In Occupied Palestine – 23 March 2024
In Occupied Palestine
Zionism in practice
Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Land
08:00, 23 March until 08:00, 24 March 2024
[Source of statistics: Palestinian Monitoring Group]
Air strikes: Heavy aerial bombardment on buildings, homes and many facilities.
Attacks: All over Gaza, there are air strikes, heavy gunfire, tank and artillery shelling, as well as missiles fired from Israeli forces and military occupation, especially in Khan Yunis. The Israeli Navy continues to fire missiles, targeting facilities and buildings along the shoreline of the whole of Gaza.
Victims: 84 people killed in Gaza brings the total number of deaths since 7 October to at least 32,226. With another 106 wounded, thatfigure has risen to 74,518. Fully accurate statistics are not available, due to insecurity menacing hospitals in the Gaza Strip.
OCHA Flash Update #146 – not yet available.
UN Human Rights Chief deplores new moves to expand
Israeli settlements in Occupied West Bank
On 8 March, the UN Human Rights Chief, Volker Türk, described mounting Israeli settlement building in Occupied Palestine as an exacerbation of “long-standing patterns of oppression, violence and discrimination against Palestinians”. In a report to the Human Rights Council, Türk said that the establishment and continuing expansion of settlements amount to the transfer by Israel of its own civilian population into the territories that it Occupies, which amounts to a war crime under international law. The UN Human Rights Chief noted that “settler violence and settlement-related violations have reached shocking new levels”.
Israel’s Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, who also serves as a minister inside the Defence Ministry, recently declared Palestinian land to be”state-owned” Israeli land. Speaking for Israel, Smotrich claims that Israel has a right to Occupied Palestinian West Bank territory, referring to “our right to Judea and Samaria and the country in general“.
How can anyone pretend that Israel will ever accept the ‘two-state’ solution?! From the very beginning, Zionism regarded the establishment of Israel, in 1948, as the first vital step in the acquisition of the whole of Palestine.
Ilan Pappé, a professor at the University of Exeter, was formerly a senior lecturer in political science at the University of Haifa and is the author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. He explains to those who still hold on to a belief in Zionism that there is, and always has been, a rational and just alternative: “de-Zionised, liberated and democratic Palestine from the river to the sea; a Palestine that will welcome back the refugees and build a society that does not discriminate on the basis of culture, religion or ethnicity.“
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Zionist Blitz on Gaza
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West Bank
[Palestinian Monitoring Group]
Restrictions of movement: Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza are under relentless and extreme control over all travel and movement.
Israeli Army attack – 1 wounded: Jenin – 00:25, Israeli Occupation forces, firing live ammunition, stormed the village of Siris and wounded a resident: Qaiser Hussein Ezzat Zaid.
Home invasions – 4 taken prisoner: Ramallah – 02:10–07:50, Israeli Occupation forces, firing stun grenades, raided the village of Al-Laban al-Gharbi and invaded a number of homes, taking prisoner four people.
Home invasions: Jenin – 01:55–03:10, Israeli forces raided al-Yamoun and searched a number of homes.
Home invasion: Jenin – dawn, the Israeli Army raided the village of Fahma, invaded a home and interrogated a resident: Hassan Muhammad Nawasra.
Home invasions – 1 taken prisoner: Tulkarem – 17:10, Israeli troops raided the village of Shufa, searched a house and took prisoner one resident.
Home invasions – beating-up and hospitalisation: Hebron – dawn, the Israeli military raided Sa’ir and searched a number of homes, beating-up and hospitalising a resident: Fadi Al-Mutawar.
Home invasions: Hebron – dawn, Israeli soldiers raided Surif and searched a number of homes.
Raid – rubber-coated bullets and stun grenades fired: Jerusalem – evening, Israeli Occupation forces, firing rubber-coated bullets and stun grenades, raided and patrolled Hizma.
Raid: Tulkarem – 00:35, Israeli forces raided and patrolled Attil.
Raid – 2 taken prisoner: Nablus – 14:05-16:55, the Israeli Army raided the village of Beit Imrin, taking prisoner two people.
Raid: Salfit – 23:10, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the village of Marda.
Raid: Salfit – 01:20, the Israeli military raided and patrolled Deir Ballut.
Raid – population–control: Bethlehem – evening, Israeli soldiers raided the village of Husan and forced shops to close.
Raid: Bethlehem – 16:35, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled al-Khadr.
Raid – youngster abducted: Bethlehem – 06:30, Israeli forces raided the city and abducted a 17-year-old youth: Ahmed Hani Suman.
Raid: Bethlehem – dawn, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled Beit Fajjar.
Raid – 2 taken prisoner: Hebron – 07:15, Israeli troops raided the city, taking prisoner two people.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Hebron – dawn, the Israeli military raided Beit Awa, taking prisoner one person.
Another bit of interesting Jewish information to fill in the yawning void of some!
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/henry-ford-anti-semitism/675911/
In late 1922, The New York Times reported the “rumor” passing through Berlin that Henry Ford was bankrolling Adolf Hitler and his curiously well-funded Nazi movement. The wall of Hitler’s office featured a large picture of the American mogul, the Times noted, and copies of a book bearing Ford’s byline littered a table in the anteroom. Titled The International Jew: The World’s Foremost Problem, the volume was an anthology of articles published by Ford’s Dearborn Independent newspaper, which two years earlier had launched an unrelenting crusade to expose Jews’ supposed “financial and commercial control, usurpation of political power, monopoly of necessities, and autocratic direction of the very news that the American people read.” The series, which eventually spanned 92 issues over seven years, concluded that the “International Jew and his satellites” lurked behind virtually all of the world’s ills: labor unrest, Bolshevism, financial panics, wars…
Bet you didn’t know that. There is always something behind the something you have just heard on the news that helps to give some depth to the new info; don’t you think?
The Atlantic is good. Maybe someone not as impecunious as myself would like to take out a sub and feed morsels to the hungry fledglings in the nest? (Does this count as being within Goodwin’s law?)