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

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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?

Its quite obvious there is no actual evidence to convict him because otherwise it would have been released everywhere.

He is a hostage who is being tortured .
Buildings were lit up in yellow for Israeli hostages but when the tables turn and they are the kidnappers this doctor is not even a byline.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNRKnYnYD/

CNN

https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israels-supreme-court-orders-government-respond-concerns-over-gaza

The Israeli Supreme Court on Sunday ordered the Israeli government to submit a response by next Tuesday (7 July 2026) to a petition filed by the Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) that demanded the release of 14 doctors from Gaza.

Amongst the concerns raised by PHRI include the deteriorating health condition of Palestinian doctor Hussam Abu Safiya, following warnings about the imminent danger to his life.

During his last meeting with his lawyer, Abu Safiya was quoted as saying: "This is the last time you will see me... They brought me here to kill me... I don't see myself alive... This is the end."

Low down thieves and murderers disgracing their own nation while claiming to be victims.

Any internal dissent is closed down. Aside from protests and obvious lack of coverage thereof, the government want to boycott Haaretz and channel 12 media station has recently been vandalised for reporting news which challenges the government’s extremist agenda. I think that there may be more dissent in Israel than we are led to believe. It’s quelled but there.

‘Without Haaretz, Israel wouldn't know that there's an occupation. Without Haaretz, Israel wouldn't know that there was a judicial coup aimed at destroying the democracy for Jews. In addition, without Haaretz, life here would be honey and the settlements a paradise. The Israeli army would be the most moral in the world. There would be no innocent Palestinians and actually, there would be no Palestinian human beings.
Haaretz refutes all those abominable lies and ruins Taub's and his colleagues' propaganda fest. Such propaganda is enjoying considerable success in Israel and resounding failure abroad, where people know the truth because they're not fed mainstream Israeli news.’

Saw this in the Guardian:

“A British charity is funding a religious school at the heart of expansion plans for the illegal Israeli settlement in the Palestinian city of Hebron.
Friends of Yeshivat Shavei Hevron sent nearly £200,000 to the school between 2019 and 2024, the last year for which accounts are publicly available on the website of the Charity Commission, the charity regulator for England and Wales.
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Construction of a new dormitory for the school was approved in June, after the far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, unilaterally broke a decades-old international agreement on control of Hebron to give Israel planning authority.
The expansion will increase the population of one of the most extreme Israeli communities in the occupied West Bank, and the only one built in the heart of a Palestinian city.”

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https://youtube.com/shorts/jaw_okLBuMQ?is=Om2xHDXin_vv-s1d

This is exactly how I feel.

Well bloody said is right.

Egypt were denied a victory tonight.

The horror of this image.

And with over 11,000 missing in Gaza, the anguish of parents and families, not knowing if their children are dead or alive then seeing this image and realising that this could be their fate.

Unbearable.

This is terror.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/08/photo-palestinian-prisoner-corroborates-israeli-torture-claims

After the photo was widely shared on social media at least two mothers claimed the bound man as their son, highlighting the painful limbo of Palestinian families searching for loved ones missing since their detention by Israeli forces, Bashi added.

“This is not the first time Israeli soldiers have published humiliating photos of Palestinian detainees while depriving families of information or access to them. It has become a grotesque and unlawful way for families to get information about their loved ones.”
Rana Abu Nasser is sure the photo shows her son Osama, who was seized with his one-year-old son in March, near the shifting “yellow line” that marks the boundary of Israeli military control in Gaza. “I know the details of his body,” she told Reuters. “He has swelling in his foot and scars on his leg – the same swelling on his left leg I saw in the picture.”
Joudeh al-Ghoul wept the first time she saw the photo, instantly sure it was her son Amin, missing since his arrest in November 2023, when he was trying to travel from southern Gaza to the north. “It’s him, his hair and chin. He is my son. A mother’s heart can recognise her son. I hugged the mobile phone and started crying,” she said. “He is my son, my soul, my life.”
The Israeli military declined to comment on whether the detainee had been identified or given medical support, and whether his family in Gaza had been notified.
For seven months at the start of the war the Israeli military refused to provide basic information about the status of people detained in Gaza, in effect implementing a policy of forced disappearance.

I have just asked MN to delete the link asap even though I know the damage is done as it has been so widely distributed on SM, hence the article, and it would have met the Guardian’s editorial guidelines, I’m worried the image attached to the article might cause more anguish.

Needs to be made known but the image is just too awful. Sorry everyone. Floored.

I can see why you feel like that @Ellen2shoes but I believe you were correct to link this even with the image .it's an absolutely disgusting and shocking image.

As per the thread title this is the reality of what Israel are doing. The humiliation and degradation of Palestinians is not new. Anyone who looks at that image and still thinks Israel is defending itself needs to look at their reasons why they support a country that can do this.

