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18.08.2025 - 16:30 [ Amnesty International ]

Israel/OPT: New testimonies provide compelling evidence that Israel’s starvation of Palestinians in Gaza is a deliberate policy

The struggle for basic needs extends beyond food. Diapers are unattainable, forcing S to tear her clothes for makeshift ones, which are impossible to wash due to lack of clean water – the result of the destruction or severe damage of Gaza’s water and sanitation systems. The tent in which she lives with her husband and two children is infested with rats, mosquitoes and cockroaches. Her baby daughter developed a bacterial skin infection, which she is unable to treat because antibiotics and ointments are unavailable.

Humanitarian workers at two organizations who spoke to Amnesty International on condition of anonymity mentioned that their organizations’ requests to bring in antibiotics were rejected by the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), a unit at Israel’s Ministry of Defense tasked with processing requests for the coordination and approval of entry of supplies.

The mental harm of starvation, including trauma, guilt, and shame, are also shared by pregnant women interviewed by Amnesty International. Hadeel, 28, a four-months pregnant mother of two, described her fear for her fetus as she barely feels its movement or heartbeat inside her. She feels guilt for her pregnancy, knowing that she cannot feed herself: “I fear miscarriage, but I also think about my baby: I panic just thinking about the potential impact of my own hunger on the baby’s health, its weight, whether it will have [birth defects], and even if the baby is born healthy, what life awaits it, amidst displacement, bombs, tents…”

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Aziza, 75, told Amnesty International of her wish to die:

“I feel like I have become a burden on my family. When we were displaced, they had to push me on a wheelchair. With toilet queues extremely long in the camp where we stay, I need adult diapers, which are extremely expensive. I need medication for diabetes, blood pressure and a heart condition, and have had to take medicine which has expired. I always feel like these young children, they are the ones who deserve to live, my grandchildren. I feel like I’m a burden on them, on my son.”

14.05.2023 - 20:20 [ Younis | يونس / Nitter ]

Jabaliya RC, Gaza| “I swear that these children are with special needs, we didn’t even manage to take their drugs out. What did we do?” Israeli airforce bombed a 5 residential building yesterday in Jabalya to AlHao Family leaving over 50 people without home. This is their story:

18.08.2020 - 06:57 [ Tagesschau ]

Wegen Corona-Krise: Kaum Kontrollen in Pflegeheimen

„Die Ergebnisse sind gelinde gesagt dramatisch, vor dem Hintergrund, dass wir in den vergangenen Wochen und Monaten in vielen Pflegeheimen einen quasi rechtsfreien Raum hatten.“ Es habe lange niemanden gegeben, der geschaut habe, was mit den Menschen in Pflegeheimen passiert sei.

„Wenn man Einrichtungen vollständig vom Netz nimmt, keinen mehr reinlässt, dann muss sichergestellt werden, dass es eine intensive Betreuung und Begleitung durch staatliche Aufsichtsbehörden gibt. Das darf nicht wieder passieren, dass Heime machen können, was sie wollen“, sagte Sell im Interview mit Report Mainz.

18.08.2020 - 06:51 [ Tagesschau.de ]

++Pflichttests in der Pflege gefordert++

Die Altenpflege müsse vor einer zweiten Infektionswelle geschützt werden. Brysch warf dem Gesundheitsminister vor, bisher kaum Initiative zu zeigen, Pflegebedürftige dort zu schützen, wo sie lebten. „Allein über 818 000 Menschen leben in Pflegeheimen. Sie alle wieder zu isolieren, darf gesellschaftlich nicht mehr akzeptiert werden.“

09.06.2020 - 11:09 [ Haaretz ]

‚He‘s Disabled,‘ the Caregiver Screamed. ‚I‘m With Her,‘ Eyad Cried. The Cop Opened Fire Anyway

Eyad Hallaq was shot to death in a roofless garbage room. According to the testimony of his caregiver, who was by his side and tried to protect him, he was executed. For long minutes she stood next to him and pleaded for his life, trying to explain to the police officers, in Hebrew and in Arabic, that he suffered from a disability. They shot him three times from close range with a rifle, directly into the center of his body, as he lay on his back, wounded and terrified, on the floor of the room.

06.06.2020 - 09:13 [ Kiera Feldman, Investigative reporter @latimes / Twitter ]

Homeless man in a wheelchair shot by cops during a demonstration in LA “He pleaded with police not to use force on him before being shot in the face,” the suit reads A Times review of LAPD records found that only 5% of arrests were for “looting”

06.06.2020 - 09:06 [ Aaron / Twitter ]

LAPD shot a homeless man in a wheelchair in the face with a „less than lethal“ bullet as he happened to be on a street they were walking down. Man wasnt even protesting. Just sat there.

(05.06.2020)

OH YEAH
Incase ya‘ll thought this pic could be taken outta context, here‘s the reverse angle.

06.06.2020 - 08:46 [ LA Times ]

Advocates sue LAPD over protest tactics, alleging disabled homeless man was shot in face with rubber bullets

Protests over the death of Floyd, who was killed while in Minneapolis police custody on May 25, have led to unrest that Los Angeles has not seen since the 1992 riots sparked by the acquittal of four LAPD officers in the beating Rodney King. While businesses were looted and buildings were damaged and burned in downtown, Van Nuys and the Fairfax District, activists said protests have been largely peaceful and police have focused most of their attention on arresting demonstrators instead of looters.

01.06.2020 - 09:06 [ DeccanChronicle.com ]

Hundreds attend funeral of Palestinian shot by Israeli police

Palestinian officials said the 32-year-old man, Iyad Khayri, suffered mental health issues and decried his killing.

In comments at Israel’s Sunday cabinet meeting, Defense Minister Benny Gantz said: “We are really sorry about the incident in which Iyad Khayri was shot to death and we share in the family’s sorrow – but I am certain this matter will be investigated swiftly and conclusions will be drawn.”

31.05.2020 - 09:53 [ Haaretz ]

‚Being Black in America Shouldn‘t Be a Death Sentence.‘ What About Being Palestinian?

Border Police officers claimed they believed he was holding a gun – there was none – and when they called out for him to stop, he started running. The penalty was death. The Border Police, the most brutal of all units, knows no other way to overpower a fleeing autistic Palestinian except to execute him. The cowardly Border Police officers fired some 10 bullets into Hallaq as he fled, until he died. That’s how they always act. That’s what they’ve been trained to do.

31.05.2020 - 09:47 [ Haaretz ]

Israeli Police Officers Shoot and Kill Disabled Palestinian in Jerusalem

Eyad Hallaq, 32, attended and worked in a special needs school close to where he was shot ■ Shooting officer says he suspected Hallaq was a terrorist because he was wearing gloves