Jerusalem
CNN
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Israel has dropped leaflets across parts of southern Gaza calling on civilians to evacuate and “head towards known shelters,” indicating Israel could soon expand its ground operation against Hamas to the south of the enclave.Leaflets were dropped Wednesday on four communities to the east of Khan Younis, the largest city in southern Gaza, warning people living there to “evacuate your residence immediately.”
The communities – Al Qarrah, Khuza’a, Bani Suhaila, and Absaan – are near the perimeter fence separating the Gaza Strip from Israel, suggesting possible new incursion points by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) looking to take control of the south.
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edit: Es gibt aber natürlich auch wieder gute Nachrichten, das hier ist das was der Standard zum selben Zeitpunkt berichtet:
[Zwei Tanklaster pro Tag sind sehr wahrscheinlich zu wenig um den Mobilfunk in Gaza aufrechtzuerhalten. Geschweige denn das Internet.]
Diese Gesellschaft ist das absolut grotesk und abartigst Allerletzte.
edit: Die NZZ hat dazu auch einen netten Angle:
Der Erfolg der israelischen Operation im Gazastreifen hängt von der Umsicht jedes einzelnen Kommandanten ab
Je mehr Gelände die Bodentruppen gewinnen, desto besser ist die Zivilbevölkerung geschützt. Der Operationsplan kombiniert deshalb militärische Kraft mit bewusster Zurückhaltung.
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Je mehr Landraub, desto besser, da sicherer für die Bevölkerung in Gaza und die Verantwortung für Völkerrechtsverstöße hänge von der Umsicht jedes einzelnen Kommandanten ab und könne nicht auf beteiligte Führer von Staaten projiziert werden.
I can’t believe its not Neoimperialism!
I have resigned as poetry editor of the New York Times Magazine.
The Israeli state’s U.S-backed war against the people of Gaza is not a war for anyone. There is no safety in it or from it, not for Israel, not for the United States or Europe, and especially not for the many Jewish people slandered by those who claim falsely to fight in their names. Its only profit is the deadly profit of oil interests and weapon manufacturers.
The world, the future, our hearts—everything grows smaller and harder from this war. It is not only a war of missiles and land invasions. It is an ongoing war against the people of Palestine, people who have resisted throughout decades of occupation, forced dislocation, deprivation, surveillance, siege, imprisonment, and torture.
Because our status quo is self-expression, sometimes the most effective mode of protest for artists is to refuse.
I can’t write about poetry amidst the ‘reasonable’ tones of those who aim to acclimatize us to this unreasonable suffering. No more ghoulish euphemisms. No more verbally sanitized hellscapes. No more warmongering lies.
If this resignation leaves a hole in the news the size of poetry, then that is the true shape of the present.
—Anne Boyer
