WEBVTT - An Update on Gaza and the West Bank 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:07.680 All Zone Media. Hello, this is it could happen here 0:00:07.840 --> 0:00:11.080 and I am Sharene Today we have an update for 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:14.720 you about what is happening in Palestine. There is a 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:18.080 lot that is happening in Palestine, way way too much 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:21.360 to cover in a single podcast episode, but I hope 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:23.439 this at least gives you a general idea of where 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:27.800 we currently stand, just for clarity and context. I am 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:31.800 recording this on Tuesday, March twelfth, so any numbers I mention, 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:37.360 unfortunately and probably are different. Now at this point, there 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:41.280 have been over five months of bombardment and genocide and 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:44.800 this has caused a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, with children 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:48.800 starving to death due to malnutrition and dehydration as Israel 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:53.160 has imposed restrictions on aid deliveries to Gaza. Five months 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:55.520 of genocide on top of more than a decade and 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:59.080 a half of blockade, have caused relentless mental harm to 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:02.320 children in Gaza. According to a report released by Save 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:07.080 the Children on Tuesday, twenty five Palestinians in Graza including 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:09.639 out these, twenty children and a two month old baby, 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:14.280 have died of malnutrition and dehydration. According to the Palestinian 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:17.760 Ministry of Health, the true death toll due to starvation 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:21.880 is feared to be much higher, as many Palestinians, particularly 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:25.760 in northern Gaza, face famine and are almost entirely cut 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:29.640 off from the severely limited humanitarian aid which is entering 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:34.039 Gaza through the southern Rapah crossing. Many Israelis have also 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:37.959 been blocking aid from entering Gaza. A group of Israeli 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:41.000 protesters have been blocking AID trucks from crossing into the 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:44.640 Gaza Strip for weeks now, vowing that quote not a 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:47.880 single loaf of bread should reach those trapped in the 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:51.480 tiny region of the Gaza Strip until all remaining hostages 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:56.080 are released. The area around Karam Shalom, which is Israel's 0:01:56.120 --> 0:02:00.280 only functioning border crossing with Gaza, is a closed military zone, 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:03.760 but the IOF officers and their presence there hardly deters 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:07.720 the dozens of protesters, who are mostly settlers, families of hostages, 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:11.560 and deactivated military reservists. It does not deter them from 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:14.239 trekking through the area and protesting in an attempt to 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:18.079 slow AID trucks from entering Razza. I'm noticing right now 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:23.040 that I'm interchangeably using Gaza and Razza. Raza's just how 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:28.320 you say in Arabic, sofyi if I jump around my apologies. 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:33.400 On the ground, CNN recorded an interview with protester w Sharon. 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:36.920 She pointed to an AID truck convoy and said this 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:40.680 arrives into the tunnels of Hamas, fighting us and holding 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:45.720 our hostages. There is no evidence that the majority of AID, 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:50.360 including food and medical supplies, is going to Hamas. Sharon 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:54.600 and her fellow protesters are demanding that AIDS stop entering Gaza, 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:58.679 where over thirty thousand people have now been killed according 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:01.639 to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, with people at an 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:06.560 increasing risk of starvation. Another protester named Katya said they 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:10.000 should only get the minimum calories to survive if they 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:13.120 are starving to death, give the hostages back. Not a 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:16.280 single loaf of bread should go there till our hostages 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:20.200 are coming back. When questioned about the scale of human 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:25.520 suffering in Gaza, Katya seemed unmoved. She said, even if 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:29.000 there is a humanitarian crisis, and there is not, it 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:31.919 is my right and my duty to prioritize the Kiffeiti 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:36.600 Bibas over any Gazen babies. Kiffitabibas is a one year 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:40.720 old who is being held hostage along with the baby's parents. 