Palestine Crisis Megathread III
Palestine Crisis Megathread III
This is the second megathread for discussion regarding the crisis.
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This conflict has spanned for decades and has spread so far. Learning about every little thing has been overwhelming enough. Finding a way to organize that information is no easy task either. This comment will be used as an anchor to showcase a plethora of information regarding the conflict, both in background and the present. I still don't know if it should be organized by news source or events themselves; maybe it will be a mix.
Al Jazeera
---Gaza---
October 20, 2023: Israel bombs Greek Orthodox Gaza church sheltering displaced people
November 4, 2023: Israeli fire destroys water reservoir in northern Gaza amid dire shortage of clean drinking water
November 6, 2023: Palestinians flee massacre as Israel bombs al-Maghazi refugee camp
November 16, 2023: In Gaza, Ahmad lost his family then his legs to Israel’s bombing
November 17, 2023: ‘We’re alive’, then dead silence: A Gaza family trapped in Israel’s war
November 17, 2023: Dirty secret of Israel’s weapons exports: They’re tested on Palestinians
November 22, 2023: Dozens from same family killed in Gaza as Israel continues bombardment
November 23, 2023: ‘Can regain our soul’: Relief and fear in Gaza ahead of Israel truce
November 26, 2023: Wounded patients left at al-Shifa Hospital face dire conditions | Dire conditions at al-Shifa Hospital revealed during Gaza pause
November 27, 2023: ‘Devastating’: the final hours at Gaza’s besieged Indonesian Hospital
November 27, 2023: ‘We want permanent ceasefire,’ Palestinians in Gaza say as truce extended
November 28, 2023: Gaza family opts to live in ruins of home
November 29, 2023: ‘Save what remains of Gaza’, hospital director says, amid bombing
December 1, 2023: Israeli air strikes pound Gaza as truce with Hamas ends
December 1, 2023: Israel strikes Gaza after truce expires
December 1, 2023: ‘Where to go?’ Palestinians say nowhere safe as Israel resumes Gaza bombing
December 1, 2023: Palestinians flee homes, dig in rubble as Israel resumes strikes on Gaza
December 1, 2023: Gaza aid trucks stranded as Israel-Hamas war resumes
December 1, 2023: ‘Bombing everywhere’: As Israel renews war, my eight-year-old has questions
December 2, 2023: ‘Hell on Earth’ in Gaza: Israel strikes hit Deir el-Balah
December 2, 2023: Photos: More deaths and destruction as Israel targets southern Gaza
December 3, 2023: Over 700 killed in last 24 hours as Israel intensifies strikes | December 3, 2023: From north to south, nowhere safe in Gaza as 700 killed in 24 hours
December 4, 2023: Khan Younis hospital stretched by influx of patients as Israel bombs Gaza
December 4, 2023: No end to suffering of Gaza children as Israeli attacks rage on
December 5, 2023: Searching for survivors after Israeli attack on central Gaza building
December 5, 2023: Israel intensifies strikes on Gaza’s second-largest city
December 6, 2023: Israeli raid kills 22 members of Al Jazeera correspondent’s family in Gaza
December 9, 2023: Photos: Israel bombs Gaza areas it declared safe zones for Palestinians
December 9, 2023: US skips congressional review for emergency sale of tank shells to Israel
December 10, 2023: Nearly 300 killed in Gaza in 24 hours as Hamas, Netanyahu trade threats
December 10, 2023: ‘A hand here, a head there’: Israeli warplanes kill dozens in central Gaza
December 12, 2023: ‘Like we were lesser humans’: Gaza boys, men recall Israeli arrest, torture
December 24, 2023: Israeli strikes kill UN staff, more than 70 of his extended family in Gaza
December 25, 2023: ‘Massacre’ as Israel steps up Gaza bombardment for Christmas | December 25, 2023: Israel intensifies Gaza strikes, killing 250 Palestinians in 24 hours | December 25, 2023: Gaza’s Maghazi refugee camp in ruins after deadly Israeli attack
January 4, 2024: Hunger hits displaced Palestinians and animals in Gaza zoo
January 4, 2024: Photos: Palestinians flee Nuseirat refugee camp once again amid attacks
January 6, 2024: Safe zones: Israel’s technologies of genocide
January 7, 2024: Hamza, son of Al Jazeera’s Wael Dahdouh, killed in Israeli attack in Gaza
January 8, 2024: Palestinian girl loses her sight and her family in Gaza attack
January 8, 2024: Remembering Issa al-Souri, a little boy killed when Israel bombed a church
January 8, 2024: How a parkour group in Gaza turns war ruins into sporting arenas
#Incursions
December 3, 2023: ‘Death corridor’: The al-Samounis recall terror of ‘safe passage’ in Gaza
December 6, 2023: Two Gaza brothers stripped, jeered at by Israeli army, one taken captive
