Right, so there have been acts of depravity and evil frankly that we’ve witnessed for nearly 7 months now as Israel have made their way through Gaza and as they now verge on a big push into Rafah, to finish the job, the evidence has been uncovered of perhaps one of not, just the worst spectacles of atrocity we’ve yet seen Israeli forces carry out, but possibly one of the most egregious and despicable acts perpetrated in living memory, as the bodies of people have been uncovered in Khan Younis, in the grounds of what was left of the two hospitals of Nasser, where 700 bodies have been uncovered and the Al-Shifa hospital, what was once the largest hospital in Gaza, where 1500 bodies have been found. If you don’t know about this, then that is because right up there with the evidence of mass murder that has been found at the site of these two hospitals, is the fact that our media have barely touched it and where they have, they seem only interested in telling Israel’s version of events. This story is going round the world across social media and it is pretty much the only place you’d know about it from and that is staggering not just because of the scale of evil, and there’s no other word but evil for this, but equally in that there appears to be a concerted move by the media as a whole to play it down. And that scares me senseless, because it has you asking the question just how far will our politicians and media class who are so often intertwined with each other go, for the sake of the people perpetrating a crime such as that we are bearing witness to, if you happen at least to be looking in the right place.
Right, so this is a story of such unfathomable evil, you almost look at it and wonder where to begin with this, because, well trying to get your heads around such a large scale example of utter deviance, of what amounts to civilian murder isn’t something we’re designed for, the kind of acts we read in history books that should be consigned to them, that none of us imagined would be something we’d have to deal with in our own lifetimes. Never again moments, shocking us because they are. Perhaps its like I’ve said in other videos, that our media censor so much that we’ve become insulated in the west from such things, but social media removes those blinkers and reveals to us what the media would prefer us not to know, the evil being committed by people allied to our own governments, who continue to aid and arm them even as the hospital grounds of 2 hospitals reveal more than 2000 bodies of murdered people, because mass graves don’t just materialise out of nowhere and claiming these people are all Hamas as we know some of the worst spokespeople will, is just sick. Hospital grounds as these were, investigation clearly found who was dead and buried and of course it was going to full of patients and hospital staff.
Akram Al-Satarri, a freelance journalist based in Gaza has reported that the evidence shows that the bodies being found consist of patients and medical staff and that the manner in which they have been found was consistent with many of them having been buried alive. Many of those found still had cannulas in, still had catheters in. Others were found with their hands bound including children. Others were found having been shot in the back of the head at point blank range execution style. Other bodies were heavily mutilated, with signs of surgery showing where organs had been removed, eyes, livers, kidneys, removed. What struck me most of all in listening to the report he gave, he was talking to the Democracy Now YouTube Channel, huge US based independent media outlet, was that this wasn’t even the first time he’d observed such scenes as this in Gaza, that in 16 years of him reporting as a journalist, he’d covered similar incidents in 2008 in 2014, in the last several leading up to where we are now, where for the first time we’re hearing about so much of this, the scale and the grim detail of just how Israel oversees, occupies and oppresses the Palestinian people. It is horrifying, not just in the scale, but when you hear that all of this has been done before you realise just how badly western countries, for the sake of their pro Israel alliances have failed to uphold international law and the media has kept us virtually completely in the dark over it. We talk in terms of Israel becoming a pariah state in 6 months from being widely sympathised with globally and you think to yourself now, pariah just isn’t a big enough word and every politician selling their soul to support this shouldn’t be within a million miles of power.
