🇵🇸 ‘I’m bored, so I shoot’: The Israeli army’s approval of free-for-all violence in Gaza
In early June, AJ aired a series of disturbing videos revealing what it described as “summary executions”: Israeli soldiers shooting dead several Palestinians walking near the coastal road in the Gaza Strip, on three separate occasions. In each case, the Palestinians appeared unarmed and did not pose any imminent threat to the soldiers.
Such footage is rare, due to the severe constraints faced by journalists in the besieged enclave and the constant danger to their lives. But these executions, which did not appear to have any security rationale, are consistent with the testimonies of six Israeli soldiers who spoke to +972 and LC following their release from active duty in #Gaza in recent months. Corroborating the testimonies of Palestinian eyewitnesses and doctors throughout the war, the soldiers described being authorized to open fire on Palestinians virtually at will, including civilians.
#WarCrimes #Genocide
In early June, AJ aired a series of disturbing videos revealing what it described as “summary executions”: Israeli soldiers shooting dead several Palestinians walking near the coastal road in the Gaza Strip, on three separate occasions. In each case, the Palestinians appeared unarmed and did not pose any imminent threat to the soldiers.
Such footage is rare, due to the severe constraints faced by journalists in the besieged enclave and the constant danger to their lives. But these executions, which did not appear to have any security rationale, are consistent with the testimonies of six Israeli soldiers who spoke to +972 and LC following their release from active duty in #Gaza in recent months. Corroborating the testimonies of Palestinian eyewitnesses and doctors throughout the war, the soldiers described being authorized to open fire on Palestinians virtually at will, including civilians.
#WarCrimes #Genocide
🇵🇸 Israeli army launches new, massive wave of forced displacement against the people of Gaza City and North Gaza
Palestinian Territory – The Israeli army began waging a new war of terror early this morning, forcibly displacing the people living in Gaza City and North Gaza and causing another massive wave of internal displacement. This is part of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, ongoing since 7 October 2023.
Tens of thousands of Gazans were displaced from multiple areas of Gaza City, and now have nowhere left to go, amid conflicting displacement orders issued by the Israeli army and no safe passages. This comes along with the Israeli military’s systematic and widespread genocidal war of starvation and deliberate, indiscriminate killing of Palestinian civilians in the Strip.
Via @EuroMedHR
#Gaza #Genocide #ForcedDisplacement
Palestinian Territory – The Israeli army began waging a new war of terror early this morning, forcibly displacing the people living in Gaza City and North Gaza and causing another massive wave of internal displacement. This is part of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, ongoing since 7 October 2023.
Tens of thousands of Gazans were displaced from multiple areas of Gaza City, and now have nowhere left to go, amid conflicting displacement orders issued by the Israeli army and no safe passages. This comes along with the Israeli military’s systematic and widespread genocidal war of starvation and deliberate, indiscriminate killing of Palestinian civilians in the Strip.
Via @EuroMedHR
#Gaza #Genocide #ForcedDisplacement
🇵🇸 Washington lifts 'hold' on shipment of 500lb bombs for Israel | The Craddle
The US government has lifted a two-month hold on shipments of 500-pound bombs for Israel, according to US officials who spoke with Reuters on 10 July.
In early May, the White House announced a hold on a shipment of 1,800 2,000-pound bombs and 1,700 500-pound bombs to Israel, citing “concerns” these would be used to flatten Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah, where over a million Palestinians had taken refuge at the time.
On detonation, a 500-pound bomb can severely harm or kill anyone within a 20-meter radius, according to the Project on Defense Alternatives (PDA). A 2,000-pound bomb has a destruction radius of 35 metres.
#Gaza #Genocide #Arms #Bombs #US #Civilians
The US government has lifted a two-month hold on shipments of 500-pound bombs for Israel, according to US officials who spoke with Reuters on 10 July.
