No foreign military, no matter how close the alliance, should receive blank checks from the U.S. government when there is credible evidence they are violating international humanitarian norms and committing war crimes.
An investigation by +972 Magazine and Local Call — based on conversations with five Israeli security sources, testimonies from Palestinian eyewitnesses and rescue personnel, and an examination of dozens of cases similar to the Arafat family bombing — reveals that the army has adopted the practice known as “double tap” strikes as standard procedure in Gaza.
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You want to know what dehumanization looks like? It looks like this: Israel will save your donkey, but not your daughter
Israeli forces systematically obstructed Palestinian medical aid efforts, including blocking ambulances and threatening paramedics at gunpoint, according to documentation by DCIP. In some cases, they surrounded bleeding children and prevented life-saving care.
I was astonished by the lack of response when I asked senators about the deadly beating of a 20-year-old American by Israeli settlers.
The Gaza Health Ministry said that the incident marked the first time “deaths have been recorded due to suffocation and the intense stampede of citizens at aid distribution centers.”
“This was not aid distribution,” said Ahmed Abu Amra, who witnessed gas bombs being fired at aid seekers at a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation site. “It was a real massacre committed against the hungry who came hoping to get some food.”
Israel has stolen hundreds of donkeys from the Gaza Strip, smuggled them to Israel, and sent them to Europe to prevent their use in Gaza’s reconstruction.
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