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The Flour Massacre: Israel murders hundreds, wounds 1,000 civilians in war crime during aid delivery

Israel’s military has murdered at least 150 hungry people and wounded 1,000 others, targeting thousands of starving people at Al Rasheed Street in northern Gaza while they were waiting for humanitarian aid.

Here’s what happened according to Al-Jazeera – in two accounts:

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Here’s a far more personal message about what happened:

And here’s footage of the actual event, along with information from Gaza’s Ministry of Health:

Another person account:

This is a war crime.

There is no other way to describe it. Israel didn’t even try to hide its intention, which was to murder Palestinian civilians, and send a message to those who weren’t murdered – that they will not be allowed to take humanitarian food aid; they’ll be shot if they try.

But the alternative is starvation.

It’s like a sick game of Russian roulette.

Whoever thought of this must be as twisted as whoever decided to hold a children’s party at a border crossing to stop aid convoys entering Gaza.

Whatever the nature of the minds behind it, there can only be one conclusion:

Israel is now admitting it is committing genocide. It is, as the lady in the GaZa Voice video described it: a holocaust.


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With Brianna Ghey’s mother present, Sunak’s bad-taste transphobic ‘joke’ sparks backlash

Tasteless: Rishi Sunak thought it was clever to pass a transphobic comment during Prime Minister’s Questions – with murdered trans teen Brianna Ghey’s mother in the public gallery. Victoria Atkins’s (behind him) joy at what he said may be considered indicative of Conservative attitudes to the murder of transgender people.

Rishi Sunak proved once and for all that he is not the kind of person decent citizens of the UK want representing them with a verbal attack on a murdered girl in front of her mother.

This is utterly vile, and for once Keir Starmer was absolutely right in his response:

Did you spot, also, the laughter from Sunak’s equally-grotesque Health Secretary, Victoria Atkins – indicating that his disrespectful attitude to the dead is shared by the rest of his Parliamentary party?

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He subsequently ignored calls to apologise to Brianna Ghey’s mother, who was watching Prime Minister’s Questions from the public gallery:

The public outcry was immediate – but let’s have a bit of background first.

This Site hasn’t commented on Brianna Ghey’s murder previously because it was a news story about crime, not politics.

In brief: Brianna, a 16-year-old British transgender girl, was murdered in a premeditated attack when she was fatally stabbed in Culcheth Linear Park, Culcheth.

Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe, both aged 15 at the time, were convicted of her murder on December 20 last year and were sentenced on February 2 to life imprisonment, with a minimum of 22 years for Jenkinson and 20 years for Ratcliffe before being eligible for parole.

The court ruled that the murder was primarily motivated by sadistic tendencies and that hate against transgender people was a secondary motivation of Ratcliffe. It involved a significant degree of brutality and planning.

There was widespread public distress and grief over Brianna’s murder, along with sympathy and support for her family.

This is probably the reason people responded to Sunak’s jibe the way they have. The most common word This Writer has seen used to describe him begins with a ‘C’… and it isn’t “chap”.

For example, here‘s Supertanskii: “I said the £1k bet about refugees was Sunak’s lowest point, you said I was wrong and you were right. Making jokes about trans people as Brianna Ghey’s grieving mother sits in the gallery then refusing to apologise for it, proves what Sunak is… A complete c***, frankly.”

Personally, I hope Sunak doesn’t apologise. Even if he does, he won’t mean it.

And if he doesn’t, this can stand as a reminder of what he is, for us all, in the run-up to the general election.


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Israeli troops murdered Gazans and buried them in mass grave – like the Nazis

No longer an anti-Semitic comparison, it seems: bodies of Gazan civilians have been found, after they were apparently executed by members of the Israel Defence Force and dumped in a mass grave – as the Nazis dumped Holocaust victims during World War II. To whom does that make Benjamin Netanyahu equivalent, then?

The first This Writer knew of the latest Israeli atrocity in Gaza was this message on ‘X’:

Some commentators tried to dismiss the claim as the ravings of a pro-Palestine propagandist – but it was not wrong, as the first few seconds of this Turkish news report make clear:

Here are the details in written form, along with video of the bodies (wrapped in rubbish bags) being unearthed:

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This is a terrible atrocity.

