Israeli Occupation Forces cheer as a Palestinian neighborhood is destroyed to make room for a so-called “buffer zone” that will permanently displace Gazans from their homes, and make room for more illegal Israeli settlements.

Whether it’s euphemistically called a “buffer zone” or a “purification” process, please understand that Israel is illegally displacing Palestinian families from their homes. Temporary buffer zones will eventually become permanent Israeli settlements. This is land theft, plain and simple. This is what settler violence + settler colonialism looks like.

If indiscriminately killing civilians and intentionally destroying the homes of noncombatant civilians isn’t a war crime, it should be. Regardless, Israel needs to stop, or needs to be stopped.

"A few hours ago, an Israeli drone fired a missle at a group of children in a playground. 11 children were killed. Who is still defending this barbarism? Who strikes a playground filled with children?! ISRAEL."

This took place in Maghazi refugee camp. A very densely populated are.

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"Hace unas horas, un dron israelí disparó un misil contra un grupo de niños en un parque. 11 niños murieron ¿Quién sigue defendiendo esta barbarie? ¿Quién ataca un parque lleno de niños? ¡ISRAEL! "

Esto ocurrió en el campo de refugiados de Maghazi Un área muy densamente poblada

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Maghazi Massacre: Israel Kills Over 100 Civilians in Christmas Eve Bombing of Gaza

This morning in Motaz's stories he said the IOF have killed all the journalists who had drones so they are no longer able to show the massive scale of destruction as easily as they did before. I don't believe this is accidental especially after watching the day IOF hacked Motaz's drone and took it. Just another fowl attempt to hide the truth from the world.

A few screenshots from his stories today:

If what we can see is already bad, can you imagine what new aerial shots would show? Can you imagine how much we aren't seeing thanks to the continued disruption to internet connection?

Mohammed Alaloul lost 4 of his children in an air strike on al-Maghazi refugee camp. One survived, his wife is in critical condition.

This is the reality of everyone on the ground in Gaza working to get information to us, to let us know what's happening. They can't even grieve properly, they have a job to do.

They deserve the utmost respect.

Here is the video, it features other press members speaking on the dangers:

The Palestinian health ministry announced in a statement early on Thursday that Israeli forces killed at least 62 Palestinians and wounded 91 in the last 24 hours. The ministry said during this time that Israeli forces committed six massacres across the Gaza Strip. In Gaza City, Israeli bombings targeted two family houses in the vicinity of al-Shifa Hospital, killing 28 Palestinians. In the Shujaiyah neighborhood, east of Gaza, Israeli bombings killed three Palestinians. In the al-Zaitoun neighborhood in Gaza City, Israeli strikes on aid distribution volunteers killed four Palestinians, while eight aid truck drivers were killed by Israeli bombings while attempting to reach northern Gaza. In the central Gaza Strip, Israeli bombings killed five Palestinians in the Nuseirat refugee camp and two more in the neighboring al-Maghazi refugee camp. More Israeli strikes killed a woman and her daughter in the town of al-Zawaideh. In the southern Gaza Strip, Israeli bombings killed 15 Palestinians in two airstrikes on Rafah, while four [other] Palestinians were killed in a strike on a greenhouse near an encampment of displaced families.

-- From "‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 174" by Qassam Muaddi for Mondoweiss, 28 Mar 2024

