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Today is “World Humanitarian Day”.
We are supposed to recognize and celebrate humanitarian efforts around the world to relieve human suffering and better mankind. Humanitarian NGOs will congratulate themselves and send fundraising emails about their important work.
For Israelis, it is different. It is a bitter, stinging reminder that *not one so-called “humanitarian organization” has made a serious effort to contact the remaining hostages still in Hamas captivity.*
Not the Red Cross. Not Doctors Without Borders. Not Amnesty.
This is injustice.
Timur Mamatov pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime for his assault of multiple Jewish Ohio State University students in November 2023.
Mamatov approached a group of students outside a bar in Columbus, and asked them if they were Jewish. When they replied that they were, he punched one of them, fracturing the victim’s jaw. Another victim’s nose was fractured during the altercation. The 20-year-old assailant who allegedly yelled “Free Palestine,” during the attack, admitted the assault was due to the victims’ Jewish identity.
The overwhelming majority of organizations alleging Israel is obstructing them from delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza never fulfilled new mandatory registration requirements since Israel implemented them back in March.
Any organization that refuses to provide information on its employees and private donors for security purposes may be hiding sinister intentions or even ties to terror organizations, according to COGAT.
COGAT also says nearly 20 organisations have completed the registration process and are currently bringing aid into Gaza daily.
The lying about Israel and the situation in Gaza needs to stop. Exploiting Marah Zohry’s tragic death and omitting that she suffered from leukemia, is not journalism or humanitarianism, it’s propaganda.
This is a coordinated effort to demonize Israel and sanitize Hamas, who causes the suffering in Gaza.
The liars just keep lying.
Just weeks after Israel intervened to defend the Syrian Druze community from Jonali forces, Israeli and Druze flags were raised side by side at an anti–Islamic State rally in the Druze city of Al-Sweida.
Israel’s leaders underscored the deep sense of brotherhood shared between Israel and the Druze people.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog addresses the world: “tell Hamas no deal, no nothing until the hostages are home.”
For 680 days 50 people have been held in the tunnels of Gaza, 20 of whom are being starved, beaten, and tortured Gaza.
The world must demand that Hamas releases the hostages NOW.
Today is the 20th anniversary of the “Gaza Disengagement,” when Israel removed all Jewish residents from the land. It was an attempt at building a partner for peace, and could have been the beginning of a thriving State in Gaza.
Instead, Hamas began its rule and has maintained control ever since.
The UN has added Hamas to a list of perpetrators of sexual violence.
By no means should the UN be congratulated for this move. It took 20 years of Hamas’ needless brutality for just this glimmer of recognition of what they do and who they are. It should not have taken a concerted effort to publish video, testimony, and other evidence for the UN to understand what happened on October 7th.
And it certainly should not have taken 22 months.
