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SvennoJ on 26 April 2024

Aid workers need a ‘communication centre’, Norwegian Refugee Council says

Jan Egeland, secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, says his agency in Gaza needs a “real communication centre” after the death of a Belgian aid worker in Rafah.

“Gaza [holds] the world record in killed children, women – they’re all innocent – in killed aid workers, nurses, doctors, teachers. It’s been indiscriminate now for months, many months,” Egeland told Al Jazeera.

He added that his agency has adapted the way aid workers deliver support in Gaza. They now only go in the daytime and have concentrated much of their work in the south.

“Of course, it’s a dilemma for humanitarian work that where and when people need us the most, the dangers are the greatest,” Egeland said. “So our message has been to the Israelis and the Americans and the others who are supporting them that we need a real communication centre, not just a passive notification of movements. We need communication where they actively tell us, ‘Yes, this [route] is safe.'”

 

EU announces $73m in extra aid to Gaza

The European Union says the new aid package will be channelled through local partners on the ground and focus on food deliveries, clean water, sanitation and shelters.

“In light of the continued deterioration of the severe humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and the steady rise of needs on the ground, the (European) Commission is stepping up its funding to support Palestinians affected by the ongoing war,” a statement from the bloc said.

“This support brings total EU humanitarian assistance to 193 million euros for Palestinians in need inside Gaza and across the region in 2024.”



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SvennoJ on 26 April 2024

Gaza’s death toll rises

At least 34,356 Palestinians have been killed and 77,368 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7, its Health Ministry says. The ministry added that 51 people were killed and 75 injured in the latest 24-hour reporting period.

Israeli snipers shoot Palestinians, kill one: PRCS

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says its ambulance crews transferred the dead body of a Palestinian and a wounded person from Nuseirat following an Israeli attack. The organisation said on X the two Palestinians were targeted by Israeli snipers in the city of az-Zahra in the middle of the Gaza Strip.

In a video that the group posted, PRCS crew are seen taking a body from a car and putting it in the ambulance as people surround the vehicle.

‘We live in tents under rain, rockets, shelling and fear’

Amna Saleh, an 87-year-old Palestinian woman who was displaced from Jabalia in northern Gaza early in the war, says she still has hopes of returning to her war-wrecked neighbourhood even though her home there has been destroyed.

“We were displaced amid the shelling, where houses were destroyed above our heads and we lost our sons and youth,” Saleh said in comments carried by the Wafa news agency.

“We have been living for seven months in tents that lack the basic necessities of life under rain, rockets, shelling and fear,” she added.







Baby rescued from dead mother’s womb after Israeli attack dies

Sabreen al-Rouh Jouda, a premature baby who was rescued from her dying mother’s womb after an Israeli air attack on Gaza, has died, according to a relative and a doctor.

The little girl was pulled out alive just moments after her pregnant mother, Sabreen al-Sakani, was killed.

Sabreen’s home was hit by an Israeli air strike on Rafah on Saturday. She has now been buried next to her mother.



Baby Sabreen al-Rouh ‘joined her family as a martyr’

The doctor who was caring for little Sabreen al-Rouh says she suffered respiratory problems and a weak immune system. “I and other doctors tried to save her, but she died. For me personally, it was a very difficult and painful day,” Mohammad Salama, head of the emergency neo-natal unit at Emirati Hospital, told Reuters by phone.

“She was born while her respiratory system wasn’t mature, and her immune system was very weak and that is what led to her death. She joined her family as a martyr,” Salama said.

“[Her] grandmother urged me and the doctors to take care of her because she would be someone that would keep the memory of her mother, father and sister alive, but it was God’s will that she died,” Salama added.

The mother, who was 30-weeks pregnant, died of her wounds but doctors were able to save the baby, delivering her by Caesarean section.


‘Rouh is gone, my brother, his wife and daughter are gone’

Sabreen al-Rouh’s uncle, Rami al-Sheikh Jouda, says he visited the hospital every day to check on the baby’s health. Doctors told him she had a respiratory problem but he did not think it was bad until he got a call from the hospital telling him the baby had died.

“Rouh is gone, my brother, his wife and daughter are gone, his brother-in-law and the house that used to bring us together are gone,” he told Reuters.

