Indeed, verified by Aljazeera
Video shows Israeli soldiers opening fire on Palestinians collecting food
Exclusive footage obtained by Al Jazeera shows Israeli soldiers deliberately targeting Palestinians as they rushed to collect airdropped aid in northeastern Gaza on March 9.
The video shows Israeli soldiers opening fire despite none of these Palestinian men posing a threat. The firing continues even as the men leave the area, moving away from the border and the soldiers’ positions.
You can the video below (Warning – distressing images):
Will Western media show it?
The 5th of Friday is officially
Palestinian Children’s Day
On Palestinian Children’s Day, here’s a look at what life is like for children in Gaza and the occupied West Bank:
- Eight out of 10 schools in Gaza are damaged or destroyed, UNICEF says.
- 625,000 students have no access to education, the UN says.
- 1,000 children in Gaza have lost one or both of their legs, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says.
- More than 50,000 children are estimated to be acutely malnourished in Gaza, the UN says.
- 30 percent of children under two years in northern Gaza are acutely malnourished, the World Food Programme says.
- 31 children have died from starvation and hunger, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says.
- More than 200 Palestinian children are being held in Israeli prisons, the Palestinian prisoner rights group Addameer says.
No school for 620,000 children in Gaza: UNICEF
More than half of Gaza’s children (620,000) are unable to attend school due to the destruction wrought by six months of war on the enclave’s education system, warns the UN’s children’s fund (UNICEF).
Eight out of every 10 schools in Gaza are damaged or destroyed, with about 10 percent of the facilities totally decimated, said UNICEF.
But rebuilding the schools will be a simpler task than dealing with children’s trauma and loss of education, says David Skinner of Save The Children.
“What’s often lost about the coverage of Gaza is that this is a catastrophe for children,” Skinner said. “These are children who have been bereaved, who have lost people, who are sick and malnourished.”
Children killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza commemorated on Palestinian Child's Day
Artists in Rafah create Graffiti to honour children killed in Israeli attacks for Palestinian Child's Day
Palestinian photographer wins regional World Press Photo competition
Palestinian photographer Mohammad Salem has won the World Press Photo contest for Asia for his photograph, A Palestinian Woman Embraces the Body of Her Niece.
The photograph, which has been seen around the world, shows Palestinian woman Inas Abu Maamar, 36, embracing the body of her five-year-old niece Saly, who was killed in an Israeli strike, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 17, 2023.
Salem says taking the photograph in the Nasser Hospital morgue “was a powerful and a sad moment”.
“I felt the picture sums up the broader sense of what was happening in the Gaza Strip,” he said.
“People were confused, running from one place to another, anxious to know the fate of their loved ones, and this woman caught my eye as she was holding the body of the little girl and refused to let go.”
And all this is still not enough for the Orthodox union
Orthodox Union delivers 180,000 letters calling on Biden to keep backing Israel
The Orthodox Union has hand-delivered 180,000 letters to the White House calling on United States President Joe Biden to maintain his support for Israel’s war in Gaza, combat anti-Semitism and secure the release of Hamas’s captives.
The Union, one of the largest Orthodox Jewish organisations in the US, said the 180,000 letters signified the 180 days the captives have remained in captivity in Gaza.
WE DID IT! 🎉💥🇮🇱 #180for180
Earlier today, we gathered in Washington, DC, to publicly state our case to President Biden, and to hand deliver the 180,000 letters you wrote to the White House. pic.twitter.com/ICCGU1aF1J
— Orthodox Union (@OrthodoxUnion) April 3, 2024
Biden and Israel are doing the opposite, bombing, shooting and starving the hostages along with everyone else in Gaza.
