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An Egypt firm is making $2m a day from Palestinians fleeing Israel's war on Gaza (Middle East Eye, 2024-05-01)

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypt-firm-palestinians-fleeing-war-gaza
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※Published 1 May 2024, somehow missed this and numerous other articles about the topic till now 😕

“Investigation by Middle East Eye reveals that a company owned by an ally of the Egyptian president may have earned at least $118m in three months”

“Hala Consulting and Tourism Services, a firm owned by Sinai tribal leader and business tycoon Ibrahim al-Organi, has been charging Palestinians crossing from Gaza's Rafah to Egypt at least $5,000 per adult and $2,500 for children under 16.

“It has a monopoly on providing transfer services at the Rafah crossing, the only #Gaza exit not bordered with Israel and the single route out of the coastal enclave for Palestinians…”

#ArabSolidarity
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WHO chief calls on Israel to stop attacking Gaza medical facilities : NPR (2024-12-31)

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/31/nx-s1-5242471/israel-gaza-ceasefire-health-crisis
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7 min. audio stream with a transcript.

“NPR's Leila Fadel spoke to [Dr. Tedros Adhanom] Ghebreyesus about escaping the airstrikes in #Yemen, his call for Israel to stop attacking Gaza's health facilities and the state of the strip overall.”

#WHO #TedrosAdhanomGhebreyesus
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By Mera Aladam
Published date: 30 December 2024 14:12 GMT

By Ahmed Aziz in Khan Younis, occupied Palestine and Mera Aladam
Published date: 31 December 2024 16:00 GMT

Peter Beaumont Tue 31 Dec 2024 10.39 EST

A Year in German Culture: Gaza and censorship. (Thomas Meaney | Sidecar, 2024-12-15)

https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/a-year-in-german-culture
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A good (and trist) collection of unbearable denialism among German public discourse about Palestine, throughout the year 2024.

[An excerpt, from 3 June]
"The images from Gaza are not real. So, in as many words, says Herta Müller in the FAZ. An expert on totalitarianism, having grown up in Communist Romania, she knows it when she sees it. ‘Hamas controls the selection of images and orchestrates our emotions’, she writes. ‘Our feelings are their strongest weapon against Israel’. In order to counteract this mass manipulation of feeling, she counsels keeping faith with the Israeli military forces, and renewed scepticism toward images of burning people, pulverized buildings, starving children, whether or not they are staged by Hamas’s Hollywood division..."

#Germany
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Palestinian MP calls on Israeli defence minister to release Dr Abu Safiya | Middle East Eye (2024-12-30)

https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-palestinian-mp-calls-israeli-defense-minister-release-dr-abu
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"Ahmad Tibi, a Palestinian member of the Knesset, asked Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz to visit Dr Hossam Abu Safiya, director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, reportedly detained in the Sde Teiman detention centre.

"He also called for Dr Abu Safiya’s release."

#FreeDrHussamAbuSafiya
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By Mark MazzettiSheera Frenkel and Ronen Bergman
Reporting from Tel Aviv and Jerusalem

Dec. 29, 2024

By Aryn Baker
Dec. 30, 2024 Updated 9:27 a.m. ET
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2024 Word of the Year: Genocide (as in, Gaza) (Juan Cole | Informed Comment, 2024-12-29)

https://www.juancole.com/2024/12/2024-word-genocide.html
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“… the most powerful man in the world, Joe Biden, insisted that what Israel is doing in Gaza is not genocide. In fact, most US politicians of both parties have either issued similar denials or have just been quiet on the issue.”

“If a country cavalierly throws aside this requirement [to minimize civilian casualties] and deliberately and consciously adopts rules of engagement allowing a hundred civilian casualties for each high-value militant killed, as both Israel’s +972 Mag and the New York Times* say Israel has done, that course of action could fall under the heading of genocide.”

*) NYT article (Gift link)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-gaza-bombing.html?unlocked%5C_article%5C_code=1.k04.k8y3.XYhYw9NpYRrn

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h/t https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/113740549724042314

Opinion | A consensus is emerging: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Where is the action? | Nesrine Malik (Guardian, 2024-12-23)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/23/israel-gaza-war-genocide-where-is-the-action
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“Despite the overwhelming evidence we see before us, still nothing changes. The war continues…”

“But the failure is not in the descriptions of what is happening in Gaza. The failure, as Lina Mounzer wrote, is ‘of the rotten substructure of the world within which this language is meant to function’. … Israel’s allies force an adaptation on to the world after which it simply becomes accepted that rights are not bestowed by humanity, but by the parties who decide who is human.”

“As the murder continues, what stops it from being a perfect crime is that people remain on the scene, loudly call it murder, point to the culprit, say the names of the dead, mourn them, hold vigils, and fiercely protect their rights for restitution.”

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#NameGenocideGenocide #NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine

GAZA....

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from #DropSiteNews [may be paywall, or request to sign up for free access]
Shuaib Almosawa
Dec 27, 2024

It's antisemitic to share and like this post.

#Israel went from blaming #Hamas for attacks against #hospitals into destroying every single one of them, torturing & murdering the #doctors & nurces, blowing up #ambulances & setting the hospitals on fire with total impunity.

But we who expose their crimes are being isolated, punished & attacked.

#Gaza #SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SaveTheChildren
#palestine #Politics #Genocide #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow
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["Humanitarian crisis"? Genocide is a more accurate description]

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[Bias alert - #NYT usually favors Israel]

By Aryn Baker and Abu Bakr Bashir
Dec. 28, 2024, 5:07 a.m. ET

Kaamil Ahmed
Sat 28 Dec 2024 02.33 EST

December 27, 2024

Award-winning Israeli journalist Gideon Levy [writes for Haaretz] decries the moral decay of Israel, which has gone so far as to open a luxurious rest area for soldiers in northern Gaza

By Ahmed Dremly in #Gaza, occupied #Palestine and Lubna Masarwa in Jerusalem
Published date: 27 December 2024 12:47 GMT