Israel’s Genocide in Gaza | 2023- till present
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UKBengali
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I still find it hard to believe that any Muslim nation would even think of recognising this entity, let alone supply then with oil and weapons to kill Muslim Gazans.
Humilitation will come for these "leaders" soon and they have put a stain on the reputation of their countries, as this will all be recorded in the history books and people hundreds of years from now will know exactly who the collaborators were of this short lasting usurper in Palestine.
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ziaulislam
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It's weird that Arab and Muslim world is playing who is the good guy in the war in which good or bad boy doesn't matter
It doesn't matter if isrealis comits a genocide and they prove it...they have been committed genocides since 1940s
What matter is if Eygpt stops trade with Israel and Jordan stops it's water trade and uae stops it's trade
What matters if Arabs pee in the direction of Israel..will drown Israel since Arabs basically control everything in the world wealth and assets
Or atleast they can if they want to
Arabs out number Israel 50:1
In economy and military it's 20:1
It doesn't matter if isrealis comits a genocide and they prove it...they have been committed genocides since 1940s
What matter is if Eygpt stops trade with Israel and Jordan stops it's water trade and uae stops it's trade
What matters if Arabs pee in the direction of Israel..will drown Israel since Arabs basically control everything in the world wealth and assets
Or atleast they can if they want to
Arabs out number Israel 50:1
In economy and military it's 20:1
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RescueRanger
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Spain to recognise Palestinian statehood by July: Reports
Spain will recognise Palestinian statehood by July, says Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, according to reports in Spanish media.
Sanchez’s remark came in the Jordanian capital, Amman, on the first day of visits to Jordan, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, state news agency EFE and newspapers El Pais and La Vanguardia reported.
At a European Council meeting last month, Sanchez said he agreed with the leaders of Ireland, Malta and Slovenia to “take the first steps” towards such a move.
In response, Israel told the four countries their plan constituted a “prize for terrorism”, which would decrease the chances of a negotiated resolution to the war in Gaza.
Source: Al Jazeera
UKBengali
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Play within the rules Jordan or else no water from occupied Palestine.
Absolutely pathetic that Jordan has to beg the Zionist entity for water as it is too incompetent to get extract its own from areas that rain falls or desalination plants in the Red Sea.
"https://www.newarab.com/news/jordan-requests-israel-extend-water-deal-year-kan"
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Israel’s energy ministry is reportedly considering not to extend the agreement over Amman’s repeated denunciation of Israel due to the war on Gaza.
In return for extending the deal, Israel had reportedly asked Jordan to tone down criticism of Israel and incitement against it from Jordanian officials."
Absolutely pathetic that Jordan has to beg the Zionist entity for water as it is too incompetent to get extract its own from areas that rain falls or desalination plants in the Red Sea.
"https://www.newarab.com/news/jordan-requests-israel-extend-water-deal-year-kan"
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Israel’s energy ministry is reportedly considering not to extend the agreement over Amman’s repeated denunciation of Israel due to the war on Gaza.
In return for extending the deal, Israel had reportedly asked Jordan to tone down criticism of Israel and incitement against it from Jordanian officials."
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‘Food being blocked at every turn’: Aid group
The Save the Children charity has accused Israel of restricting the flow of much-needed humanitarian relief as the population of Gaza faces the threat of famine.
“Life-saving supplies which could be used to treat malnourished children are being delayed and denied entry by the Government of Israel,” it said in a statement.
“Essential food and medical items are obstructed from entering Gaza for days, weeks, or even months. Others are being denied entry altogether by the Israeli authorities, with reports of oxygen cylinders, ventilators and water purifiers being turned away at the border.”
Country Director Xavier Joubert said: “Starvation must never be used as a weapon of war – 27 children have already been killed by starvation and disease. If the world fails to act now countless more children will be added to that number.”
Starving Palestinians wait to receive food distributed by charities amid Israel’s blockade [File: Mahmoud Issa/Anadolu Agency]
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Al-Shifa Hospital totally destroyed: WHO
Israel’s two-week siege on al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical complex in Gaza, left it totally nonoperational, says the World Health Organization (WHO).
“Destroying al-Shifa means ripping the heart out of the health system,” WHO spokesperson Margaret Harris said.
“It was the place people go to for the kind of care that a really good health system provides, that we in all our societies expect to have should we be in need.”
Israel withdrew from the hospital on Monday after weeks of heavy fighting that left hundreds of patients and medical staff trapped inside.
