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#Documentary / "To See if I'm Smiling" (Palestine/Israel, 2007)

A rare and candid female perspective on the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Offers a universal exploration of war’s impact on individuals, emphasizing the intersection of gender, power, and morality.

Directed by Tamar Yarom, who also served in the IDF in the Occupied West Bank, the film reflects on the director’s own experiences in military service.

Hebrew with English subtitles.

kolektiva.media/w/sDdJUBqFwfGi

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#Palestine / 'We won't let them back': Israel's defense chief says 40,000 Palestinians 'evacuated' from West Bank refugee camps

40,000 Palestinians have been displaced from refugee camps in Jenin, Tulkarm, and Nur Shams due to the occupation forces operations. The Israeli Defense Minister, Israel Katz, has ordered the military to prepare for a prolonged stay in these camps, lasting a year, and has prohibited residents from returning.

What is the fate of these displaced people? Where are they living? Are they being provided with shelter, food, and other essential services? Haaretz's reporter doesn't seem to think this might be an important detail. They do mention though the cessation of #UNRWA's activities in the camps, providing essential services to Palestinian refugees, including education, healthcare, and humanitarian aid.

Hebrew haaretz.co.il/news/politics/20 or archive.ph/XRzNT

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"Israel’s genocide in Gaza has destroyed over 1,000 miles of water and sanitation infrastructure in Gaza and reduced the region’s water capacity to a small fraction of what it was prior to the genocide"
"Though Israel is allowing in more aid as part of the ceasefire agreement, it is still blocking the entry of equipment crucial to rebuilding, like heavy machinery and pipes" which is a ceasefire violation.

truthout.org/articles/water-ac

Children displaced by conflict sheltering at a school wait to fill up their water containers from a cistern in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on January 13, 2025.
Truthout · Water Access in North Gaza, Rafah Down to 7 Percent of Pre-Genocide LevelsOfficials are reporting over 46,000 cases of diarrhea and respiratory infections each week.

#Palestine / Loss resilience or adherence to losses as a social glue in Israel

What do you call a group that embraces violence and a lack of regard for human life? Israelis are already using the term “death eaters” to describe the religious right, and they have a reason. But this term might apply to a much larger portion of the Israeli population today.

A recent analysis of cultural attitudes toward casualties in the ongoing Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories (aka Israeli-Palestinian “conflict”) reveals a significant shift in societal values. The study, focusing on the period surrounding October 2024, identifies the rise of a "loss resilience" ethos, indeed particularly within right-wing and religious Zionist circles.

This new paradigm prioritizes unwavering commitment to the occupation and acceptance of casualties as a necessary cost, often at the expense of previous values emphasizing empathy and questioning the inevitability of loss.

From the paper:

[…] The new ethos of loss resilience engages in a directed debate with two earlier values that provided collective meaning to death in war. The first value, the ethos of self-sacrifice, is a conscious act of a heroic warrior, whose willingness to die glorifies the collective for whom he sacrifices his life. However, the commemoration of soldiers in recent months is almost not dedicated to the glory of the nation, and even ignores the war. Stickers commemorating the fallen in the public space describe the qualities of the fallen as human beings, not as soldiers. At the same time, activity and heroism are attributed mainly to the public's "resilience," which does not question the war policy and the routine of mourning, but rather accepts the unending death of its best sons and daughters.

[…] The second value, sensitivity towards losses in war, is the central value against which the new ethos of resilience rebels. Sensitivity to losses as a shared ethos gained momentum in the 1990s, mainly against the backdrop of the First Lebanon War, and included questioning mourning as an inevitable and unifying experience. Sensitivity to losses united a liberal political camp that promoted peace efforts, and reached its peak three years after the "helicopter disaster," when the IDF withdrew from the security zone (for more on the decline in militarism in those years, see Levy, 2023).

