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SvennoJ on 17 July 2024
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Biden faces ridicule for saying he’s been ‘very supportive’ of Palestinians

After the Israeli military bombed a school shelter in central Gaza on Tuesday, a young Palestinian man stood amid the chaotic scene with a rocket fragment in his hand. “This is an Israeli-American missile,” he said.

Officials and everyday people in Gaza have expressed outrage that the bombs decimating their lives are, in many cases, supplied by the US as part of its alliance with Israel.

But US President Joe Biden has a different view of his role in the war that has killed almost 39,000 Palestinians. “I’m the guy that did more for the Palestinian community than anybody,” he said in an interview on Monday, and for which he is being ridiculed now.


A Palestinian woman reacts after Israeli strikes on a tent camp in al-Mawasi area on Saturday



Hamas leaders can end the war if they ‘stop being stubborn’, says Hagari

Israeli military spokesperson Daniel Hagari has said that Hamas leaders can “end the suffering of the people of Gaza” if they “stop being stubborn”.

Hagari’s comments, made to Saudi television channel Al Arabiya, came as a photo of female Israeli soldiers, taken captive by Hamas in Gaza on October 7, was published on Tuesday.

“They cause the suffering of the residents of Gaza. They are preventing us from reaching an agreement,” Hagari said, holding up an image of the three captives.

Just as delusional as Biden. Hamas has agreed to a ceasefire since May, actually the same proposal from Hamas that has been on the table since December. Two months later Netanyahu is still blocking it despite Biden shuffling the language around and getting it passed in the UNSC start of June. Netanyahu doesn't want to end the war. Nvm there was the demand for an immediate ceasefire by the UNSC at the end of March.

Israel is the stubborn one, going against international law, the UN, the UNSC, even against Biden's (supposed) pleading to accept a ceasefire.

Israel should be under the definition of gaslighting in the dictionary.

Israeli forces killed over 2,500 Palestinians every month since ICJ ruling

On January 26, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) decided that Palestinians in Gaza had the “plausible” right to be protected from genocide and ordered Israel to refrain from acts that could fall under the Genocide Convention.

At the time, the casualties toll in Gaza stood at 26,083 people killed with more than 64,400 people wounded.

Since then, Israeli forces have killed another 12,630 people and wounded more than 24,600 others, meaning more than 2,500 Palestinians were killed every month over the past five months.

Israeli forces have continued to hit UN-run facilities sheltering civilians. UNRWA, the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency, says 70 percent of its schools in Gaza have been bombed during the war, and that the vast majority of them, 95 percent, were being used as displacement shelters at the time they were attacked.

US ‘actively assisting’ Israel’s genocide in Gaza: Activists

The US activist group Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) said the Biden administration is now “actively assisting” Israel to commit genocide in Gaza.

“The Israeli government’s genocide is accelerating with full support from the US,” JVP said in a series of posts on social media rallying supporters to take action against Israel by contacting their political representatives.

Washington’s intention “couldn’t be clearer” when it resumed the transfer last week of 500-pound bombs to Israel’s military, the group said. “The US isn’t just allowing the Israeli government to commit a genocide, it’s actively assisting it. It’s well past time for a weapons embargo,” it added.

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