Not only is it a war crime to execute any civilian non-combatants at all, let alone in large numbers, but it is also a crime to hide what was done by burying the bodies in mass graves.

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It is also a huge mark of disrespect for the religion to whom the deceased belonged; according to their beliefs, they need to be buried in a very particular way, at a particular time.

I also hope the bodies are being checked to ensure that no organs are missing.

Furthermore, the discovery invites comparison with another organisation that executed people and dumped them in mass graves: the Nazis, in World War II.

Even worse, many victims of the Nazi Holocaust were buried in mass graves.

These Israelis are plumbing new depths of depravity.

It has been claimed that comparing Jews with the Nazis is the height of anti-Semitism – and that may be true when such a comparison is false.

When the comparison is accurate, on the other hand, it indicates a level of insult not only to the rest of the world but to their own fellow Jews – by these Israeli armed forces – that is breathtaking in its scope.

Incidentally…

I can find no mention of this Israeli atrocity on any of the UK’s mass media news sites. Has it been censored – to stop us from drawing the logical conclusions and comparisons that I have?


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IDF hospital raid: the murdered victims were either in a coma, paraplegic, or asleep

More information has come to light about the invasion of the Ibn Sina Hospital in Palestine, where 12 Israel Defence Force troops disguised themselves in order to gain entry and execute three people they claimed were members of Hamas.

The raid has been greeted with outrage, and it is easy to understand why:

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Mouthpieces of the Israeli government have tried to spin the raid as retribution for a war crime by Hamas, but it simply won’t work:

As This Writer pointed out already,

the victims of the executions were all receiving treatment at the hospital as patients; in other words, they were using it for its proper purpose. That means Israel can’t even justify the attack by claiming the hospital was being used as a military base (which would have made it a reasonable military target, which it wasn’t).

And now we have been told that one of them was in a coma; another (his brother) was asleep; and one was paraplegic.

They all could have been taken as prisoners and removed alive from the hospital, to be treated for their respective illnesses in custody until such time as they were able to face trial – although whether they would receive any recognisable kind of justice from the Israeli regime is a hard question to answer.

But still Israel’s cheerleaders tout this disgrace as a matter for praise. It is as though they are deliberately stirring up hatred against that country and the terrorists ruling it.


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IDF troops invade West Bank hospital to murder three patients

So much for Israel’s regard for International Humanitarian Law.

It is a violation of International Humanitarian Law for armed military personnel to raid a hospital, which is a protected area and is never to be considered a military target.

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It is also a violation of International Humanitarian Law for those personnel to disguise themselves in order to carry out such a raid.

Finally, the victims of the executions were all receiving treatment at the hospital as patients; in other words, they were using it for its proper purpose. That means Israel can’t even justify the attack by claiming the hospital was being used as a military base (which would have made it a reasonable military target, which it wasn’t).

And how do Israel and its mouthpieces respond to the international wave of revulsion that greeted its unprovoked and unwarranted attack?

See:

The only even slightly useful element to arise from this shameful stain on the people of Israel (why do they allow their government and military to behave like this? Aren’t they a democracy?) is the fact that it happened in the West Bank, not Gaza.

This demonstrates to the world that Israel is grinding its military boots down on all of Palestine, not just Gaza. No Palestinian is safe from these genocidal goons with guns.

Of course, Israel needs to demonstrate that it supports International Humanitarian Law in order to conform with the directions laid down by the International Court of Justice in its ruling of January 25.

I’d say that’s going to be a major fail.


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Israel has been killing a lot of non-combatants in its Gaza genocide. Here are a few

For a country whose military is said to have been told not to target civilians or workers in the civil infrastructure, Israel certainly seems to have murdered a lot of them.

This article aims to do nothing more than point out a few of them.

Let’s dive in:

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Here’s some information that This Writer understands was current on December 19:

And here’s a comment on it:


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Israeli military killed three escaped Hamas hostages while they were waving white flag

Shot by their own side under a white flag (l-r): Alon Shamriz, Samer Talalka and Yotam Haim

This was terrible publicity for the Israeli war machine to start with:

But it only got worse as the victims were named:

For clarity, the deceased were described by the BBC as follows:

Yotam Haim, who was kidnapped from Kibbutz Kfar Aza on 7 October, was a musician who loved animals and cooking Italian food.

