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I got out of Gaza. But I’m still trapped by the war
I left my family in Shuja’iya, crossed an Israeli army checkpoint, and spent weeks in a tent in Rafah in order to leave the Strip. The decision still haunts me.
By Mahmoud Mushtaha April 20, 2024
A sense of anxiety and anger crept into my heart when I left the Gaza Strip earlier this month. Even now, here in Cairo, my conscience still wrestles inside me: how could I leave my mother, father, and siblings amid such suffering? How could I leave them to bear the burden of war alone, while I flee to safety, trying to save myself from the shards of destruction?
It was a difficult decision to make, transcending the limits of pain and sorrow. I wasn’t just leaving behind a piece of land, but leaving behind my roots, my identity, and my loved ones. But in that moment of choice, the necessity of survival overcame everything else, even if it meant shedding parts of myself.
I worry that my decision could become a permanent burden on my soul if any harm were to come to my family while I am gone. But as I look back, I find myself still overwhelmed by the need for liberation, to rebuild myself, and to mend my psychological wounds. Perhaps my journey wasn’t just an attempt to escape, but a desperate attempt to fix what remains of me, to save what could be saved; my last chance to build a new life away from the sounds of war. I knew I wouldn’t be able to help those around me if I couldn’t help myself first.
Israel’s war on Gaza has lasted over six months, stealing our lives with every passing day. Six months of killing, hunger, fear, displacement, and homelessness. Six months that have stripped us of everything, and destroyed our future. War is mentally exhausting and physically draining. It is the worst thing in existence. A life in war is unlike any other life; you are internally shattered, yet you must hold yourself together, because it’s not the time to fall apart or wonder why it is all happening. You cannot allow the war to waste the sacrifices and efforts you made for years to build your future. The responsibilities we must carry are massive.
“One member of this family must survive after the war, so that our name doesn’t get wiped off the population registry,” my father said, hiding his tears, when I told him I was considering leaving Gaza. I suddenly wished I hadn’t said anything. I felt so selfish. I couldn’t finish the conversation, so I went outside to walk among the rubble of northern Gaza. My heart couldn’t bear to hear my family urging me to leave and save myself.
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‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local Call reveal.
By Yuval Abraham April 3, 2024
In 2021, a book titled “The Human-Machine Team: How to Create Synergy Between Human and Artificial Intelligence That Will Revolutionize Our World” was released in English under the pen name “Brigadier General Y.S.” In it, the author — a man who we confirmed to be the current commander of the elite Israeli intelligence unit 8200 — makes the case for designing a special machine that could rapidly process massive amounts of data to generate thousands of potential “targets” for military strikes in the heat of a war. Such technology, he writes, would resolve what he described as a “human bottleneck for both locating the new targets and decision-making to approve the targets.”
Such a machine, it turns out, actually exists. A new investigation by +972 Magazine and Local Call reveals that the Israeli army has developed an artificial intelligence-based program known as “Lavender,” unveiled here for the first time. According to six Israeli intelligence officers, who have all served in the army during the current war on the Gaza Strip and had first-hand involvement with the use of AI to generate targets for assassination, Lavender has played a central role in the unprecedented bombing of Palestinians, especially during the early stages of the war. In fact, according to the sources, its influence on the military’s operations was such that they essentially treated the outputs of the AI machine “as if it were a human decision.”
Formally, the Lavender system is designed to mark all suspected operatives in the military wings of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), including low-ranking ones, as potential bombing targets. The sources told +972 and Local Call that, during the first weeks of the war, the army almost completely relied on Lavender, which clocked as many as 37,000 Palestinians as suspected militants — and their homes — for possible air strikes.
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Israeli teen jailed for refusing draft: ‘I’m willing to pay a price for my principles’
Ben Arad, 18, is the third conscientious objector imprisoned since October 7. He tells +972 why Israel’s assault on Gaza propelled him into action.
By Oren Ziv April 5, 2024
“Since the war began, I understood that I have an obligation to make my voice heard, and to call for an end to the cycle of violence.” These were the words of Ben Arad, an 18-year-old Israeli conscientious objector, shortly before he reported to the Israeli army’s recruitment center near Tel Aviv on April 1 and declared his refusal to enlist in mandatory military service, in protest of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza and the long-standing occupation.
Arad is the third Israeli teenager to publicly refuse the draft for political reasons since October 7, and was tried and sentenced to an initial 20 days in military prison. He follows Tal Mitnick, who has served 105 days in prison across three sentences, and Sofia Orr, who has served 40 days in prison across two sentences — neither of whom have yet been exempted from military service, meaning they may still be sentenced to further stints in prison.
