Update: Israelis arrest Palestine Red Crescent Society staff at al-Amal Hospital https://www.aljazeera.com/news/live...s-28000-as-rafah-assault-looms?update=2695817 Israeli forces have arrested eight staff members of the PRCS at al-Amal Hospital in southern Khan Younis city. Those arrested include doctors, wounded patients and the companions of patients. According to the PRCS, Israeli forces stormed the hospital and spent approximately 10 hours searching the medical facility, interrogating and beating staff and patients and damaging equipment and furniture. They also stole money and personal belongings. The Israeli soldiers “humiliated the [medical] teams and prevented them and patients’ companions from drinking and using the bathroom”, the PRCS said in posts on social media. “The occupation forces also stole money from PRCS employees, patients, and companions, as well as their personal belongings,” the organisation said. “Additionally, they confiscated laptops and wireless communication devices (VHF), which are the only means of communication in light of the communication blackout in Khan Younis Governorate for about a month.”
Geriatric genocide zionist joe wouldn't know what's going on. "You guys are over the top, can I supply you more guns".
I've been told antizionism=antisemitism because it "denies the right for the state of Israel to exist and thus makes it the same as hating jews" Things I've been told are "antizionist" and thus "antisemitic": One state solution with equal rights for everyone: It dilutes the Israeli majority and thus threatens the existence of Israel. Two state solution & a Palestinian state with self determination: It threatens Israel's security & "its existence" to have a "radicalized" neighbor with free will & their own army (never mind ever talking about militarization compromises). Lifting the Gaza embargo: It threatens Israel's security to future attacks & "its existence" Calling for a Cease fire: It threatens Israel's security to future attacks & "its existence" Removing illegal settlements in the west bank: There's 500k Israelis there, "promised land" Sanctioning/blacklisting illegal settlers: "promised land"; muh 2000 years ago! Conditioning military aid in any form: It threatens Israel's security to future attacks & "its existence" Reforming Aliyah policy: "threatens Jewish majority & state of Israel" Allowing right to return for Palestinians: "threatens Jewish majority & state of Israel" Finding hypocrisy in opposing refugee status for Palestinian progeny while maintaining Jewish to Israeli policy for Jewish progeny: "threatens Jewish majority & state of Israel" Supporting UNWRA: Kids are being taught the "wrong" kind of history which threatens the existence of the state of Israel. Investigating war crimes: Threatens Israel's standing in the world and thus its existence. Participating in BDS over occupation: Threatens Israel's economy and thus its existence "from the river to the sea": Call for genocide that only terrorists use.
The UNRWA and Hamas are effectively the same thing. Hamas had command tunnel under U.N. Gaza headquarters, Israeli military says https://www.reuters.com/world/middl...-un-gaza-hq-israeli-military-says-2024-02-10/ GAZA, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Israeli forces have discovered a tunnel network hundreds of metres (yards) long and running partly under UNRWA's Gaza headquarters, the military says, calling it new evidence of Hamas exploitation of the main relief agency for Palestinians. Army engineers took reporters for foreign news outlets through the passages at a time of crisis for UNRWA, which has launched an internal probe and seen a string of donor countries freeze funding over allegations last month by Israel that some of its staff doubled as Hamas operatives. The Palestinians have accused Israel of falsifying information to tarnish UNRWA, which employs 13,000 people in the Gaza Strip and has been a lifeline for the aid-dependent population for years. The agency runs schools, primary healthcare clinics and other social services, and distributes aid, describing its activities as purely humanitarian. UNRWA Headquarters is in Gaza City, among northern areas that Israeli troops and tanks overran early in the four-month-old war against the governing Islamist faction Hamas, sending hundreds of thousands of civilians fleeing southward. Reporters on the closely escorted trip entered a shaft next to a school on the periphery of the U.N. compound, descending to the concrete-lined tunnel. Twenty minutes of walking through the stifling hot, narrow and occasionally winding passage brought them underneath UNRWA Headquarters, an army lieutenant-colonel leading the tour said. The tunnel, which the military said was 700 metres long and 18 metres deep, bifurcated at times, revealing side-rooms. There was an office space, with steel safes that had been opened and emptied. There was a tiled toilet. One large chamber was packed with computer servers, another with industrial battery stacks. “Everything is conducted