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:45.320 So that's what she's referring to, prioritizing Israeli babies over 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:51.800 Palestinian babies. Very little AID has made it into Palestine, 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:55.520 and perhaps nothing captures what the US and Israel actually are. 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:58.000 Then a picture that has been making the rounds on 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:02.160 social media recently. It's a photographs showing US AID drops 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:06.040 and Israeli air strikes targeting civilian areas in northern Gaza, 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:09.040 happening at the same time, falling on the rubble of 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:14.280 destroyed buildings. The AID and the air strikes dropping at 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:18.760 the same moment is dystopian and beyond fucked up. Since 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:22.599 October seventh, Israel has also shut off entry of food, water, 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:25.440 and medicine, as well as other supplies from entering Gaza, 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:29.440 only allowing a trickle of AID trucks through two crossings 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:33.000 in the south. Israel has blamed the starvation that Palestinians 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:36.520 are enduring in Gaza on UN agencies, saying that they 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:41.640 fail to distribute supplies piling up at Gaza crossings. The UNRWA, 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:45.320 which is the largest UN agency in Gaza, says Israel 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:50.520 restricts goods and imposes cumbersome inspections that slow entry of aid. Also, 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:54.840 distribution within Gaza has been crippled. Un officials say. They 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:58.200 say that convoys regularly are turned back by Israeli forces 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:02.120 and that the military often reached fuses safe passage amid fighting, 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:04.279 and that the AD does not get to the people 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:07.320 that need it the most, often being grabbed from trucks 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:10.160 by hungry Palestinians en route to the drop off points. 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:13.360 Recent air drops of aid by the US and other 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:17.240 countries provide far lower amounts of AID than truck deliveries, 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:21.680 which have become increasingly more rare, and they're also sometimes dangerous. 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:25.960 The UNRWA says that Israeli authorities haven't allowed it to 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:29.599 deliver supplies to the north of Gaza since January twenty third. 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:33.560 The World Food Organization, which had paused deliveries because of 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:37.440 safety concerns, said the military forced its first convoy to 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:40.359 the north in two weeks to turn back on Tuesday. 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:44.679 Jarine from the Future is here just for this quick update. 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:49.600 Yesterday Wednesday, Israeli forces hit a food distribution center and 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:53.720 aid's center in Raphach. The UNRWA said that one of 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:56.440 their staff members were killed and twenty two others were injured, 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:58.640 and it said up to sixty people were believed to 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:02.200 have been working there when it was hit. Those killed 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:04.080 were said to be a fifteen year old boy and 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:06.960 four men who were between twenty seven and fifty years old. 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:12.040 Rafai resident Sami Abu Salim said it's a UNRWA center 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:16.360 expected to be secure. Some came to work to distribute 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:18.479 aid to the people in need of food during the 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:22.320 holy month of Ramadan. Suddenly they were struck by two missiles. 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:27.479 The un r WA chief Philippe Lazzarini said in a 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:30.920 statement that it was one of the very few UNWA 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:33.840 distribution centers that was still operating in Gaza after these 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:37.240 five months of genocide. He said this attack comes as 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:40.760 food supplies are running out, Hunger is widespread and in 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:44.760 some areas turning into famine every day. We shared the 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:48.200 coordinates of all of our facilities across the Gaza Strip 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:52.520 with parties to the conflict. The Israeli Army received the coordinates, 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:57.479 including this facility yesterday. Since October, the un r WA 0:06:57.600 --> 0:06:59.760 says at least one hundred and sixty five of its 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:03.040 eighteen thousand employees in Gaza have