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“We got hold of Israel’s dossier against UNRWA – why did the donors including the UK withdraw funding on such flimsy unproven allegations before an investigation?”—Lindsey Hilsum, Channel 4 News International Editor
Yesterday, the Guardian newspaper published an excellent feature on the destruction of Gaza’s neighborhoods. “Satellite imagery and open-source evidence lay bare the destruction to civilian infrastructure by Israel in its war on Hamas.” It’s one of the best uses of the Web in news reporting that I’ve ever seen, and both the investigation and its presentation speaks for itself, once you start scrolling and the page literally comes alive to communicate the scale of the destruction. It will take you some time to go through it, it’s extensive.
CCTV footage from Ibn Sina Hospital in Jenin captured an overnight raid by Israeli undercover units that resulted in the assassinations of three Palestinians in their beds, one a paralyzed man. Israel claims the three were members of a “Hamas terrorist cell”. The footage, authenticated by Al Jazeera’s Sanad verification unit, shows the Israeli agents disguised as doctors, nurses and civilians—one carrying a fake baby—carrying guns as they search the hospital.
After Israeli Defence Force soldiers withdrew from Khalifa bin Zayed School in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, Palestinians discovered the bodies of 30 men and women inside the school’s grounds. The bodies were found under a pile of rubble in zip-up body bags, blindfolded and with their hands bound behind their backs with zip-ties. Palestinians who looked at the bodies reported they showed signs of torture.
Middle East Eye published a video posted by Twitter user @yankicoen on 30 January 2023 (original in Hebrew embedded) depicting an Israeli soldier forcing detailed Palestinians on a bus to repeat in Hebrew a humiliating narrative, pledging slavery to his family. Middle East Eye reports: “A video circulating online has sparked outrage as it purportedly shows a soldier coercing blindfolded detainees into pledging themselves as slaves. The Palestinian men were forced to praise the family and say that they want ‘to work for them in sewage and gardening’.” “We want to be slaves of the Azolai family forever and ever.” Some online users have stated that the Azolai family is the soldier’s family.
The United States announced that it had cut off aid to UNRWA immediately following the International Court of Justice’s ruling in South Africa’s genocide case but the United States—along with every other country in the world—has not taken even a single action against Israel, the party violating the Genocide Convention!
