Nakba 2025: The world now sees #Israel as an unhinged killer

from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
Soumaya Ghannoushi - Opinion
21 May 2025 14:15 BST

[Excellent article]

"A second #Nakba is unfolding, not in secret, not whispered through trembling lips, not passed as rumours between fleeing survivors, but in the full, merciless light of day.

It is live-streamed. Captioned. Digitised. A genocide unfolding in high definition and real time.

This is no echo of 1948. It is its evolution. Its mutation. The same machinery of erasure, now upgraded, modernised, militarised, and globally broadcast.

More ruthless.

More unapologetic."

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-second-nakba-televised

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Israel may change tack to allow aid groups in Gaza to stay in charge of non-food aid

from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
By SAM MEDNICK
Updated 10:02 AM EDT, May 24, 2025

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — As pressure mounts to get more aid into #Gaza, #Israel appears to be changing tack and may let aid groups operating in the battered enclave remain in charge of non-food assistance while leaving food distribution to a newly established U.S.-backed group, according to a letter obtained by #TheAssociatedPress.

https://apnews.com/article/israel-gaza-war-aid-groups-89068e30fe90e8c13a6203836945b122?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share

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Israeli use of human shields in Gaza was systematic, soldiers and former detainees tell the AP

from #AssociatedPress #APNews
By SAM MEDNICK and SAMY MAGDY
Updated 8:23 AM EDT, May 24, 2025

"Several Palestinians and soldiers told the #AP that #Israeli troops are systematically forcing #Palestinians to act as human shields in #Gaza, sending them into buildings and tunnels to check for explosives or militants. The dangerous practice has become ubiquitous during 19 months of war, they said. "

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-army-human-shields-80f358dd2c87a1123f26ffada159701c?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share

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#Gaza doctor receives charred bodies of her nine children while on duty

Paediatrician Alaa al-Najjar was treating victims of #Israeli attacks when her children were killed in a strike on their home

from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Maha Hussaini in Gaza City, occupied Palestine
Published date: 24 May 2025 11:09 BST

"Dr Alaa al-Najjar, a paediatric specialist at al-Tahrir hospital within the Nasser Medical Complex, was treating victims of ongoing Israeli attacks across the strip on Friday when she was shocked to find her own children and husband brought into the hospital.

The children - the eldest aged 12 and the youngest just six months - were severely burned in the bombing."

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-doctor-receives-bodies-her-nine-children-while-duty

#FoodAsWeapon
#PermanentCeasfireNow #EndBlockadeOfGaza #RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant #USHandsOffICC
#StopGazaGenocide
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Diary of a Gazan family's descent toward starvation

from #Reuters
By Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Mahmoud Issa
May 24, 202510:25 AM EDT

***Summary***
* Mother of nine children recounts terrible week
* Family shares one meal a day between them, at most
* #Israel allows some food in amid starvation warnings

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/diary-gazan-familys-descent-toward-starvation-2025-05-24/

#FoodAsWeapon
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Pro-Palestinian Movement Faces an Uncertain Path After D.C. Attack

The slaying of two #Israeli Embassy workers cast a harsh spotlight on pro-#Palestinian groups in the United States. Activists, who were already being scrutinized, could face further pushback.

from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
[gift article - link can be shared. Expires in 30 days.]
[Bias alert - #NYT usually favors Israel]

By Sharon Otterman
May 23, 2025Updated 12:22 p.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/us/pro-palestinian-movement-embassy-attack.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JU8.VrS0.LRBjcdn0_j1T&smid=em-share

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Violent Israeli settlers under #UK sanctions join illegal West Bank outpost

Exclusive: Neria Ben Pazi and Zohar Sabah witnessed visiting base set up to drive Palestinians from homes

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Thu 22 May 2025 14.56 EDT

"Two violent #Israeli settlers on whom sanctions were imposed by the UK government this week have joined a campaign to drive #Palestinians from their homes in the #WestBank village of Mughayyir al-Deir."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/22/violent-israeli-settlers-under-uk-sanctions-join-west-bank-outpost?CMP=share_btn_url

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Medic survived #Gaza shootings by pleading in Hebrew, #Palestinian Red Crescent says

from #Reuters
By Emma Farge
May 22, 20252:11 PM EDT

Younis Al-Khatib, president of the Palestine Red Crescent Society, told reporters in Geneva that Al-Nassasrah was spared after he pleaded in Hebrew and said his mother was a #Palestinian citizen of #Israel.

"What does Assad say in Hebrew? 'Don't shoot. I am Israeli.' And the soldier got a bit confused," he told reporters. "That confusion ... made him survive."

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/medic-survived-gaza-shootings-by-pleading-hebrew-palestinian-red-crescent-says-2025-05-22/

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Israel denies doctors entry into Gaza as #Palestinians starve to death

A group including two doctors and four humanitarians were blocked from entering #Gaza on Thursday amid growing international outrage over #Israel's conduct

By Dania Akkad
Published date: 22 May 2025 16:28 BST

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-denies-doctors-entry-gaza-clock-runs-down-starving-palestinians

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2 #Israeli Embassy Workers Killed in 'Horrific' Washington, DC Shooting

"We are grounded first and foremost in the belief that all human life is precious, which is precisely why we are struggling for a world in which all people can live in safety and dignity," said #JewishVoiceForPeace.