been killed, and that 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:05.839 more than one hundred and fifty of its facilities have 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:10.400 been hit by Israeli forces. Here are the latest casualty 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:14.840 figures as of March thirteenth, at twelve forty pm. In Gaza, 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:18.440 there are at least thirty one thousand, two hundred and 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:22.120 seventy two people who have been killed. Of those, there 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:24.960 are twelve thousand and three hundred children who have been killed, 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:27.440 as well as eight thousand, four hundred women who have 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:30.720 been killed. There are more than seventy three thousand and 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:34.720 twenty four people who have been injured, including eight thousand 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:37.040 and six hundred and sixty three children who have been 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:40.080 injured and six thousand, three hundred and twenty seven women 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:43.440 who have been injured. There are more than eight thousand 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:47.840 Palestinians who are missing in Gaza. The latest figures from 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:50.720 the Palestinian Ministry of Health for the occupied West Bank 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:54.440 is as follows. At least four hundred and thirty two 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.680 people have been killed, including more than one hundred and 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:02.520 fifteen children. There are more than four thousand, six hundred 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:05.480 and fifty Palestinians who have been injured in the West Bank. 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:09.160 In Israel, officials have revised the death toll from October 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:12.760 seventh from one thousand, four hundred and five to one thousand, 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:15.960 one hundred and thirty nine. As far as the injured go, 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:18.560 in Israel, there are at least eight thousand, seven hundred 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:21.400 and thirty people who have been injured, according to the 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:24.120 latest data from the UN's Office for the Coordination of 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:27.560 Humanitarian Affairs, the World Health Organization, as well as the 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:31.680 Palestinian government. As of February twenty five, Israeli attacks have 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:35.600 damaged more than half of Gaza's homes. Three hundred and 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:40.000 sixty thousand residential units have been destroyed or damaged. There 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:43.280 have been three hundred and ninety two educational facilities that 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:46.839 have been destroyed, including all universities. Twelve out of the 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:50.960 thirty five hospitals are partially functioning. One hundred and thirty 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:54.920 two ground water wells have been damaged or destroyed. Two 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:58.400 hundred and sixty seven places of worship have also been destroyed. 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:05.480 We want to emphasize how damaging starvation is and famine is. 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:10.920 Starvation causes long lasting damage to the body. Large numbers 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:15.520 of people in Gaza are experiencing malnutrition. Studies of famines 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:18.960 in other countries show that famines can have long lasting 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:22.360 impacts on people's health and even that of their descendants. 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:26.880 A new type of video has been circulating online from 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:31.440 the Raza Strip footage showing families baking quote unquote bread 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:35.120 which is made from bird seed, eating weeds, and giving 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:38.600 newborn babies dat to suck on instead of milk. The 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:43.240 Accountability Program director at Defense for Children International Palestine said, 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:46.600 it is unthinkable that in twenty twenty four, in a 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:49.960 world that produces more than enough food for all people, 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:54.520 that Palestinian children are starving to death. The starvation of 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:58.280 children is a hallmark of genocide and a deliberate political 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:01.959 choice by Israel, backed by the Biden administration. It is 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:06.240 complete madness that Israeli authorities continue to prohibit and restrict 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:10.040 food and other life saving supplies to a starving population 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:15.400 while the international community stands by. Palestinians in Gaza started 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:19.679 to experience chronic hunger within weeks of October seventh. At 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:22.520 this point in time, Israeli strikes have killed more than 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:26.840 thirty thousand Palestinians, and this is according to Gaza's Ministry 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:29.480 of Health. The death tolls that come out of the 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:33.120 Palestinian Ministry of Health. They account for Palestinians who die 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:36.400 at hospitals or whose families report their deaths to the Ministry. 