from here. All the energy for the tunnels, which you walked through them are powered from here," said the lieutenant-colonel, who gave only his first name, Ido. "This is one of the central commands of the intelligence. This place is one of the Hamas intelligence units, where they commanded most of the combat." But Ido said Hamas appeared to have evacuated in the face of the Israeli advance, preemptively cutting off communications cables that, in an above-ground part of the tour, he showed running through the floor of the UNRWA Headquarters' basement. It appeared that heavy Israeli barrages and sustained winter rains may also have played a part in the departure: Several stretches of the tunnel were clogged with dislodged sand and knee-high water. In a statement, UNRWA said it had vacated the headquarters on Oct. 12, five days after the war began, and was therefore "unable to confirm or otherwise comment" on the Israeli finding. "UNRWA ... does not have the military and security expertise nor the capacity to undertake military inspections of what is or might be under its premises," the statement said. "In the past, whenever (a) suspicious cavity was found close to or under UNRWA premises, protest letters were promptly filed to parties to the conflict, including both the de facto authorities in Gaza (Hamas) and the Israeli authorities." UNRWA's supporters say it is the only agency with the means of aiding Palestinians in deepening humanitarian distress. Israel says the agency is "perforated by Hamas" and must be replaced. Hamas has denied operating in civilian facilities. "We know that they (Hamas) have people working in UNRWA. We want every international organization to work in Gaza. That is not a problem. Our problem is the Hamas," Ido told reporters. Lack of cellphone reception in the tunnel made geolocating it as under UNRWA Headquarters impossible. Instead, reporters were asked to put personal items in a bucket that was lowered by rope into a vertical hole on the grounds of the headquarters. They were reunited with the still-tethered items during the tunnel tour. As a condition of taking journalists on the trip, the Israeli military did not allow photographs of military intelligence such as maps or certain equipment in the convoy of armoured vehicles they traveled in. It also requested approval before transmission of photographs and video footage taken on the trip.
Those space/time shifting hamas HQ's. Where will they show up next? Orphanage? reminds me of those tunnels "under the cemeteries" that were anything but. Ooh, a cut cable, spooky. you ought to see the cache of weapons found in UNWRA's own offices:
This UNRWA double-talk is one of the most laughable responses in the history of mankind. It is denying the obvious which is in front of you. Phillippe Lazzarini needs to be mocked until he resigns and UNRWA completely defunded. UNRWA chief: We didn’t know what was under our Gaza headquarters “UNRWA inspects inside its premises every quarter, the last inspection for the UNRWA Gaza premises was completed in September 2023,” UNRWA head Philippe Lazzarini claimed. https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-786348 “UNRWA did not know what is under its headquarters in Gaza,” United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on Saturday. Lazzarini’s statement came in response to the IDF discovery indicating that a Hamas tunnel, powered by UNRWA electric infrastructure, ran underneath UNRWA’s Gaza headquarters. During the IDF raid on the UNRWA headquarters itself, the IDF reported finding guns, ammunition, grenades, and other explosives inside the offices of the building. The UNRWA chief stated that the UN organization had been notified of the reports of a tunnel under the body’s Gaza headquarters. “UNRWA staff left its headquarters in Gaza City on 12 October following the Israeli evacuation orders and as bombardment intensified in the area,” Lazzarini wrote. “We have not used that compound since we left it nor are we aware of any activity that may have taken place there. While the commissioner-general refrained from confirming the IDF report, he did not reject it. “In times of “no active conflict” UNRWA inspects inside its premises every quarter, the last inspection for the UNRWA Gaza premises was completed in September 2023,” Lazzarini continued. “UNRWA is a Human development and humanitarian organisation that does not have the military and security expertise nor the capacity to undertake military inspections of what is or might be under its premises.” UNRWA denial met with disbelief UNRWA’s denial of knowledge of the presence of Hamas infrastructure was met with an outpouring of skepticism and cynicism. IDF spokesperson, Lt.