Born in Ramat Hasharon not far from Tel Aviv, Arad has spent the past few months volunteering at Kibbutz Mashabei Sadeh in the Negev/Naqab desert, where he worked with youth from the kibbutz and in schools in the nearby Bedouin village of Bir Hadaj. Like many other Israeli teens completing what is known as a “year of service” before the army this year, Arad was informed that the program had been cut short due to the war, and that he would therefore have to enlist in the army in April rather than December.
In an interview with +972 Magazine and Local Call prior to his sentencing, Arad explained that he never defined himself as an “activist” until now, and that watching Israel’s destruction of the Gaza Strip — which he described as “an unprecedented murder campaign not only against Hamas but against the entire Palestinian people” — convinced him of the need to refuse.
“The killing of civilians in Gaza, the hunger, the disease, the destruction of property, [in addition to] settlers’ crimes in the occupied territories — they all add fuel to the flame of hatred and terror,” he said. “Fighting will not bring back the hostages. It will not resurrect the dead. It will not liberate the Gazans from Hamas’ control, and it will not bring peace.”
The following interview has been edited for length and clarity.
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U.S. approved more bombs to Israel on day of World Central Kitchen strikes
The Biden administration signed off on thousands more bombs to Israel despite global condemnation of the IDF’s killing of seven World Central Kitchen employees
By John Hudson April 4, 2024 at 9:37 a.m. EDT
The Biden administration approved the transfer of thousands more bombs to Israel on the same day Israeli airstrikes in Gaza killed seven aid workers for the charity group World Central Kitchen, three U.S. officials told The Washington Post this week after the incident elicited global condemnation.
The transaction demonstrates the administration’s determination to continue its flow of lethal weaponry to Israel despite Monday’s high-profile killings and growing calls for the United States to condition such support on greater protection for civilians in the war zone. A U.S. citizen was among the dead.
The move also casts new light on the emotional statement by President Biden that he was “outraged and heartbroken” by the tragedy and was insistent that such events never happen again.
“They were providing food to hungry civilians in the middle of a war,” Biden said. “They were brave and selfless.”
The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
The Israeli government confirmed it carried out Monday’s strike but called it “unintentional,” saying the military would conduct a “transparent” investigation and make the results public.
The State Department approved the transfer of more than 1,000 MK82 500-pound bombs, over 1,000 small-diameter bombs, and fuses for MK80 bombs, all from authorizations granted by Congress several years before the latest hostilities between Israel and Hamas began, said the U.S. officials, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive arms deals.
A State Department spokesperson confirmed the approval and said it occurred sometime “prior” to when the Israeli aircraft struck the aid convoy.
The U.S. government has the authorityto suspend an arms package any time before delivery, which the spokesperson said probably would not occuruntil 2025 or later. It has not done so in this case.
When asked why the Biden administration did not at least pause the process afterthe incident or until the Israelis’investigation was completed, the spokesperson did not provide further comment.
Officials have not publicly disclosed what type of munition struck the aid truck, but the small-diameter bombs the United States has provided to Israel are “certainly comparable,” said Josh Paul, a former State Department arms expert who resigned in protest of the administration’s Gaza policy.
Biden, in his statement followingthe attack, offered his most pointed criticism to date of Israel’s treatment of humanitarian workers, who have died in greater numbers than in any other recent conflict.
“Israel has not done enough to protect aid workers trying to deliver desperately needed help to civilians. Incidents like yesterday’s simply should not happen,” Biden said.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the slain workers, who included individuals from Australia, Britain, the Palestinian territories, Poland, and a U.S.-Canadian dual national, were “heroes.”
“They have to be protected. We shouldn’t have a situation where people who are simply trying to help their fellow human beings are themselves at grave risk,” he said.
Some Democratic supporters of the Biden administration criticized such statements, saying they result in little change when U.S. actions convey unconditional support for Israel’s military campaign in Gaza.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/04/04/world-central-kitchen-us-weapons-israel/?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere&location=alert
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Five UN employees were intentionally killed by Israel moments ago.
@HossamShabat AM6:37 · 2024/4/2
Their nationalities ads Polish, Australian, Irish, and British. Maybe this will convince the world that Israeli forces are targeting everyone in Gaza.