Alon Shamriz was also at Kfar Aza at the time of the attack. His family gave permission for him to be named after asking earlier that his identity not be revealed.

Samer Talalka, a Bedouin, was kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Am. An avid motorcycle enthusiast, he loved to travel in the countryside and spend time with friends.

Even worse, they were shot under a white flag:

An Israeli hostage was waving a makeshift white flag and another called for help in Hebrew when they were shot dead by Israeli soldiers in Gaza who “mistook them for militants”, a military official has said.

A soldier nearby opened fire, the military said, hitting two hostages while the third, who was wounded, managed to escape to a nearby building where other troops heard him crying for help in Hebrew. He was killed by a second soldier before a commander, concerned by the incident, issued a ceasefire order.

Rights groups have said it is almost certainly a violation of international law.

Following news of the deaths, the families of other hostages in Gaza called for an immediate cessation of hostilities and an agreement to secure the release of the rest of the captives saying “every second counts” for those left behind.

One can sympathise with the concerns of the relatives.

It seems clear now that the Israeli military cannot be trusted to follow their own rules of engagement, let alone international law. The remaining 100 or so hostages taken by Hamas (in its own violation of international law) on October 7 are in more danger of being killed by their fellow Israelis than by the so-called Palestinian terrorists who kidnapped them.

But Israeli politicians are most likely to use this tragedy as an excuse to intensify hostilities.

The Germans had more right to execute Edith Cavell than Israel to kill this doctor

Killed: Dr Hammam Alloh.

Around 200 medical workers in Gaza have been killed during Israel’s current assault on the enclave, we are told.

Among them is Dr Hammam Alloh, who died caring for patients at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza.

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A British doctor, Louise Raw, compared his death with that of nurse Edith Cavell during World War One:

But Edith Cavell was arrested and convicted by the Germans for helping allied soldiers escape German-occupied Belgium and enter the neutral Netherlands, which was a war crime according to German law at the time.

Questions have been raised over whether the sentence was legal, but even Miss Cavell agreed that the German authorities had the right to carry out justice over her.

They had more right to do so than Israel has to kill medical staff at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, in fact – people who have done nothing more than carry out their duty of care to patients there.

Dr Raw is absolutely right to contrast the reactions to Miss Cavell’s death with those to the staff at al-Shifa.

Why was it more objectionable to execute a nurse who was a war criminal than it is to murder medical staff in a facility that it is a war crime to attack?


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How many Israelis were killed on October 7, again? And, how many were children?

*Caveat: this article is based on information that may change as more becomes available.

Duper’s delight: Look at that smug smile – Benjamin Netanyahu may have been telling fibs again.

It seems Israel may have been lying to us all (surprise, surprise!) about what happened on October 7 – the number of civilian fatalities, the number that were children, and what happened to them.

The following material comes from a website called The Cradle, which suggests that “evidence is now emerging that up to half the Israelis killed were combatants; that Israeli forces were responsible for some of their own civilian deaths [we knew that, right?]; and that Tel Aviv disseminated false ‘Hamas atrocities’ stories to justify its devastating air assault on Palestinian civilians in Gaza.”

It claims that information from the Israeli news organisation Haaretz showed that, by October 23, only 683 Israeli deaths could be verified – not the 1,400 claimed by Israel’s government:

Of these, 331 casualties – or 48.4 percent – have been confirmed to be soldiers and police officers, many of them female. Another 13 are described as rescue service members, and the remaining 339 are ostensibly considered to be civilians.

There are also so far no recorded deaths of children under the age of three, which throws into question the Israeli narrative that babies were targeted by Palestinian resistance fighters. Of the 683 total casualties reported thus far, seven were between the ages of 4 and 7, and nine between the ages of 10 and 17. The remaining 667 casualties appear to be adults.

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So what about all those gruesome claims? Rapes, beheaded babies?