Decomposing bodies have since been found under the wrecked hospital, and witnesses say civilians were targeted by Israeli forces in and around the facility.
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‘War is not bringing any safety or security to the people of Israel’
Israeli businessman Maoz Inon lost both his parents in the October 7 attacks by Hamas. Now he’s spreading a message of reconciliation.
“We didn’t want to take revenge,” Inon told AFP news agency at a small peace rally in Shefa Amr in northern Israel, which united Jews and Palestinians in a rare event since the war broke out.
Inon admitted at first he struggled to call for peace and forgiveness, “but this is the legacy of my parents. The future is going to be better,” he said.
“War is not bringing any safety or security to the people of Israel, and of course not to the Palestinians. The cycle of blood and fear has been going on for more than 100 years,” said Inon.
He noted he’s crisscrossed Israel and Europe in bid to reach out to Palestinians, including some from Gaza who “also lost a father, brother, entire families”.
Source: Al Jazeera
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Israeli attacks kill 71, injure 102 in Gaza in last 24 hours
This brings the total killed in the enclave since October 7 to 32,916, with 75,494 people injured, according to the Gaza Health Ministry’s tally.
Many victims remain trapped under rubble in areas where emergency workers are unable to reach, it said.
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Aid worker bodies to be transported to Egypt
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society says the bodies of seven World Central Kitchen aid workers killed are being prepared for evacuation through the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt.
The bodies were transported to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Gaza’s Deir el-Balah city, and then to Abu Youssef al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah.
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Global condemnation of World Central Kitchen killings
Here are some of the countries, organisations and officials who have denounced the Israeli attack so far:
- Australia
- Belgian Foreign Minister Hadja Lahbib
- Cyprus
- Egypt
- European Commission
- Iran
- Jordan
- Martin Griffiths, the UN’s emergency relief chief
- Norwegian Refugee Council
- Open Arms Spanish Organisation
- Poland
- Scotland
- WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
- World Food Programme Chief Cindy McCain
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‘Dead Nazi’ to ‘Sons of Amalek’: How Israel is weaponising music to dehumanise Palestinians
Songs like 'Harbu Darbu' and 'Zeh Aleinu' are not 'soundtracks of resistance' — they're celebrations of death.
Asfa Sultan
Beating chests, pounding on war drums, blaring horns and shouting provocative chants all make up scenes from pre-historic war times — when music was used as a tool to instil fear into the hearts of adversaries.
In ancient Greece, martial hymns known as the “Paean” were sung to invoke the favour of gods in battle. During the mediaeval period, battle songs would glorify war crimes and demonise groups of people, fuelling aggression and animosity among others. The Norse Vikings used ‘kvad’ (also spelled ‘kvæði’) — composed and performed by poets and musicians — to romanticise war, death, and “heroic” exploits.
As societies evolved, so did music and its associations, allowing it to be used as a propaganda tool to further fundamentalism, political ideologies and nationalistic narratives — its recall value lending it an upper hand over other art forms. Not everyone remembers a book, a film, a play or a poem the way they do a song. Even if it’s in a language they don’t speak and especially if it’s catchy — think the South Korean hit ‘Gangnam Style’.
The digital battlegrounds of today understand the power of music all too well — and advertisers, businesses, influencers, even your next-door neighbour have benefitted from it. So has Israel and its military, especially since October 7.
Music coming out of Israel over the past five months has surpassed propaganda and is in many cases outright hate speech. It is reflective of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s intentions. The marriage between Israel’s right-wing rhetoric and its militainment has become a testament to Netanyahu’s fascist policies.
Couple that with Israel’s demonstrated history of cultural appropriation, its music is now not only unoriginal but also racist.
Giving hip-hop a bad name
Gestures of guns being fired, fists and middle fingers raised, intense trap music and calls for the death of Palestinians set to a drill beat all make up scenes from hit Israeli war anthem ‘Harbu Darbu’ by rap duo Ness Ve Stilla. The track features derogatory terms like “rats” and “sons of Amalek” for Palestinians — a biblical reference to the “enemy nation” repeatedly used especially by Netanyahu to justify the mass killing of Palestinians by denying the existence of “innocent civilians” in Gaza.
The term “Harbu Darbu” itself originates from Syrian Arabic words meaning “swords and strike,” and is a call to “rain hell” on Israel’s “enemies”, as per Diana Abbany in her feature for the Untold Mag. The track names Hamas leaders in the same breath as “enemy” celebrities Bella Hadid, Dua Lipa and Mia Khalifa, all of whom have expressed solidarity for Palestine in the past.
