One more night? How about 16 more.
After a wildly successful Las Vegas residency run, Maroon 5 is doing it all over again, as they’ll begin another 16-show run at Park MGM on May 17, 2024.
“I’m really look forward to doing it again and honestly could never have told you that before we started,” lead singer Adam Levine candidly
told PEOPLE exclusively, admitting he was initially “skeptical” of the
residency. "I had no idea what to expect. Obviously I went into it with
an open mind and a good attitude, but I was actually shocked at how much
I enjoyed it.”
During M5LV The Residency Levine got “really cozy and comfortable, probably more so than I ever had been,” he said.
Good for Maroon 5. I read that and thought that before hearing a reader e-mailing, "Huh? You mocked U2 for doing Vegas."
I
did. A rock band doesn't really belong there. Maroon 5 is a pop
band. Like Third Eye Blind. Equally true, Maroon 5 has had a rough
patch. Adam's no longer on THE VOICE and there was something about
cheating or something. I don't remember. Didn't really see it as my
business, to be honest. If someone's tossing their marriage in my face,
I will pay attention to marital problems. Otherwise, I really don't
pay attention. In fact, Cynthia e-mailed about yesterday's "" and said
Miley Cyrus did have a great year and she can remember when Miley dated
this person and that person and when she was married --
Oh,
yeah. She was married I always forget that. And I don't know who she
was married to. Cynthia noted it in her e-mail and I know it was one of
the Hemsworth brothers but I honestly can't remember which. I'm not
that nosy, believe it or not.
But
when some idiot like Kaley Cuoco starts going around saying women have
to obey their husband? When she ends up divorcing him, I love it, I'm
thrilled and I point out, "She can't be obeying her husband if she's
divorcing him." That was a stupid thing to say to begin with so, yes, I
will pay attention then and be gleeful.
Otherwise,
I have to be concerned to pay attention. Like with Harry Styles where I
truly believed that woman was bad news for him. I'm glad he's moved
on.
Closing with C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"
Wednesday, December 6, 2023. Joe Biden opens his big dumb mouth again,
still no proof that rapes were carried out during the October 7th attack
(and it's nearly two months later) but the Israeli government has a
little presentation they're doing with a 'reliable' 'witness', as they
pen their fan fiction and work overtime to ignore the deaths of children
and infants, the ongoing assault on Gaza continues.
Let's
start with the idiot Joe Biden. There are only ten full months left
before the 2024 election. His numbers have been dropping and dropping
-- both for lying -- there were no beheaded babies on October 7th and
that lie was an outrageous libel that has many Muslim Americans saying
they're not voting for him. He's now repeated another lie. AP reports:
President Joe Biden on Tuesday forcefully denounced the reported rape and sexual violence
against Israeli girls and women by Hamas militants following the Oct. 7
attack on Israel, calling on the world to condemn such conduct “without
equivocation” and “without exception.”
Speaking at a campaign fundraiser in Boston,
Biden noted that in recent weeks, female survivors and witnesses to the
attacks have shared “horrific accounts of unimaginable cruelty.”
“Reports
of women raped — repeatedly raped — and their bodies being mutilated
while still alive — of women corpses being desecrated, Hamas terrorists
inflicting as much pain and suffering on women and girls as possible and
then murdering them,” Biden said. “It is appalling.”
There
are no witnesses, there are no surivors. At this point, there's only
the rumor that the Israeli government has repeated -- as have the dupes
like Mayim Bialik -- but that's all. Yes, the Israeli government did a
put a woman responsible for illegal torture over an investigation.
She's got nothing -- but the torture she's inflicted and overseen that
will find her rotting in hell for eternity. That's all she's got.
Back to the mythical rapes. As THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA noted yesterday, there is no documentation or poof of any rapes.
Sorry, uninformed Mayim, we'll always trust
Nora Barrows Friedman over you. Nora's worked on delivery the truth for
decades now and we've been fans since she was on KPFA's FLASHPOINTS.
This is from the MONDOWEIS article mentioned in the video:
On November 18, 2023, CNN aired a report
by journalist Jake Tapper. The report claims to provide testimonies on
“rape crimes” against Israeli women that allegedly took place on October
7, 2023. Within a few hours of the publication of the CNN report, an international media campaign by Israel and pro-Israeli groups was launched. Other media outlets, including The Washington Post,
based their reporting on CNN’s report. Feminist activists and groups
who have been calling for a ceasefire in Gaza were also targeted as part
of this campaign. Samantha Pearson, the director of the Sexual Assault
Centre at the University of Alberta in Canada, was fired from her job a few hours after the airing of the report. She had signed a letter
on October 25 that stated that the accusation that Palestinians were
guilty of sexual violence remains “unverified.” The letter did not say
that sexual violence did not occur but that there was no sufficient
evidence yet to support these accusations.
The CNN report represents a serious breach of professional conduct,
which we detail in this piece. The most concerning aspect of the report
is the fact that every single witness and “expert” in the CNN report
proves to either be lacking in credibility or have ties to Israeli
government officials and institutions. A deeper examination of the CNN
report shows a series of manipulations and professional failures,
including the fact that all witnesses that CNN claims to have “found”
were featured in previous reports pitched and coordinated by the Israeli
government, calling into question how much original reporting or
fact-finding went into the CNN report. CNN’s failure to adhere to
professional and ethical standards of responsible journalism also raises
questions regarding CNN’s possible complicity with a political campaign
orchestrated by the Israeli Prime Minister’s office to perpetuate
unverified claims of mass rape, and a larger effort to dehumanize
Palestinians in order to justify the ongoing genocidal campaign in Gaza.
The CNN report begins with an interview with Cochav Elkayam-Levy. She
is identified as an “expert in human rights law who organized a civil
committee to document evidence.” The speaker is indeed an expert, but
not of human rights law. In her former positions, including a post for
the Israeli government’s Attorney General’s Office in the International
Law Department, she provided the legal justification for Israeli
officials committing human rights violations against Palestinians. She
had previously published a “guidance for policymaking, government officials and legal advisors in the management of hunger strikes.”
