Nonstop. No breaks. A pregnant woman, the child in her belly and her two year old were killed in one of Israeli bombings on a house in Gaza… Also how an elderly woman was killed while she was having her iftar at Maghreb prayer by bombing her house. She died holding the spoon in her hand, an image that will need a lot of time to leave my head. -- Omar Ghraieb, writing from Gaza This week, Israel launched over 750 air strikes on Gaza, one of the most densely populated places on the planet. As a result of these indiscriminate assaults, 100 Palestinians, including 20 children, have been killed and over 500 people have been injured in just three days. In the West Bank, 830 Palestinians have been arrested and seven killed as a result of the Israelis armys three-week-long incursion there. Over110 Palestinian citizens of Israel are being detained in prisons following protests sparked by the lethal burning of teenager Mohammed Abu Khdeir .Israel has not suffered a single casualty since the recent air raids, though Israels national medical emergency service sensationally reported on treating people who were lightly injured while running to bomb shelters. Still, racist media and Western governments, including Canadian Foreign Affairs MinisterJohn Baird, are unabashedly parroting the narrative of Israeli victimhood and self-defence (note: Hamas has not violated the ceasefire agreement). Such framings ignore the disproportionate violence against Palestinians and obscure the nature of the ongoing Israeli occupation. As lawyer Noura Erakat explains, Israel continues to deal with Mandate Palestines non-Jewish indigenous population as a demographic, national and cultural impediment to its settler-colonial project. In the face of relentless impunity, an articulation of Israel as a settler-colonial state with deep ties to other settler-colonial states like Canada can further compel and embolden meaningful allyship.
Posted on: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 04:59:13 +0000
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