from thefreeonline On 20 Feb 2024 By Ali Harb and Brian Osgood at aljazeera.com

US envoy to UN uses third veto in Security Council to kill Algeria’s ceasefire resolution, saying it would harm truce negotiations between Israel and Hamas.

• World Food Programme has paused aid delivery in north Gaza, citing chaos caused by starvation and the “breakdown of social order”.

Dozens’ killed in Israel shelling of Gaza City

In the Zeitoun neighbourhood of the city, reports Palestinian news agency Wafa, Israeli army bombardment targeted several civilian homes, resulting in dozens of deaths and scores of injuries.

Scores killed and injured in Israeli shelling of civilian homes in Gaza City

The homes, Wafa says, belong to the Naim, Khalifa, Shenoura and Yasin families.

The agency’s correspondent reports that the majority of the injured remain trapped under rubble, even as civil defence crews labour to rescue them and transport them to the hospital. However, the crews have been prevented from reaching many by the intensity of the Israeli bombardment.

US says it continues to believe that genocide has not occurred in Gaza

State Department spokesperson Miller has reiterated that the US does not believe that Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute genocide, as countries such as South Africa and some experts on international law have suggested.

Asked about recent comments by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva comparing the war in Gaza to the Holocaust, Miller said the US “obviously” disagrees with those comments.

“We have been quite clear that we do not believe that genocide has occurred in Gaza,” he added.

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💔🇵🇸 Childhood in Gaza… pic.twitter.com/YVFN5tNb6K

— Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 (@jacksonhinklle) February 20, 2024

Israel arrests six children in occupied West Bank: Report

Palestinian news agency Wafa reports, citing security sources, that Israeli forces detained five children aged 13 and one 16 year old in the village of Aboud, near Ramallah.

Israel regularly arrests Palestinian children – often over minor alleged offences – and keeps them in custody for prolonged periods of time without due process under so-called “administrative detention”.

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US says Palestinians detainees ‘must be treated humanely’ after sex assault claims

US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller has said that detained individuals “must be treated humanely” following UN reports of sexual abuse of Palestinian detainees by Israeli forces, but declined to offer any follow-up steps that may be taken on the matter.

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said in a statement on Monday that it had received information that Palestinian women and girls have “reportedly been arbitrarily executed in Gaza, often together with family members, including their children”.https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/19/un-experts-warn-of-israeli-violations-against-palestinian-women-girls

“We have been clear that civilians and detainees must be treated humanely, and in accordance with international humanitarian law. We strongly encourage Israel to thoroughly and transparently investigate credible allegations and ensure accountability for abuses and violations,” Miller told reporters.

The US has yet to take any concrete steps to address widespread reports that Palestinian detainees, many rounded up and held without charge by Israeli forces, have been subjected to torture and inhumane conditions.

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Palestinian presidency slams US for blocking UNSC ceasefire measure

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s office says the US veto at the UN Security Council defies the international community and gives Israel “an additional green light for the Israeli occupation to continue its aggression against the people of Gaza and to launch a bloody assault against Rafah”.

The Palestinian presidency also said that it holds the US administration responsible for “supporting and providing protection” to Israel’s “barbaric attacks” against children, women and the elderly in Gaza.

“This policy makes the United States a partner in the crimes of genocide and ethnic cleansing and the war crimes Israeli forces are committing,” a statement from the office reads.

It added that the US is advancing its own Security Council draft resolution that would call for pauses in the fighting only to justify its veto against the ceasefire proposal.

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Report: Houthi missile downs US drone over Yemen

Media outlet Al-Monitor reports, citing a US official, that a surface-to-air missile fired by the Yemeni group took down an MQ-9 Reaper drone near Hodeidah.

Yesterday, the group claimed to have shot down a US drone over Yemen, which it said “was carrying out hostile missions against our country on behalf of the Zionist entity”. US officials said they were investigating after a drone crashed over Yemen.

If confirmed, this will be the second US MQ-9 shot down by the group in recent months. The Pentagon acknowledged in November that an MQ-9 was shot down over the Red Sea.

