October 27, 2023
The World Stands with You Palestine!
WE
ARE ALL PALESTINIANS!
Israeli bombardment of Gaza
escalates to unprecedented level October 27, 2023, and all
internet and
phone service has been shut down.
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New
York, Central Station, October 27, 2023 As Israel expands its attacks on the people of Palestine with ever more aerial bombings in preparation for a ground invasion, the crime of genocide is evident for all to see, no matter how Israel, the U.S., Canada, Britain and other countries try to present what the Israelis are doing as legitimate. In preparation for their ground invasion, internet has been cut off. Palestinians cannot communicate with the outside world or even with one another. The outside world cannot communicate with Palestinians.
All over the world, demonstrations and protests are taking place, gathering millions of people demanding recognition of the Palestinian people's right to be. This includes thousands of Palestinians in Ramallah, Nablus and other cities across the West Bank to protest in solidarity with those in Gaza, as Israel intensifies its military campaign against the Palestinian Resistance throughout the Gaza Strip. In New York City a bold sit-in filled Central Station. In Canada, militant emergency rallies are being held in which thousands of people are participating.
Now is the time to speak in our name. The world stands with you, Palestine. We are all Palestinians!
Days 20 and 21 of Israel's Assault on Gaza
Reports confirm that U.S. special forces are active in the initial Israeli attempts at having ground forces enter Gaza, each of which have suffered losses of material and human resources at the hands of the Palestinian resistance. The Pentagon also confirmed that it plans to provide two U.S. air defence systems to Israel, adding it has deployed 900 troops to the Middle East, including specialists in air defence systems. This confirms active U.S. involvement in the Israeli military actions. The U.S. deployment of air defence systems is a provocation that creates more tension in the region.
An expectation of the type of crimes Israel is planning is to flood tunnels with a type of nerve gas or chemical weapon. "We have information from trusted sources that the [U.S.] plan with Israel is to send special American/Israeli forces, administered by the U.S. and executed either by Israel or combined [U.S. and Israel] to [...] use nerve gases, aiming to paralyze the capabilities of Palestinian soldiers in the tunnels and trenches without killing him so they do not kill the hostages or captives held in these tunnels," a former head of Hamas said. "Cutting off communications from the Gaza Strip and escalating bombing signals the occupation's intention to commit more massacres and genocidal crimes," the Palestinian group said in a statement.
Israel is expanding and intensifying its aerial bombardment of Gaza and what appears to be probing operations to evaluate the capabilities of the resistance. For example, a marine assault was attempted, met heavy resistance, and had to retreat. Another land based incursion by tanks also met heavy resistance.
Israeli army artillery is also shelling the border in the eastern Gaza Strip, from Rafah in the south to Beit Hanoun in the north. At least 10 Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli bombing targeting a house in Rafah, southern Gaza. A 17-year-old youth was killed and another injured by Israeli army gunfire in Jalazone refugee camp, north of Ramallah, as they were leaving school. Israel again used internationally banned phosphorous weapons on October 25 against southern Lebanon. According to Palestinian officials, over 12,000 tons of explosives have been used by Israel to bomb Gaza since October 7, which is "equivalent in magnitude to the devastating nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima."
Satellite photo of destruction
caused to Gaza neighbourhood by Israeli airstrikes.
The U.S. military also carried out strikes against two facilities in eastern Syria the Pentagon says is used by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and groups it backs. It claimed the attacks were in response to at least 19 attacks against U.S. forces in both Iraq and Syria in the past week. The strikes took place at roughly 4:30 am on Friday in Syria near Abu Kamal, a Syrian town on the border with Iraq, and were carried out by two F-16 fighter jets using precision munitions, a senior U.S. official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity. Reports inform that a total of 21 U.S. forces have suffered "minor injuries, the vast majority of them traumatic brain injuries."
Meanwhile, the U.S. is implementing advice by its Atlantic Council NATO experts by having its special envoy "for humanitarian affairs" issue press statements that the focus of the U.S. is on delivering aid "to those who deserve it" in Gaza. U.S. White House spokesman John Kirby said the U.S. will respond at a "time of our choosing and a manner of our choosing" to attacks on its forces in Iraq and Syria. Unnamed government officials told the Washington Post that U.S. President Joe Biden is considering directing military strikes against militia forces for repeatedly targeting U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria. Nothing is said of Israeli strikes against Syria and Lebanon or those launched against Iran as well.