In early May, the White House announced a hold on a shipment of 1,800 2,000-pound bombs and 1,700 500-pound bombs to Israel, citing “concerns” these would be used to flatten Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah, where over a million Palestinians had taken refuge at the time.
On detonation, a 500-pound bomb can severely harm or kill anyone within a 20-meter radius, according to the Project on Defense Alternatives (PDA). A 2,000-pound bomb has a destruction radius of 35 metres.
#Gaza #Genocide #Arms #Bombs #US #Civilians
🇵🇸 Palestinians Say Microsoft Unfairly Closing Their Accounts | Slashdot
Ancient Slashdot reader Alain Williams writes: Palestinians living abroad have accused Microsoft of closing their email accounts without warning -- cutting them off from crucial online services. They say it has left them unable to access bank accounts and job offers -- and stopped them using Skype, which Microsoft owns, to contact relatives in war-torn Gaza. Microsoft says they violated its terms of service -- a claim they dispute. He also said being cut off from Skype was a huge blow for his family. The internet is frequently disrupted or switched off there because of the Israeli military campaign - and standard international calls are very expensive. [...] With a paid Skype subscription, it is possible to call mobiles in Gaza cheaply -- and while the internet is down -- so it has become a lifeline to many Palestinians.
#Palestine #Microsoft #Skype #Censorship #email #OPT #Gaza
Ancient Slashdot reader Alain Williams writes: Palestinians living abroad have accused Microsoft of closing their email accounts without warning -- cutting them off from crucial online services. They say it has left them unable to access bank accounts and job offers -- and stopped them using Skype, which Microsoft owns, to contact relatives in war-torn Gaza. Microsoft says they violated its terms of service -- a claim they dispute. He also said being cut off from Skype was a huge blow for his family. The internet is frequently disrupted or switched off there because of the Israeli military campaign - and standard international calls are very expensive. [...] With a paid Skype subscription, it is possible to call mobiles in Gaza cheaply -- and while the internet is down -- so it has become a lifeline to many Palestinians.
#Palestine #Microsoft #Skype #Censorship #email #OPT #Gaza
🇵🇸 War on Gaza: Palestinians suffering from 'unprecedented mental health crisis' | Middle East Eye
#Gaza #Genocide #MentalHealth #Health
#Gaza #Genocide #MentalHealth #Health
Middle East Eye
War on Gaza: Palestinians suffering from 'unprecedented mental health crisis'
The Gaza Community Mental Health Programme said Gazans' psychological trauma could endure 'for generations to come'
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Nine Months of Israel's War on Gaza: The Mental
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GCMHP – https://gcmhp.org/
#Report #Gaza #MentalHealth #Health
Health Impacts and the GCMHP's Response
(October 2023 – June 2024)
GCMHP – https://gcmhp.org/
#Report #Gaza #MentalHealth #Health
🇵🇸 Here’s how a collective of tech professionals shut down the Israeli army’s extortion website — twice | Mondoweiss
An international collective called The Zionism Observer, took down an IDF extortion website and reverse-engineered its evacuation map website. And it was easier than you might think.
In May this year, as part of its psychological torture campaign on the Palestinians of Gaza, Israel’s army rained down yet another batch of leaflets on the besieged population of Gaza. The leaflets stood out for many reasons, but most of all for the extortion website associated with them.
The Zionism Observer collective, made up of software developers, cartographers, translators, and archivists, traced the website’s registrar to NameCheap and the hosting service to Webflow. They immediately lodged a complaint with both companies.
Webflow removed the IDF’s extortion website within 24 hours.
https://zionism.observer/
#Gaza #Genocide #Hacking #Website #Leaflets #ZionismObserver
An international collective called The Zionism Observer, took down an IDF extortion website and reverse-engineered its evacuation map website. And it was easier than you might think.
In May this year, as part of its psychological torture campaign on the Palestinians of Gaza, Israel’s army rained down yet another batch of leaflets on the besieged population of Gaza. The leaflets stood out for many reasons, but most of all for the extortion website associated with them.
