XPost: uk.legal, soc.culture.jewish, alt.revisionism   
   XPost: alt.politics.republicans, misc.news.internet.discuss   
   From: void@invalid.noy   
      
   By Ruwaida Kamal Amer and Ibtisam Mahdi   
    February 6, 2024   
      
   For several weeks, the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip   
   has witnessed intense Israeli bombardment by ground and air, as well   
   as fierce clashes between Israeli forces and Hamas fighters. Israeli   
   Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced last week that the army had   
   successfully dismantled Hamas’ capabilities in the city — a claim   
   Israel made earlier about Gaza City in the north, only to be proven   
   wrong. But in Khan Younis, as in the rest of Gaza, it is we civilians   
   who are bearing the brunt of the violence.   
      
   Israeli tanks have besieged two of the most important hospitals still   
   partially functioning in southern Gaza: Nasser and Al-Amal. Both are   
   located in the western part of Khan Younis, and have been overwhelmed   
   since the war began not only with the influx of patients but also with   
   families seeking shelter after having been displaced from the northern   
   parts of the Strip. Israeli forces opened fire at the more than 8,000   
   displaced people sheltering in the vicinity of Nasser Hospital, and   
   bulldozed graves in the adjacent cemetery — one of at least 16   
   cemeteries that Israel has desecrated during its operation in Gaza.   
      
   Israeli tanks also penetrated the vicinity of Al-Aqsa University at   
   the western edge of the city, near the previously designated “safe   
   zone” of Al-Mawasi; targeted the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)   
   Training Center, one of the largest shelters in all of Gaza which had   
   been accommodating up to 40,000 displaced people; and completely   
   surrounded the western part of Khan Younis refugee camp.   
      
   The Israeli army dropped leaflets ordering residents to evacuate Khan   
   Younis, and in recent days some 120,000 Palestinians have fled the   
   city through a supposedly “safe corridor” spanning from the west of   
   the refugee camp to the area of Al-Mawasi near Al-Aqsa University. The   
   passage through this corridor, however, which is made up of three   
   Israeli military checkpoints, has for many Palestinians been one of   
   the most harrowing ordeals since the war began.   
      
   According to testimonies from Palestinians who have made the journey,   
   including one of the authors, those passing through the corridor were   
   forced to chant slogans against Hamas; many had their belongings   
   confiscated; and men were separated from their families, stripped, and   
   subjected to hours of physical abuse and deprivation. All the while,   
   thousands remain trapped inside Khan Younis, unable to leave their   
   shelters out of fear of being shot on the streets.   
      
              
      
   https://www.972mag.com/khan-younis-safe-corridor-abuse/   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)