The Security Council held a briefing today on my favorite situation and question… “The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question”. Algeria, China, and Russia called for the meeting to discuss the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
And so they discussed… rehearsed scripts and repeated narratives. Except!! for some delightful (heated) exchange between Russia and the U.S.! I highly recommend you at least tune in for those words (around 2 hour mark of video below)
🎥 The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question - Security Council, 9694th meeting
@United Nations | Jul 26, 2024
🔖 Press Release SC/15779 | 26 July 2024
“More than 2 million people in Gaza remain trapped in an endless nightmare of death and destruction on a staggering scale.
Their lives are dominated by fear, thirst, hunger, disease, dehumanization, lack of basic sanitation, and repeated displacement. It’s a relentless and often hourly struggle, day in and day out. Famine remains a risk, including in southern Gaza. Communicable diseases are on the rise.
Children are bearing the brunt, with 625,000 deeply traumatized children out of school. “
🎥 Briefing to the UN Security Council by UNRWA Deputy Commissioner General Ms. De Meo
@United Nations | Jul 26, 2024
🔖 BRIEFING TO THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL BY UNRWA DEPUTY COMMISSIONER GENERAL, MS. ANTONIA DE MEO
And between the verbally uttered words and those encapsulated in written print… example all these resolutions, since that October date.
27-Jun-2024: SecCo Resolution 2737 (2024): extension of mandate of UNDOF
10-Jun-2024: UN Security Council proposed a 3-phase ceasefire deal to end war in Gaza – Adopted resolution [S/RES/2735 (2024)] at its 9650th meeting
25-Mar-2024: UN Security Council demands Ramadan ceasefire, lifting of barriers to humanitarian assistance – Security Council Resolution 2728 (2024)
22-Dec-2023: Protection of civilians and enabling of immediate humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in Gaza – Security Council Resolution – 2720 (2023)
15-Nov-2023: All parties to comply with international humanitarian law, release of hostages, humanitarian pauses and corridors in Gaza – Security Council resolution 2712 (2023)
We continue to fail,
make no traction at all,
while their world still,
far too much pain…
More than 180,000 Palestinians have fled fierce fighting around the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis in four days, the United Nations says, after an Israeli operation to extract captives’ bodies from the area.
At least 18 people have been killed in Israeli air raids on Khan Younis in Gaza’s south, with two more deaths reported in Gaza City in the north and one in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the centre of the enclave, according to our team on the ground.
🎥 Sheltering with the dead: Displaced Palestinians forced to live in cemeteries
@Al Jazeera English | Jul 26, 2024
My answer to this,
question below,
a resounding,
HELL YES!
they ought to be,
banned, from, EVERYTHING!!
🎥 Should Israel be banned from the Olympics?
@Al Jazeera English | Jul 26, 2024
We just try to have,
a voice in this world,
one hell bent on,
extinguishing,
our torch
🎥 Palestinian Olympic delegation arrives in Paris
@The National News | Jul 25, 2024
So how do you not?
shout out your heart?
approaching 300 days,
still playing games,
words with friends,
and sometimes foes,
under pretext of act,
actors we play,
scripts we memorize
🎶 MC Abdul - Shouting At The Wall
@MC Abdul | Jun 29, 2021
as children wither,
down to just death,
what version of real?
do yo reside in?
because mine only echoes,
their suffering grief 💔
I found that abbreviated part of the UNSC session I wrote above earlier. Enjoy 🤓🤓
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL4TLSIzs1Q
I'm not watching the Olympics, except the ones in Beijing. Israel shouldn't be allowed to participate.