The Age & Sydney Morning Herald / New York Times / Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt | 12 March 2024 How do the USA politicians square this conundrum – providing aid to the victims of the genocide that they are leading by supplying the arms – Mark WASHINGTON: The United States has a history of using its military to get food, water and other humanitarian relief to civilians during wars or natural disasters. The walls of the Pentagon are decorated with photographs of such operations

The Age & Sydney Morning Herald | Matthew Knott | 12 March 2024 Cowards – aid for innocent children should not be withheld because our politicians are being bullied by the Israeli Government and their lies – Mark The Albanese government says it will not reinstate funding to the UN’s main provider of humanitarian aid in the Palestinian territories until an investigation into the agency is complete as it prepares for a backlash from the Israeli government and its local advocates. Sweden and Canada announced

(The Age, 11/3/2024) This takes me back to the Ethiopian starvation / famines of the 80’s and 90’s – how can the USA and the UK let this happen – Mark It is all too easy to trace the skull beneath the boy’s face, the pallid skin stretching tight over every curve of bone and sagging with every hollow. His chin juts with a disturbing sharpness. His flesh has shrunk and shrivelled, life reduced to little more than a thin mask over an imminent death.

The Age & Sydney Morning Herald / Reuters, AP | Aamer Madhani | 10 March 2024 How really awful – but the air drops are so little way too late anyway – Mark Humanitarian airdrops into the Gaza Strip have killed civilians, in the latest tragedy for Palestinians since the war between Hamas and Israel began. The US military’s Central Command, which oversees the Mideast, issued the statement on X, formerly Twitter, which said: ‘‘We are aware of reports of civilians killed as a result

ABC | Eric Tlozek, Orly Halpern and Haidarr Jones at the Kerem Shalom crossing | 10 March 2024 Sadly the same type of young Jewish girls are also using social media to describe all Palestinian’s as ‘animals’ that must be destroyed etc. If only their energy was directed at peace the hostages would never have been taken and so many lives saved on all sides – Mark While Palestinians inside Gaza face starvation, some Israelis are trying to stop supplies from getting into the besieged

The Guardian/ Nina Lakhani/6.3.2024 Any weapon will do in this illegal genocidal war – Mark Special rapporteurs say ‘campaign of starvation and targeting of civilians’ must end after incident in Gaza on Thursday UN experts have condemned the violence they say was unleashed by Israeli forces last week on Palestinians gathered in Gaza City to collect flour as a “massacre”. In a statement, a group of UN special rapporteurs accused Israel of “intentionally starving the Palestinian people in Gaza since 8 October,” adding: “Now it

The Guardian Australia/Julian Borger/6.3.2024 Israel claims sexual assault on their hostages whilst committing multiple crimes of the same but on a much larger scale and for many more years – do not be fooled by the Israeli misdirection – Mark Internal analysis by UNRWA, based on interviews with released Palestinians, describes dog attacks and the prolonged use of stress positions. An internal UN report describes widespread abuse of Palestinian detainees in Israeli detention centres, including beatings, dog attacks, the prolonged use of stress positions and

The Age/5.3.2024//Aamer Madhani and Seung Min Kim If only there was a real split – but this is just another delaying tactic to allow the genocide to continue – Mark Washington: A member of Israel’s war cabinet has flown to the United States to meet with Vice President Kamala Harris and other senior officials in defiance of Benjamin Netanyahu who told him country has “just one prime minister”. The unauthorised trip by Benny Gantz, a centrist political rival who joined Netanyahu’s three-minister wartime cabinet after