Human Rights

80 days on the genocide in numbers (a world record in conflict) and just
five victim stories so that you see we are not mere numbers  and five
inspirung stories. In 80 days!
1,745 massacres
>28,000 martyrs and missing persons. (1.2% of Gazan population)
20,674 martyrs who arrived in hospitals (issued death certificates).
8,500 child martyrs and 6,300 female martyrs.
54,536 injured (2.4% of Gaza population) most can't be treated
311 martyrs of medical staff; 40 Civil Defense first responders. 103
martyred journalists,
Over 5000 kidnapped by Israel: including101 health-care workers, 9
journalists, over 40 professors.
Essentially all 2.3 million people in the Gaza Strip displaced from their
homes and being starved
475,000 infected with infectious diseases as a result of displacement and
lack of clean water/sanitation
58,000 Tonnes of high explosives used (equivalent to two nuclear bombs)
65,000 housing units were completely destroyed by the occupation.
26 government headquarters destroyed by the occupation.
92 schools and universities were completely destroyed by the occupation.

PLEASE READ THIS (critical new reports, urgent action needed)

Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) global partnership 21
December report on: .."the entire population in the Gaza Strip (about 2.2
million people) is classified in IPC Phase 3 or above (Crisis or worse).
This is the highest share of people facing high levels of acute food
insecurity that the IPC initiative has ever classified for any given area
or country.... at least one in four households (more than half a million
people) is facing catastrophic conditions - IPC Phase 5 (Catastrophe).
These are characterized by households experiencing an extreme lack of food,
starvation and exhaustion of coping capacities."
https://www.ipcinfo.org/ipc-country-analysis/details-map/en/c/1156749

We meet again tonight in about one hour (7 PM Palestine time Sunday) to
talk about Gaza genocide. Email if you want a link

While Palestinian church leaders wrote good position papers on Gaza (thank
you) and we circulated those before, 500 people signed signed a petition
over just a few hours today demanding boycott of those church leaders who
met with the Israeli genocidal regime president  (a president who said
there are no civilians in the Gaza strip and we act accordingly), whose
father participated in the ethnic cleansing in 1948, and who want another
Nakba. The petition is in Arabic (you can use google translate) and is open
to people who live in our region and Palestinians/Arabs (especially
Christians) who live in exile. Please sign and pass along this link:
وقع 500 شخص على عريضة تطالب بمقاطعة قادة الكنيسة الذين التقوا برئيس نظام
الإبادة الجماعية الإسرائيلي (الرئيس الذي قال إنه لا يوجد مدنيون في قطاع
غزة)، والذي شارك والده في التطهير العرقي عام 1948، والذين يريد نكبة أخرى.
العريضة باللغة العربية ومفتوحة للأشخاص الذين يعيشون في منطقتنا والفلسطينيين
(وخاصة المسيحيين الذين يعيشون في المنفى).

When Zionist militias, using advanced Western arms, conquered historic Palestine in 1947-48, they expressed their victory through the deliberate humiliation of Palestinians.   

 Much of that humiliation targeted women, in particular, knowing how the dishonor of Palestinian females represents, according to Arab culture, a sense of dishonor to the whole community.

 This strategy remains in use to this day. 

Letter to Gaza I wrote 23 October 2023
https://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2023/10/letter-to-gaza.html But the
orgy of slaughter of Palestitinians since October accelerated and is
expected to get worse over the coming weeks of global "holidays" (The
Jewish state does not believe in a Christmas or new year truce). The
perpetrators gloat actually about the efficiency and scale of destruction
and even threatening to do more in the West Bank (already started including
in Bethlehem and Jerusalem), and to do the same in Yemen and Lebanon (two
countries obeying international oblibgations and law by trying with meager
resources to stop the genocide/holocaust that started in Gaza). Horrifying
"firebelt" bombing of whole neighborhoods (including schools, hospitals,
electric grids etc), starvation, and disease have not been used on such

We are dismayed by the silence of so many churches. Here is an Open Letter
from Palestinian Christians to Western Church Leaders and Theologians

http://www.defenddemocracy.press/an-open-letter-from-palestinian-christians-to-western-church-leaders-and-theologians/


And my message for Christmas again (since then hundreds more were
murdered):

https://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2023/12/christmas-greetings.html

On Friday December 1st active Israeli combat operations resumed directed against Gaza after a one week “pause” to exchange hostages and prisoners. It should surprise no one to learn that Israel’s ultimate objective in its sustained war crime directed against Gaza is to kill and/or drive out its 2.3 million Palestinian inhabitants. The adopted policy, which has been revealed through a top level Israeli intelligence document relating to options for operations in Gaza that was leaked to the media, “…recommends a full population transfer as its preferred course of action. …” to include “the evacuation of the civilian population from Gaza to Sinai.” And Israel should “Make It Clear [to the refugees that] there Is No Hope of Returning [home]” with the final objective being “wiping Gaza off the map.”

The whole thing may appear to be an exercise in futility, but there is a point why Palestinians are keen on releasing their prisoners, despite the heavy price they continue to pay for their freedom. 

 It may seem rational to ask the question: what is the point of releasing a few Palestinian detainees from Israeli prisons, if the price of doing so is the death of over 15,000 Palestinians in Gaza?

The USA dominates the COP28 summit in UAE (28th year of "talking" about
climate change) . The US ($23 trillion economy/GDP - the biggest
contributor to climate change causing greenhouse gases) pledged a tokenism
of $17 million (!) to help developing countries "adapt" and "mitigate"
climate change while pledging $14.3 billion in weapons to Israel (in
addition to billions more already given) and hundreds of billions to the US
military. Note that the US and Israeli militaries are the biggest polluters
of the environment which is producing millions of climate refugees. This is
HYPOCRISY. The problem with COP28 is the problem of the previous 27 COPs:
they are meetings of government officials beholden to lobbies and lobbyists
for the biggest polluters (2400 lobbyists attending this year'*). If
anything the quality of these participating officials (environmental
ministers etc) has gotten worse. As Greta Thunberg said, they go 'bla bla
bla" while our world is being destroyed. While there were attempts to
challenge the US hegemony with groups like BRICS and ASEAN, the Us still

PLEASE keep acting, forwarding, demonstrating, speaking out. It does make a
difference.

The president of the Islamic University of Gaza Prof. Sufian Tayeh and his
family were killed in Israeli bombing in North Gaza (Jabalya) 2 December
2023. I updated the detailed post on attacks on institution of higher
education including the call that was signed by Prof. Sufian few days
before he was killed:
https://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2023/12/assault-on-education.html

Here are videos you won't see on western controlled media
-Six residential towers leveled in Khan Younis