Thank you @Martymcfly24 It’s the possibility that there could still be mothers out there who hadn’t seen the image and who would think it could be their son. It’s unbearable.

It’s front page Guardian

It’s extremely distressing but it shows what’s happening

We shouldn’t hide the truth because it’s too difficult to face

Really distressing image, zero respect and dignity for that poor man and then the arrogance to share pictures like that knowing there will be zero repercussions is extremely depressing and concerning.

Totally agree Ellen. The anguish and heartache Palestinian mothers go through every day is not something we can even imagine.

Even if it was not their son knowing this was the treatment they were receiving is terrifying.

There is a cruelty to Israel I didn't think existed.

I do agree and it’s right that this should be headlining. Understand that it’s completely irrational to request link to be removed. It feels viscerally wrong to share that image yet we know it has to be done.

According to IDF, Mohamed Al-Wahidi was not the ‘intended target’. How blithely is this phrase used to excuse murder over and over again.

A Palestinian aid worker who had organised screenings of World Cup matches in Gazawas killed by an Israeli missile strike just before the game between Egypt and Argentina on Tuesday evening.
Two brothers aged eight and 10 and another man who was in the street near the site of the attack were also killed.

Whole families being indiscriminately murdered in Lebanon too, as the IDF don’t care who they are killing. It really is horrendous.

I doubt Israel will ever withdraw. More shit from Donald.

“U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he thought Israel would withdraw troops from southern Lebanon because it wanted to take that step, despite comments from Israel's leader indicating otherwise.
Trump told reporters at the NATO Summit in Ankara that he had discussed a withdrawal with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
"Yeah, I think they're going to. I think they want to," Trump said. "So we have a deal with Israel and Lebanon. Yeah, they'll leave. And I think it's going to work out very well."
Netanyahu visited Lebanese territory occupied by the Israeli military last week, telling soldiersthat Israel would not withdraw from the country's south as long as Iran-backed Hezbollah continued to pose a threat.”

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Israel with access to the most sophisticated tracking and personal information in the world shot the wrong target.(Funny how they do that so often)

Bullshit.

The cynical part of me thinks that man was bringing the tiniest bit of happiness and normality through showing the matches to Palestinians and that is not allowed in Israels eyes.

72 hours after the Egyptian coach draped the Palestinian flag over him on television. If anyone believes this was not a targeted assassination to punish him for bringing a glimpse of hope to the Gazans, they are idiots. Anyone spreading propaganda that it was a mistake are just evil.

.Death toll from Israel’s genocide in Gaza rises

At least
73,118 Palestinians have been killed
and 173,615 wounded since Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza began in October 2023, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

Since a US-brokered “ceasefire” was put in place last October,
1,092 Palestinians have been killed and 3,507 wounded by Israeli forces across the besieged enclave.

Good speech by Sir Edward Leigh this week. Any decent person can see what is happening is so so wrong

https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2026-07-09a.536.1&p=10352#g540.0

Very good speech.
The Dail in Ireland passed the Occupied Territories Bill this week. It has one more stage to pass before becoming law. This just covers goods and many here would have hoped services to be included also.
https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2026/0707/1582303-occupied-territories-bill/

.From the UN

Living conditions of the displaced Palestinians

The UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), Ramiz Alakbarov, and his deputy, Suzanna Tkalec, led the online visit to the site in Al Mawasi, Khan Younis.

“Just like journalists, diplomatic missions have had difficulty getting into Gaza since October 2023,” UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said during his regular briefing from New York.

Water and work
Via videolink, the diplomats observed the living conditions and relief efforts at the displacement site, interacting with children, adults and aid workers.

At a distribution point, they saw how community members – including children – collected water carried by truck through a project operated by a local partner and funded by the UN’s OPT Humanitarian Fund.

“Displaced people told the diplomats that they need sustainable water services, especially during the hot summer days, and cash-for-work opportunities to feed their families,” Mr. Dujarric said.
“Participants in the virtual visit were also led through hundreds of tents crammed along the shoreline,” he added.

Mr. Alakbarov thanked the diplomats for their financial support for relief efforts, indicating that more is needed to both sustain and scale up operations, including funding and political action to unblock persistent impediments.

Deteriorating water access
The UN agency that assists the Palestinian people, UNRWA, continues to provide support across the Gaza Strip, according to an update published on Wednesday.
The latest Water and Sanitation Cluster monitoring, conducted in June, indicated a continued deterioration in water access, with some

84 per cent of assessed households experiencing moderate-to-high insecurity.

UNRWA distributed roughly 79 million litres of domestic and drinking water between 16 and 30 June, reaching over 860,000 displaced people daily.
During the same period, staff screened nearly 5,000 children aged between six and 59 months at UNRWA health centres and medical points, identifying 203 malnourished youngsters.