An Israeli attack on Beit Lahiya, a town in northern Gaza, killed at least 73 Palestinians on Saturday evening, according to the enclave’s government media office.
More than 100 others were wounded and several people missing.
Israeli air strikes targeted a multi-floor building and damaged a number of nearby houses, medics in the Gaza Strip reported.
The government media office said that Israeli forces had bombed overcrowded residential areas in Beit Lahiya, adding that women and children were amongst the casualties.
Israeli murder of civlians is so normalized that its hardly even making the news anymore.
Part of the problem is that the images suck. Honestly. Here we see a bunch of body bags, we know literally nothing about who’s in them. But on Oct. 7 there were lots of images and video of what happened, with people’s faces visible.
The most effective thing that could be done to support Palestinians, infinitely more effective than spray painting neighborhoods and camping in public spaces, would be to give them cameras and a means of releasing video. As long as it’s just numbers, no one will care.
The thing is. There’s been loads of first hand evidence about the victims. You know the person who got burned in the hospital with IVs still attached to his hand? His name is Shaban al-Dalou. He’s a 19 year old aspiring software engineer who never got to finish his studies and work as an engineer because he was murdered.
There’s a lot of stories like this, if you just want to look. The western media fucking surpresses this stories because they don’t want us to humanize the Palestinians.
see War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine by Norman Solomon
I’ve lost faith at this point.
Canada’s Prime Minister just posted something about the October 7th incident like it’s the most horrible thing to happen in the Middle East, when there’s a literal Holocaust happening in all of Palestine.
It’s fucking tone deaf.
But he’s got the anti defamation league and B’nai B’rith breathing down his neck at the same time. So it doesn’t matter what we do or say or how much we write to them or protest, they still won’t fucking listen.
And somehow, the conservatives are high in the polls for the next election somehow.
It make zero sense.
Damn, Canadian politics sounds pretty bad too right now. Seems like Fascism is rising everywhere in the Western countries
Every action helps, the more public pressure the better
For my fellow Americans:
It makes a bit more sense when you remember countries like Canada, the UK and Germany are on America’s leash.
I don’t think its a good idea to compare it to the holocaust.
Genocide takes many different forms. Its still a genocide even if the people aren’t being exterminated by toxic gas and their remains burned in ovens.
Gaza is still a concentration camp even if they’re not wearing prison clothes and forced to work for the Israeli State.
Genocides take many different forms, but if you call this a Holocaust then you’re just falling into a Hasbara trap that’s very easy to prove you wrong.
Call it a genocide, not a Holocaust.
They’ve been systematically eliminating Gazans at this point. Concentrating them in camps and them bombing the camps. Setting fire to them with incendiary bombs. They’ve had snipers shoot children. They’ve been systematically and indiscriminately killing everyone. They’ve almost wiped out the entire population of Gaza.
What makes that different from a Holocaust?
According to History.com:
The Holocaust was the state-sponsored persecution and mass murder of millions of European Jews, Romani people, the intellectually disabled, political dissidents and homosexuals by the German Nazi regime between 1933 and 1945. The word “holocaust,” from the Greek words “holos” (whole) and “kaustos” (burned), was historically used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an altar.
After years of Nazi rule in Germany, dictator Adolf Hitler’s “Final Solution”—now known as the Holocaust—came to fruition during World War II, with mass killing centers in concentration camps. About six million Jews and some five million others, targeted for racial, political, ideological and behavioral reasons, died in the Holocaust—more than one million of those who perished were children.
What’s happening right now is no different from that. Anyone that’s Arab in the region has faced state-sponsered persecution and mass murder. Israel is burning everything down from Gaza to the West Bank to Lebanon and it’ll keep going beyond those borders into Syria and even Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
That’s their “final solution”. It’s to kill everyone in those region or get rid of them one way or another. They’re experimenting how far they can push the limits of their international support.
If you think I’m wrong, I’d like to hear your arguments.
What you’re describing is a genocide. Its a genocide that’s very different from the holocaust.
Gaza is still a concentration camp even if they’re not wearing prison clothes and forced to work for the Israeli State.
It’s not a concentration camp, it’s a hostile foreign territory that carries on launching hundreds of rockets into Israel.
Where is Netanyahu’s arrest warrant for fucks sake?
Doesn’t he literally have one from the ICC? And the US Govt sanctioned the ICC over it rather than help enforce it?
They opened the process up for “comments and objections”. Israels allies like Germany flooded the court with “comments and objections” that have to be worked through, before deciding on the warrant.
I don’t think Germans should be able to play the “hey listen to us we’re genocide experts” card at the UN.
Its super antisemitic of them to shout over the voices of Jews crying “never again” as they witness the genocide in Palestine unfold.
Germany once again is on the wrong side of history. There’s something rotten in the water in the Rhine.
Holy crap, you’re right
However the request for the warrants must yet be approved by ICC judges.
They really need to speed things up…
Plus that means the US sanctioned the ICC for just requesting an arrest warrant
Biden blocked it and told us it would interfere with his ceasefire deal that was just days away. But that was months ago and turns out to have been another lie.
They want to see if they can accidentally kill some Hamas leaders like last time
When capitalists develop the Gaza strip their sacrifice shall not be forgotten, just like in the US and Native Americans.
