Palestine This Week: Israeli lies to justify genocide

Israel hit a shelter school and mosque in Gaza City on Saturday and killed more than 100 Palestinians civilians as they were performing morning prayers, it claims to have killed 19 'militants' but this has already been proven to be untrue. Can Israel continue to spread falsehoods to justify its genocide in Gaza?  

This week's Palestine This Week examines the grisly aftermath of Israel's air strike on a Gaza City school sheltering Palestinians, resulting in the death of over 100 Palestinians and injuring many more. The devastating strike has drawn international condemnation and raised serious questions about the ethics and justifications used in Israel’s military conduct. We unpack the claim that the strike targeted Palestinians fighters, which has been debunked.

We also analyse the genocidal statement by far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who said it was 'justified and moral' to starve 2 million Palestinians in Gaza. Referencing Hannah Arendt's 1955 observation about the treatment of Palestinians in Israel, we discuss the normalisation of genocidal rhetoric in Israeli politics and its dangerous implications.

Host Nasim Ahmed and guest Mouin Rabbani also discuss Israeli right group B’Tselem's latest report on the systematic mistreatment of Palestinians in Israeli prisons, described as “institutionalised abuse”, before looking into the recent appointment of Yahya Sinwar as the new political leader of Hamas.

Finally, the show examines the international community's response to Israel's decision to revoke diplomatic status to Norwegian envoys and a Japanese mayor's unprecedented decision to disinvite Israel from the Nagasaki commemoration ceremony.
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