By This week of April 12, 2024, marks the third day of our Eid holidays, and just a regular day of indiscriminate bloodshed for Palestinians in Gaza. Children are suffering, families are grieving, women are struggling, and despair is looming large.
To provide you with how this week has been going so far, here is a roundup of the top news that you should keep under your radar.
“Israel Kills Three Sons & Four Grandchildren of Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh”
While the world is torn between those who celebrate their demise and those who grieve their loss, let us acknowledge Palestine’s stark vulnerability. The Palestinian people have no official military forces that can stand against the Israeli forces, and thus, have a fair collision of troops. Unarmed civilians do not know how to use firearms and ammunition; Hamas is their only option, even if it contradicts their beliefs.
A nation devoid of an official army stands precariously exposed, ripe for obliteration from this world’s map, with no voice to contest its fate.
“Aid ‘Still Not Reaching Gaza’, As Top US Official Warns Famine Has Started”
Famine has been plaguing Gaza ever since the displacement started to take place. Yet, here we are seeing the United States “warning” that Gaza is about to cross the threshold of famine. Is that a joke? April Fools, maybe?
“Turkey and Israel Announce Trade Barriers on Each Other As Relations Deteriorate Over Gaza”
All nations standing by Palestine should cease their dealings with Israel until there is a permanent ceasefire and an ultimatum that authorizes unequivocal support for Palestinians’ right to live peacefully in their own land.
“Top IDF Commander in Aid Strike Wanted To Block Humanitarian Supplies Into Gaza”
Just in case you thought that targeting aid workers was a mistake, this is solid proof this was never the case, to begin with.
“Biden Says Netanyahu’s Approach to War in Gaza ‘Is a Mistake’”
Just like the war in Iraq was a mistake? Or perhaps just like the war in Vietnam was a mistake? The Guantánamo Bay? How many mistakes are you and your ally in the Middle East willing to make? Because we have certainly lost count.
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