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CAIRO Israeli forces killed at least 22 people and wounded 20 others, many while attempting to get desperately needed food aid in southern Gaza on Monday, according to witnesses, hospitals, and Gazas Health Ministry.
Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis said it received the bodies of 11 people who were shot while returning from an aid site associated with Israeli and U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Fund in southern Gaza, part of a deadly pattern that has killed more than 500 Palestinians in the chaotic and controversial aid distribution program over the past month. Ten others were killed at a United Nations aid warehouse in northern Gaza, according to the Health Ministry.
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(54,890 posts)Brainstormy
(2,551 posts)Ping Tung
(4,370 posts)Voltaire
brush
(61,033 posts)to drag it down to international parian nation status. There are daily reports now of IDF gunmen luring starving Palestinians to food aid sites, just to gun them down when they get there.
And notice, all the Netanyahu/Israeli apologist never show up in these OPs reporting on the daily IDF massacres of starving Palestinians.
I'd be ashamed too.
I like to think the silence is due to shame and sorrow. Maybe a most-welcome change of views, of heart. An epiphany? For some, perhaps. But, at least for a few others, it's highly doubtful. The silence is calculated and strategic.
AloeVera
(4,418 posts)"If people arrive early and approach the checkpoints, they get shot. If they arrive on time but there is an overflow and they jump over the mounds and the wires, they get shot," he said in the statement.
"If they arrive late, they shouldn't be there because it is an 'evacuated zone' they get shot."
Gaza's Hunger Games. Set up with intent, to reduce Palestinians to skeletal begging scavengers, victims of both the IDF and the criminal gangs, who can then be more easily driven out from their homeland.
Israel in its current form should be dismantled instead. It's a genocidal, cruel-beyond-belief regime. Honestly don't care anymore if that makes me "anti-semitic" - which btw it does not.
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