Ziofascist Israel’s 2023 to 2024 Genocide of Palestinians, Part 19: May 8 to 16 — The Invasion of Rafah and Nakba Day
A documentation of Ziofascist Israel’s 2023 to 2024 genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity against Palestinians from May 8 to 16, 2024.
May 8
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USA:
May 9
USA:
Biden does some lip-service to appease the public:
Tal Mitnick and Sofia Orr — two Israeli teenagers who are in prison for refusing to serve in the Israel Defense Forces — sent a letter to President Joe Biden, beseeching him to use his power to stop Israel’s war on Gaza, including through placing conditions on military aid.
“Your unconditional support for [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu’s policy of destruction, since the war began, has brought our society to the normalization of carnage and to the trivialization of human lives,” they wrote. “It is American diplomatic and material support that prolonged this war for so long. You are responsible for this, alongside our leaders. But while they’re interested in prolonging the war for political reasons, you have the power to make it stop.”
The teens wrote the letter before reporting to prison for their most recent sentences. They sent it to Biden on Thursday, a day after he confirmed in an interview for the first time that Israel has used U.S. bombs to kill civilians and said that he will not supply Israel with arms if it moves toward a major invasion of Rafah. Biden did not specify what he considers to be a major invasion; Israel already reportedly has troops on the ground in Rafah, which is considered the last refuge for displaced Palestinians in Gaza and which the Israeli military has long been bombing.
The White House’s National Security Council declined to comment.
UN:
May 10
Palestinian detainee abuse:
Footage of the common hand and wrist injuries from Israeli zip-ties which, in some cases, led to amputations:
From the written CNN report:
According to the accounts, the [Sde Teiman] facility some 18 miles from the Gaza frontier is split into two parts: enclosures where around 70 Palestinian detainees from Gaza are placed under extreme physical restraint, and a field hospital where wounded detainees are strapped to their beds, wearing diapers and fed through straws.
“They stripped them down of anything that resembles human beings,” said one whistleblower, who worked as a medic at the facility’s field hospital.
“(The beatings) were not done to gather intelligence. They were done out of revenge,” said another whistleblower. “It was punishment for what they (the Palestinians) did on October 7 and punishment for behavior in the camp.”
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The law permits the military to detain people for 45 days without an arrest warrant, after which they must be transferred to Israel’s formal prison system (IPS), where over 9,000 Palestinians are being held in conditions that rights groups say have drastically deteriorated since October 7. Two Palestinian prisoners associations said last week that 18 Palestinians — including leading Gaza surgeon Dr. Adnan al-Bursh — had died in Israeli custody over the course of the war.
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CNN interviewed over a dozen former Gazan detainees who appeared to have been released from those camps. They said they could not determine where they were held because they were blindfolded through most of their detention and cut off from the outside world. But the details of their accounts tally with those of the whistleblowers.
“We looked forward to the night so we could sleep. Then we looked forward to the morning in hopes that our situation might change,” said Dr. Mohammed al-Ran, recalling his detainment at a military facility where he said he endured desert temperatures, swinging from the heat of the day to the chill of night. CNN interviewed him outside Gaza last month.
Al-Ran, a Palestinian who holds Bosnian citizenship, headed the surgical unit at northern Gaza’s Indonesian hospital, one of the first to be shut down and raided as Israel carried out its aerial, ground and naval offensive.
He was arrested on December 18, he said, outside Gaza City’s Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital, where he had been working for three days after fleeing his hospital in the heavily bombarded north.
He was stripped down to his underwear, blindfolded and his wrists tied, then dumped in the back of a truck where, he said, the near-naked detainees were piled on top of one another as they were shuttled to a detention camp in the middle of the desert.
The details in his account are consistent with those of dozens of others collected by CNN recounting the conditions of arrest in Gaza. His account is also supported by numerous images depicting mass arrests published on social media profiles belonging to Israeli soldiers. Many of those images show captive Gazans, their wrists or ankles tied by cables, in their underwear and blindfolded.
Al-Ran was held in a military detention center for 44 days, he told CNN. “Our days were filled with prayer, tears, and supplication. This eased our agony,” said al-Ran.
“We cried and cried and cried. We cried for ourselves, cried for our nation, cried for our community, cried for our loved ones. We cried about everything that crossed our minds.”
