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Uncle Joe

(60,048 posts)
Fri Apr 7, 2023, 11:29 AM Apr 2023

Palestinian Poet Mohammed El-Kurd on Israeli Apartheid, Growing Tension in Region & Raid on Al-Aqsa



Israel has bombed southern Lebanon and Gaza as tension soars in the region days after Israeli police repeatedly attacked Palestinian worshipers inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem. In response to the raids on the mosque, militants in southern Lebanon and Gaza fired dozens of rockets into Israel. It was the largest rocket attack from Lebanon in 17 years. Meanwhile, a Palestinian gunman opened fire on a vehicle near an illegal settlement in the occupied West Bank on Friday, killing two Israeli settlers. This all comes as Israel continues to impose a violent crackdown in the occupied West Bank, where the Israeli army has killed at least 94 Palestinians so far this year. Israel's raids on the Al-Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan have sparked international condemnation. For more, we speak with Mohammed El-Kurd, the Palestine correspondent for The Nation, who is from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem and says the escalating violence in Palestine cannot be separated from "the larger settler-colonial enterprise" of the decades-old Israeli occupation.
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Palestinian Poet Mohammed El-Kurd on Israeli Apartheid, Growing Tension in Region & Raid on Al-Aqsa (Original Post) Uncle Joe Apr 2023 OP
My brother (Sufi Muslim) is in East Jerusalem at this time, no_hypocrisy Apr 2023 #1

no_hypocrisy

(48,655 posts)
1. My brother (Sufi Muslim) is in East Jerusalem at this time,
Fri Apr 7, 2023, 11:39 AM
Apr 2023

for the end of Ramadan. Likely worshipping at the Al-Aqsa Mosque. He told me last week that if he dies during his visit, he wants to be buried in the country.

Shit.

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