Now, because of social media, because of independent media doing what the billionaire owned press repeatedly fail to and the insane levels of bravery you have to have to be a journalist in Gaza, where having the word ‘Press’ splashed across your chest and back don’t mean Jack as far as being protected from being shot at by the IDF goes, but now the UN and others are saying there needs to be an investigation. It’s not good enough, sorry screw that, sanctions on Israel pending the result of this investigation. End the aid, end the arms, look at what they are doing with it when you give it to them. Bodies being found in scrubs, having had their organs illegally harvested, go on, say it’s Hamas again! Nobody in their right mind can possibly listen to these accounts, see the chillingly graphic images on social media and keep exonerating Israel as if anyone else in Gaza was remotely able to commit such a scale of genocide in hospitals, of staff and patients. I am writing this and I am genuinely struggling to not say something that cause this not to be published because it is so hard to convey how this makes me feel and to give this story the weight it ought to have. We have seen this rage on for months now, we’ve seen Israel destroy churches and mosques, destroy schools kill so many people in Gaza, innocent people tens of thousands of them and then you get cases like these two hospitals in Khan Younis and realise these people are not just being killed indiscriminately, butt hat it is actually even worse than that, it is as bad as it can be. I can’t fathom the terror these people will have felt. Being buried alive, being made to get down on your knees knowing you’re going to be executed for no more than being Palestinian. But then they can’t even leave you be dead with out desecrating you. Stealing your organs, I mean my God.
We are, if not before now which frankly we were, but definitely now at a point where arms sales and other military aid to the Israeli regime has got to end. It must stop now, there must be no forgiveness of any politician not doing supporting such a move and how in light of this any of them cannot be seen as complicit in genocide I do not know. I’ll single out the US though because Genocide Joe is saying there will be no US participation in the investigations here. There is no bigger enemy of the Gazan people aside from Israel than the US right now.
Frankly I challenge, no I dare right now any politician to try and justify any of this, because right now any of that, any talk of of denying that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, denying what is in front of all of our faces in this story, is just pure hatred of Palestinian people. When we go out and protest against this every single weekend, we’re supposed to believe the likes of Gideon Falter who the media couldn’t platform enough a week ago that these are hate marches, and that he just wanted to cross the road and not disrupt. When Suella Braverman calls them hate marches and demands the head of the Met Police resign for not taking stronger action when protest is still our right and always will be even if you try to take it from us, again the media all talk over that story too.
Student protests in America spreading around the world now to other countries and they have the police attacking them as their views become secondary to national interests in Israel. That gets more coverage than the reason they are protesting. It is twisted.
But where were the media to tell this one though? Where are they here?
Sky did a piece on Tuesday, talking of the UN human rights chief’s horror at what had been found at Nasser, yet they by-lined this with:
‘Israel says it examined bodies previously buried by Palestinians near Nasser hospital while checking to see if any of its hostages were among the dead. It says claims it buried the bodies initially are "baseless and unfounded".’
Israel’s response there. Of course. God forbid they don’t get their denial in. The Guardian reflected those optics in their coverage of the same story, but they were exceptions, because most just ignored it.
And now, having seen what has happened here, our politicians and our media, sit and wait seemingly for it all to happen all over again in Rafah. This isn’t good enough and I wish I had an answer for what I think must be done. Here? Well, we’ve local elections happening later this week, perhaps send a message to the Tories and to Starmer’s Labour both, both of them utterly and unapologetically pro Israel by casting a vote elsewhere and when the media come crawling around for opinion, tell them it’s a protest vote for their siding with Israel. Tell them it’s a solidarity move with Palestine, but at the end of the day with politicians like this, with the Israel Lobby so influential amongst them, with all that spells for how this country might be run as far as we’re concerned, as far as Palestine goes, there will be no change in direction, without a change in our politicians and the media in what it decides is newsworthy and what is not a drastic change is needed at that.
Too often it is left to smaller, yet far more credible independent media outlets to deliver and thanks to social media, that does somewhat level the playing field, but they rely on all of us to highlight and point to and read and share and support to do so, one of which, Declassified UK made an appalling discovery that again the mainstream have totally ignored, a grubby deal between the UK and Israel due to last until 2030, find out all about that one in this video recommendation here and I’ll hopefully catch you on the next vid. Cheers folks