There, she provided a detailed legal manual to “standardization through
legislation and regulation” for forced feeding – a brutal act of
torture used to break political prisoners. In the same year, Israel
legalized and regulated the “forced feeding” law to oppress and torture
Palestinian prisoners protesting their administrative detentions through
hunger strikes.
Yet, CNN considered it appropriate to bring her as a human rights
expert. In her interview, which opens the CNN report, Elkayam-Levy
presents nothing but justifications for the absence of evidence and
facts. While Elkayam-Levy claims to speak under the auspice of the
“civil committee,” CNN hides the tight connections between her and the
National Security Council for the Israeli Prime Minister. Elkayam-Levy
is also the founder and director of the “Dvora Institute,”
which works as a close advisory body to the Israeli prime minister’s
“National Security Council.” The advisory committee for the Dvora
Institute includes a former director of the Israeli Prime Minister’s
Office, and three former officials in the National Security Council.
The report then claims that CNN “found witnesses to the atrocities.”
The report then presented a video of an Israeli soldier, showing his
back only, identified by the letter “G,” claiming to be a paramedic of
unit “669” – the Israeli Air Force Special Tactics rescue unit.
In his testimony, the soldier says that during a search in the houses
of “Kibbutz Be’eri,” during combat, he opened a door of a bedroom to
find the bodies of two girls aged between 13 and 15, both killed, one of
them naked with semen remains on her lower back.
Upon examining the names of all the girls killed in Kibbutz Be’eri on October 71 to match the facts, no pair of Israeli teenagers meeting that description were found dead together.
It's
not been verified. And the current Israeli government has a real
problem when it comes to be seen as credible on the topic of rape.
Let's just look at three things. WIKIPEDIA notes:
Moshe Katsav (Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה קַצָּב; born 5 December 1945) is an Israeli former politician who was the eighth President of Israel from 2000 to 2007.[1] He was also a leading Likud member of the Israeli Knesset and a minister in its cabinet. He was the first Mizrahi Jew to be elected to the presidency, and second non-Ashkenazi president after Yitzhak Navon.
The end of his presidency was marked by controversy, stemming
from allegations of rape of one female subordinate and sexual harassment
of others. Katsav resigned from the presidency in 2007 as part of a
plea bargain.[2] Katsav later rejected the deal with prosecutors and vowed he would prove his innocence in court.[2] In an unprecedented case,[3][4] on 30 December 2010, Katsav was convicted of two counts of rape,[5] obstruction of justice, and other charges.[3][4] On 22 March 2011, in a landmark ruling, Katsav was sentenced to seven years in prison. Katsav appealed his conviction to the Supreme Court of Israel. On 10 November 2011, the Supreme Court affirmed Katsav's conviction and punishment.
On 7 December 2011, Katsav arrived at Maasiyahu Prison in Ramla to begin serving his seven-year sentence.[2] He was released under restrictive conditions on 21 December 2016, having served five years of his sentence.
Wow. He committed rape while he was the President of
Israel. Not real sure, Mayim, how the mythical wowie of the Israeli
government impresses you.
Judah Ari Gross (TIMES OF ISRAEL) reported May 27, 2016 the reaction to Netqnyahu attempted to politicize a woman's rape:
In response to Netanyahu’s first post, Labor MK Shelly Yachimovich
said the prime minister should “be ashamed of yourself” for having “zero
empathy for rape victims until there’s a window of opportunity to
incite” hatred between Jews and Arabs.
Yachimovich accused the prime minister of ignoring issues of sexual violence thus far.
“We never heard a word from your mouth in the case of the rapist
Katsav [Israel’s eighth president currently serving a seven-year prison
term for rape], no moral statement on the horrifying investigation [into
assault accusations against the late IDF general and right-wing
politician Rehavam] ‘Gandhi’ [Ze’evi], no comment on the fate of the
raped, harassed and persecuted each day and every hour… or on sexual
harassment in the IDF,” she accused.
“All of a sudden you take an interest in rape victims?” she asked.
“When the rapists are Palestinians. And when there’s an opportunity to
exploit the rape for purposes of incitement.”
July 12, 2016, THE TIMES OF ISRAEL reported:
Chief
of Staff Gadi Eisenkot on Monday nominated a rabbi who once appeared to
condone rape during wartime to take over as the IDF’s chief chaplain.
Rabbi Col. Eyal Karim has also maintained that it is “entirely
forbidden” for women to serve in the military for reasons of modesty and
has opposed female singing at army events.
Karim was embroiled in controversy in 2012 for his response to a question posed to him (Hebrew link) on
the religious website Kipa, asking in the light of certain biblical
passages if IDF soldiers, for example, were permitted to commit rape
during wartime despite the general understanding that such an act is
widely considered repugnant.
In
his response, Karim implied that such practices, among several others
that were normally prohibited — including the consumption of nonkosher
food — were permitted during battle.
Karim now
heads the Military Rabbinate of the Israel Defense Forces. And, Lie
Mouth Mayim, do you want to share what he said about women? No?
Suddenly the cat has your tongue? Because you don't want to explain to
US women's group that Krim -- a part of the Israeli government to this
day -- has said women shouldn't serve in the Israeli military and that
they shouldn't sing in public at military events. We could do a
dissertation on Karim and Netanyahu and their true policies and their
actual remarks about girls and women. Go whore somewhere else, you
dirty piece of trash. Don't you have kids not to vaccinate and other
lies to spread?
Whores like Mayim are never surprising
because War Hawks love to lie. Babies tossed out of incubators.
Remember that one? Yellow cake uranium sought from Africa. Remember
that one?
There may have been a rape by Hamas during the
October 7th attack, there may have not been. At this point, a lot of
baseless claims have been made. Now comes Joe to add to it.
He's already repeated the lie that he saw beheaded children. That was a lie.
Is he that lost? Is his brain that far gone? Or is he just a dirty liar?
That's
what his statements force people to wonder and to ponder whether he's
up to being president. More and more people who planned to vote for him
are saying they won't.
