The United States has vetoed a resolution at the United Nations calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, an anticipated move that comes amid growing international clamor for Israel to pause its offensive against Hamas.
The US had already signaled its intention to veto the Algerian resolution, but has [allegedly] grown increasingly critical of Israel’s conduct in Gaza and on Monday proposed its own Security Council draft resolution calling for a “temporary ceasefire” in the conflict.
Image 1: A watermelon slice with the words “Free Palestine” written in red capital letters underneath.
Image 2: A four-square table from the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement with the heading “Act now against these companies profiting from the genocide of Palestinian people”
Square 1 is labelled “Consumer boycott targets” with logos for Puma, Carrefour, Siemens, HP, AXA, Soda Stream, Re/Max, Ahava, and a Palestinian flag that says “Boycott Israeli Goods”
Square 2 is labelled “Divestment targets” with logos for Elbit Systems, JCB, HD Hyundai, Volvo, CAT, CAF, Barclays, Chevron, HIK Vision, and TKH Security.
Square 3 is labelled “Pressure (non-boycott) targets” with logos for Google, Amazon, AirBnB, Booking.com, Expedia, and Disney.
Square 4 is labelled “Organic boycott targets” with the logos for Domino’s Pizza, McDonald’s, Pizza Hut, Papa John’s, Burger King, and Wix
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Some of these have changed since posting! For example, Chevron is now also considered a consumer boycott target. Texaco and CalTex has been added to that list as well. Here is the BDS movement website, so we can stay updated! :) Their website also explains the difference between each of these categories, and the reason why each of these companies is a target.
I didn’t mention here, but it’s strike week once again (18th-25th) and I’ve been limiting any social media usage outside of uplifting Palestinian voices and boosting resources and I encourage you all to do the same! Double down on those boycotts, donate if you can, call your reps! This is the least we can do 🍉
Going to this site and clicking everyday generates funds for Gaza: https://arab.org/
Consider buying eSims for the folks in Gaza so they can communicate with their families: https://gazaesims.com/
The official figure for disappearances is 10,000, but human rights groups claim the death toll could be as high as 30,000.
“We have identified 1,296 Jewish victims by name out of the official list of 10,000 victims,” Mr Jaroslavsky said. “But if the unofficial figure of 30,000 total victims is correct then the number of Jewish victims could be over 3,000.”
“Jews represented more than 12 per cent of the victims of the military regime while constituting under 1 per cent of Argentina’s population,” said Juan Pablo Jaroslavsky of the Barcelona-based Commission of Solidarity with Relatives of the Disappeared (Cosofam), which presented the report this month.
The final death toll from the attack is now thought to be 695 Israeli civilians, including 36 children, as well as 373 security forces and 71 foreigners, giving a total of 1,139.
The files show that Israel provided, via Peru, air-to-air missiles, missile radar alert systems, and large capacity fuel tanks for the Argentine Skyhawk aircraft, giving them extra defensive capability and air time over the Falkland Islands, during the conflict. Israel also sold a large number of reconditioned Nesher (“Dagger2) fighter jets from the 1970s, the Israeli version of the Dassault Mirage 5 multi-role aircraft, to the Argentines during the period of the Junta (1976-83) together with spare parts and other military materiel. Israeli arms exports to Argentina in this period are estimated to have been around US$1 billion.
I will note that the lack of common knowledge about the dirty war is far more likely attributible to overall lack of knowledge about Argentina from western sources
I doubt there has been any institutional obscuring of this information
the palestinian red cross released an audio recording of their emergency worker rana, who was on the phone with hind for over three hours, trying to keep her calm. she makes her recite the fatiha (one of the opening verses of the quran that all children know) and the sound of rana holding back tears as she tries to stay calm for hind, and hind’s baby voice repeating after her dutifully is really breaking something in me. i am living, as we all are, but there is a part of me that will remember this and so many other things until the day i die.
