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A post by Stephen Prior in fb: the israeli “aim was genocidal from the very first day”

una fossa comune piena di vittime palestinesiEverybody now knows from the first week after October 7th that Israel had already planned to commit genocide, traditionally defined genocide, targeting a population because of their bloodline and trying to exterminate or move them.
Everyone knew this because Israel announced it.
Twice in October of 2023, the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, said out loud in a public speech, “The Palestinians are Amalek.”
Amalek, a reference that many in the West didn’t get, but everyone in the region understood. And it’s a reference to 1 Samuel 15, the first verses in it, which you should read because it tells you a lot about what Israel’s doing now.
Those verses describe God’s command to eliminate a tribe called the Amalekites. And not just the draft-age men, but all of them, including children and infants. All of them. Kill all of them. Destroy all of their property. Slay all of their animals. This is God’s command.
So when Benjamin Netanyahu describes the Palestinians as Amalek, twice in the first month of the Gaza operation, you don’t need to guess what the point of this is. The point is to destroy every man, woman, child, and infant in Gaza. And they set about doing that.
But it wasn’t just Netanyahu who said that. It was a lot of different authorities in Israel.
On October 9th—three days after the Hamas attacks—Yoav Gallant, the defense minister of Israel, their own Pete Hegseth, described his plans for Gaza, not for Hamas, for the entire territory, for the over two million people who live there. And we’re quoting:
No electricity, no food will be allowed in. We are fighting human animals, not human beings, human animals.”
Well, that winter, the deputy mayor of Jerusalem responded, not to say, “Whoa, whoa, settle down, defense minister! Calling your opponents animals is, of course, genocidal talk.” No, the deputy mayor of Jerusalem thought he didn’t go far enough. He said this:
“They’re not human animals. They’re not human beings. They are sub-human.” And then he said that the Palestinians of Gaza should be buried alive with bulldozers. Which some, ultimately, apparently were.
You had both cabinet ministers in Israel and supporters of Israel in the United States making the same case in public from the very first day, “Kill indiscriminately, move them out.”
There were “discussions,” on the American Right about what we should do with those Gazans, the people who live there. “Move them to other countries—Egypt, maybe even the United States. Get them out, kill enough of them that the rest leave, so the survivors want to flee.”
So the aim was genocidal from the very first day. The Israelis announced it. Israel’s supporters in the United States seconded it, amplified it. And members of the US Congress on television, the people who are paying for this genocide, announced proudly, “That’s right. The Israelis have every right to kill civilians, and that’s why we are paying them and giving them weapons to do so.”
In addition to shooting children in the head, leaving toy bombs to blow their hands off, having a
‘shoot to cripple’ policy, bombing schools, hospitals and playgrounds, shooting people running for food drops, starving people, pouring cement in their water holes, setting up safe zones then bombing them, setting hospital tents on fire, shooting doctors to the extent Palestinians give them street clothes so they aren’t shot wearing hospital scrubs, executing hospital staff and patients and burying them in mass graves, bombing aid stations, trucks and ambulances, blocking over 1,000 aid trucks, they have run over 100s of people with bulldozers while still alive. If you support Israel, you are evil. It’s that simple. If you provide them with money and weapons there is probably a penthouse suite in hell waiting for you.

Stop. The. Genocide.

“47 days with my hands bound and my eyes blindfolded—only because I am from Gaza”: Dr. Mohammed Ahmad talks about his experience

47 days with my hands bound and my eyes blindfolded—only because I am from Gaza.
Today marks the anniversary of my arrest, and I cannot forget what I went through, not for a single day.
On January 24, 2024, the displacement camp was surrounded and bombed, killing and injuring dozens inside. We were ordered by the Israeli army to evacuate toward Rafah. I left the UNRWA shelter with my family and we walked about three kilometers until we reached a military checkpoint. There, men were separated from women and children. That was the moment I was torn away from my familyI did not know what happened to them, and they did not know what happened to me.
I was carrying a bag with my money, personal documents, and our mobile phones. I was ordered to leave it and go to an area under camera surveillance. We were gathered with many men. I was forced to remove all my clothes, even my underwear, and photographed naked. I told them I had done nothing wrong, that I was innocent and sick. They replied, “All of Gaza is elite. All of Gaza is Hamas,” and then they beat me.
Afterwards, they dressed me in a white suit, blindfolded me, tied my hands behind my back, and forced me to kneel on gravel in the freezing cold. I was terrified. One of the detainees beside me died. We were then thrown on top of each other in a crowded place. A soldier grabbed me, forced my head down, and threw me into a truck, tying my hands and feet and blindfolding me again. The beating continued.
It was raining and extremely cold. I believe the journey lasted two days without food, water, or access to a toilet, until we reached a detention center near the Gaza–Israel border. The place resembled a chicken coop. They gave us new clothes, tied my hands in front of me, and replaced the blindfold.
We slept on an extremely thin pillow and blanket. Everything was scarce and degrading—even the tap water in the bathroom. We were forced to sleep at 11 p.m. and wake up at 5 a.m. Guards deliberately shouted and turned on the lights while we slept. Blindfolds were not allowed to be removed during sleep. One bathroom for every 100 detainees.
I was interrogated only once, with no charges brought against me. The questioning focused on my whereabouts on October 7 and whether I knew anyone involved. It was superficial, and it was clear the arrests were random. Among the detainees were elderly men and children.
I was transferred to three detention centers and released after 47 days.
I suffered a shoulder injury and continue to receive treatment. I have herniated discs in my back and neck. I requested medical care, but they gave me heart medication instead of treating the injuries caused by torture. After my release, I sought treatment and have continued for a year. I need surgery, but no surgical operations are currently available in Gaza.
This is what happened to me—briefly—yet it is a testimony to what is being done in silence.

‘the guardian’: freed activist ahed tamimi speaks of plight of palestinians held in israeli prisons

Caption from the video @ the youtube channel of ‘The Guardian’: 
Prominent activist Ahed Tamimi is one of 30 Palestinians released in the sixth swap between Israel and Hamas. The 22-year-old, who has become a symbol of resistance against Israel’s occupation, was seen embracing her mother after being released. Tamimi told reporters: ‘Our joy is diminished because there are many martyrs in Gaza.’  She went on to describe the conditions faced by Palestinians held inside the Israeli prison

“Recently they arrested 10 women from Gaza, leaving their children homeless. The situation is very bad. They tortured all the prisoners, both women and men” (Ahed Tamimi)

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source:
https://fb.watch/oDatEVpcCE/

voice:
Jomana Karadsheh

also read:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/29/middleeast/gaza-truce-israel-grandfather-returns-home-intl-hnk/index.html

“More than 14,800 Palestinians, including 6,000 children, have been killed in Gaza since” Oct 7th.

another vid:
https://www.facebook.com/reel/719697986363918?s=yWDuG2&fs=e

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