Aviva Klompas, a former speechwriter for the Israeli mission to the UN, was the first Israeli of note to spread the claim that there were reports of “Israeli girls being raped and their bodies dragged through the street.

She posted this on X at 9:18 PM (Palestine time), on 7 October, although an op-ed Klompa published with Newsweek at 12:28 AM (Palestine time), on 8 October, made no mention of any sexual violence.

Klompas is also the co-founder of Boundless Israel, a “think-action tank” that works “to revitalize Israel education and take bold collective action to combat Jew-hatred.” An “unapologetically Zionist” charitable group that works to promote Israeli narratives on social media.

The one case touted as proof of rape was that of a young German-Israeli woman named Shani Louk, who was filmed face down in the back of a pickup truck and was widely assumed dead.

It was unclear whether the fighters filmed with Louk in the Gaza-bound vehicle were members of Hamas, as they do not sport the uniforms or insignia of the Al-Qassam troops identifiable in other Hamas videos – some even wore casual civilian clothing and sandals.

Later, her mother claimed to have evidence that her daughter was still alive, but had suffered a severe head wound. This rings true with information released by Hamas that indicated Louk was being treated for her injuries at an unspecified Gaza hospital.

Complicating matters further, on the day these rape allegations arose, Israelis would not have had access to this information. Their armed forces had not yet entered many, if not most, of the areas liberated by the resistance and were still engaged in armed clashes with them on multiple fronts.

Nevertheless, these rape claims took on a life of their own, with even US President Joe Biden alleging, during a speech days later, that Israeli women were “raped, assaulted, paraded as trophies” by Hamas fighters. It is important to note that The Forward’s article on 11 October reported that the Israeli military acknowledged they had no evidence of such allegations at that point.

When the army later made its own allegations of decapitations, foot amputations, and rape, Reuters pointed out that “the military personnel overseeing the identification process didn’t present any forensic evidence in the form of pictures or medical records.” To date, there is no credible evidence of these atrocities that has been presented.

Other outrageous allegations, such as the story of Hamas “beheading 40 babies‘ made headlines and the front pages of countless western news outlets. Even Biden claimed to have seen “confirmed photos of terrorists beheading babies.” The claims trace back to Israeli reserve settler and soldier David Ben Zion, who has previously incited violent riots against Palestinians and called for the West Bank town of Huwara to be wiped out. No evidence was ever produced to support these claims and the White House itself confirmed later that Joe Biden had never seen such photos.

What do you think?

We have first-hand information from former Hamas hostages that they have been well-treated. It seems that, besides the destruction of the IDF’s Gaza Division, the aim of the Hamas incursion on October 7 was to take live hostages that could be exchanged with the circa-5,300 Palestinians said to be inhabiting Israeli jails for no good reason, many of them women and children.

If that’s true, then Hamas would have wanted to avoid causing serious harm to civilians.

So – if this information is accurate, then Israel’s spokespeople have lied about the number and nature of the people who were killed, and in their claims of atrocities inflicted upon the dead.

Considering how other claims by Israel’s government have also fallen apart (which one is your favourite?)…

Well, what do you think? Comment using the box below.


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Israel should not have any support from us if it really killed its own civilians

Yasmin Porat: her interview casts doubt on everything we’ve been told about the Hamas raids – and now we have more evidence that Israeli armed forces are the greatest danger to civilians on both sides of the Israel/Gaza conflict.

Did you ever hear of the ‘Hannibal Directive’?

It compels the Israeli army to kill Israelis rather than let them be taken hostage. It usually applies to military personnel, and has been used a number of times in the past.

And there are plenty of indications to suggest it was applied as policy towards Israeli civilians during the Hamas attack on October 7. In other words, the army appears to have preferred to kill both the Israelis and Hamas militants holding them in communities near Gaza rather than try to negotiate a release.

That’s what prizewinning journalist Jonathan Cook fears, in a series of posts on ‘X’, starting here.

He refers to an article on the Mondo Weiss website, by a person labelled “Anonymous Contributor” as they are “fearing for their personal safety due to the intensification of fascist persecutions against critical voices in Israel”.

