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TW: dead bodies, child death

Brief image description: a small Palestinian child is sleeping atop a hospital bed -where they have what appears to be a breathing tube up their nose -the long tube is connected to a machine that provides oxygen beside them. The caption in front of this image states: The Palestinian Prisoners' Club: "Israeli occupation forces has arrested a Palestinian girl from Gaza residing in the occupied West Bank for cancer treatment." [source: telegram-QudsNen]

A little girl undergoing CANCER treatment was arrested... no matter how many times I re-read this statement, it gets even more vile. This is beyond heinous.

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor

In a week, Israeli army executes 13 children in and near Al-Shifa Hospital

Israeli army has executed 13 children by direct shooting in Al-Shifa Medical Complex and its Gaza City environs.

Tw: the article starts with a picture of 2 dead children

While the world celebrates women's day, let's talk about the tragedies women of Gaza went through:

- We saw pregnant women in Gaza give birth with no anesthesia & no hygiene.

- We saw women in Gaza using tent scraps in place of period products.

- We saw women in Gaza pulled out of the rubble of their homes.

- We saw women in Gaza rushing to the hospitals with the bodies of their children with the hope of saving them.

- We saw women in Gaza suffering miscarriages due to indiscriminate bombardment.

- We saw women in Gaza starving yet feeding their portions of food to their children.

- We saw women in Gaza coming out and communicating the trauma, horror and violence they went through.

- We saw Israeli soldiers celebrating with the lingerie of women of Gaza who were either displaced or killed by them.

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the Guardian

As Gaza is destroyed, Israel is killing dozens of children in the West Bank

A 12-year-old Palestinian boy was shot while lighting a firework. ‘Cases like these happen quite regularly, but no one’s hearing about them,

While the world’s attention is on Gaza, life for Palestinians in the West Bank is also growing increasingly precarious. There has been a surge in settler violence and a spike in unlawful lethal force from Israeli forces. More than 400 Palestinians from East Jerusalem and the West Bank have been killed by Israeli fire since 7 October, according to the Palestinian health ministry. The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has said that about 100 of these deaths have been children, most of whom posed no credible threat to heavily armed soldiers from one of the most powerful militaries in the world.

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Palestinians in Israeli prisons, and that includes men, women, and children, are subjected to torture, sexual violence, threats of rape and killing their loved ones, and they get KILLED. The "only democracy in the Middle East" is nothing but a colonial and imperial power that torments and kills the innocent. Keep talking about Palestine!

7 March 2024

Israel continues targeting civilians in Southern Lebanon

The New Yorker

The Children Who Lost Limbs in Gaza

More than a thousand children who were injured in the war are now amputees. What do their futures hold?

Gazal was wounded on November 10th, when, as her family fled Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital, shrapnel pierced her left calf. To stop the bleeding, a doctor, who had no access to antiseptic or anesthesia, heated the blade of a kitchen knife and cauterized the wound. Within days, the gash ran with pus and began to smell. By mid-December, when Gazal’s family arrived at Nasser Medical Center—then Gaza’s largest functioning health-care facility—gangrene had set in, necessitating amputation at the hip. On December 17th, a projectile hit the children’s ward of Nasser. Gazal and her mother watched it enter their room, decapitating Gazal’s twelve-year-old roommate and causing the ceiling to collapse.

UNICEF estimates that a thousand children in Gaza have become amputees since the conflict began in October. “This is the biggest cohort of pediatric amputees in history,” Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a London-based plastic-and-reconstructive surgeon who specializes in pediatric trauma, told me recently.

the Guardian

We are about to witness in Gaza the most intense famine since the second world war | Alex de Waal

Gaza’s health crisis has its own dreadful momentum. Even if the shooting ends today and the aid trucks begin to roll, the dying will carry o

Gaza is already the most intense starvation catastrophe of recent decades. The death toll from hunger and disease may soon surpass the body count from bombs and bullets. The Famine Review Committee reported this week that Gaza is facing “imminent famine”. The Integrated Phase Classification (IPC) system, set up 20 years ago, provides the most authoritative assessments of humanitarian crises. Its figures for Gaza are the worst ever by any metric. It estimates that 677,000 people, or 32% of all Gazans, are in “catastrophic” conditions today and a further 41% are in “emergency” conditions. It expects fully half of Gazans, more than 1 million people, to be in “catastrophe” or “famine” within weeks. A parallel report from the Famine Early Warning System Network of the US Agency for International Development sounds the same alarm. It is the clearest warning that the network has given at any time in its 40-year history. A rule of thumb is that “catastrophe” or “famine” conditions mean a daily death rate from from hunger or disease of two people out of 10,000. About half are children under five years old. The arithmetic is simple. For a population of 1 million, that is 200 deaths per day, 6,000 per month.

Save the Children International

Stripped, beaten and blindfolded: new research reveals ongoing violence and abuse of Palestinian children detained by Israeli military | Sav

Save the Children report on Palestinian children in Israeli military detention

Palestinian children in the Israel military detention system face physical and emotional abuse, with four out of five (86%) of them being beaten, and 69% strip-searched, according to new research by Save the Children. Nearly half (42%) are injured at the point of arrest, including gunshot wounds and broken bones. Some report violence of a sexual nature and some are transferred to court or between detention centres in small cages, the child rights organisation said.

The Electronic Intifada

There is no such thing as childhood in Gaza

Israeli attacks expose Palestinian children to daily horrors.

Children in Gaza can tell an F-16 from an F-35 from a drone. They know a whole litany of things that are beyond their years. Things that they shouldn’t have to know. Over 10,000 children have been killed in Gaza. The children who have survived have seen their families, friends and neighbors killed by the Israeli army. They have seen near-death by starvation and death by suffocation, under the rubble and by explosion. Children in Gaza do not have the luxury of death being a mystery. It is a daily presence. If a child in Gaza is hungry, they know not to throw a tantrum. They have become used to feeling hunger. The same is true of the cold. Every child in Gaza now knows what it is to be unhoused, to sleep in a tent or on the streets in winter.

r u capable of believing in the power of the people?

In Demonstration against Tyranny & corruption in Jerusalem, 3 days before crucial elections in Israel. 20/3/2010

r u capable of staying loyal to the truth?

No to tyranny & corruption!

Demonstration in Jerusalem, Israel 30/1/2021

r u capable of keep on fighting?

winter is ahead

Demonstration against tyranny & corruption. Jerusalem 26/12/2020