Aaron Bushnell: Hero Remembered

Aaron Bushnell self-immolated on this day one year ago to call attention to the genocide in Palestine. Bushnell dressed in his US Air Force military fatigues to self-immolate in front of the Israeli Embassy.

His sacrifice has been honored from Yemen to Palestine and beyond.

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Political Schizophrenia and Prisoners’ Exchange

Military and strategic expert Nidal Abu Zeid said that the Netanyahu government increases the intensity of its media discourse between threats and intimidation after each prisoner exchange to cover up its failure in its war on Gaza. He said however, that the intensity of the statements swing low with the approach of the delivery of a new batch of prisoners. He added this is met with calm and stability in the media discourse of the Palestinian resistance, which relies on actions, not words.

Abu Zeid added to Jordan 24 that postponing the release of the seventh batch of Palestinian prisoners at a time when the resistance committed itself to releasing the bodies and its prisoners clearly shows the state of political schizophrenia and confusion the Netanyahu government is suffering from in front of the Israeli street and the world after the scenes and messages of the resistance during the prisoner handover operations.

The military expert indicated the Israeli intransigence in not committing to releasing the Palestinians from prisons will not last long. He expected the seventh batch of Palestinian prisoners will be released before the end of this week.

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Five Infants Die in Gaza Because of The Freeze

“Nine infants were hospitalized in the past two weeks due to health complications caused by severe cold,” Saeed Salah, Director of the Patient’s Friends Benevolent Society Hospital in Gaza, told Anadolu.

“Of the nine cases, five infants aged between one day and two weeks died,” he added.

Salah said one baby is still on a ventilator due to his serious health condition, however, three others were discharged from hospital.

He said the nine new born were transferred to the hospital from northern Gaza because the region there has been completely destroyed and where most of the population has been displaced and are living in tents following Israel’s destructive war on the enclave.

Salah appealed to the international community to intervene to allow the entry of mobile homes, tents, and fuel into Gaza to provide shelter to thousands of Palestinians.

Hamas blamed Israel’s “criminal policies” for the death of the babies in Gaza news of which are trending on the social media.

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In a statement, the group called for immediate intervention “to stop Israel’s violations of the ceasefire agreement and allow the entry of urgent shelter, heating, and medical aid supplies into Gaza to the children there.”

According to Gaza’s government media office, nearly 1.5 million Palestinians have been left without home or shelter after Israel waged its deadly war on the enclave.

A ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement has been in place in Gaza since last month, pausing the Israeli war that has killed at least 48,350 people, mostly women and children, and left the enclave in ruins.

Last November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.

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Expert: Israel Seeks to Displace Palestinians by Making Rebuilding Costs Too High

International law expert Dr. Anis Al-Qassem warned against the demolition and displacement acts carried out by the Israeli occupation army in the West Bank, adding the demolition and bulldozing operations aim at forcing the Palestinian people off their land.

Al-Qassem told Jordan24 that the occupation army is carrying out what he called “systematic impoverishment operations” against the Palestinian people, such they would be unable to rebuild what has been destroyed due to the huge sums of money that would be needed by the Palestinian National Authority and the residents together. He pointed out that this is what the Israeli occupation government seeks and is doing.

Al-Qassem added that the extent of the destruction of camps, homes and infrastructure in the West Bank is comparable to what the Israelis did in the Gaza Strip, and no party will be able to finance the exorbitant costs which will automatically push the people to voluntarily leave in search of a livelihood in light of the difficult circumstances they live in within the West Bank.

“Unfortunately, we cannot ask the Arab countries to intervene, given the fact that they completely ended their connection with the Palestinian cause, and this was clear in the Gaza war, despite the cohesion and solidarity of western countries with Israel, which today enjoys their unlimited support, economically, militarily and technologically,” he concluded.

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