Israeli Human Rights Lawyer Attacked While Documenting Settler Raid on Gaza Aid Convoy
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Published 2024-05-16
Aid agencies are running out of food in southern Gaza amid Israel’s ongoing offensive in Rafah and the shutdown of the two main border crossings in the south. Some 1.1 million Palestinians are on the brink of starvation, according to the United Nations, while a “full-blown famine” is taking place in the north. Meanwhile, some Israelis have been blocking aid from reaching the Gaza border, including a violent attack on trucks carrying humanitarian relief through the occupied West Bank earlier this week, when settlers threw food packages on the ground and set fire to the vehicles at the Tarqumiyah checkpoint near Hebron. “They did whatever they want,” says Israeli lawyer and peace activist Sapir Sluzker Amran, who documented the attack on the aid convoy. She says Israeli soldiers appeared to be working with the settlers, refusing to intervene. “They were just standing aside like there is nothing that they can do, like it’s normal, what’s happening.”
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All Comments (21)
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This is horrific, how can anyone sink so low? No heart, no soul, what a downright atrocity.
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These people have lost their humanity. This pain and hatred has consumed them. We will not forget.
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This is what the so called “Chosen people of God” have been up to for 75 years.
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This angers me to action.. Free Palestine from these Nazis
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A fascist state, plain as day. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
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Call it what it is Terrorism, there are children in between them, not just adults, this is a SYSTEMATIC issue of an entire civilization, not one two fringe individuals.
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These are some very sick people
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Thank you to this brave woman for speaking truth.
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Hideous behaviour. This is pure evil 👿
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Disgusting behavior
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If they don't have any humanity left, are they still human?. Calling zoinist animal is an insult to animal.
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This is the most inhumane thing!!! People are starving to death!!!
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This woman they interviewed should fear for her life. it takes a lot of strength to go against the current
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They didn't feel bad about taking their homes,why would they feel anything about destoying the food
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These people have lost their humanity.
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Hats off to Democracy Now for your bold and brave journalism in bringing facts to the viewers. Hats off to Sapir Sluzker Amran for her human rights work in Israel and her personal sacrifices in the process, at times taking personal safety at risk.
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food from children and innocents. absolute evil
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Evil people destroy foods for needy and they call their victims animals? World see who are human animals now.
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1947 political definitions SETTLERS = THIEVES!
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"People"???? Does Jake Sullivan not want to say "Israeli' settlers"?
