cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33477630
[can’t believe that it keeps getting worse, but it does]
Abdel Qader Sabbah and Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Jul 21, 2025Over the past five days alone, more than 550 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, according to ministry of health figures. The confirmed death toll since the beginning of the war crossed 59,000 on Monday in what is widely acknowledged to be a vast undercount. Over the past two months, more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed as they are forced to seek aid in militarized zones in a system mostly overseen by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a shadowy U.S.- and Israeli-backed group.
One of the deadliest days for aid seekers came on Sunday, when over 70 people were killed, at least 67 of them in northern Gaza where Israeli troops opened fire on crowds trying to get food from a World Food Program convoy entering through the Zikim crossing.
“The tank came, surrounded us, and started shooting at us and we kept raising our hands,” Ibrahim Hamada, who was wounded in the leg, told Drop Site as he lay on a hospital gurney wincing in pain. “There were many martyrs, no one was able to retrieve them. I crawled on my stomach just to reach a car to take me to the hospital,” he said. “I went there to eat, because there was no food at home.”
When Auschwitz happened, we didn’t have the social media and access to information about what was going on there in real time. Millions upon millions worldwide had no idea what happened until after it was over. Never again, it was said. How in the ever loving FUCK are governments and people in power not doing more to stop this slaughter that is literally happening right in front of our fucking eyes???
It’s worth remembering that no one was fighting Germany to stop the Holocaust. The world would have happily stood by and watched it Germany had stuck to just exterminating its own people without invading Europe.
People do suck, but it’s not a new condition by any means.
Because the people largely don’t give a shit. They can’t even inconvenience themselves but boycotting shitty expensive products, let alone put pressure on their governments.
So true. Since the US has threatened to annex Canada, I have boycotted absolutely everything American, including software. I’m not buying any of their shit AT ALL. It was a bit of a transition period for a month or two so did take a little bit of effort, but now I’m in a new routine and it isn’t difficult. I have multiple people in my life who are literally CRYING and having fucking PANIC ATTACKS over what is going on in the US, yet they can’t be bothered to mildly inconvenience themselves by not buying from Amazon, or using a Google alternative, etc. One person literally told me when I was still in the process of looking for alternatives “You’re just going to have to kiss the ring”. NO I FUCKING DON’T. It is laziness pure and simple.
Yeah, but the price of eggs…
Never again!? More like always has always will.
You seriously expect a bunch of white Christofascist Zionists to care about brown Muslims?
If the Holocaust taught us a lesson it is clear the Jewish people of Israel didn’t get it.
This is the thing that absolutely blows my fucking mind. I had a grandfather in Auschwitz, I have heard all the horror stories, and although there are many Jewish people out there in the world who oppose what is happening in Palestine (including holocaust survivors), the fact that Jewish people suffered so badly and then collectively immediately turned around and did the same thing to someone else just kills my faith in people. Sometimes I just wonder what the fucking point of any of this is.