In recent days, Israel killed three aid workers with World Central Kitchen, the head of the intensive care unit at Kamal Adwan hospital. A staff member with the Save the Children, as well as Mahmoud Ahmadun, [00:00:15] who co-founded the Gaza Soup Kitchen that's fed Palestinians facing hunger due to Israel's blockade of vital food aid. Ahmad, who was killed in an Israeli drone strike. He survived by seven children, the youngest just a newborn. [00:00:32] And tragically, he isn't the only humanitarian aid worker that was killed by Israeli Defense Forces over the weekend. In fact, on one day alone last Saturday, more than 200 people were killed in the Gaza Strip. Among them were three humanitarian aid workers. [00:00:49] In fact, of the 200 individuals who were killed in Gaza, 40 of them were part of the same family. Now, before we get to some of the details about the airstrikes that were conducted by the IDF over the weekend. I also think it's important to just give you some details about what the IDF [00:01:06] has been building in the Gaza Strip. Now, The New York Times is reporting that it does appear that the IDF has been building a buffer zone, and they have been expanding military bases in the Gaza Strip in order to do so. They have destroyed more than 620 buildings to create said buffer zone. [00:01:26] But when the New York Times asked the IDF why they had demolished the buildings, they gave the same answer that you can expect from them. It's the answer that they give every single time. They lied and said that Palestinian militants were using the 620 buildings they destroyed as lookout posts and hiding places. [00:01:45] Now, in reality, they just cleared the land in order to build the military bases and the buffer zone, which includes a vast, vast network of bases in central Gaza. And this is according to satellite imagery and video evidence that was obtained [00:02:02] by and analyzed by The New York Times. Now, the Israeli military has at least 19 large bases throughout the area, in addition to dozens of smaller bases, and the construction seems to be accelerating in recent months, [00:02:17] with at least 12 of these bases having been constructed since early September. Now, also, according to The New York Times, Israeli military analysts say the increase in infrastructure along the Netzarim, which cuts across Gaza from the [00:02:33] Israeli border to the Mediterranean Sea, has given Israel the ability to regulate travel across the length of the enclave, keeping hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians in the South. And that's because they intend to continue occupying northern Gaza. [00:02:49] Now, in recent months, the Israeli military has extended its power over territory on either side of the corridor, roughly 4.3 miles wide and 4.3 miles long. To make it easier for Israeli forces to hold on to the area. [00:03:05] So remember, we also had previously shared details about how Israel has taken control of the so-called Philadelphia Corridor, the border between Gaza and Egypt, thus completely trapping Palestinians [00:03:21] into this tiny, tiny area of land. And previously, there were some Palestinians who were allowed to leave through the border with Egypt in order to get medical care and medical treatment. That has basically been cut off entirely. And I want to show you this visual that's been provided by The New York Times, [00:03:40] which shows just how much territory Israel is planning to essentially snatch away from the Palestinians as part of this so-called buffer zone. Around 50% of the strip will now be taken over by the Israelis. Now, Avi Dichter, who is an Israeli government minister, said that Israel was [00:03:56] going to stay in Gaza for a long time. He also told reporters in Jerusalem, quote, we are definitely not at the beginning of the end because we still have a lot of work to do. Another individual, retired brigadier general with the IDF [00:04:14] by the name of Amir Avivi, who has been briefed on the Israeli government's plans, says the following withdrawing and separation are no longer options. That's why they're building all of this. At the end of the day, the facts speak for themselves, so they're [00:04:33] not really hiding the ball here. They're making it abundantly clear that the intent here is to essentially permanently occupy this part of the Gaza Strip, while also having complete control of Gaza's border with Egypt. Yeah, there's a couple of things you said in there that are so telling. [00:04:49] So first of all, in the beginning, people just believed it because it was in mainstream media that, oh, they're just targeting Hamas, and Hamas happened to be in that building, or Hamas was not found in the building, but maybe they were in the tunnels [00:05:05] underneath the building, or maybe they were looking at it, using it as an outpost. But all 620 buildings in that area, okay, that no one in their right mind believes that you have to be a die hard Israeli supporter, as blind as blind gets to to believe that. [00:05:21] But okay, let's say that you believe that ridiculous piece of propaganda. And you say, well, my God, coincidentally, they