Israeli
bombardment, October 27, 2023
The Ministry of Health in Gaza on October 25 issued a statement in which it stated, "The type of injuries that we see in hospitals are severe, severe injuries that require intensive care beds that have become full, and we do not have the capacity to accommodate more cases, and many of the wounded cannot be discharged from hospitals after their treatment because their homes no longer exist, so where would they go?
"This was the interpretation of the meaning of the word collapse of the health system. People are now arriving at hospitals with great difficulty, and unfortunately hospitals cannot provide the required service. Therefore, the Ministry of Health announced the inability to deal with patients in hospitals and the inability to receive more cases of infections that affect civilians daily, around the clock."
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported on October 26 that the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt was open for the sixth consecutive day. In that time, 72 trucks, an average of 12 per day, travelled through the Rafah crossing from Egypt into Gaza, carrying water, food and medical supplies.
UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric stated, "Most of this aid has already reached hospitals, ambulances, and internally displaced persons (IDPs). However, the daily average of trucks allowed into Gaza prior to the hostilities was about 500."
These trucks did not carry any fuel, despite the fact that the UN informs that 400,000 litres or 2.5 day's worth of fuel is in trucks and ready to go into Gaza, The Zionists are claiming the fuel will be used to attack Israel and are blocking the shipment.
Assistant Secretary-General and Humanitarian Coordinator in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Lynn Hastings, informed the Security Council on October 24 that fuel "is essential for powering the services that are needed for people to survive. Without fuel, our humanitarian operation will stop. No fuel means no hospitals functioning, no desalination of water and no baking. Many people are drinking saline groundwater, increasing the risks of diarrhea, cholera, and other health issues. We urge Israel to bring water and electricity supplies back to pre-conflict levels and to work with us to find a secure way of bringing fuel into Gaza."
Dujarric said that water supply through the network in areas south of Wadi Gaza has temporarily improved after the UN Relief Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East and UNICEF managed to deliver small quantities of fuel they had retrieved from their existing reserves to key facilities. "However, the available fuel in these facilities will be exhausted, fairly soon, and the supply of piped water is expected to cease again," he added. The OCHA informs, "People are resorting to well water, which is extremely high in salt and poses immediate health risks. Health partners have also detected cases of chicken pox, scabies and diarrhea due to the poor sanitation conditions and the consumption of water from unsafe sources."
As of October 25, the UN World Food Programme estimated that current supplies of essential food in Gaza are sufficient for about 12 days. However, the available stock in shops is expected to last only five days.
Gaza's doctors also refuse to abandon patients even as Israeli bombs pound hospitals, blow them up and wantonly kill patients, precious medical personnel and IDPs. Israel's criminality is only accentuated by the fact that it warned Gaza residents to flee south to avoid being targeted and then it targets even hospitals in the south. But Gaza's doctors will not leave and health officials at Gaza's biggest hospitals have insisted the evacuation of the wounded and displaced would be impossible.
The Israeli army also brazenly confirmed that it was responsible for the air strike which killed 12 members of the family of Al Jazeera journalist Wael Al-Dahdouh, including his wife, daughter and son. Some members of Wael's family, including a toddler granddaughter, survived the attack on the house they were staying in at the Nuseirat refugee camp south of Wadi Gaza where they had taken refuge having been told by Israel to evacuate the north. Media colleagues said of Wael, "He didn't leave Gaza City. He stayed despite all the threats and warnings and didn't stop for 19 days in a row." They quoted Wael as saying, "I must be here in Gaza City to report about these people who are getting bombed every day." Said his colleagues, "He didn't give up on them. He didn't want to leave."
House where Al Jazeera
journalist Wael Al-Dahdouh's family was staying in the Nuseirat
refugee
camp south of Wadi Gaza was hit by an Israeli air strike
October 26, 2023.
Israel has given written notice to news agencies such as Reuters and AFP that the safety of their journalists currently working in the Gaza Strip is in doubt and Israel provides no guarantees of safety for journalists.
The heroism of the journalists in Gaza is without parallel and their loss is tragic. Courageously they are making sure they do their duty as journalists to tell the world what is taking place in Gaza. They are making the supreme sacrifice. The Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) expresses its deepest condolences to Wael, his family and friends, his co-workers and to the Palestinian people on their losses. All over the world, hearts are overflowing with the most profound sadness, anguish and determination to see justice done. The courage and determination of the Palestinian people, the journalists, health personnel and humanitarian workers have no limits. The whole world stands with them. The cause of justice must and will prevail.
This article was published in
Volume 53
Number 16 - October 2023
Article Link:
https://cpcml.ca/Tmlm2023/Articles/MS53161.HTM
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