Shame On Blinken and Biden
By Ibrahim Ebeid Al-Farr
January 19, 2024
Israel’s war of genocide continues on Caza and the West Bank twenty-four hours a day. Hunger, cold, lack of potable water and medicine threaten more lives in the Gaza enclave.
I have some friends that I know in person who lost entire members of their family, brothers, nephews, and nieces. Some of them do not know if their wives and children are alive or dead; they are separated and have no communication.
The escalation in the West Bank “goes hand in hand with Gaza war,” says the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Wasel Abu Yousef after five Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces on Sunday, January 14. 2024 in the occupied territory.
Gaza has been under a telecommunications blackout for more than 48 hours as Paltel says two of its employees were killed while trying to restore services.
I communicated with a friend who lives in a town north of occupied Ramallah, and he told me that arrests and night-density raids are taking place in the West Bank.
Night of deadly raids and arrests across the West Bank, and the NewsMedia reported that it was a night of heavy violence across the occupied West Bank, as five Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces on Sunday. The deaths include two teenagers in el-Bireh adjacent to Ramallah – where Israeli forces opened fire on an ambulance – two men in Sair, north of Hebron, and a 16-year-old in the Ein Al-Sultan refugee camp north of Jericho.
There are also ongoing significant raids in the city of Qalqilya, where Israeli forces accompanied by a bulldozer have demolished a home in the Khallet Yassin area and shot a man.
Raids and arrests have been reported in the following locations in the occupied West Bank tonight: Al-Dhahiriya, south of Hebron.
In the Ein al-Sultan refugee camp north of Jericho
The city of Yatta, south of Hebron
The town of Beit Rima, northwest of Ramallah
In the village of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron
The town of Hajjah, east of Qalqilya
Israeli forces arrested a man and his son in the village of Beitin, northeast of Ramallah.
Israeli settlers burned a Palestinian vehicle in the village of Burin; this is what I read in the Aljazeera daily report and was confirmed to me by friends in the area.
While these atrocities are taking place, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has joined calls for the release of the remaining captives held in Gaza on the 100th day since they were taken by Hamas.
“100 days of captivity in Gaza is far too long,” Blinken said in a post on X.“The United States will not rest until all remaining hostages, including six Americans, are reunited with their loved ones,” he added.
Mr. Blinken is concerned about the Israeli captives, but he does not give a dam about the thousands of Palestinians dead and wounded. Joe Biden does not care about the Palestinians who have suffered for almost eight decades of deprivation, ethnic cleansing, and genocide? Do you know why?
