Issam Al Mughrabi, 56, who worked for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for three decades was killed along with his wife and children in an Israeli air strike on Friday.
“For almost 30 years, Issam has worked with UNDP through our Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People,” UNDP administrator Achim Steiner said in a statement.
“The loss of Issam and his family has deeply affected us all. The UN and civilians in Gaza are not a target.”
Offering his condolences to Issam’s family and colleagues the World Health Organization’s chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stressed in a post on X that “humanitarians should never be victims” and called for a ceasefire.
And our elected leaders stand by politely ignoring the obvious humanitarian issues and overt war crimes.
I think what annoys me most is the American news sources who trumpet Biden’s speeches saying that he’s told Netanyahu to stop the killing, yet fail to report America stonewalling a UN vote for a cease fire … and forcing the UN to water down what they do ask for.
I hate hypocrisy and America is full of it (like many nations are).
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Yep. I noticed Biden is trying to have both: pretends to support a 2 state solution that will never happen, while simultaneously giving weapons in aid to Israel. And on top of that he expects people to vote for him because he’s not Trump.
You can’t have it all, Joe
Exactly, like what the fuck?
Well, the US does have an ardent pro-Israel Zionazi as the president this time around.
Genocide is fine so long as it destabilizes the middle east, gets oil corporations better deals thanks to that, and profits military corporations.
it’s totally fair to criticize Biden as long as we can agree that the alternative is much worse.
the alternative: genocide plus fascism.
Yeah isn’t it nice how simple the world is? Black or white. No nuance. Nuance sure would be shitty.
The world isn’t nice, because it’s so simple. Money.
It has me truly dissuaded of the notion that the so called developed world has any sort of moral authority. We have to learn from this.
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And? I can not do shocked pickachu when they have done it for 234 years. At least this time we’re not the ones doing the war crimes.
I hope Germany and the UK are the first to come forward and try to stop this atrocity but I have no such expectations.
The UK were offering to send surveillance planes to help Israel with targetting in Gaza.
As for Germany the very day the UN announced Israel had already killed over 4000 children in Gaza, herr Sholz reafirmed his unwavering support of Israel.
Those two are some of the worst, only beaten in their love for these Fascists by the US.
The ones to be proud of in Europe when it comes to their reaction to this massacre are the Republic of Ireland and Spain.
I wonder what Hitler would have to say about Israel, if he could see it now? He’d probably tell them they’re doing it wrong, as if there’s a right way to genocide.
Hitler would be happy about a Jewish Ethnostate to segregate them to, in general, but yeah there’s no telling how he would react to their actions unless he could somehow grift something from the whole situation.
The supporters of Israel have the most power to stop this, though.
The UK is still reminiscing about the glory days of empire when it was exporting food from their colonies while millions of Indians and Irish starved to death or fighting a war to get Chinese people addicted to opium.
A war started by selling opium to China after China had banned opium due to an epidemic caused by years of being sold opium by the British.
Germany is too wound up in internal stupidity contests right now. I wouldn’t be surprised if after January 2nd everything is grinding to a halt because of farmers and the new laws…
Israel’s done for now! They will get stern words and hard finger wagging from the UN!
But Anthony Blinken said the United States has done more than any country to stop the killing of civilians in Gaza by providing unlimited quantities of bombs to kill civilians in Gaza.
I’m half asleep and I read that as finger wanking. Was very confuse for a second.
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Lol who the fuck cares about MBFC? Why are you spamming posts about a useless rating made up by a single guy in North Carolina?
Merry Christmas wishes from Genocide Joe and his Nazi friends.
For what it’s worth Al Jazeera is literally a mouthpiece funded by the Qatari government. They’re like the VOA/Radio Free XXX/Xinhua/RT of Qatar. It’s literally Qatari propaganda.
Al Jazeera reports factually, especially on issues in the middle east.
Do you think this article contains any propaganda?
No, I don’t. It seems factual
I agree. I think the reason Aljazeera report so well on this is due to having many Arabi speaking Journalists and employing many people from the Middle East. They usually have video evidence of everything they provide, making it hard to refute.
My main issue with them is Aljazeera Arabic’s emotional and charged language
For example it will say:
When Palestinian victims: استشهاد 4 اطفال four Children were martyred
When IDF deaths: الجيش الإسرائيلي يعترف بمقتل 4 من جنوده the Israeli army “admits” to four soldiers killed
But then again, it doesn’t bother me too much that the IDF “admits” casualties because they have been lying about that to everyone since the start. However, I would still prefer reading a source that won’t sway my emotions at every statement
I don’t see this often in Aljazeera English
a better source has already been provided https://lemmy.world/comment/6229224
Cool media is often a tool of propaganda. Can you showcase that this is false? Can you state why you brought it up here? Would you do the same for Israeli propaganda justifying genocide?
Here’s a more direct source: https://www.undp.org/speeches/statement-killing-undp-staff-member-and-family-gaza
According to this community’s guidelines, Al Jazeera isn’t really an acceptable source: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/al-jazeera/
I don’t agree, but that’s why I’m on lemmy.ml rather than here most of the time.
I’m still curious why the comment then though. Without any further context it only seems to serve to imply the story is false.
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Not sure what that means in this context but from scanning your history, you don’t seem disingenuous so gonna chalk it up misunderstanding haha
