bio
https://www.instagram.com/gaza_skate_team?igsh=YXpuZGo0dWYwZmo1
Repairs to a skate park?
at the moment hes rebuilding his house , the skatepark is now being used for tents!
these guys are also worth a follow
https://www.instagram.com/skateistan?igsh=MXU2NTJuODRubncxbQ==
Instagram and meta are actively restricting/deleting pro Palestinian accounts from Gaza, another company that crawls up the arse of the zionist regime.
An interesting article by an Israeli professor of international law
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/4/10/why-i-dont-cheer-for-israels-pro-democracy-movement
The whole article is worth reading imo but the conclusions are the most relevant
Finally, on March 27, more than year after the rights organisations had filed the petition, the court issued a verdict. Chief Justice Yitzhak Amit and Justices Noam Sohlberg and David Mintz unanimously ruled that it lacked merit. Justice David Mintz interlaced his response with Jewish religious texts, characterising Israel’s attacks as a war of divine duty
Israel’s Supreme Court – both in the way it handled the judicial process and in its ruling – has ignored Israel’s legal obligation to refrain from depriving a civilian population of objects indispensable to their survival, including by wilfully impeding relief supplies. In effect, the court legitimised the use of starvation as a weapon of war.
This is the court that hundreds of thousands of Israelis are trying to save. Its March 27 ruling – and almost all other rulings involving Palestinians – reveal that the Supreme Court of Israel is a colonial court – one that protects the rights of the settler population, while legitimising the dispossession, displacement and horrific violence perpetrated against the Indigenous Palestinians. And while the Supreme Court might not reflect the values of the existing government – particularly on issues relating to political corruption – it undoubtedly reflects and has always reflected he values of the colonial regime.
Hence, the liberal Zionists who fill Tel Aviv’s streets every weekend are not demonstrating against a judicial overhaul that endangers democracy, but against an overhaul that endangers Jewish democracy. Few of these protesters have any real qualms about the court’s horrific ruling on humanitarian aid, or, for that matter, on how the court has consistently upheld Israeli apartheid and colonial pillars. The regime, in other words, can continue to eliminate Palestinians unhindered as long as the rights of Israel’s Jewish citizenry are secured.
A harsh reality check for those who desperately want to believe that Israel can transformed into a law abiding democracy by simply defeating Netanyahu and his far-right allies.
An account of what life is like for a Gazan family
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Hello friends, I think you will probably recognize me - I am Mohammed Al-Batniji, from Gaza. Today, I will tell you how we left our home for a second time after the war resumed following six weeks of ceasefire. If you remember, when the ceasefire came, my family returned to northern Gaza from the south where we were staying in a tent. My family was among the many thousands of people that poured back to northern Gaza when the Netzarim Corridor was opened to us. But now, after only two months, our home and neighborhood of Shujaiya became threatened by the Israeli military and we had to leave in a hurry.
On 23 March, Israel broke the ceasefire and the war returned, the destruction returned and everything went back to how it was before the truce. There were people who were displaced immediately, and other people who held out. We were among the people who held out, but not for many days. We began to suffer from lack of water and food. It was difficult to leave our tent. We really suffered in the morning from the lack of water and also, since this was Ramadan, we suffered due to fasting in the tense and difficult atmosphere. At night, we were afraid as we tried to sleep with the constant noise of aircraft and continuous bombing.
We always said the Shahada before sleeping, and when morning came, we thanked God. We checked on our neighbours every morning, fearing that we would lose one of our loved ones and relatives. Ramadan ended and Eid came. It was a sad and boring Eid, even though we bought new clothes with money donated to us, but we have lost many people and we visited the graves of friends and loved ones. After Eid, our lives returned to how they were. We wake up and eat if there is breakfast, and I go to classes and then come home to eat, collect water, study and browse the internet on my phone.
This was my day every day. At night, I slept alone in our destroyed apartment while my family slept in the tent we had built outside. I had reclaimed a room to study in and I slept there every day. On one night, something unexpected happened. It was very dark when an Apache helicopter came and it fired its bullets at our house and at my uncle’s house. My neighbours and I looked out the window (you might not believe it) and we saw part of the horrors and fire. I thought I was really in an action movie. As the bombing was continuing, I went down to the basement. Then I sneaked out of the building, moving carefully for fear that a quadcopter that I could hear overhead would see me and shoot me.