had to destroy every building in that 4.3mi² that that Anna explained to you. And by the way, now they're expanding it to 12 miles long [00:05:36] because they're in charge, so they're going to take more land. And this has always been about taking land. I'll come back to that. But how about Al Musharaka? Village. It's a village also in that, corridor, and there's 10,000 people. [00:05:52] Oh, correction, there were 10,000 people in that village, they raised tomatoes, cucumbers and lemons, and that's how they sustained a living there. Every building in the village has been destroyed. And people say that in the beginning, they used to go back [00:06:09] to check on their land, their homes. But now going in there at all is risking your life because Israel will kill anyone that goes into that area. So this isn't about Hamas. This is just about taking land. Now, again, Israeli apologists will say, oh my God, [00:06:26] they had to take more Arab land. Like, just like they did before. They had to take it in 48. They had to take it in 67. They had to take it in 73. They have to take it now. They have to keep taking more and more and more Arab land, not because they want to take land and put settlers in there like they have with [00:06:41] the 700,000 settlers in the West Bank, not because they're looking to keep this part of Gaza, and not because they're going to evacuate everybody in the southern Gaza and just keep all of northern Gaza. Oh, gosh. No, it's all for Security and self-defense from an attack [00:06:57] that happened over 13 months ago. So none of this is about self-defense? Self-Defense ended 12 months ago. 11 months ago. So however long you want to go back. This is just about Israel brutally ethnically cleansing Gaza. [00:07:12] And yes, I'm going to use the word steal because that is exactly what they're doing. Stealing more Palestinian land in prelude to stealing even more Palestinian land in keeping all of northern Gaza. And now it's become absolutely indisputable, as they have destroyed every [00:07:29] building and and the villages in that area to seize the land for themselves, exactly as we had warned you. Yeah. In fact, Jake, you're not the only person saying this. Activists in America or activists in the international community aren't the [00:07:45] only people saying this over the weekend. A former defense minister for Israel made clear that he believes that Israel is currently conducting war crimes and carrying out the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. And I appreciate the fact that he came out and said that because that is the truth, [00:08:02] and it's important for people to hear that from an Israeli who served in the Israeli government. But, you know, when it comes to that very topic about the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and the insane brutality that they're dealing with here, [00:08:18] I want to talk about what happened over the weekend with some of these airstrikes. So in a single day last Saturday, more than 200 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes, as I mentioned earlier. Among those 200 people were 40 members of the same family. [00:08:35] Now, intercept reporter Prem Thakkar reported on the that on December 1st, he put this out. On December 1st, indicating that in the two days prior, Israeli forces had killed three World Central Kitchen Aid workers killed. [00:08:53] A Save the Children staffer killed a Gaza soup kitchen chef killed an ICU director, attacked and killed hundreds of displaced Palestinians and shot a ten year old girl. Now I want to just talk about the World Central Kitchen for a second, because they have again halted operations in the Gaza Strip due to the fact [00:09:12] that they just can't get any commitment from the IDF, that their workers aren't going to be targeted and killed. And remember, we had previously reported about the seven world kitchen workers who were targeted and, you know, airstrike [00:09:28] to oblivion by the IDF months ago. And that same activity happened over the weekend. So the IDF's justification for targeting a world, you know, the these humanitarian aid workers was that they had allegedly or one of them [00:09:44] allegedly had been part of Hamas. Obviously, no evidence had been provided indicating that that was true. Nazmi Ahmed said his nephew worked for a week for the past year. He said he was driving to the charity's kitchens and warehouses today. [00:10:00] He went out as usual to work and was targeted without prior warning and without any reason. And so you still have more and more humanitarian aid workers getting killed. Another Israeli airstrike Saturday hit a car near a food distribution point in [00:10:16] Khan Yunis, killing 13 people, including children, gathering to receive food. So how many times does this need to happen for people to understand that this is very much intentional? How many times does it need to happen? And besides which, I just want to quickly mention [00:10:32] that the UN is reporting that Israel has already violated its ceasefire with with Hezbollah in Lebanon around 100 times. So that ceasefire remains fragile. And