A week into his imprisonment, the detention camp’s authorities ordered him to act as an intermediary between the guards and the prisoners, a role known as Shawish, “supervisor,” in vernacular Arabic.
According to the Israeli whistleblowers, a Shawish is normally a prisoner who has been cleared of suspected links to Hamas after interrogation.
The Israeli military denied holding detainees unnecessarily, or using them for translation purposes. “If there is no reason for continued detention, the detainees are released back to Gaza,” they said in a statement.
Our days were filled with prayer, tears, and supplication. This eased our agony.
However, whistleblower and detainee accounts — particularly pertaining to Shawish — cast doubt on the IDF’s depiction of its clearing process. Al-Ran says that he served as Shawish for several weeks after he was cleared of Hamas links. Whistleblowers also said that the absolved Shawish served as intermediaries for some time.
They are typically proficient in Hebrew, according to the eyewitnesses, enabling them to communicate the guards’ orders to the rest of the prisoners in Arabic.
For that, al-Ran said he was given a special privilege: his blindfold was removed. He said this was another kind of hell.
“Part of my torture was being able to see how people were being tortured,” he said. “At first you couldn’t see. You couldn’t see the torture, the vengeance, the oppression.
“When they removed my blindfold, I could see the extent of the humiliation and abasement … I could see the extent to which they saw us not as human beings but as animals.”
CNN Narrator: “Medics say up to 20 patients lay virtually naked, blindfolded, with hands and feet shackled to their beds and wearing diapers. Treatment, one worker told us, amounts to punishment.
Israeli whistleblower: “It’s the idea of total vulnerability. If you imagine being unable to move, being unable to see what’s going on, that’s something that borders if not crosses into psychological torture [what about physical torture?!]. So yes, I think it does infringe human rights.”
Since Ziofascist Israel has destroyed all Palestinian infrastructure and services in Gaza, there is also an increasing waste problem:
UN votes for Palestinian statehood:
As a response, the Ziofascist madman propagandist at the UN Gilad Erdan shredded the UN charter while, in typical Ziofascist DARVO fashion (deny, attack, reverse victim and offender), insanely accusing others of doing that:
Ziofascist madman propagandist Gilad Erdan [while shredding the UN charter with his own hands]: “You are shredding the UN charter with your own hands. Yes, yes, that’s what you’re doing — shredding the UN charter. Shame on you.”
USA:
Disgusting genocide denialism by the US imperialist The Atlantic:
Britain — Sir Gary Lineker does some straight talking:
Gary Lineker: “[…] it’s not anti-Semitic to say that what Israel is doing is wrong. I just can’t see how everybody doesn’t see it that way now. But, you know, whatever the cause, whatever started it, we all know that, you know, the history of this area of the world goes way before October the 7th. But it’s truly dreadful what is happening. I, I cry on a regular basis when I see certain images on, on social media.”
May 11
Rafah:
Japan:
Jabalia:
From another scene and Israeli strike in Jabalia, as shown by multiple posters:
Ziofascist Israeli infanticide and other killings:
Ziofascist Israeli attacks on medical workers and the health system:
Ziofascist Israeli destruction of Palestinian property in Khan Younis:
The car after getting crushed by the Israeli tank:
Ziofascist settler violence and ecocide:
A well-deserved Peabody Award for the Palestinian reporter Bisan:
The Netanyahu regime is still not and has never been interested in freeing the Israeli hostages (the article is from April 26):
Zionism is Antisemitism:
Israeli ‘intelligence’:
A reminder:
USA — MSNBC apologizes for too accurate reporting about Ziofascist Israel:
Martin Fletcher: “Israel […] has taken the land of a future Palestinian state, which… that’s what the frustration and violence is all about for the most part: the occupation of their land.”
MSNBC propagandist: “Last Thursday, in an attempt to talk about the context for ‘the current turmoil in the Middle East’, we showed a series of maps of the changing ‘geography in that region.’ We realize that, after we went off the air, the maps were not factually accurate, and we regret using them.”
British propaganda from Sky News:
May 12
Rafah:
Jabalia:
Medical crisis:
A (preliminary) restoration of service:
A Palestinian father speaks:
Grieving Palestinian father: “I am not crying from fear, we are not afraid of death in Gaza. But what happens to our children is oppression. But what happens to our women is oppression. By God, it’s shameful. By God, it’s shameful. God will ask you about us. People are only living by the mercy of God.
