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‘They violently beat us’: Harrowing testimony of released Palestinian child

A Palestinian child describes how he and his family were trapped in their home for five days at the start of Israel’s attack on Gaza.  He said that if anyone went outside, the soldiers shot them, killing them.  When they took the house they made sure to damage it as much as possible to make it unlivable, then they forced everyone including the women to come out naked, then allowed them to redress, took them to separate places where they beat him and those with him.  The US and western governments are supporting Israel on this.  Why?  Over 18,000 Palestinians dead, many more wounded.  All because Israel lost less than 1,200 in the Hamas attack.  Israel got their pound of flesh and a hell of a lot more.   Hugs

“They kidnapped us in a house and violently beat us.”

WATCH: The testimony of a Palestinian child, who was released after days of being detained with others by Israeli forces in the Zaytun neighbourhood in Gaza city, after his home was stormed and Israeli soldiers “bombed it all and shot at the walls”.

“The women were taken to another unknown place. We didn’t know anything about them.”

Mohammad Mahmoud Saleem described being strip-searched, before Israeli forces took the men and women to separate unknown houses, saying that he doesn’t know the whereabouts of his mother and younger siblings.

“I had to carry a decapitated body”: Gazan child after fresh Israeli strike on Jabalia

Israel is ensuring there will not be peace with Palestinians nor those of Palestinian desent.  As this young boy said “God will take my vengence!” which you can beleive means he now is willing to hurt those who hurt him and those around him.  But the question asked is true, where is the UN, where is anyone to help stop Israel.   Hugs.  Scottie

An Israeli air strike on a UN-run school sheltering displaced Palestinians at the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza killed at least 15 people and injured dozens more, according to a doctor at al-Shifa Hospital.

According to CNN, the Israeli Defense Forces allege the Central Jabalya Battalion took control of civilian buildings, adding collapsed tunnels were partly a reason for the destruction caused by the strike on Tuesday.

“I carried a body and another decapitated body with my own hands,” a Gazan boy said at the site.

At least 9,488 Palestinians including 3,900 children have been killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza since Oct. 7, the health ministry in Hamas-controlled Gaza said on Saturday.
“There are 15 martyrs and the number is expected to increase,” Mohammad Abu Selmeyah, who is also an official in the health ministry in the Hamas-run enclave, said.

During the conflict, Israel has consistently claimed it’s targeting Hamas militants following the Oct. 7 attack on the Israeli kibbutz, Be’eri kibbutz.
For more info, please go to https://globalnews.ca/news/10070941/i…

Abderrahman Al Zeghel , the youngest Palestinian prisoner released

“When I woke up, I discovered that I had been shot 30 times.”

Abderrahman Al Zeghel, a 14-year-old Palestinian child and the youngest prisoner released in the Hamas-Israel hostage exchange, sustained deadly head injuries after Israeli forces assaulted him while he was buying bread in occupied East Jerusalem’s Silwan.

Despite undergoing multiple surgeries, he now lives with “half a skull” and faces health issues preventing a return to normal life.

Israeli law doesn’t permit the imprisonment of children under 14 and instead enforces house arrests as a form of punishment.

How Israel Humiliates Palestinians And Films It

The report shows how Israeli military fakes videos to claim it is Hamas surrendering, while they make the Arab men stand in public view in their underwear.   They wouldn’t do that to an Israeli man, so why is it OK to do a Palestinian one? Plus the abused the children they took and kept for days refusing them water or the right to use a bathroom, ordering the kids to pee on themselves.  Again humiliating them and torturing them with long periods of discomfort / need.  They are numbering the kids with hard to get off ink!  They staged mock executions of some men by threatening to bury them alive!   Which is another war crime, all to terrorize the civilians.  Imagine the fear of the men.  How in the world can we allow this to continue?  Hugs.  Scottie

Israeli crimes

 

‘Over 18,000 people have now been slaughtered in Gaza’ – Holly Cairns TD

Over 18,000 people have been slaughtered in Gaza.

The scenes being described on the ground are heartbreaking.

How could leaders of so-called civilised countries have abstained or voted against a ceasefire in the UN?

“They’ve the blood of thousands on their hands,” says Holly Cairns TD. Footage taken from Leaders’ Questions debate between Holly Cairns, Leader of the Social Democrats, and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar on 13 December, 2023.

12-year-old Palestinian detained and interrogated by Israeli forces | Al Jazeera Newsfeed

This 12-year-old Palestinian was taken to an Israeli interrogation centre without a lawyer or parent, after being accused of throwing stones at Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank.
A 12-year-old Palestinian in the Occupied West Bank has been detained for hours at an Israeli interrogation centre before being released. He told Al-Jazeera about the intimidation, fear and threats he faced.

