The Israeli army is just shooting anyone they think is Palestinian, much the same way that Israel is indiscriminately bombing all of Gaza, including the “safe zones” where they have directed noncombatant civilians to go right before they bomb them anyway. It’s war crimes, plain and simple.

Found in Gaza...

After the ICJs ruling on provisional measures, the headline you would have expected is that western countries ceased funding and arming Israel.

Instead, they are pausing funding for a UN agency for Palestinian refugees, when there are almost 2 million of them in Gaza who are in dire need of humanitarian assistance as acknowledged by the ICJ itself!!!

All because of Israel allegations that 12 out of 13,000 of the agencies employees MAY have been involved in Oct 7th.

Even IF this were true, this amounts to #collectivepunishment of Palestinians in Gaza and failure to abide by state’s obligations to prevent acts of genocide.

Please consider donating directly to unrwa so they can continue their life-saving work. You can find the donation link in their instagram account or webpage.

Please also make your voice heard; demand your government resumes\continues funding unrwa and don’t stop speaking up for Palestine.

In our thousands, in our millions we are all Palestinians!! 🇵🇸❤️🍉

Please donate to UNRWA!!

“In the days following the ICJ's decision, the US, Canada, UK, and at least 7 other countries have cut over $662 million in annual funding to UNRWA. The cuts to UNRWA's funding, which constitute the overwhelming majority of its current budget, are an impending catastrophe for more than 6 million Palestinians residing in 60 refugee camps in Occupied Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria.

UNRWA, or the United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East, was created in 1949 as a response to the 'Nakba' or catastrophe of 1948, to provide relief and support human development for Palestinian refugees exiled in 1948 and later years, along with their descendants.

The decision to defund UNRWA a day after the ICJ's decision to grant the majority of provisional measures requested by South Africa is not coincidental. Imperialist powers are seeking to offset the international developments around the ICJ ruling, and prevent aid from entering Palestine.”

- Palestinian Youth Movement

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This is what zionists swore up and down MLK would support. My God!

Israeli troops fired on a large crowd of Palestinians racing to pull food off an aid convoy in Gaza City on Thursday, witnesses said. More than 100 people were killed in the chaos, which has since been termed the "flour massacre."

This brutal attack has rightly drawn condemnation from many quarters, including from protestors in Tel Aviv, who held up flour bags with red paint on them in protest against the massacre.

(Edited to remove a couple lines that expressed a conclusion I'd jumped to too hastily, which has since been corrected.)

We said it was lies. We said this was strategically done to continue to collectively punish Palestinian people, and instead of investigating properly (which I'm sure the US government wasn't planning to do in the first place), you're trusting the IOF who has been committing war crimes...

This is laughable to me because what credibility? Ya'll exist in echo chambers together. You just 'trust' they're not lying? Do you have any idea what kind of damage this has done irreparably so because mainstream news outlets have taken this and run with it to the point where now people are saying there are terrorists in UNRWA. But as I have said before -even if there were people involved in any attacks, that doesn't give you the right to cut funding to an organization that is helping innocent populations of people from disaster and crisis.

Anytime 'Israeli intelligence' discovers something we know to be wary about it because the zionist entity is filled with genocidal monsters, and now we just have to let this one go? This is beyond injustice.

The IOF has not and will never be credible.

Settlements and annexation are illegal under international and human rights law.

Apartheid is illegal under international and human rights law.

Collective punishment is illegal under international and human rights law.

The use of excessive force is illegal under international and human rights law.

Ethnic cleansing is illegal under international and human rights law.

Genocide is illegal under international and human rights law.

Withholding food, water, electricity and essential medical aid is illegal under international and human rights law.

Palestinans have the right to armed struggle and self-determination. Resistance is not terrorism. Colonisation is.

I just made a donation to UNRWA, the largest organization providing relief efforts in Gaza. As the Zionist governments of several Western countries, including the United States, have pulled funding and chosen to make themselves complicit in the genocidal action of collective punishment, it's important to show our solidarity with the people of Palestine and give what we can to help fill the funding gap.

BREAKING NEWS: The International Court of Justice finds that there is sufficient basis for South Africa’s case against Israel and will not dismiss the case as Israel requested.

This is truly an historic moment.

Very well done, South Africa 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

UNRWA funding cut is collective punishment for yet another story that keeps on changing.

Here we go, again, the same scenario of changing stories, just to finally find out it another Israeli lie.

One quarter of Gaza's people one step away from famine, UN says

"At least 576,000 people in the Gaza Strip - one quarter of the population - are one step away from famine, a senior U.N. aid official told the Security Council on Tuesday, warning that widespread famine could be "almost inevitable" without action.

"Very little will be possible while hostilities continue and while there is a risk that they will spread into the overcrowded areas in the south of Gaza. We therefore reiterate our call for a ceasefire," said Ramesh Rajasingham, coordination director of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs."

Is mass punishment against the Geneva Convention?

"No protected person may be punished for an offence he or she has not personally committed. Collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited. Pillage is prohibited. Reprisals against protected persons and their property are prohibited."

The Geneva Convention on Collective Punishment

Doctors Without Borders: US plan for temporary pier in Gaza a "glaring distraction"

"The US should insist on immediate humanitarian access using existing roads and entry points.

The US plan for a temporary pier in Gaza to increase the flow of humanitarian aid is a glaring distraction from the real problem: Israel’s indiscriminate and disproportionate military campaign and punishing siege. The food, water, and medical supplies so desperately needed by people in Gaza are sitting just across the border. Israel needs to facilitate rather than block the flow of supplies. This is not a logistics problem; it is a political problem. Rather than look to the US military to build a work-around, the US should insist on immediate humanitarian access using the roads and entry points that already exist.   In the past months, the US has vetoed three UN Security Council resolutions calling for a ceasefire—which is the only way to ensure a real scale up in emergency assistance. We reiterate our call for an immediate and sustained ceasefire to stop the killing of thousands more civilians and allow for the delivery of desperately needed humanitarian aid."

Try looking up the phrase "israel hinders aid to gaza", and you'll find multiple sources describing multiple ways in which the Israeli authorities are actively hindering the flow of aid to the millions of people they're starving - as they have been since long before Oct. 7.

At this point, I just assume that pretty much any excuse, accusation, or statement of good intentions Israel's army or government makes is a lie until proven otherwise. They've worked hard to earn my skepticism.

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