Hebrew kriot.co.il/%D7%93%D7%91%D7%A7

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קריאות ישראליות · דבקות באבֵדות כדבק חברתי בישראל* - קריאות ישראליותכבכל שנה, גם בסוף 2024 פורסם מספר החללים שנהרגו על רקע בטחוני. 5,200 בני משפחה נוספו למשפחת השכול, בהם כמעט...
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The pro-Israel lobby has a long history of attempting to silence Palestinian voices and criminalize their expression. This has included, but is not limited to, the killing of journalists documenting the ongoing conflict kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/1140. Another tactic is the persistent harassment of public broadcasters, urging the removal of content that contradicts the Israeli narrative.

Given the overwhelming evidence of the current conflict, one might question why this effort to control the narrative continues, as Israel's reputation has been significantly tarnished and will not be restored by the mere act of suppressing an 13 y/o child's story.

"The film remains a powerful child's eye view of the devastating consequences of the war in Gaza which we believe is an invaluable testament to their experiences, and we must meet our commitment to transparency."

bbc.com/news/articles/c9wpk5re

ARCHIVED HERE JUST IN CASE THE BBC CAVES IN

WATCH kolektiva.media/w/7btBYFT438KT

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kolektiva.socialoatmeal (@oatmeal@kolektiva.social)#Palestine / 2024 was the deadliest year on record for journalists with majority killed by Israel's occupation force in Gaza The Committee to Protect Journalists (#CPJ) reports that 2024 saw the highest number of journalist killings since they began tracking data, with at least 124 journalists and media workers killed. A significant majority, nearly two-thirds, were Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in #Gaza. The CPJ documented 85 journalists and media workers killed in the Israel-Gaza war in 2024, and 78 in 2023. The CPJ is investigating 20 additional killings where it believes Israel may have specifically targeted journalists. International humanitarian law considers journalists civilians, and targeting them in conflict is a war crime. https://cpj.org/special-reports/2024-is-deadliest-year-for-journalists-in-cpj-history-almost-70-percent-killed-by-israel/ @israel@a.gup.pe @palestine@a.gup.pe #IsraelOccupation #IsraelWarCrimes #JournalismIsNotACrime #PressFreedom #GazaGenocide

Quoting Joe Sacco: “There is a fair chance that no one will be held accountable for what Israel - and the United States and much of Western Europe - have done to Gaza”

“Civilising has always been the West's default burden and mass murder the shiniest tool in its box. The Americans had their 'manifest destiny', the French had their Algeria, the British had their Kenya, the Australians had their Tasmania and the Germans... And now together they have Gaza."
english.hathalyoum.net/article

Acclaimed comic creators Art Spiegelman ("Maus") and Joe Sacco ("Palestine") have collaborated on a three-page comic strip published in the Guardian and in the New York Review of Books nybooks.com/articles/2025/02/2, titled "Never Again." The comic depicts the two artists, represented by their signature characters, visiting a devastated Gaza and discussing the ongoing war. They grapple with the phrase "Never Again," the cycle of violence, and the Israeli response to October 7th.

A notable panel portrays #Netanyahu as a green, inhuman figure emerging from a pile of eyeballs, with the artists commenting on his strategy of "extermination" rather than mere revenge.

The comic explores themes of #genocide, anti-Semitism, the justification for Israel's existence, and the trauma inflicted on both sides. The artists conclude by holding flags stating "Never Again... For Anyone!" and advocating for a just solution.

Hebrew haaretz.co.il/gallery/literatu

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#Palestine / Israeli Knesset approves bills to criminalize cooperation with ICC and ban entry of individuals supporting international prosecution of soldiers

The Israeli Knesset has advanced two controversial pieces of legislation. The first, approved in a preliminary reading, would impose a five-year prison sentence on anyone, including citizens, public bodies, and organizations, who "provides services" or "makes resources available" to the #ICC in The Hague. The burden of proof would be on the accused to demonstrate they were unaware their actions aided the ICC. Legal experts warn this could even apply to sharing social media posts of potential war crimes.

[…] Dr. Tamar Megiddo, an expert in international law, warns that "the definitions of this dangerous bill are so broad that even someone who shares a photo or video on social media of a soldier documenting himself committing what appears to be a war crime is exposed to imprisonment." She added that if the proposal is approved, any journalist who publishes an investigative report that could testify to a crime committed by #IDF forces would also be exposed to imprisonment.

