I’m bored, so I shoot’: The Israeli army’s approval of free-for-all violence in Gaza
Israeli soldiers describe the near-total absence of firing regulations in the Gaza war, with troops shooting as they please, setting homes ablaze, and leaving corpses on the streets — all with their commanders’ permission.
Oren Ziv
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Oren Ziv
July 8, 2024 #gaza

Maha Husseini wrote

"Yesterday, on my way home from the hospital, I stopped at a street vendor. There was a woman around my mother's age who came and stood at the same vendor. When I moved to another vendor, she followed me to the same one. It was clear she didn't want to buy anything, and she had something on her mind. After a moment, she gathered her courage and told me, "You know, you look a lot like my son who [was killed]" and she burst into tears." #Gaza

Genocide in Gaza

Nour Naim wrote

The Israeli army killed my cousin, Mohammed Ishteiwi, through direct sniping as he searched for food for his family amidst the rubble of their destroyed home in Gaza City !

This world is unjust !

The news from #Gaza is heartbreaking. Israeli army executed my aunt's husband, who tried to negotiate a safe passage for children & women. My aunt & her son Karam were severely injured and left bleeding on the ground for hours
The army also killed her son Mohamad a few months ago

Tiberius wrote

People naively claiming Starmer is ‘of the left’ just like the French coalition are completely wrong.

France’s New Popular Front is an alliance of Socialists, Ecologists, Communists and France Unbowed (LFI), led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

Mélenchon has refused to call Hamas a terrorist group, accused NATO of being at least partially to blame for the war in Ukraine, and said Israel does not have the right to self-defence under international law due to it occupying Gaza.

On the contrary, Keir Starmer unequivocally supported genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza and supports an endless war in Ukraine, subservient to NATO/US imperialism.

The differences are as stark as night and day:

Mélenchon is a seasoned leftist and anti-imperialist who stands for peace and justice in the world;

Starmer is a hollow neoliberal with no consistent values other than to serve the interests of power and wealth.

The Lancet, pretty much the most credible scientific journal in the world regarding medicine, has *conservatively* reported that 186k people *or more* could have been killed in Gaza.

This is not being broadcast on Western media channels.

If one includes both direct & indirect deaths from Israel's assault, the death toll in Gaza goes up to 186,000 people, according to the medical journal @TheLancet. That's 1 in every 12 Gaza inhabitants killed in the last 9 months of genocide.

🖌 Khaled Al- It wasn't your downfall today, Rishi! Gaza shot you down the day you loaded yourself onto a military cargo plane to Israel on October 19, 2023! You did it like you were a worthless ammunition carton on a military cargo plane! No British Prime Minister has done this in British history, And you did it, you hateful fanatic! We thought you were a good, authentic Asian Indian We did not know that you felt inferior and wanted to prove your loyalty to your Zionist saints The children of Gaza shot you down today like a little chicken. Millions of angry Britons rising for Gaza took you down in the streets You fell and brought down with you the Conservative Party... a historic fall that had not happened in 120 years "Your hell is just beginning"