“We are left with no memories of my brother, his daughter, or his wife. Everything was gone, even their pictures, their mobile phones, we couldn’t find them,” the uncle said.

Just one of tens of thousands of tragic stories from Gaza.



SvennoJ on 26 April 2024

Blinken just doesn't get it. Yeah the Ukraine war would be over too if Ukraine just surrenders. The ongoing occupation, apartheid, land stealing, settler attacks, west bank raids, dehumanization and Israeli troop presence in, division of and displacement in Gaza will not be.

Blinken understands US protesters’ ‘passion’, questions silence on Hamas

Asked about the unfolding pro-Palestine protest movement at US universities, the US secretary of state has said he “very much understands” the students’ frustration and respects their right to demonstrate as a “hallmark of our democracy”.

“People have strong, passionate feelings about what’s happening in Gaza and the Middle East that I very much understand,” Antony Blinken said at a news conference in China’s Beijing, as students at dozens of universities across the US continue their campus protests despite suspensions and arrests.

However, Blinken added “It is notable that there is silence about Hamas”, which he said should immediately surrender to end the war.

“As I’ve said before … this could be over tomorrow, it could have been over yesterday, it could have been over months ago, if Hamas had put down its weapons, stopped hiding behind civilians, released the hostages and surrendered,” said Blinken. “But of course it has chosen not to do that.”

Blinken said the US, Israel’s main ally which just approved an additional $17bn in military aid to Israel despite the heavy civilian toll in Gaza, is “working every day to try to minimise the damage done to people”.

Hey Blinken, the 2nd world war would have been over too if the world had just allowed Germany to occupy and do whatever it wanted.

You know how else this war would be over? If you stop funding genocide, stop sending more bombs and weapons to Israel, stop blocking UNSC resolutions, actively work towards a ceasefire instead of undermining it at every turn, stop providing intel to Israel, stop covering for Israel's war crimes, stop repeating Israel's lies.

 

Egypt sends delegation to Israel in latest negotiation efforts: Report

Egypt sent a high-level delegation to Israel with the hope of brokering a ceasefire agreement with Hamas, two officials have told AP. Top intelligence official, Abbas Kamel, is leading the delegation and plans to discuss with Israel a “new vision” for a prolonged ceasefire in the strip, an Egyptian official told the news agency.

Friday’s talks will focus at first on a limited exchange of Hamas-held captives for Palestinian prisoners, and the return of a significant number of displaced Palestinians to their homes in northern Gaza “with minimum restrictions,” the official said.

Egypt also warned that a possible Israeli offensive on Rafah could have catastrophic consequences for regional stability, AP said.


Israeli police detain several rabbis marching towards Gaza crossing

According to local media and social media posts, the rabbis from Israel and the US were peacefully marching towards the Erez or Beit Hanoon crossing, carrying food items for people in Gaza and calling for an end to the war.

Footage posted online showed Israeli forces detaining several demonstrators.

They'll arrest people bringing food, but let protestors block the roads to prevent aid going through

 

Israeli government pushes illegal Jerusalem settlement projects

During the war on Gaza, Israel’s government has ramped up illegal settlement projects in occupied East Jerusalem, announcing plans to build thousands of new housing units in the Palestinian neighbourhoods of Beit Safafa and Sharafat.

The plan “is to build on the last empty land that these villages have”, Yoni Mizrahi, a member of the anti-occupation group Peace Now, tells Al Jazeera.





Cobretti2 on 26 April 2024

Well you didn't need to be a genus to figure the protests would eventually be called anti-semantic and compared to Nazi Germany by Israel's government trying desperatly to hold onto political power.

It is also not hard to see why some people think the protests are anti-semantic as were was all the outrage from these protestors against Russia when they invaded Ukraine started killing and kidnapping children to be reprogrammed.



 

 

SvennoJ on 26 April 2024

Police remove Pro-Palestinian protesters in Berlin

Police remove activists of a pro-Palestinian protest camp near the German chancellery in Berlin












‘Responsibility’ to hold institutions to account for ‘war crimes’, UCL protester says

In the UK, pro-Palestine protesters are demonstrating in front of the campus of University College London (UCL), calling on the educational institution to stop its collaboration in research with arms companies that supply the Israeli army with components.

