A rundown of some of the heartbreaking updates out of Palestine today:
- According to the Gaza Health Ministry, at least 2,215 Palestinians have been killed, including 724 children, and 8,714 wounded since October 7.
- Overwhelmed, the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah has begun using ice cream trucks as morgues.
- In the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, 54 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces and settlers, with more than 1,100 wounded.
- According to the Palestinian Health Minister, 28 health care workers have been killed by Israel since October 7. 15 medical centers have been damaged by Israeli strikes, with Beit Hanoun Hospital and Al-Durrah Children's Hospital being rendered out of commission. As well, 23 ambulances “have been damaged and rendered inoperable.”
- The Jordan Field Hospital has also shut down due to Israeli attacks. It “used to provide free medical services to about 1,000-1,200 people daily.”
- Since October 12, most Palestinians no longer have access to drinking water through the tap. According to OCHA, “As a last resort, people are consuming brackish water from agricultural wells, triggering serious concerns about the spread of waterborne diseases.”
- Since October 7, in the West Bank, OCHA has tallied 63 settler attacks against Palestinians, including some cases where Israeli forces were involved. “This represents an average of nine incidents per day, compared with a daily average of three incidents since the beginning of this year.”
Sources: https://www.ochaopt.org/content/hostilities-gaza-strip-and-israel-flash-update-7
https://edition.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-news-hamas-war-10-14-23/index.html
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/10/13/israel-hamas-live-dozens-killed-while-fleeing-to-southern-gaza
What would happen if the Palestinian people take up arms and fight back against the IDF, not in direct support of Hamas, but to defend their homes and take revenge for the death and destruction the IDF have caused.
Some have lost entire families so they probably feel they have very little live for and decide if I am gonna die, I want to take as many of the IDF with me as possible.
Truly frightening prospect but I feel that is possible.
@zleap @susurros @palestine
They need food and water first.
That's the priority.
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/10/un-expert-warns-new-instance-mass-ethnic-cleansing-palestinians-calls
@Marypgkeating @susurros @palestine
Indeed, and power and medical supplies.
Just load up tricks and make sure they are CLEARLY marked as humanitarian aid, and go in via the Egypt border,
Just make sure they are also covered in cameras, in side and out and live stream
If Isreal then bonbs clearly marked aid trucks, there is no getting out that these were AID trucks, with food, water, fuel and medical supplies.
Then we send flyers over every single Isreali city with the details so the people know their IDF bombs humanitarian aid
@zleap @Marypgkeating @susurros @palestine And then Egypt will not let them cross the border.
Answer me this: Why are the grandchildren of the refuges in Jordan and Lebanon not yet integrated into the societies of these countries? Is that Israel's fault?
@oneiros @zleap @susurros
I don't know, it's not my area of expertise, perhaps a sociologist might be able to help you. Or Google?@palestine
@Marypgkeating @zleap @susurros @palestine Or maybe the surrounding countries don't really care for the Palestinians.
@oneiros @zleap @susurros @palestine
Seems to be a global theme, okay.
@oneiros @zleap @Marypgkeating @susurros @palestine
No, Israel has bombed the Rafah crossing, and threatened to bomb any aid Egypt sends into Gaza.
Palestinians in Jordan have full citizenship and are actually fully integrated, so you couldn't have picked a worse example.
And even in countries that are have fully integrated, you can't violently cleanse your country of a population then why the people you displaced won't just disappear quietly into the populations of those other countries
@zleap@qoto.org @Marypgkeating@mastodon.social @susurros@kolektiva.social @palestine@a.gup.pe The only problem with this is that unfortunately organisations supplying Hamas can also label their trucks as 'aid' or Israel can claim they were. It would need a trustworthy party to actually check in order to be certain they weren't carrying arms.
@alastair @Marypgkeating @susurros @palestine
I understand that, but surely, if the UN put the aid together it will be picked up by a UN agency on the other side.
@zleap @susurros
@palestine
The trucks have been there for hours, they are not allowed in while people are starving inside the gate.
It's that ugly. It's that serious.