Israel and the Occupied Territories: Evacuation order of Gaza triggers catastrophic humanitarian consequences
Annalena Baerbock gives Israel cover for targeting hospitals.
Germany’s foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, said Hamas has “taken the entire population of Gaza hostage” during a visit to Israel for talks with her Israeli counterpart, Eli Cohen.
“Hamas is now barricading itself behind more innocent people and is using them as a shield in Gaza,” Baerbock said during a news conference.
Their tunnels, their weapons depots and command centres are deliberately located in residential buildings, supermarkets and universities. Maybe even in hospitals.
Maybe Israel should airlift every patient to Israeli hospitals before bombing what’s underneath the ones in Gaza.
Al Awda Hospital has 40 intensive care units so how hard could that be?
“Stop helping people, or we kill you both.”
Ah yes, forced relocation of civilians / noncombatants to specific regions for “wartime reasons” and “their own safety.” I’ve heard a word for this before, but I can’t seem to recall it though the DENSE IRONY
Seventy people were killed and 200 were injured in an Israeli strike on a convoy of civilians heading from northern Gaza to central Gaza, according to the Palestinian government press office.
Order them to leave, strike the convoys when they do. OMG, this is going to be nightmare material.
Today’s word is:
Blinken: ‘Our focus now is on helping to create safe zones’ in Gaza
- GETTING SAFER BY THE HOUR
- GETTING MORE ORWELLIAN BY THE HOUR
… better bomb them just in case 
Is it actually Both?
More effed up by the second?
It isn’t safer, but we’re told it is, and it’s provably not, so…
Yes. Very fucked up, and only going to get more so.
Guardian liveblog:
UN chief says Israel’s evacuation order is ‘simply not possible’
The UN’s secretary general, António Guterres, warned that the situation in Gaza has reached a “a dangerous new low”, and called for immediate humanitarian access to allow fuel, food and water to reach those in need.
“Even wars have rules,” Guterres told reporters on Friday.
International humanitarian law and human rights law must be respected and upheld; civilians must be protected and never used as shields.
He said the Israeli military’s evacuation order is “extremely dangerous – and in some cases, simply not possible.”
Guterres appealed to all parties “and those with influence over them” to do their utmost to enable humanitarian access to the besieged Gaza Strip, to release all hostages immediately and to protect civilians.
His comments came as the UN’s security council met behind closed doors on Friday to discuss the Israel=Hamas war.
B’Tselem (an Israei human rights organisation):
A humanitarian disaster in Gaza must be averted
Martin Griffiths is UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.
https://twitter.com/UNReliefChief/status/1712923531799929300
… could have added a third option
GETTING “SAFER” BY THE HOUR