-Col. (R) Peter Lerner replied to Lazzarini on X, stating, “All UNRWA, @UNLazzarini, @TomWhiteGaza needed to do was check the power and water bills.” He went on to question whether the commissioner general of UNRWA intended to condemn Hamas for endangering their operations. "The exposure of UNRWA's Gaza headquarters' deep involvement with Hamas, including its use for terror activities and as an access point to terror tunnels, requires immediate action,” Foreign Minister Israel Katz posted on X. “Commissioner-General Lazzarini's claim of unawareness is not only absurd but also an affront to common sense. His prompt resignation is imperative." Also in response to Lazzarini’s denial of knowledge of Hamas infrastructure beneath Gaza’s UNRWA headquarters, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) wrote on X, "Oh, you knew. Digging a tunnel takes longer than 4 months. We invited senior @UN officials to see, and during past meetings with you and other UN officials, we stated Hamas’s use of UNRWA's headquarters. You chose to ignore the facts so you can later try and deny them." Israel's ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan called on Lazzarini to "Take responsibility and resign today! "It’s not that you didn’t know, it’s that you didn’t WANT to know. We exposed terror tunnels under UNRWA schools and supplied evidence that Hamas’s exploits UNRWA. We implored you to carry out a comprehensive search of all UNRWA facilities in Gaza. But not only did you refuse, you chose to stick your head in the sand." Chair of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Subcommittee for Foreign Policy and Public Diplomacy, MK Ze'ev Elkin, wrote on X that "UNRWA serves as one of the arms of Hamas's civil government in Gaza, and its facilities have become bases for storing weapons and building terror tunnels for Hamas. It is time to change this reality immediately both in the field and in an active political campaign.”
zionists: "Hamas builds tunnels under civilian infrastructure to use them as human shields" Also zionists: "Human shields are collaborators" Bonus points: You can go to google maps and confirm the IDF mislabeled the buildings.
It's a laugh alright!!! Attacks, arrests, threats, censorship: The high risks of reporting the Israel-Gaza war By Mohamed Mandour on February 11, 2024 https://cpj.org/2024/02/attacks-arr...high-risks-of-reporting-the-israel-hamas-war/ Since the Israel-Gaza war began on October 7, journalists and media across the region have faced a hostile environment that has made reporting on the war exceptionally challenging..... ..................................... TechScape: Are social media giants silencing online content? As violence on the ground continues, emotions on social media are higher than ever – with critics asking if platforms need more transparency around their algorithms Kari Paul https://www.theguardian.com/technol...rael-gaza-war-social-media-content-censorship As the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas and its devastating effects play out in real time on social media, users are continuing to criticise tech firms for what they say is unfair content censorship – pulling into sharp focus longstanding concerns about the opaque algorithms that shape our online worlds. From the early days of the conflict, social media users have expressed outrage at allegedly uneven censorship of pro-Palestinian content on platforms like Instagram and Facebook. Meta has denied intentionally suppressing the content, saying that with more posts going up about the conflict, “content that doesn’t violate our policies may be removed in error”...... ..................................... Dissident artist Ai Weiwei likens Gaza censorship in West with China 'under Mao' The global artist criticised pro-Palestinian censorship in the West, which many say has increased in academic spaces and the media. 04 February, 2024 https://www.newarab.com/news/ai-weiwei-says-wests-gaza-censorship-maos-china The artist made the comments in response to the cancellation of an art exhibition over social media posts on Israel and Gaza [Getty/file photo] The popular Chinese artist and political dissident Ai Weiwei has likened pro-Palestinian censorship in the West to political suppression during the Mao Zedong era, in a new interview with broadcaster Sky News on Sunday. Ai, known for being outspoken in support of the Palestinian cause, said that political censorship in the West is "exactly the same" as that in China under Chairman Mao – when he was exiled alongside his family during the 1950s and 1960s. The artist's comments came in response to a question in the Sky News interview on the cancellation of his exhibition in London in November after he had posted against Israel's deadly war in Gaza. "Society becomes so timid, to really avoid any kind of questioning or argument," he said during a segment on the channel's 'Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips' show. "I grew up within this heavy political censorship," he said in reference to his family’s exile, which took place when he was one year old. "I realise now, today in the West, you are doing exactly the same." Ai's exhibition at London’s Lisson Gallery in mid-November was cancelled, following criticism of Israel in social a media post, which was deemed by some as "antisemitic". .....................................