I went down to my grandma and grandpa who were both awake. I told them that the attack was in our house and my uncle Ibrahim's house. I was panting with stress. It was a very hard experience - I thought I was really going to die. The smell of gunpowder was everywhere and my family was in the tent and I was afraid for them. When the morning came I woke up to see where they were bombing and it turned out that they were hitting every house that had a solar energy panel because Ben Gvir had ordered to cut off electricity to the entire Gaza Strip. I filmed a clip of the attack on my phone but it is not very clear, and I discovered pieces of shrapnel on the ground from when the helicopter was shooting.
It disgusts me the way Western leaders talk about he war in Ukraine in that Russia is breaking international and humanitarian law in a way that almost convinces you that they believe the words they say, but as ever, or a token gesture mutter a few words about this genocide in the State of Palestine.
There has always been a very significant Jewish presence, both in terms of Jewish organisations and individual Jews, at all the national pro-palestine demos of the last 18 months, as there undoubtedly will be on this Saturday's demo.
But I never thought that I would see the day when members of the staunchly Zionist Board of Deputies of British Jews would start to turn against Israel.
And not least at a time when Israel is supposedly "at war", if you can call the genocidal turkey shoot which is currently taking place in Gaza that.
Asked for his response to the horrendous scenes in Gaza, including the “number of children who have been killed or harmed” Goldenberg said: “It’s awful and it’s a total breach of Jewish ethical values".
How long before members of the Board of Deputies are accused of being anti-semitic and apologists for Hamas just like anyone else who dares to criticise Israel?
self hating jew is the phrase i have seen deployed against jews or israelis that oppose the genocide
Yup, the suggestion is that any Jew who is opposed to Palestinians being driven off their lands and slaughtered has some sort of psychological issue.
The white supremacists during the apartheid era in South Africa missed a trick by not accusing those who supported the rights of black people of being self-hating whites.
Labour Friends of Genocide up to their tricks again - Lammy secret meeting with Israeli Foreign Minister, covered up by the BBC. I was going to say it is unbelievable. Sadly it's not. Outrageous, disgusting, contemptible. But not unbelievable.
. I was going to say it is unbelievable. Sadly it's not.
Well I am seriously struggling to believe just how far the current Labour leadership is prepared to go to protect a far-right neo-fascist genocidal regime who has murdered tens of thousands of innocent men, women, and children, in the last 18 months.
I find it incomprehensible.
Guardian article on the same visit https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/16/israeli-foreign-minister-david-lammy-uk-foreign-office
What does that actually mean - "private visit"? He came to see his tailor and just happened to bump into Lammy in Fortnum & Mason's ?? How stupid do they think we are ??
From the very obviously pro-Israeli Times of Israel :
While unauthorized outposts are illegal under Israeli law, it is common for them to receive support and funding from state bodies tied to the settler movement.
“In an operation that appears to have been planned in advance, the army is once again collaborating with settlers to establish illegal farm outposts, which are used to violently expel Palestinians under the auspices of the state,” Yesh Din says in a statement.
So not only does the IDF and the Israeli government continue to blatantly ignore the Geneva Convention and international law with regards to using Israeli civilians as instruments of conquest, but they also brazenly ignore Israeli law.
They really are a lawless terrorist state.
So it turns out that executing emergency workers and burying their vehicles was just a simple innocent mistake. So grateful to the IDF for their thorough and impartial investigation, quickly clearing up this question. Just what we expect from the world’s most moral army.
So it turns out that executing emergency workers and burying their vehicles was just a simple innocent mistake. So grateful to the IDF for their thorough and impartial investigation, quickly clearing up this question. Just what we expect from the world’s most moral army.
Did we really expect anything else from those lying bastards?, every single utterance from their lips is a lie.
Yeah I found the whole it was "a mistake" nauseating.
Murdering in cold blood 15 very clearly identifiable first responders, and then burying them with their equally very identifiable vehicles, was very obviously not "a mistake".
But, as I said earlier, not checking the corpses for mobile phones with incriminating evidence very clearly was a mistake.
And it is for making that mistake that the deputy commander of the brigade responsible has been dismissed. That should emphasis to IDF officers the need to cover-up mass murder crimes more effectively in the future.
Although at least one extreme right-wing Israeli cabinet minister is outraged that anyone at all should have had their wrists slapped.
Israel’s extreme-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, called the army chief’s decision to dismiss the responsible deputy commander “a grave mistake”.
