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Erik Uden 🚩Sep 14, 2024

Rafah in 2023 vs. Rafah today.

Erik Uden 🚩Sep 14, 2024

It's important to note that before the destruction of Rafah, it was declared as a safezone by Israel. People across the entire country were told to flee here. Just three months into this conflict, over one million refugees had to make this city their new home.

As a result of this, the Rafah offensive was heavily criticized and Israel was ordered to stop, by the United States, the ICJ, the EU, all EU member states independently, China, Australia, Brazil... [Source]

Was there any response when this red line was crossed? No, there were no (economic) sanctions or otherwise political consequences, despite this obvious human rights violation.

The refugee encampment in Rafah was specifically bombed as well. [Source]

Just last month the official safezone was changed again, into a much smaller and much more crammed area. The entire population of Gaza should move again into a space that could never support them and that is subject to change any time.

Abiding by these human rights violating orders is suicide. However, high up from our ivory tower, people are criticizing refugees of a country for not fleeing when they were told to do so. Blaming the victims for their death, as they could've always fled. In a debate in Germany I was even told that by continuing to stay in their home, these people support Hamas.

I have no words for such a sentiment; refugees deserve support no matter what.

Erik Uden ⁂🥥🌴🍑 (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 video · Content warning: Rafah — The Final Safezone

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Erik Uden 🚩Sep 14, 2024

Bellingcat ( @Bellingcat ) has also produced these visuals in order to compare and see the destruction of Rafah. I highly recommend their reporting on it:

Satellite Imagery Shows Vast Destruction in Rafah

Satellite Imagery Shows Vast Destruction in Rafah - bellingcat

After the IDF began an operation in the Tall As Sultan neighbourhood, the majority of buildings were destroyed.

bellingcat

Two thirds of all public infrastructure (also in Tall as Sultan) being destroyed, and the entire surrounding area flattened into a desert, does not count as a “major military operation” nor a crossing of any red lines!

In May, U.S. President Joe Biden set a “red line” for Israel during an interview with CNN. If the Israel Defense Forces went into Rafah’s population centres, such as Tall As Sultan, his administration was going to start limiting what weapons the U.S. would provide Israel. When asked about the red line days later, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken clarified that the president specifically referred to a “major military operation” in Rafah.

The Biden administration’s position has not changed since then. Bellingcat asked the US State Department whether the IDF had crossed any red lines but had not received an answer by the time of publication.

— @Bellingcat, Satellite Imagery Shows Vast Destruction in Rafah from August 27th 2024

Biden says he will stop sending bombs and artillery shells to Israel if it launches major invasion of Rafah

President Joe Biden said for the first time Wednesday he would halt shipments of American weapons to Israel – which he acknowledged have been used to kill civilians in Gaza – if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders a major invasion of the city of Rafah.

CNN

Erik Uden 🚩Dec 9

This is genocide.

Florian Eichberger Dec 9

@ErikUden Das sind Luftaufnahmen einer vollständig zerstörten Stadt.

@fl_e @ErikUden Jupp, ähnliche Bilder gibt es in jedem Krieg seit der frühen Industrialisierung.

Nur muss man sich da schon fragen, gegen welchen Gegner Israel da eigentlich gekämpft hat, um so eine Zerstörung in so kurzer Zeit zu rechtfertigen...

Janet Grootebroeder Dec 9

@urwumpe @fl_e @ErikUden An enemy without tanks, without war planes or war ships, without an air defence system, without friends who ensure that new weapons are constantly being supplied, because their enemy controls what comes in.

@JanetGrBr @fl_e @ErikUden The last things are not working out. They seem to have a steady inflow of weapons, considering the amount of fire power they managed to build up in relatively short time despite an Israeli and Egypt blockade. Also the lack of friends is wishful thinking. The palestine people might be unpopular in countries with large refugee camps, but there are many supporters far enough away from any palestine person to make arming the combatants a safe game.

@ErikUden Erinnert sehr stark an die Bilder von Hiroshima oder Nagasaki....

@ErikUden Meanwhile:

https://www.thejc.com/news/politics/rachel-reeves-slams-critics-of-zionism-and-defends-the-right-of-jewish-people-to-self-determination-in-passionate-speech-u67cofy3

Rachel Reeves: I’m an unapologetic Zionist

The Chancellor also noted that the first anti-Israel protests to take place after October 7 happened while the country was ‘still under attack’

The Jewish Chronicle

𝗣𝗠𝗝 ⚫Sep 14, 2024

that's why i think the hamas-attack was deliberately not prevented
i mean, israel has one of if not the best intelligence on the planet and they couldn't prevent it?!
it was a perfect opportunity for ultra-nationalist netanyahu to get rid of gaza once and for all
i bet they will move in settlers as soon as they can

trashpanda Sep 14, 2024

@pmj @ErikUden Sounds Like 9/11 was an inside Job.

But we will See about the settlers, i doubt that this is an area, where that will happen.

𝗣𝗠𝗝 ⚫Sep 14, 2024

9/11 was not an inside job (unless you count the funding and setting up the taliban and al-qaida by the US through proxies as "inside") but also an opportunity to weaken the constitution and implement more surveillance so they just let it happen
@ErikUden

trashpanda Sep 14, 2024

@pmj your Posts are making my point

ejim Sep 14, 2024

@pmj @ErikUden
its also might have seemed like a good opportunity for him to unify and unite Isreal behind him so he can be in power and not in Jail as he should be, as justice was after him for corruption.

MeltingPenguins Sep 14, 2024

@ErikUden And yet those motherfuckers genuinely believe that when they bring forth the end of days and 'the rapture' they'll be rewarded for it. By a god who allegedly delights in human misery.

if they gleefully make promises with no intention to keep them to get people to do what benefits them, it's amazing to see them believing that a god they make out to be just the same kind of rot as them would do so .