USA TODAY quotes Joe stating, "It’s on all of us -- government, international organizations, civil
society and businesses -- to forcefully condemn the sexual violence of
Hamas terrorists without equivocation. Without equivocation, without
exception."
No, it's not and if you keep pulling that nonsense it's going to bite you in the ass.
There is no proof of what you claim.
If
we need to all be condemning something, Netanyahu's trial for bribery,
fraud and breach of trust is back on. No one noticed that? No one
noticed that when that resumed on Monday, Netanyahu and his goon squad
really started hitting hard on the myth of the rapes?
He's on trial for corruption -- the head of the Israeli government.
But the world is supposed to believe him?
Joe Biden's a fool.
What
we need to be calling out is the Israeli state and their actions which
have resulted in the deaths of over 100 UN workers, which have resulted
in the deaths of at least 61 journalists.
CPJ issued the following on Monday:
The Israel-Gaza war has taken a severe toll on journalists since Hamas launched its unprecedented attack against Israel on October 7 and Israel declared war on the militant Palestinian group, launching strikes on the blockaded Gaza Strip.
CPJ is investigating all reports of journalists and media workers
killed, injured, or missing in the war, which has led to the deadliest
month for journalists since CPJ began gathering data in 1992.
As of December 3, CPJ’s preliminary investigations showed at least 61
journalists and media workers were among the more than 16,000 killed
since the war began on October 7—with more than 14,800 Palestinian deaths in Gaza and the West Bank and 1,200 deaths
in Israel. The deadliest day of the war for journalist deaths was its
first day, October 7, with six journalists killed; the second-deadliest
day occurred on November 18, with five killed.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) told Reuters and Agence France Press
news agencies that it could not guarantee the safety of their
journalists operating in the Gaza Strip, after they had sought
assurances that their journalists would not be targeted by Israeli
strikes, Reuters reported on October 27.
Journalists in Gaza face particularly high risks as they try to cover the conflict during the Israeli ground assault, including devastating Israeli airstrikes, disrupted communications, supply shortages and extensive power outages.
As of December 3:
CPJ is also investigating numerous unconfirmed reports of other
journalists being killed, missing, detained, hurt, or threatened, and of
damage to media offices and journalists’ homes.
“CPJ emphasizes that journalists are civilians doing important work
during times of crisis and must not be targeted by warring parties,”
said Sherif Mansour, CPJ’s Middle East and North Africa program
coordinator. “Journalists across the region are making great sacrifices
to cover this heart-breaking conflict. Those in Gaza, in particular,
have paid, and continue to pay, an unprecedented toll and face
exponential threats. Many have lost colleagues, families, and media
facilities, and have fled seeking safety when there is no safe haven or
exit.”
The list published here includes names based on information obtained
from CPJ’s sources in the region and media reports. It includes all
journalists* involved in news-gathering activity. It is unclear whether
all of these journalists were covering the conflict at the time of their
deaths, but CPJ has included them in our count as we investigate their
circumstances. The list is being updated on a regular basis.
Journalists reported killed, missing, or injured:
KILLED
December 1
Abdullah Darwish
A Palestinian cameraman for the Hamas-affiliated Al-Aqsa TV, Darwish
was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, according to the
Amman-based news outlet Roya News, the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate, and the International Federation of Journalists.
Montaser Al-Sawaf
Al-Sawaf, a Palestinian cameraman for Anadolu Agency, was killed in Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, as confirmed by Anadolu Agency, Middle East Monitor, and the International Federation of Journalists.
Adham Hassouna
Hassouna, a Palestinian freelance journalist and media professor at
Gaza and Al-Aqsa universities, was killed, along with several members of
his family in an Israeli airstrike in the city of Gaza, as reported by
the Ramallah-based Palestinian news network SHFA and the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes, and the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate.
November 24
Mostafa Bakeer
Bakeer, a Palestinian journalist and cameraperson for the
Hamas-affiliated Al-Aqsa TV, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in
Rafah, southern Gaza, according to the Hamas-affiliated Al-Aqsa radio, the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate, and the International Federation of Journalists.
November 23, 2023
Mohamed Mouin Ayyash
Ayyash, a Palestinian journalist and a freelance photographer, was
killed in an Israeli airstrike on his home in Nuseirat refugee camp in
central Gaza, along with 20 members of his family, according to the
Amman-based news outlet Roya News, the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate, and the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency Wafa.
November 22, 2023
Mohamed Nabil Al-Zaq
Al-Zaq, a Palestinian journalist and a social media manager for the
Hamas-affiliated Al-Quds TV, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on
Shejaiya in northern Gaza, according to the Amman-based news outlet Roya News, the Ramallah-based news website Wattan TV, the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate, and the International Federation of Journalists.
November 21, 2023
Farah Omar
Omar, a Lebanese reporter for the Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Mayadeen TV
channel, was killed by an Israeli strike in the Tayr Harfa area in
southern Lebanon, close to the border with Israel, according to Al-Mayadeen, Al-Jazeera, and the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes. She was reporting on escalating hostilities across the Lebanese-Israeli border and gave a live update an hour before her death.
Rabih Al Maamari
Al Maamari, a Lebanese cameraperson for the Hezbollah-affiliated
Al-Mayadeen TV channel, was killed by an Israeli strike in the Tayr
Harfa area in southern Lebanon, close to the border with Israel, along
with his colleague Farah Omar, according to Al-Mayadeen, Al-Jazeera, and the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes.
November 20, 2023
Ayat Khadoura
Khadoura, a Palestinian freelance journalist and podcast presenter,
was killed along with an unknown number of family members in an Israeli
airstrike on her home in Beit Lahya in northern Gaza, according to the
Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes, the news website Arabi 21, and London-based Al-Ghad TV. Khadoura shared videos on social media about the situation in Gaza, including a November 6 video, which she called “my last message to the world” where she said, “We had big dreams but our dream now is to be killed in one piece so they know who we are.”