December 8, 2023: Palestinians detained by Israel in Gaza blindfolded, stripped to underwear
December 13, 2023: Civilians sheltering inside a Gaza school killed execution-style | December 21, 2023: UN calls for probe as Israeli army accused of killing unarmed Palestinians | Demember 26, 2023: Classroom massacre: Survivors say Israel executed innocents in Gaza school
---Gaza Continued---
January 10, 2024: WHO facing ‘near insurmountable challenges’ in Gaza aid delivery
January 10, 2024: Photos: Terrified people flee Israeli attacks at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital
January 11, 2024: Gaza daily deaths exceed all other major conflicts in 21st century: Oxfam
January 13, 2024: Shot in ‘cold blood’: Killing of Palestinian grandmother sparks outcry
January 13, 2024: Blackout in Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Hospital as fuel runs out, babies at high risk
January 17, 2024: Israel ramps up attacks on Khan Younis as aid for Gaza arrives in Egypt
January 17, 2024: Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh in Qatar for medical treatment
January 18, 2024: Maghazi residents left reeling after Israeli forces withdraw
January 19, 2024: UN says Palestinians detained by Israeli forces humiliated, beaten
January 20, 2024: Palestinians accuse Israeli forces of executing 19 civilians in Gaza
January 29, 2024: Two brothers shot by Israeli forces in Khan Younis, white flag ignored
January 30, 2024: No rest for Gaza’s dead with rushed burials, bodies desecrated
February 2, 2024: UN estimates 17,000 Gaza children left unaccompanied amid Israel’s war
February 6, 2024: Israel’s assault on Gaza, through Mona’s eyes
February 9, 2024: Israeli bombs target Gaza’s overcrowded Rafah
February 9, 2024: Israeli snipers kill 21 civilians outside Gaza’s besieged Nasser Hospital
February 21, 2024: Israeli forces kill, wound Palestinians waiting for food aid in Gaza
February 22, 2024: Israel bombards Gaza’s Rafah as ground offensive looms
February 29, 2024: ‘Massacre’: Dozens killed by Israeli fire in Gaza while collecting food aid
March 14, 2024: ‘Death trap’: Israeli forces kill six in new attack on Gaza aid seekers
March 15: 2024: ‘Massacre’: Israel forces attack crowds waiting for aid in Gaza, killing 21
March 23, 2024: At least 19 reported killed as Israeli forces fire on Gaza aid seekers
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Israeli fire destroys water reservoir in northern Gaza amid dire shortage of clean drinking water
Gaza family opts to live in ruins of home
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Haaretz
---History---
July 5, 2019: Burying the Nakba: How Israel Systematically Hides Evidence of 1948 Expulsion of Arabs
November 4, 2021: Account From '56 Describes Slaughter and Rape by Israeli Troops in Gaza. Is It True?
December 9, 2021: Classified Docs Reveal Massacres of Palestinians in '48 – and What Israeli Leaders Knew
August 1, 2022: Editorial | There Are Thousands of Classified Pages Israel Has Yet to Reveal, for the Sake of Healing
October 29, 2023: 'I Saw Fit to Remove Her From the World'
June 21, 2023: Zionist Militia’s Efforts to Recruit Nazis in Fight Against the British Are Revealed
October 1, 2010: The Mengele Squad
---Modern Day---
August 22, 2023: Opinion | Diaspora Brothers, Don’t ‘Make Aliyah’
September 5, 2023: Using an Attack Dog, Israeli Women Soldiers Forced Palestinian Women to Undress
October 13, 2023: Israeli Settler Documented Shooting Palestinian at Point-blank in the West Bank
October 21, 2023: Cigarette Burns, Beatings, Attempted Sexual Assault: Settlers and Soldiers Abused Palestinians
October 31, 2023: Opinion | Dying in Southern Gaza: 'I Want to Go Home. At Least I’ll Die After Drinking Fresh Water'
November 1, 2023: Hundreds Involved in Attacking Arabs and Leftists, but Israel Police Arrest Only Four
November 1, 2023: Far-right Israeli Knesset Member Zvi Sukkot to Head Subcommittee on the West Bank
November 1, 2023: Opinion | Amid the Mourning, Israel's Settlement Enterprise Celebrates a Great Victory
November 10, 2023: Jerusalem Court Extends Remand of History Teacher Over Posts Against Israel-Hamas War
December 11, 2023: Opinion | The Gaza War Is Yet Another Self-made, Inescapable Israeli Imbroglio
December 12, 2023: Graphic Videos and Incitement: How the IDF Is Misleading Israelis on Telegram
December 15, 2023: Israeli Army Says It Killed Three Hostages Mistakenly Identified as a Threat in Northern Gaza
December 17: Opinion | In Israel, 20,000 Gazans Are Responsible for Their Own Deaths. I've Never Been So Ashamed
December 29, 2023: Analysis | Israel Knows the Number of Calories Needed for Gazans' Survival. How Few Is a War Crime?
