Many in Gaza are faced with difficult choices that aren’t choices at all. We know that the price of our survival is flight, and the loss of our homeland. When the world calls this displacement “voluntary,” it makes a mockery of the term.
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Recent reports by Physicians for Human Rights Israel and Human Rights Watch on alleged mass rape and the Ahli Hospital attack fail to meet the basic standards of human rights reporting and feed into Israeli propaganda campaigns justifying genocide.
“This is the call of all the Palestinian families, the thousands of children who were killed, including my son Abdullah. Our call is to all free people across the world. Please stop this genocide.”
The lack of any evidence of “mass rape” perpetrated by Hamas members on October 7 hasn’t stopped Israel from weaponizing these accusations to legitimize its genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
CNN’s Jake Tapper failed to adhere to professional and ethical journalism standards in a story claiming to offer proof of sexual violence by Palestinian fighters on October 7.
When Western intellectuals express dismay at the “vengeful pathologies” of Palestinian violence on October 7, they ignore its underlying military, tactical, and political precipitants.