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SvennoJ on 12 December 2023
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Israel bragging about another war crime



A UN school in Beit Hanoun has been destroyed - while Israeli soldiers cheered. Hundreds of displaced families were sheltering there, and now have nowhere to go.


Biden making friends everywhere

Biden slammed for saying Jewish people anywhere would not be safe without Israel

The US president had made the comment during a Hanukkah holiday reception at the White House late on Monday.

“My commitment to the safety of the Jewish people and security of Israel and its right to exist as an independent Jewish state is unshakable,” Biden said. “Folks, were there no Israel, there wouldn’t be a Jew in the world who is safe.”

Biden has repeatedly made that assertion throughout his decades-long political career, but this time, his remarks went viral on social media, sparking sharp criticism, including from some Jewish American progressives.

Critics noted that the US is home to millions of Jews, whose safety should be the responsibility of the US government, not a foreign nation.

“I’m sorry, but this is just not an affirming or appropriate message to Jewish Americans. We’ve been an integral part of this country from its beginning,” Dylan Williams, vice president for government affairs at the Center for International Policy, wrote in a social media post.

“Our safety here should not rest on the existence or actions of any foreign country whatsoever.”


The extra humanitarian aid Biden was promising is off the table, was just another distraction tactic

Aid deliveries to Gaza directly from Israel "not on the table," Israeli official tells CNN


There is currently no plan to allow aid to enter Gaza directly from Israel, an official at Israel's Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) told CNN Monday. 

Israel opened the Kerem Shalom Crossing for inspections of aid on Tuesday, but not for goods to enter Gaza. Any aid screened at Kerem Shalom is sent to the Rafah Crossing between Gaza and Egypt to be handed over to international organizations and transported into Gaza.

  • Aid for Gaza: Israel's Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) said Tuesday it would open the Nitzana crossing and the Kerem Shalom crossing for inspections, but not for the delivery, of aid into Gaza. Once screened, the aid will be shipped to the Rafah crossing, where it will be handed over to international organizations, COGAT added. No supplies will enter Gaza directly from Israel.
  • 'Endless deepening tragedy': Israeli bombardment and restrictions on essential supplies entering Gaza have caused rampant food, fuel and drug shortages, crushing the medical system and leaving 2.2 million Gazans at risk of dehydration and starvation. The commissioner-general of the UN's agency for Palestinian refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, called it an "endless deepening tragedy" and "hell on Earth" on Tuesday.
  • Disease and infections spread: Diseases including chicken pox, meningitis and upper respiratory tract infections are spreading in Gaza, Palestinian and international medical authorities said Tuesday, as living conditions deteriorate. Cases of impetigo, meningitis and jaundice have also been recorded in the enclave, according to Richard Peeperkorn, the World Health Organization Representative in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. 

The situation in Kamal Adwan Hospital is catastrophic, Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, has said, as the Israeli army continues its raid of the medical facility. “We are outraged by what’s going on,” Leo Cans, MSF head of mission for Palestine, told Al Jazeera. “It’s the same scenario as al-Shifa Hospital repeating in other hospitals again and again.”

Cans said MSF doctors and health practitioners across Gaza were operating in conditions comparable to World War I, which took place over a century ago. “We are operating on the floor. Children are arriving with very bad injuries, and [surgeons] have to do multiple operations but there are no more beds,” he said.

Hospitals have been forced to discharge patients they would not normally have due to the lack of space. Cans estimated 60 percent of the wounds get infected, becoming potentially life-threatening.

“This is totally inhumane, it’s totally unacceptable,” he said.