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Israeli Soldiers' Excrement in Cooking Pots: When the IDF Took Over Hundreds of Houses in the West Bank
During Israel's war with Iran, the military occupied some 250 homes and apartments across the West Bank, converting them into makeshift bases and interrogation centers. When soldiers left, residents returned to houses in disarray
-Haaretz-


Uprooted doors, broken cupboards, overturned shelves with their contents scattered across the floor, filthy toilets, broken cisterns, heaps of clothing and mattresses in disarray, and blankets smeared with feces – these are the scenes that greeted the Amouri family when they returned to their home in Balata, the largest refugee camp in the West Bank. They had been forced to leave after Israeli soldiers turned their house into a temporary base.

"I had to run the washing machine for 24 hours straight," said Dalal Amouri, the mother of the family. "I had to throw out some items, they were so filthy. We found meat taken from the freezer and tossed on the floor. The bathroom was so dirty, we couldn't even go inside."

Their house was not the only one. In the last two weeks of June, during Israel's war with Iran, the military occupied over 250 homes and apartments in refugee camps, villages, and some urban neighborhoods throughout the West Bank. At least 1,350 residents reside in these homes. Most were evicted – usually in the middle of the night. In some cases, the military remained in the homes for only a few hours; in most, the occupation lasted anywhere from two to 11 days.

During these periods, soldiers carried out brief raids on nearby houses. Entire villages, or specific neighborhoods within them, were placed under curfew or strict movement restrictions.

Only a few of the occupied homes were vacant. In some instances, families were confined to a single room while armed soldiers guarded the door. More often, the residents were forced to leave altogether, and the military used the homes as bases – and, in many cases, as detention and interrogation centers for dozens of men.

"The soldiers tore strips of cloth from our clothing and used them to blindfold the detainees," said Subhiya Hamadeh, also a resident of Balata. One of her neighbors, who had been detained, told her that he was kept in a restroom with six or seven other people for two or three hours before being interrogated and released.

The Israeli army has long practiced turning homes into military positions, outposts, and sniper stations. But occupying such a large number of homes simultaneously across so many areas of the West Bank is unprecedented. According to a preliminary report from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and information that reached Haaretz, most of the affected homes – around 150 – were in towns and villages in the Jenin district, and some 800 people have had to leave them.



According to that same report, in Hebron, including in the H2 area (under full Israeli control), the IDF occupied at least 25 residential units, andthe rooftop of a school. Some 300 people had been living in those properties.


Dozens of soldiers were stationed in each occupied home. According to testimonies collected by Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem, UN researchers, and Haaretz, families who returned home found their belongings broken, furniture overturned or destroyed, and doors ripped off. Mattresses, towels, and blankets had been used or soiled. Some reported hygiene products and food were consumed or tampered with.


Some families reported that their water supply had been completely drained. Because of Israeli-imposed quotas on water, Palestinian municipalities and companies deliver it to neighborhoods on rotation, and household store it in rooftop tanks. In higher elevations or during summer months, families often have to buy water from trucks at three times the municipal rate. "We didn't find a single drop of water left in the rooftop tanks," said Dalal Amouri

The Amouri i family documented everything upon their return. "We learned from neighbors that when the soldiers left, on the night of June 19, they set fire to their garbage pile just outside our front door," said Ahmed, Dalal's son. "If the civil defense teams [firefighters] hadn't arrived quickly, the whole house would have burned down."

There's a lot more to the article, read it here : https://archive.ph/eKwCD
 
Hamas definitely caused this though so there is definitely a 'but October 7th though' here

You realize this is happening in the West Bank right ? Not Gaza. And you realize Hamas is not the government of the West Bank, it's the PA ? Or do you not understand those simple basic concepts but have clear cut affirmations on the matter despite that ignorance?
 
You realize this is happening in the West Bank right ? Not Gaza. And you realize Hamas is not the government of the West Bank, it's the PA ? Or do you not understand those simple basic concepts but have clear cut affirmations on the matter despite that ignorance?
*sarcasm*
 
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I apologize then. There are plenty of posters here who say stuff exactly like yours literally, expecting people to believe their propaganda. So I didn't notice the sarcasm because of that.
 
