Israel’s deadly Nuseirat operation overshadowing ceasefire talk
Right now, no one in Israel is talking about a ceasefire deal. Everyone is talking about this military operation in Nuseirat that they are seeing as a massive success. But the cost of it – 226 Palestinians dead and countless others injured – is not being talked about in Israel at all.
Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, arrives in Israel tomorrow. He’ll be meeting with the military, the foreign office and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
He will be pushing that ceasefire deal. That’s now the American strategy. How far he’s going to get remains to be seen. Although the Israelis are very concerned about the details of the ceasefire proposal, publicly everything is on Hamas. The Americans have been very clear – they say Hamas needs to accept this deal, Hamas needs to step up. There has been no criticism of the Israelis at all.
Western response to Israeli killing of Palestinians shows ‘double standard’
Saul Takahashi, professor of human rights and peace studies at Osaka Jogakuin University, tells Al Jazeera that the Western response to Palestinians’ killings shows a “double standard”.
“There is a huge, huge double standard when it comes to human lives: that Israeli lives, Ukrainian lives, white skin lives are important, but when it comes to Palestinians, people with brown skins, Arabs in general, they are not just as important, we do not really care,” Takahashi said from Toyohashi in Japan.
“As your correspondent mentioned, this is hardly reported at all … the loss of Palestinians’ lives in the Israeli media. It’s pretty much the same in the US media and many other international media outlets.”
Israel ‘does not care about international law’: Expert
More from Al Jazeera’s interview with Saul Takahashi, who is also a former deputy head of the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Occupied Palestine:
“The claim that the Israeli attack on Nuseirat camp was justified is completely ignorant of international law. “Israel has shown itself time and time again that it does not care about international and humanitarian laws.
“There are clear standards of proportionality. The loss of any kind of civilian lives and objects has to be proportionate. And it’s pretty clear that these [attacks on the Nuseirat camp] were not proportionate. This is something we have seen over and over again. Not just since last October but in pretty much every single offensive that Israel has engaged in Gaza.”
What next?
Takahashi, from Japan’s Osaka Jogakuin University, says if Netanyahu cares about the hostages, he should do the ceasefire deal and engage in negotiations immediately. “They have managed to rescue a handful of captives through military force, and by the way, they have killed some on the way.
“Many, many more captives have been released through diplomatic means … That’s what really has to happen. “It’s not possible to get all the captives this way [militarily]. Think we are going to go back to the ceasefire deal because Biden needs a victory as well.”
Palestinians retrieve the bodies of their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip at al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al Balah on Saturday
CNN restarted their live page on Gaza following the rescue massacre
https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-06-09-24/index.html
CNN acknowledges the deaths but doesn't want to show pictures and of course repeats IDF claims
The raid resulted in 274 Palestinians being killed and 698 injured, the Gaza Ministry of Health said Sunday. The IDF has disputed those numbers, saying it estimated the number of casualties from the operation was “under 100.”
The health ministry does not distinguish between casualties among civilians and Hamas fighters. CNN cannot independently verify the ministry’s casualty figures due to the lack of international media access to Gaza.
As always sticking to numbers and story snippets with a he said / she said narrative. It's better than Fox, but still heavily biased and full of double standards.
