'The Witkoff Massacre': Hundreds Killed or Wounded as Israeli Forces Open Fire on Gaza Food Aid Site

 

from Common Dreams

"There was fire from all directions, from naval warships, from tanks and drones,"  Amr Abu Teiba, 

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In a point-by-point breakdown on Friday, Drop Site News' Jeremy Scahill detailed that Witkoff, through his negotiations with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is trying to "strong-arm Hamas into a deal that does not end the genocide" that continues apace in Gaza.

After Israel last week rejected tentative language amenable to both the U.S. and Hamas negotiators, Witkoff responded on Saturday to an updated draft submitted by Hamas with a rejection of his own, calling it "totally unacceptable."

Meanwhile, the threat of famine for the entire population of Gaza continues—all with firm U.S. backing and complicity, infuriating humanitarians worldwide as the death and suffering mounts.

Reda Abu Jazar toldAl-Jazeera on Sunday that her brother was among those killed as he attempted to retrieve food at the distribution site in Rafah.

"Let them stop these massacres, stop this genocide. They are killing us," she said...

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IDF Stages Ambush Attack on Refugees at Another GHF Distribution Site Kills 40 (video)

They baited refugees down to the GHF distribution site then opened fire on them. There is nothing more despicable than this. 

We are going on hunger strike at the City University of New York. Here’s why.

from Mondoweiss

We are the eight students, staff, and faculty from across the City University of New York system who started an indefinite hunger strike on Tuesday, May 27th. As we write this we sit with supporters on the steps of the CUNY Graduate Center in Midtown Manhattan facing the Empire State Building, a testament to US imperialism. For 19 months and counting, we have watched the obscene violence and horror of that imperialism, live streamed through our phones direct from Gaza, and we refuse to continue with business as usual. 

We have one demand: that CUNY Chancellor Félix Matos Rodríguez and the CUNY Board of Trustees immediately divest from Israel and from all weapons and technology manufacturers equipping the Israeli-U.S. genocide in Palestine...

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IDF Stages Ambush Attack on Refugees at Another GHF Distribution Site Kills 40

by Scott Creighton 

An Israeli IDF quad-copter made an announcement in a refugee camp in Khan Yunis telling the Palestinian families there that they should travel down to another refugee camp a bit west of Rafah where the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) had set up a food distribution center. 

A few hundred desperate and hungry people made the trek south in hopes of finding some food for themselves and their children.

When they got there, the IDF opened fire on the crowd killing at least 40 of them and wounding another 150.

Meanwhile in the north, the IDF carried out another 13 attacks on various sites hoping to drive all the Palestinians out of that plot of land so Glorious Israel can steal it for their own.

Benjamin Netanyahu says Palestians aren't really hungry and Mike Huckabee suggests they should all move to France. 

This genocide, first one live streamed in history BTW, is reaching some John Lynch levels of absurdity.

Divided Israel faces internal unrest amid escalating Gaza conflict

from al Jazeera

As Israel’s devastating war on Gaza grinds on, pushed forward by a prime minister insistent that a goal of total military victory be met, the divisions within Israeli society are growing increasingly deeper.

In the last few weeks, as Israeli peace activists and antiwar groups have stepped up their campaign against the conflict, supporters of the war have also increased their pressure to continue, whatever its humanitarian, political or diplomatic cost. 

Members of the military have published open letters protesting the political motivations for continuing the war on Gaza, or claiming that the latest offensive, which is systematically razing Gaza, risks the remaining Israeli captives held in the Palestinian territory.

Another open letter has come from within Israel’s universities and colleges, with its signatories doing a rare thing within Israel since the war began in October 2023: focusing on Palestinian suffering...

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Let France create Palestinian State in French Riviera: Huckabee

from al Mayadeen English

US Ambassador to "Israel" Mike Huckabee has strongly criticized France's push for unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state, labeling the efforts as "revolting", in a Sunday interview with Fox News.

“It’s incredibly inappropriate in the midst of a war that Israel is dealing with to go out and present something that I think increasingly Israelis are steadfast against,” Huckabee stated, adding that "If France is really so determined to see a Palestinian state, I have a suggestion for them – carve out a piece of the French Riviera and create a Palestinian state."

The Ambassador stated that Washington would not participate in an upcoming conference in New York, led by France and Saudi Arabia, which aims to advance the establishment of a Palestinian state later this month.

Israeli officials have been clashing with French President Macron after his announcement earlier this month that France is set to recognize a Palestinian state within the coming months, where he said, "We must move toward recognition, and we will do so in the coming months."...