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Imagine living in a town and getting invaded and harassed by settlers and military alike every Saturday

 

UNICEF: Gaza’s children killed wherever they are, calls to prioritise their lives​


The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned Monday that Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip are being killed and injured daily and called to prioritise their lives and protection.

“Day in and day out, children in Gaza continue to be killed and injured, no matter where they are, as violence continues and aid remains severely insufficient” UNICEF posted on X.

“Children need a permanent ceasefire NOW” the UN agency urged.

UNICEF said Palestinian children are being killed in schools that have been converted into shelters, while playing outside, while trying to obtain food, nutritional supplies, or water, and while seeking medical assistance.

Since October 2023, the Israeli occupation has been waging a genocidal war in Gaza, killing and wounding more than 217,000 Palestinians, most of them children and women, and more than 9,000 missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands displaced.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/2...ver-they-are-calls-to-prioritise-their-lives/
 

The Zionist project: a danger for Lebanon and its Christians​


Normalisation with Israel appears today as a political and ideological choice that hides real dangers for Lebanon and its national unity. This article is mainly addressed to Christians who hesitate to oppose Israel or who think that normalization with this country is a positive or harmless thing. Below, we demonstrate that Israel’s existence is a dangerous project for Lebanon and its Christians, and we respond to some common justifications for normalization.

The danger of the Zionist project for Lebanon

When the Zionist project first emerged, it did not stop at proposing the creation of a “Jewish state” on the land of Palestine, but sought to expand into Lebanon. Israel’s attacks on Lebanon date back to before the creation of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

Several reports have documented plans to annex additional territories in southern Lebanon and destabilize the borders through the creation of “agricultural settlements.” It is in this context that the military attacks on border villages, infrastructure, and farms in southern Lebanon must be understood, which aim to drive the inhabitants of the targeted areas into emigration or submission.

Israel is also working to stir up civil tensions by creating sectarian divisions and carrying out sabotage operations or assassinations aimed at triggering internal conflicts. Last year, the occupation’s prime minister addressed the Lebanese people as Christians, Sunnis, Shiites, and Druze, without once mentioning the word “Lebanese.”

The aim of this speech is to make people see themselves as distinct religious groups rather than as citizens of the same society (which is what the Zionists want to do in Palestine by creating a religious colony-state that grants full citizenship only to followers of a single religion).

This vision of identity aims to dismantle society in Lebanon and the region into small, rival, poor, weak, and sovereign-less religious entities so that they can be waged war against and their wealth plundered at will.

The danger of the Zionist project for Christians

Lebanon, and its Christians in particular, can learn from international experience, notably that of Sudan. In Sudan, British colonialism fueled identity differences by dividing society between Arabs and Africans, Muslims and Christians, and different tribes. It even organized a confessional and tribal census of the population, as the French did in Lebanon.

Identity differences were exacerbated until Christians in the south demanded secession, which took place in 2011. But as soon as the Republic of South Sudan gained independence, civil wars broke out between Christians themselves, exactly as happened in Lebanon in the so-called “Christian” areas during the civil war.

It is no coincidence that Israel supported “Christian” armed organizations in Lebanon and Sudan, just as it supported “Sunni,” “Druze,” and ‘Kurdish’ organizations and governments in Syria and “Shiite” organizations in Azerbaijan and elsewhere. We see this coordination between Israel and the United States today with the Jolani regime committing massacres against Alawites and Druze, with the aim of dismantling the country into rival entities that will remain under the control of the Zionist entity.

On the other hand, accepting the “legitimacy” of the existence of a ‘Jewish’ state would legitimize the reasoning that Christians in the region would become a targeted minority. As the late Patriarch Sfeir stated, “Israel cannot accept peace in Lebanon because democracy is contrary to its ideology.”