Julia Conley
May 22, 2025

https://www.commondreams.org/news/israeli-embassy-dc

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“The Worst It’s Ever Been”: #UK. Surgeon in Gaza Warns Kids Are Bearing Brunt as Israel Widens Assault

from #DemocracyNow!
May 22, 2025

We speak with Dr. Victoria Rose, a British plastic and reconstructive surgeon who has been on three medical missions to #Gaza since the start of #Israel’s war on the territory. She joins us from Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, where she’s been treating patients for over a week, and describes horrific injuries amid Israel’s ongoing bombardment, limited medical supplies and widespread malnutrition making it harder for people to heal. “Children are particularly taking the brunt of this,” she says.

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/22/the_worst_its_ever_been_uk

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Israel’s “final solution” for Palestinians.
[plus other articles, including:]
* Tweet at the media: Do your jobs. Call it a genocide.
* What we’re reading: The far-right’s plan to destroy the Palestine movement.
* What we’re listening to: ‘It has absolutely nothing to do with Jewish safety.’

from #TheWire
[online publication of #JewishVoiceForPeace #JVP in #USA

https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2025/05/21/israels-final-solution-for-palestinians/?sourceid=1001761&emci=476a511a-5336-f011-a5f1-6045bda9d96b&emdi=949d6dd9-5e36-f011-a5f1-6045bda9d96b&ceid=890015

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#Israel actions in Gaza 'close to war crimes', former Israeli prime minister says

#EhudOlmert’s critical remarks come amid growing internal criticism over the handling of the war on the besieged enclave

from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Mera Aladam
Published date: 21 May 2025 15:09 BST

"He told the network that the “obvious appearance” of the war on #Gaza is that "thousands of innocent #Palestinians are being killed, as well as many #Israeli soldiers," adding that "from every point of view, this is obnoxious and outrageous."

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-actions-gaza-close-war-crimes-former-israeli-prime-minister-says

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No aid has reached #Palestinians in #Gaza yet, despite Israeli claim of delivery

#UN and local sources say lorries remain stalled at crossing, with no food or medicine reaching civilians since 2 March

from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Ahmed Aziz in Khan Younis, occupied Palestine
Published date: 21 May 2025 13:30 BST

"“No aid has entered the Gaza Strip since 2 March,” said Nahed Shuhibar, head of Gaza’s Private Transport Association, in an interview with Alaraby TV.

“Aid lorries are still stuck at the Karem Abu Salem crossing.”"

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/no-aid-reached-palestinians-gaza-yet-despite-israeli-claim-delivery

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Israel-Gaza war live: more than 80 killed in latest strikes as aid deliveries condemned as ‘ridiculously inadequate’

#DoctorsWithoutBorders says deliveries are just ‘a smokescreen to pretend the siege is over’

#Israel still blocking aid for #Gaza despite promise to lift siege, says #UN

from #TheGuardian #Guardian

Tom Ambrose (now); Amy Sedghi, Fran Singh and Martin Belam (earlier)
Wed 21 May 2025 11.52 EDT

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#Israel Expands Ethnic Cleansing Operations in #KhanYounis
[eyewitness account]

“Even though we had endured nearly 600 days of this war of extermination, I didn’t believe we would survive this day. It was a living nightmare.”

from #DropSiteNews
Donya Abu Sitta
May 21, 2025

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-ethnic-cleansing-khan-younis-gaza?r=2y9nd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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#UK summons Israeli ambassador and suspends free trade agreement talks with #Israel

Landmark move tears up friendly relations between the two countries

from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Imran Mulla
Published date: 20 May 2025 15:07 BST

""The world is judging," Lammy said. "History will judge them [the #Israeli government]. Blocking aid, expanding the war, dismissing the concerns of your friends and partners. This is indefensible and it must stop.""

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-summons-israeli-ambassador-suspends-free-trade-agreement-israel

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Israel still blocking aid for Gaza despite promise to lift siege, says UN

Continued restrictions come as opposition leader says Israel is becoming pariah nation that ‘kills babies as a hobby’

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Tue 20 May 2025 14.53 EDT

"Two days after Benjamin Netanyahu announced he was lifting the siege of #Gaza, #Israel is still blocking food from reaching starving #Palestinians, the #UN has said, as the leader of the country’s centre-left Democrats party said his country was becoming a pariah nation that “kills babies as a hobby”.

Only five trucks of aid had reached Gaza by Tuesday afternoon and aid workers had not been given permission to distribute even that token shipment..."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/20/israel-still-blocking-aid-for-gaza-despite-promise-to-lift-siege-says-un?CMP=share_btn_url

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I Tried to Donate Blood to Help Gaza’s Wounded. I Was Too Anemic and Malnourished

Like everyone else in #Gaza, I have been deprived of basic protein and vitamins for the past two and a half months of #Israel’s siege. I’ve lost 44 pounds and my blood is not even fit to donate.

from #DropsiteNews
Rasha Abou jalal
May 19, 2025

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/donate-blood-anemic-malnutrition-siege-hunger?r=2y9nd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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#Netanyahu vows to ‘take control’ of Gaza as UK, France and Canada threaten action against Israel

Key allies call escalation ‘egregious’ and promise ‘concrete’ response if Israel does not end renewed offensive and allow aid into strip

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Emma Graham-Harrison and Quique Kierszenbaum in Jerusalem
Mon 19 May 2025 15.08 EDT

"Earlier that day, #Israel’s military declared an entire city a combat zone, airstrikes killed more than 60 people, and the finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, said Israel’s army would “wipe out” what remains of #Palestinian #Gaza."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/19/benjamin-netanyahu-israel-take-control-gaza-uk-france-canada-threaten-action?CMP=share_btn_url

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