Israel is setting up a complex system of checkpoints that will prevent men of “military age” from fleeing Rafah in preparation for its offensive on the southern Gaza border city, a senior western official familiar with Israel’s plans has told Middle East Eye on condition of anonymity. The checkpoints are designed to allow some women and children to leave Rafah ahead of an expected Israeli offensive, but unarmed, civilian Palestinian men will likely be separated from their families and remain trapped in Rafah during an expected Israeli assault. The previously unreported disclosure of Israel’s construction of a ring of checkpoints around Rafah underscores how Israel is pushing ahead with plans to attack the city where over one million displaced Palestinians are sheltering in tents and makeshift camps. The creation of gender-based checkpoints around Rafah would put a spotlight back on Israel’s practice of stripping and forcibly detaining male Palestinian men and children, as it faces rising scrutiny in the West of its conduct in the war. The rounding up of Palestinian males in Gaza and photographing them stripped to their underwear drew condemnation in December, with the US calling the images “deeply disturbing”. Relatives of many of the men photographed recognised them and said they had nothing to do with Hamas. Israel's military was later accused of staging footage of men surrounding weapons. “Israel considers every male a Hamas fighter until proven otherwise,” Abbas Dahouk, a former senior military advisor at the State Department and military attache in the Middle East told Middle East Eye. “It’s not a sound move. Cordoning Rafah is a daunting task and good luck separating fathers and sons from their families.”
Not so fun fact, actually, really disturbing and horrific fact: The list of names was so long, they couldn't even unravel it all the way.
Let that sink in.
LOOK HOW THEY M A S S A C R E D MY BOY
This man isn’t shifty
This isn’t the spymaster for House Ostia
This is just a dude
PLEASE, WE NEED MORE PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THIS!!!! SPREAD THIS WHEREVER YOU CAN!!!! PUT PRESSURE ON EGYPT TO PUT HIS NAME BACK ON THE LIST
You can take the apartheid out of South Africa but you can never take it out of a white South African
Okay
That's it
it's time to pack up and move on-
too many people know me here now- gotta go somewhere else
Good while it lasted- but can't stay here
(for the person who lives with me, this is a /joke/ I just had someone with three degrees of separation recognize me and my work gossip and considered dunking my head in the deep fryer)
BG3 Spoilers ahead
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Love how everytime I see that fucking symbol, whether it's a meme, or a piece of art like this, I just K N O W someone got to the Alfira scene, lol
Don't even need the context, don't need to read OP's notes, or the comments- someone's sad cause they killed that bard, huh?
Guess who's playing as The Dark Urge?
You know what I’d like?
I’d like more ya fantasy genre fiction that features homeless kids where they aren’t homeless due to the consequences of the fantasy universe...
Like- Growing up it was just cool to see kids in books I liked who had similar experiences to me
But I’m tired of the only examples being things like
“My super powers got out of control and now I’m forced to live on my own on the run”
“I’m the solitary leader of a child rebellion due to the circumstances of my dystopian society”
And even
“You aren’t able to tell what the normal age to move out is in my universe- but there are just plenty of teenagers living on their own or living on the run- and no one ever fucking questions it”
One the one hand- it was cool seeing characters like me with these cool destinies and powers
But at the end of the day it made it that much harder to have to go- “I’m not in this situation because I’m important, I’m here because my mother’s a deadbeat”
I wanna see more homeless kids in ya fantasies that live that way cause sometimes shit happens- not because they’re special- but cause that’s life...
All apartheid walls must fall.
FUCK
You can detox from social media and still use tumblr the same way some people can be sober and still smoke weed you just have to use it therapeutically
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