Alaa Taher Al-Hassanat
Al-Hassanat, a Palestinian journalist and presenter at AlMajedat Media Network,
was killed, along with multiple members of her family, in an Israeli
airstrike that hit her house in the Gaza Strip, according to the
Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes, Quds News Network, and the Ramallah-based Palestinian news network SHFA. In 2015, Al-Hassanat wrote an article
about the 2014 war on Gaza, in which she detailed what she endured,
adding that “our role as journalists is now more important than ever.”
November 19, 2023
Bilal Jadallah
Jadallah, director of Press House-Palestine,
a non-profit which supports the development of independent Palestinian
media, was killed in his car in Gaza in an Israeli airstrike, according
to the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate, Al Qahera News, and the Cairo-based Youm7.
November 18, 2023
Abdelhalim Awad
A Palestinian media worker and driver for the Hamas-affiliated
Al-Aqsa TV, Awad was killed in a strike on his home in the Gaza Strip,
according to the London-based Al-Ghad TV, the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate, and the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes.
Awad had been working full-time since the beginning of the war in Khan
Yunis and had left to visit his family last week, his colleague Ziad
AlMokayyed told CPJ via messaging app.
Sari Mansour
Mansour, director of the Quds News Network, and his colleague and
friend Hassouneh Salim were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Bureij
refugee camp in central Gaza, according to the Cairo-based Elwatan news, the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate, Al-Jazeera, and Anadolu Agency.
Hassouneh Salim
Salim, a Palestinian freelance photojournalist, was killed in an
Israeli airstrike on the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, along with
his colleague and friend Sari Mansour, according to the Jordan-based Roya news, Al-Jazeera, and the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate.
Mostafa El Sawaf
El Sawaf, a Palestinian writer and analyst who contributed to the
local news website MSDR News, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on his
home along with his wife and two of his sons in Shawa Square, Gaza City,
according to the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes, the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate, and the Cairo-based Youm7.
Amro Salah Abu Hayah
A Palestinian media worker in the broadcast department of the
Hamas-affiliated Al-Aqsa TV channel, Abu Hayah was killed in a strike in
Gaza, according to the Jordan-based Roya News and the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate.
Mossab Ashour
Ashour, a Palestinian photographer, was killed during an attack on
the Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip but his death was not
reported until November 18, soon after his body was discovered,
according to the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate, TRT Arabi, and Anadolu Agency.
November 13, 2023
Ahmed Fatima
A photographer for the Egypt-based Al Qahera News TV and a media
worker with Press House-Palestine, Fatima was killed in a strike in
Gaza, according to Al Qahera News TV, the Egypt-based Ahram Online, the Palestinians Journalists’ Syndicate, and the Amman-based news outlet Roya News.
Yaacoub Al-Barsh
Al-Barsh, executive director of the local Namaa Radio, was killed
after sustaining injuries on November 12 from an Israeli airstrike on
his home in northern Gaza, according to the Beirut-based press freedom
group SKeyes, the Ramallah-based Palestinian news network SHFA, and the Palestinian press freedom group MADA.
November 10, 2023
Ahmed Al-Qara
Al-Qara, a photojournalist who worked for Al-Aqsa University and was
also a freelancer, was killed in a strike at the entrance of Khuza’a
town, east of the southern city of Khan Yunis, according to the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate and the Cairo-based Al-Dostor newspaper.
November 7, 2023
Yahya Abu Manih
A journalist with Hamas-affiliated Al-Aqsa radio channel, Abu Manih
was killed in a strike in the Gaza strip, according to the Amman-based
news outlet Roya News, Al-Jazeera, and the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes.
Mohamed Abu Hassira
Abu Hassira, a journalist for the Palestinian Authority-run Wafa news
agency, was killed in a strike on his home in Gaza along with 42 family
members, according to the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency Wafa, the London-based news website The New Arab, and the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate.
November 5, 2023
Mohamed Al Jaja
Al Jaja was a media worker and the organizational development consultant at Press House-Palestine,
which owns Sawa news agency in Gaza and promotes press freedom and
independent media. He was killed in a strike on his home along with his
wife and two daughters in the Al-Naser neighborhood in northern Gaza,
according to the London-based news website The New Arab, the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes, and the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate.
November 2, 2023
Mohamad Al-Bayyari
Al-Bayyari, a Palestinian journalist with the Hamas affiliated
Al-Aqsa TV channel, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City,
according to the Amman-based news outlet Roya News, the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency Wafa, the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate, and the International Federation of Journalists.
Mohammed Abu Hatab
A journalist and correspondent for the Palestinian Authority-funded broadcaster Palestine TV, Abu Hatab was
killed along with 11 members of his family in an Israeli airstrike on
their home in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip, according to the
Palestinian Authority’s official news agency Wafa and the Amman-based news outlet Roya News.
November 1, 2023
Majd Fadl Arandas
A member of the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate who worked for the
news website Al-Jamaheer, Arandas was killed in an Israeli airstrike in
the Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate and the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes.
Iyad Matar
Matar, a journalist working for the Hamas-affiliated Al-Aqsa TV, was
killed along with his mother in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip,
according to the Amman-based news outlet Roya News and the local channel Palestine Today.
October 31, 2023
Imad Al-Wahidi
A media worker and administrator for the Palestinian Authority-run
Palestine TV channel, Al-Wahidi was killed with his family members in an
Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, according to a statement issued by the channel, the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency Wafa, and the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate.
Majed Kashko
Kashko, a media worker and the office director of the Palestinian
Authority-run Palestine TV channel, was killed with his family members
in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, according to a statement issued by the channel, the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency Wafa, and the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate.
October 30, 2023
Nazmi Al-Nadim
Al-Nadim, a deputy director of finance and administration for
Palestine TV, was killed with members of his family in a strike on his
home in Zeitoun area, eastern Gaza, according to the Palestinian
Authority’s official news agency Wafa and Egypt’s state-run Middle East News Agency.
October 27, 2023
Yasser Abu Namous
Palestinian journalist Yasser Abu Namous of Al-Sahel media
organization was killed in a strike on his family home in Khan Yunis,
Gaza, according to the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency Wafa, Al-Jazeera, and the Hamas-affiliated Al-Quds network.
