Criminal occupation clearly doesn’t care about diplomatic status or immunity
The Israeli occupation military has opened fire on a diplomatic delegation representing over thirty nations who were making a field visit to the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank:
The diplomats were on an official mission to observe the humanitarian situation in Jenin, which has been under constant mass bombardment and raids from Israeli forces pandering to the wish of far-right government ministers for a widening of the genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza.
Aid workers, who wanted to remain anonymous for fear of reprisal, said the delegation was standing near the entrance of the refugee camp receiving a briefing about the situation in Jenin from representatives of the Palestinian Authority when they came under fire.
No one was injured in the shooting. Israel has claimed its forces fired ‘warning shots’, but even this would be another gross violation of international law by the occupation regime. A video released by the Palestinian foreign ministry showed two Israeli soldiers pointing guns at the group from behind metal gates as the shots were fired.
Three years ago this month, Israel’s military murdered US-Palestinian al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in Jenin, intentionally shooting her in the head.
Israel is a rogue state that treats the lives of diplomats and journalists with as much contempt as those of the innocents it is slaughtering and starving in Gaza.
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Even if some of these Diplomats were killed fuck all would have happened Hamas would have been blamed. The killing WILL continue, It’s gone to far to stop the Israelis from continuing their Holocoust
The Israelis LOVE firing on those they know are unarmed or very young/old/female. Such brave soldiers (not!)
Every nation represented in fhat delegation should expel their respective israeli ambassadors and commandeer their embassies/consuls for the use of any Palestinian exiles.
Oh, and give them a good boot up the arse as they reach the steps for the ‘plane.
Is a great piece in the latest New Left Review (Mar/Apr, 2025) by Wang Ziaoming on the Barbarian West (which should include the Illegal Zionist Occupation Force in Palestine) and how China should not follow their example; but perhaps we who are on the side of the oppressed could learn from this too?
“The barbarity of others must never extinguish our pursuit of civilisation. Quite the opposite, the exposure of barbarisms should only deepen our commitment to confront our own.”
And he refers to Lu Xun who implied Chinese people should never be ‘Beast like patriots.’
One wonders if this applies to the Right & Far Right in the world too?
We must continue to fight for civilisation which left wing Democratic Socialist Governments would guarantee – we want diverse working class citizens and others to have more power in every country and to end global poverty etc.
From Declassified UK:
Keir Starmer shunned her over Gaza, but she’s been proven right
Trump funny on ‘oppressed whites’ in South Africa, South Africa have actually, unlike the USA, stood up for civilisation by prosecuting the Genocidal Illegal Occupation Force via the ICJ.
And he shows a video of the tiny minority 2nd opposition party. Hmm
The white population of South Africa is 7% and they own 50% of the land and they came over from mainly The Netherlands and took it by violence.
A Bit like US European settlers and their Genocide against Native Americans.
The US Right Wing Lumpen Leadership are clearly out of their depth.
Their policy is simple like this example; feed the US Lumpen red Meat whilst giving $5 trillion of tax cuts to the already rump fed US rich & taking $2 trillion of this from cuts to the hard won benefits of the US diverse working class such as Medicare.
The sooner King Con is gone the better for the world.
The US like UK needs a new Left Party for its diverse w class & progressive m class.
I suspect that “How to make friends and influence people” is not widely read in some Israeli circles!
However I am in no doubt that incidents such as this confirm and strengthen the opinion that the colonial-settler project is nothing more than just a bunch of barbarians.
Wonder if these took a wrong turn…went where they weren’t supposed to
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9vgrkdje1ro