“We believe that as students, we have a responsibility to hold our institution to account for its complicity in genocide and in war crimes, and in occupation and in apartheid,” James Collinson, a member of UCL Action for Palestine, told Al Jazeera.

“Our main aim is always going to be to uplift Palestinian voices and bring attention to the issue of Israel’s occupation of Palestine,” he said. “It is a very important cause, and it’s about, in a wider sense, letting students know we are part of systems that uphold genocide and apartheid. So it’s all about raising awareness.”


This excuse again, the situation is so complex....
No it isn't, Israel is the occupier, trying to colonize Palestine for the last 75 years by displacing the native population with full support from the US.

Why this campus turmoil story is so complex

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/26/business/campus-turmoil-complex/index.html

The only thing that makes it so complex is the USA trying to keep painting Israel as merely defending itself against terrorists and the only safe haven for Jews. (Almost sounds like they want to get rid of the jews... only place safe for you is Israel... it's the worst place now with the current government)



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SvennoJ on 26 April 2024

This Israeli Politician Must Think We Are Stupid





CAMPUS CRACKDOWN After ADL Says Protestors Foreign Terrorists




Yale Zionist’s 'Stabbed By Palestinian Flag' Claim Hilariously Debunked


 

 



SvennoJ on 26 April 2024

Hamas responds to 18 countries’ appeal for captive release

The group’s statement comes a day after the countries released a letter urging it to accept the terms of a deal that would see a pause in fighting in return for the release of captives.

In response, Hamas said it regretted that the letter did not address basic issues facing people in Gaza. It added that the letter failed to stress the necessity of a permanent ceasefire in the enclave and a full withdrawal of Israeli troops.

Hamas said it remained open to any proposals that took into account the rights of Palestinians. The statement further called for the safe return of internally displaced people in Gaza and aid for reconstruction, as well as a pathway towards self-determination.

The countries that signed the letter to Hamas all have citizens believed to be still held captive in Gaza. Signatories included Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Thailand, the UK and the US.

 

Israeli PM says ICC decisions will not affect actions

Benjamin Netanyahu says any rulings issued by the International Criminal Court will not affect Israel’s actions but would “set a dangerous precedent”.

“Under my leadership, Israel will never accept any attempt by the International Criminal Court in The Hague to undermine its basic right to defend itself,” the prime minister said in a statement shared online.

“While decisions made by the court in The Hague will not affect Israel’s actions, they will set a dangerous precedent that threatens soldiers and public figures.”

Last month, the Law for Palestine organisation made the first in a series of submissions to the ICC, accusing Israeli leaders of committing the crime of genocide committed against Palestinians.

“The 200-page document, drafted by 30 lawyers and legal researchers from across the world and reviewed by more than 15 experts, makes a compelling case for the genocidal intent as well as for the prosecutorial policy that the court has followed in other cases,” the group’s Anisha Patel and Hassan Ben Imran wrote in an opinion piece published by Al Jazeera.

“If the ICC fails to act once again, it risks undermining its own authority as an institution of international justice and the international legal regime as a whole,” they said.

Yes yes, Israel is above the law. That's the root of the whole problem and current escalations in the Middle East.



Hamas official says aid deliveries not reaching north Gaza

Salama Maarouf, the head of the government media office in Gaza, says the number of aid deliveries to the besieged and bombarded territory is still far below the number needed as residents face a humanitarian catastrophe, particularly in the north of the enclave.

The statement comes as the US has for weeks said it has been pressuring Israel to increase the number of deliveries.

Maarouf said over the past seven days, 1,063 aid trucks entered Gaza with only 49 reaching its northern part.

He added that restricting aid violates an order from the International Court of Justice, which in March ordered Israel to take “all necessary and effective measures” to assure aid is delivered throughout Gaza.



SvennoJ on 26 April 2024

Palestinian academics in UK call for protection of universities in Gaza

Nearly 30 Palestinian academics in the UK have called for “swift” action to safeguard universities in Gaza.

The statement, whose signatories include Ghassan Abu Sittah, who has worked at al-Shifa and Alhi Arab hospitals in Gaza during the war, urged “friends and colleagues to take immediate steps to defend the integrity of Palestinian universities in occupied Palestine against the current plans and measures seeking to destroy them”.

