Whanganui Tramways Museum
27 Taupo Quay, Whanganui
Saturday 9 November, 2024
11:00AM
Saturday 9 November, 2024
12:00PM
Over 50 children were killed in Gaza on Friday and Saturday when “strikes leveled two residential buildings sheltering hundreds of people,” according to Catherine Russell, UNICEF’s executive director. The two strikes, combined with attacks on a polio vaccination clinic and a car containing multiple UNICEF workers, “are yet further examples of the grave consequences of the indiscriminate strikes on civilians in the Gaza Strip,” she said.
At the moment, it’s still unclear who was responsible for the multiple strikes Russell described. On Sunday, a spokesman for Israel’s military told reporters that the IDF was not behind the airstrikes on the polio clinic, claiming that “an initial review determined that the [Israeli military] did not strike in the area at the specified time.” In contrast, the IDF hasn’t denied its involvement in the strikes that killed the 50 children, or the attack on the UNICEF workers’ car.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has found itself embroiled in yet another scandal. According to multiple sources, officials working on behalf of the prime minister’s office were involved in a plot to release doctored documents during ceasefire talks held this September. The faked documents supposedly revealed a Hamas plot to smuggle Israeli hostages out of Gaza and into Egypt, where they would be brought to Iran or Yemen. After leaking the edited documents to the press, Netanyahu then came to the negotiating table with a new demand – to keep Israeli troops posted on the Gaza-Egypt border – which Hamas rejected, leading to the talks quickly breaking down. Now, as the plot has been revealed to the Israeli public, the families of Israeli hostages and opposition leaders have criticized Netanyahu for tanking the hostage negotiations in an attempt to extend his war with Hamas and keep himself in power.
JUST FUCK ISRAEL, THAT IS ALL!!!
The north of Gaza is an open graveyard
“As the world watches, Palestinians in Gaza are living through a deliberately engineered humanitarian catastrophe of epic proportions that worsens by the hour. In recent weeks, Israel has imposed a total siege of northern Gaza and intensified its bombardment here, with reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is implementing a policy of starvation to force the remaining Palestinians south. Israel has already laid waste to much of Gaza, but if the international community does not act immediately, there will be nothing and no one remaining in the north.
The past year has tested our endurance in ways we could never have imagined. But the last few weeks have pushed us to the limit of anything that can be described as “living.”” 28-year-old doctor in northern Gaza, Dr. Ezzideen Shehab
Israel’s military has dropped over 85,000 tonnes of bombs on the Gaza Strip since October 2023!