Week in Review
Gaza: “The first victim of the war is truth”
“When I first crossed the border, it was like a Hollywood horror movie, from the destruction I have seen. It’s like you’re watching a movie; sometimes you lose your sense of reality, and it’s hard to process. Then once you meet the people and talk to women and children, you go into a different mode of operation.
“A man I met in Gaza described the situation: ‘You have to look at us as 2 million zombies living on our own. The community is broken, the family is broken, society is broken. All ties are broken.’ There are 17,000 to 18,000 unaccompanied children, boys and girls running around the streets of Gaza without any protection and no family members. Can you imagine the exploitation, the gender-based violence? Can you imagine what they go through? It’s horrible…
“Women in Gaza shave their heads because of lice and lack of shampoo…
“When you’re in the business of saving lives, you don’t leave a stone unturned... It’s not about the people we serve, it’s about the people we are unable to serve. When the UN tries to implement the agenda and the Charter of the United Nations, they need the support of Brussels and the EU member States. We can’t afford to give up.
“Access for humanitarian aid is a word that is sometimes misused or, more often, misunderstood. Access is more than physical access as people think. In our case, access starts with unconditional visas to the humanitarians, which we don’t have. Physical access on the roads that we don’t have, because not all crossings are open. Access has to do with accountability, which we don’t have. In order for us to meet the needs of the people, we need to do assessments, but we don’t have the space to do that. The situation in Gaza does not allow us to do the pre-monitoring to monitor the distribution and then to do a post-monitoring… Access also has to do with duty of care. Staff members need to be protected. We need communication equipment, but we don’t have everything we want. We need armored vehicles, personal protection equipment; the list goes on and on.
Violence, destruction and displacement | West Bank
As the Gazafication of the West Bank continues....
Portraits of Peacemakers: Americans Who Tell the Truth.
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Urgent health update: Consequences of war on Gaza and West Bank/East Jerusalem-September 14, 2024
Please read and share widely. This war has largely dropped from the headlines, but the massive assault on Gaza continues unabated and the West Bank and East Jerusalem are increasingly under attack. Please use this information to educate your colleagues, friends, family, elected officials, and raise your voices in protest. The statement by Mr. Hadi is very powerful.
Inside Columbia’s surveillance and disciplinary operation for student protesters
These are some of the many ways Columbia and Barnard have employed surveillance measures to identify and discipline dozens of students accused of violating University policies for participating in campus protests over the war in Gaza, according to interviews with students and documents obtained by Spectator.
What ever happened to the First Amendment?
Palestine Legal Condemns Wave of Campus Anti-Protest Policies Intended To Suppress Student Activism
The stakes have gone up this fall for students protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Across the U.S., colleges are rolling out new anti-protest policies in an attempt to prevent a repeat of last spring’s historic wave of student activism calling on universities to disclose and divest from financial ties to Israel.
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September 16, 2024
Health Care Under Fire: Reports From the Ground
Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council webinar featuring Dr. Seema Jilani and Dr. Arham Ali discussing their experiences providing health care in Gaza.
Israel’s siege now blocks 83% of food aid reaching Gaza, new data reveals
Netanyahu was recently boasting how much aid Israel is providing to Gaza!!!
Exploding Pagers in Lebanon, Another Israeli Terrorism Blunder?
Booby-trapping the pagers was possibly one of the most sophisticated espionage operations orchestrated by the Israeli Mossad, yet it is without a cohesive strategy and another blunder for the Israeli leadership.
Paging The Hague: Israel’s Exploding Electronics Might Be War Crimes
Exploding pagers and walkie talkies? The seemingly indiscriminate nature of the attacks has drawn the attention and concern of experts in international law who caution that the explosions may rise to the level of war crimes.
More photos of the Andaleeb Cartonera books created from my article "Where is Palestine in Children's Literature and Why Should We Care?"
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