"One of the founders of Hamas was 8 years old when he watched his uncle and 200 other boys and men massacred by the Israeli army."

Holocaust survivor and Hungarian-Canadian physician, Dr Gabor Mate, speaks about Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, one of Hamas founders.

Today marks the 20th anniversary of Al Rantisi's assassination by Israel.

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📍 Press release issued by the Government Media Office:

⛔ The “Israeli” occupation committed a crime against humanity in the areas of Al-Mughraqa, Al-Zahraa, and the new camp north of Nuseirat, claiming the lives of 520 martyrs, wounded and missing persons, and more than 13,000 housing units within a week*

⭕ The “Israeli” occupation army committed a crime against humanity and against international law in the areas of Al-Mughraqa, Al-Zahraa, and the new camp north of Al-Nuseirat (central Gaza Strip), killing 520 martyrs, wounded and missing persons, and more than 13,000 housing units within one week, as this comes within the framework of the crime of genocide, which It is launched by the occupation army against Palestinian civilians, and the American administration blesses and participates in it, and the international community fails to stop it.

⭕ During the aggression of the “Israeli” occupation army, 75 martyrs and 348 wounded who arrived at hospitals within a week were killed, while 100 citizens were announced missing in the aforementioned areas and have not been reached yet, especially in the Al-Mughraqa area. The occupation also destroyed 14 during this aggression and this crime. A tower, a residential building, and dozens of homes belonging to civilian citizens who were displaced by the occupation from their towers, residential buildings, and homes under the threat of bombing by aircraft and tank shells, and threatening their lives with death and murder.

⭕ We denounce and condemn in the strongest terms the crime of the “Israeli” occupation against Palestinian civilians, against civilian neighborhoods, against residential towers and buildings, and against Palestinian homes, and we call on all international and international organizations and all countries of the free world to condemn this crime, which the occupation has repeated hundreds of times in the Gaza Strip since the start of the genocidal war. Against our Palestinian people.

⭕ We hold the American administration and the international community, in addition to the “Israeli” occupation, fully responsible for these crimes and their repercussions and effects on the lives of civilians, and we call on all countries of the world to pursue the occupation and its leaders in international forums and courts and to try them for the crime of genocide and their crimes against humanity.

⭕ We call on all countries of the free world to put pressure on the “Israeli” occupation to stop the genocide and to stop these ongoing crimes against children, women and civilians that have been continuing for the seventh month in a row.

Government Media Office
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 AD

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US State Department principal deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel deflects a question about if he recognizes the Geneva Conventions as applying to Gaza.

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Saint Xavier University in Chicago invites ‘Doctors From Gaza’ to speak about their experience during Arab American Heritage Month. Dr. Thaer, Ahmad recalls the hospitality of the Palestinians in Gaza,

“The people in Gaza invited the doctors over for dinner with the food provided from the aid trucks, and they would make sure we would eat until we were full. They gave us food, before they even got a chance to eat.” ❤️

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