Let’s make a note of that. We’ve heard plenty about moves to silence people supporting Palestine/Gaza in the UK; it seems those within Israel who criticise its genocide are being silenced, possibly in a far more brutal way.

The article starts by referring to a Haaretz report of the Hamas attack on the Gaza division of the Israeli Defence Force [boldings mine]:

They advanced into the military base, killing and kidnapping the soldiers of the Civil Administration, though a few of them managed to return fire before being hit… Brig. Gen. Rosenfeld entrenched himself in the division’s subterranean war room together with a handful of male and female soldiers, trying desperately to rescue and organize the sector under attack. Many of the soldiers, most of them not combat personnel, were killed or wounded outside. The division was compelled to request an aerial strike against the base itself in order to repulse the terrorists.”

The author of the article draws a logical conclusion:

This dry, complimentary description of the high commander, hiding with a few soldiers in an underground bunker and ordering an aerial bombardment of “the base” where his soldiers were fighting against Hamas militants, maybe wounded and maybe taken as prisoners, has a lot to say about the Israeli psyche in these bloody times.

It is a well-documented official policy of the Israeli army, at least since 1986, known as the “Hannibal Directive,” the “Hannibal code,” or the “Hannibal doctrine.”

It may not have ended with General Rosenfeld ordering the bombing of his soldiers. It will take years until we may (or may not) have a full picture of what happened on October 7 and the following days. But in addition to military deaths, there are also some details regarding the Israeli role in Israeli civilian deaths that can already be found amid the heavy flow of propaganda around the events of the day.

We have already heard that deaths of civilians in Kibbutz Be’eri were caused by the IDF, from the interview with escaped hostage Yasmin Porat (which This Site covered here).

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The article states:

According to her account, the kidnappers treated her and other hostages “humanely,” believing they would be allowed to retreat safely to Gaza due to the protection of the Israeli captives. However, when the Israeli soldiers arrived, “they eliminated everyone, including the hostages. There was very, very heavy crossfire.”

Her testimony is complemented by evidence from Israeli soldiers who described how the Israeli military shot tank shells into buildings where militants and their hostages were hiding.

Another Haaretz article, available only in Hebrew for some reason, states as described in the article:

This testimony would seem to indicate that many Israeli captives were still alive on Monday, October 9, a full two days after the events of Saturday, October 7. While it might be understandable if captives had been killed in the hectic crossfire of an initial Israeli response to the attack on the 7th, this account would seem to indicate that the decision to assault the kibbutz and everyone inside was made as a clear military calculation.

It is clear Palestinian militants were hiding in these buildings with their Israeli captives as Israeli soldiers were blasting their way in with massive tank shells in close quarters. It deserves to be investigated who caused most of the death and destruction that took place. This is especially important as these deaths are now being used to justify the destruction of Gaza and the killing of thousands of civilians there.

And what about the implications for Gaza and the more-than-200 people Israel claims have been taken hostage there?

Israel, as it has proved many times in the past and as recent events may indicate, may be ready to put the lives of its soldiers and citizens at risk rather than witness the joy of freedom celebrated on both sides of the border.

Going back to Jonathan Cook, his ‘X’ thread refers to the release of two hostages last week by Hamas as an attempt to show the world that there is a willingness to talk:

Hamas knows all about the directive. It assumes Israel will choose to kill all the hostages rather than engage in negotiations for their return.

Hamas therefore also understands that Israel will make the case that there was no chance to bring the hostages home. Hamas is trying to show it is ready to release hostages and do a deal.

The problem for Hamas is that western media is in lockstep with Israeli spin that Hamas is a death cult like Islamic State and can’t be talked to. As a result, many of the hostages are likely to die unnecessarily.

And now we have evidence from another freed hostage that Hamas treated them humanely:

It seems clear that the greatest danger – not just to innocent civilians in Gaza, more than 5,000 of whom have been killed by Israel, but to innocent Israeli civilians as well (who knows how many of the 1,400 claimed deaths were caused by Israel’s armed forces?) – is Israel itself.

Why are western nations like the US, UK and (today) France still supporting these mass murderers?

Source: A growing number of reports indicate Israeli forces responsible for Israeli civilian and military deaths following October 7 attack – Mondoweiss


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