The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa is accusing Foreign Minister, Winston
Peters of blatant double standards and giving it the green-light for its escalating
attacks on Gaza.
Peters of blatant double standards and giving it the green-light for its escalating
attacks on Gaza.
PSNA Co-Chair, Maher Nazzal says Peters publicly deplored the shooting of two Israeli Embassy staff in Washington last week, yet he kept silent on the killing of nine Palestinian children of the Al Najjar family in Khan Younis in a single Israeli airstrike just two days later.
Late last week, Peters expressed his sympathy to the Israeli government, tweeting on behalf of the New Zealand government ‘Our thoughts are with their loved ones’.
Nazzal says months go by in Gaza without a word of objection from Peters that
Israel is still starving the whole population in Gaza and carpet bombing them.
Israel is still starving the whole population in Gaza and carpet bombing them.
“Just over a week ago, top genocide scholars from around the world were
unanimous in assessing Israel’s actions amount to genocide.”
unanimous in assessing Israel’s actions amount to genocide.”
“Mr Peters’ sympathies are, at least, consistent. He has sided with Israel from day one to the present.”
“I suspect Peters is letting his prejudices run amok as his term in office runs out,”
Nazzal says.“Surely many, if not most, government MPs will be sickened by his sympathy towards representatives of the Israeli government, and mostly silence on the deaths of innocent Palestinians.”
Nazzal says PSNA reiterates its call for New Zealand to impose wide-ranging and immediate sanctions on Israel.
Nazzal says PSNA reiterates its call for New Zealand to impose wide-ranging and immediate sanctions on Israel.
“Israel has been happy to ignore the half-heated and pro-forma posturing by western governments over the past 19 months. Tel Aviv will interpret Peters’ tweet as a subtle but clear diplomatic signal that its ok by Winston Peters that it can escalate its carnage in Gaza.”
Israel butchers hundreds of Palestinians while destroying hospitals, with Nora Barrows-Friedman https://youtu.be/IG3Dw4Gd_3I?list=TLPQMjcwNTIwMjVw96kzk-IcUg
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-doctor-receives-bodies-her-seven-children-while-duty
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/flesh-and-body-parts-everywhere-israel-bombs-gaza-school-shelter-leaving-children-charred “”The aftermath of the Israeli strike revealed the charred remains of more than 30 Palestinians, 18 of them children and six women.”
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/gaza-slaughterhouse
“Hospitals targeted
Hospitals continue to be besieged and forced out of service by Israeli attacks.
Late Wednesday night, the Israeli military shelled northern Gaza’s Al-Awda Hospital, while drones also bombed water tanks at the health facility, according to Al Jazeera.
Israel attacked the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis yet again this week, targeting its small warehouse of essential supplies.
According to the World Health Organization, around 30 percent of the warehouse was destroyed.
The warehouse included critical supplies such as prosthetic limbs, IV fluids and dialysis solutions.
Dr. Munir al-Bursh, director general of the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza, said that the damage caused by the Israeli airstrike on the warehouse at Nasser Medical Complex “comes at a time when the stock levels of more than 45 percent of essential medicines had already reached zero,” and basic medical supplies or those needed for surgical operations had exceeded 60 percent in shortages even before this week’s attack.
Nasser Medical Complex was attacked on 13 May as Israeli forces assassinated a journalist in a bombing that destroyed the hospital’s burn unit.
In addition, the Israeli military bombed the European Gaza Hospital in Khan Younis, also on 13 May.
Since then, the hospital has been rendered out of service. The Electronic Intifada spoke with Dr. Majed Jaber, an emergency room physician at the European Gaza Hospital, who survived the bombing and said that it was the last medical facility that was able to provide basic care to cancer patients, and now the entire hospital is out of service following a series of Israeli attacks.
On 19 May at the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahiya, in northern Gaza, Israeli forces surrounded and besieged the facility as Israeli airstrikes targeted the power generators and fuel tanks to operate the generators, sparking a massive fire.
Hospital workers told the United Nations that there were 55 people in the hospital, including patients and medical staff, with critical shortages of food and water.
Staff and patients were forced to flee on foot, trying to maneuver gurneys over massive piles of rubble on the destroyed streets.
The Palestinian health ministry in Gaza said that Israel’s targeting of electricity generators was a deliberate effort to destroy the capacity of hospitals.
“The health situation in the northern Gaza Strip is catastrophic after the Indonesian Hospital was put out of service,” the ministry said, adding that every single hospital in Gaza is collapsing from a lack of fuel and the spare parts needed for generators.
Tom Potokar, a British surgeon working at the Indonesian Hospital, recorded this video after the attacks. “If Cambodia was the killing fields, then Gaza now is the slaughterhouse,” he said.
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