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Israeli forces raid Jenin, clashes erupt

• Ayman Nobani

Reporting from Nablus, the occupied West Bank

An Israeli force has stormed the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank and clashed with armed Palestinians there, local sources say.

Sounds of fierce fighting and shooting were heard as more Israeli military enforcements, backed by bulldozers, arrived in several areas of the city. Israeli drones were spotted over the area, as well.

At least three Palestinians have been injured in the raid, but Israeli forces prevented medics from reaching them, according to witnesses.

We will bring you more information on the situation in Jenin as soon as it becomes available.

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Israeli forces have carried out at least two air strikes on the coastal town of Ghaziyeh in southern Lebanon, according to the Israeli military and Lebanese state media.https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/19/israeli-air-strikes-target-ghaziyeh-in-southern-lebanon

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Washington wants the WikiLeaks publisher on its soil where he could face a prison sentence of up to 175 years

Stella Assange, wife of Julian Assange, speaking to supporters outside Royal Courts Of Justice in London, during the 2-day hearing extradition case of the WikiLeaks founder. Feb 20, 2024.  

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is “too ill” to attend his appeal against the UK’s decision to extradite him to the US, his lawyers have said. 

The US wants him on 17 charges of espionage tied to WikiLeaks’ publication of State Department and Pentagon files in 2010.

Read more Artist vows to destroy $45mn worth of art if Assange dies

Assange, 52, has been held largely in solitary confinement in the Belmarsh maximum security prison in England since 2019, when Ecuador revoked his asylum at American insistence. The Australian-born publisher had requested to appear in court personally, but was unable to do so due to poor health, according to his lawyers. 

“The world is watching,” Assange’s wife Stella said outside the court house. She accused the US of abusing the legal system to “hound, prosecute and intimidate” and argued that the US “plotted to murder” her husband – referring to revelations that the CIA sought to kill Assange in 2017, when he sheltered in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.

“What’s at stake is the ability to publish the truth and expose crimes when they’re committed by states,” Stella Assange told the dozens of demonstrators gathered outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London on Tuesday.

Free Julian Assange- Journalist jailed forever for exposing US terrorist State

Protesters carried Australian flags and signs that said “Free Julian Assange” and “drop the charges.” The Australian parliament passed a motion, supported by the country’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, calling for Assange’s release from British captivity in the run up to the appeal.

“The outrageous part of the UK’s years-long ‘trial’ to condemn Julian Assange to die in an American dungeon is that the victim of his ‘crime’ (journalism) is a state rather than a person–the definition of a political offense, which the US-UK extradition treaty explicitly forbid,” NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden said on X (formerly Twitter). 

Activists outside the court chanted “US, UK, hands off Assange” and “There is only one decision – no extradition,” among other slogans.

This week’s hearing will decide whether Assange will be allowed to appeal the 2022 decision by the UK government to extradite him to the US. His attorneys have argued that the extradition would amount to punishment for political opinions and violate the European Convention on Human Rights.

If the appeal fails, Assange will apply to the European Court of Human Rights and seek a Rule 39 order to stop the extradition while it considers the case, Stella Assange has said.

In 2010, WikiLeaks published the US military’s Iraq and Afghanistan “war diaries,” as well as a trove of State Department cables.

The Last Flurry: The US Congress and Australian Parliamentarians seek Assange’s Release

One of the videos, later known as “collateral murder,” showed a US helicopter killing 11 people in Iraq, including two Reuters journalists. Suspecting the Swedish “sexual assault” case was a pretext for the US to arrest him – correctly, as it later emerged – Assange sought asylum in Ecuador, which has no extradition treaty with Washington.

He spent the next seven years in the country’s embassy in London, blocked from leaving by the British authorities. 

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The captain reported an “explosion in close proximity of the vessel ” all crew members were evacuated and the ship abandoned.

Houthis deploy underwater drone for first time – Pentagon

The Yemeni rebel group has reportedly expanded its arsenal after promising to meet Western “escalation with escalation”

The Yemeni Houthis continue their successful operations in the Red Sea in support of the struggle of the Palestinian people. In the last 24 hours alone, Ansar Allah has announced several successful operations against foreign forces in the region.

