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This is the reality of what Israel is doing (part 7)

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Eyesopenwideawake · 20/07/2025 08:45

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/19/killing-of-young-siblings-at-gaza-water-point-shows-seeking-lifes-essentials-now-a-deadly-peril

A continuation of https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/conflict-in-the-middle-east/5311075-this-is-the-reality-of-what-israel-is-doing-part-6?page=1

The Israeli army are using aid centres as target practice.

The Israeli government is proposing building a 'refugee' centre in Rafah with an extra special feature - no one is allowed to leave.

Hotel California?

Killing of young siblings at Gaza water point shows seeking life’s essentials now a deadly peril

Karam al-Ghussain, 9, and Lulu, 10, were fetching water from a nearby distribution station when an Israeli strike hit it, and them

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/19/killing-of-young-siblings-at-gaza-water-point-shows-seeking-lifes-essentials-now-a-deadly-peril

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Martymcfly24 · 02/08/2026 16:11

ReturnOfTheToad · 02/08/2026 15:48

If Hamas were killing Israelis everyday you know it wouldn't be called a ceasefire. It's just another thing in the long line of things that shows how Palestinian lives are seen as less valuable than Israeli lives.

Exactly. They have literally said their lives are not worth the same .

We are up to 21 dead (including an unborn baby) now since Trump announced the ceasefire but Hamas are the ones not too be trusted and don't want peace.

I do find the killing is ramped up when a ceasefire is threatened.

ReturnOfTheToad · 02/08/2026 17:55

Martymcfly24 · 02/08/2026 16:11

Exactly. They have literally said their lives are not worth the same .

We are up to 21 dead (including an unborn baby) now since Trump announced the ceasefire but Hamas are the ones not too be trusted and don't want peace.

I do find the killing is ramped up when a ceasefire is threatened.

It's just crazy how double standards are applied. Hamas kill 1200 Israelis and that's starting a war, Israel kill 1250 Palestinians and that's a ceasefire 🤨

Meegie · 03/08/2026 03:45

Yes, not a single day of the ceasefire has passed without Palestinian deaths and Israeli atrocities. In the West Bank alone, the Palestine Settlement Resistance Commission has documented 11074 attacks on the land and property of residents by Israeli settlers and the IDF.

In Gaza on 16th July of this year, a funeral procession was bombed, killing eight people and injuring 20, of whom seven were children.

Also in Gaza during the ceasefire, Medecins Sans Frontieres recorded that a 14-year-old boy with Down's syndrome was shot five times by Israeli snipers while he was playing outside his tented home.

Meegie · 03/08/2026 04:13

The BBC's Middle East Correspondent, Haval Gilad, was recently allowed into the West Bank and interviewed an Israeli settler, Yehuda Shimon, a lawyer. He said:
"One Jewish life is worth 10 million Palestinian lives because God chose us. Because of this, you are jealous."

He then proceeded to criticise the Israeli military for not using lethal force against Palestinian residents often enough.

Stirabout · 03/08/2026 20:34

.Israeli prison authorities released 15-year-old Mohammad Hamed in an unconscious state after he was denied medical care during the months of his detention, according to a statement shared by the Palestinian Prisoners Society on 2 August.

The statement noted that Hamed's medical condition worsened each day at Ofer Prison. Hamed contracted scabies, but Israeli prison authorities deliberately denied him the necessary treatment, causing severe complications and a rapid deterioration in his health.

He was transferred to hospital, then returned to prison, before being admitted to hospital again on 25 July, where medical examinations revealed that the infection had spread to his heart and brain. On 27 July, he underwent open-heart surgery, and doctors later indicated that his right leg may require amputation due to damage caused by the infection.

His family was not permitted to visit him, and Israeli authorities decided to release him only when his condition became critical. Hamed remains unconscious and on life support in the intensive care unit.

Since the Gaza war broke out in October 2023, Israel has detained tens of thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza. Around 9,400, including 1,900 children remain imprisoned. Following their release, many Palestinians have reported physical and psychological torture as well as sexual abuse by Israeli forces.

one of thousands ! in Israeli jails

Martymcfly24 · 03/08/2026 23:04

Horrific @Stirabout . Not surprising though. Ben Gvir posted a video of himself berating a female prisoner who spoke of her lack of food and water.

It's been a really traumatic few days for Palestinians in Gaza. The images of the unborn baby and the onesie (I won't say any more because it could be a massive trigger) are something that will stay with me.

Meegie · 04/08/2026 02:41

Stirabout · 03/08/2026 20:34

.Israeli prison authorities released 15-year-old Mohammad Hamed in an unconscious state after he was denied medical care during the months of his detention, according to a statement shared by the Palestinian Prisoners Society on 2 August.