So it turns out that executing emergency workers and burying their vehicles was just a simple innocent mistake. So grateful to the IDF for their thorough and impartial investigation, quickly clearing up this question. Just what we expect from the world’s most moral army.
I can't share the WhatsApp group discussion I'm in, but needless to say we've just listed the ways we'd be professionally and legally cooked. From low level drills all the way to LOAC stuff.
Commander couldn't PID targets? ID'ed a fire truck as a regular truck? Couldn't get confirmation or PID from air assets? Still went ahead and called the engagement. JFC.
As for the UAV, I know for a fact the lights would have shown on IR sensors, rotating or flashing beacons have a distinct signature, worst case you flick to day-TV and you can see them.
Those troops have NVG, sighting systems, all the toys that are provided to assist with PID and indicating targets between assets.
Even If you're being naively generous then that is a monumental level of incompetence for 'professional' reece elements and their commanders. The clue is in the name, seems they need some remedial training and some eye tests.
That's even before we even start to discuss the absolutely ruthless attempt at hiding the crime.
No matter the chain of events, or engagement process, somebody (non-IDF) was dying in that kill zone that night.
This is a very good discussion with Ilan Pappé
This is the most concise and yet thorough appraisal of current United States policies with regards to the Middle East I have yet seen
And Jeffrey Sachs is of course Jewish, if that matters.
Unfortunately, Professor Sachs is known for as many errors of judgement as good calls and he has an unshakeable belief in his own credibility. He's primarily an economist
His theme of several years is that US foreign policy caused Russia to invade Ukraine. He's suggested that the US was responsible for breaching the Nord Stream pipelines and that Covid-19 originated in US labs and he's been a guest on a RFKjr podcast
A Jewish anti-israeli conspiracy theorist no doubt
Edit : Btw I actually think the fact that he is an economist adds to his creditability, he has no obvious axe to grind.
We all know what settlers are, the 700,00+ settlers should be kicked out of stolen lands.
I don't think the average person in the UK really understands what sort people the colonial settlers in Occupied Palestine are.
And I am certainly a very long way from knowing everything about Israeli apartheid, it is a totally unique system anywhere in the world.
The more the world learns about it the more world will see how totally unacceptable it is.
I don't think the average person in the UK really understands what sort people the colonial settlers in Occupied Palestine are.
And I am certainly a very long way from knowing everything about Israeli apartheid, it is a totally unique system anywhere in the world.
The more the world learns about it the more world will see how totally unacceptable it is.
I remember getting a months long ban way back in 2004 for what I wrote on this forum regarding Israeli settlers and my opinion of them and their supporters.
At the time I had just read "Joe Sacco - Palestine" and I then went on a reading spree of other books regarding Israel and the Palestinians so I was rather outspoken and not as "careful" with my words/phrases as I am today.
A mate that works in diplomacy/relations/communication for Halo Trust (just up the road from me) has been back in the country for easter so he's coming to see me this week, he knows Rob Holden - WHO Emergency Coordinator and has sort've mentioned what he has been told by Rob regarding what the IDF have doing and the utter sheer barbarity of their actions on the ground - it's just horrific, I don't understand why it is not stopped as our politicians must have the evidence and be fully aware of what is happening.
As an aside this is a good interview/grilling/discussion with the excellent Sangita Myska and Mehdi Hussain
I don't understand why it is not stopped as our politicians must have the evidence and be fully aware of what is happening.
I don't think it is really anything much complicated than the fact that Israel is seen as a vital ally in a region perceived to be important to Western interest.
The West is perfectly prepared to prop up and support the most brutal of regimes if politicians feel it serves their interests.
I am not sure what will happen as Israel's plan to starve over 2 million Palestinians in Gaza gathers pace though. That could be prove tricky for Western governments.....2 million deaths through deliberate starvation.
The UK government did oversee the starvation of 3 million Indians during the totally avoidable and unnecessary Bengal Famine of 1943, and got away with it. But that was before the age of the internet and videos, and settler-colonialism is also now so last century.
Kneecap have released a statement in response to the concocted moral outrage over their recent performance at Cochella,
https://twitter.com/KNEECAPCEOL/status/1916982746708381731
Statement below
Their full statement:
They want you to believe words are more harmful than genocide.
Establishment figures, desperate to silence us, have combed through hundreds of hours of footage and interviews, extracting a handful of words from months or years ago to manufacture moral hysteria.
Let us be unequivocal: we do not, and have never, supported Hamas or Hezbollah. We condemn all attacks on civilians, always. It is never okay. We know this more than anyone, given our nation's history.