On the other hand, even if Lebanon is considered the homeland of Christians, whose presence dates back centuries, occupation and political and military pressure are intended to push many of them to emigrate. The exodus of Palestinian Christians is the most glaring proof. Although Israeli propaganda lies and claims that Zionism protects Christians, the Churches of Palestine have repeatedly addressed the “international community” to clearly state that the main cause of Christian emigration is the occupation and its aggressive policies.

Response to common objections

Some justify normalization by pointing to our weakness in the last war. But, on the one hand, the occupation army did not cross any fixed lines in more than one military confrontation during that war. On the other hand, the terms of the unjust agreement with Lebanon do not justify total capitulation. Furthermore, we must seriously reflect on the genocidal thinking in Gaza, because one day it may decide that genocide must take place elsewhere, in Lebanon for example, to serve its interests.

There are, of course, lessons to be learned from Gaza, but effective surrender to a genocidal enemy is not the solution. It is a recipe that exposes the country to the loss of its sovereignty and thus to inevitable plunder and displacement, as well as the possibility of extermination when the enemy’s interests so require.

On the other hand, some believe that normalization opens up economic opportunities, citing the example of the Gulf countries. But the situation there is different. First, there are no borders with Palestine, and therefore no ambition for Israel to occupy it at present, given that Israeli officials have recently raised the possibility of targeting Qatar despite the relations between the two countries.

Second, the Gulf’s wealth is not due to its relations with Israel, but to its oil resources and small population, which is not the case in our region. Thirdly, let us not forget that the Gulf regimes are subject to foreign powers with no real sovereignty. They are also repressive dictatorships whose wealth is monopolized by a small group of princes and authoritarian leaders. If Lebanon or Syria were to fall under Zionist control, we would gain nothing but repression, without prosperity.

Opposing the Zionist project does not mean waging war or joining Iran. Rather, it requires Lebanese, as a people, to move towards strengthening internal unity. On the side of Christian Lebanese, we must respond to the Gospel message that exalts human brotherhood and what it means in terms of freedom, sharing the earth’s goods, and justice.

It is therefore necessary to activate theological discourse against occupation as part of theological discourse against injustice, whether internal or external, because occupation is an injustice that deprives people of freedom, plunders wealth, and prevents them from living in dignity. It is also necessary to organize training workshops in parishes and churches, as well as to publish articles and interviews in the field with young people and students in order to energize this discourse.

Those who care about the protection of people in Lebanon, including Christians, must adhere to the principle of citizenship and not that of confessional communities as the basis for their belonging to a single homeland, which protects all citizens regardless of their confessions and religions. They must oppose the various forms in which the Zionist project threatens our present and our future, instead of accepting them.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/2...ject-a-danger-for-lebanon-and-its-christians/
- THis one must be confusing for MAGA conservatives
 
Anas was arrested arbitrarily at a checkpoint in the West Bank, and detained for 9 month without trial before being released without charges against him. Here he tells his story

 
Settlers dresses up in military attire to threaten farmers of death and shooting them so he can establish a new settler outpost. Israeli army stands with him and tells the farmers to obey. Totally not a colonialist oppressive society. Settlers are totally not supported by the army.

 

At least eight more Palestinians die of starvation as famine spreads across Gaza​

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza has said at least 61 people were killed and 308 injured in Israeli attacks over the past 24 hours.

The ministry said a number of victims remained under rubble and on the streets, with ambulance and civil defence crews unable to reach them.

According to its daily update, the cumulative death toll in Gaza has risen to 62,622, with 157,673 injured since 7 October 2023.

From when Israel ended the ceasefire on March 18, the ministry said 10,778 people have been killed and 45,632 injured.

It noted that 298 fatalities had been added to the tally after confirmation by a judicial committee handling missing persons cases.

The ministry reported that at least 16 people were killed and 111 injured while attempting to collect aid in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of what the ministry describes as “aid victims” to 2,076 killed, and more than 15,308 injured since the war began.

Hospitals also recorded eight new deaths due to starvation and malnutrition, including two children, bringing the total to 281 deaths from hunger, of whom 114 were children.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/l...l-gaza-famine-middle-east-latest-news-updates
 
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