Iolanda Jaquemet

I survived Israel's genocide in Gaza. This is what recognition of a Palestinian state means to me Recognition is meaningless while Gaza is starved, bombed, and occupied. What we need is action.

“We do not need your recognition. We need you to stop enabling our annihilation.”

Read Nour ElAssy’s latest:

US contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammo as Palestinians seek food in Gaza American contractors guarding aid distribution sites in Gaza are using live ammunition and stun grenades as hungry Palestinians scramble for food, according to accounts and videos obtained by The Associated Press.

US contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammo as Palestinians seek food in Gaza.

As Gaza militarised aid scheme proves deadly, its backers could face a legal reckoning - Geneva Solutions The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) is facing mounting scrutiny, with NGOs warning its militarised aid scheme risks violating international law – and setting a dangerous precedent.

The so-called “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation” “appears to have no bank account, no viable address or Swiss resident on its board – all required by law.”
Will Switzerland find the courage to close the Geneva office of this death trap for Palestinians?
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Israel is arming gangs to fracture Gaza’s society from the inside It is part of a strategy to spread chaos, make Gaza ungovernable, and continue starving the population, writes Nour ElAssy.

“While commentators now debate geopolitics, families here are being incinerated in their tents. But the world has looked away, and when the world looks away, Israel kills faster and more violently” - #Gaza by Nour ElAssy

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“Humanitarian principles need to be reinstated [in Gaza],” UNRWA Commissioner-General tells the media.

UNRWA teams in #Gaza continue to manage shelters, provide clean water, and remove waste. They are a model of what humanitarian work is and should be.

Let us bring in aid at scale.

I was briefed on the intelligence last week.

Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.

How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.

I was deported by the U.S. for reporting on the Columbia University student protests.

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This would be another dent in the credibility of the BBC - if it had any credibility left.

BASEMENT FILMS: “Most of all we would like to thank the doctors/contributors/survivors… and to apologize for not believing them BBC would never run a film like this. Turns out they were right.”

BBC just shelved a doc about Gaza doctors. 🤔

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Together with our partners, we urge all #EU Member States & the @ec.europa.eu to:

❌halt arms transfers
❌sanction those responsible for ongoing atrocity crimes
❌suspend the trade agreement with Israel

Under the Genocide Convention, EU states are bound to act.
Learn more: bit.ly/4eapcyB

At the time of the Nazi death camps, no one from the outside was watching.

Now everyone knows, starting with the many Western leaders pledging unconditional support for Israel and sending weapons for the slaughter #Gaza.

In my whole life as a journalist and humanitarian worker, I’ve never seen anything as ignoble as this: 2 supposed democracies luring desperate, hungry civilians with food so they can be slaughtered.

A 63-Year-Old Medical Worker Spent Three Months as a Human Shield for Israeli Brigades in Gaza “They dressed me in military uniform, and asked me to search in homes for explosives.”

⚡️NEW at @dropsitenews.com: A 63-Year-Old Medical Worker Spent Three Months as a Human Shield for Israeli Brigades in Gaza

“They dressed me in military uniform, and asked me to search in homes for explosives.”

Story by Younis Tirawi

www.dropsitenews.com/p/palestinia...

YouTube video by Alonso Gurmendi Is Israel Committing Genocide in Gaza?

I made a video essay explaining why, in my view, Israel is committing genocide under international law. I hope this helps frame the issue a little bit better and explain why there is a consensus among academics that this is indeed a genocide. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmCl...

"The medical system [in Gaza] has not failed. It has been systematically dismantled through a sustained military campaign that has wilfully violated international humanitarian law"

Feroze Sidhwa addressing the UN security council today.

Hey @nytimes.com, BBC, & other mainstream media: your not-so-secret Palestine style guide is uncovered.

Just one thing this brilliant piece forgot to add: avoid as much as possible writing “Palestine” & “Palestinian”. It might acknowledge they have an identity - God forbid.

“We would not be here if western reporters and Joe Biden hadn’t manufactured consent for the genocide by repeating the incendiary lie that Hamas had beheaded babies”

Complicit in genocide, without the excuse that “no one knew”.

BREAKING: Microsoft Bans the Word “Palestine” in Internal Emails

Story for @dropsitenews.com by @worqas.bsky.social and @mazmhussain.bsky.social

Kudos to Spain and @rtvenoticias.bsky.social for their principled stance #Palestine #Gaza

“The outlets want coverage of the war, but not the responsibility of caring for those covering it. They use our reports to fill their broadcasts, but they don’t even remember our names. They ask for high-resolution images but won’t offer enough to cover a meal. We are used – bled dry and discarded.”

“Future generations will hold us to account, we should fear that judgement” - the UN’s top humanitarian official on #Gaza

Robert Prevost reposted Rocco Palmo @roccopalmo · Apr 14 As Trump & Bukele use Oval to 🤣 Feds’ illicit deportation of a US resident (https://bit.ly/3ROMjnP), once an undoc-ed Salvadorean himself, now-DC Aux +Evelio asks, “Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed? How can you stay quiet?” https://bit.ly/4j700KN

The most recent retweet from the new pope is 👀.

The west’s shameful silence on Gaza The US and European allies should do more to restrain Benjamin Netanyahu

"Each new offensive makes it harder not to suspect that the ultimate goal of Netanyahu’s far-right coalition is to ensure #Gaza is uninhabitable and drive Palestinians from their land."
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BREAKING: Pope Francis Dies at 88. Here's How He Should Be Remembered The late pontiff was a progressive pope who was outspoken on Trump, Gaza, the climate, and more.

"almost every night since Oct 2023, even during his hospitalization, Pope Francis made a daily phone call to the only Catholic parish in the Gaza Strip to check on their safety and offer words of prayer and support. His last public act, the day before he died, was to call for a ceasefire in Gaza."

Pope Francis was famously reaching out daily to a small parish in Gaza.

And let’s hope the cardinals he appointed tilt the balance and elect the equally liberal Pope the Catholic Church badly needs.

A good man who spoke for the downtrodden, not least refugees and migrants. May he rest in peace

The absolute villains of the day, in more ways than one.

“One observation is that the bullets were aimed at one person’s head, another at their heart, and a third person had been shot with six or seven bullets in the torso.”
“A Red Crescent spokesperson said on Wednesday that one of the paramedics “had his hands tied together with his legs to his body.”

BREAKING: More journalists have died in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023 than in both World Wars and other major wars, combined.

Our new report outlines the costs of war to journalists – and the journalism we all rely on. [THREAD, 1/8] watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...