October 26, 2023
Duaa Sharaf
Palestinian journalist Sharaf, host for the Hamas-affiliated Radio Al-Aqsa, was killed with her child in a strike on her home in the Yarmouk neighborhood in Gaza, according to Anadolu Agency and Middle East Monitor.
October 25, 2023
Jamal Al-Faqaawi
Al-Faqaawi, a Palestinian journalist for the Islamic Jihad-affiliated
Mithaq Media Foundation, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on his home
in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza, according to Al-Jazeera, the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate, the Palestinian News Network, and the International Federation of Journalists.
Saed Al-Halabi
Al-Halabi, a journalist for the Hamas-affiliated Al-Aqsa TV, was
killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Jabalia refugee camp in the
northern Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate, the Palestinian press freedom group MADA, and Al-Jazeera.
Ahmed Abu Mhadi
A journalist for the Hamas-affiliated Al-Aqsa TV, Mhadi was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate and Youm7.
Salma Mkhaimer
Mkhaimer, a freelance journalist, was killed alongside her child in
an Israeli airstrike in Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip, according
to the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate and the independent Egyptian online newspaper Mada Masr.
October 23, 2023
Mohammed Imad Labad
A journalist for the Al Resalah news website, Labad was killed in an
Israeli airstrike on the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City,
according to RT Arabic and the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency Wafa.
October 22, 2023
Roshdi Sarraj
A journalist and co-founder of Ain Media, a Palestinian company specializing in professional media services, Sarraj was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency Wafa and Sky News.
October 20, 2023
Roee Idan
On October 20, Israeli journalist Idan was declared dead after his body was recovered, according to The Times of Israel and the International Federation of Journalists. Idan, a photographer for the Israeli newspaper Ynet, was initially reported missing
when his wife and daughter were killed in a Hamas attack on October 7
on Kibbutz Kfar Aza. CPJ confirmed that he was working on the day of the
attack.
Mohammed Ali
A journalist from Al-Shabab Radio (Youth Radio), Ali was killed in an
Israeli airstrike in the northern Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate and the Cairo-based Al-Dostor newspaper.
October 19, 2023
Khalil Abu Aathra
A videographer for the Hamas-affiliated Al-Aqsa TV, Abu Aathra was
killed along with his brother in an Israeli airstrike in Rafah in the
southern Gaza Strip, as reported by the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate and the Amman-based news outlet Roya News.
October 18, 2023
Sameeh Al-Nady
A journalist and director for the Hamas-affiliated Al-Aqsa TV,
Al-Nady was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, according
to the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate and the Palestinian press agency Safa.
October 17, 2023
Mohammad Balousha
Balousha, a journalist and the administrative and financial manager
of the local media channel “Palestine Today” office in Gaza, was killed
in an Israeli airstrike on the Al-Saftawi neighborhood in northern Gaza,
reported Anadolu Agency and The Guardian.
Issam Bhar
Bhar, a journalist for the Hamas-affiliated Al-Aqsa TV, was killed in
an Israeli airstrike in the northern Gaza Strip, according to TRT Arabia and the Cairo-based Arabic newspaper Shorouk News.
October 16, 2023
Abdulhadi Habib
A journalist who worked for Al-Manara News Agency and HQ News Agency,
Habib was killed along with several of his family members when a
missile strike hit his house near the Zeitoun neighborhood, south of
Gaza City, according to the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate and the independent Palestinian news organization International Middle East Media Center.
October 14, 2023
Yousef Maher Dawas
Dawas, a contributing writer for Palestine Chronicle and a writer for
We Are Not Numbers (WANN), a youth-led Palestinian nonprofit project,
was killed in an Israeli missile strike on his family’s home in the
northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahia, according to WANN and Palestine Chronicle.
October 13, 2023
Salam Mema
The death of Mema, a freelance journalist, was confirmed on this
date. Mema held the position of head of the Women Journalists Committee
at the Palestinian Media Assembly, an organization committed to
advancing media work for Palestinian journalists. Her body was recovered
from the rubble three days after her home in the Jabalia refugee camp,
situated in the northern Gaza Strip, was hit by an Israeli airstrike on
October 10, according to the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate and the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency Wafa.
Husam Mubarak
Mubarak, a journalist for the Hamas-affiliated Al Aqsa Radio, was
killed in an Israeli airstrike in the northern Gaza Strip, according to
the Beirut-based press freedom group Skeyes and the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate.
Issam Abdallah
Abdallah, a Beirut-based videographer for the Reuters
news agency, was killed near the Lebanon border by shelling coming from
the direction of Israel. Abdallah and several other journalists were covering the back-and-forth shelling near Alma Al-Shaab in southern Lebanon between Israeli forces and Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group.
October 12, 2023
Ahmed Shehab
A journalist for Sowt Al-Asra Radio (Radio Voice of the Prisoners),
Shehab, along with his wife and three children, was killed in an Israeli
airstrike on his house in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip,
according to the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate, Palestinian press freedom group MADA, and the London-based news website The New Arab.
October 11, 2023
Mohamed Fayez Abu Matar
Abu Matar, a freelance photojournalist, was killed during an Israeli
airstrike in Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate and the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency Wafa.
October 10, 2023
Saeed al-Taweel
Al-Taweel, editor-in-chief of the Al-Khamsa News website, was killed
when Israeli warplanes struck an area housing several media outlets in
Gaza City’s Rimal district, according to the U.K.-based newspaper, The Independent, Al Jazeera, and the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency Wafa.
Mohammed Sobh
Sobh, a photographer from Khabar news agency, was killed when Israeli
warplanes struck an area housing several media outlets in Gaza City’s
Rimal district, according to the U.K.-based newspaper The Independent, Al Jazeera, and the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency Wafa.
Hisham Alnwajha
Alnwajha, a journalist with Khabar news agency, was injured when
Israeli warplanes struck an area housing several media outlets in Gaza
City’s Rimal district, according to the U.K.-based newspaper The Independent, Al Jazeera, and the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency Wafa.
