I start with genocide news, go to actions YOU CAN take and then five more items of relevance (please share and act) Item 1: (Genocide) Seven Babies died in one of the only remaining hospital with incubators. They died…. for lack of milk. They add to over hundreds of babies (less than 1 year old) who died by carpet bombing residential neighborhoods. But now, the deaths of babies is already more from malnutrition and diseases (genocide by famine) than from bombings. It is expected to rise. Amnesty on genocide by hunger https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/02/israel-defying-icj-ruling-to-prevent-genocide-by-failing-to-allow-adequate-humanitarian-aid-to-reach-gaza/ Former Mossad official: Children over 4 deserve to be starved https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240217-former-mossad-official-children-in-gaza-over-4-deserve-to-be-starved/ In the early morning Thursday few aid trucks drove to reach Gaza City where 700,000 people are in a state of famine and despair. As >3000 rushed to get the sacs of flour, the nearby Israeli military post opened fire with machine guns and tank fire. Over a thousand were injured by Israeli bullets and a minimum of 112 were reported dead on the scene (but dozens of fallen nearer to check point could not be reached so the numbers in this one massacre are liable to climb higher. Many of the injured will die because the only major hospital in the area (Al-Shifa) is only able to provide minimal treatment as it has been attacked with its supplies almost gone and many of its medical staff were kidnapped by the occupation army. Again look for amputations and bullet extraction with kitchen knives and no anesthesia. What Israelis think: Kill more civilians https://time.com/6333781/israel-hamas-poll-palestine/ Israel engineering deep pockets of starvation in Gaza https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/israel-engineers-deep-pockets-starvation-across-gaza As a friend wrote “The strategy of genocide has increased its efficiency of murder by hitting into the places where more people can be eliminated with less use of ammunitions, or, in the case of babies, even without any ammunition and in silence.” This child and his bird were killed
How is Israel’s arms industry profiting from war on Gaza https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-stream/2024/2/20/how-is-israels-arms-industry-profiting-from-the-war-on-gaza No Access, No Information: Thousands of Gazans “Forcibly Disappeared” by Israeli Forces https://israelpalestinenews.org/no-access-no-information-thousands-of-gazans-forcibly-disappeared-by-israeli-forces/ ITEM 2: ACTIONS you can take AcCTION 1: Join the millions protesting in dozens of cities and countries Saturday 2 March. Global partial list here https://www.answercoalition.org/rafah_protest ACTION 2: Please send or hand deliver this letter from Veterans for peace to US state department offices, embassies and consulates abroad and to the media. (also Record your action with a photo, video, or text and send it to communications@veteransforpeace.org ) https://www.veteransforpeace.org/files/4017/0777/8707/VFP_StDept_ltr_FINAL_2-11-24.pdf ACTION 3: Act to stop members of US congress who support genocide https://actionnetwork.org/letters/expel-andy-ogles/ “Silence in the face of Evil is itself evil” Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German Pastor, theologian and anti-Nazi dissident (1906-1946) ACTION 4: You want peace? Here an Israeli and a Palestinian acting for it.Osama and his bird were killed yesterday…💔💔💔 by Israel along with 23 other members of his family including his mom. More than 47% of the population in Gaza are children. pic.twitter.com/JcOCmOxxAS
— 🇮🇪جوليا 🇵🇸🔻(INTL BREAK ERA) (@6WONTGO) February 28, 2024
ITEM 4 Accolades and statements keep coming on the self sacrifice of Aaon Bushnell. I would like to see a bronze monument erected to him, exactly where he self-immolated himself. His extreme sacrifice must not be forgotten. Indeed people are waking up:
Veterans For Peace statement about Aaron Bushnell protesting to the death https://www.veteransforpeace.org/pressroom/news/2024/02/26/veterans-peace-statement-about-aaron-bushnell-protesting-dea https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/02/27/us-airman-aaron-bushnells-self-immolation-outside-the-israeli-embassy-in-washington-d-c/ Scott Ritter https://www.youtube.com/live/mFO_LsStmuA ITEM 5: More on government hypocrisy: -Hamas Rape Narrative COLLAPSES, Israeli Forces Accused of SEXUAL VIOLENCE in Gaza: Briahna Joy Gray https://youtu.be/F_RcgBjOQs0 – Egypt selling the Palestinians for 10 billion https://www.globalresearch.ca/egypt-sells-out-palestinians-10-billion-loan-package-mike-whitney/5850867Aaron Bushnell's final words will be immortalized
— Abier (@abierkhatib) February 27, 2024
American pilots are demonstrating in front of the Israeli Embassy pic.twitter.com/TDhzW732jd
The ultimate chutzpah to cap: the US administration will give 53 million in humanitarian aid to people in the West Bank and Gaza. That is after cutting funding of $350 million to UNRWA (which is devastating this UN agency). This after sending billions to Israel (more per capita than any other country or even any state of the union in the US). This after sending over 200 billion of weapons to commit genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinains in the past five decades. This after the US weapons delivered over the past 5 months leveled Gaza strip causing over $6 BILLION n damage (let alove over 110,000 casualties proportionally equivalent to 15 million US Citizens) Stay Human and keep Palestine alive Mazin Qumsiyeh A bedouin in cyberspace, a villager at home Professor, Founder, and (volunteer) Director Palestine Museum of Natural History Palestine Institute of Biodiversity and Sustainability Bethlehem University Occupied Palestine http://qumsiyeh.org http://palestinenature.org facebook pages Personal https://www.facebook.com/mazin.qumsiyeh.9 Institute https://www.facebook.com/PIBS.PMNH ————– next part ————– An HTML attachment was scrubbed… URL:Ireland's senate votes unanimously to impose sanctions on Israel
— MintPress News (@MintPressNews) February 27, 2024
The motion sought to actively ensure that no US weapons are being sent to Israel through Irish airspace, to enact the Occupied Territories Bill and the Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill, to impose… pic.twitter.com/KI9r2jk7lH
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