As people started to return to Northern Gaza following the declaration of a ceasefire, many terrible crimes were set to be discovered by them. It's possible that we in the West knew more about what was happening in Gaza, and what had happened during the four month siege of the North - being the towns of Beit Lahia and Beit Hanoun, and Jabalia. But what they will have known is that members of their families had remained in the North, and may not have survived, so their first thoughts will be to try to find them. Equally those who remained in the North while their families went to 'safe zones' in Deir al Balah and Al Mawasi, will be hoping and praying that their own dear wives and children, brothers and sisters will appear from amongst the hundred thousands streaming home. It was in this context that a video appeared, from which these still shots are taken, showing hundreds of pieces of clothing forcibly removed from doctors, nurses and patients at Kamal Adwan Hospital when the IOF finally moved in and destroyed it, kidnapping the residents. The story of Doctor Abu Safiya is well-known, but his fate is not - along with the hundreds arrested with him and taken to 'Israel's' notorious torture camp Sde Teiman. The occupation soldiers seem to lack even the most primitive of graces, treating their fellow humans in a way no normal person would even treat their dog.
It’s hard not to be reminded of the piles of shoes removed from all those sent to Auschwitz, and discovered on its liberation by Russian soldiers in August 1944, as shown in the photo below from a camp in Poland. By oddest coincidence at this very moment numbers of world leaders are meeting at Auschwitz-Birkenau to commemorate 80 years since its liberation, and to warn of the dangers of racism and hate and what they call ‘anti-semitism’.
The Holocaust memorial day has become an astonishing festival of intolerance and hatred towards anyone who dare show sympathy for Israel's victims in Gaza and Lebanon, and everywhere else its foreign agents interfere. It also requires a near-psychotic ability to split one's perception of Nazi crimes from those of the Zionazis in Occupied Palestine, when both spring from the same well of racist hatred and denial of the other. Below the video, shared on Twitter/X at this link and credited to Abdullah Sabbah:
DM 24th January 2025