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Recent reports from social media indicate that 16 members of the Civil Defense and Palestinian Red Crescent Society were killed by Israeli forces in Rafah, southern Gaza.
These individuals were reportedly on a humanitarian mission to rescue and evacuate the wounded, coordinated with the International Red Cross.
The bodies are said to have been buried at the attack site, with one paramedic arrested and later released...#Israel..#Gaza..#crime..

"What has been accomplished by these strikes, and will they actually work? The answer is plainly a negative one. The air strikes may have killed some Houthi leaders, but there is no shortage of others who will take their place, just as a year of decimating Hamas ended with the group simply having recruited the same number of fighters it lost, according to former secretary of state Antony Blinken, and still posing a threat to Israel’s security, according to the most recent US intelligence assessment.

More than a year of strikes by Biden didn’t end the Houthis’ attacks on shipping — as the former president famously commented, “Are they stopping the Houthis? No. Are they going to continue? Yes” — and so far, Trump’s bombing has only driven the Houthis to escalate their attacks and take the fight directly to US vessels. Before that, the Houthis withstood half a decade of much more brutal warfare at the hands of Saudi Arabia, which similarly failed to dislodge them despite creating a famine in the country and killing hundreds of thousands of Yemenis. It’s hard to believe it will work this time.

It seems, then, that Trump’s air strikes are the worst of every possible world: they have a dreadful human cost, they’re unconstitutional, they’re putting Americans in danger, and they are unlikely to even accomplish their ostensible goal. It’s not surprising all these facts have taken a back seat so far in reactions to the story. But if the press continues to ignore them in its discussion of the scandal, it is failing the American public."

jacobin.com/2025/03/yemen-scan

jacobin.comThe Real Yemen Scandal Has Zero to Do With Jeffrey GoldbergThe press is mostly framing the Yemen group chat scandal as a story of incompetence. There’s little attention being paid to the deadliness, illegality, and ineffectiveness of the strikes themselves.
#USA#Trump#Yemen