People are bombed into the sky. I swear, I don’t know how I’m alive, how I haven’t been killed. I don’t know. The airstrike was 20 meters away from me. We’re not afraid of the occupation nor death nor martyrdom. But the children — the children are bombed into the sky.”
Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh:
Wael Al-Dahdouh’s family:
Attack on humanitarian aid and aid workers:
Genocide denialism and downplaying:
Egypt:
Columbia’s Gustavo Petro vs. Benjamin Netanyahu:
EU:
USA:
On April 30, 2024, the General Conference of The United Methodist Church, being held in Charlotte, North Carolina, made a groundbreaking call for church investment managers to exclude the bonds of three countries — Israel, Turkey, and Morocco — that are holding subject populations under prolonged military occupation.
In the first such divestment action by a major Christian denomination, the church has called on all its investment managers to avoid “the governmental debt of each such country until the time when each government ends their military occupation.”
The church resolution, “Excluding Government Debt of Countries Involved in Prolonged Occupations,” makes clear the church’s desire to avoid profiting from the suffering and oppression caused by these decades-long occupations: Israel’s occupation of the West Bank including East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip since 1967, Turkey’s occupation of Northern Cyprus since 1974, and Morocco’s occupation of Western Sahara since 1976.
NYT propaganda:
The propagandistic NYT later slightly changed their headline:
“Flavors” of genocide:
May 13
Little girl Tuline: Where’s mom?
Paramedic Fares: “Mom?”
Tuline: “Yes”
Fares: “She’s waiting for you, daughter.”
Fares: “Tuline?”
Tuline: “Yes.”
Fares: “Tuline?”
Tuline: “What?”
Fares: “What’s my name? … Uncle Fares. Uncle Fares, father of Hamza.”
Tuline: “Ok.”
Fares: “I’m the paramedic Fares, right?”
Tuline: “Ok.”
Tuline: “Mom?”
Fares: “She’s waiting for you, daughter.”
Tuline: “What?”
Fares: “She’s waiting for you, your mother.”
Tuline: “Mom?”
Fares: “She’s waiting for you, daughter. … Keep staying, daughter.”
Tuline screams in pain as Fares tries to pull her out before eventually succeeding. The bone on Tuline’s forehead is partially visible:
Fares: “Who does this to you?”
Tuline: “Israelis.”
Fares: “Israelis?”
Tuline: “Yes.”
Fares: “Make the victory sign to them. Make it for them.”
Tuline: [waves hand] “Where’s my mom? I’m talking seriously, where’s mom?”
Ziofascist Israeli mobs once again block and destroy much-needed humanitarian aid, including the trucks:
More Ziofascist Israeli intent to and celebrations of genocide:
Zionism is a death cult:
Upward of 20 American doctors and medical workers are trapped in Gaza as a result of Israel’s post-invasion closure of the Rafah border crossing into Egypt, according to sources with knowledge of the plight of two ill-fated medical missions.
Israel has blocked fuel, food, and water from entering Rafah for over a week, leading to severe dehydration among the general population, as well as among the doctors on mission.
Relatives of the doctors were told by the State Department that rescue efforts were underway, including through coordination with the United Nations and the Israel Defense Forces. Yet on Monday, the Israeli military fired on a United Nations vehicle that was traveling to the European Hospital in Khan Younis, near Rafah, killing a U.N. employee who was an Indian national and injuring another.
A family member of one of the doctors stranded at the European Hospital said that he suspected the vehicle was part of the rescue mission, but was uncertain. “We are aware that a car that is similarly supposed to be their rescue passage was shot at and UN employees were killed and injured and we fear for their ability to have a safe passage and exit,” said the relative. “We are aware that there is active shelling around the hospital and that staff has been told to stay away from windows.”
Mossab Nasser, the CEO of FAJR Scientific, a medical group running one of the missions, said that the car that was hit was not headed to evacuate his team. He confirmed that his nonprofit was working with the World Health Organization and U.S. diplomats on an evacuation plan. It was not immediately clear which organization set up the second mission.
Among the stranded doctors is Adam Hamawy, a plastic surgeon and Army veteran from New Jersey. While serving in Iraq, he was on duty when now-Sen. Tammy Duckworth’s mangled body was brought to the hospital after her helicopter was shot down. She credits him with saving her life. Hamawy’s friend Sami Shaban has been in touch with him the past several days and said that he is physically doing well. “He’s a tough dude,” said Shaban, who has lost 35 members of his own family in Gaza. “Now we just need to get him home. We funded the bombing of every single hospital there. You have to at least let the relief people in and out.”