https://x.com/HossamShabat/status/1774914084686680167?s=20
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Al-Shifa hospital
2024.4.1 / PN7:12
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https://x.com/HossamShabat/status/1774741588226273379?s=20
I have been working nonstop for the past 6 months covering what’s happening in Gaza, but what I saw today while visiting Al-Shifa hospital was unlike anything I’ve ever witnessed before : Israeli occupation forces executed 300 Palestinians in and around the hospital, and this morning, I witnessed hundreds of bodies outside the hospital , their wasn’t one full body all the bodies were either pieces or heavily mutilated . The bodies were in horrific conditions; many had their hands and legs tied behind their backs and were flattened by a bulldozer. Many of the bodies were burned and left to be crushed to pieces. Several bodies were decomposed and partly eaten by stray dogs. Most of the bodies were unrecognizable; families could only identify them by their clothes. Al-Shifa hospital was considered the largest medical complex in the Gaza Strip, catering to many complex cases. It has been completely destroyed; they burned it down and destroyed all medical equipment. Israeli occupation forces has one goal and it’s to destroy every inch of Gaza
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Israeli troops exit Gaza's Shifa Hospital, leaving rubble and bodies
By Dan Williams and Nidal Al-Mughrabi
April 1, 20249:59 PM GMT+9
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Israeli army leaves Gaza hospital after two-week raid
Hamas says Israel killed 400 Palestinians in and around Al Shifa
Israel says it killed and detained hundreds of gunmen
Displaced Palestinians comb rubble for belongings
JERUSALEM/CAIRO, April 1 (Reuters) - Israeli forces left Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Monday after a two-week operation, leaving a wasteland of destroyed buildings and Palestinian bodies scattered in the dirt.
Hundreds of people, including some who had been sheltering in the Gaza Strip's largest hospital prior to the Israeli incursion, rushed back to check damage and hunt for belongings.
The Israeli military said it had killed or detained hundreds of Hamas militants in the hospital area, seized weaponry and intelligence documents, lost two soldiers in fighting, but sought to prevent harm to civilians, patients or medics.
Hamas and medics deny any armed presence in hospitals.
The Hamas-run Gaza media office said Israeli forces killed 400 Palestinians around Al Shifa, including a woman doctor and her son, also a doctor, and put the medical facility out of function. There was no immediate Israeli response.
"The occupation destroyed and burnt all buildings inside Al Shifa Medical Complex. They bulldozed the courtyards, burying dozens of bodies of martyrs in the rubble, turning the place into a mass graveyard," said Ismail Al-Thawabta, director of the media office.
"This is a crime against humanity."
A spokesperson for Gaza's Civil Emergency Service said Israeli forces had executed two people whose bodies were found at the complex in handcuffs, and used bulldozers to dig up the grounds of the complex and exhume corpses.
Reuters could not verify the allegations and Israel's military did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
On previous occasions during the almost six-month-old war, Israeli forces have dug up bodies for forensic inspection, suspecting some might be those of hostages seized by Hamas during an Oct. 7 cross-border rampage that sparked the fighting.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-troops-leave-gazas-al-shifa-hospital-after-two-week-sweep-2024-04-01/
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Israeli Terrorists Scum Gang Rapes and Executes Palestinian Girls and Women
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U.S. signs off on more bombs, warplanes for Israel
Despite a widening rift with the Israeli government, the Biden administration continues to authorize the transfer of 2,000-pound bombs and other weapons
By John Hudson March 29, 2024 at 2:39 p.m. EDT
The Biden administration in recent days quietly authorized the transfer of billions of dollars in bombs and fighter jets to Israel despite Washington’s concerns about an anticipated military offensive in southern Gaza that could threaten the lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/03/29/us-weapons-israel-gaza-war/?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere&location=alert
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World Court orders Israel to halt Gaza famine; Hamas says ceasefire needed
By Stephanie van den Berg and Nidal Al-Mughrabi
March 29, 20243:01 PM GMT+9Updated 7 hours ago
Summary
Hamas welcomes World Court ruling
But it says Israel must be ordered to end Gaza offensive
Fighting rages around Gaza's Al Shifa Hospital
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/palestinian-fighters-battle-israeli-forces-around-gazas-al-shifa-hospital-2024-03-28/
THE HAGUE/CAIRO, March 28 (Reuters) - The World Court on Thursday unanimously ordered Israel, accused by South Africa of genocide in Gaza, to take all necessary and effective action to ensure basic food supplies to the enclave's Palestinian population and halt spreading famine.
But Gaza's Hamas rulers said a ceasefire was needed to halt the humanitarian crisis.
The order from the International Court of Justice came as Israeli forces and Palestinian fighters battled in close combat around Gaza's Al Shifa Hospital, where the armed wings of Hamas and Islamic Jihad said they attacked Israeli soldiers and tanks with rockets and mortar fire.
Judges at the court said the people in the coastal enclave face worsening conditions.
"The court observes that Palestinians in Gaza are no longer facing only a risk of famine (...) but that famine is setting in," the judges said in their order.
The new measures were requested by South Africa as part of its case that accuses Israel of state-led genocide in Gaza.