Khalifa dragged the song through the mud for its influences that give hip-hop — a genre that has historically served as an outlet for the disenfranchised and marginalised — a bad name. “Y’all that song calling for the IDF to kill me, Bella, and Dua is over a DRILL beat, they can’t even call for genocide in their own culture, they had to colonise something to get it to #1,” she tweeted.
Drill, a subgenre of hip hop created by Black artists from Chicago, features heavily in Palestinian rap as well.
No problem here
Despite the hate speech and violent sentiments evoked by the track, YouTube has not removed ‘Harbu Darbu’s’ music video since its release four months ago. In fact, it has racked up 21 million views on the video streaming platform till date. Spotify, Apple Music and other streaming giants have not taken any action against the song either.As per a 2022 Washington Post report, Spotify maintains a strict policy against violent content uploaded to its platform. Yet, Mohammed Assaf’s 2015 track ‘Ana Dammi Falastini’ (My Blood is Palestinian) was temporarily removed from the platform, as well as from Apple Music and Deezer in May last year while ‘Harbu Darbu’ and other propaganda songs remain untouched.
Assaf and Spotify gave contrasting statements in response to the controversy. While Assaf said he had received an email from Spotify telling him his song had been taken down for “inciting against Israel,” Spotify stated that the decision to remove the song came at the behest of distributors. “We are not against publishing the song,” a Spotify representative told Al Jazeera at the time.
Regardless, a simple Google search will reveal that ‘Ana Dammi Falastini’ is a celebration of the Palestinian identity rather than a mockery of, or threat to, Israel. The song surged in popularity during the 2021 global demonstrations against Israeli crackdowns in Sheikh Jarrah but rather than delving into anti-Semitic rhetoric, it celebrates Palestinian heritage.
Music as a weapon
Being one of the most popular and offensive of Israel’s many “genocide anthems”, ‘Harbu Darbu’s is just one of many anti-Palestine songs released since October 7, and represents only a fragment of Israel’s history of militainment.
When it’s not villainising Palestinians, the Israeli hip-hop and pop propaganda machine paints Israelis as victims of a war-torn state, citing religious stories to reinstate their “right” over a land they continue to rob, depicting them as an “eternal nation”.
Israel’s not just employing blood-pumping anthems to spread its message — sad songs accompanied by videos of dancing Israeli soldiers have been plastered across social media to garner sympathy.
‘Rage and resilience’ — over what?
This isn’t a new tool for Israel — rewind to the last decade when songs like ‘Ahmad Loves Israel’ by Amir Benayoun were popular. The 2014 track sparked controversy for its provocative lyrics demonising Arabs and added to Israel’s repertoire of music weaponised with calls for violence against a community.
As per the Los Angeles Times, ‘Ahmad Loves Israel’ featured a fictional Arab narrator who spoke about wanting to stab Jews, fuelling Islamophobic tropes. The song’s aggressive tone and inflammatory rhetoric fuelled accusations of racism and incitement to violence. In response to the backlash, Benayoun said the track may have been inspired by violence but “wasn’t meant to celebrate it”.
Several songs released since Oct 7 have followed a similar tune. A Times of Israel report on songs of “rage and resilience” becoming soundtracks for Israelis since the Hamas attack boasts many such numbers. One of them is Subliminal’s song, ‘Zeh Aleinu’ (It’s On Us), described by the outlet as “an angry anthem about a country seeking victory in a war of survival while simultaneously looking to the future.”
The report proudly declares the song’s “clear militarism and emotionality” being inspired by hip-hop hits like ‘Harbu Darbu’ and ‘Horef ‘23’ (Winter of ‘23) by Odiah and Izi. The beginning verses of the song translate to: “Good evening, Gaza, another day, another dead Nazi/ Nova People are on the beach, Golani Brigade is in the parliament/ They’re saying to Yahya Sinwar/ Yeah… we’ve seen war/ Boom bye bye b**** your time is over!“
Klein Halevi, a writer and contributor to the outlet states that the “world-class anger” expressed by the Israeli hop-hop community is just one facet of Israel’s current musical environment.
A video surfaced in November of Israeli singer Lior Narkis serenading a group of Israeli soldiers in Gaza adds a another shocking layer to Israel’s war. “Gaza, you b****,” Narkis shouts to resounding applause. “Gaza, you daughter of a huge w****, like your mother, Gaza. Gaza, you w****. Gaza you black woman, you trash.”