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:40.800 Due to the telecommunications blackout, the collapse of the medical system, 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:46.080 Israeli ground invasion, and continued Israeli aerial bombardment, many Palestinians 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:49.120 are not able to reach hospitals and so this number 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:53.080 is likely far far greater than it actually is. And 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:56.920 as I mentioned, Israeli authorities have repeatedly blocked and severely 0:10:56.960 --> 0:11:01.840 restricted any humanitarian aid from entering Gaza. On Tuesday, Israeli 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:04.960 forces attacked Palestinians who were waiting for aid trucks at 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:08.079 the Kuwait roundabout south of Gaza City and they killed 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:11.880 seven people. Keep in mind, this is after what has 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:16.000 become known as the Flower Massacre. On February twenty ninth, 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:19.920 the Israeli Occupation Forces AA the IOF killed at least 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:23.400 one hundred and eighteen Palestinians who were attempting to get 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:27.600 aid from a convoy in Gaza City. In this Flower massacre. 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:30.080 Along with the one hundred and eighteen Palestinians who were 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:33.360 shot and killed, at least seven hundred and fifty additional 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:37.040 Palestinians were injured. They were just trying to get food 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:40.600 from the aid trucks to feed their family. The United 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:43.760 States recently delivered two air drops of aid alongside the 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:48.000 Dardanian military into northern Gaza. The air drops contained a 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:51.400 total of seventy four thousand, eight hundred meals, and this 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:54.760 was widely criticized as a public relations move because the 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:59.599 Biden administration is still clearly complicit in Israel's genocide of Palestinians. 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:06.160 International criminal law prohibits serious atrocities, including core crimes of genocide, 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:10.160 the crime of aggression, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:15.280 and provides for individual criminal responsibility for perpetrators. The crime 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:18.839 of genocide constitutes the deliberate killing of a large number 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:22.120 of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:25.360 the aim of destroying that nation or group in whole 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:29.360 or in part. Genocide can result from killing or by 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:33.960 creating conditions of life that are so unbearable. Intentionally using 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:37.680 starvation of civilians as a method of warfare is an 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:41.560 underlying act of genocide, and it amounts to a war crime. 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:44.880 I've said this before on this podcast. I'll say it again, 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:48.840 but At this point, international law means nothing. I mean, 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:51.240 it hasn't been anything for a long time. Nothing happens 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:56.720 with Israel continues to break international law, so that phrase 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:58.439 is a little empty to me when they are in 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:02.920 violation of international law. But here we are, and it 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:06.680 should be noted that starvation of civilians also contributes and 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:09.800 is an active genocide. I've talked about why this is 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:12.800 genocide in other episodes, but it's a clear ACTI of 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:17.160 genocide what Israel is doing to Palestinians, and many scholars 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:22.520 agree with that. Anyway, let's continue. As weeks of blockades 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:26.240 on food and other aid have turned into months, starvation 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:30.680 has reached historic proportions. One recent report by the Global 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:34.920 Nutrition Cluster, which is a United Nations Children's Fund, a 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:39.560 UNISEF led partnership of humanitarian organizations. It found that in 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:43.040 December of twenty twenty three in January of twenty twenty four, 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:47.000 nine and ten children under the age of two and 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:50.560 more than nine and ten pregnant and breastfeeding women surveyed 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:54.560 had consumed two or fewer food groups in the previous day. 0:13:55.640 --> 0:14:00.719 This situation is considered severe food poverty. Two thirds of 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:03.840 households were eating just once a day, if at all. 