A live feed from Handala was taken offline shortly after the IDF boarded the vessel. In the final seconds of the broadcast, an Israeli soldier can be seen grabbing the live camera. According to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, the ship’s crew includes lawyers, activists, volunteer medics and journalists, & two French lawmakers.
The Israeli-backed and U.S.-run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said that its distribution on Thursday would only be for Palestinian women. Eyewitnesses say that GHF staff pepper-sprayed them and beat them with batons, while two women were killed.
An internal U.S. government analysis found no evidence of systematic theft by the Palestinian militant group Hamas of U.S.-funded humanitarian supplies, challenging the main rationale that Israel and the U.S. give for backing a new armed private aid operation.
“There is no prior experience in my five decades of humanitarian experience that can come close to comparison to the horror we are all seeing in Gaza…. My grandchildren will be learning in school about who did what in the worst crime of the 21st century”… Israeli Heritage Minister said that Israel “is racing ahead for Gaza to be wiped out… All of Gaza will be Jewish,” he vowed.
Israeli forces kill at least 71 Palestinians in Gaza, including 22 aid-seekers; 5 die of starvation; aid airdrop a drop in the ocean; is this a famine yet?; Israeli army storms Handala flotilla boat; another Israeli lie laid bare; war crimes in Gaza
UN chief: “I cannot explain the level of indifference and inaction we see by too many in the international community. The lack of compassion. The lack of truth. The lack of humanity.”
Israeli forces kill at least 89, including 19 aid seekers; 2 die of starvation; GHF invites women to attack them; LIE: Hamas steals aid; LIE: UN causing famine; torture; waterborne diseases spike; ceasefire debacle update; Israeli leaders talk trash; Freedom Flotilla; recognizing Palestine; Epstein and Israel
The situation in Gaza is critical: many children and adults are in grave danger. Doctors, aid workers, & parents are too weak to care for those counting on them
‘The precision, the minute control that Israel has over this is something without precedent in modern times,’ says Alex de Waal
Rep. Randy Fine’s gaslighting takes a page out of AIPAC’s playbook.