Israel’s ‘resistance anthems’ are unlike any other — rather than resounding calls for unity or pride, there is hatred spewed against Palestinians.
Songs being released by Israeli artists “in response” to October 7 have done more than just convey hatred — they are facilitating shaping extreme nationalist identities and dehumanising an entire people. The best example of this is a track that came out last year, sung by Israeli children about “annihilating everyone” in Gaza. Called the ‘Friendship song 2023’, the song has been co-written by Shulamit Stolero and Ofer Rosenbaum, chairperson of the Civil Front — a ‘non-political’ Israeli group formed to mobilise the Israeli society in support of the war on Gaza.
Its music video was removed from YouTube for violating the platform’s terms of services. As per Yahoo! News, it was also shared, then quickly removed by Kan, the Israeli state-owned news channel, after receiving angry responses from around the globe.
The ‘Friendship song 2023’ is an adaptation of a renowned 1949 poem commemorating Jews killed during the Nakba. The original track’s title was replaced by “We Are the Children of the Victory Generation”.
The altered lyrics state: “On the Gaza beach the autumn night is descending / Planes are bombing, ruin follows ruin. See the IDF crossing the borderline / To annihilate the Swastika carriers. In one more year / There won’t be anything left there / And we’ll return safely to our home. In one more year / We’ll eliminate them all and go back to plowing our fields.”
This track also refers to Israel as the “the eternal nation” — a religious sentiment that is rehashed in much of Israeli propaganda music. Israel’s premier male singer Eyal Golan’s song ‘Am Yisrael Chai’ (The Israeli Nation Lives) echoes a similar sentiment. Released a week and a half after October 7, it claims, “Because the eternal people never fear/even when it’s hard to see.”
As if stealing land wasn’t enough
Speaking of warping reality, there are now several Israeli tracks misrepresenting Palestinian culture as Israeli, such as Banaia Barabi’s ‘Bein Hanahar Layam’ (From the River to the Sea).Adapting the popular Palestinian chant that demonstrators from across the Western world have been prohibited from using for its ‘anti-Semitic’ implications — the slogan has been largely misrepresented in an attempt to silence Palestinian voices — the track released in February is described by Israeli journalist Klein Halevi as a “beautiful love song to the land and people of Israel.”
In his song, Barabi says, “We won’t stop even if the world asks for a chance/We won’t stay silent, be ready/If any of you are still alive, save these words/From the River to the Sea, Israel will be free.”
Halevi defends the track as an “updated, Eastern-influenced example of an older Zionist Hebrew genre of songs and poems that praise the land of Israel, and demonstrates ‘a seamless continuity of the genre’, and shows how it can adapt to new musical tastes.”
Of course the anti-Semitic outrage does not apply to this “adaptation”.
In his song, Barabi says, “We won’t stop even if the world asks for a chance/We won’t stay silent, be ready/If any of you are still alive, save these words/From the River to the Sea, Israel will be free.”
Halevi defends the track as an “updated, Eastern-influenced example of an older Zionist Hebrew genre of songs and poems that praise the land of Israel, and demonstrates ‘a seamless continuity of the genre’, and shows how it can adapt to new musical tastes.”
Of course the anti-Semitic outrage does not apply to this “adaptation”.
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‘Dead Nazi’ to ‘Sons of Amalek’: How Israel is weaponising music to dehumanise Palestinians
Songs like 'Harbu Darbu' and 'Zeh Aleinu' are not 'soundtracks of resistance' — they're celebrations of death.
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Global public opinion ‘fed up’ with Israel’s unapologetic killing
Political analyst Nour Odeh says the countries whose citizens were killed in the Israeli attack on the aid convoy in Gaza have an obligation to seek accountability but precedence does not “provide much hope for the bereaved families”.
“We’ve seen time and again governments derelict their duties towards their citizens when they are killed by Israel,” she told Al Jazeera, speaking from Ramallah.
“So, really it’s up to the pressure that these governments will feel from their own constituents on how far they will go,” Odeh said, noting that pressure has been increasing as the war nears the six-month mark.
“Public opinion in the world, by and large, is fed up with the fact that Israel is killing humanitarian aid workers, doctors and journalists and getting away with it – killing with absolute impunity, unapologetically and still receiving weapons and political support.”
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