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:07.880 In the northern Gaza Strip, one in six babies and 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:12.960 toddlers were acutely malnourished. Aid organizations say that these numbers 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:15.960 today are likely to be far, far worse, and that 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:20.560 the rapid onset and complexity of Gaza's food crisis is unprecedented. 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:25.560 Ted Chaiban is the Deputy Executive Director for Humanitarian Action 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:29.760 and Supply Operations at UNICEF. He said in a recent statement, 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:33.880 the Gaza Strip is poised to witness and explosion in 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:38.200 preventable child deaths. If the conflict does not end now, 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:43.560 children's nutrition will continue to plummet, leading to preventable deaths 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:46.760 or health issues which will affect the children of Gaza 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:51.880 for the rest of their lives and have potential intergenerational consequences. 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:55.000 There are nearly two point two million people living in 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:58.800 the Gaza Strip, nearly half of whom are children, nearly 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:01.600 one hundred and sixty million. I mean other people worldwide 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:06.080 are facing hunger, including millions of people in Somalia, Afghanistan 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:10.800 and Sudan. The short term health consequences of food scarcity 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:15.960 have been studied extensively in children, an especially vulnerable group. 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:20.760 Severe acute malnutrition can lead to muscle wasting, stunted growth, 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:28.480 and medical complications including sepsis, meningitis, diarrhea, and severe anemia. Worldwide, 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:31.760 nearly half of all deaths of children less than five 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:35.920 years of age are linked to malnutrition. A growing body 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:38.840 of research is finding that even if these children return 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:43.080 to normal nutrition levels, a period of acute malnutrition can 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:46.240 lead to long lasting damage later in life, and it 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:50.680 may impact future generations. This is one of many examples 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:54.200 of why Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people isn't just 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:57.400 about death and the lives they've destroyed and the land 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:02.920 that they've taken. Israel's genocide is also about robbing Palestinians 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:07.160 of any livable future, affecting generations with Palestinians to come. 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:11.200 And they've done this since nineteen forty eight. That's why 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:13.800 it's no accident when children are targeted by the IOF, 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:17.760 when they're starving or when they're shot. They are murdered 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:20.640 as a way to prevent Palestinians from having a future 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:24.840 or having any hope. We see how the IOF shoots 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:28.480 children with the intention to kill. There are many many 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:32.440 examples of this, but here's a recent example. Two children 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:35.520 were killed in November in the West Bank. Adam Samir 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:38.560 el Rul, eight years old, was shot in the head. 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:43.840 Bazez ude Man Abu Edwafa, fifteen years old, was shot 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:49.280 in the chest. These children were both murdered and shot 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:53.160 with the intention to kill. The Israeli military and border 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:56.680 police forces have been killing Palestinian children with virtually no 0:16:56.840 --> 0:17:01.400 recourse for accountability for decades. Back in August of twenty 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:05.200 twenty three. Well before October seventh of twenty twenty three, 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:09.399 Bill van Esfeld, who was the Associate Children's Rights Director 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:13.920 at Human Rights Watch, said Israeli forces are gunning down 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:20.440 Palestinian children living under occupation with increasing frequency. Unless Israel's allies, 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:25.160 particularly the United States, pressure Israel to change course, more 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:29.639 Palestinian children will be killed. And that is exactly what 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:34.280 has been happening. Many, many more Palestinian children have been killed, 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:39.840 all preventable. Human Rights Watch researchers and documenting four killings 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:44.440 that