🇵🇸Urgent action is needed to stop the forced displacement and transfer of Palestinians within Gaza and prevent mass deportation to Egypt | #AlMezan

We, the undersigned organizations, raise serious alarm regarding the ongoing forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza as part of the Israeli leadership’s stated #intent to commit #genocide. Omer Bartov, one of the top scholars on holocaust and genocide studies warned that forced displacement and #EthnicCleansing usually precede genocide.

36 UN independent experts have pointed to forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza as one of the main indicators for the “genocide in the making” in Gaza.A leading international law scholar on the crime of genocide stated in a legal opinion that indeed there is a serious risk Israel is committing the crime of genocide  against the Palestinian population in Gaza.
Another 880 international scholars, #UN experts, as well as Palestinian human rights organizations have also warned of an unfolding genocide in #Gaza

27/11/2023

🇵🇸 When Israel bombed our neighbors | Ruwaida Amer from Gaza for The Electronic Intifada –

Many people think that houses are just stones. In reality, they are the fruit of enormous labor.Countless dreams have been planned inside Gaza’s homes. Parents have mapped out the bright futures they wanted for their children.Homes represented safety for families. When they get destroyed, families lose their comfort and safety.

No one likes war.War means destruction and death.War means painful loss that no one will forget.

In Gaza, we have experienced a series of very painful wars. Gazans are not given enough time to put one war behind them before another one starts

The current war has been more painful and destructive than all others.One day recently – in the very early morning – I heard the sound of a missile exploding in our area. The blast was powerful.It was followed by another missile that did not explode..

#Gaza #Testimonies
28/11/2023

🇵🇸 STOP THE GENOCIDE | Visualizing Palestine - 29/11/2023

On this International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, we need to be loud and clear: a temporary ceasefire in Gaza is not enough. Too many lives have been lost. Too many dreams have been crushed. Stop the genocide against the Palestinian people NOW. Demand a permanent #ceasefire and an end to Israel's atrocities from your representatives today - keep up the pressure!

#Palestine #Genocide

Inside Israel's mass imprisonment of Palestinians – The New Arab

The situation of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons is very dangerous nowadays. This is the worst time prisoners have seen since Israel occupied the Palestinian territories in 1967,” Muhammad Abdul Samad, a spokesperson of the Palestinian Commission for Detainees and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs, told The New Arab, highlighting how the war on Gaza has dramatically impacted the lives of Palestinian detainees.

"One million Palestinians have passed through Israeli prisons since the occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza Strip in 1967

There's hardly a Palestinian house without a family member in jail or a former prisoner. It affects every Palestinian"

#Palestine #Prison #Detention #Prisoners #HR #Torture #Judiciary #Apartheid
29/11/2023

🇵🇸 'It's Bisan from Gaza and I'm Escaping South' - Voices from Gaza | AJ+

Journalist Bisan Owda documened her journey from al-Shifa Hospital to southern Gaza as she tried to find a new place to shelter. Along her journey, she spoke with elderly people on the road, injured children and a doctor about diseases. Israel has ordered an evacuation to the south, but has continued bombing there. The UN says nearly all of Gaza is on the verge of starvation.

On top of starvation, heavy rains, cold temperatures and potential flooding are putting Gazans more at risk of infectious disease.  

Source : Al Jazeera
#Gaza #NewNakba #Hospital #AlShifa #ForcedDisplacement #Genocide #Refugees #Journalist #BisanOwda #Starvation #Epidemic #Healthcare #IDP #Documentary #Testimonies
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🇵🇸 Mohammed al-Hajjar
MEE correspondent showcases the destruction of al-Rashid Street in Gaza

Mohammed al-Hajjar showcases the extensive destruction of al-Rashid street in Gaza, a key tourist spot now in ruins. The footage reveals destroyed towers, hotels, restaurants, and civilian houses. Landmarks like the al-Deira, Commodore, and Grand Palace hotels, as well as the mosque on the street, have all been destroyed.

Source : Middle East Eye
#Gaza #Destruction #Desolation #AlDeira #AlRachid #Infastructure #Testimonies
29/11/2023

🇵🇸 Gaza : two mothers killed every hour and 7 women every two hours.

Executive Director of UN Women, Sima Sami Bahous Briefing Security Council 22 Nov 2023.

"180 #women are delivering #babies every day without water, painkillers, anesthesia for C-sections, electricity for incubators and medical supplies. Yet, they continue caring for their children, for the sick, for the elderly, mixing baby formula with contaminated water, going without food so that their children can live another day, enduring multiple risks in severely overcrowded shelters.”

