Scott Campbell
"Israel has generated 'famine-like conditions' in the Gaza Strip 'while obstructing and undermining the humanitarian response', according to a new report by humanitarian group Refugees International.
"'Our research makes clear that conditions inside of Gaza are apocalyptic,' said the report released on Thursday."
Scott Campbell
“The speed of malnourishment of young children is also astounding. The bombing and people being killed directly is brutal, but this starvation – and the wasting and stunting of children – is torturous and vile. It will have a long-term impact on the population physically, cognitively and morally … All things indicate that this has been intentional.”
Scott Campbell
Israeli Army Sent in Handcuffed Prisoner to Evacuate Hospital, Then Killed Him When He Left
The young man, bound by zip-tie cuffs, delivered his Israeli captors’ message but was shot as he tried to walk out of the hospital gate.
https://theintercept.com/2024/02/14/gaza-nasser-hospital-evacuation-israel-prisoner/
Scott Campbell
"Israeli soldiers have begun in recent weeks to set fire to homes in the Gaza Strip, following direct orders from their commanders, without the necessary legal permission to do so, according to information obtained by Haaretz.
"Soldiers have destroyed several hundred buildings using this method over the past month. After the structure is set on fire along with everything inside it, it is allowed to burn out until it is rendered useless."
Scott Campbell
A little delayed in sharing this, but excited this interview is up! Please check out my conversation with a comrade in Palestine on @igd_news.
We talk about the situation on the ground, the role of the Palestinian Authority, the place of anarchism in the Palestinian struggle, and more, plus I asked some of the questions folks sent in.
https://itsgoingdown.org/a-front-line-report-from-the-west-bank-of-occupied-palestine/
Scott Campbell
More Fauda drama. #Palestine #anarchism
Scott Campbell
"More than 700 Palestinians were killed in overnight Israeli air raids on Gaza, according to Palestinian officials, the highest 24-hour death toll since Israel began bombarding the the besieged territory earlier this month."
"The health ministry in Gaza, which is governed by Hamas, has said at least 5,791 Palestinians, including 2,360 children, have been killed in the Israeli assault."
Scott Campbell
FWIW, I asked my former partner, who is an actual Palestinian anarchist in the West Bank, about this organization "Fauda" that has been getting a lot of attention.
Not one to mince words, here's what she had to say, which I share with her permission, "I only saw their Instagram page. It's clear that they are a bunch of social media lazy fucks sitting on their ass somewhere in Europe as I don't see any Fauda taking place here and they're not even posting visuals from Palestine. I have serious questions about them, for now I would say don't trust them or count they are organizing on the ground."
Scott Campbell
A rundown of some of the heartbreaking updates out of Palestine today:
- According to the Gaza Health Ministry, at least 2,215 Palestinians have been killed, including 724 children, and 8,714 wounded since October 7.
- Overwhelmed, the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah has begun using ice cream trucks as morgues.
- In the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, 54 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces and settlers, with more than 1,100 wounded.
- According to the Palestinian Health Minister, 28 health care workers have been killed by Israel since October 7. 15 medical centers have been damaged by Israeli strikes, with Beit Hanoun Hospital and Al-Durrah Children's Hospital being rendered out of commission. As well, 23 ambulances “have been damaged and rendered inoperable.”
- The Jordan Field Hospital has also shut down due to Israeli attacks. It “used to provide free medical services to about 1,000-1,200 people daily.”
- Since October 12, most Palestinians no longer have access to drinking water through the tap. According to OCHA, “As a last resort, people are consuming brackish water from agricultural wells, triggering serious concerns about the spread of waterborne diseases.”
- Since October 7, in the West Bank, OCHA has tallied 63 settler attacks against Palestinians, including some cases where Israeli forces were involved. “This represents an average of nine incidents per day, compared with a daily average of three incidents since the beginning of this year.”
Sources: https://www.ochaopt.org/content/hostilities-gaza-strip-and-israel-flash-update-7
https://edition.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-news-hamas-war-10-14-23/index.html
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/10/13/israel-hamas-live-dozens-killed-while-fleeing-to-southern-gaza
Scott Campbell
• According to Gaza’s health ministry, at least 1,537 Palestinians – including 500 children and 276 women – have been killed and 6,612 wounded in Israeli air attacks since Saturday.
• An Israeli airstrike on a residential building in Jabalia refugee camp on Thursday killed at least 45 people and wounded dozens of others. The death toll is expected to climb.
• As of October 11, there were 338,934 internally displaced people in Gaza, two-thirds of whom are taking shelter in 92 UNRWA schools.
• At least 28 Palestinian families have had most of their members killed in the same incident.
• At least 752 residential and non-residential buildings have been destroyed, and a total of 4,626 housing units were totally demolished or severely damaged
• At least 88 education facilities in Gaza have been hit.
Sources: UN OCHA - https://www.ochaopt.org/content/hostilities-gaza-strip-and-israel-flash-update-5
Al Jazeera - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/10/11/israel-hamas-war-live-gaza-faces-growing-humanitarian-catastrophe
Scott Campbell
"While it is true that Israel’s intelligence failures allowed Hamas to catch them off guard, it is also the result of a failure of imagination, empathy, and basic decency. It is a failure to comprehend that a people cannot be expected to endure decades of occupation stoically and passively."
"It is essential to recognize that the siege itself is a provocation. Forcing people to live in an open-air prison — a deliberate act of keeping an entire population in a state of constant vulnerability — is itself a form of violence. What is driving the escalation that we are seeing now is the fact that we Palestinians are fed up with living under constant conditions of occupation and colonization. These are the issues that need to be addressed for any meaningful resolution to occur."
Scott Campbell
With at least 230 dead and 1,700 injured in Gaza thus far, things are about to get much, much worse.
Scott Campbell
Thessaloniki, Greece.
Scott Campbell
With paramilitary attacks against displaced peoples and Zapatista communities on the rise, as well as organized crime seizing control of parts of the Chiapas-Guatemala border, AMLO says that all is well in Chiapas.
Meanwhile, yesterday an armed group blocked a highway and kidnapped 14 administrative workers from the Chiapas State Civil Security and Protection Ministry.
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