happened, interviewed in person, seven witnesses, nine family members 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:48.280 and other residents, lawyers, doctors, staff and field workers at 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:52.120 Palestinian and Israeli rights groups as well as reviews CCTV 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:55.040 footage and videos that were posted on social media, as 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:58.679 well as statements by Israeli security agencies, medical records, and 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:03.280 news reports. In all cases that they researched, Israeli forces 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:08.160 shot the children's upper bodies without, according to witnesses, issuing warnings, 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:12.359 or using common less lethal measures like tear gas, concussion 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:15.719 grenades or rubber coated bullets. I also want to draw 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:19.520 attention to how this genocide is also a mass disabling 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:22.680 event that will harm an entire generation and make them 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:26.680 reliant on infrastructure that does not physically exist. More than 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:30.359 ten children a day lose a limb in Gaza, and 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:33.320 this is from the source to save the children. At 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:36.840 least seventeen thousand children, which is one percent of Gaza's 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:40.600 overall displaced population of one point seven million, have now 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:43.760 been orphaned in the Gaza Strip and the number of 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:46.960 children who have been killed in Gaza. This number is 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:52.520 now reaching thirteen thousand children. The number of children reported 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:55.840 killed in just four months in Gaza is higher than 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:59.280 the number of children killed in four years of war 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:04.120 around the world combined. Let's take an ad break and 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:19.399 we'll be right back and we are back in the 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:23.520 twenty four hours between Sunday, March tenth and Monday, March eleventh, 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:27.200 during which the vast majority of Americans were busy watching 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:31.720 the stupid fucking oscars, seven massacres were committed by Israeli 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:36.800 occupation forces against families in Laza, killing sixty seven Palestinians 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:40.480 and injuring one hundred and six others. This happened as 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:45.520 people were distracted by watching this dumb display of nothing. 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:50.280 Palestinians are continuing to be murdered. And as for where 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:53.640 things currently stand right now, there are more than one 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:56.960 point seven million civilians who are trapped in the Rephah, 0:19:57.000 --> 0:20:00.720 which is Gaza's last place of refuge, right on the south, 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:04.000 on the southern border. And this is after Israel kept 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:07.520 telling Palestinians to go south because of these quote unquote 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:10.800 safe zones that were clearly not safe at all. A 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:13.199 massacre is happening in the Dephah right now, and the 0:20:13.240 --> 0:20:16.879 world is silent. And to make matters worse, not that 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:19.879 they can get any worse, Israeli Prime Ministers Benjamin and 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:23.119 Yahoo says that he intends to press ahead with the 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:27.360 invasion of the city of Raphach Joe Biden useless warned 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:31.280 that the offensive would be a quote red line. But 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:33.840 as we know, a slap on the wrist for Israel 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:37.480 means absolutely nothing, and they continue to act with impunity, 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:41.600 without any repercussions. When asked on Sunday whether Israeli forces 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:45.760 would move into Nan Yahu replied, we'll go there. We're 0:20:45.760 --> 0:20:48.159 not going to leave them. You know, I have a 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:50.399 red line, and you know what the red line is 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:54.000 that October seven does not happen again. It never happens again. 0:20:54.920 --> 0:20:57.960 He also dismissed the idea of a ceasefire for Ramadan, 0:20:58.680 --> 0:21:01.479 saying that he would like to say, see another hostage release, 0:21:01.880 --> 0:21:03.840 because without a release, there's not going to be a 0:21:03.880 --> 0:21:06.520 pause in the fighting. And he also doubled down on 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:10.800 his rejection of the possibility of a Palestinian state. He 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:14.000 says the positions that I es bows are supported by 0:21:14.040 --> 0:21:17.120 the overwhelming majority of Israelis who say to you, after 0:21:17.200 --> 0:21:20.720 October seventh, we don't want to see a Palestinian state. 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:24.800 The Israeli people also support my position that says that 0:21:24.840 --> 0:21:28.359 we should resoundingly reject the attempts to ram down our throats. 