Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin #Netanyahu has rejected #Hamas demands for a cease-fire and vowed to press ahead with #Israel’s military offensive in #Gaza until achieving “absolute victory.”
https://apnews.com/article/6ceffca2970243cd039e90268c32c617
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“#Hamas has proposed a ceasefire plan that would quiet the guns in #Gaza for four-and-a-half months leading to an end to the war, in response to a proposal sent last week by Qatari and Egyptian mediators and backed by the United States and #Israel.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-seeks-prisoner-hostage-exchange-withdrawal-israeli-forces-ceasefire-2024-02-07/
Today in #Chicago area:
"100 Palestinian and Youth led protestors have shut down WoodWard (weapons manufacturer) near Chicago IL, and stopped employees from entering. This specific Woodward facility in Niles provides the Control Actuation Systems (CAS) to #Boeing for its JDAM (Joint Direct Attack Munition) - bombs that are currently being used to massacre over 27,000 Palestinains in Gaza over the past 4 months. Protestors have blocked every entrance to the Woodward facility to hault the production of these bombs for the day.
We demand Woodward to immediately end their weapons sales to the Israeli military and end their contracts with Boeing."
BBC follows Gaza’s tireless paramedics as they confront death and trauma at every turn
And yes, of course this is hard to watch #Gaza https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68280216
It is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others.
If we say nothing about Israel’s brazen slaughter of Palestinians, even as it is livestreamed into the most private recesses of our personal lives, we are complicit in it.
Israel is committing crimes against humanity. The unconscionable slaughter of civilians by Hamas as well as by Israel, are a consequence of the siege and occupation.
The world must intervene.
Day 136. #EndGenocide #FreePalestine #Gaza #israelconflict
“#Hamas has backed off some key demands in the negotiations for a hostage deal and pause in the fighting in #Gaza following Israeli accusations that its position was “delusional,” bringing the negotiating parties closer to an initial agreement that could halt the fighting and see a group of #Israel hostages released, two sources familiar with the discussions say.”
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/26/politics/hamas-demands-gaza-negotiations?cid=ios_app
"If everything you know is passed through word of mouth and from generation to generation—if the land and olive trees are gone, and the places that birthed recipes and stories are gone—stories are all that’s left."
On Palestinian food as a bridge: https://longreads.com/2024/02/22/expanding-table-palestinian-food-family-culinary-tradition-gaza-arkansas/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
#Longreads #Food #Baking #Cooking #Arkansas #Gaza #Palestine
"As documented by the rights organisation, on Sunday 25 February, Israeli forces killed 30 Palestinians while they were waiting for relief trucks in the vicinity of the Nabulsi roundabout on Al-Rashid Street, southwest of Gaza City."
Israel turns ‘safe’ corridor to #Gaza’s south into trap to kill hungry, forcibly displaced Palestinians
https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6185/Israel-turns-%E2%80%98safe%E2%80%99-corridor-to-Gaza%E2%80%99s-south-into-trap-to-kill-hungry,-forcibly-displaced-Palestinians
The U.S. Air Force Central Command completed its first airdrop of 66 food pallets, holding roughly 38,000 meals, in #Gaza this morning using three C130 aircrafts, officials told NBC News.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/live-blog/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-rcna141493
“An Israeli delegation is expected to arrive in Cairo on Sunday as part of negotiations for a ceasefire-hostage release deal in the #Gaza Strip... A Walla report stated that #Hamas will also send a delegation to the Egyptian capital for negotiations.
According to the report, the Israeli delegation will present the names of the Palestinian terrorists that #Israel refuses to release and will demand to receive the list of hostages that will be included in the deal.”
“#Biden said while on his way to the US-Mexico border, that he’s reviewing the reports of Israeli troops shooting people crowding for desperately needed food aid in #Gaza – but he already is clear that the deadly incident will complicate talks on a ceasefire.
“I know it will,” the US president told reporters when asked whether the tragedy Gaza unfolding in would complicate negotiations.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/feb/29/middle-east-crisis-live-updates-israel-hamas-war-latest-today-gaza-death-toll-hamas-health-ministry?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Gaza food aid ship delayed as Ramadan begins with no cease-fire.