The statement noted that Hamed's medical condition worsened each day at Ofer Prison. Hamed contracted scabies, but Israeli prison authorities deliberately denied him the necessary treatment, causing severe complications and a rapid deterioration in his health.

He was transferred to hospital, then returned to prison, before being admitted to hospital again on 25 July, where medical examinations revealed that the infection had spread to his heart and brain. On 27 July, he underwent open-heart surgery, and doctors later indicated that his right leg may require amputation due to damage caused by the infection.

His family was not permitted to visit him, and Israeli authorities decided to release him only when his condition became critical. Hamed remains unconscious and on life support in the intensive care unit.

Since the Gaza war broke out in October 2023, Israel has detained tens of thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza. Around 9,400, including 1,900 children remain imprisoned. Following their release, many Palestinians have reported physical and psychological torture as well as sexual abuse by Israeli forces.

one of thousands ! in Israeli jails

The Palestine Feminist Collective, supported by the Progressive International, has published A Predatory State, a 200-page report on the abuse of Palestinians.

A Predatory State documents torture and gendered violence in detention centres, at checkpoints and in the homes of kidnapped Palestinians.

A section on Targeting Reproductive Health documents Israel's destruction of maternity wards, fertility clinics and reproductive health support, while arguing that this violence is not incidental but deliberate and systemic, practised as a matter of policy for many years.

The members of the collective have gathered hundreds of testimonies from Palestinian men and women that make harrowing but vitally important reading.

Martymcfly24 · 04/08/2026 21:01

Boolabus · 04/08/2026 18:37

Tragic but such a relief for the families to finally recover their bodies and bury their loved ones 🙏

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0n99npjejo

It's the photos on top of the flags that got me. Some were only babies.

JadeHare · 05/08/2026 07:24

Top lawyers are accusing Israel of ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem too. And still the world sits back and does nothing.

Martymcfly24 · 05/08/2026 13:05

JadeHare · 05/08/2026 07:24

Top lawyers are accusing Israel of ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem too. And still the world sits back and does nothing.

Sky News have an excellent report on their social media about what is happening in Jerusalem.

You are right though I cannot understand how the world is doing nothing. Modern day colonialism.

Ellen2shoes · 05/08/2026 21:07

I agree that there is some relief for the families of the 112 @Boolabus but there are potentially hundreds of thousands more Who have not been recovered and Israel is removing the evidence. A report has been released by Euro med:

Israel wipes genocide evidence in Gaza, carting off rubble and remains in 100 trucks daily.

‘This is occurring without any official record of the quantities removed or independent oversight, and before international and local investigative committees have had the chance to survey, examine, and document the sites. This risks destroying crucial evidence of genocide and the remains of victims still unaccounted for under the rubble.
These operations are not part of organised humanitarian efforts to rescue the missing, open roads, or prepare for reconstruction. Instead, Israel is acting unilaterally within closed areas under its military control by demolishing remaining buildings and then crushing, mixing, and transporting the rubble before forensic teams, evidence experts, and unexploded ordnance specialists can examine, document, and preserve the sites, along with the evidence and human remains.

Reported by JVL, which has link to the original article.

jewishvoiceforliberation.org.uk/article/israel-is-removing-evidence-from-gaza-it-needs-to-stop/

Meegie · 06/08/2026 23:18

Today, UNICEF has released the information that the Israeli Defence Forces have killed more than 300 Palestinian children, that is, one Palestinian child a day, since a ceasefire was agreed with Hamas in October 2025. To my knowledge, Hamas has not killed one Israeli child in those nine months.

Meegie · 07/08/2026 00:33

It is standard practice for the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) to desecrate hospitals they have bombed and to systematically destroy all life-saving equipment.

The internationally renowned Greek ENT surgeon, Professor Christos Georgalas, volunteered at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in 2025.

He recalled that after the hospital was bombed and the patients had to be evacuated, Israeli soldiers with crowbars destroyed every piece of medical equipment they could find; dialysis machines, incubators for newborns, ventilators, imaging equipment, sterilisation units ....... However, a massive MRI machine resisted all their attempts to put it out of action. Rather than leave the life-saving machine functioning, the soldiers managed to find a specialist engineer in their ranks who made sure it could never be used again.

KeeperOfTheSevenKeys · 08/08/2026 00:18

JaneJeffer · 07/08/2026 22:27

https://standwithnadia.org/
I’m just posting this here in case anyone hasn’t seen it

Don't worry, she and her conspiracy theorist have a top team of lawyers. The same ones who represented Dr. Aladwan.