The second bill, approved in its second and third readings, bans entry and residency in Israel for non-citizens who have denied the October 7th massacre or the #Holocaust, or who have supported the prosecution of Israeli security forces in international courts. This expands a 2017 law that banned entry to those calling for a boycott of Israel.

Hebrew haaretz.co.il/news/politics/20](haaretz.co.il/news/politics/20 or archive.is/zCqOx

Hebrew haaretz.co.il/news/law/2025-02](haaretz.co.il/news/law/2025-02 or archive.is/qCc7J

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#Palestine / UN Chief Condemns Israeli Forces' raids on UNRWA schools in East Jerusalem

UN Secretary-General António Guterres condemned raids by Israeli security forces and Jerusalem Municipality personnel on #UNRWA schools in occupied East Jerusalem. UNRWA officials reported that Israeli authorities attempted to enter three schools in Silwan, Wadi Joz, and Sur Baher, but school administrators prevented them. One school in Wadi Joz was temporarily closed, and students were sent home. There were also raids in Kalandia Training Centre.
UNRWA stated that tear gas and sound bombs were used.

Hebrew zoha.org.il/135541/

UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini stated, "Children + young people in East Jerusalem [are] denied of their right to education in UNRWA schools." He added, "This is a violation of the basic right to education as well as of United Nations privileges & immunities." UNRWA affirmed its commitment to continue its mission despite the "policy of attack and persecution of the occupation."

xcancel.com/UNLazzarini/status

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זו הדרך · מזכ"ל האו"ם גינה פשיטת כוחות הביטחון לבתי הספר של אונר"א בירושלים המזרחית - זו הדרךמערכת "זו הדרך" 19.02.2025 שתפו מזכ"ל האו"ם אנטוניו גוטרש גינה הבוקר (רביעי) את פשיטת כוחות הביטחון לבתי הספר של סוכנות הסעד והתעסוקה לפליטים הפלסטינים (אונר"א) בירושלים המזרחית שתחת כיבוש ישראלי. יצוין שהנהלת אונר"א הודיעה אמש כי חרף הפשיטה היא תמשיך לספק שירותים לפליטים הפלסטינים. שוטרים ואנשי עיריית ירושלים הגיעו אתמול לשלושה בתי ספר שמפעילה הסוכנות בסילוואן, ואדי ג'וז וצור באהר. על פי הודעת הסוכנות, הנציגים

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"Five Israeli reserve soldiers from the "Force 100" prison riot control unit of the Military Police have been indicted for causing severe injury and assault under aggravated circumstances, stemming from their abuse of a Palestinian detainee at the notorious Sde Teiman military camp".
Since Oct 2023, the number of Palestinian hostages known to have died in Israeli prisons is 58, but many are unaccounted for

english.almayadeen.net/news/po

A screenshot from the video that appears to show sexual assault of a Palestinian prisoner at Sde Teiman prison in "Israel", as it aired on the Israeli Channel 12.
Al Mayadeen English · IOF reservists indicted for torturing Palestinian in Sde TeimanBy Al Mayadeen English

#Palestine / Israeli court extends again ban on Al Jazeera on grounds of ties to Hamas and “threat to National Security”

An Israeli District Court has approved the extension of restrictions on Al Jazeera's broadcasts until the end of March, ruling that the broadcasts continue to pose a real threat to the country's security.

The restrictions, based on a law preventing foreign broadcasts from harming state security, were initially imposed due to Al Jazeera's alleged ties to #Hamas. The court cited recent intelligence and broadcasts that justify the continued ban, including content that could incite violence.

The judge dismissed Al Jazeera's claim that the restrictions are politically motivated, highlighting the ongoing close relationship between Hamas and the news channel.

Hebrew the7eye.org.il/543977

Immediately after the law was enacted, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and Al Jazeera itself petitioned against it, claiming it was unconstitutional. The petition has not yet been decided, and the hearing is scheduled for April.

This is what the al-Jazeera “ban” looks like in Israel (see image). All news channels live stream its feed. Seems indeed the only danger must be Al-Jazeera disrupting Israel’s narrative that its occupation forces are fighting to defend Israel, not to ethnically cleanse #Gaza.

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