The Zionism Observer collective, made up of software developers, cartographers, translators, and archivists, traced the website’s registrar to NameCheap and the hosting service to Webflow. They immediately lodged a complaint with both companies.
Webflow removed the IDF’s extortion website within 24 hours.
https://zionism.observer/
#Gaza #Genocide #Hacking #Website #Leaflets #ZionismObserver
🇵🇸 We Volunteered at a Gaza Hospital. What We Saw Was Unspeakable. | POLITICO
In the United States we would never dream of operating on anyone without consent, let alone a malnourished and barely conscious 9-year-old girl in septic shock. Nevertheless, when we saw Juri, that’s exactly what we did.
The two of us are humanitarian surgeons. Together, in our combined 57 years of volunteering, we’ve worked on more than 40 surgical missions in developing countries on four continents. We’re used to working in disaster and war zones, of being on intimate terms with death and carnage and despair.
None of that prepared us for what we saw in Gaza this spring.
#Gaza #Genocide #Hospital #Testinonies #Healthcare #Amputees #Children #Civilians #WarCrimes #IOF
In the United States we would never dream of operating on anyone without consent, let alone a malnourished and barely conscious 9-year-old girl in septic shock. Nevertheless, when we saw Juri, that’s exactly what we did.
The two of us are humanitarian surgeons. Together, in our combined 57 years of volunteering, we’ve worked on more than 40 surgical missions in developing countries on four continents. We’re used to working in disaster and war zones, of being on intimate terms with death and carnage and despair.
None of that prepared us for what we saw in Gaza this spring.
#Gaza #Genocide #Hospital #Testinonies #Healthcare #Amputees #Children #Civilians #WarCrimes #IOF
🇵🇸 How western Big Tech giants enable Israel's occupation | By Kit Klarenberg
#HewlettPackard, #Motorola, and other western tech conglomerates have been deeply involved in providing the technological infrastructure that supports Israeli apartheid and settler colonialism. This is how they profit from the oppression of Palestinians.
This investigation is the second in a series that examines illegal investments by western #corporations in the occupied Palestinian territories. The first investigation can be found here.
@thecraddlemedia
#Technology #Gaza #Genocide #Apartheid
#HewlettPackard, #Motorola, and other western tech conglomerates have been deeply involved in providing the technological infrastructure that supports Israeli apartheid and settler colonialism. This is how they profit from the oppression of Palestinians.
This investigation is the second in a series that examines illegal investments by western #corporations in the occupied Palestinian territories. The first investigation can be found here.
@thecraddlemedia
#Technology #Gaza #Genocide #Apartheid
🇵🇸 According to Israeli media reports, the Israeli occupation forces have launched a #polio #vaccination campaign for their soldiers in Gaza after the virus was detected in the enclave's #sewage system.
On Friday, World Health Organization (#WHO) spokesperson Christian Lindmeier announced that poliovirus type 2 had been found at six sewage locations in the #Gaza Strip, though no cases of polio-related symptoms have been reported so far. Lindmeier described the finding as "extremely worrying."
Since the beginning of the war, Israel has deliberately targeted many of Gaza's sewage treatment centers and municipal stations responsible for maintaining these systems. This has exacerbated flooding and severely threatened hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians who are already struggling with a lack of #water due to Israel's blockade.
@QudsNen
#Genocide #Gaza #Health
On Friday, World Health Organization (#WHO) spokesperson Christian Lindmeier announced that poliovirus type 2 had been found at six sewage locations in the #Gaza Strip, though no cases of polio-related symptoms have been reported so far. Lindmeier described the finding as "extremely worrying."
Since the beginning of the war, Israel has deliberately targeted many of Gaza's sewage treatment centers and municipal stations responsible for maintaining these systems. This has exacerbated flooding and severely threatened hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians who are already struggling with a lack of #water due to Israel's blockade.
@QudsNen
#Genocide #Gaza #Health