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GOP's Latest Pitch for Gutting Medicaid and Food Aid? 'Well, We All Are Going to Die'

 ('And if the useless eaters, the Takers, go first, it makes things a lot nicer for us Makers out here, right?')

from Common Dreams

Republican U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst on Friday brushed off her constituents' concerns about the life-threatening consequences of her party's proposed cuts to Medicaid and federal nutrition assistance, telling a town hall audience, "Well, we all are going to die."

Ernst's remark came after a person in the crowd warned that "people will die" if the safety net cuts proposed in the House-passed budget reconciliation package become law.

The Iowa senator began by waving away the crowd's response, saying, "People are not... " After trailing off, Ernst said facetiously that "we all are going to die."

"So, for heaven's sakes," she added with a smile...

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At least 40 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on US-backed aid sites in Gaza

from PressTV

Israel has carried out two deadly attacks on newly established aid sites run by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), killing dozens of Palestinians in the third and fourth such attacks on the aid distribution centers in Gaza since they began operating last week.

Early on Sunday morning, the Israeli forces opened fire, killing at least 40 people, and injuring 150 others at a GHF site in Rafah.

Soon after, a Palestinian was reported killed in a shooting at the GHF’s distribution point, in Gaza City, south of the so-called Netzarim Corridor.

The US-backed aid sites began operations in the Gaza Strip last Monday. Early the next morning, as thousands of Palestinians lined up at the aid site, Israeli forces opened fire, killing three Palestinians and injuring dozens.

The GHF said it opened a second site on Wednesday, the same day that Israeli forces again opened fire on aid seekers at one of its sites west of Rafah, this time killing at least six Palestinians.

Gaza Media Office said in a statement on Sunday that in less than a week the Israeli regime has killed 50 people and wounded hundreds at GHF sites.

“[These killings] reflect the nature of these areas as mass death traps, not humanitarian relief points,” the statement warned.

“We confirm to the entire world that what is happening is a systematic and malicious use of aid as a tool of war, employed to blackmail starving civilians and forcibly gather them in exposed killing points, managed and monitored by the occupation army and funded and politically covered by the occupation and the US administration, which bears full moral and legal responsibility for these crimes,” it added...

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West Bank tensions spike as Israeli forces, settlers carry out violent raids

from PressTV

Israeli forces have intensified their violent incursions into numerous areas of the West Bank, as the occupying entity continues its aggressive actions in the region alongside the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Palestine’s official news agency WAFA said two Palestinian youths were injured on Saturday evening by the Israeli occupation forces in the east of the occupied West Bank city of Ariha.

One of them was wounded by live gunfire and another as a result of physical assault, the report added.

“One of the victims sustained a live bullet wound, while the other suffered a head injury due to beating. Both were transferred to hospital for treatment,” the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said.

WAFA also reported that Israeli forces had set up a military checkpoint east of Ariha, where they opened live fire at civilians and assaulted several others.

In another development on Saturday evening, several Palestinians were injured when dozens of Israeli settlers attacked the town of Deir Dibwan, located east of Ramallah.

WAFA said the settlers stormed the eastern entrance of the town and attempted to force their way in while local residents confronted them, which resulted in multiple minor injuries among the Palestinians...

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Reported Israeli fire near Gaza aid points kills 50 Palestinians

from Daily Sabah

At least 50 people were killed and dozens more wounded Sunday when Israeli forces opened fire on crowds heading to an aid distribution point in Gaza, roughly a kilometer from a site run by an Israeli-backed foundation, according to Palestinian media and multiple witnesses.

The army released a brief statement saying it was "currently unaware of injuries caused by (Israeli military) fire within the Humanitarian Aid distribution site. The matter is still under review."

The foundation said in a statement that it delivered aid "without incident" early Sunday and has denied previous accounts of chaos and gunfire around its sites, which are in Israeli military zones where independent access is limited.

Earlier, Zaher al-Waheidi, head of the Gaza Health Ministry’s records department, said at least 25 people were killed, including two women.

Hours earlier, officials at a nearby field hospital run by the Red Cross said that at least 21 people were killed and another 175 were wounded, without saying who opened fire on them. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to reporters.

An Associated Press reporter saw dozens of wounded people being treated at the hospital.

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s (GHF) distribution of aid has been marred by chaos, and multiple witnesses have said Israeli troops fired on crowds near the delivery sites. Before Sunday, at least six people had been killed and more than 50 wounded, according to local health officials...

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