I want to make the point that I made earlier about that ceasefire. [00:10:49] If Israel reneges on the ceasefire. What would the consequences be? Israel has the globe's, you know, military superpower, the United States, backing it regardless of what it does. So of course, it's going to renege on the ceasefire. Why wouldn't it? Now the ceasefire is still in place. [00:11:06] But again, multiple reports indicate that violations of the ceasefire have already occurred. So there's two elements to violating the ceasefire. One is, the ceasefire isn't meant for Israel. It's just meant to get Hezbollah to stop firing back. [00:11:24] So and that's what happens when you have absolute power. So we told you Israel wouldn't listen to the ceasefire. And of course, it didn't listen to the ceasefire. Not only has it bombed 100 times. And if you ask them, they say, well, we have to do it. No, you don't have to do it. In fact, you're not allowed to do it. That's the whole point of the ceasefire. [00:11:40] And they say, no, no, no, it's preemptive. Hezbollah might one day strike. So we just bombed them 100 times after we did a peace deal. Because we're liars. We're were giant, enormous lyres that never trust a single thing. The Israeli government says it's never true. [00:11:57] And so here they are again. And they're not the ones trying to reach peace. They always say like, oh, we have no partner for peace. Yeah, because you're not a partner for peace. So Hezbollah says yes. And then Israel says yes and then goes, ha ha, we're just kidding. We're the lying Israeli government. [00:12:13] So we're just going to keep on bombing you. And if you dare bomb us one time and not even bomb us, launch a bomb that those bombs almost never hit anyway, we'll say, oh. - My God, they broke the. - Ceasefire. And then every person in mainstream media, Dana Bash, will go out there and go, [00:12:29] yes, it's Hezbollah. They're all at fault. It's all the Arabs and Muslims. They are at fault. Poor Israel only broken a hundred times. Oh, I mean, no, it's Hezbollah that broke it. So I'm sick of this propaganda. And then meanwhile, they also attacked Syria again. Why? Because they're allowed to attack any country they like. [00:12:45] They like they're allowed to start any war they like. And after they bomb them to oblivion. Then they'll say, oh, cease fire! Cease fire! And they'll get them to stop firing back and they'll keep firing into Syria. So that's an Israeli government. Go back to Gaza now. World Central Kitchen you think it's an accident that they hit him a second time? [00:13:02] You think they keep it's an accident. Every time they hit a food distribution center with people waiting there, innocent civilians, including children, every time they have the same absolutely preposterous excuse. [00:13:17] We thought there might be a Hamas militant in the area. I mean, we didn't find any. Right. But there could have been. But we murdered all those kids just in case. And the World Central Kitchen, they say one of the five people we murdered might have had some relationship with Hamas. [00:13:34] Are you kidding me? If you told me one of the people that that the government just killed might have done something wrong, but they killed the US government, killed four innocent people at the same time? Well, the one guy might have done an armed bank robbery, but we killed them all. [00:13:49] I would say that's outrageous. How could you kill four innocent human beings who are actually among the best people on earth, looking to to feed starving children? Israel goes. Who cares? I can murder anyone I like, and I get my dogs. And the American government, whether its dog Biden or dog Trump, [00:14:06] to do anything I want. I could break any peace treaty. I could bomb anyone. I could murder anyone I like, and that's the out of control Israeli government. There is absolutely no excuse left for Israel at all. It's an open air robbery. [00:14:22] It's like the beginning of of Pulp Fiction where they just scream to the world, this is an effing robbery. And so that's what they're doing. Now, if you're still making excuses for them, look, understand that when those [00:14:37] bombs land, those children are lit on fire or their body parts are exploded into God knows how many pieces. How many videos do you have to see online of parents picking up body parts of children before you realize Israel is not the good guys. [00:14:54] The current government of Israel are the terrorists that are starting all of the violence. They're the ones. They're the terrorists who occupy millions of people and enslave them for their own economic benefit, and then now propose to steal more Arab land. [00:15:11] It's disgusting. It's colonial, it's imperial. And they are definitely the bad guys. And if you think Israel is no, my beloved Israel is can do no wrong. You're blind. Absurd. And unfortunately, as it breaks my heart, immoral, deeply, [00:15:31] deeply immoral to see constantly murdering human rights workers and and healthcare workers and children is what the moral guys, the good guys, the moral army would do. No, it's what disgusting terrorists would do.