"Displacement Has Been Weaponized": Gaza Reporter Akram al-Satarri on Israeli Attack & Fleeing Rafah

[Uncle Joe]

Over 450,000 Palestinians, many already internally displaced, have fled Rafah in the past week alone since Israel launched an offensive on the city. Another 100,000 have been forced to flee homes in the north of Gaza amid escalated bombing and ground attacks. Among the recently redisplaced is our guest, the Gaza-based journalist Akram al-Satarri, who joins us from a crowded shelter outside the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza. “Displacement has been weaponized,” al-Satarri says, citing the experiences of families who have been displaced as many as eight times since the start of Israel’s assault. “People are suffering. They are deprived of everything,” al-Satarri adds, due to Israel’s seizure and closure of the Rafah border crossing, preventing food, water, supplies or aid from reaching the famine-stricken population. “They are trying to prepare the Palestinians for full subjugation,” he continues. Life in Gaza is “unimaginable; however, Gazans are living it.”

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[dutch777]

1. Not seeing Israel winning this politically, at least internationally. If the Palestinians could get completely out...

...it might be a different story, but having these people trapped in inhumane conditions may not technically be genocide but sure looks like next thing to it. Maybe this plays inside Israel as media is seriously underreporting the Palestinian civilians' dire situation and October 7th is a huge wound that was understandably deeply felt, but internationally this looks awful. If it was most Americans who got treated anywhere close to how the Palestinians are being treated, we'd be attacking every Israeli in any way we could as often as we could. If there is a winning long term strategy in this, especially as Hamas 2.0 is already popping back up in areas the IDF supposedly cleared, I am not seeing it. Looks more and more like a forever low intensity war that no one will win and where the suffering and fear, on both sides, will never end. Very very tragic.

[Traurigkeit]

2. Israel's Government, those that occupy the physical seats in that government, have destroyed

all -good faith- that Israel built up over the decades and bloodshed.

Thrown away