By Maha Hussaini in Gaza City, occupied Palestine
Published date: 24 May 2025 11:09 BST

"Dr Alaa al-Najjar, a paediatric specialist at al-Tahrir hospital within the Nasser Medical Complex, was treating victims of ongoing Israeli attacks across the strip on Friday when she was shocked to find her own children and husband brought into the hospital.

The children - the eldest aged 12 and the youngest just six months - were severely burned in the bombing."

By Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Mahmoud Issa
May 24, 2025 10:25 AM EDT

Summary

• Mother of nine children recounts terrible week
• Family shares one meal a day between them, at most
• #Israel allows some food in amid starvation warnings

The AIs at Sesame are able to hold eloquent and free-flowing conversations about just about anything, but the second you mention the Palestinian genocide they become very evasive, offering generic platitudes about "it's complicated" and "pain on all sides" and "nuance is required", and refusing to confirm anything that seems to hold Israel at fault for the genocide -- even publicly available information "can't be verified", according to Sesame.

It also seems to block users from saving conversations that pertain specifically to Palestine, but everything else seems A-OK to save and review.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30166807

Do we really have nothing better to do than suck up to genocidaires?

WFP Confirms Looting of Aid Trucks After Israel Kills 6 Police Escorts in Gaza - Quds News Network (2025-05-23)

https://qudsnen.co/wfp-confirms-looting-of-aid-trucks-after-israel-kills-6-police-escorts-in-gaza/
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>> According to Gaza’s media office and eyewitnesses, a police unit was securing the trucks when they encountered a group of looters. As the officers tried to stop the chaos, Israeli warplanes struck the area with multiple missiles, killing six officers and injuring 20 others. The convoy was on its way to a WFP warehouse in Deir al-Balah.

>> Following the airstrike and the loss of security, looters stormed the trucks and stole the aid, the #WFP confirmed in an official statement.

#StopIsrael #EndOccupation #StopGenocide #CrimeAgainstHumanity
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Stand With Logan Rozos: Sign Attorney Faisal Kutty's Global Letter to NYU - Action Network

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/letter-to-nyu-re-loganrozos/
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>> New York University is withholding Logan Rozos' diploma.

>> Now lawyer and law professor Faisal Kutty has sent a letter calling on NYU …

Scroll far down to find the full letter.

“... I am deeply disturbed by New York University’s decision to withhold the diploma of Gallatin valedictorian Logan Rozos following his brief but courageous acknowledgment of the ongoing atrocities in Palestine during his commencement address.

“There are moments in history when institutions are tested—not for their administrative efficiency or procedural compliance—but for their moral clarity. This was one such moment, and NYU failed.

“The notion that Mr. Rozos committed some form of institutional betrayal by deviating from an approved speech is both legally weak and ethically shameful…”

#LoganRozos #NYU
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By Sharon Otterman May 23, 2025
Updated 12:22 p.m. ET

https://archive.ph/1xeZj

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5009252

The forcible expulsion of the Palestinian people is now the explicit goal of Israel’s war on Gaza. Late on Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel would only end the war if “Hamas surrenders, Gaza is demilitarized, and we implement the Trump plan.”

Trump walked back his February plan for the U.S. to “own” Gaza, expel its people, and turn it into a “Riviera of the Middle East,” but Netanyahu seized upon it all the same and took it as a green light to exterminate Gaza. The latest phase in this plan is Israel’s weaponization of humanitarian aid for the purpose of furthering the Gaza final solution.

The plan is simple: starve Gaza’s population, and only create one designated flattened stretch of land where they can come to get food rations — facilitated by the Israeli army and run by a U.S. private contractor. Gaza’s population will be forced to go to these collection points, where they will be corralled inside what would effectively be a concentration camp, located in what used to be the city of Rafah, now a flattened wasteland.

Netanyahu made all this clear in his latest announcement, which came a day after Israel said it would allow “minimal” amounts of humanitarian aid into Gaza for “diplomatic reasons” — to avoid war crimes charges and images of famine.

Full Article

Abby Martin speaks with investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill about Israel's new offensive into Gaza that Netanyahu is calling the "final phase" of the genocide.

Israel has carried out multiple bombings across southern Lebanon, including blowing up a multi-story apartment building. The attacked happened just hours before local elections in the country’s south.

The Palestinian group Hamas on Friday welcomed a joint statement by 80 countries that described the situation in Gaza as the worst humanitarian crisis since the outbreak of Israeli military operations in October 2023. The statement, issued earlier this week, called for the protection of Palestinian civilians under international humanitarian law.

The ongoing genocide in Gaza, which has killed nearly 54,000 Palestinians, along with various plans to expel the remaining survivors, has one primary goal: to safeguard the Jewish settler-colony of Israel by restoring the lost Jewish demographic majority, which had been achieved through mass killings and expulsions since 1948.

Israeli strikes killed six Palestinian guards protecting aid trucks on Friday, as they were being attacked by looters, in what appears to be the latest coordination between the army and local gangs.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/44963200

In this News Brief, we we break down an object lesson in racist US-Israeli national security state toadyism, double standards, and runaway condescension.

From 19 may. Two days before the Israeli embassy got shot

This is how Zionist soldiers "decorated" their tank.
@palestine@lemmy.ml
@palestine@a.gup.pe
@gaza

it is about Israel's right to defend itself.

the horse was Khamas, it was a legitimate target. absolutely nothing wrong with that.

if you say otherwise, you are an anti semite.

#Gaza #Israel @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel

Israeli opposition MP forcefully removed from podium after condemning Gaza war – video (Guardian, 2025-05-22)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2025/may/22/israeli-opposition-mp-forcefully-removed-after-blasting-gaza-war-video
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>> Ayman Odeh, a member of the Arab-Jewish Hadash party, was forcefully removed from the podium in the Israeli parliament as he criticised Israel's war on Gaza and the rising death toll

#IsraeliOpposition #AymanOdeh
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By Emma Farge
May 22, 20252:11 PM EDT

"GENEVA, May 22 (Reuters) - The head of the Palestinian Red Crescent said on Thursday that a paramedic who survived an attack that killed 15 aid workers was spared because he asked Israeli soldiers for mercy in Hebrew, adding that he hoped the man's testimony would help win justice. "

"Younis Al-Khatib, president of the Palestine Red Crescent Society, told reporters in Geneva that Al-Nassasrah was spared after he pleaded in Hebrew and said his mother was a Palestinian citizen of Israel. "What does Assad say in Hebrew? 'Don't shoot. I am Israeli.' And the soldier got a bit confused," he told reporters. "That confusion ... made him survive.""