0:21:28.400 --> 0:21:33.399 A Palestinian state that is something they agree. On the 0:21:33.480 --> 0:21:36.400 evening of Sunday, March tenth was also the first day 0:21:36.480 --> 0:21:40.800 of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan. Tarak Ahmad, who 0:21:40.840 --> 0:21:43.840 is the UK Minister of State responsible for relations to 0:21:43.840 --> 0:21:46.600 the Middle East, to North Africa and the UN, on 0:21:46.720 --> 0:21:50.919 Monday he urged Israel to quote allow unhindered access to 0:21:51.000 --> 0:21:55.600 Jerusalem's holy sites during Ramadan. What has Israel done since then? 0:21:55.760 --> 0:21:58.639 You may ask, well, Israel has put up a barbed 0:21:58.680 --> 0:22:03.359 wire fence around Theluxamosque, something it hasn't done since nineteen 0:22:03.400 --> 0:22:07.480 sixty seven. Israel erected barbed wire on a fence around 0:22:07.560 --> 0:22:11.840 the Lions Gate area adjacent to Theluximosque complex and occupied 0:22:11.880 --> 0:22:16.320 East Jerusalem. The Jerusalem Governor's office itself said in a 0:22:16.359 --> 0:22:20.040 statement on Monday, this is a dangerous precedent that has 0:22:20.160 --> 0:22:24.919 never occurred since nineteen sixty seven. The Lions Gate, also 0:22:25.000 --> 0:22:29.320 known as Bab Adasabat, is located within Jerusalem's Old City 0:22:29.520 --> 0:22:32.919 and is one of the main gates leading to Theluxamosque. 0:22:33.080 --> 0:22:37.880 Israel clearly aims to prevent Palestinians from entering Uximosque during 0:22:37.920 --> 0:22:41.960 the holy month of Ramadan. Israeli forces have also imposed 0:22:41.960 --> 0:22:45.800 a strict siege on Theluxamosque for the past five months, 0:22:46.160 --> 0:22:51.080 preventing entry into it. On Sunday night, Israeli forces prevented 0:22:51.240 --> 0:22:55.000 hundreds of Palestinians from entering the Mosque to perform the Tetawekh, 0:22:55.320 --> 0:22:58.600 a special night of prayers during the holy month of Ramadan. 0:23:00.119 --> 0:23:03.280 Be a Palestinian man near Bab a Zehara one of 0:23:03.320 --> 0:23:07.480 the gates leading to the mosque before detaining him. Soldiers 0:23:07.560 --> 0:23:11.680 also reportedly detained an Eluxamosque guard from the Old City 0:23:11.680 --> 0:23:15.800 of Jerusalem. Continuing along with the news from just this week, 0:23:16.160 --> 0:23:19.840 on Monday, Israeli forces arrested six Palestinian boys from the 0:23:19.840 --> 0:23:25.000 town of Saella, northeast of occupied Jerusalem. Video footage showed 0:23:25.040 --> 0:23:28.199 a group of Israeli soldiers tying the Palestinians with a 0:23:28.320 --> 0:23:32.119 rope and dragging them in a humiliating manner through the 0:23:32.160 --> 0:23:37.240 streets of Essaella. You see this in this footage. They 0:23:37.320 --> 0:23:40.880 wrangle them and treat them like fucking cattle. Worse than 0:23:40.920 --> 0:23:45.000 fucking cattle. They're treated worse than animals. And the entire 0:23:45.080 --> 0:23:48.479 world is witnessing this and what it's absolutely sickening to 0:23:48.520 --> 0:23:51.840 me is that so many Americans would probably care more 0:23:51.920 --> 0:23:55.280 about a dead dog than about a dead Palestinian. And 0:23:55.359 --> 0:23:57.840 if that sentence made you uncomfortable, well it's supposed to. 0:23:58.520 --> 0:24:01.960 Palestinians have not been or depicted as human for so 0:24:02.240 --> 0:24:06.280 long that it's just become normal. But it is not normal. 0:24:06.640 --> 0:24:09.960 In Palestinian life matters just as much as any other. 0:24:22.320 --> 0:24:23.960 I want to also take a moment to talk about 0:24:24.000 --> 0:24:27.680 what's happening in the West Bank. According to Amnesty International, 0:24:27.920 --> 0:24:31.760 Israeli forces have unleashed a brutal wave of violence against 0:24:31.800 --> 0:24:35.600 Palestinians and the occupied West Bank in the last five months, 0:24:35.600 --> 0:24:39.960 carrying out unlawful killings, including by using lethal force without 0:24:39.960 --> 0:24:44.480 necessity or disproportionately during protests and arrest raids, as well 0:24:44.480 --> 0:24:49.240 as denying medical assistance to those injured. The organization investigated 0:24:49.240 --> 0:24:53.960 four emblematic cases where Israeli forces used unlawful lethal force, 0:24:54.520 --> 0:24:58.200 three incidents in October and one in November, which resulted 0:24:58.200 --> 0:25:02.440 in the unlawful killing of twenty p Palestinians, including seven children. 0:25:03.240 --> 0:25:07.960 Researchers remotely interviewed twelve people, ten of them eyewitnesses, including 0:25:08.000 --> 0:25:12.720 first responders and local residents. The organization's Crisis Evidence Lab 0:25:13.040 --> 0:25:17.760 verified nineteen videos and four photos in examining these four incidents. 0:25:19.840 --> 0:25:24.639 Amnesty International's research also found that Israeli forces obstructed medical 0:25:24.680 --> 0:25:27.800 assistance to people with life threatening wounds, as well as 0:25:27.840 --> 0:25:33.480 attacked those attempting to assist injured Palestinians, including paramedics. Since 0:25:33.520 --> 0:25:37.560 October seventh, Israeli forces have stepped up raids, carrying them 0:25:37.560 --> 0:25:40.880 out almost daily across the occupied West Bank and what 0:25:40.920 --> 0:25:45.479 it describes as search and arrest operations. In one recent 0:25:45.560 --> 0:25:49.200 incident that you may have seen online, Israeli forces carried 0:25:49.240 --> 0:25:54.160 out arrayed masquerading as medical staff. In twenty twenty three, 0:25:54.520 --> 0:25:57.720 at least five hundred and seven Palestinians were killed in 0:25:57.720 --> 0:26:01.760 the West Bank, including eighty one children, making it the 0:26:01.800 --> 0:26:05.399 deadliest year for Palestinians since the United Nations Office for 0:26:05.480 --> 0:26:09.760 the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs began recording casualties in two 0:26:09.800 --> 0:26:15.159 thousand and five. Erica Guavera Rosas, Amnesty International Director of 0:26:15.160 --> 0:26:19.879 Global Research, Advocacy and Policy, said under the cover of 0:26:19.960 --> 0:26:24.640 the relentless bombardment and atrocity crimes in Gaza, Israeli forces 0:26:24.720 --> 0:26:29.040 have unleashed unlawful lethal force against Palestinians in the occupied 0:26:29.080 --> 0:26:33.080 West Bank, carrying out unlawful killings and displaying a chilling 0:26:33.119 --> 0:26:38.000