On Tuesday, Duckworth said that she was in touch with Hamawy and was “working hard to secure his group’s immediate evacuation.”
The doctors are rationing water and at least one physician is in poor health and is on an IV drip to combat dehydration. The dire state of the medical mission underscores how difficult the conditions are for average Palestinians, who have spent seven months enduring the Israeli siege, whereas the medical mission arrived only recently. More than 1 million Palestinians are trapped in Rafah, which is at the southernmost end of the Gaza Strip. As Israel threatens a full-scale invasion of Rafah, Israeli troops entered the area last week and took over the crossing into Egypt.
USA:
US army officer Harrison Mann resigns in protest:
NYT propaganda by the likely Israeli intelligence asset and born Israeli Ronen Bergman. From his Wikipedia:
He did his military service in the Israel Defense Forces in the intelligence unit of the Military Police Corps. After his military service, he studied law at the University of Haifa, graduated cum laude, and was admitted to the Israel Bar Association. He later studied history and international relations at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge[4] in the United Kingdom, and was awarded an M.Phil. degree in international relations and a PhD (for his dissertation on the Israeli Mossad) by the University of Cambridge.
May 14
Ziofascist IOF propagandist Peter Lerner agitating against UNRWA, UN and humanitarian aid:
The US has asked Israel to stop targeting Hamas policemen who are escorting aid convoys in Gaza, the Axios news site reports.
The report, citing three US and Israeli officials, comes after aid groups suspended deliveries to northern Gaza this week saying that the convoys were being overrun by hungry crowds who were looting the aid.
According to Axios, the Biden administration asked Israel to stop targeting members of the Hamas-run civilian police force, warning that a “total breakdown of law and order” is significantly exacerbating the humanitarian crisis in the enclave.
US officials say at least 11 Hamas policemen have been killed in Israeli strikes in recent weeks.
The report says Israel rebuffed the American request, saying that a clear goal of the war was to end all Hamas control in Gaza and that Israel was working on alternative plans to ensure law and order.
(Jerusalem, May 14, 2024) — Israeli forces have carried out at least eight strikes on aid workers’ convoys and premises in Gaza since October 2023, even though aid groups had provided their coordinates to the Israeli authorities to ensure their protection, Human Rights Watch said today. Israeli authorities did not issue advance warnings to any of the aid organizations before the strikes, which killed or injured at least 31 aid workers and those with them. More than 250 aid workers have been killed in Gaza since the October 7 assault in Israel, according to the UN.
One attack on January 18, 2024, injured three people who were staying in a joint guest house belonging to two aid organizations and was most likely carried out with a US-made munition, according to one of the organizations and to a report by UN investigators who visited the site after the attack, which Human Rights Watch reviewed. One of the aid organizations, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), said UN inspectors concluded that the bomb was delivered by an F-16 aircraft. F-16 aircraft use British made components according to campaigners.
The eight incidents reveal fundamental flaws with the so-called deconfliction system, meant to protect aid workers and allow them to safely deliver life-saving humanitarian assistance in Gaza.
JERUSALEM, May 10 (Reuters) — The main United Nations aid agency for Palestinians closed its headquarters in East Jerusalem after local Israeli residents set fire to areas at the edge of the sprawling compound on Thursday, the agency said.
Philippe Lazzarini, the head of UNWRA, said in a post on the social media platform X that he had decided to close the compound until proper security was restored. He said Thursday’s incident was the second in less than a week.
Ziofascist Israelis threatening on location journalists:
Absurd denialism from the USA refuted:
Ahmed El-Madhoun: “Merhaba. I am now in the destroyed city, Khan Younis. But I will show you something. These are [weapons] that Israel used to kill our people and destroyed our cities. But look here: It’s made in USA. So again: USA participated directly in this genocide. We will not forgive, and we will not forget.”
EU:
The Ziofascist great EU leader Ursula von der Leyen last year:
Some resistance against the Ziofascist Israeli genocide of Palestinians by DIEM25 and MERA:
May 15: Nakba Day
From the documentary “Tantura,” named after the village where another infamous Ziofascist Nakba massacre occurred:
From this particular Ziofascist Israeli genocidal mass-murderer:
Ziofascist Israeli mass-murderer: “During battle, if someone raised hands, I didn’t take captives.
