Some truth and from a Tory!
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Lauren Kent, CNN
Sun, 7 April 2024 at 12:58 am AEDTĀ·4-min read
A doctor at a field hospital for detained Palestinians at Israelās Sde Teiman army base has described ādeplorable conditionsā and āroutineā amputations due to handcuff injuries, according to an exclusive report from the newspaper Haaretz.
In a letter to Israelās attorney general and defense and health ministers, obtained by Haaretz, the doctor said the conditions at Sde Teiman field hospital compromise inmatesā health and violate medical ethics.
āJust this week, two prisoners had their legs amputated due to handcuff injuries, which unfortunately is a routine event,ā the doctor said in the letter, according to the Haaretz report on Thursday. He wrote that inappropriate care at the detention facility has led to ācomplications and sometimes even in the patientās death,ā adding that āthis makes all of us ā the medical teams and you, those in charge of us in the health and defense ministries, complicit in the violation of Israeli law.ā
Haaretz reported that the doctor said āinmates are fed through straws, defecate in diapers and are held [in] constant restraints, which violate medical ethics and the law.
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Who supplies the most arms to Israel?
Italy 4.7 %
Germany 29.7 %
USA 65.6 %
Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been a vocal supporter of Israelās right to self-defence, but he has faced increasing domestic hostility to the continuation of arms sales to the country.
On Sunday, a group of civil servants wrote to the German leader calling on the government to ācease arms deliveries to the Israeli government with immediate effectā.
āIsrael is committing crimes in Gaza that are in clear contradiction to international law,ā the statement said, citing Januaryās ICJ ruling.
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UN says no actual increase in aid entering Gaza
The UNās agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, is disputing claims by Israel and the US that aid into Gaza has been significantly increased.
āThere has been no significant change in the volume of humanitarian supplies entering Gaza or improved access to the north,ā UNRWA says in its daily situation report.
UNRWA, the main UN agency in Gaza, says 223 trucks had entered on Monday, fewer than half the 500 trucks it says are required daily.
Israel says 468 aid trucks moved into Gaza on Tuesday and 419 on Monday . Some trucks went into Gaza via land crossings with Israel.
But the UN claims many of the trucks are only half full, inflating the Israeli count .
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https://thehill.com/policy/international/4587968-fbiden-official-famine-gaza-israel-hamas/
A senior Biden official said Wednesday that famine is underway in the Gaza Strip as Israel presses forward with its war against militant group Hamas.
Humanitarian aid groups have been warning for weeks that a famine is looming in Gaza amid a lack of food, water and other necessary goods. Samantha Power, the director of the U.S. Agency for International Development, said during a congressional testimony Wednesday that a famine has already begun.
Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) asked Power about news reports that said members of her agency sent a cable to the National Security Council that warned a famine was ongoing in Gaza. He asked her whether it was āplausible or likely that parts of Gaza and particularly northern Gaza are already experiencing famine.ā
Power pointed to an assessment from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification initiative in her response, noting that the agency believes that their assessment is ācredible.ā
āSo famine is already occurring there?ā Castro asked.
āThat is ā yes,ā Power told him.
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UK prime minister Rishi Sunak condemns Iranās āreckless attackā on Israel
Rishi Sunak, the British prime minister, has condemned Iranās attack on X and reiterated the UKās continued support for Israelās security.
I condemn in the strongest terms the Iranian regimeās reckless attack against Israel.
Iran has once again demonstrated that it is intent on sowing chaos in its own back yard.
Did he condemn Israel bombing an embassy, killing 16 people?
And is Israel the only country allowed to defend itself ???
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Germany involved in another genocide.
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A recent United Nations report noted that the policies of Israelās government, which is the most right wing in the countryās history and includes religious nationalists with close ties to settlers, appeared aligned with the goals of the Israeli settler movement to an āunprecedented extentā.
Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories had expanded by a record amount and risked eliminating any practical possibility of a Palestinian state, the UN report said.
About 40% of Jerusalemās population of roughly 1 million are Palestinian. Maintaining a Jewish majority in the city has been an aim of successive Israeli government
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Israel showing they can be just as barbaric as Hamas.
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Recent escalations make it even more important to support good-faith efforts to find lasting peace between Israel and a fully independent, viable and sovereign Palestinian state," AntĆ³nio Guterres, the UN secretary general, told the council.
āFailure to make progress towards a two-state solution will only increase volatility and risk for hundreds of millions of people across the region, who will continue to live under the constant threat of violence,ā he said.
Guterres also said that Israelās commitment to improving aid access to the Gaza Strip has had limited or no impact .
āApparent progress in one area is often cancelled out by delays and restrictions elsewhere,ā the secretary general said.
āFor example, although the Israeli authorities have cleared more aid convoys, those clearances are often granted when it is too late in the day to make deliveries and return safely ,ā he explained. "So the impact is limited, and sometimes nil .
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More than any other countries, the U.S. and U.K. have wrecked the Middle East through their non-stop meddling and imperial arrogance. This week they had the chance to make some amends.
A total of 139 countries already recognize the State of Palestine, more than two-thirds of the U.N. member states. Several European states will soon join the list. Yet the U.S. has so far blocked Palestineās membership in the U.N., with the U.K. always sticking close to the U.S. lead. Both have relentlessly backed Israelās apartheid rule over Palestine and are currently actively backing [Israel] in its horrific destruction of [Gaza]
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Earlier, the Axios news site said the US would target Israelās Netzah Yehuda battalion over alleged human rights violations in the occupied West Bank.
All the alleged violations took place before the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip.
How interesting is that!
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āIn the hospital courtyard, civil defence members and paramedics have retrieved 180 bodies buried in this mass grave by the Israeli military. The bodies include elderly women, children and young men,ā Al Jazeeraās Hani Mahmoud reporting from Khan Younis said on Sunday.
Earlier this week, a mass grave was discovered at al-Shifa Hospital following a two-week siege. It was one of several mass graves found at al-Shifa ā the largest medical facility in the coastal enclave.
Israelās war on Gaza has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians, according to local health officials, devastated Gazaās two largest cities and left a swath of destruction across the territory.
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This story was told before.
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Families in the Gaza Strip have resorted to creating random mass graves in residential neighbourhoods, courtyards, roads, wedding halls, and stadiums. More than 120 of these mass graves have been established so far.
From relief aid organization
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