In a dilapidated warehouse in Rafah, Soha Abu Diab is living with her three young daughters and more than 20 other family members. They have no running water, no fuel and are surrounded by running sewage and waste piling up. Like the rest of Gaza’s residents, they fear the air they breathe is heavy with pollutants and that the water carries disease. Beyond the city streets lie razed orchards and olive groves, and farmland destroyed by bombs and bulldozers. “This life is not life,” says Abu Diab, who was displaced from Gaza City. “There is pollution everywhere – in the air, in the water we bathe in, in the water we drink, in the food we eat, in the area around us.” For her family and thousands of others, the human cost of Israel’s invasion of Gaza, launched after the Hamas attack on 7 October, is being compounded by an environmental crisis. The full extent of the damage in Gaza has not yet been documented, but analysis of satellite imagery provided to the Guardian shows the destruction of about 38-48% of tree cover and farmland. Olive groves and farms have been reduced to packed earth; soil and groundwater have been contaminated by munitions and toxins; the sea is choked with sewage and waste; the air polluted by smoke and particulate matter. Researchers and environmental organisations say the destruction will have enormous effects on Gaza’s ecosystems and biodiversity. The scale and potential long-term impact of the damage have led to calls for it to be regarded as “ecocide” and investigated as a possible war crime.

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Been saying since novermber that israel is new nazi germany

We will never forget.

All Eyes On Rafah 💔🇵🇸

The land is ours

With the eyes of the world directed at the carnage in Gaza strip, israeli settlers take the opportunity to violently expel communities en masse.

🩸 Hours after the Israeli Knesset approved the preliminary reading designating UNRWA as a “terrorist organization,” Israel slaughter more than 30 displaced Palestinians sheltering at a UNRWA center in Rafah.

🩸 The number is expected to rise dramatically with dozens of injured already reported.

please share this is important!!!

link to tweet: https://x.com/shimmeringolds/status/1726054168916304250?s=46&t=KZJMvptKg1sELtIK2ugHbg

[ID: tweet from @/shimmeringolds on november 18th, 2023 that reads: “You all please look at this!!!! On Monday the Israeli occupation parliament is presenting a law to kill 7000 Palestinians in illegal israeli occupation prisons!!! If it passes, it means that the Palestinians who are in those prisons will be killed as part of the zionist law!!!”

the tweet she is quoting is from @/QudsNen (Quds News Network) on november 18th, 2023 and that tweet reads: “The Extremist "Itamar Ben Gvir" Minister of National Security in the Israeli occupation government:

"On Monday, there will be the first reading of the death penalty law for Palestinian political prisoners, this law is presented by the

"Otzma Yehudit" party (led by the extremist Ben Gvir) this law will be discussed in the national security committee. He added, I expect all members of the Knesset (Israeli parliament) to support this important law"

The number of Palestinians in Israeli prisons has increased to 7000 prisoners, 64 of whom are women. And tens of children. #Palestine_Genocide” Below the text there is a photo of Itamar Ben Gvir. End ID.]

International Court of Justice (ICJ) judges have ordered Israel to halt its military assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah. After the ruling, Israel finance minister Bezalel Smotrich said those who demand that Israel stop the war are demanding that it should decide to cease to exist and Israel will not agree to that. The Palestinian Authority spokesperson said it welcomed the ICJ decision while Israeli and South African legal teams both declined to comment. Reading out a ruling by the ICJ, the body's president Nawaf Salam said provisional measures ordered by the court in March did not fully address the situation in the besieged Palestinian enclave now, and conditions had been met for a new emergency order. "Israel must immediately halt its military offensive" in Rafah, he said. The court backed a South African request to order Israel to halt its offensive in Rafah, a week after Pretoria called for the measure in a case accusing Israel of genocide.

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🇮🇱🇵🇸 BREAKING: ISRAELI MILITARY TELLS 1.1 MILLION GAZANS TO LEAVE IN THE NEXT 24 HOURS

The Israeli Military has told all 1.1 million Palestinians living North of Wadi Gaza they must relocate to Southern Gaza or face destruction and death.

The affected area includes densely populated and heavily damaged Gaza City.

Just before midnight, an Alert was sent by the Israeli Military and the United Nations was notified of the forced relocation of nearly half the Gaza strip.

"The United Nations considers it impossible for such a movement to take place without devastating humanitarian consequences," the UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said.

Egypt has already warned the UN that if a humanitarian corridor is opened, even the US refuses to guarantee Palestinians the right to return to Gaza.

This is now becoming the ethnic cleansing of Gaza

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@WorkerSolidarityNews

The Netzah Yehuda Battalion

Pictures taken and uploaded online by soldiers from the Netzah Yehuda Battalion of the Israeli occupation depict the abduction of Palestinians in the old city of Hebron, who are then humiliated by being paraded through the city stripped of their clothes.

The Netzah Yehuda Battalion, known for grave human rights abuses against Palestinians in the West Bank, saw its sanctions lifted by the Biden Administration under pressure from Netanyahu.

The administration withdrew sanctions against this battalion after the Israeli far right ministers threatened to impose further restrictions on Palestinians, including seizing Palestinian Authority funds.

Quds News Network

also remember that no form of resistance is ever acceptable to the colonizer. and that includes non-violent resistance (the great march of return) + non-violence is only successful against a force that has a conscience. but if your opponent had a conscience, he would not be oppressing you in the first place.

Palestinian families are desperate to escape the genocide in their country. Operation Olive Branch is a grassroots movement that aims to facilitate financial support for these families!!

If you cannot donate, please spread this so it can reach people who are able to donate.

OOB is also on tiktok, if you have an account you can follow them there as well and boost them & the Palestinian families looking for support!!

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FREE PALESTINE🍉

Stealing land by using terror

This is what is really happening daily in the West Bank.

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese

Injustice: Palestinian children’s experience of the Israeli military detention system