He died of his injuries later that day, according to the Palestinian press freedom group MADA, the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate, and Palestinian news website AlWatan Voice.
October 8, 2023
Assaad Shamlakh
Shamlakh, a freelance journalist, was killed along with nine members
of his family in an Israeli airstrike on their home in Sheikh Ijlin, a
neighborhood in the southern Gaza Strip, according to the Beirut-based
advocacy group The Legal Agenda and BBC Arabic.
October 7, 2023
Shai Regev
Regev, who served as an editor for TMI, the gossip and entertainment
news section of the Hebrew-language daily newspaper Maariv, was killed
during a Hamas attack on the Supernova music festival in southern
Israel. Regev’s death was confirmed after she was reported missing for
six days, according to Maariv and The Times of Israel.
Ayelet Arnin
A 22-year-old news editor with the Israel Broadcasting Corporation
Kan, Arnin was killed during a Hamas attack on the Supernova music
festival in southern Israel, according to The Times of Israel and The Wrap entertainment website.
Yaniv Zohar
Zohar, an Israeli photographer working for the Hebrew-language daily
newspaper Israel Hayom, was killed during a Hamas attack on Kibbutz
Nahal Oz in southern Israel, along with his wife and two daughters,
according to Israel Hayom and Israel National News. Israel Hayom’s editor-in-chief Omer Lachmanovitch told CPJ that Zohar was working on that day.
Mohammad Al-Salhi
Al-Salhi, a photojournalist working for the Fourth Authority news
agency, was shot dead near a Palestinian refugee camp in the central
Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian Authority’s official news
agency Wafa, and the Journalist Support Committee (JSC), a nonprofit which promotes the rights of the media in the Middle East.
Mohammad Jarghoun
Jarghoun, a journalist with Smart Media, was shot while reporting on
the conflict in an area to the east of Rafah city in the southern Gaza
Strip, according to the BBC and UNESCO.
Ibrahim Mohammad Lafi
Lafi, a photographer for Ain Media, was shot and killed at the Gaza
Strip’s Erez Crossing into Israel, according to the Palestinian press
freedom group MADA, the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes, and Al-Jazeera.
CPJ safety advisories
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INJURED
November 18, 2023
Mohammed El Sawwaf
Mohammed El Sawwaf, an award-winning Palestinian film producer and director who founded the Gaza-based Alef Multimedia
production company, was injured in an Israeli airstrike on his home in
Shawa Square in Gaza City. The airstrike killed 30 members of his
family, including his mother and his father, Mostafa Al Sawaf, who was
also a journalist, according to the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate, Anadolu Agency, and TRT Arabic.
Montaser El Sawaf
Montaser El Sawaf, a Palestinian freelance photographer contributing
to Anadolu Agency, was injured in the same Israeli airstrike that
injured his brother, Mohammed El Sawwaf and killed their parents and 28
other family members, according to the Anadolu Agency, the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate, and TRT Arabic.
November 13, 2023
Issam Mawassi
Al-Jazeera videographer
Mawassi was injured after two Israeli missiles struck near journalists
in Yaroun in southern Lebanon covering clashes, which also resulted in
damage to the journalists’ cars in the area, according to multiple media reports, some of which show the journalists live on air the minute the second missile hit the area. CPJ reached out to Mawassi via a messaging app but didn’t receive any response.
October 13, 2023
Thaer Al-Sudani
Al-Sudani, a journalist for Reuters, was
injured in the same attack that killed Abdallah near the border in
southern Lebanon, Reuters said.
Maher Nazeh
Nazeh, a journalist for Reuters, was also injured in the same southern Lebanon attack.
Elie Brakhya
Brakhya, an Al-Jazeera TV staff member, was injured as well in the southern Lebanon shelling, Al-Jazeera TV said.
Carmen Joukhadar
Joukhadar, an Al-Jazeera TV reporter, was also wounded in the southern Lebanon attack.
Christina Assi
Assi, a photographer for the French news agency Agence France-Press
(AFP), was injured in that same attack on southern Lebanon, according to
AFP and France 24.
Dylan Collins
Dylan Collins, a video journalist for AFP, was also injured in the southern Lebanon shelling.
October 7, 2023
Ibrahim Qanan
Qanan, a correspondent for Al-Ghad channel, was injured by shrapnel
in the city of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, according to MADA
and JSC.
Firas Lutfi
Police assaulted
Lufti, a correspondent with privately owned Sky News Arabia, along
with other Sky News journalists in the southern city of Ashkelon,
according to members of the television crew. Lutfi said Israeli police aimed rifles at his head, forced him to remove his clothes, confiscated the team’s phones, and made them leave the area under police escort.
MISSING
October 7, 2023
Oded Lifschitz
Lifschitz, a lifelong Israeli journalist who wrote for Al-Hamishmar for many years and was also a Haaretz contributor,
was reported missing from Kibbutz Nir Oz in southern Israel. Oded’s
wife was one of the two hostages released by Hamas on October 24, 2023,
according to The Times of Israel and The Telegraph.
Nidal Al-Wahidi
A Palestinian photographer from the Al-Najah channel, Al-Wahidi was reported missing by MADA. Later, Al-Wahidi’s family informed the media that the journalist had been detained by the Israeli army.
Haitham Abdelwahid
A Palestinian photographer from the Ain Media agency, Abdelwahid was also reported missing by MADA.
The
deaths of the above are not in question. How do you explain the deaths
of journalist or UN workers? You don't. You just lie and whore and
pretend that there are rapes! rapes! rapes! It's a good distraction and
certainly the US playbook was to pin going to war with Afghanistan on
what happened to women.
But there are real
events, verifiable events that are known. And you can't excuse it. So
you lie and whore like Mayim and like Julianne Margulies and like Joe
Biden. You just lie and whore.
It's not
surprising because the death of all these children in Gaza has been
ignored by the whores like Amy Schumer and Mayim and Julianne and so
many more.
'Be upset about these rapes that there's no proof of! It will help you forget about the infant corpses!'