Senior Hamas official Basem Naim said the ruling did not go far enough and Israel must be ordered to end its military offensive to halt the suffering.
"We welcome any new demands to end this humanitarian tragedy in Gaza and especially in the northern Gaza Strip, but we hoped the court ordered a ceasefire as an absolute solution to all the miseries our people in Gaza are living through,” Naim told Reuters.
The U.N. Security Council voted on Tuesday to demand an immediate ceasefire and the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages. The United States abstained from, but did not veto, the vote.
There was no immediate comment from Israel's Foreign Ministry on the World Court ruling. Israel has said it is making efforts to expand access for humanitarian groups to Gaza overland, through air drops and by ship.
Israeli leaders have said Hamas can end the war by surrendering, freeing all hostages it holds in Gaza and handing over for trial those involved in the Oct. 7 attack.
The Israeli army said it continued to operate around the Al Shifa Hospital complex in Gaza City after storming it more than a week ago. Its forces had killed around 200 gunmen since the start of the operation "while preventing harm to civilians, patients, medical teams, and medical equipment", it said.
In a televised statement, chief Israeli military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said troops operating at the hospital killed Raed Thabet, a Hamas quartermaster whom he described as one of the group's 10 most senior members.
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Canada to suspend arms exports to Israel, government sources.
March 20, 2012 (AFP) - Canada is expected to halt arms exports to Israel, government sources in Canada told AFP on March 19.
Canada has only exported "non-lethal" equipment such as communications devices to Israel since the conflict began last October 7, when Hamas, the Islamic group that effectively controls the Gaza Strip, surprised Israel. According to government sources, no exports have actually taken place since January already.
According to Radio Canada, Israel has been Canada's top arms exporter so far, with C$26 million ($2.9 billion) worth of military goods exported to Israel in 2021 and C$21 million ($2.3 billion) in 2022.
In Canada this month, a coalition of Palestinian lawyers filed a lawsuit against the government, demanding a halt to arms exports to Israel. (c)AFP
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
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‘We scream, starve, and die alone’: Life in the ruins of Shuja’iya
Israel’s month-long invasion of the Gaza City neighborhood left behind a trail of devastation. Still under siege, its Palestinian residents are risking death to get their hands on a bag of flour.
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#Don’t Revoke the Permanent Residence Status
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The Japanese government is planning to submit a draft bill to amend the Immigration Control Act which would make it possible to revoke the residence status of “permanent residents” when they fail to pay taxes or social security fees, during the current session of the Diet.
For foreign residents who have established their lives in Japan a stable residence status is necessary to lead their lives feeling safe. Those with most other residence status may face the risk of not having their status renewed when their circumstances change; for those with status for employment in certain areas or for students, or for spouses when their spouse die or they are separated. That is why, for foreign residents who have established their lives in Japan, becoming “permanent residents” would create a stable basis for their lives.
Foreign residents who have gone through strict examinations to acquire permanent residence status are people who work and raise their children in Japan and made this country their final abode.
Such people should be treated on a similar basis as Japanese citizens to the maximum extent possible. It should be sufficient to respond to tax or social security payment arrears, or minor infringement of the law that do not amount to grounds for deportation with penalties such as reminders, seizures, administrative or criminal sanctions according to the law, just as with Japanese citizens. If foreign residents are subject to revocation of resident status despite having fully established their lives in Japan and were granted permanent resident status, it would amount to discrimination against foreign residents. Permanent residents, many of whom have already lost their former home to return to, should not be deprived of their residence status which form the basis of their lives. It goes without saying that to create a system requiring local government staff to report to the immigration office goes against the realization of an “inclusive society”.
The fact that revocation of permanent resident status is discussed at all would cause concern among foreign residents who have established themselves in the Japanese community that they may be expelled from the community any time, and deprives them of their dignity.
We strongly protest the introduction of the procedures for revocation of permanent resident status that would place foreign residents who have made this society their final abode, our neighbors, our colleagues and our friends under lifelong strict control and supervision, and make it possible to deprive the residence status of those who were granted the most stable residence status.
Solidarity Network with Migrants Japan（SMJ）
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Footage documenting the Israeli death-squad disguised as Palestinian civilians and medical personnel, which murdered three Palestinians inside Ibn Sina Hospital this morning in Jenin, north of the occupied West Bank.
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Anhar Saqr Al-Shanbari, a Palestinian child from Beit Hanoun, died of starvation due to the Israeli blockade of northern Gaza.
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It’s hard to see the images of starved children in Gaza and not think of the holocaust.
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More starvation-related deaths are reaching hospitals in northern Gaza. Dozens of victims buried without reaching hospitals as Israel continues its genocide under American and European cover. Death toll exceeded 40,000, with over 92% civilians.
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