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Monday, February 12, 2024

Israel Ignores Biden And Continues Its War Crimes!

Israel continues its war crimes despite warnings from the U.S., Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

The only way and I mean the only way to end this is the U.S., Great Britain, India, Canada, Australia and Japan formally denounce Israel and stop giving military and financial aid to the regime.

Boycotts work.

It changed South Africa. It forced the country to abandon apartheid.

South Africa's apartheid was a bloody conflict between the majority Black population and the minority white population where they held ruling powers. The U.S., Great Britain, West Germany, Italy, France, Canada and Israel backed South Africa until pressure drove them against the country.

Now the world is calling for Israel to be held accountable for its actions. More and more people are no longer viewing Hamas as the aggressor. Many are seeing these atrocities committed by Israel on TikTok, X and YouTube.

Israel has tried to control the narrative by claiming that they rescued hostages from Rafah, the last place Israel is carrying out its airstrikes.

Hamas does not have an air force, a navy, an army or a strike team. All they have is a handful of weapons, guerrilla warfare and no choice but to fight. After all, many of these Hamas members are probably teens and young adults who lost family members to Israel's decades long violent occupation.

The junk food media fails to hold Israel accountable. The AP wrote their piece and it doesn't give the perspective of Israel being responsible for the forced removal, the inconsistency in how they are conducting their attacks and the failures to see that Israel has been the aggressor since its founding in 1948.

Israel has been clear since Feb. 2023. They are pushing Palestinians intentionally.

Israeli airstrikes killed at least hundreds of Palestinians — including more children — in Rafah, hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he asked the military to plan for the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people ahead of an invasion. He gave no details or timeline.

The announcement set off panic. More than half of Gaza’s 2.3 million people were forced  into Rafah, which borders Egypt. Many fled there after following Israeli forced removal that now cover two-thirds of the territory following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack that sparked the war. It’s not clear where they could go next.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said any Israeli ground offensive on Rafah would have “disastrous consequences,” and asserted that Israel aims to eventually force the Palestinians out of their homeland. Egypt has warned that any forced removal of Palestinians into Egypt would threaten the four-decade-old peace treaty between Israel and Egypt.

The announcement set off panic. More than half of Gaza’s 2.3 million people are packed into Rafah, which borders Egypt. Many fled there after following Israeli evacuation orders that now cover two-thirds of the territory following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack that sparked the war. It’s not clear where they could go next.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said any Israeli ground offensive on Rafah would have “disastrous consequences,” and asserted that Israel aims to eventually force the Palestinians out of their land. Egypt has warned that any movement of Palestinians into Egypt would threaten the four-decade-old peace treaty between Israel and Egypt.

Another mediator, Qatar, also warned of disaster, and Saudi Arabia warned of “very serious repercussions.” There’s even increasing friction between Netanyahu and the United States, whose officials have said a Rafah invasion with no plan for civilians there would lead to disaster.

“The people in Gaza cannot disappear into thin air,” German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on X, adding that an Israeli offensive on Rafah would be a “humanitarian catastrophe in the making.”

Netanyahu has previously said it is impossible to eliminate Hamas while leaving four Hamas battalions in Rafah.

Despite the wave of criticism, he said he was determined to go ahead.

Israel claims Hamas is hiding in tents.

“Those who say that under no circumstances should we enter Rafah are basically saying lose the war, keep Hamas there,” he told ABC News “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” in comments that aired Saturday.

When asked where the civilians should go, Netanyahu said: “You know, the areas that we’ve cleared north of Rafah, plenty of areas there. But we are working out a detailed plan to do so.”

Israel has carried out almost daily airstrikes in Rafah, a rare entry point for Gaza’s badly needed food and medical supplies, during its current ground combat in Khan Younis just to the north.

Overnight into Saturday, three airstrikes on homes in the Rafah area killed 28 people, according to a health official and Associated Press journalists who saw bodies arriving at hospitals. Each strike killed multiple members of a family, including a total of 10 children, the youngest 3 months old.

Fadel al-Ghannam said one strike tore his loved ones to shreds. He lost his son, daughter-in-law and four grandchildren. He fears even worse with a ground invasion of Rafah, and said the world’s silence has enabled Israel to proceed.

Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, president of Egypt said Israel will no longer be accepted as an ally if they force Gazans and West Bank Palestinians out.

Later on Saturday, an Israeli airstrike on a home in Rafah killed at least 11 people, including three children, according to Ahmed al-Soufi, head of Rafah municipality.

“This is what Netanyahu targets — the civilians,” said a neighbor, Samir Abu Loulya. Two other strikes in Rafah killed two policemen and three senior officers in the civil police, according to city officials.

In Khan Younis, Israeli forces opened fire at Nasser Hospital, the area’s largest, killing at least two people and wounding five, according to the medical charity Doctors Without Borders. Israeli tanks reached the hospital gates Saturday morning, Ahmed Maghrabi, a physician there, said in a Facebook post.

Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said hospital staff are no longer able to move between buildings because of the intense fire. He said 450 patients and 10,000 displaced people are sheltering there.

The Israeli military said troops were not operating inside the hospital but called the surrounding area “an active combat zone.”

Israel’s army chief, Lt. Gen. Herzl Halevi, said more than 2,000 Hamas fighters in Khan Younis had been killed in airstrikes and ground combat, but the offensive in the city was far from over.

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