4 Nov 2023

Why Did The Jews Murder My Son? + The Jews Filmed Abusing Bodies Of Christians & Muslims

'This injustice will only end the moment this racist and colonial Israel falls.'

Photo: Abboud was my companion. And I his. Courtesy of the family

By Ahmed Abu Artema: I write these words from my hospital bed. I am beginning to have some energy to hold my phone and use my fingers after 10 days here.

I write in grief.

I woke up in my family house in Rafah, in the south of Gaza on Tuesday morning, 24 October.

The house is – was – made up of three levels.

My father, his wife, my married siblings and their children all live there. My children come to visit their grandfather’s house to play with their cousins.

I was sitting with my children, and they began what has become a regular conversation in a time of genocide.

How do we find bread and water for the day? And where can we find a solar power panel to charge our phones? We sometimes managed to charge our phones in the school next door.

We were sitting in the living room, and I was talking to my eldest son Abdullah, 13. He had just come back from the corner shop and had bought some biscuits.

Abdullah – I called him Abboud – loved to share what he bought with his allowance.

I told him: “Whatever you want habibi, next time I will buy it.”

Abboud had bought biscuits instead of bread. There was no bread.

There is no electricity or fuel. Israel has cut off all food, fuel and electricity supplies to Gaza. We had to find substitutes, and we told our children to buy biscuits to sate their hunger for bread.

Abboud, my other son Hammoud and my daughter Batool were sitting with me. Abdulrahman, my fourth child, was at that moment out of the house.

Abboud said he was going to get my phone, which was charging in the school at that point. He and his cousin had agreed among themselves to take turns to go. It was his turn.

It was the last conversation I had with him.

Aftermath

I didn’t hear a sound. I do not remember what happened.

I must have been unconscious, but I don’t remember for how long. Maybe it was just five minutes.

When I opened my eyes, I felt a dizziness that I cannot properly describe. There was dust and rubble everywhere.

I knew the house had been bombed but I couldn’t hear anything. My hearing was gone.

I looked next to me, and saw Hammoud and Batool sticking to me, screaming, and pointing to Abboud. I looked, and Abboud was lying in front of me.

I looked the other way, and I saw the body of a woman and then the body of another woman.

Both my aunts, one of their daughters and my stepmom were nearby.

My elderly aunt was staying with us. Her son and three grandkids had been martyred just the day before, and my father had brought her to stay with us so we could care for her.

My other aunt had also decided to come that day so she could console her sister. The rest of the family was all on the eastern side of the house.

It was clear that the missile had struck the part of the house that me and my children were sitting in.

I looked around and saw my father trying to hold on to the children.

I saw that the house was destroyed. I saw we were in the rubble.

I saw that people had gathered. I began yelling to them despite not being able to hear my own voice: “Come fast, there are children and women lying on the floor…”

They took me to a hospital. My neighbor took me there on foot.

He felt my injury was relatively minor in comparison to others and anyway, emergency responders were working under extreme pressure. As I was walking, I kept telling people to save the children.

The image of Abboud would not leave my mind.

I received first aid at the clinic. Then I was put in an ambulance and moved to the Rafah hospital.

From there I went to al-Nasser hospital in Khan Younis.

My brother was with me. He told me the news as he got it: Both my aunts had been killed. So had my aunt’s daughter and my stepmom.

Hammoud and Batool and my three sisters were all injured, and I learned a week later that our neighbor was martyred too as he was hit with shrapnel. Abboud and my niece Joud, 10, were both in critical condition.

After a day in intensive care, Abboud died. Joud followed the next day.

My injuries, and those of my other children, were classified as second degree burns. People kept coming to tell me that I was lucky and that I would recover.

Alhamdulillah.

My companion

But my mind was filled with Abboud, my sweet son, who was closer to me than anyone and I to him.

I know how much innocence, love, kindness and generosity his heart holds, and how his soul flows with curiosity for adventures and discovery and innovation. Many times, he would come to me excited by something he had invented, and explain to me how it worked.

His vibrant and intelligent questions would make me stop and wonder how, whatever it was, had never crossed my mind.

Abboud had so much potential that he is now unable to fulfil. He and I had a spiritual connection.

His eyes alone could tell me everything. And he could sense what I was feeling without us having to talk.

He was my companion. And I his.

In the last days before the crime, he had saved approximately $20 from his personal allowance. One day he brought them to me and said “baba, you take it because you need it now.”

“Thank you, habibi,” I told him. “I don’t need it, I have enough, thank God.”

He insisted.

I cannot write about Abboud in just a few hurried sentences. I need a long silence to understand what happened.

Why did Israel kill Abboud?

For the same reason it has killed thousands of other children and thousands of other innocent men and women.

Israel and its colonial government don’t see our humanity. They don’t see our passion and love.

They don’t even see our existence, because theirs is a doctrine of genocide and racial supremacy.

The attack on my home is an extremely illuminating example. They call it a war on Hamas, and are supported by colonial regimes the world over.

But where is Hamas in all these heinous crimes committed daily by Israel?

They killed four women and two children when bombing my home. These are Israel’s targets?

The vast majority of those killed by Israel to this point are women and children.

What killed my son Abboud wasn’t just an American missile fired by an Israeli pilot. What killed my son was a regime whose very existence is defined by and built on expulsion and genocide.

Unless this criminal regime falls, there will be thousands upon thousands who will have to grieve over these massacres.

This injustice will only end the moment this racist and colonial Israel falls.