The Houthis attacked the British ship Rubymar in the Gulf of Aden. As a result of the strikes by two anti-ship missiles, the ship was heavily damaged and may sink.

Since the beginning of the Israeli military operation in Gaza, the Yemen government (Houthis) have hit multiple Israeli-bound, US and UK vessels sailing the Red Sea. In solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza, the Houthis vowed to attack any ships they find to be linked to Israel until the siege of Gaza stops.

🚨🇺🇸🇾🇪 The US & UK carried out 40+ airstrikes against Yemen last week alone. pic.twitter.com/NSqL1azVTh

— Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 (@jacksonhinklle) February 20, 2024

The Houthis have also announced the deaths if at least 17 more citizens killed by the US/UK air attacks. Nobody has died in the Houthi attacks so far.

They extended their attacks to US/UK ships after their bombing of Yemen began, and may extend it to EU ships after the ill considered EU Maritime Campaign begins, due already on 19th Feb 2024

British-registered ship abandoned amid fears it will sink after Houthi double strike in Gulf

Embry ship security company has confirmed serious damage, claiming that ways of towing it were being considered. The crew has reportedly safely left the ship.

‘Catastrophic’ attack on British ship leaves it at risk of sinking ..The successful Yemeni campaign to help Gaza by blocking Israeli/US/UK ships through the Red Sea has vanished from the headlines of the US dominated media. But it is still working, pressurizing Israel and its Western backers by costing them billions of dollars..

In 2022, this ship was involved in the “grain deal”, in the framework of which it participated in the transportation of Ukrainian agricultural products.

Crew abandon Rubymar cargo ship after Houthi rebel missile attack …

General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper – Wikipedia The average unit cost of an MQ-9 is estimated at $30 million in 2022 dollars.

At night, Houthi forces shot down an American MQ-9 Reaper attack drone, as reported in an official statement. The video above reportedly shows the downing of the US drone.

Video Player . Downing of $30 million US Drone video doesn’t work on wordpress.. but really you can just see a light and a lot of cheering in Houthi

This is the second U.S. loss of this type of drone in the Middle East in 2024. LINK

US/UK fleet Fails again as Houthi missiles hit their Ships to protest Gaza Genocide .. killing nobody.

Earlier, the Houthis used an underwater drone for the first time in the Red Sea. The deployment of underwater drones in service with the Houthis is a great threat to foreign ships in the Red Sea. LINK

The US and British military operation against Yemeni forces did not lead to the stated goal. Foreign intervention did not secure navigation in the Red Sea, but only escalated the threat, primarily to Western ships; but the West cannot retreat.

Thus, the European Union announced its decision to launch its own naval operation against the Yemeni Houthis in the Red Sea. The goals of this operation are the same, the result is likely to be the same too.

The #EU decision to send Warships to the Red Sea is more aggression in support of Western Capitalism, and more support for the #Israeli Genocide in Gaza – #Yemen is doing what it can to put an end to the Genocide, unlike the Western countries who've supported it from the start… https://t.co/GzdsBMeQOl

— Mick Wallace (@wallacemick) February 20, 2024

‘Inspired’ by Washington and London, the EU will also bear the costs of the operation, and ships of European states will be exposed to numerous threats when trying to pass through the Gulf of Aden.

The Houthis actually managed to block one of the main sea routes on the planet.

Separately on Monday, The British maritime security firm Ambrey said in a statement that a Greece-flagged, US-owned cargo ship also came under attack twice in two hours off southern Yemen.

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• U.S. Central Command Says It Struck Houthi Underwater Vessel For First Time In Yemen
• Military Situation In Yemen On February 18, 2024 (Map Update)
• U.S. Army Confirms Missile Launch By Houthis, Announces More Strikes On Yemen

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Yemen’s Houthi rebels have attempted to use a submersible drone for the first time, but it was destroyed in yet another wave of US-led coalition attacks over the weekend, the US Central Command has claimed.

The US Navy conducted a series of five strikes, hitting three Houthi cruise missiles, an unmanned surface vessel (USV), and one unmanned underwater vessel (UUV) on Saturday, CENTCOM announced on X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday.