We also reject any suggestion that we would seek to incite violence against any MP or individual. Ever. An extract of footage, deliberately taken out of all context, is now being exploited and weaponised, as if it were a call to action.
This distortion is not only absurd - it is a transparent effort to derail the real conversation.
All two million Palestinian people in Gaza are currently being starved to death by Israel.
At least 20,000 children in Gaza have been killed. The British government continues to supply arms to Israel, even after scores of NHS doctors warned Keir Starmer in August that children were being systematically executed with sniper shots to the head.
Instead of defending innocent people or the principles of international law, the powerful in Britain have abetted slaughter and famine.
This is where real anger and outrage should be directed towards.
To the Amess and Cox families, we send our heartfelt apologies, we never intended to cause you hurt.
Kneecap’s message has always been — and remains — one of love, inclusion, and hope. This is why our music resonates across generations, countries, classes and cultures and has brought hundreds of thousands of people to our gigs.
No smear campaign will change that.
Suddenly, days after calling out the US administration at Coachella to applause and solidarity, there is an avalanche of outrage and condemnation by the political classes of Britain.
The real crimes are not in our performances; the real crimes are the silence and complicity of those in power.
Shame on them.
In addition to Ernies comment its also the weaponisation of the term antisemitic. Any criticism of Israel leads to loud cries of antsemite. As labour used this to attack the left they are now hoist by their own petard and dare not criticise Israel.
In addition to Ernies comment its also the weaponisation of the term antisemitic. Any criticism of Israel leads to loud cries of antsemite. As labour used this to attack the left they are now hoist by their own petard and dare not criticise Israel.
I have a couple of Palestinian flags with the wording “stop the genocide, end the apartheid, free Palestine” on the rear window of my car for the past 18 months and have had the antisemite slur shouted at me, once, briefly at Dumfries hospital whilst in the car park and recently at Dumfries Aldi car park waiting on mum to get shopping where he said he was calling the police and then launched into a semi screaming match but I just laughed and shouted back “crack on ya …………..”
If they throw it around then eventually it’ll lose all meaning, call me whatever you want, it’s utterly meaningless
Louis Theroux "The Settlers" is on tonight.
With the BBC now desperately scared of being accused of anti-semitism the Louis Theroux programme was in fact far better than I had feared would be the case.
The colonial settlers and the IDF really didn't come across as very nice people. And there was something quite sinister about Daniella Weiss's whole demeanour, Theroux made some comment at the end about her being an extremist with a smile.
And the important thing to know about Daniela Weiss is that she isn't just some nutter on the fringes who believes that Israel should stretch fom the Euphrates to the River Nile, she has very direct links with members of the Israeli Cabinet.
Louis Theroux "The Settlers" is on tonight.
With the BBC now desperately scared of being accused of anti-semitism the Louis Theroux programme was in fact far better than I had feared would be the case.
The colonial settlers and the IDF really didn't come across as very nice people. And there was something quite sinister about Daniella Weiss's whole demeanour, Theroux made some comment at the end about her being an extremist with a smile.
I/we met enough of them in Anjuna, Goa back in 2001 to very rapidly form a valid opinion of the IDF, we spent 7/8 weeks in Goa to relax after our 4 odd months touring around on the Enfield and whilst there were a few very cool chilled Israelis hiding out to avoid military service unfortunately they were treated like shit by the IDF goons, the same way the IDF Israelis treated the locals was ****g disgusting.
They took over the semi open Baskin Robbins ice cream parlour on the corner of mapusa rd/starco junction heading down to the beach and treated the staff to slaps, kicks, stuff thrown at them, shoving them around, smoking chillums at all times of the day and dealing large amounts of pills, coke, weed and hash in front of customers/tourists over the few weeks we stayed in Anjuna, but one night that all turned very very sour for them as a large mob of Indians who we later learned were “mob” from Mumbai turned up and absolutely laid into them with machetes, bats, bars etc.
We watched all this happening from the rooftop bar 50ft down/across the road and thought “let’s get out here before the police turn up” so we headed down to Palolem beach south Goa for a few weeks and read about it/watched reports on the bar TV’s.
Made all the Indian press at the time and a few were left with very serious life long injuries, can’t say I was fussed in the slightest.
Starmer has used similar language, with the British government keen not to get too far ahead of the US.
Why on earth would a Labour government not be keen to get far ahead of a neo-fascist administration?