from thefreeonline on by gabundy.blog
These are the names of every Palestinian child (-18) that has been killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza since this latest conflict started on October 7th.
This list does not include missing children, unidentified bodies (obvs), or those killed during the 12hr constant bombardment on Friday evening.
Now the narrative around the October 7th attack by Hamas is unraveling as independent investigators on the ground study the attack sites. No beheaded babies, no burning piles of bodies.
Many killed were IDF soldiers. Many were killed in Israeli crossfire, tank shelling and “zero-sum” attacks (the bombing by Israeli troops of buildings where hostages were held, killing Hamas fighter and hostage alike).
Experts now suggest that Hamas’ intention was hostage capture only with an aim of prisoner exchange with Israel. Also, intelligence sources claim they warned Benjamin Netanyahu that this attack was coming, and their warnings were ignored. It took IDF six hours to respond to a flagged attack on one of the most heavily surveilled and monitored few square miles on the planet.
Israel has now killed 20+ of the hostages taken from the kibbutz with their airstrikes (independently confirmed figure, as reported by Israeli media). Hamas contacted IDF – through Red Cross intermediaries – to arrange a hostage handover in return for the end of airstrikes on Gazan civilian centres for long enough to find and bury the dead. According to reliable sources Israeli government representatives refused.
By the time the world sees through the lies that Israeli government officials and IDF chiefs tell every time this sort of violence happens it’ll be too late for thousands of Palestinian civilians. Over 10,000 have already perished, a huge number of them children.
The average age in Gaza is just 18. How many have to die to sate Israel’s bloodlust, piqued by the massive humiliation of October 7th? Answer, from the mouth of one Israeli government minister: “Every Palestinian is Hamas. Those children had it coming”.
What’s happening in Gaza is a genocide of a brutality and cruelty that far surpasses that of Hamas on October 7th. Israel is a rogue state that has “declared war” on “meddling” UN Officials after UN Member states passed an unbinding motion calling for an immediate ceasefire.
USA voted with Israel, against a ceasefire. UK and Ukraine abstained on the vote. The ethnic cleansing we are seeing yet again in Palestine is happening with the explicit support of our own government and opposition.
War Crimes are being committed and Britain is complicit under International Law. But the impunity with which western states (and Israel) have been allowed to act around the world for the past hundred or more years has instilled a sense of untouchability in them. They know they can get away with war crimes, genocides, ethnic cleansing, etc because they’ve been getting away with it for a century.
Israel will only stop when every Palestinian is either killed or displaced, and when every scrap of Palestinian land has been stolen, levelled and built upon to house European and American Zionist settlers, again against international law.
Meanwhile our leaders stand by and say “Israel has a right to defend itself”. This isn’t self defense. This is the annihilation of an entire people in order to expand the building of a far right religious ethnostate on stolen land.
Speak against it, or you too are complicit.
The Free 