“This is the first observed Houthi employment of a UUV since attacks began in Oct. 23,” the US military wrote, claiming it presented an “imminent threat” to US Navy ships and commercial vessels in the area.

Since the beginning of the Israeli military operation in Gaza, the Houthi militants, who are in control of a large portion of Yemen, have harassed multiple vessels sailing the Red Sea. In solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza, the Houthis vowed to attack any ships they find to be linked to Israel until the siege of Gaza stops.

READ MORE: US targeted Iranian warship with cyberattack – NBC

In response, the US launched an international maritime coalition to patrol the Red Sea called ‘Prosperity Guardian’, with the stated goal of protecting shipping lanes.

Since mid-January, the US and UK have carried out air- and sea-launched attacks against “multiple underground storage facilities, command and control, missile systems, UAV storage and operations sites, radars, and helicopters” in Yemen in an attempt to “degrade Houthi capabilities” to attack military vessels and merchant ships.

The Houthis vowed to “meet escalation with escalation” and expanded their list of potential targets to include US- and UK-owned merchant vessels.

While no Houthi missiles have hit a US Navy vessel thus far, the group has launched scores of missiles and drones against the US-led coalition ships in the Red Sea.

READ MORE: US-UK attacks in Yemen ‘illegal’ – Russian security chief

The attacks on Suez Canal freight – a route which normally accounts for around 15% of the world’s commercial shipping – have forced major companies to avoid the Red Sea altogether and sail around the coast of Africa, facing increased costs and spiking insurance premiums.

This is what the West doesn’t want you to see.

from thefreeonline on 20th Feb 2024 by Lou at Tales from the Conspiratum

This is a video from 2015, 1 year after a Western-sponsored coup in Ukraine brought outright neo-Nazis to power.

🇺🇦 Ukrainian neo-Nazis.

This is what the West doesn't want you to see.

This is a video back from 2015, one year after the Western sponsored coup in Ukraine brought outright neo-Nazis to power.

The residents of Avdeevka are protesting against Ukrainian Nazis who are opening up… pic.twitter.com/bGeyK5MfVG

— Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil (@ivan_8848) February 19, 2024

BACK IN 2025… The residents of Avdeevka are protesting against Ukrainian Nazis who are opening up military bases next to their shopping centers and then shelling Donetsk civilians with artillery.

“We are sick of the Ukrainian fascists who surrounded our Avdeevka!”

They are killing us! They are trying to open up a military base right next to the shopping centre! 90% of us want to be a part of the Donetsk People’s Republic!”

Where do you think these people are now?

What do you think the Ukrainian regime and their pocket neo-Nazis have done to them for 9 years before the Russian special military operation finally freed the city?

At least 27 dead after shelling of a market

Sunday.Jan 21, 2024 Ukraine shelling of Russian city of Donetsk massacres 27 civilians, just 10kms from Avdeevka Jan 21 (Reuters)

Friday 16 Feb 2024 Ukrainian army fled Avdeevka in disarray – Russian MOD

https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-export-lng Common Dreams Jessica Corbett February 15, 2024 9 Dems Join House GOP in Bid to Reverse Biden LNG Pause One campaigner called out legislators for “acting quickly to protect a few big polluting industries while continuing to disregard the health, energy, and environment needs of entire families and neighborhoods.” Nine Democrats joined with all […]

Less than 1 out of 5 members of Congress are loyal to the People rather than the Corporations. Political Party drama is a red herring of misdirection; there are corporate Democrats and corporate Republicans. Come November, voters must know exactly who they are voting for on their ballots and which corporate interests they are voting for if they vote for a treasonous candidate who accepts dark money from multi-national corporations and individual billionaires.

The Biden Regime destroyed gas supplies of its European dependencies and forced them to buy US LNG frack gas at many time the price – a boom for the powerful corporate energy lobby. Next move was to “pause” new LNG exports to keep the price high and placate Climate activists. But the Texas cowboys want unlimited expansion and new pipelines to ensure it.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved a controversial pipeline on Thursday despite opposition from local and Indigenous communities and without considering its climate impacts

from thefreeonline by Olivia Rosane on 18 Feb 2024 at Common Dreams

‘Alarming’: FERC Ignores Climate Impacts and Rubber-Stamps Texas Pipeline

“The world does not need more LNG, and FERC is out of step with the reality of the climate crisis and communities impacted by these projects,” one advocate said.