Interviewer: “How many people do you think you killed this way?”
Ziofascist Israeli mass-murderer [shrugs shoulders, laughs and smiles]: “I didn’t count. I can’t really know.”
Ziofascist Israeli Nakba perpetrator: “Tantura was a rich village with beautiful houses. They lived like Europeans, you know. Their women were beautifully dressed, it was a fine village. One of our men raped a 16-year-old girl. Do you understand? Things were extremely ugly. We also had a savage youth who died later. He simply shot the prisoners inside enclosures. […] Some of us took flamethrowers and chased after the prisoners to burn them.
From a Nakba perpetrator who apparently escaped Ziofascist propaganda:
Amnon Neumann, former Palmach Militia member: “At that time, I did not see anything wrong with what we were doing. If I was told to do things that I do not want to mention, I did them with no doubts at all. Without thinking twice. My whole worldview regarding what happened in the war changed completely. I saw that this was a deliberate deception of the Zionist movement.”
In Austrian school, we never learned about the Nakba or catastrophy either:
Ziofascist Israeli atrocities on Nakba Day:
The brain and skull of this dead Palestinian boy is missing. It was most likely blown off by an expanding sniper bullet shot at the back of his head and exiting at the front:
Israeli quadcopters were reported to target journalists:
The destruction of humanitarian aid by a Ziofascist Israeli mob:
Incitement for more genocide and war by the terrorism-convicted Ziofascist Israeli ‘National Security’ Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir:
USA:
Ziofascist propagandist Batya Ungar-Sargon relativizes:
Twitter/X ban on Antizionist journalist Kit Klarenberg:
Jewish Biden official Lily Greenberg-Call resigns:
Her account appears to be back up for now though:
Censorship, a central value in the US imperialist murderous ‘free world’:
More NYT propaganda by the Israeli intelligence asset Ronen Bergman:
A Televangelist money grab:
Britain:
Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis: “Our Zionism is a statement of the centrality of Israel within the Jewish faith.”
A correction by Israeli historian Ilan Pappe:
May 16
Another thread:
USA:
ILAN PAPPÉ: […] I just want to say that there’s something bigger here than just the question of the ICC and Israel abiding or not abiding by it. I think that’s a moment of truth for the international tribunals, such as the ICC and the ICJ, because they would face governments that would not probably implement the rulings, because Israel still has very strong allies. And I think the rest of the world, especially the Global South, would watch to see whether the terms “universal” and “international” really mean something. So, I think Palestine is just one case of many in which we have now a real struggle to define, again, what is universal, what are universal values, and what is international justice. And I think that’s why it’s such an important historical moment.
Now, to come back to my ordeal, which was not that big, but I think is part of a bigger picture, I arrived in Detroit after eight hours’ flight from London and was taken immediately to a side room by two federal agents. And they had two sets of questions for me. One was about my views, my views about the Hamas, my views about what’s happening in Gaza. Do I frame what happened in Gaza as genocide? They wanted to know my reaction to the slogan, “Palestine should be free from the river to the sea.” They refused to tell me why they stopped me, why did I have to answer these questions. And then another set of questions had to do with whom do I know among the American Muslim community, the American Arab community and the Palestinian community in the United States. And that was followed by taking my phone for a long period, copying everything in it, and making me wait another time for phone conversations before letting me in, into the country.
AMY GOODMAN: Can I ask you exactly, Professor Pappé, what you answered them when they said, “What do you take to be ‘Palestine will be free from the river to the sea?’ when they asked you about whether genocide is being committed in Gaza, etc.?
ILAN PAPPÉ: Yes. Well, to the questions of “Do I define Hamas as a terrorist organization?” to that, I refused to answer that question. And I suggested to them that they should go and listen to my talks in the Michigan area, where I will discuss this issue. As for the question of genocide, I laconically said that, yes, I do frame the Israeli actions in Gaza as genocide. But again, I suggested that if they want a more detailed analysis of why do I frame it like this, they are most welcome both to read my articles and to come to the lectures in the Michigan area.
As for the question, “How do I respond to the slogan, ‘Palestine should be free from the river to the sea’?” I said that everywhere where there is a river and there is a sea and people living between them, they should be free, which was a moment a bit ironical or comical […]