It added: “Having turned the universities of Gaza into detention centres before demolishing them, forcibly rendering Palestinian scholars, scientists, researchers and students homeless once again, Israel’s campaign of scholasticide has turned its attention to eliminating future independent Palestinian educational life in Gaza.”

The academics also said they demand the institutions created by Palestinians in the face of “immense challenges” are not destroyed “but instead are rebuilt”.

“They serve as a symbol of resilience and hope for the Palestinian people as a whole.”





IRC backs call for investigation into Gaza mass graves

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) has become the latest organisation to call for an urgent international and independent investigation into mass graves found at Nasser and al-Shifa hospitals in Gaza after the withdrawal of Israeli troops.

Bob Kitchen, vice president of emergencies, said the IRC was “horrified” at the news of the mass graves and echoed the call by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk for a “thorough” investigation.

“The recent reports of more than 320 bodies recovered so far from Nasser Hospital are devastating and confirm the worst fears of our team at the time: that those left behind in the hospital were at risk of serious harm. We had lost contact with health workers and patients at Nasser and now fear they are amongst those killed,” Kitchen said.

“Alongside the need for an immediate international and independent investigation into these latest devastating incidents, we continue to reiterate our call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire to ensure no further loss of life.”

 



SvennoJ on 26 April 2024

Biden has no spine, nothing but Netanyahu's lap dog.

Biden administration puts Netzah Yehuda Battalion sanctions on hold: Reports

The reports come after days of speculation that Washington was poised to sanction the ultra-Orthodox battalion after determining it had committed rights abuses in the occupied West Bank. Netzah Yehuda soldiers were involved in the death of a 78-year-old Palestinian-American, Omar Assad, who died of a heart attack in 2022 after he was detained, bound and gagged.

While US laws prohibit Washington from providing military assistance to individuals or units that commit gross human rights violations, they have never been used against Israel.

US-based ABC News reported that despite the State Department determining that such violations had been committed by the unit, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has told a congressional leader that no military aid deliveries will be affected.

Al Jazeera has reached out to the State Department for comment.

Biden is above US laws as well.


One UNRWA staffer probe closed, four other cases suspended: UN

UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric has provided an update on the investigation into Israeli claims against 19 staffers at United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).

Israel had initially claimed that 12 UNRWA staffers took part in the October 7 attacks on southern Israel, with another seven cases later brought to the UN’s attention. The allegations prompted 16 countries to suspend funding to the agency, which aid officials consider essential to humanitarian support in the enclave.

The UN undertook an internal review in the wake of the allegations, and a second independent review was also launched.

Dujarric has now said that the UN investigation has so far resulted in one case against a staffer being closed due to a lack of evidence. Four more have been suspended due with the US saying Israel has not provided enough evidence to move forward with the probes.

The investigations into the 14 other staffers remain ongoing.



SvennoJ on 26 April 2024

Israeli officials say ‘one last chance’ for Hamas deal before Rafah offensive: Report

The US news site Axios reports that Israeli officials have told their Egyptian counterparts they are ready to give negotiations “one last chance” to reach a deal with Hamas before moving forward with an offensive in Rafah.

“Israel told Egypt that it is serious about preparations for the operation in Rafah and that it will not let Hamas drag its feet,” Axios quoted an unnamed Israeli official as saying.

As we reported earlier, the eastern part of Rafah is under constant shelling, and a senior Israeli official has said the military is “moving ahead” with its planned ground offensive.


White House sees new momentum in Gaza talks

US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan says he sees fresh momentum in talks to pause the fighting in Gaza and return the remaining Israeli captives. “I believe that there is a renewed effort under way involving Qatar and Egypt as well as Israel to try to find a way forward,” Sullivan told MSNBC in an interview.

“Do I think that there is new momentum, new life in these hostage talks? I believe there is,” he said.


Well there won't be now you don't even have the balls to sanction the Netzah Yehuda Battalion. Israel isn't going to back down on invading Rafah and Hamas isn't going to back down on a lasting ceasefire and troop withdrawal.

You know how to get a ceasefire, stop funding genocide, it's that simple.