@nbcnews reports: "The first ship carrying 200 tons of food aid remains docked in Cyprus after delays. Aid agencies have criticized the plan for a maritime humanitarian corridor, saying it falls far short of meeting the needs of Gaza's population of 2.2 million."
#Israel military says it reduces troops in south #Gaza
“The military has been reducing numbers in Gaza since the start of the year to relieve reservists and under growing pressure from its ally Washington to improve the humanitarian situation. It did not give details on its reasons for withdrawing soldiers or the numbers involved.”
#art #History
to the writers & poets of england, scotland, ireland & wales, nancy cunard (born #otd in 1896) enquired about their attitudes to the Spanish Civil War: 'are you for, or against, the legal Government & the People of the Republican Spain? are you for, or against, franco and fascism?' what do you think she'd have thought about war on #gaza today? if you don't already know the answer, a short thread follows.
#nancyCunard #illustration #antifascism #antiracism #ceasefireNow #writer
“US forces will build a temporary port on the #Gaza shoreline in the next few weeks to allow delivery of humanitarian aid on a large scale, #Biden will announce in the #SOTU speech.
“We are not waiting on the Israelis. This is a moment for American leadership,” a senior US official said on Thursday, reflecting growing frustration of what is seen in Washington as Israeli obstruction of road deliveries on a substantial scale”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/07/biden-us-port-gaza-aid-delivery?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
My friend Susan Abulhawa - Palestinian author and changemaker - recently returned from Gaza. She spent two weeks there; delivering aid for animals and people, running workshops to support Palestinian people under siege to tell their own stories; and checking in on friends and family.
She didn't want to leave - Israel cancelled Humanitarian visas. Until she can enter again, Susan has been publishing her accounts of this brief time in Gaza. These pieces are haunting and honest. The devastation and state violence is much worse than what we've seen online.
I'll post her articles in this thread as they're published. And the videos she's produced. And urge everyone to read/watch.
Keep speaking up for Palestine!
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@palestine #Gaza
Terrible reporting everywhere on the US' draft UNSC resolution on #Gaza. IT DOES NOT CALL FOR A CEASEFIRE, not even a 6-week one. It notes the importance of it but doesn't call for it. All it does is express support for the talks that have been going on for months.
This is diplomatic sleight of hand to convince people that the US is calling for a ceasefire when it isn't. The tone of US rhetoric toward #Israel has shifted, and the res does reflect that. But it is a shift in tone, not policy.
Sums up everything #Gaza #AI #ChatGPT #Racism
[EDIT: , these are the first paragraphs of replies you get in a normal search; you can find full replies and different answers with different settings in @aishenanigans’s replies below]
The U.N. Security Council will vote on a U.S. resolution declaring that an immediate cease-fire in Gaza is imperative.
AP reports: "The final U.S. draft eliminated language in the initial draft that said Israel’s offensive in Rafah 'should not proceed under current circumstances.'"
Trucks carrying humanitarian aid into #Gaza have begun moving ashore after arriving through the floating pier built by the US military, according to the US Central Command (CENTCOM).
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/17/middleeast/gaza-floating-pier-aid-trucks-intl-hnk?cid=ios_app
"#Biden administration officials are in preliminary “conversations” about options for stabilizing post-war #Gaza, including a proposal for the Pentagon to help fund either a multinational force or a Palestinian peacekeeping team.
The options being considered would not involve U.S. troops on the ground" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/28/dod-in-early-talks-to-fund-a-peacekeeping-force-in-gaza-00149547
Reminder: 10 years ago, actual Jewish survivors of the actual literal Holocaust specifically referred to Israel's policies in Palestine as an "ongoing genocide." In case anybody tries to gaslight you that calling it that is somehow anti-Semitic or insulting to Holocaust survivors.
#Israel #Gaza #Palestine #FreePalestine #genocide #GazaGenocide #Netanyahu #WestBank
“#Netanyahu says Israeli forces ‘unintentionally hit innocent people’ after strike on #Gaza aid convoy kills 7 workers
World Central Kitchen said it was pausing its operations in the region, and Cyprus said that ships carrying aid to the Palestinian enclave were turning back, a major setback for efforts to get food to a population pushed to the brink of starvation by the #Israel-#Hamas war.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/world-central-kitchen-says-israeli-strike-kills-7-workers-halts-aid-rcna145976