"#Children who manage to survive the war are likely to see their lives irrevocably altered through repeated exposure to traumatic events. The violence and upheaval around them can induce toxic stress that interferes with their physical and cognitive development. Even before this latest escalation, more than 540,000 children in #Gaza half of its entire child population – were identified as needing #MentalHealth and psychosocial support."

#Palestine #Genocide #UN

🇵🇸 'They Assaulted All The Girls' - Jailed For Posting a Palestinian Flag | AJ+

Palestinian teenager Zeina Abdo was jailed for posting a Palestinian flag on social media. 🇵🇸  

She says Israel retaliated against Palestinian detainees after Hamas’ attack on October 7th.

Source : Al Jazeera +
#Palestine #OPT #WestBank #Repression #Detention #FemalePrisoner #Prison #Prisoners #Judiciary #Testimonies
30/11/2023

🇵🇸 Leaving with a broken heart: A photographer’s journey out of Gaza | The Electronic Intifada

"Life was beautiful,” #photojournalist Mahmoud Nasser. "Everything about Gaza is amazing,” he explained. "But I don’t know if I can say the same about it now because it seems like everything has changed. The things that I loved when I was there, I don’t think they are there anymore."

Mahmoud described the agonizing decisions he and his family had to make while under constant threat of Israeli bombing, especially as residents of Beit Hanoun in the north of the Gaza Strip.“In 2014, we lost our generational home in Beit Hanoun due to the war,” he said, referring to the Israeli attacks that summer. “But when this war broke out, I wasn’t in #BeitHanoun – my father was there, I was with my wife in #Gaza City.

When the current attacks started, Mahmoud said, he and his brother ultimately decided to bring their father to #GazaCity.

#Palestine #Testimonies #Journalist #Photographer
27/11/2023

🇵🇸 A released Palestinian female prisoner has claimed that female prisoners faced threats of sexual assault and that some were subjected to beatings which at times occurred when they were naked in prison bathrooms.

Ruqayah Amr, one of the Palestinian prisoners released as part of the truce agreement between Hamas and Israel made the claims during an interview with Al Jazeera Arabic TV.

She claimed Israeli guards would threaten prisoners, stating, “They would show us fabricated videos, but the girls would refuse to look at them. [The Israeli guards would say] look what we are going to do to you,” Amr added. “It’s something I can’t even talk about.”

Amr's claims add to previous ones reported by Middle East Eye that allege Israeli guards have threatened sexual assault against female inmates and assaulted them inside their cells.

Via : @MiddleEastEye_TG
#Palestine #Detention #Prison #Prisoners #FemalePrisoner #HR #IOF #SexualAssault #RuqayahAmr
30/11/2023

🇵🇸 Freed Palestinian prisoner: 'I was explicitly threatened with rape'

Lama Khater, a #writer released in the sixth batch of Palestinian prisoners as part of the truce agreement, revealed that Israeli forces threatened to rape her and burn her #children. Describing the harrowing conditions, she stated: "Today, male and female prisoners are enduring what can be considered forced #starvation, in complete #isolation."

Khater describes how an Israeli solider told her that his rage would only be satisfied if he killed 50,000 children in Gaza.

Khater confirmed that at least 10 Palestinian females from the Gaza Strip were transferred to jail two days before the truce. She added that these women were arrested by Israeli forces while fleeing from northern to southern #Gaza. According to Khater, Israel seems to target mothers, forcing them to separate from their children.

Source : Middle East Eye
#Palestine #OPT #Detention #Prison #FemalePrisoner #Prisoner #SexualAssault #Testimonies #LamaKhater
30/11/2023

🇵🇸 Hamas Uses Human Shields? | Mint Press

Hamas uses Palestinians as human shields. You’ve heard the claim echoed ad nauseam in Western corporate media. Yet numerous reports from HRW and other human rights groups have found the allegations, which are brought to bear by Israeli officials nearly every time Gaza hits the news, to not only be untrue, they’ve discovered that Israel itself has consistently engaged in wanton use of Palestinian civilians, including children, as human shields.

In 2014 Amnesty International monitored and investigated such reports, but did not find evidence that Palestinian civilians have been intentionally used by #Hamas or Palestinian armed groups during the current hostilities to “shield” specific locations or military personnel or equipment from Israeli attacks

Since the beginning of the occupation in 1967, Israeli security forces have repeatedly used Palestinians in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip as human shields-Btselem

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#HumanShields #Hasbara #Propaganda #IOF