Episode 114 - Where is Hind?

6-year old Hind has been missing for over a week. She was last heard from on the phone with the Red Crescent rescue team after her family had been murdered around her as she was trapped in a car, surrounded by Israeli tanks. Lara and Michael discuss what we know of Hind and attempts at rescuing her. This event, among other heinous crimes, continue even after the ICJ ruling last week calling on Israel to take all measures to prevent genocidal acts. The pod touches on the blocking of humanitarian aid trucks into Gaza, ongoing raids in the occupied West Bank, attacks on hospitals, and the increasing flight departures from Ben Gurion airport. The cracks are causing the structure to crumble, but at what cost to Palestinian lives?

To consult the sources used in the preparation of this episode, please see:

Sources

• UNRWA Truck struck by gunfire (Instagram)

• A Palestinian man became food for cats in the streets of Gaza city after being shot by an Israeli sniper whilst searching for food for his family. (X)

• Archived under "impunity" and "war crimes" (X)

• Mark Twain Quote (GoodReads)

• Iceland’s national football team’s coach, Aga Hareida (X)

• Friedrich Nietzsche Quote (Quote Fancy)

• Palestine Action 

• Camille Paglia Quote (GoodReads)

Videos

• ‘Please come’: Hind Rajab, six, found dead in Gaza almost two weeks after call for help (The Guardian)

• Mother of 6-year-old missing in Gaza recounts last phone calls (Al Jazeera)

• Hungry Palestinians crowd aid truck in Gaza (Al Jazeera) 

• Palestinian shepherds in West Bank under attack by militant Israeli settlers (CBS Evening News)

• Here is the IDF killing horses (X)

• Israeli soldier forces bus full of Palestinian men to pledge as slaves (Middle East Eye)

• Illegal Israeli settlers block humanitarian trucks for Gaza (TRT World)

• Bad Hasbara 11: Yassocide, with Michael Schirtzer and Yedoye Travis (Bad Hasbara Podcast)

• Jewish Anti-Zionist Comic Mikey Intifada GOES OFF on Israeli Propaganda,Palestinian Resistance HH#10 (Habibi House)

• 30 Palestinian bodies discovered in northern Gaza school, handcuffed and blindfolded (Al Jazeera)

• Daniella Weiss, a settler leader and former mayor of the Kedumim settlement in the West Bank, mocks the judges of the ICJ likening them to The Muppets and calling them 'A group of pompous frogs'.  (Middle East Eye, X)

• Danielle Weiss on Zionism (TikTok)

• Phenomenal Words (Instagram)

Articles

• Israel-Gaza war: Unknown fate of six-year-old Hind Rajab trapped under fire (BBC News)

• Eylon Levy uses his Oxford English to convey war truths to the world (YNetNews)

• Israeli officials rely on Gaza health ministry death toll, contradicting public claims (The New Arab)

• Israeli Settlers Block Aid from Entering Gaza at Nitzana Crossing (Morocco World News)

• UN aid convoy hit by Israeli gunfire in northern Gaza (Arab News)

• Israel continues to attack starving Palestinians awaiting aid trucks; hundreds attacked in northern Gaza (Relief Web)

• One week after ICJ ruling, is Israel following the court’s orders? (Al Jazeera)

• Defense minister announces ‘complete siege’ of Gaza: No power, food or fuel (The Times of Israel)

• Findings - The Peace Index - November 2023 (Tel Aviv University)

• Polls Show Broad Support in Israel for Gaza’s Destruction and Starvation (TruthOut)

• ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 121: Israel kills more than 1,000 Palestinians since ICJ ruling; U.S. bombs Yemen (Mondoweiss)

• Israeli Army Admits Running Unauthorized Graphic Gaza Influence Op (Haaretz)

• Belgium summons Israeli envoy to protest bombing of development agency in Gaza (The Times of Israel)

• Israeli Right-wing Groups Block Trucks Delivering Aid to Gaza, Clash With Arab Drivers (Haaretz)

• Julianna Margulies apologizes for saying Black people have been ‘brainwashed to hate Jews’ (NBC News)

• Israel returns 80 bodies to Gaza after confirming they're not hostages (Reuters)

• ‘We are dying slowly:’ Palestinians are eating grass and drinking polluted water as famine looms across Gaza (CNN)

• Rising hunger in Gaza ‘turning children into skeletons’ (The Telegraph)

• Israeli snipers kill 21 civilians outside Gaza’s besieged Nasser Hospital (Al Jazeera)

• Israeli forces dressed as medics raid hospital in Jenin, killing three (Middle East Eye)

• Pelosi accuses some protesters demanding Gaza cease-fire of having ties to Russia (NPR)

• Half of US Adults Say Israel Has Gone Too Far in War in Gaza, AP-NORC Poll Shows (US News)

• War on Gaza: Regional Belgian government suspends arms export licences to Israel (Middle East Eye)

• Judge Julia Sebutinde elected Vice-President of the International Court of Justice (International Court of Justice)

• Israelis are fleeing Israel. Driven by war, military failure, collapsing economy, genocide, and far right extremism. (Reddit)

• 28% of Israelis considering leaving the country amid judicial upheaval — poll (The Times of Israel)

• Jews’ reverse immigration from Israel is on the rise (Middle East Monitor)

• The war with Hamas pushed many Israeli dual citizens to leave the country. Here are stories of some who stayed. (CBS News)

• Portugal says nearly 21,000 Israelis applied for citizenship last year (The Times of Israel)

• The Israelis Who No Longer Buy Into 'Having No Other Country' (Haaretz)

• Report: With 30,000 departures, Ben Gurion Airport sees busiest day since Oct. 7 (The Times of Israel)

• Up to 3,000 Israeli soldiers require mental health services following war on Gaza (Egypt Independent)