Joe
needs to start listening to advisors (he was urged not to make the
remarks he did yesterday -- the same as he was urged not to lie that
he'd seen evidence of beheaded children). Poppy Bush antagonized many
with the Gulf War and there was a year and eight months between the end
of that and the 1992 election.
'Oh, well, H Ross Perot was in that election!'
Yes,
they did have an independent candidate. I don't see Cornel West
getting on many ballots. Junior? He's got the money to blow. And No
Labels is looking for a candidate (this week they're making comments
about how if Nikki Hayley doesn't get the GOP nomination, they're open
to her).
Muslim American leaders in several pivotal states pledged on Saturday
to rally their communities against President Joe Biden’s bid for
re-election due to his steadfast backing of Israel’s war in Gaza.
The #AbandonBiden campaign began when Minnesota Muslim Americans
demanded Biden call for a ceasefire by October 31, and has spread to
Michigan, Arizona, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Florida.
POLITICO added, "Organizers from Michigan, Minnesota, Arizona, Wisconsin, Florida,
Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania are calling the campaign #AbandonBiden,
vowing to ensure that Biden is a one-term president. These leaders have
run separate pressure campaigns in their respective states, members of
the coalition said, but they felt now was the time to coordinate their
response ahead of the 2024 election."
You have created this problem for yourself. Taking the issue further with lies is not going to help you.
And
I do love the propaganda the torture queen has put out and shown to the
BBC. It's cute. Free of facts and comparing the attackers to . . .
ISIS. ISIS didn't seize Mosul for a few hours. ISIS seized it for
months and months and years and . . . But in only a few hours, Hamas
was raping women -- gang raping them -- slicing off breasts in the
middle of the gang rape -- tossing the sliced off breast to comrades who
basically played kick ball with it while a woman continued to be gang
raped. You have 'witnesses' including the man who says it went on for
an hour. He didn't do anything. He didn't even film or take pictures
for evidence.
Oh, wait. That's
because, he explains, he didn't see it. He didn't see any of it. He
just heard screams. He's a witness to screams. Didn't see what was
actually going on but his cowardly mind painted pictures and that's his
testimony. Screams for an hour and a grown man didn't even try to
defend the woman -- real or imagined. But he's going to tell us all now
what happened.
It's cute propaganda and a
little better than what Torie Clarke did when she was trying to whip up
support for war. They picked badly, the Israeli government. They
probably got the best liar they could. But they didn't factor in her
past with torture so now they have to work double time convincing
outlets not to identify her past work.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency said Wednesday
that it faces several challenges that are pushing its operations in Gaza
"to the brink."
In a post on X today,
UNRWA listed these challenges as heavy bombardment and the resumption
of military operation, the lack of regular deliveries of humanitarian
aid and fuel, its dependency on one crossing point and the overwhelming
needs in Gaza — including in overflowing UNRWA shelters.
AMY GOODMAN: We’re broadcasting from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates at the U.N. climate summit.
The World Health Organization is warning the crisis in Gaza is
getting worse by the hour as Israel intensifies its ground and air
assault across all parts of the Gaza Strip. UNICEF
says there’s, quote, “no safe zones” remaining in any part of Gaza,
where the death toll from the Israeli bombardment is approaching 16,000.
Israeli troops have reportedly encircled Jabaliya, the largest refugee
camp in Gaza. A spokesperson for the Gaza Health Ministry said hospitals
are struggling to cope with the surge of patients.
ASHRAF AL-QUDRA:
[translated] The wounded and patients are on the floor. There is no
life-saving health service in the hospitals of southern Gaza Strip,
hence hospitals in southern Gaza have totally collapsed. They cannot
deal with the quantity and quality of injuries that arrive at the
hospitals. It is difficult for the ambulances to reach the injured in
the targeted areas. The Israeli occupation targets ambulances that move
in the southern areas of the Gaza Strip. It prevents them from reaching
the targeted places.
AMY GOODMAN: On Monday, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric, traveled to Gaza.
MIRJANA SPOLJARIC:
I have just visited the European Gaza Hospital. And the things I saw
there, it’s beyond anything that anyone should be in a position to
describe. What shocked me the most were the children with atrocious
injuries and at the same time having lost their parents, with no one
looking after them. We are facing a situation here that will not be
healed by sending in more trucks. We need to provide protection to the
civilians in Gaza, to the women and children, to the elderly people that
I saw today that have nowhere to go. The majority of people I met today
have been displaced several times. I met people who have lost limbs
because they needed to evacuate between treatments, and they lost a hand
or a foot because they couldn’t be treated in the hospital where they
arrived first. I was told today that the north has lost its entire
surgical capacity.
AMY GOODMAN: That’s ICRC President Mirjana Spoljaric.
We begin today’s show in Jerusalem, where we’re joined by Shaina Low.
She’s a communications adviser in Palestine for the Norwegian Refugee
Council, has spent much of the last 15 years working in Palestine.
Shaina, thanks so much for joining us in this very desperate time in Gaza. Can you describe the overall situation to us?
SHAINA LOW:
What we’re hearing from our staff on the ground in Gaza is just that
day after day things are getting more and more hectic, chaotic,
desperate. We’re hearing about massive influxes of people fleeing Khan
Younis, fleeing south and west to barren areas of land where there’s no
facilities able to accommodate them. We’re hearing about shelters that
are overwhelmed and bursting at the seams and cannot house any
additional people. We’re hearing about people being so desperate that
they are sleeping on the streets, trying to salvage whatever materials
they can find in order to build a makeshift shelter. Yesterday our
office lost internet connection because people had actually cut the
internet cable in order to use that to help make a shelter. This is the
level of desperation that we’re getting at.
Stores have shut down because there’s no food available or no stocks
available to be sold. Yesterday our staff survived on eating crackers,
because there was nothing else available. Day after day, the situation
is getting more and more desperate. About 1.9 million people out of 2.3
million, over 80% of Gaza’s population, is internally displaced with
nowhere to go. We desperately need a ceasefire in order to be able to
finally address these dire needs, because we cannot address them while
there are ongoing hostilities. It is simply impossible.