January 31, 2024: Haaretz Exclusive | Israeli Army Occupies Gaza Homes – Then Burns Them Down
January 31, 2024: Death and Donations: Did the Israeli Volunteer Group Handling the Dead of October 7 Exploit Its Role?
February 1, 2024: Israel Held 82-year-old Gaza Woman With Alzheimer's for Two Months as an 'Unlawful Combatant'
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor
January 7, 2024: In Israeli army camps, Gazan detainees subjected to torture and degrading treatment
February 12, 2024: “They brought Israeli civilians to watch our nude torture”: IDF torture of Palestinian prisoners is turned into entertainment for Israeli viewers
March 4, 2024: Israeli tanks have deliberately run over dozens of Palestinian civilians alive
Testimonies
Israeli Soldier's Explosive Tell-All: "Palestinians are right to resist" - Former IDF soldier talks about how he realized that his actions were perpetuating apartheid, and that Palestinians were right to resist through any means.
Tantoura Ethnic Cleansing Testimony - Yosef Diamant ^Whole-ass documentary for any interested.
+972 Magazine
March 28, 2012: IDF colonel-rabbi implies: Rape is permitted in war
June 8, 2014: PHOTO: Soldier punches Palestinian activist in the face
July 31, 2015: Palestinian baby burned to death in West Bank arson attack
July 31, 2016: A year since the Duma murders: Navigating justice and pain
October 12, 2020: For Israel, tens of thousands of Palestinian newborns don’t exist
June 8, 2021: Settlers shot Palestinian and mutilated his body as he lay dying
July 15, 2021: Joint militias: How settlers and soldiers teamed up to kill four Palestinians
April 5, 2022: Israel charges Palestinian journalists with incitement — for doing their jobs
April 10, 2022: Israel’s false promise of security
May 15, 2022: In photos: Returning to Palestine’s depopulated villages
May 25, 2022: Israel says this book justifies Masafer Yatta expulsions. Its author begs to differ
June 22, 2022: Israel wiped out a Palestinian-German family. Germany refuses to investigate
July 8, 2022: This Israeli forbids Palestinians from building. He lives in an illegal outpost
July 11, 2022: Classified document reveals IDF ‘firing zones’ built to give land to settlers
August 11, 2022: ‘We killed a little boy, but it was within the rules’
August 30, 2022: Israel destroyed Palestinian village for luxury settlement that was never built
September 15, 2022: How Israeli media reported a ‘lynching’ that never happened
September 19, 2022: Armed settlers assaulted a Palestinian man. Guess who’s in jail?
September 26, 2022: ‘We built the Palestinian Authority with blood. We won’t give up on it’
November 8, 2022: “He asked me how many children I have. Then he said: ‘Now you have one less.'”
October 5, 2022: In Jenin and Nablus, resistance and despair go hand in hand
January 24, 2023: A coming out party for Israel’s religious Jewish left
February 16, 2023: The theft of Harun Abu Aram’s body, home, and life
February 27, 2023: The pogrom is the point
March 2, 2023: ‘They were burning our house with kids inside. The army didn’t let us through’
March 5, 2023: ‘I couldn’t see if my brother’s murderer was a soldier or settler’
March 13, 2023: ‘Who hits a 64-year-old woman with a bat?’