Israeli Strike on Refaat al-Areer Apparently Deliberate

The Israeli airstrike that killed Prof. Refaat al-Areer was apparently deliberate, Euro-Med Monitor concluded on Friday. The apartment where Refaat and his family were sheltering was surgically bombed out of the entire building where it’s located, according to corroborated eyewitness and family accounts. This came after weeks of death threats that Refaat received online and by phone from Israeli accounts. We call for an immediate investigation into this apparently deliberate and targeted killing of a prominent Palestinian academic, writer, poet, and activist. On Wednesday at around 18:00, Refaat al-Areer was killed in his sister’s home in al-Sidra neighborhood in al-Daraj area in Gaza city along with his brother Salah and one of his children (Mohammed); his sister Asmaa and three of her children (Alaa, Yahia, and Mohammed); and a neighbor. His brother’s wife, Alaa, and two other children, Rafik and Alma, were wounded in the assault. The airstrike surgically targeted the apartment on the second floor where Rafaat was in a 3-storey building, and not the entire building; indicating the apartment was the target and not possible collateral damage. Refaat was displaced multiple times during this war and ended up at his sister’s home along with his parents, wife and children. A few days ago, Refaat moved with his wife and children to an UNRWA school in al-Tufah neighborhood in Gaza according to his family. However, a close friend of Refaat’s told Euro-Med Monitor that he had received an anonymous phone call from someone who identified himself as an Israeli officer and threatened Refaat that they knew precisely the school where he was located and were about to get to his location with the advancement of Israeli ground troops. While the credibility of the threat itself is unclear, it contributed to prompting Refaat to move back to his sister’s apartment, believing it was more concealed than an open and overcrowded school where it would have been difficult to hide. For weeks since the start of this war, Refaat has been receiving numerous death threats and hateful messages from Israeli accounts on social media after prominent public figures singled him out for harassment and incitement. In 2014, Israel bombed Refaat’s home in Shejaiya and killed over 30 of his and his wife’s families.

"Since the morning the Israeli tanks are stationed near the entrance of Al Maghazi Refugee Camp. Civilians are being killed by Israeli snipers. No one can reach them."

Hind continues on her post: "The main highway, Salah el Din Road, has been blockaded by Israeli forces. Witnesses report instances of people being killed on the street, and the accessibility for ambulances to reach the area is severely restricted. Snipers are stationed along the Salah Al Din Road" [@/ Hind_Gaza on X. 01/04/24.]

Remember when they told Palestinians in Gaza to evacuate and live in tents? Yeah well they just bombed a family LIVING IN A TENT and killed 10 children. The father: “my children died cold.” [@/ hebh_jamal on X. 01/04/24.]

Maghazi Refugee Camp |

Israeli military has besieged Maghazi Refugee Camp in Central Gaza from all directions and imposed a crown on the refugee camp.

The main road connecting areas of Central Gaza from each other was also cut off by Israeli tanks. [@/ ytirawi on X. 01/04/24.]

Breaking | The spokesperson for the Ministry of Health in Gaza reported that, in the past 24 hours, Israeli forces committed 13 massacres, resulting in killing 125 and 318 injuries. [@/ QudsNen on X. 01/04/24.]

[ 📹 Israeli occupation airstrikes targeted Khan Yunis, in the south of Gaza, leaving several casualties among paramedics and civil defense teams. The Palestinian Red Crescent says occupation forces continue to target ambulance and civil defense crews in the latest of Israel's crimes.]

🇮🇱⚔️🇵🇸 🚨 💥PARAMEDICS AND JOURNALISTS TARGETED ON 97TH DAY OF ISRAELI GENOCIDE💥

Israeli Occupation Forces ramped up their bombing and shelling of the Gaza Strip Thursday, killing dozens and targeting journalists and paramedics on the 97th day of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians.

In the south of the Gaza Strip, six Palestinian civilians were killed and many more wounded east of Khan Yunis, as a result of bombing raids by Israeli jets.

Also in the South of Gaza, occupation aircraft bombarded the home of the Bassam Abu Namous family on al-Samasma Street, west of Khan Yunis, killing seven civilians and wounding 25 others.

Occupation helicopters also fired sporadically into Khan Yunis, killing 19 over the previous day, due to Israeli bombardment.

IOF soldiers also continue to bomb and shell various residential homes in the Qaizan al-Najjar neighborhood in the south of Khan Yunis.

In Gaza City, IOF warplanes targeted the home of journalist Mohammed al-Thalathiini, killing the reporter and bringing the death toll among journalists in Israel's genocide to 112 since October 7th.

