Day 130 of the ongoing genocide: Total killed 28340 (+some 7,000 under the
rubble to be added) and injured  67984. 72% are women and children. This
also does not count the thousands dead from lack of food, clean water,
medicine and from infectious diseases and cold exposure. Desperate
situation for over 2 million people in Gaza strip. Meanwhile as you expect,
the news is mixed. Some groups speaking out and acting to end the genocide
while others work to accelerate it. For example while UNRWA (
https://www.unrwa.org/) tries to do its mandate of humanitarian aid,
Israeli authorities with support of the complicit puppet western
governments are shutting its operations and hobbling it. And yes the
Palestinian authority is permeated with corruption like the Israeli
authorities. Both are like this by design with no democracy or rule of
independent judiciary that serves everyone. In the case of Tel Aviv, the
judiciary serves Zionist elites and in the case of Ramallah it serves the
Fatah elites.  In both cases common people suffer and the genocide in the
Gaza strip is left to go on. And we continue to see heartbreaking stories
like the two sisters who were so happy one moment and the next were hugging
each other as shattered bodies hanging on a wall in their house.

16 leading humanitarian and human rights organizations call to stop arms
transfers to Israel, Palestinian armed groups: An Open Call to all UN
Member States to stop fuelling the crisis in Gaza and avert further
humanitarian catastrophe and loss of civilian life
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/01/16-leading-humanitarian-and-human-rights-organizations-call-to-stop-arms-transfers-to-israel-palestinian-armed-groups/

Detailed Amnesty International report on the massacres in Rafah even before
the intensification of bombing of this supposed safe area (that Israeli
occupation asked people to move to).
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/02/israel-opt-new-evidence-of-unlawful-israeli-attacks-in-gaza-causing-mass-civilian-casualties-amid-real-risk-of-genocide/

Since then, Israeli forces started attacking starving/famined civilians in
a blitz in the past two days that killed over 140 people in Rafah alone
(the supposed safe zone). See these
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36hkN42K2KY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avybJRm_QaE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGofjde1uSA
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Zp0faWK5yZU
https://vimeo.com/900618438
https://vimeo.com/896624159
https://vimeo.com/912346597

and a Canadian doctor describes the desperate healthcare situation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TbSRxVNOpE

Fifteen days after ICJ ruling, Israel’s genocide in Gaza Strip continues on
the same scale
https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6147/Fifteen-days-after-ICJ-ruling,-Israel%E2%80%99s-genocide-in-Gaza-Strip-continues-on-the-same-scale

Most Western supine media are silent and do not cover massacres. Instead
they are covering the "rescue" of two elderly hostages [yet those were kept
in a family home and were not held by the resistance forces]. Western media
accepts the version of events as fed by the Israeli government (known for
its lies, see ongaza.org) . They do not even qualify by noting source of
information. These mainstream media in the words of Malcolm X “have the
power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and
that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses. The press is so
powerful in its image-making role, it can make the criminal look like he’s
a the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t
careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being
oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”This is so
obvious to any casual observer who compares "mainstream" /corporate
(bought) media coverage of current events with that seen in other more
watched media like democracynow.org (and others listed on ongaza.org). The
world is changing and hundreds of millions are getting the truth of this
genocide live through these and the power of the internet/social media.

Israel faces more danger from the ICC than the ICJ legally. Here is why
https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-786722

To my father: A  documentary about Gaza https://vimeo.com/56683139

Son of Israeli victim speaks out for peace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZwuor_5wQA

Zionists threaten South African minister and her children
http://www.defenddemocracy.press/mossad-threatens-south-african-minister-and-her-children/

Netherland court Judge orders dutch government to stop sending parts for
F-35 jets (used in the genocide). And Niragua joins the South African
government in pressing charges of genocide at the International Court of
Justice.

[Shameful Court] CIA Whistleblower Joshua Schulte given Draconian Sentence
of forty years for allegedly passing documents that exposed nefarious CIA
practices

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/02/12/cia-whistleblower-given-draconian-sentence-after-being-found-guilty-of-leaking-documents-to-wikileaks/

EU foreign policy head Borrell speaks out [if you claim you want to stop
the violence against civilians, then stop arming it]
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/12/eus-borrell-suggests-us-stop-arming-israel-amid-fears-over-rafah-assault
Yet we need actions not words from the EU
https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1757241522465227166

I want to live, a song by John Denver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQer3hk53oU

Ilan Pappe: It is dark before the dawn, but Israeli settler colonialism is
at an end
https://www.ihrc.org.uk/it-is-dark-before-the-dawn-but-israeli-settler-colonialism-is-at-an-end/

Stay Human and keep Palestine alive

Mazin Qumsiyeh
A bedouin in cyberspace, a villager at home
Professor, Founder, and (volunteer) Director
Palestine Museum of Natural History
Palestine Institute of Biodiversity and Sustainability
Bethlehem University
Occupied Palestine
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