What do hostages who recall torture stories, mutilated bodies returned from Israeli prisons, airstrikes during a “ceasefire”, and settler attacks have in common?
It’s what we’ve seen in Palestine over the last couple of weeks.
It is also a reminder of what a “peacetime” had looked like in Palestine before October 7.
If someone thinks that Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan is a roadmap to actual lasting peace – meaning, absence of oppression, and presence of justice, equality, and accountability – they are very mistaken.
And they might be mistaken about what “peacetime” has looked like in Palestine before October 2023.
What is unfolding in Palestine – both Gaza and the West Bank – right now, in the past weeks, is a reminder of those “peacetime” elements that the media and our leaders would look away from.
I summarise several of them in my video and podcast episode.
Resources to check out:
- Israeli High Court greenlights holding Palestinian bodies as bargaining chips, by B’Tselem
- Israel: Palestinian children ill-treated and tortured while in detention, by World Organisation Against Torture
- At least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians had been held at notorious Israeli jail, say Gaza officials, by The Guardian
- ‘Never like this before’: settler violence in West Bank escalates, by The Guardian
- Full video of the settler attack that I mention and show in my video and podcast episode
As always: stay strong, check on others, and keep your heart open.
❤️💔❤️
Justina
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