“Our children are in pieces, they are in pieces…”

from thefreeonline on 13th July 2024 by Al Jazeera Al Mayadeen etc. (on telegram: t.me/thefreeonline)

Over 70 murdered and more than 100 Palestinian casualties in a new Israeli massacre in Safe Zone today

Horrific scenes are emerging from Khan Younis in Gaza after Israeli warplanes committed a gruesome massacre by bombing tents that sheltered displaced Palestinians.

The attack by Israeli warplanes targeted tents housing displaced Palestinians and a water distillation unit in an area that a Gaza civil defence spokesperson told Al Jazeera was designated a “safe zone” by the Israeli military.

After the Israeli occupation retracts its wild claims of killing Resistance leaders including Commander Muhammad al-Deif in the horrific al-Mawasi massacre in the Khan Younis area. Palestinian sources unanimously claim Al-Deif is alive and well. (see details below)

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Al-Mawasi, where thousands of displaced Palestinians are sheltering, has been targeted numerous times since October.

“The al-Mawasi massacre in Khan Younis has been committed against an area that is crowded with more than 80,000 displaced people. This is an obvious and clear confirmation from the Zionist government that it will continuing its war of extermination against our Palestinian people, through repeatedly and systematically targeting the defenceless displaced civilians in tents, shelters and residential neighbourhoods,” Hamas said in a statement.

Horrific scenes from the “safe zone” in Al-Mawasi, Khan Yunis, where dozens of bodies are scattered following a series of airstrikes by the Israeli army. pic.twitter.com/R1kGgZa2E4

— War Watch (@WarWatchs) July 13, 2024

Continue reading “Over 70 massacred, hundreds wounded in Israeli strikes on al-Mawasi ‘safe zone’ in south Gaza – Resistance leader “unhurt””

Patients and staff were forced to leave the European Gaza Hospital following new orders from Israel, increasing pressure on the few remaining medical centers in the south

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“As you can see, everything is in ruins. There are many dead still under the rubble of the demolished buildings, and they have not been recovered yet due to the limited means of the civil defence .”

from thefreeonline on July 13th ’24 By Alastair McCready at Al Jazeera ( on Telegram: t.me/thefreeonline )

A Palestinian injured child cries as she is brought to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza on July 12, 2024. Photojournalist:Ashraf Amra

“As you can see, there is widespread bloodshed, and we have nothing left. We are sleeping on the street without any shelter. All we can say is may God help us and bring justice.”

Residents who returned home said that the industrial area which has been “completely destroyed” is considered the area of the UN agency.

They said Israeli forces attacked at 4am, forcing them seek refuge in the Daraj neighbourhood.

When they returned to gather some of their belongings, they found everything had been stolen including their money and clothes.

Breaking ..Israeli snipers accused of attacking fleeing civilians in GazaPalestinians who fled Gaza City after Israeli evacuation order say snipers shot dead civilians near Yarmouk stadium.https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/11/israeli-snipers-accused-of-attacking-fleeing-civilians-in-gaza

Israeli forces kill dozens in Gaza City

Israeli forces are accused of deliberately targeting displaced Palestinians in Gaza City where dozens of bodies have been recovered after attacks in the city’s Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood.

Director-General of the Gaza Government Media Office Ismail al-Thawabta has accused Israeli forces of carrying out a “planned massacre” in Gaza City.

‘Everything is in ruins’ in Gaza City’s Tal al-Hawa

Speaking from Tal al-Hawa in Gaza City, a Palestinian has told Al Jazeera that Israeli forces shot at children in the industrial area and their families have been killed.

“The focus is on children and women, rather than targeting the resistance,” they said.

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video. Israel and Egypt are discussing an electronic surveillance system along the Gaza-Egypt border. Reuters reported citing sources that a potential Israeli withdrawal is part of the truce talks. Israeli presence along Egyptian border on Gaza side has become a key obstacle in ceasefire negotiations.

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60 more bodies found after new Israeli massacre in Gaza City

Palestinian residents return to Gaza City’s Shujaiya neighbourhood, flattened by a two-week Israeli offensive – Omar AL-QATTAA

Continue reading “MASSACRE: Over 60 corpses found as Israeli terrorists pull back partly in Gaza City + video: Israel’s First Major Surrender soon??”

By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Navy Times reports that the US aid pier at Gaza will be permanently decommissioned. The $270 million pier could not be reattached this week because of heavy seas. President Joe Biden announced the pier in his State of the Union address, pledging that “massive amounts” […]

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From thefreeonline on 12 July 2024 info via off-guardian. via stuartbramhall (on Telegram: https://t.me/thefreeonline)

A law was passed in 2012 that prohibits farmers’ rights to save, share, exchange or sell unregistered seeds. Farmers could face up to two years in prison and a fine of up to 1 million Kenyan shillings (equivalent to nearly four years’ wages for a farmer).

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However, in 2022, Kenyan smallholder farmers launched a legal case against the government calling for reform of the 2012 seed law to stop criminalising them for sharing seeds. There is a hearing scheduled for 24 July 2024.

Agroecologist and environmentalist Claire Nasike Akello says that, in legal terms, the sharing and selling of indigenous seeds is a criminal offence in Kenya. In effect, Kenya’s Seed and Plant Varieties Act demolishes self-sufficiency among smallholder farmers who use indigenous seeds to grow food.

Writing on her website, she says that the legislation seeks to create a dependency on multinational companies by smallholder farmers for seeds thus giving an upper hand to these firms that continue to steal biological resources from local communities with a profit-driven mindset.

It is, in effect:

“A move designed to impoverish smallholder farmers and lock them out of farming.”

Gates, Rockefeller and big agribusiness

The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) initiative, funded by the Gates and Rockefeller Foundations, has been intervening directly in the formulation of African governments’ agricultural policies on issues like seeds and land, opening up African markets to US agribusiness.

Around 80% of Africa’s seed supply comes from millions of small-scale farmers recycling and exchanging seed from year to year. But AGRA is supporting the introduction of commercial (chemical-dependent) seed systems, enabling a few large companies to control seed research and development, production and distribution.

Continue reading “Seed Revolution- STOP the World Bank Sowing Seed-Colonialism in Africa”