Today in Labor History October 29, 1948: Israeli soldiers captured the Palestinian village of Safsaf in the Galilee, where the IDF committed a massacre of up to 64 villagers. Evidence suggests that they were shot with their hands tied and buried in a pit. Several women reported that they were raped by the IDF, including a 14-year-old girl. At least two internal inquiries were initiated by the IDF, but their reports remain classified. This massacre was part of the Nakba, or Catastrophe, when 78% of the Palestine Mandate was unilaterally declared as Israel, 700,000 Palestinians were forced off their land, and 500 Palestinian villages were destroyed by Zionist militias. It also led to the creation of permanent Palestinian refugees and the denial of their right to ever return.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #Naqba #palestine #zionism #racism #ethniccleansing #refugees #massacre #rape #idf #freepalestine #EndTheOccupation

The #IOF began last night to destroy #Gaza City.

This latest phase of #Israel's #genocide of #Palestine will trigger lots of handwringing. But nobody will intervene to stop it. Not the #UN, not the #USA, not the #EU, not #UK, not #Russia, not #China, not the Arab nations.

The so-called #IDF is going to be allowed to finish the second #Nakba #Naqba.

🇵🇸 #PalestinaAskatu
“UNRWA representa a 6 millones de refugiados palestinos que tienen derecho al retorno”

En vísperas de la #Naqba, el día en que el pueblo palestino conmemora su éxodo masivo, @ahotsainfo entrevista a la representante de UNRWA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PlD3kQ6WjA

🇵🇸 #PalestinaAskatu
[🎦BIDEOA] R. Martí: "UNRWA representa a 6 millones de refugiados palestinos que tienen derecho al retorno"

En vísperas de la #Naqba, entrevistamos Raquel Martí, representante de @UNRWAes
https://ahotsa.info/elkarrizketak/28171/

Today in Labor History October 29, 1948: Israeli soldiers captured the Palestinian village of Safsaf in the Galilee, where the IDF committed a massacre of up to 64 villagers. Evidence suggests that they were shot with their hands tied and buried in a pit. Several women reported that they were raped by the IDF, including a 14-year-old girl. At least two internal inquiries were initiated by the IDF, but their reports remain classified. This massacre was part of the Nakba, or Catastrophe, when 78% of the Palestine Mandate was unilaterally declared as Israel, 700,000 Palestinians were forced off their land, and 500 Palestinian villages were destroyed by Zionist militias. It also led to the creation of permanent Palestinian refugees and the denial of their right to ever return.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #Naqba #palestine #zionism #racism #ethniccleansing #refugees #massacre #rape #idf #freepalestine #endthesiege #EndTheOccupation

Every single week for the last 21 weeks upon #Gadigal land, there have been thousands upon thousands (sometimes easily tens of thousands) of people gathering in support of a #ceasefire in #Gaza and calling upon the Australian #Albanese government to stop supporting #Israel in its #genocide.

Every Sunday in Hyde Park at 1.30pm,* we've listened to #Aboriginal speakers, #Palestinian speakers, #Jewish speakers, politicians of various stripes (though neither of the major parties, of course, as they both remain complicit in support of the government responsible for most of the slaughter), elders who lived through the #Naqba, teenagers organising #StudentStrike4Palestine, community leaders, poets, faith leaders and more, with perhaps 75% of the speakers being women, and almost all being people of colour (most of the exceptions being MPs).

*Except when #NSWpolice has dictated otherwise, giving priority to (much smaller and only) occasional pro-Israel rallies and forcing a shift to Saturday a couple of times, under threat of #PoliceViolence.

Then we've marched (or rolled) with flags, banners, signs, drums and (loud!) voices: Arab, Aboriginal, African, Anglo, Asian and more; from those too old to walk (in wheelchairs) to those too young to walk (in strollers).

#Auspol #NSWpol #StopTheGenocide
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“'We're Rolling Out Nakba 2023,' Israeli Minister Says on Northern Gaza Strip Evacuation”

NB: This is a Minister for Likud, Netanyahu’s Party, being quoted by the Israeli Press.

He’s linking it to the fighting, perhaps as mere deniability, as his answer to the question, of whether refugees will be allowed to return, does not attempt to be reassuring.

Let alone the use of the word “Nakba”.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-11-12/ty-article/israeli-security-cabinet-member-calls-north-gaza-evacuation-nakba-2023/0000018b-c2be-dea2-a9bf-d2be7b670000

#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Nakba #Naqba