Israeli forces also targeted the al-Bureij, al-Maghazi, al-Nuseirat and the al-Mughraqa Camps area in central Gaza with heavy artillery fire and bombing raids.

In addition to these crimes, a Palestinian youth was seriously wounded as a result of targeting by an Israeli missile fired from a drone on al-Bahr Street in Rafah, southern Gaza.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the north of Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, the Abu Hatab family home was targeted by the Israeli occupation, killing six and wounding several others.

A multitude of wounded Palestinian civilians were also rushed to al-Shifa Medical Complex in the west of Gaza City, with three citizens killed from the Machi family, in the vicinity of the now defunct and destroyed Gaza International Airport that once existed in the enclave's capital.

In central Gaza, six Palestinians, including four from ambulance crews, were slaughtered when occupation jets targeted and bombed an ambulance on Salah al-Din Street, adjacent to the al-Maghazi Refugee Camp.

According to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), the Israeli occupation "deliberately targets" its ambulance crews, even when coordinating with International partners, with the PRCS warning against the targeting of the few remaining medical centers in the area.

A Palestinian residential home was also targeted near the entrance to al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the Deir al-Balah area, resulting in the deaths of 12 civilians including journalist Ahmed Badir.

While in central Gaza, in the al-Maghazi Refugee Camp area, at least 17 civilians were murdered in strikes by occupation munitions, while Israeli forces also heavily bombed and shelled the al-Bureij and Nuseirat Camp residential areas.

In addition, Wafaa al-Bass, a recently freed prisoner held by the occupation, was killed in her home in the north of the Gaza Strip.

Since the beginning of Israel's genocide of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip began on October 7th, 2023, in excess of 23'357 Palestinians have been killed, with an additional 59'410 wounded in Israeli war crimes.

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House Resolution 883 formally condemns the phrase, “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free” as antisemitic hate speech—but in reality it is the preface for governmental censorship (sponsored by a foreign government via AIPAC) that unconstitutionally bans freedom of speech and freedom of expression.

As israel has already murdered more than 33,000 noncombatant civilians in Palestine and is currently committing war crimes like bombing hospitals, mosques, churches, schools and even children’s playgrounds, something tells me that there won’t be a similar condemnation of rampant Islamophobia.

Sunday, Dec. 25, 2023 — Another day, another horrific massacre of innocent Palestinians by Israel. The US and the international community must force Israel to STOP the carnage, STOP the war crimes, STOP the depravity.

The world continues to watch as the rogue state of Israel inflicts unthinkable crimes against humanity. The complicity is sickening, the inaction despicable. Palestinians deserve better, we've failed them.

At least 70 killed in Israeli strike on refugee camp in central Gaza, health ministry says — (Source: The Guardian) Guardian staff and agencies | Sun 24 Dec 2023 18.04 EST

An Israeli airstrike on a refugee camp in central Gaza has killed at least 70 people, Palestinian health officials have said as they warned the toll was likely to rise and the strikes that began hours before midnight continued into Christmas Day. The Palestinian health ministry spokesperson, Ashraf al-Qidra, said the death toll was likely to climb. “What is happening at the Maghazi camp is a massacre that is being committed on a crowded residential square,” he told Reuters.

Israel strikes 2 homes, killing more than 90 Palestinians. Biden says he didn’t request a cease-fire — (Source: Associated Press) BY NAJIB JOBAIN AND SAMY MAGDY | Updated 4:12 PM EST, December 23, 2023

U.S. President Joe Biden spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday, calling it a long and private conversation a day after the Biden administration again shielded Israel in the diplomatic arena. On Friday, the U.N. Security Council adopted a watered-down resolution that calls for immediately speeding up aid deliveries to desperate civilians in Gaza, but not for a cease-fire. “I did not ask for a cease-fire,” Biden said of the call. Netanyahu’s office said the prime minister “made clear that Israel would continue the war until achieving all its goals.”

