The people who got the #BBC to take down #Gaza: HowtoSurviveaWarzone were never worried about the Hamas Deputy Minister of Agriculture.
Gaza: How to Survive a War zone introduces us to the latest generation of the children of #Gaza.
After decades pf dehumanizing and victim-blaming, we get to see #Palestinian children are people.
Children.
Human beings.
And we get to see their word. A world no child should see.
One of the things I have seen over and over in video coming out of Gaza has been systemic targeting of civilians, health care workers, paramedics, hospitals, humanitarian aid workers, and civilian infrastructure by the IDF. These are all crimes under international law.
Yet the only fault they could find with this documentary is that one of the featured children is related to the Deputy Agriculture Minister. #AdHominem
Saul Staniforth wrote on X:
"An Israeli Apache helicopter targeted paramedics as they tried to help people from an earlier bombing."
Though the political wing of Hamas forms the government, it remains Occupied Palestinian Territory, subject to Israeli Martial Law Denied self determination and a sovereign state, it is effectively a municipal government.
Since around 2 million Palestinians live in the tiny Gaza Strip, there has never been enough agricultural land to feed its residents, and its fishing boats are limited to a tiny bit of water. If they stray too far from shore they are shot.
This is why Gaza has been called "the world's largest open air concentration camp."
When this "war" started, more than half the population was made up of children... none of whom were alive, much less able to vote in that election that Israel insisted on holding.
My understanding is that voters in Gaza chose Hamas politicians over the Palestinian Authority politicians because of systemic corruption in the PA.
https://x.com/SaulStaniforth/status/1892507287144595592
#BBC has removed the video, which has been attacked because one of the children in it is the son or nephew of the Deputy Minister of Agriculture in the Hamas "governmenr," elected in 2006.
Although Israel famously "withdrew" its illegal settlements, the International Court of Justice ruled Gaza is still part of the Occupied Territory of Palestine,
the enclave has been under siege ever since. Israel controls who/what can go in or out.
This clip follows 11 year old Zacharia, who is working as junior paramedic.
No child should have to live through this.
https://x.com/SaulStaniforth/status/1892507146798981472
#Gaza #How to Survive a Warzone
#BBC has since pulled the documentary from its iplayer app
These clips were shared by Saul Staniforth on X.
They need to be seen here, there and everywhere.
https://x.com/SaulStaniforth/status/1892506969975447875
Canadians may be polite, but that doesn't mean Canada is a pushover. Canadians and Americans are friends, but Canadians don't want to be Americans.
The last time the USA tried to conquer Canada didn't end well. For them.
Even in the worst case scenario for us, we still win.
https://theconversation.com/why-annexing-canada-would-destroy-the-united-states-249561