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In Case You missed it: March 25, 2024

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UN Security Council demands Immediate Ceasefire in Gaza.
•14 of the 15 members of the UN Security Council voted for a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas during Ramadan, which ends in two weeks.  The resolution also calls for the immediate release of all hostages.
The US abstained from the vote because it did not include condemnation of Hamas. The US previously vetoed three ceasefire resolutions but abstained. Rather than vetoed this time after the word “permanent” was dropped from the resolution and replaced with “lasting sustainable ceasefire.”
Hamas said the ceasefire needs to be permanent and confirmed its readiness to “engage in an immediate prisoner exchange process leading to release of prisoners on both sides.”
After the vote, Netanyahu canceled a planned Israeli visit to Washington.
•Famine is likely to occur by May in northern Gaza, according to a U.N.-backed report. Israel continues to hold up adequate humanitarian aid. A long line of blocked relief trucks on Egypt’s side of the border with the Gaza Strip, where people face starvation, is “a moral outrage,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said during a visit to the Rafah crossing. It is time for Israel to give an “ironclad commitment” for unfettered access to humanitarian goods throughout Gaza. I carry the voices of the vast majority of the world who have seen enough,” Guterres said, deploring “communities obliterated, homes demolished, entire families and generations wiped out. Nothing justifies the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.”
Over 31,000 Palestinians have been killed and more injured since the Oct 7 Hamas-led attacks in Southern Israel that killed 1,139 people and took 250 hostages (134 still held). Over 90% of Palestinians have been displaced from their homes, universities, hospitals, and infrastructure has been bombed.  Also looming is the Netanyahu administration’s planned ground assault of Rafah, where over 1.5 million Palestinians, displaced from their homes, have sought shelter in tents.

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  1. Well what did you expect? Gaza attacked Israel. Israel fought back. I feel no more sorry for the people of Gaza than I would the people of Berlin in 1945. Don’t start a war you can’t finish.

    • Hitler was elected to power in a democracy. Quite a different thing than blaming all Palestinians for a terrorist act.

      • Like Hitler in 1936, Hamas won the most seats in the Gaza parliamentary elections in 2006. And like Hitler, they then used the mechanisms of government and intimidation to take total control, eliminating any political opposition. As President Obama said, “Elections have consequences.”

    • The Zionist project attacked first, in 1947. This war, and the fight for Palestinian liberation, didn’t start on October 7.