I’m seeing claims that she has died, but nothing in the English language news.
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I cannot believe I’m using this, but it’s exactly correct:
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What is wrong with the world…
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Follow up…
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Another article shedding light on why this particular area is under control of gangs:
Haaretz |- The Israeli Army Is Allowing Gangs in Gaza to Loot Aid Trucks and Extort Protection Fees From Drivers
https://archive.is/BjGI6
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insert gif of pedro pascal laughing then crying
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If you want to read the full legalese
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I fear the United States is next
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
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In October 2021, Netflix announced that it would be streaming dozens of films that depicted various kinds of aspects of the struggles and creativity of Palestinians.
The streaming platform had stated that the Palestinian Stories collection “is a tribute to the creativity and passion of the Arab film industry as Netflix continues to invest in stories from the Arab world.”
However, overnight, 24 films were wiped from the platform, leaving only a single movie – Lina Al Abed’s 2019 documentary “Ibrahim: A Fate to Define” – for users in the United States.
However, there are other sources:
Palestine Film Index, 600+ entries. Some are merely excerpts, and some must be rented, but many completely free features and shorts. Many books, articles, and interviews as well.
That’s a lot of Palestinian films there. I’m not an expert myself, but I found this list to be a pretty good guide to worthy films:
Everything I’ve seen from that list has been very worthwhile, Divine Intervention (also Suleiman’s earlier Chronicle of a Disappearance), Paradise Now, Salt of this Sea, When I Saw You, Omar, The Wanted 18, Gaza mon amour, and especially Ghost Hunting.
The Film Index creator’s statement
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I just heard this story this morning about how the documentary No Other Land hasn’t been able to find a U.S. distributor yet. Hopefully it makes it to one of the major streaming platforms, at least.
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No minister may communicate with Ha’aretz.
No government advertising will go into Ha’aretz.
No government official may communicate with Ha’aretz.
No-one who works for any organisation which receives funding from the government may communicate with Ha’aretz.
The next step, presumably, is to send in the police and shut down the oldest extant newspaper in Israel, for the crime of proposing that the government might be wrong.
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Interesting Mastodon thread, in which they posit that the US will join with Europe in (more extensive) sanctions against Israel, as before it was an apartheid state, but it was a liberal democracy for its Jewish citizens, but even that is becoming no longer true…
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Hopefully the west acts slightly quicker than that timeframe of “at some point in the next ten years”. It will have to, if any Palestinian people are to survive the next decade.
And the “targeted sanctions” that the west uses would also have to be drawn much more widely, as complicity with the current genocide reaches everyone currently serving in the IDF, save for those who resist the occupation.
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I hold no hope at all that it’ll happen in time to help the people of Gaza - they’ve got months, not years, and neither Biden nor Trump will allow sanctions, and although more European countries might come around, probably not remotely in time to have any effect. It’ll be a lot of hand-wringing after the fact, after Israel has cleared out as much territory as they can of human beings. Maybe Israel still won’t have completely wiped out the West Bank by that point…
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