Netanyahu vows to fight on in Gaza; Islamic Jihad joins Cairo talks — (Source: Reuters) By Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Dan Williams | December 24, 2023 2:58 PM EST

CAIRO/JERUSALEM, Dec 24 (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday to fight deeper into Gaza after his troops endured one of the worst days of losses of their ground war, while militant group Islamic Jihad joined talks in Cairo, a sign diplomacy was still alive. ... The militant groups have so far said they will not discuss any release of hostages unless Israel ends its war in Gaza, while the Israelis say they are willing to discuss only a temporary pause in fighting.

DON'T LOOK AWAY. KEEP UP PUBLIC PRESSURE. PUSH FOR PEACE.

...yes... you read that right. a fucking playground.

reported by Al Jazeera, from Call 2 Action Now, 16/Apr/2024: caption under image

At least twenty Palestinians, including children, died in Israeli strikes in central Gaza. Witnesses say a group of children were playing near the Maghazi Nuseirat refugee camp when the attack happened.

The camp is densely populated and has become even more congested after thousands of families were forced to flee their homes in Gaza’s north after Israel began its assault on the enclave.

Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Rafah, said the attack on Maghazi took place during “rush hour”. He said the attack hit a playground that is frequently visited by displaced children.

“Dozens” of wounded people have been transported to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital, Mahmoud said.

This is the true face of the Occupied State of Palestine (OSP), deranged, murderers!

Keep the pressure on and do not stop until we see an immediate, permanent ceasefire!

Apartheid terrorists at it again.

Israeli forces on Tuesday expanded their ground offensive into urban refugee camps in central Gaza after bombarding the crowded Palestinian communities and ordering residents to evacuate.[...]

Israel’s offensive is one of the most devastating military campaigns in recent history. [...]

Residents of central Gaza described shelling and airstrikes shaking the Nuseirat, Maghazi and Bureij camps. The built-up towns hold Palestinians driven from their homes in what is now Israel during the 1948 war, along with their descendants. “The bombing was very intense,” Radwan Abu Sheitta said by phone from Bureij. The Israeli military ordered residents to evacuate a belt of territory the width of central Gaza, urging them to move to nearby Deir al-Balah. The U.N. humanitarian office said the area ordered evacuated was home to nearly 90,000 people before the war and now shelters more than 61,000 displaced people, mostly from the north.

The military later said it was operating in Bureij and asserted that it had located a Hamas training camp.[...]

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Israel faces a “multi-arena war” on seven fronts — Gaza and the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Iran. “We have responded and acted already on six of these,” he told the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.[...]

More than 85% of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have been driven from their homes. U.N. officials say a quarter of the territory’s population is starving under Israel’s siege[...]

In an area Israel had declared a safe zone, a strike hit a home in Mawasi, a rural area in the southern province of Khan Younis. One woman was killed and at least eight were wounded, according to a cameraman working for The Associated Press at the nearby hospital. In response, Israel’s military said that it wouldn’t refrain from operating in safe zones, “if it identifies terrorist organization activity threatening the security of Israel.”

26 Dec 23

مجزرة بحق الأطفال الفلسطينيين في مخيم المغازي للاجئين جراء الغارات الجوية الإسرائيلية بالاسلحة الأمريكية .

A massacre against Palestinian children in the Maghazi refugee camp as a result of Israeli air strikes using American weapons .

BREAKING: Israel commits a Christmas Eve massacre, murdering over 80 civilians in one strike. Body parts of men, women, children & babies scattered everywhere in Maghazi refugee camp. #Gaza_Genocide [@/ falasteen47 on X. 12/24/23.]

Funeral prayer for more than 70 Palestinians who were killed in an Israeli massacre, in which Israeli killed women and children on Christmas Eve, heavily striking Al Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza. [@/ QudsNen on X. 12/24/23.]