On May 2, Dr Adnan Albursh, a 50-years-old Head of the Orthopaedic Department at al-Shifa Hospital who had been injured and arrested by I...
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| On May 2, Dr Adnan Albursh, a 50-years-old Head of the Orthopaedic Department at al-Shifa Hospital who had been injured and arrested by Israeli while on duty passed away on April 19 in Ofer prison. His body remains withheld by the Israeli occupation |
Press Release
On the 215 day of the frenzy genocidal war
against the Palestinian people
May 8, 2024
Mass graves are unfortunate facts in Gaza today, we all need to remember Al Tantura massacre and its mass grave.[1]
It's not the Israeli-Hamas War, it's the Israeli war against the
Palestinian people. Also, it's not a conflict; it's the Israeli occupation.
Don't be part of Israeli Western propaganda and brainwashing.
We
are at an inflection point in history, with deep and real changes occurring
before our eyes. The Intifada (uprising) that has erupted globally to support
the just Palestinian cause, the falling of democracy, free speech, and human
rights myths in the so-called free world indicate a new historical phase.
The
youth on campuses are challenging the Zionist scarecrows and sacred cows of
anti-Semitism accusation that they used to stifle any critical voices against
their brutal, vicious, and bloody policies and measures.
Everyone
has an essential role to play as a game-changer. The youth from around the
world are rewriting modern history, changing the political discourse, and
creating new political orders. Don't miss this opportunity, be part of the
current global Intifada, give your contribution, and make
positive changes.
The current war stands out as unprecedented in the scale of death,
destruction, and human suffering it has incurred, with repercussions that will
echo for generations to come.[2]
As of Tuesday,
May 7, the number of Palestinian martyrs reached 34,789, with 78,204 injured.
Since 7 October, 474 Palestinians, including 116 children, have
been killed in the Occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and about
5,000 have been injured.
UNHR Expert stated “We are horrified at details emerging from mass graves recently unearthed
in the Gaza Strip. Over 390 bodies have been discovered at Nasser and Al
Shifa hospitals, including of women and children, with many reportedly showing
signs of torture and summary executions, and potential instances of people
buried alive,”[3]
On May 2, Dr. Adnan Al Bursh, a 50-year-old
head of the orthopedic department at Al Shifa hospital, who had been injured
and arrested by Israeli while on duty, passed away on April 19 in Ofer Prison.
His body remains withheld by the Israeli occupation.
Philippe
Lazzarini, UNRWA Commissioner General on his press conference at UN Geneva
April 30 on the issue of the Palestinian prisoners said and I quote “But I
have also shared to this morning our deep concern regarding the Gazans detained
by Israeli Security Forces…. When they were arrested, they were routinely
rounded up, stripped to their underwear, and loaded into trucks, blindfolded,
and bound. Most of the time, once arrested these detainees remain incommunicado
and they are subjected to shocking inhumane treatment. Among inhumane treatment
they have described to us waterboarding, severe beatings, attacks by dogs,
being forced to hold a stress position for hours, sometimes 12 hours, 24 hours,
and being forced to wear diapers instead of accessing the toilet.”[4]
Noting
that the Israeli occupation authority denied Mr. Lazzarini entry to the Gaza
Strip for the second time since the beginning of the war.
Citing
the UN, around 10,000 people are feared to be buried under the rubble in Gaza.
It could take up to three years to retrieve the bodies using the primitive
tools currently available. Amid rising temperatures that will accelerate the
decomposition of the bodies, there is a heightened threat of health diseases
spreading.
Nearly
all of the 600,000 children now sheltering in the southern border city of Rafah
are “injured, sick or malnourished”
“Over 200 days of war have already killed and maimed tens of thousands of
children in Gaza,” the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) chief said.
UN
mine action experts have estimated that some 7,500 tons of unexploded ordnance
could be “scattered” throughout Gaza which could take up to 14 years to clear.[5]
On 23 April 2024 UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk stated, “Every 10 minutes a child is killed or wounded. They are protected under the laws of
war, and yet they are ones who are disproportionately paying the ultimate price
in this war…. At the same time, grave human rights violations were continuing
unabated in the occupied West Bank. Despite international condemnation of
massive settler attacks from 12-14 April facilitated by the Israeli Security
Forces (ISF), settler violence has continued with the support, protection, and
participation of the ISF.[6]
During its field invasion of most of the Gaza Strip,
the Israeli army converted a number of schools into military bases and
detention facilities. In a report published on 13 December 2023, Euro-Med
revealed that the Israeli army has turned schools sheltering 10s of thousands
of displaced people into military centers and field execution sites as part of
its genocide against Palestinians. [7]
It
is also important to point out that the Israeli war is not limited to military
attacks, but extends to all aspects of life, the most important of which are
financial deductions and withholding of clearing funds from the Palestinian
government, which has put the latter in an ongoing dilemma for years and pushed
the entire Palestinian society to the brink of the abyss.
Famine is imminent in Gaza, half of its population,
1.1 million people, face catastrophic food insecurity. This represents the
highest share of a population ever recorded globally.
Among the 677,000 on the brink of famine are an estimated 15,000
pregnant women, heightening the risks for both mothers and newborns. Children’s acute
malnutrition rates have doubled since January, with one in three under two
suffering from malnutrition. Palestinians in Gaza now constitute some 80
percent of all people facing famine worldwide.
Only 12 out of 36 hospitals in Gaza and 22 of the enclave’s
88 primary health care facilities are “partially functional” today, according to the UN health agency.[8] The hospitals are operating at limited
capacity and overwhelmed with patients, grappling with critical shortages of
fuel, medicines, supplies, and medical staff.
The killing of seven aid workers of World Central
Kitchen from multiple Israeli airstrikes on 1 April, 2024, was not an isolated
incident. At least 254 aid workers have been killed (248 nationals, 6
foreigners), including 185 UN staff. This total includes the highest number of
UN personnel killed in a conflict in the history of the organization.
Finally, on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day
on May 3, UNESCO awarded the Palestinian journalists covering the Israeli
genocidal war in Gaza the 2024 UNESCO Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize
for their brave and courageous work. It is noted that the Israeli occupation
army killed 135 press correspondents, detained another 100, with 45 of them
under administrative detention, and 4 of them still missing.
Abdullah M. Abu Shawesh
Ambassador of the
Embassy of the State of Palestine
X – Tweeter: @AM_Shawesh
Acronyms
ISF Israeli Security Force.
UNHR United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
UNESCO United
Nations Educational Scientific Cultural Organization
UNRWA The United
Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
[1]
- The Tantura
massacre took place on the night of 22–23 May 1948 during. Around
40–200 Palestinian Arab villagers from Tantura were massacred by
the Israelis. The massacre occurred following Tantura's
surrender. The victims were buried in a mass grave, which today serves as a car
park for the nearby Tel Dor beach.
[2]
- https://tinyurl.com/2zre64h9
[3]
https://tinyurl.com/2e3dvryz
[4]
- https://tinyurl.com/53676rps
[5]
- https://tinyurl.com/534r5c94
[6]
- https://tinyurl.com/33pyazdh
[7]
- https://tinyurl.com/bddv2bfx
[8]
- https://tinyurl.com/bdhmzkjm
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