As for you, my beloved Abboud: You will never leave my heart and soul, not for a second.

You will forever remain a source of inspiration to me. I draw love and strength from you.

Ahmed Abu Artema is a Palestinian writer, activist and refugee from Ramle.

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The Jews Filmed Abusing Bodies Of Christians & Muslims

The Electronic Intifada: Videos of Palestinians being abused in Israeli custody are being shared over Israeli social media channels.

The videos, which show captured Palestinians being beaten and corpses of resistance fighters being abused, were posted in the days following Israel’s recapture of territory surrounding the Gaza Strip that it lost on 7 October, when a Hamas-led attack caught Israeli forces by surprise.

The clips were uploaded to a Hebrew-language Telegram channel with over 100,000 members called “Terrorists from another angle.”

Although The Electronic Intifada has blurred these videos to preserve the dignity of the dead, the clips leave little to the imagination. English subtitles have been added to the videos to draw back the curtain on the thoughts and feelings of the perpetrators and their accomplices.

In one clip, a man is seen urinating on dead bodies, presumably of Palestinian fighters, that have been stripped, scorched and splayed on the ground, either before or after their deaths. “This is what we are going to do to the Arabs,” one witness is heard commenting in Hebrew.

In another clip, an Israeli in civilian clothing can be seen repeatedly stabbing the corpse of a Palestinian fighter in combat fatigues.

“Hole him a little,” another Israeli is heard saying. “Won’t we give it to you in the stomach? And rip? Won’t we take out all his fat?”

In a third particularly gruesome video, an Israeli man uses the rod of a squeegee to repeatedly beat the face of a dead fighter, and then to poke each of his eyes out.

The videos are replete with foul language and calls for sexual violence. “Today on our show, we will fuck their mothers,” one Israeli says.

The Geneva Convention of 1949, to which Israel is a signatory, characterizes abuse towards captured enemy troops, and the defilement of their dead bodies, as war crimes.

Blood libels

In the days and weeks following the 7 October attack, Israel’s ambassadors and advocates have claimed that Hamas fighters and Palestinian civilians who followed them into the fray committed unspeakable atrocities against Israeli civilians during three days of intense fighting.

Videos captured by security cameras, body cameras and phone cameras of all involved parties make clear that many Israeli civilians were in fact wounded and killed on 7 October, while more than 200 Israelis and foreign nationals of all ages were taken captive and transported to Gaza, where most are still being held. This includes a significant number of Israeli military prisoners of war.

The testimonies of numerous Israelis who survived those same battles also make clear that a significant number of their compatriots who did not make it out alive were actually killed by the Israeli military.

Among the most scandalous claims leveled against the Palestinian combatants and others who entered the battlefield is that they ripped fetuses out of women’s wombs, baked babies in an oven, and decapitated dozens of infants.

These atrocious allegations, which were repeated as fact by Israel lobbyists, international news outlets, and even top politicians including US President Joe Biden, have not been substantiated by even a scintilla of evidence. While the mainstream media eventually realized this and – in some cases – retracted their original false reports, Israeli journalists have continued to broadcast these blood libels as fact.

Israel maintains that these alleged atrocities are the casus belli that justify its own ongoing massacres of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. Since recapturing the territory it lost on 7 October, Israel has pivoted to bombarding urban areas of the densely populated Gaza Strip for three weeks straight, to exact retribution for its own heavy losses.

The official death toll from Israel’s devastating bombing runs in Gaza is nearing 10,000. More than 40 percent of the Palestinians killed are children.

Nauseating

In other videos uploaded to the “Terrorists from another angle” Telegram channel, Israelis are seen driving civilian vehicles back and forth over the lifeless bodies of men presumed to be Palestinian fighters, stripped down to their underwear.

“Amit, this is for you sweetie,” an Israeli is heard saying in one of the videos. In another clip where a presumed Palestinian fighter is slowly smeared into the gravel road, Israeli men can be heard laughing loudly, while one of them narrates the nauseating scene: “Very good, Gershon! In the ass! Half a corpse! In the ass!”

After the Israeli army declared war on Gaza, the Telegram channel has continued to fill up with images and videos of charred Palestinian bodies of a different kind: the civilian victims of Israel’s intense aerial bombardment of the Gaza Strip – men and women, young and old – still termed “terrorists” by Israeli officials.

Horrifying clips of Palestinians picking their mangled, mutilated and murdered family members and friends out of the rubble are regularly uploaded to the channel, accompanied by expressions of joy.

Meanwhile, while the world’s attention is focused on the destruction of the Gaza Strip, Israel is simultaneously turning the screws on Palestinians under its military occupation in the West Bank. Over 100 Palestinians there have been killed by Israeli soldiers and settlers since 7 October, while there has been a sharp increase in the number of people arrested and detained.

Videos in circulation on social media channels show some of these Palestinians being manhandled and forced to dance with the Israeli flag for the amusement of their Israeli captors.

Other footage shows Israeli soldiers abusing a group of bound Palestinian laborers in the West Bank, some of whom are stripped naked. When Israel’s defense minister Yoav Gallant announced on 9 October that Israel would impose a blockade on all fuel and electricity, food and water entering the Gaza Strip, he insisted that this collective punishment was well-deserved, characterizing all Palestinians in Gaza as enemy targets and “human animals.”

Evidence from the Telegram channel makes clear that the genocidal messaging of Israel’s top leaders is filtering down to its soldiers and citizens.

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