March 22, 2023: Armed settlers break into Palestinian family home under cover of darkness
May 3, 2023: Revealed: The IDF unit turning ‘hilltop youth’ settlers into soldiers
August 31, 2023: ‘It’s like 1948’: Israel cleanses vast West Bank region of nearly all Palestinians
November 13, 2023: How a hasbara group’s sham investigation put Gaza journalists in the firing line
November 23, 2023: What Israelis won’t be asking about the Palestinians released for hostages
November 30, 2023: A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza
December 8, 2023: ‘It would’ve been better if they shot us’: Palestinians recount prison abuse
December 11, 2023: ‘Diseases are spreading rapidly’: In Jabalia camp, thousands shelter in one school
December 19, 2023: Gaza’s rescue workers are haunted by those they couldn’t save
December 19, 2023: A Palestinian student briefly deleted her social media. Israel revoked her permit
December 28, 2023: Palestinian Christians in Gaza fear being ‘swept under the rubble or into the desert’
January 2, 2024: The ‘second Nakba’ government seizes its moment
January 5, 2024: Inside Israel’s torture camp for Gaza detainees
January 8, 2024: Israel is using a notorious military tool to arrest its own Palestinian citizens
January 9, 2024: The ‘mistaken’ killing of three Israeli hostages was a tragedy long foretold
January 24, 2024: Israeli police repressing anti-war protests with ‘iron fist,’ say activists
January 30, 2024: ( Turning Zeitoun into Shivat Zion: Israeli summit envisions Gaza resettlement
January 31, 2024: ‘My children are crying from hunger. This is a war of starvation’
February 6, 2024: Palestinians abused, forced to chant anti-Hamas slogans in ‘safe corridor’
February 9, 2024: How Israel turned a teacher into a traitor
February 10, 2024: Body of 6-year-old killed in ‘deliberate’ Israeli fire found after 12 days
February 14, 2024: Israel is surveilling U.S. data on settler attacks to thwart sanctions, sources reveal
February 17, 2024: The obliteration of Gaza’s multi-civilizational treasures
March 5, 2024: Survivors of Gaza aid convoy massacre describe ‘indiscriminate’ Israeli fire
March 8, 2024: A new surge of settler outposts is terrorizing Palestinians off their land
March 16, 2024: ‘We scream, starve, and die alone’: Life in the ruins of Shuja’iya
April 3, 2024: ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
Mondoweiss
Augist 28, 2017: Prominent Israeli rabbi preaches rape in war time
August 8, 2022: How colonizers weaponize rape: reflections from the Palestinian case
April 11, 2024: ‘Come out, you animals’: how the massacre at al-Shifa Hospital happened
April 25, 2024: ‘It felt like pulling my heart out of the earth:’ testimonies from the mass grave at Nasser Hospital
Al Jazeera
---Jerusalem---
Occupied Jerusalem: ‘There is no Palestinian male that hasn’t been beaten’
Al Jazeera
---West Bank---
October 6: Palestinian killed as Israeli settlers attack West Bank town of Huwara
November 16, 2023: Live on TikTok: Cousin of Palestinian activist beaten by Israeli soldiers
November 22, 2023: Anxious, optimistic: Families of female Palestinian prisoners await release
November 24, 2023: Israel releases Palestinian women and children prisoners under Hamas deal | Photos: Palestinians released from prison reunite with loved ones
November 25, 2023: Family celebrates return of freed Palestinian prisoner Marah Bakeer
November 25, 2023: 39 Palestinian women and children were sent home
November 26, 2023: Israeli forces carry out deadly raids in the West Bank amid Gaza truce
November 26, 2023: Israeli settlers steal Palestinian farmers’ land in occupied West Bank
November 27, 2023: Palestinian killed after Israel prevents medics from helping him
November 28, 2023: Freed Palestinian prisoners report physical abuse in Israeli jails
November 28, 2023: Israel arrests almost as many Palestinians as it has released during truce
November 29, 2023: Jailed without charge: How Israel holds thousands of Palestinian prisoners
November 29, 2023: Hurt, scared but free now. Palestinian boy recalls abuse in Israeli prison
November 29, 2023: 'They Assaulted All The Girls' - Jailed For Posting a Palestinian Flag
November 29, 2023: Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi among those freed as part of truce agreement between Hamas & Israel
November 29, 2023: Israeli forces kill two Palestinian children in occupied West Bank raid | Eight-year-old Adam al-Ghoul and 15-year-old Basel Abu al-Wafa shot dead by israeli soldiers
November 29: ‘Military camp’: Palestinian town of Huwara under 55-day Israeli closure
December 1, 2023: ‘My son was killed on October 6. There was no Hamas’
December 3, 2023: How a Palestinian teen’s release exposed Israeli mistreatment of prisoners
December 5: ‘Massacres await’: Palestinians in Nablus warn of deadly settler attacks
December 6, 2023: West Bank family sees no hope of justice in settler killings
December 9, 2023: Two teenagers killed, 15 detained in Israeli raids in occupied West Bank
December 14, 2023: Casualties mount in occupied West Bank as Israeli forces extend raids
