Category: Violence
Relatives retrieve bodies from Gaza hospital of victims killed in Israeli airstrike
Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip to retrieve the bodies of four people killed in Israeli strikes. This was a hospital. This is a war crime. US aid, US money, US weapons are being used for this. No other country would be allowed to do this and still have US support. Could it be the over 600 million dollars the Israeli lobby spreads to congress and presidential elections? AIPAC which stands for American lobbying group advocating for pro-Israel policies. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is a lobbying group that advocates pro-Israel policies to the legislative and executive branches of the United States. This PAC is one of the wealthiest in the US if not the wealthiest. I don’t think the dead children and innocent civilians really care about the money, maybe it is time congress did not either. Hugs. Scottie
Israeli whistleblowers detail abuse of Palestinians in shadowy detention center
We all have that little girl’s bloodstains on our fingers
I thank Ten Bears for this. When I first heard of it I couldn’t find anything to post. Then when I saw Ten Bears’ post, I was too tired and stunned to post it. So I waited until I could deal with it. Just like the food workers in the WCK clearly marked trucks with the Israeli military giving the OK for their route, the rescue people here had permission to go to the girl, then they were killed. The reports from hospitals in Gaza witnesses said the IDF were targeting anyone in scrubs, the workers and medical people avoided being near a window and changed clothing before leaving the building. Israel’s goal has long been the extermination of all Palestinians and any support group for them. Any Palestinian male over 10 is considered Hamas by Israeli troops. Finally Biden is doing something, but it is far too little and long too late. Too late for all the dead Palestinian adults and all the dead Palestinian children. I watched an Israeli spokesperson angrily complaining no one seemed to care about the 100+ soldiers they lost in this war, but he had no remorse for the more than 40,000 dead civilian Palestinians, claiming that there have been very few civil casualties, that they were all Hamas or civilian combatants. Hugs. Scottie
Former Trump Aide Boasts Of Giving Counterfeit Bills To Homeless So That They Get Arrested When Using Them
No wonder tRump and this guy got along with each other. He is a scumbag. People with nothing he gives less then nothing to them, then claims it makes him feel good. WTF. This guy is a Project 2025 leader and they are all about taking the US back to 1840. Hugs. Scottie
“So I always keep this fake Hollywood money in my car so when a homeless person asks for money, then I give him like a fake $5 bill, so I feel good about myself, they feel good. And then, when they go to use it, they get arrested so I’m actually like helping clean up the community. You know, getting them off the street.” – Former Trump aide and Project 2025 leader Johnny McEntee, in a TikTok video posted by the The Right Stuff, the MAGA dating app he founded in 2022. McEntee appeared here last week when he vowed that porn will banned during a second Trump term.
Let’s talk about the latest US offer from Biden….
Some The Majority Report clips, mostly on Israel.
Krystal Destroys Saagar In INTENSE Debate Over Palestine Protests
Aida Shakarami: Iran morality police arrests dead protester’s sister, mother says
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68849736
Roger and I were talking about the fundamentalist trying desperately to change the US into a theocracy like in Iran or Saudi Arabia. The way they are demanding their interpretation of a book written over time 2,500 years ago. They don’t care that the majority wants a democracy and that a large portion of the public including other Christians don’t support their view of what god wants. They don’t want rights for women, they don’t want rights for the LGBTQ+, they do not want to accept anything that shows the weaknesses of their holy book including medical science. The article below Roger sent me. This is what the fundamentlist Christians want to create in the US. Hugs. Scottie
By David Gritten,BBC NewsSocial media
Aida Shakarami (R) is the sister of Nika Shakarami (L), who became a symbol of the “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests The elder sister of Nika Shakarami, a 16-year-old girl who was killed during the 2022 anti-government protests in Iran, has been arrested for allegedly not covering her hair, her family says.
Aida Shakarami, 22, was accused of “not adhering to compulsory hijab” by morality police in Tehran on Wednesday, her mother Nasrin wrote on Instagram.
“She remains in custody,” she added.
The police have not commented, but it comes after they launched a crackdown on breaches of the Islamic dress code.
Tehran’s police chief said on Saturday the new initiative would “confront social taboo-breaking over hijab and chastity and those who seek to expressly contravene hijab rules” – a reference to the many women and girls who have defiantly stopped covering their hair in public.
In another development on Thursday, video posted on social media appeared to show a young Iranian woman having a seizure after she was confronted by morality police in Tehran.
An eyewitness told BBC Persian that officers violently confiscated the woman’s mobile phone and purse because she was not wearing a headscarf.
Nika Shakarami became a symbol of the “Woman, Life, Freedom” protest movement that shook the Islamic Republic two years ago.
The protests erupted in response to the death in custody on 16 September 2022 of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who had been detained by morality police in the capital for allegedly wearing her hijab “improperly”.
Authorities denied that Mahsa Amini was mistreated, but the UN’s Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran said in a report last month that she “was subjected to physical violence that led to her death”.
On 20 September 2022, Nika was filmed at a protest in Tehran setting fire to her headscarf, while other protesters chanted “death to the dictator” – a reference to the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
She disappeared that evening after telling a friend that she was being chased by police. Her family eventually found her body at a mortuary 10 days later.
They alleged that she died from blows to the head and rejected claims from officials that she had killed herself.
Nika Shakarami disappeared after she was filmed burning a headscarf at a protest in Tehran on 20 September 2022 Authorities portrayed the protests as foreign-backed “riots” and tried to suppress them with force.
They have not released an official death toll, but the UN’s fact-finding mission said credible figures suggested that as many as 551 protesters were killed by security forces, most of them by gunfire. The government says 75 security personnel were killed.
More than 20,000 other protesters were reportedly detained, including many journalists and celebrities.
Nine young men have been executed in connection with the protests following what UN investigators found were summary proceedings that relied on confessions extracted under torture and ill-treatment. Dozens more have reportedly been sentenced to death or charged with capital offenses.
The protests have now largely subsided, but there is still widespread discontent at the clerical establishment and, in particular, the hijab laws.
In September, Iran’s parliament passed a controversial “Hijab and Chastity” bill that would impose severe punishments on women and girls for violations of the dress code, including up to 10 years in prison and flogging. It must still be approved by the Guardian Council before it becomes law.
The UN’s fact-finding mission said the “violent repression of peaceful protests and pervasive institutional discrimination against women and girls” had led to serious human rights violations that amounted to crimes against humanity.
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