Why Israel has so many Palestinian prisoners

Israel has over 7,000 Palestinians in prison, most held without charges.  The others faced long sentences for gathers of 10 or more for what Israel calls political expression.  Palestinians are banned from displaying their flag or political symbols.  Again a 10 year prison sentence.   10 years if a Palestinian orally attempts to influence public opinion in a way Israel thinks would harm public peace.  Remember, these rules only apply to the Palestinians, not the Israeli settlers in Palestinian territory.  Life in prison for any act that Israel determines a disturbance or a danger to the security of the area or threats the security of the IDF (military).  That includes kids throwing rocks at the illegal wall Israel built in Palestinian territory.   Of course the laws are written very vague so they can be applied to anything a Palestinian does that someone in Israel doesn’t like.   Remember that while Israeli media and people held huge events celebrating the return of their family members, the Palestinians were warned they would be all be arrested if there was a similar celebration of returning family members.

Do you not see the Palestinians are kept in an open air prison with every aspect of their lives under the military control of Israeli IDF and at the mercy  of any Jewish citizen who harms them.  I recently watched a video of an illegal Jewish settler walk up to a Palestinian man who was unarmed and just shoot him.  A few feet away was an Israel Soldier who did nothing.  On the Palestinian’s land, he was a farmer shot on his own property.  The Jewish man was never charged.  There is more in the video.  Hugs.  Scottie

Israel has been engaged in harrowing negotiations to recover the roughly 240 hostages held by Hamas and other militant groups in Gaza following the October 7 attack. In exchange for their release, the Israeli government has a bargaining chip that is extremely valuable to Palestinians: the thousands of Palestinian prisoners locked up in Israeli prisons.

Each one of these Palestinian prisoners has been processed by Israel’s military court system, which exists completely separate from the civilian court system that Jewish Israelis interact with. This system and the military orders that govern it have their origins in the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories in 1967.

In this video, two experts explain Israel’s military court system, why it’s been a focus of outcry from human rights organizations and why hostage negotiations have historically involved the exchange of Palestinian prisoners.

Coming Out To My Italian Parents

This is four years old.  But it is how a lot of gay kids feel when they try to address their feelings with their parents.  The drama on the parents / dads part may be a bit over done.  But a lot of gay boys are terrified to tell their dads they are gay.  And the way the boy in the video reacts to even the acceptance of his father was realistic.  

A sad side note.  In late 1986, when I came home from the US army, after already being in the US Navy, I took a job at one of the two local gay bars.  In hindsight, I wouldn’t have done so but I learned a lot about gay culture in our area at the time.  Again how I met Ron the love of my life, and who with I am going on our 34th year as a couple.    On the plus side at the other one I met Ron!  At the time I was still living at the adoptive folk’s home from my childhood which was horrible for me.  The point of this is when I had to admit to my adoptive father who had sexually abused me I was working at the gay bar he … asked me if I was … one of those … if I was gay? 

Like every one of the letters of gay hurt him to say.   When I told him I was, he asked me if I didn’t think I should see a doctor about it for help.   He even told me how sick I was.  This is a man who made me suck his dick when I was a kid, who raped me in … No, sorry not the place or time.  Anyway the point is, I understand this boy in the video’s fear his father wouldn’t accept him.  Even though as it seems he had a gay brother.  

Anyway it is about how hard it is for gay kids to come out to family and to simply be themselves, even in a country that doesn’t have republicans trying to make their lives a living hell.   We really need to let these kids be and give them a place to be themselves openly.   Before it drives them to depression and possible suicide like in the video, which thankfully the boy did not do.    Hugs.  Scottie

I spent my whole life fearing coming out to my Italian parents. As a result, I lived in a world of depression and anxiety as I felt I had no freedom to be me… to be the person who I was born to be. I was determined to come out to them before my 30th birthday – and so I did… just 6 weeks prior.

SCOTUS Rejects Challenge To WA Ex-Gay Torture Ban

SCOTUS Rejects Challenge To WA Ex-Gay Torture Ban
As I previously reported, the ADF first filed its lawsuit in May 2021 and lost in US district court in September 2021 before losing again before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in September 2022.

According to Brian Tingley’s resume, he’s led seminars on “authentic manhood” and “true masculinity.”

Before that, he wrote and produced commercials for car dealerships, bingo halls, and county fairs.

As I’ve reported many times over the years, ex-gay torture therapists often end up rejecting their work and coming out as gay themselves. And sometimes, they are arrested for sexually assaulting their clients.

Then there are the ones that are busted trolling online for gay sex, such as the nationally prominent therapist caught cruising Manhunt in 2018 as HotNHairy72.
The Alliance Defending Freedom, whose lead attorney was once House Speaker Mike Johnson, has advocated for criminalizing homosexuality in the United States and has provided free legal support to foreign groups seeking the same in their own countries.

