On 3 July the Israeli army, with the support of helicopter gunships and drones, launched a devastating assault in opposition to Jenin’s civilian inhabitants and infrastructure, killing 12 Palestinians, together with 4 kids.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak repeated the mantra that has change into the West’s acquired knowledge, ‘Israel’s proper to self defence’. The White Home went even additional: “We assist Israel’s safety and proper to defend its individuals in opposition to Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and different terrorist teams.”
It says all the pieces concerning the imperialist supporters of ‘freedom and democracy’ that their concern is with the proper to self defence of the Occupier reasonably than safety of civilians dwelling underneath occupation.
In an article ‘Why did Israel assault Jenin?‘ Reuters ‘explained’ that Jenin refugee camp ‘has lengthy been a hotbed of militants… The Israeli army repeatedly accuses militant teams of basing fighters inside densely populated city areas reminiscent of refugee camps…’
The framing of the Israeli assault on a civilian inhabitants is fascinating. Think about Reuters or every other information media explaining Russia’s assault on Ukraine as having been one in all self-defence of the Russian-speaking Ukrainians of the Donbas.
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Not solely did Israel’s ‘proper to defend its individuals’ embrace an assault on the image of Palestinian tradition, Jenin’s Freedom Theatre however it concerned the destruction of the Al Tafawk Youngsters’s Centre positioned within the centre of Jenin’s refugee camp.
On 15 Might 2021, throughout one in all it periodic attacks on Gaza, the Israeli army took benefit of the truth that individuals’s consideration was elsewhere with a purpose to raid the Al Tafawk Youngsters’s Centre in Jenin refugee camp. Their pretext was that they have been searching for arms, which in fact they did not discover.
Aside from damaging furnishings and tools, the troopers destroyed the centre’s infrastructure, making the constructing unsafe and unusable. They destroyed the water pipes and faucets, lower off its water provide, wrecked the electrical energy security field, slicing off electrical energy.
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Palestinians stand up once more to defend Jenin camp from Israeli aggression – Cartoon [Sabaaneh/Middle East Monitor]
The troopers didn’t even spare kids’s books. Based on a witness, a soldier who was doing this stated out aloud that Palestinian kids didn’t have to learn books since they’d develop as much as be murderers and be killed.
As I wrote on the time: “This angle of complete racist contempt for Palestinian kids – the conviction that they don’t want schooling since they’re going to die quickly, anyway – jogs my memory, as somebody who’s Jewish, of the angle of the Nazis in direction of Jewish kids.”
This time round, Israel’s occupation forces have gone one additional. Not solely have they destroyed the inside of thecCentre however they’ve blow giant gaping holes by way of the outside partitions. Evidently all of the toys, printers and so forth. have been destroyed.
It’s within the nature of Israel’s occupation that no compensation can be provided even to these deemed ‘harmless’ by Israel’s personal standards.
Jenin, Palestine: An ongoing catastrophe
Why has the Al Tafawk Youngsters’s Centre proved to be such a gorgeous goal for Israel’s army thugs? Fairly just because any Palestinian civil society organisation poses a menace to the last word Zionist dream of a brand new Nakba, a Palestinian exodus from the West Financial institution.
As a British charity, the Brighton Belief has been elevating cash for the Al Tafawk centre since 2019 and along with different charities we’re decided to boost the cash to pay for the repairs which can be as soon as once more wanted.
What you are able to do:
- You may assist our GoFundMe appeal
- Put strain in your MP to contact the Overseas Workplace to ask why Israel feels it must assault and destroy a kids’s centre and to pressurise them to make good their destruction.
- It’s also possible to write letters to your native paper and the nationals describing what has occurred.
The views expressed on this article belong to the creator and don’t essentially mirror the editorial coverage of Center East Monitor.