The commission limited its review of the Saguaro Connector Pipeline to a 1,000-foot stretch of the project on the Texas and Mexican border.

The final aim is a LNG plant in the north of the narrow Gulf of California, home 0f the last few 50 VAQUITA porpoises The Vaquita: The World’s Cutest and Most Endangered Sea Mammal

If built, the pipeline could transport as many as 2.8 billion cubic feet of fracked gas per day to an export facility in Mexico, where it would be shipped to Asia and Latin America.

The decision comes weeks after the Biden administration paused Department of Energy (DOE) approvals of new liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports while it updates its assessment criteria.

What’s at Stake: the U.S. OK to Building This Gas Pipeline to Mexico The Saguaro Connector Pipeline threatens tribal sacred sites and could fuel the LNG boom, opponents say

“It’s alarming that FERC would approve the Saguaro Connector Pipeline based on a narrow environmental assessment that ignores the vast majority of the project and its impacts,” Doug Hayes, senior attorney for Sierra Club’s Environmental Law Program, said in a statement.

“Rubber-stamping this project means vulnerable communities along the route will be at risk so oil and gas companies can pad their pockets by sending U.S. gas cheaper to Asia via Mexico.”

“FERC is responsible for sending gas out of the country and that is exactly what this pipeline is doing. Why do they not have purview over the whole pipeline?”

Friends of the Earth Action argued that the approval was inconsistent with the administration’s LNG approval pause.

“The decision to approve the Saguaro connector represents a colossal failure to consider the public interest,” the group posted on social media. “If LNG approvals are on pause, FERC shouldn’t be rubber-stamping this pipeline!”

The pipeline will be 155 miles long and four feet in diameter and is intended to carry gas from the Permian Basin in Texas to the border.

Once there, another pipeline still in the works will carry the gas 500 more miles to a proposed LNG export facility on Mexico’s Pacific coast.

An aerial shot of the chemical plants and factories that line the roads and suburbs of the area known as “Cancer Alley”

‘Death Sentence’: Reports Call for End to Big Oil’s US Sacrifice Zones

“People’s lives and the environment are being devastated at the hands of big business,” one human rights researcher said.

Olivia Rosane

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch both published reports on Thursday detailing how the fossil fuel industry has harmed the health and environment of communities in Texas and Louisiana, and how state and federal regulators have failed to protect them.

• The Amnesty report, The Cost of Doing Business? The Petrochemical Industry’s Toxic Pollution in the USA,
• The HRW report, “We’re Dying Here”: The Fight for Life in a Louisiana Fossil Fuel Sacrifice Zone,

The amount of gas that would pass through the Texas portion of the pipeline every day is twice the amount used by the state of Vermont in a 24-hour period, according toInside Climate News.

West Texas communities along the pipeline’s route are worried about what could happen if the pipeline were to explode, since many have limited medical facilities.

For example, the pipeline passes within one mile of Van Horn, a low-income, majority Hispanic community.

“Having a pipeline so close to town, carrying extremely flammable gas at high pressure, places an unnecessary risk on a good portion of Van Horn’s citizens,” resident Tomas Mansfield said in a statement.

An industrial plant in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley, October 17, 2023. © 2023 Eli Reed for Human Rights Watch

“While our emergency services work very hard at keeping us safe, a major disaster would overwhelm what services we do have, and additional help is at least 80 miles away. Trauma centers are over 100 miles away—our hospital is only a Level IV trauma center, and major traumas are usually flown to El Paso.”

Typically, FERC will sign off on an entire pipeline route if it crosses state lines.

Because this part pr the pipeline only passes through the state of Texas, the commission says it is only responsible for the portion of the pipeline near the border.

However, the Texas Railroad Commission, which approves pipelines in the state, does not have any authority over a pipeline’s route.

