The myth of the US as an honest peace broker has been buried under Gaza’s rubble.
Palestinian children, taking refuge in Tel al-Sultan region due to Israeli attacks, decorate their tents with Ramadan lanterns and illuminate lights ahead of the holy Islamic fasting month of Ramadan in Rafah, Gaza, on February 29, 2024.Palestinian children, taking refuge in Tel al-Sultan region due to Israeli attacks, decorate their tents with Ramadan lanterns and illuminate lights ahead of the holy Islamic fasting month of Ramadan in Rafah, Gaza, on February 29, 2024.
This Sunday, on the eve of Islam’s holiest month of the year, worshippers in Gaza prayed in bombed-out mosques. In occupied East Jerusalem, hundreds of Palestinian worshippers were prevented on Sunday evening from entering the Al Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third holiest site.
Starvation has already taken hold throughout Gaza, especially in northern Gaza where Israel, since the beginning of the war, has blocked aid trucks from reaching the over 300,000 Palestinians still living in the besieged territory. There are widespread reports that Palestinians are now eating animal feed to survive.
Levy’s article reported only on the hostages taken from Gaza since October 7. There are over 7,500 hostages taken from the West Bank during the same period. And this is in addition to the thousands of Palestinians already languishing in Israeli jails under its illegal administrative detention policy, which can hold detainees indefinitely without a charge or trial.
While acknowledging in his State of the Union address that the suffering of the people of Gaza is “heartbreaking,” the Biden administration hasreported that at least 140 heavy transport planes have taken off from U.S. bases around the world carrying weapons to the Israeli state., former State Department official Josh Paul said that “It is illegal to provide military assistance to a country that is restricting US-funded humanitarian assistance.
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