December 20, 2023: ‘No safe place’: Jenin’s Freedom Theatre raided, daubed with Star of David
December 24, 2023: Muted Christmas as Palestinian Christians mourn for Gaza
December 25, 2023: Israel hits Bethlehem in Christmas raids on occupied West Bank
December 27, 2023: Six killed in Israeli strike on refugee camp in occupied West Bank
January 7, 2024: At least nine Palestinians, two Israelis killed in West Bank violence
January 17, 2024: Palestinian shop-owner used as human shield by Israeli forces
January 30, 2024: Two brothers shot by Israeli forces in Khan Younis, white flag ignored
February 2, 2024: ‘Love of my life’: Shot dead, waiting for her husband in the West Bank
March 22, 2024: More than 7,350 West Bank Palestinians arrested by Israel during Gaza war
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39 Palestinian women and children were sent home
'They Assaulted All The Girls' - Jailed For Posting a Palestinian Flag
Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi among those freed as part of truce agreement between Hamas & Israel
Eight-year-old Adam al-Ghoul and 15-year-old Basel Abu al-Wafa shot dead by israeli soldiers
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B'Tselem
Israeli NGO with the objective of documenting human rights violations in the occupied territories. Examples:
Misc
February 2, 2024: Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war
February 3, 2024: Shooting war: Gaza’s visual storytellers under ‘blatant’ attack
United Nations Human Rights
February 19, 2024: Israel/oPt: UN experts appalled by reported human rights violations against Palestinian women and girls
United Nations News
April 23, 2024: Mass graves in Gaza show victims’ hands were tied, says UN rights office
Perspectives
---Videos---
Dr. Gabor Maté (Holocaust Survivor)
^ Here's an interview regarding recent events.
Katie harper interviews political scientist and activist, Norman Finklestein
^At 1:43:50, Finklestein asserts that Israel would bomb a residential area, wait for people to come out and call an ambulance, and then bomb the ambulance.
Katie Harper interviews journalists and political activists regarding recent events.
^At 00:24:15, Ali asserts that Israel is willing to shoot their own civilians as evidenced by the Hannibal Directive, verifiable events, and testimonies such as Yasmin Porat's where the IDF was shooting indiscriminately and even fired tank shells into Israeli homes.
Owen Jones speaks about the case filed against Israel by South Africa
---Articles---
Albert Einstein letter to Shepard Rifkin
Opinion | The 'final' downfall of Israel was predicted by Einstein
How I stopped being a cartoonist and became a ‘troll’
We, Jewish students, must not be silent on the genocide in Gaza
Voices from the West Bank: 'They're forcing us into islands'
Truthout
March 22, 2024: US Has Redefined “Human Shields” to Enable Israel’s Slaughter of Gaza Civilians
Middle East Eye
February 8, 2018: Palestinian women haunted by abuse in Israeli jails
July 31, 2023: Israeli sex crime law condemned for giving Jews lesser punishment for rape
December 5, 2023: Israel-Palestine war: Israel shut down NGO for reporting rape of teenager, ex-US official says
Middle East Monitor
March 24, 2024: ‘Women in Gaza are being raped and this is not being investigated or reported’
Save the Children
October 29, 2020: “Treated like animals”: Palestinian children face inhumane treatment in Israeli-run prisons
Middle East Monitor
---History---
June 4, 2021: Opinion | The 'final' downfall of Israel was predicted by Einstein
Thank you for this. It was getting tiring seeing out-of-context and opinionated stuff getting posted on a world news community, where there is a reasonable expectation that posts should be actual news of current events from news sources.
Media Bias
Analyzing the bias in BBC reporting in Palestine
Hijacking truth: How OSINT in Gaza fell prey to groupthink
Western coverage of Gaza: A textbook case of coloniser’s journalism
Israel’s war on Gaza triggered a war on free speech in the West
Why, as a Palestinian American journalist, I had to leave the news industry
CNN staff say network’s pro-Israel slant amounts to ‘journalistic malpractice’
How the news cycle misses the predominant violence in Israel-Palestine
Y'know what, I might have some issues with the mods here, but at least they never said "It's the same story. "Russia plans to attack NATO", we get it, you don't have to re-post it 6 times. 24 hour ban for arguing the point and abusive posting"when someone posted stories about how Estonian, German, Polish, and French governments all made independent statements about Russia's plans for NATO.
@jordanlund is a funny guy
This is such an insane story I posted abt this lol, they lied to her family about what the story would be about
Since when do we sugercoat mass murder as crisis?
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Israel just bombed Beirut, targeting a Hamas official.
This is a major escalation, and could mean an expansion of Hezbollah's involvement, spreading the war into other parts of the Middle East.
I only see advantages