Silence Is Complicity 8/14/2024

             

                                                                       Silence Is Complicity

While many Republicans profess to be “pro-life,” most lawmakers, alongside the Harris-Biden administration, approved $20 billion in new arms sales to Israel, including scores of fighter jets to continue its rampage on the civilian population of Gaza.
Nearly 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s war on Gaza, according to official reports. However, the true casualty figures are likely much higher, with thousands unaccounted for. Meanwhile, Israeli forces have raided towns and villages across the occupied West Bank, and settlers, under military protection, have repeatedly stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in recent days.
The Israeli bombardment of Gaza continues, with 36 Palestinians killed in the last 24 hours alone, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. Among those killed were two newborn twins, a boy and a girl, just 4 days old. Their father, while registering their births at a local government office, learned that the home where they were sheltering near Deir al-Balah had been bombed, killing the twins, their mother, and their grandmother. Since October, 115 newborns have been killed in Gaza. According to the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, of the nearly 17,000 Palestinian children killed by Israel in Gaza over the past 10 months, approximately 2,100 were babies under the age of 2.
The vast majority of Gaza’s population has been forcibly displaced, often multiple times. According to the U.N., around 84% of Gaza’s territory has been placed under evacuation orders by the Israeli military.
In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces have raided towns and villages across the territory. In the northern town of Tammun, Israeli forces seized the bodies of four Palestinians killed in a drone strike. Over the past 10 months, Israeli forces have increasingly used aerial strikes in the occupied West Bank, a practice largely unseen in the territory since the end of the Second Intifada in 2005. In the South Hebron Hills, Israeli forces demolished six more homes in the Bedouin community of Masafer Yatta. In occupied Jerusalem, hundreds of Israeli settlers stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound for the second straight day under the protection of Israeli security forces.
Reverend Munther Isaac posted on social media, "The U.S. is funding the genocide. Faith leaders must speak up. Words of 'concern' and void calls for peace are not enough. Speak truth to power. Silence is complicity."