It also signed off on the pipeline before the residents of Van Horn were even aware of it, according to Inside Climate News.

Frontline communities and environmental groups argue that FERC should consider the entire pipeline route because it will carry gas destined for overseas export.

Culberson County Hospital (left) and Van Horn Rural Health Clinic (right) are shown in Van Horn, Texas, where residents are concerned about the local health system’s ability to cope with a major pipeline explosion.(Photo: Texas.pics/Wikipedia/

“The people of West Texas are looking to FERC since the Texas Railroad Commission has disclaimed any responsibility for the siting and routing of this pipeline,”Deborah Pendleton, who owns land near the pipeline’s route, said in a statement. “FERC is responsible for sending gas out of the country and that is exactly what this pipeline is doing. Why do they not have purview over the whole pipeline?”

“It’s common knowledge FERC works for big oil and gas, not the people. This was a predetermined decision.”

Indigenous communities, meanwhile, are worried that the pipeline will damage local ecosystems and sacred spaces, such as geothermal hot springs located close to the border.

“Our concern is that the pipeline is going to go through the hot springs,” Christa Mancias-Zapata, the executive director of the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas, told DeSmog. “Anywhere you go in that area is a sacred site to our people.”

The fight against the pipeline connects to the broader Gulf Coast struggle against oil and gas infrastructure that has sacrificed the health of communities and ecosystems in the region.

“In South Texas, we’re fighting to save the last pristine part of the Gulf Coast from extractive industry,” Mancias-Zapata said at an anti-LNG protest in New Orleans. “We’re trying to stop it from taking our sacred lands, our sacred sites, and destroying the natural infrastructure that Mother Earth created for us.”

There is also a growing movement to stop the LNG buildout for the sake of the global climate. The Biden administration’s approach to the pipeline illustrates contradictions within its climate policy, as it at once approves controversial developments like the Willow oil drilling project in Alaska and pauses LNG export approvals to further consider their emissions, among other factors.

Petrochemical plants also produce plastics, a major environmental pollutant and health hazard. Yet their production is set to double by 2040, Amnesty said, with a spiderweb of pipelines bringing, the liquid gas (not LNG) from the new western Permian fields to giant billion dollar new plastics complexes on the Gulf Coast with the aim to corner the World Plastics Market.

In early November 2023, the State Department asked FERC to perform an analysis of the project’s entire lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions, rather than just those of the border stretch, in line with administration policy.

Advocacy group Public Citizen, which is a legal intervenor in the pipeline’s FERC hearing, requested that the department account for its recommendation, and has now promised to ask for a rehearing of FERC’s decision.

“The commission’s decision ignores the harm record methane gas exports have on raising US Americans’ energy bills and exacerbating climate change, all to prioritize feeding more gas to China,” Tyson Slocum, director of Public Citizen’s Energy Program, said in a statement.

“The Saguaro export pipeline’s only purpose is to bypass the log-jammed Panama Canal to send U.S. produced gas to planned LNG export terminals on Mexico’s Pacific Coast.”

Residents also say they will continue to battle the pipeline.

“This approval was expected by all of us watching,” frontine rancher Bill Addington who works with the West Texas Legal Defense Fund said in a statement. “It’s common knowledge FERC works for big oil and gas, not the people. This was a predetermined decision. We will defeat the Saguaro LNG export project.”

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from thefreeonline on 17 Feb 24 By Palestine Chronicle at Global Research

Numbers can be dehumanizing. Alone, they could hardly convey the reality of the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza. The latest official numbers, however, are critical.

Theme: Law and Justice In-depth Report: PALESTINE

The Government Media Office in Gaza published an update about the scale of destruction by the Israeli army in the besieged Gaza Strip, starting on October 7.

The count is not final, due to the fact that over 7,000 Palestinians remain missing, and are presumed dead – either under the rubble of their homes, or scattered in the streets in areas that civil defense workers cannot reach. 

The numbers, stats and estimates below cover the period between October 7, 2023, and February 11, 2024. 

Genocide in Numbers

• 128 days of the war.
• 2,438 massacres.
• 35,176 martyred and missing.
• 28,176 martyrs whose bodies have reached the hospitals.
• 12,300 child martyrs.
• 8,400 women martyrs.
• 340 medical worker martyrs.