Here’s how things stand on Tuesday, February 20, 2024:
Fighting and humanitarian crisis
Israel’s assault in Gaza has killed more than 29,000 Palestinians since October 7, the territory’s Ministry of Health said on Monday, marking another grim milestone in one of the deadliest and most destructive military campaigns in recent history.
Footage verified by Al Jazeera shows Palestinian people fleeing to take cover after coming under attack from Israeli forces as they waited for humanitarian aid in northern Gaza.
The Israeli military released a video on Monday showing what is believed to be the youngest captive, his brother and mother being led through the streets of the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis. Al Jazeera could not independently verify the Israeli claims.
Separately, Benny Gantz, a member of Netanyahu’s three-man war cabinet, warned that the offensive would expand to Rafah if the captives were not freed by the start of the holy month of Ramadan, expected around March 10.
Meanwhile, with thousands of Palestinians detained by Israel, an Israeli human rights group reported that Palestinians inside Israeli prisons face daily violence from guards. Physicians for Human Rights said that Israeli guards enter cells and beat inmates with batons, kicks and fists without provocation in abuse it said could amount to torture.
The war has driven around 80 percent of the Palestinians in Gaza from their homes and left a quarter of the population starving, according to UN officials.
[Image description: A quoted Tweet by Falia Hatuqa 🪬🤌 (@ FaliaHatuqa): “Children as young as 5 with sniper shots to the head. latimes.com/opinion/story/…” An attache dimage pf an article reads: “I stopped keeping track of how many new orphans I had operated on. After surgery they would be filed somewhere in the hospital, I’m unsure of who will take care of them or how they will survive. On one occasion, a handful of children, all about ages 5 to 8, were carried to the emergency room by their parents. All had single sniper shots to the head. These families were returning to their homes in Khan Yunis, about 2.5 miles away from the hospital, after Israeli tanks had withdrawn. But the snipers apparently stayed behind. None of these children survived.”
A quote retweet of the above tweet by Asa Winstanley (@ AsaWinstanley): “Isareli snipers shot children aged 5-8 in the head. Gaza is no longer juat a concentration camp; it’s a death camp. This is Nazi behavior.”
A quoted Tweet by Dan Sheehan (@ danpjsheehan) has an image from an article reading: “I listened to my patients as they whispered their stories to me, as I wheeled them into the operating room for surgery. The majority had been sleeping in their homes, when they were bombed. I couldn’t help thinking that the lucky ones died instantaneously, either by the force of the explosion or being buried in the rubble. The survivors faced hours of surgery and multiple trips to the operating room, all while mourning the loss of their children and spouses. Their bodies were filled with shrapnel that had to be surgically pulled out of their flesh, one piece at a time.
I stopped keeping track of how many new orphans I had operated on. After surgery they would be filed somewhere in the hospital, I’m unsure of who will take care of them or how they will survive. On one occasion, a handful of children, all about ages 5 to 8, were carried to the emergency room by their parents. All had single sniper shots to the head. These families were returning to their homes in Khan Yunis, about 2.5 miles away from the hospital, after Israeli tanks had withdrawn. But the snipers apparently stayed behind. None of these children survived.”
A quote retweet of the above by they/them might be giants ☭ [hammer & sickle symbol] (@ babadookspinoza): “Do people understand that snipers know exactly who they’re shooting and where? They are picking off children with headshots in front of their parents for sport, for sheer cruelty of it, and because children are the future of Palestine. A fascist army, a colonizer’s hatred.” End image description.]
Hussam spent the last few days sourcing food for everyone in the camp, and this is what he managed to find! All that’s left for him is to find cheese to add to the food packages, and after that he will be sending them out to everyone.
For those of you who have been following this, my tumblr ‘helpgazachildren’ was deleted for unknown reasons. In the meantime, I put together this notion site to help document all the receipts and videos of updates for people who want a backlog of information. I will be continuously updating this site.
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