JaneJeffer · 08/08/2026 11:19

Hello darkness my old friend

Ellen2shoes · 10/08/2026 22:21

A year ago today Israel killed the Al Jazeera journalists Anas al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, cameraman Ibrahim Zaher and producer Mohammed Noufal.

’In a will recorded before his killing, al-Sharif urged people not to forget Gaza and to remain steadfast in defending Palestine — words that continue to be shared widely online and echoed at memorials marking one year since his death.’

https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2026/8/10/one-year-on-gaza-mourns-journalist-anas-al-sharifs-death

Over 250 journalists killed by Israeli forces in Gaza and now the same strategy applied in Lebanon.

Guardian 4 days ago:
Rights and freedom
Israeli strike that killed journalist in Lebanon was war crime, say rights groups
Investigation by Human Rights Watch, Amnesty and Legal Agenda shows Israel deliberately attacked Amal Khalil and colleague Zeinab Faraj knowing they were civilians.

An Israeli strike that killed Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil and injured her colleague Zeinab Faraj in April was a war crime, three rights organisations said on Thursday.

Investigations from Human Rights Watch (HRW), Amnesty International and Legal Agenda showed that Israel deliberately and directly attacked Khalil and Faraj, with apparent knowledge that they were civilians. The organisations called for the attacks to be investigated as war crimes, while HRW called for states to halt arm sales to Israel and put targeted sanctions on Israeli officials responsible for ongoing crimes.

Deliberate attacks on civilians, which both journalists were, is a war crime. Israel has killed at least 15 journalists in Lebanon and 210 in Gaza since 2023, according to the UN human rights office.
The reports also indicated that Israel delayed Lebanese ambulances from reaching Khalil and Faraj for hours – at one pointing dropping stun grenades on Lebanese Red Cross workers and firing on their ambulances.
The delay in rescue might have led to Khalil’s death, as hospital reports indicate that she might have still been alive hours after an Israeli strike toppled a building on top of her and Faraj.
“The evidence is clear that the Israeli military knew, or should have, that Faraj and Khalil were civilians, but attacked them anyway, and then prevented paramedics from rescuing them for hours,” said Ramzi Kaiss, Lebanon researcher at Human Rights Watch.

Photos: One year on, Gaza mourns journalist Anas al-Sharif’s death

Photos: One year on, Gaza mourns journalist Anas al-Sharif’s death

Gaza remembers Anas al-Sharif, a journalist whose voice defined the impact of war on civilians' lives.

https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2026/8/10/one-year-on-gaza-mourns-journalist-anas-al-sharifs-death

Dirtydianaoh · 12/08/2026 18:19

www.instagram.com/reel/Db8U0QnKVuD/

poor baby

Meegie · 14/08/2026 02:32

It is tragic to see these beautiful children who were to lose their loving father, the eminent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, at such an early age. Sadly, there are many thousands more children in Palestine who have lost a father, a mother, often an entire extended family.
Only two weeks after the start of the conflict in October 2023, a 10-year-old boy in the town of Jabaliya was trapped for three days under the rubble of his home. He was rescued and taken to hospital, to be told that his parents and all his relatives were dead. He had joined the thousands of Palestinian children for whom medical staff have an abbreviation, WCNSF - wounded child with no surviving family.

After three years of war and a so-called ceasefire that has been violated by Israel daily, Palestine is suffering what the media is calling the largest orphan crisis in modern history.

This is not new. Before 2023, there were already almost 33,000 registered orphans in Gaza. An aid worker from Save the Children, which has had a permanent presence in the region since 1953, said:
"The situation for children in Gaza was intolerable before 7th October's escalation. It is beyond catastrophic now. What we're seeing in Gaza looks like the depths of hell."

Ellen2shoes · 15/08/2026 09:53

I’m sure it will be found ‘totally unacceptable’ and politicians will be ‘appalled’ but business will continue exactly as usual.

Stirabout · 16/08/2026 10:58

The reality of the lack of medical supplies in Gaza

This is the reality of what Israel is doing (part 7)
Martymcfly24 · 16/08/2026 19:50

It's no secret, I disagree with the prime minister," he said. "I think targeted assassinations should be carried out in Gaza, taking down 30 to 40 every night. Not just those who pose an immediate threat - there are people there who are not worthy of life. They shouldn't live. They're not even people."

Ben Gvir in a dystopian rant calls for targeted nightly killings in Gaza

Ellen2shoes · 16/08/2026 21:07

Pushing the boundaries because he knows he can - there will be no retaliation, no retribution other than a finger wag from the UK government while conducting business as usual with this monster.

To think that these are the values of our so called allies with whom we are supposedly morally aligned.

Disgraceful cowardice and corruption from the UK.

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