Bibi’s Endgame: A Ghastly Humanitarian Crisis Followed by Forced Expulsion

• 46 civil defense martyrs.
• 124 journalist martyrs.
• 7,000 missing; 70% of them are children and women.
• 67,784 wounded.
• 11,000 wounded in need of travel for life-saving and critical treatment.
• 10,000 cancer patients at risk of death.
• 700,000 Gazans infected with infectious diseases as a result of displacement.
• 8,000 cases of viral hepatitis infection due to displacement.
• 60,000 pregnant women are at risk due to lack of access to health care.
• 350,000 chronic patients are at risk due to lack of administration of medications.

• 99 arrests of health workers.
• 10 arrests of journalists whose names are known.
• 2 million displaced in the Gaza Strip.
• 142 government headquarters destroyed by the occupation.
• 100 schools and universities completely destroyed by the occupation.
• 295 schools and universities partially destroyed by the occupation.
• 184 mosques completely destroyed by the occupation.
• 266 mosques partially destroyed by the occupation.
• 3 churches targeted and destroyed by the occupation.
• 70,000 residential units completely destroyed by the occupation.
• 290,000 residential units partially destroyed by the occupation.
• 66,000 tons of explosives dropped by the occupation on Gaza.

“Where Can We Go?”: Terror and Panic Set In as Israel Readies to Invade Rafah

• 30 hospitals taken out of service by the occupation.
• 53 health centers taken out of service by the occupation.
• 150 health centers partially destroyed by the occupation.
• 123 ambulances completely destroyed by the occupation.
• 200 archaeological and heritage sites destroyed by the occupation.

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Gaza: Starving Palestinians to Death. Restrictions on Humanitarian Aid Brings Palestinians to a Single Meal a Day

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Here’s the video of Israel’s daily Guernica terror raid on the civilians of Gaza Rest assured, Biden is pushing hard to ensure they have more weapons to fill the streets with body parts and blood

see on X: https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1758232827726889024

Satellite photos show Egypt building huge Sinai Prison Camps as Israeli/US Expulsion and Ethnic cleansing plot becomes clear

The USA and Israel have long been plotting to LIQUIDATE GAZA and finally the DIABOLICAL, INHUMAN AND TOTALLY ILLEGAL PLAN IS TAKING SHAPE.

From the start it was pretty obvious. How was it possible, for example, that thousands of poorly armed ‘prisoners’ of Gaza would storm through the strongest border wall on earth totally by surprise, despite being heavily infiltrated by Israel? Why did the Israeli elite sell of their stock just days before?.

Why did Israel set out to totally destroy North Gaza and drive destitute survivors more and more south till most are crammed into Rafah on the Egyptian border?

Why did the US suddenly CUT OFF MUCH AID to Egypt just weeks beforehand, leaving it open to blackmail on the point of bankruptcy?

Because the plan all along was to force the Gazans out of their now completely uninhabitable home, and bulldoze the remains for luxury resorts.

Egypt will protest a lot, and even the western media may be allowed to complain for a few days, but the newsround will pass on to other disasters, and perhaps Egypt will receive “unrelated support”.

If they go through with this fascist plot – stranding up to two million survivors in an empty desert for profit and privatising food aid away from the “complicit” United Nations, it means the final end of any morality and peace on the planet.

Tel Aviv’s insistence, with complicit US permission and military guarantees, on going ahead with its planned attack on Rafah despite international pressure has been unshaken, for the obvious reason they plan to expel the Palestinians even though the area is where 1.4 million are living, the vast majority of whom have been forcibly displaced – some multiple times – by Israeli bombardments and ground operations.

Even more obviously Israel insists it will soon fully occupy and control the short Egypt/Gaza border

Palestinians displaced to Rafah are suffering from a lack of sufficient shelter, food, water and medicine, and the United Nations and human rights groups have warned that the humanitarian disaster in the besieged enclave is rapidly worsening.

Israel is delighted, and recently invited nazi chanting Israeli demonstrators to block aid lorries getting through.

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