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Safa Joudeh: “My father is the ObGyn who treated this women. A countless number of patients he treated have either been killed or lost children in Israel’s onslaught. His fertility clinic was ransacked by Israeli soldiers, set on fire and hit by two missiles. The eggs and embryos that remained there have been lost. Israel’s war on Gaza is a war on life itself.”
At dawn, 4:30am on 29 February 2024, a convoy of food aid trucks arrived southwest of Gaza City where people had congregated at the Nabulsi Roundabout on Harun Al-Rashid Street. They were instantly surrounded by desperate Palestinians, who began unloading aid from the trucks. Israeli tanks and snipers opened fire on the crowd, killing at least 112 people and injuring another 750.
Aaron Bushnell was a US Air Force serviceman who self-immolated outside the US Embassy in Washington DC shouting “Free Palestine” on Sunday 25 February 2024, after explaining in a Twitch livestream that he could no longer be “complicit in genocide” (among other connections to the Israeli military, the USAF acts as the United States’ FedEx for weapons deliveries to Israel.
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.
“In light of the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and as our people continue their battle for independence, dignity and breaking-free from the longest-ever occupation during which they have drawn the finest displays of bravery and heroism in confronting the Israeli murder machine and aggression. We would like to clarify to our people and the free peoples of the world the reality of what happened on Oct. 7, the motives behind, its general context related to the Palestinian cause, as well as a refutation to the Israeli allegations and to put the facts into perspective.”
Al-Jazeera English published a video report on 18 January 2024 about what happened when Israeli soldiers entered a building in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City, just south of Jabaliya Refugee Camp, on 19 December 2023. This is the another well-documented case of the IDF carrying out summary executions, as with The Shadia Abu Ghazaleh School Massacre on 13 December 2023.