 

 

Ross  Uncle Mark is back!21 hours ago

Hey! Let’s debate the Holocaust!

Hey! let’s debate slavery!

Hey! Let’s debate murder and rape!

Sarah  Ross21 hours ago

“Teach the controversy!”

Gustav2  Ross20 hours ago

Let’s debate which groups we can or cannot have genocidal practices!

 

What, me worry?21 hours ago

My sexuality is not a “debate.” It’s a fact of life, just as a straight person’s sexuality is a fact of life. Just because these religious whack jobs are too stupid to understand that should not be my problem.

liondon#traitortrash  What, me worry?21 hours ago

They understand…the cruelty is the point.

Tazzari1  What, me worry?21 hours ago

Maybe they should debate the weather, or gravity, or something. All as changeable as sexuality, and just as unnatural. /s

JoeMyGod Mod21 hours ago

Ladybird Bachmann is surely sobbing into the sleeve of his caftan.

Uncle Mark is back!  JoeMyGod21 hours ago

He’ll do what he always does…finding ways to fill his emptiness & sorrow.

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Ščŏŧŧ Ċ – 🇺🇦 🕊  Uncle Mark is back! 20 hours ago

Never get a blowjob from a Ferengi. They sharpen their teeth.

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The_Wretched  JoeMyGod21 hours ago edited

His “exgay” shop is in MN, not WA. It’s also still open even though MN has banned “exgay” torture as well (by eo in 2021 and statute this year).

The_Wretched21 hours ago

WA: “No torturing”
Alito and Thomas: “Wait!! Christians should get to torture!!!”

Tor  The_Wretched21 hours ago

Christians have a long and glorious history of torture. “It’s tradition.”

StarGmom  Tor21 hours ago

Deeply held beliefs

Gregory In Seattle  The_Wretched20 hours ago

That is basically what it comes down to: the perception that one has a religious right to bully people to death.

Eli Bradley 21 hours ago
The decision received separate dissenting opinions from Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.

 

Evergreen opinions, paid for by Leonard Leo and the Vatican.

Tazzari1 21 hours ago

What are we coming to, when good, god-fearing christo-fascists can’t torture kids?

SFHarry 21 hours ago

No one is stopping him from saying his beliefs. What they are doing is preventing him from imposing them on others through the guise of medical treatment and accepting money for it.
You can also believe massage cures cancer but you can not put out a medical shingle and take money for curing cancer through massage.

Or you can believe blood letting cures depression but you can not charge for this as a medical treatment.
We have medical standards based on science.

Uncle Mark is back! 21 hours ago

Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. Thomas claimed that Washington had “silenced one side of this debate”

I had no idea that basic human rights, torturing children & wonton abuse were up for debate.

Randy503  Uncle Mark is back!20 hours ago

They are so full of it. No side has been “silenced.” But to them, unless they are forcing their beliefs upon the populace, you are silenced.

Darreth  Randy50319 hours ago edited

Give evangelicals a nanometer and they will steal a light-year from under our noses.

oundentenor  Uncle Mark is back!19 hours ago

The more right wingers are silenced, the louder they get all over social media and right wing tv and radio. They are the only silenced people who are deafeningly loud.

JW Swift 21 hours ago
Brian Tingley, a licensed marriage and family counselor, said the law violates his free speech rights under the Constitution’s First Amendment because the government is seeking to dictate what he says.

No, the gov’t is still letting you “say” anything you want. They are regulating how you conduct your business so that you don’t harm your patients.

Gustav2  JW Swift20 hours ago edited

What the government is saying they are not going to pay for the mumbo jumbo via Medicaid or approve it for reimbursement by insurance companies. It is not banned, you just have to pay for the religious practice yourself.

Ščŏŧŧ Ċ – 🇺🇦 🕊  JW Swift21 hours ago

Under this argument, any restrictions the FDA puts on medical advertisement is also invalid.

Lestat quatre  JW Swift21 hours ago

Exactly right. The courts have long recognized that commercial speech is more subject to regulation than other kinds of speech. Tingley et al. are trying to argue that it is religious speech in a commercial context. Um, sorry, no.

Priya Lynn  Lestat quatre17 hours ago

” Tingley et al. are trying to argue that it is religious speech in a commercial context. “.

This shows their goal is to erase the separation of church and state and turn the U.S. into a theocracy.

bobbyboy 21 hours ago

Authentic manhood ? He looks like my creepy social studies teacher who was always inviting us over fro all guy nights. Yuck!

weshlovrcm21 hours ago

Very telling that the two “judges” who many people say take the most bribes are the ones who demand a Constitutional right to commit fraud.

 

Mass Palestinian Opposition To Hamas Before Israel’s Revamped Ethnic Cleansing Campaign