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Issam Al Mughrabi, 56, who worked for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for three decades was killed along with his wife and children in an Israeli air strike on Friday.

“For almost 30 years, Issam has worked with UNDP through our Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People,” UNDP administrator Achim Steiner said in a statement.

“The loss of Issam and his family has deeply affected us all. The UN and civilians in Gaza are not a target.”

Offering his condolences to Issam’s family and colleagues the World Health Organization’s chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stressed in a post on X that “humanitarians should never be victims” and called for a ceasefire.

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[–] [email protected] 128 points 10 months ago (4 children)

And our elected leaders stand by politely ignoring the obvious humanitarian issues and overt war crimes.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think what annoys me most is the American news sources who trumpet Biden's speeches saying that he's told Netanyahu to stop the killing, yet fail to report America stonewalling a UN vote for a cease fire ... and forcing the UN to water down what they do ask for.

I hate hypocrisy and America is full of it (like many nations are).

sigh

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Yep. I noticed Biden is trying to have both: pretends to support a 2 state solution that will never happen, while simultaneously giving weapons in aid to Israel. And on top of that he expects people to vote for him because he's not Trump.

You can't have it all, Joe

[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Exactly, like what the fuck?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Well, the US does have an ardent pro-Israel Zionazi as the president this time around.

Genocide is fine so long as it destabilizes the middle east, gets oil corporations better deals thanks to that, and profits military corporations.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

it's totally fair to criticize Biden as long as we can agree that the alternative is much worse.

the alternative: genocide plus fascism.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yeah isn't it nice how simple the world is? Black or white. No nuance. Nuance sure would be shitty.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

The world isn’t nice, because it’s so simple. Money.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It has me truly dissuaded of the notion that the so called developed world has any sort of moral authority. We have to learn from this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

You must be new here...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

🌎👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

And? I can not do shocked pickachu when they have done it for 234 years. At least this time we're not the ones doing the war crimes.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I hope Germany and the UK are the first to come forward and try to stop this atrocity but I have no such expectations.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The UK were offering to send surveillance planes to help Israel with targetting in Gaza.

As for Germany the very day the UN announced Israel had already killed over 4000 children in Gaza, herr Sholz reafirmed his unwavering support of Israel.

Those two are some of the worst, only beaten in their love for these Fascists by the US.

The ones to be proud of in Europe when it comes to their reaction to this massacre are the Republic of Ireland and Spain.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I wonder what Hitler would have to say about Israel, if he could see it now? He'd probably tell them they're doing it wrong, as if there's a right way to genocide.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Hitler would be happy about a Jewish Ethnostate to segregate them to, in general, but yeah there's no telling how he would react to their actions unless he could somehow grift something from the whole situation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The supporters of Israel have the most power to stop this, though.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The UK is still reminiscing about the glory days of empire when it was exporting food from their colonies while millions of Indians and Irish starved to death or fighting a war to get Chinese people addicted to opium.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

A war started by selling opium to China after China had banned opium due to an epidemic caused by years of being sold opium by the British.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Germany is too wound up in internal stupidity contests right now. I wouldn't be surprised if after January 2nd everything is grinding to a halt because of farmers and the new laws...

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Israel's done for now! They will get stern words and hard finger wagging from the UN!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

But Anthony Blinken said the United States has done more than any country to stop the killing of civilians in Gaza by providing unlimited quantities of bombs to kill civilians in Gaza.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

I'm half asleep and I read that as finger wanking. Was very confuse for a second.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago

Merry Christmas wishes from Genocide Joe and his Nazi friends.