AMY GOODMAN:
So much of the population has moved from the north to the south, Khan
Younis and even more south. These are places that they went to because
the Israeli military said they would be safe. Now they’re saying in
order to destroy Hamas, they must bomb those places, as well. Where are
they telling them to go, Shaina?
SHAINA LOW:
You know, they’re telling people to go not to safe places, but to
so-called safer places. But what we’ve been seeing for the last eight
weeks in Gaza is that there simply is no safe place in Gaza. There’s no
place that’s safe from bombardment, from land, air and sea. We’re seeing
that there’s no safe place for people to seek shelter, not only because
of the ongoing bombardments, but simply because there aren’t facilities
able to accommodate so many people. People are being exposed to the
elements. They’re in overcrowded shelters where there’s diseases
spreading. We’re already hearing about hepatitis A being detected inside
some of the U.N. shelters. There really is no safe place.
We have been calling on Israel to stop these directives calling on
people to flee. These directives are violations of international
humanitarian law, because Israel is neither guaranteeing the safe
passage of people to reach areas of safety, they aren’t guaranteeing
safety in those areas, and they aren’t guaranteeing people the right to
return home once hostilities have ended.
AMY GOODMAN:
Can you talk about what is happening in the hospitals? And also, how
many staff do you have in the Norwegian Refugee Council in Gaza? And
what has happened to their families?
SHAINA LOW:
Well, what we’re hearing about the situation in hospitals is that there
is a desperate need for additional beds. There are about 1,500 beds, I
heard from the World Health Organization yesterday during a briefing.
There’s an estimated need of around 5,000 beds. There used to be 3,500
beds in Gaza, so we’re seeing — as needs increase, we’re seeing the
number of beds decrease. Of course, there’s a shortage of — chronic
shortage of medical supplies, medicines, clean water just to make sure
that places are sterile and that patients can be treated safely. We’ve
been hearing for weeks reports of maggots coming out of people’s wounds
because they cannot be properly cared for and treated.
We have a staff of 54 currently inside of Gaza. And thankfully, all
of our staff has stayed alive. But I cannot say that they are safe or
unharmed. Multiple members of our staff have lost family members. We had
one staff member, Amal, who had followed Israel’s directives to flee
from the north, as she fled her home in northern Gaza and ended up in
Rafah, where the home she was seeking shelter in was bombed, killing her
only child, her 7-year-old son Khaled, and killing 10 other members of
her family. Just this week, we had another colleague who was injured in
an airstrike on Rafah, allegedly one of those safer places, and two of
her family members were killed. We have staff who are sleeping on the
streets because they have no place to go, including one staff member who
has a 2-month-old baby. They are unable to find shelter. People are
desperate. We are doing the best that we can not just to support people,
ordinary people, in Gaza, but to support our staff. But we are
increasingly finding our hands tied and are unable to do things because
it’s not safe for us to operate. We cannot reach the aid that we have
stored in warehouses in Gaza, either because the roads are cut off or
because it simply isn’t safe for us to access them.
AMY GOODMAN:
Have you been able to reach people in Gaza? We’ve been trying all
morning. People we have been able to reach in the past, we cannot reach
today.
SHAINA LOW:
I was able to be in touch with my colleague Yousef this morning. He
told me that he was on his way to go and check on the rest of his
family, who are staying in Khan Younis. Unfortunately, because
connectivity is very difficult, I hadn’t been able to get in touch with
him since the early morning. I reached out to one of our security
managers, because I was concerned that I hadn’t heard from him. And
thankfully, about 10 minutes before I came on the air, I got notice
that, yes, Yousef was safe and had reached our office, returned to our
office.
But this is the difficulties and challenges that we’re living with,
where we’re wondering not just if our staff is OK, but wondering if
we’ll be able to connect with them. It’s not just worrying on a personal
level, because these aren’t just our colleagues. These are our friends.
These are the people that we work with day after day. But also it’s
impossible for us to have any type of humanitarian response without
being able to coordinate that, neither coordinate between our office in
Jerusalem and our office in Gaza, but also with our staff in Gaza who
are trying to manage this response. If they can’t get in touch with each
other, our operations come to a standstill.
AMY GOODMAN:
I want to ask you about a comment of State Department spokesperson
Matthew Miller, who said it’s too soon to judge whether Israel has been
doing enough to protect civilians in Gaza. He was challenged by a
veteran Palestinian journalist, Said Arikat. This is a clip.
SAID ARIKAT: And you don’t think that Israel intentionally kills civilians?
MATTHEW MILLER: We think far too many people —
SAID ARIKAT: When you bomb — when you bomb neighborhoods —
MATTHEW MILLER:
I have not seen evidence that they are intentionally killing civilians.
We believe that far too many civilians have been killed. But again,
this goes back to the underlying problem of this entire situation, which
is that Hamas has embedded itself inside civilians —
SAID ARIKAT: Come on.
MATTHEW MILLER: — inside civilian homes, inside mosques, in schools, in churches. It is Hamas that is putting these civilians in harm’s way.
AMY GOODMAN: Can you respond to what State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said?
SHAINA LOW:
From what we’ve been seeing and hearing, it seems that Israel is not
proportionate in its response, is not adhering to international
humanitarian law. While there may be legitimate military targets, the
principles of humanitarian law of distinction, proportionality and
precaution still apply. When 70% of those who are killed are women and
children, it seems that proportionality is not being taken into
consideration.
Just yesterday, it was reported that Israeli military officials said
that they would start employing technology to try and lower the number
of civilian deaths. The fact that they’re realizing that they need to
lower, and have the ability to lower, the number of civilian deaths
would indicate that prior to that, that they were not taking those
appropriate precautions. They were not making sure that their attacks
were proportionate according to international humanitarian law. And it
seems that with the indiscriminate bombardments that are happening, it’s
impossible to distinguish between civilian and military objectives.
AMY GOODMAN:
Shaina Low, we want to thank you for being with us, communications
adviser in Palestine for the Norwegian Refugee Council, has been an
daily touch with her colleagues in Gaza, usually several times a day
when connectivity allows, has spent much of the last 15 years in
Palestine.
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