A Palestinian woman holds her children at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on October 23, 2023, after an Israeli air strike wounded the family [Mohammed Al-Masri/Reuters]
Gaza has 50,000 pregnant women who lack treatment, access to doctors and adequate healthcare centres.
Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – Niveen al-Barbari is terrified for her unborn child. With every Israeli air attack near her, the 33-year-old’s back and stomach convulse with fear and pain.
Before the Israeli offensive began on October 7, al-Barbari regularly visited a specialist because she has gestational diabetes and high blood pressure. But the bombings forced her to seek shelter in her family’s home, and she lost contact with her doctor.
“Every day,” she said, “I wonder how I’ll give birth and where. The bombs don’t stop, and no human, tree or stone has been spared. We don’t know whose house will be destroyed or who will die. I just hope me and my child are safe.”
Al-Barbari is due to give birth to her first child this month, one of thousands of women in the Gaza Strip nearing the end of their pregnancies.
According to the United Nations Population Fund (UNPF), there are 50,000 pregnant women in the besieged territory, many suffering from a lack of regular check-ups and treatment because Gaza’s healthcare system is on the brink of collapse due to the siege imposed by Israel on the territory. Last week, the UNPF called for “urgent health care and protection” of the pregnant women.
“All these images of babies and children under the rubble of their homes or lying in hospital with injuries makes me very scared for my baby,” al-Barbari said. “Every day I pray for the war to end in order to save my child from these missiles that have no mercy on anyone.”
Tablets used to delay periods can cause negative side effects but without access to water and hygiene products, women in Gaza say they have no choice but to use them https://t.co/FDuRr7GhcEpic.twitter.com/T5k2aL3PeF
House Republicans have evidence that US President Joe Biden personally benefited from his son Hunter selling China access to the family, Congressman James Comer announced on Wednesday.
File photo: Protesters outside a federal courthouse in Wilmington, Delaware, on October 3, 2023, ahead of Hunter Biden’s appearance on gun charges. . by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP
“Not only did he lie about his son Hunter making money in China, but it also turns out that $40,000 in laundered China money landed in Joe Biden’s bank account in the form of a personal check. And the Oversight Committee has it,” Comer, a Kentucky Republican, said in a video message.
The 12-page memo put together by the Republican committee staff purports to show the money trail of a personal check written by James and Sarah Biden, the current president’s brother and his wife, on September 3, 2017.
The check itself says it’s a “loan repayment,” but the money originally came from the Chinese energy giant CEFC and was channeled through the president’s son Hunter, according to the memo.
Biden’s son Hunter and his brother James began working with CEFC in 2016, while Joe Biden was still Barack Obama’s vice president. The company committed to investing $10 million in a joint venture with the Bidens, which a note found on Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop said would include a ten percent stake for “the big guy,” widely understood to mean his father.
On July 30, 2017, Hunter sent CEFC associate Raymond Zhao this WhatsApp message, demanding to know where the money was:
“I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. I am very concerned that the Chairman has either changed his mind and broken our deal without telling me or that he is unaware of the promises and assurances that have been made have not been kept. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand. And now means tonight.”
A response from Zhao, dated July 31, said that CEFC was “willing to cooperate with the family.”
According to Comer, this was proof “the extortion scheme worked.”
Northern International Capital, a CEFC front, sent a $5 million wire to Hudson West III – a front company Hunter had set up with CEFC’s Gongwen Dong – on August 8, 2017.
Bank records show that Hunter withdrew $400,000 from Hudson West III to another company he owned, Owasco PC, the very same day.
On August 14, Hunter wired $150,000 from his Hudson West III account to the company owned by James and Sara Biden, called the Lion Hall Group.
Prior to that transaction, the account held less than $2,000. Two weeks later, $50,000 was transferred from the Lion Hall account to the personal checking account of James and Sara Biden, which had held less than $47.
On September 3, they cut a “loan repayment” personal check to Joe Biden for $40,000 – exactly 10% of the amount Hunter had withdrawn from the CEFC wire the month before.
“Joe benefited from his family cashing in on his name – with money from China no less,” Congressman Comer said on Wednesday.
“Without his family peddling his name and his son threatening a CEFC associate with consequences that he said Joe Biden knew about, James wouldn’t have had the money to write the $40,000 check to his brother Joe.”
The problem isn’t just that Biden lied to the American public about Hunter’s business deals or his involvement in them, but that he took money sourced to a company with ties to the Communist Party of China that “wanted to advance China’s interests,” thereby exposing the Bidens to blackmail and putting “America’s interests behind his own desire for money,” Comer argued.
The contents of the Hunter Biden laptop were made public in October 2020, just ahead of the US presidential election.
Joe Biden and the Democrats declared it a “Russian disinformation operation”and the outlet that published the story was censored on social media.
By the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop scandal Biden was able to scrape into power, avoiding 4 more years of Trump mania.
As of October 29, 2023 already 45 percent of 1,500 registered voters disapproved of Biden to 38 percent who approved
The new evidence could finally bury the warmonger ‘Babbling Biden’s bid for re-election, but could just make way for a LOONY RIGHT NAZI like Trump, Mike Johnson or Ron DeSantis
Gaza officials say 195 killed, 120 missing in Israel’s bombing of Jabalia refugee camp, which the UN says may be “disproportionate attacks that could amount to war crimes”.
Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital, Gaza’s only medical facility serving cancer patients, forced to shut down after running out of fuel. The Indonesian Hospital running on backup generator.
At last – Bolivia, and Columbia, are recalling their ambassadors and cutting off diplomatic relations with Israel. The outrage of ordinary people around the world has turned against their government’s support for Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people culminating in turning a blind eye to the devastation at Jabalia refugee camp and the bombing of children, a heartless war crime.
Gaza on Thursday morning 2/11/2023
Biden has said US supports humanitarian pause, the first time the US president has said these words himself.
The Gaza Borders and Crossings Authority has released a list of 596 foreign and dual nationals allowed to leave through the Rafah crossing on Thursday after a first group, including 81 critically ill patients, crossed on Wednesday.
At least 8,805 Palestinians been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. More than 1,400 people have been killed in Israel.
Israeli air raid targets UNRWA school We’re getting reports that the Israeli military has targeted an UNRWA school in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza. Thousands of displaced people in Gaza are currently taking shelter in the school.The attacks come after five Palestinians were killed in an earlier raid targeting areas around that school.
Israeli air strikes target Jabalia refugee camp for a third time
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that Israeli air strikes have targeted the Jabalia refugee camp for the third time in as many days.
At least three Palestinians have been killed and many injured in the bombing of a house in the camp.
Almost 200 people were killed and at least 777 wounded in the first two bombings of the camp on Tuesday and Wednesday. Another 120 people are still missing, according to a report published by Gaza’s Government Media Office.
Below is an interactive that shows the situation in the camp before and after Tuesday’s Israeli air raid.
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by Ellen Isaacs November 1, 2023 We certainly do not support Hamas. It is a murderous, fundamentalist, sexist, elitist group that has long abused the civilians of Gaza and brought death and destruction down on their heads. Hamas steals international aid monies and supplies, taxes the general Gaza population, and jails or kills its opponents.1,2 […]
by Ellen Isaacs November 1, 2023 We certainly do not support Hamas. It is a murderous, fundamentalist, sexist, elitist group that has long abused the civilians of Gaza and brought death and destruction down on their heads. Hamas steals international aid monies and supplies, taxes the general Gaza population, and jails or kills its opponents.1,2 […]
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