Israel habitually confiscates medical equipment entering Gaza

[iemanja]

Not vaccines, not stethoscopes, not medicine, particularly equipment to treat children. Their goal is to murder everyone. There is no other explanation for seizing medical equipment, bombing humanitarian aid vessels. There are no words to describe these deliberate, genocidal practices. We are watching evil unfold, and the world does nothing. As one DUer posted, "One day, everyone will have been against this." Only by then, the population will have been exterminated. When one wonders how the Holocaust happened, how the Armenian genocide took place, how the Rwandan genocide succeeded, we need only look at ourselves today.

This doctor describes his experiences treating children in Gaza.

[GiqueCee]

1. I am hesitant to conflate...

... all Israelis with the unspeakable evil of Netanyahu. He has become the kind of monster that all decent human beings, but especially those of the Hebrew faith, should revile and despise. There will be no redemption for him, nor forgiveness for his genocidal actions. Not. Ever.

[iemanja]

2. I used to think that

Before I saw dozens of videos of Israel's saying they wanted all the Palestinians dead. Obviously. not everyone feels that way. There are two Israeli human rights organizations that have denounced the genocide, but Israelis are taught to hate and dehumanize Palestinians. I've seen videos of the most vicious, hateful children you can imagine. It's truly disturbing. I wonder if the Israeli government has any concept of the kind of population they are creating and its lasting effects?

[AloeVera]

3. The demonization and hate is either the prerequisite or consequence of occupation, subjugation and dispossession.

Probably both. A coping mechanism. Too much cognitive dissonance and guilt, shame otherwise.

But I think first came the dehumanization necessary to carry out the ethnic cleansing and massacres of the Nakba. The British were guilty of that too, during the British Mandate. Look at this:

Palestinians pursuing an apology from the UK over colonial-era war crimes allegations have urged the government to respond in light of its recognition this week of a state of Palestine.

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It documents three decades of alleged abuses by UK forces during mounting violence until 1948, after which the UK rapidly withdrew and the State of Israel was declared.

The alleged abuses by British forces range from murder, torture, expulsion and collective punishment which the submission says repressed the Arab Palestinian population amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity.

In 2022, a BBC review of some of the historical evidence involved found details of arbitrary killings, arson of entire villages, "caging" of civilians in the open air, the use of human shields by strapping them to the front of military vehicles and the introduction of home demolitions as collective punishment.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3yepedj57o

The ocean of crimes carried out against Palestinians and covered up, hasbarized and denied for a hundred years is unspeakable. No justice ever.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

4. I strongly agree!

It is no different than the entire world seeing all the USA as Trump supporters.