Central de Autobuses del Norte, Ciudad de México
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Conjunto Urbano Presidente Alemán.
Se trata de un conjunto de edificios habitacionales ubicados en la colonia Del Valle. Vista desde Félix Cuevas.
June 4th: a group of Palestinians held a marathon from Sheikh Jarrah to Silwan, the two neighborhoods under threat of displacement. The IOF shot at and threw stun grenades at the runners, some from settlers houses.
June 5th: IOF soldiers arrest Palestinian Al Jazeera correspondent, Givara Budeiri, and break her hand. She gave an interview after her release saying the soldiers knew she was an Al Jazeera reporter and kicked her in the car because of it.
June 6th: IOF soldiers arrested Muna and Mohammed El Kurd, two of the leaders of the Save Sheikh Jarrah movement. Muna was taken to the door of the Moscobyie prison, known for tortuting Palestinians, before being released
June 7th: Israel's Attorney General will not intervene in the Sheikh Jarrah case, framing it as a real-estate dispute instead of a forced expusion. Officials from the Attorney General's office also said the families case is weak, and that "his legal opinion would not be able to prevent their pending eviction"
JUNE 10TH
The IOF raided the village of Jenin, resulting in the death of three Palestinians: Adham Elaiwi, Tayseer Aysa and Jamil Amouri
Israeli police raided and shut down UHWC for six months, a key healthcare body for Palestinians. Personal note is that they use legal language (the shut down is a military order) to try to legitimize it as an estate action and not a genocidal act.
Israel's MK Itamar Ben-Gvir visited the Damascus Gate, even after being banned by the police. Several Palestinians came to protest and were met with stun grenades. 14 were arrested, including a child (video of the child being abducted)
Video of the children being assaulted by the IOF at Damascus Gate
IOF brutalized Silwan residents protesting against their displacement outside a colonial court (source)
Israel is building an illegal settlement in Beita and brutalizing the residents and burning down their olive trees, only livelihood of the village, as well as targetting ambulances who come to aid (source)
A short list of children arrested this last week: Nufuz Hammad, 14 year old (source), Mohammad & Saif Abu Khdair, both 17 years old, Oraib Abu Khdair, 18 year old, Batn-Alhawa, 16 year old (source), and this child, who was abducted for flying a Palestinian flag on his bike (source)
Don't look away from Palestine and amplify the voices of Palestinian people
Since the beginning of the genocide in Gaza in October, Israeli soldiers have been posting what can only be described as snuff videos on social media platforms. In the videos, soldiers can be seen – often gleefully – committing war crimes against Palestinians. In one video, an Israeli soldier dressed in a dinosaur costume loads artillery shells into a tank and dances as the shells are fired in the direction of Gaza. In another video, a soldier is filmed dedicating an explosion to his two-year-old daughter for her birthday. Seconds later, a Palestinian residential building behind him is blown up. Other videos show Israeli soldiers setting alight Palestinian food supplies during a starvation campaign and mocking stripped, rounded-up and blindfolded Palestinian civilians. [...] And there is another aspect of Israeli impunity that is often overlooked: Israeli soldiers routinely admit to horrific crimes they commit against the Palestinians to clear their conscience and absolve themselves of personal responsibility but never face any accountability. Israelis themselves describe the practice as “yorim ve bochim”, which translates from Hebrew as “shooting and crying”. A favourite pastime of the Zionist left, it takes centre stage in dozens of Israeli films and documentaries. Take the widely celebrated film Tantura, named after a Palestinian fishing village that was subjected to a massacre in 1948. In this film, several Israeli veterans talk with ease about the fact that they killed hundreds of Palestinian civilians. Others openly admit to participating in ethnic cleansing, yet all are portrayed as complicated individuals who are traumatised by the trauma they inflicted on Palestinians. “Yorim ve bochim” is also epitomised in the work of the Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence. A darling of the liberal West, the organisation of Israeli army veterans tries to expose the reality of the “Occupied Territories” by providing a space to Israeli soldiers to confidentially recount their experiences in the Israeli army and at times admit to taking part in systematic abuse and destruction. The testimonies on its website make for incredibly difficult reading, particularly in this moment when we are seeing what is happening in Gaza. And yet nowhere does this organisation call for accountability or address what justice might look like for the Palestinians whom the soldiers they work with have systematically abused over decades. The reality is that over the last seven and a half decades, there has been complete impunity for brutalising and slaughtering Palestinians. The ongoing genocide in Gaza and the way in which it is being so brazenly shared on social media by the perpetrators is a manifestation of that impunity. The only way to make sure that it stops and never happens again is to hold not only those who have taken part in the genocide accountable but also those who are complicit.
. . . continues on al jazeera (24 Jan, 2024)