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Welcome to cryfreedom.net, formerly known as Womens Liberation Front.  A website that hopes to draw and keeps your attention for  both the global 21th. century 3rd. feminist revolution as well as especially for the Zan, Zendegi, Azadi uprising in Iran and the struggles of our sisters in other parts of the Middle East. This online magazine that started December 2019 will be published every week. Thank you for your time and interest. 
Gino d'Artali
indept investigative journalist
radical feminist and women's rights activist 

'WOMEN, LIFE, FREEDOM'

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Added:

Muslim charities face discrimination as Palestinians are desperate for aid
 &  Cola Gaza Free
& The Lebanon ceasefire is a respite, not a solution for the Middle East
& "The Middle East Needs 'Women, Life, Freedom'"
& Gangsters block aid distribution in south Gaza
 

Previous report:
In Gaza dreams die, but hope remains
and
& "ICC arrest warrants: 'Binyamin Netanyahu's world has shrunk considerably'"
&
Facing genocide while disabled
& Stripped of our human dignity
 
& Woman Palestinian journalist speaks out about reporting Israel’s attacks  

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Shireen Abu Akleh
In commemoration of Shireen Abu Akleh,
the 'voice of Al Jazeera'
killed while revealing the true face of israel

Updated:

Nov. 2 - Oct. 24: Gazaian journalists under permanent siege by the idf
October 23 - 16, 2024: "Attacks, arrests, threats, censorship: The high risks of reporting the Israel-Gaza war"
All incl. Additional stories of utmost interest 
Click here for earlier stories/news

 

November 28- 26, 2024
Food for thought:
"Let's not pretend: Although the war corroded Iran's deterrence, the 60-day cease-fire
in Lebanon is a temporary lull as far as both Israel and Hezbollah are concerned -
and if it was done so Netanyahu can prolong a futile war in Gaza, there is little to rejoice about"
Haaretz outlet editor-in-chief.
Read more and decide for yourself
 

November 24 - 21, 2024
Food for thought:
Here's why the Gaza war is 'consistent with genocide', according to UN body
Read more and decide for yourself

 
When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali.

BBC - November 25, 2024
<<Gangsters block aid distribution in south Gaza
Food prices soared in Gaza after the looting of nearly 100 UN aid lorries this month
Amid severe food shortages in Gaza, increasingly violent thefts by criminal gangs are now the main obstacle to distributing supplies in the south, aid workers and locals say. They allege that armed men operate within plain sight of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in a restricted zone by the border.
The BBC has learnt that Hamas - sensing an opportunity to regain its faltering control - has reactivated a special security force to combat theft and banditry.
Virtually no aid has reached besieged north Gaza in 40 days, UN says
Almost 100 Gaza food aid lorries violently looted, UN agency says
Why are Israel and Hamas fighting in Gaza?
After gangsters robbed nearly 100 UN lorries, injuring many of the Palestinian drivers, on 16 November - one of the worst single losses of aid during the war - a number of alleged looters were then killed in an ambush.
A notorious Gazan criminal family then blocked the main Salah al-Din Road leading from Israel’s Kerem Shalom crossing point for two days last week.
Witnesses said iron barriers were erected and lorries trying to access the aid distribution point were fired at. "Law and order have broken down in the area around the Kerem Shalom crossing, which remains the main entry point of goods, and gangs are filling the power vacuum," says Sam Rose, deputy director of Unrwa, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, in Gaza. "It's inevitable after 13 months of intense conflict - things fall apart." Displaced Palestinians living in makeshift shelters on Gaza's Mediterranean coast near Deir al-Balah, central Gaza. Heavy rains and high waves have flooded tented camps for displaced Palestinians across Gaza, including Deir al-Balah. As the rainy winter weather begins, humanitarian officials say solving the worsening situation is critical to meet the huge, deepening needs of most of Gaza's 2.3 million population - now displaced to the centre and south. "It is tactical, systematic, criminal looting," says Georgios Petropoulos, head of the UN's humanitarian office, Ocha, in Gaza.
He says this is leading to "ultra-violence" in all directions - "from the looters towards the truckers, from the IDF towards the police, and from the police towards the looters. There has been increased lawlessness in Gaza since Israel began targeting police officers early this year, citing their role in Hamas governance.Hamas's security control dropped to under 20%," the former head of Hamas police investigations told the BBC, adding: "We are working on a plan to restore control to 60% within a month."
Some displaced Gazans in the south welcome the new Hamas efforts against criminal gangs.
"Killing the thieves who stole aid is a step in the right direction," exclaims one man, Mohammed Abu Jared. However, others see them as a cynical attempt to take control of lucrative black markets. "Hamas is killing its competitors in stealing aid," says Mohammed Diab, an activist in Deir al-Balah. "A big mafia has finished off a small mafia." Aid agencies say there has been a stark increase in the number of households experiencing severe hunger in central and southern Gaza. Many see Hamas's attempts to take a lead against the criminality as the direct consequence of Israels’ failure to agree on a post-war plan in Gaza. There are currently no alternatives to replace the Islamist movement and armed group which Israeli leaders pledged to destroy after last year’s deadly 7 October attacks. The chaos comes at a time when aid entering the Palestinian territory has dropped to some of the lowest levels since the start of the war. While the threat of famine is greatest in besieged parts of the north where Israel is conducting a new, intense military offensive, in the south there are also major shortages of food, medicines and other goods. "Prices of basic commodities are sky-rocketing - a bag of flour costs more than $200 (£160), a single egg $15 - or else goods are simply not available," Sam Rose of Unrwa says. Every day in the past week, Umm Ahmed has stood with her children in a huge queue outside a bakery in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, where ultimately some loaves are given out. "My children are very hungry every day. We can't afford the basics. It's constant suffering. No food, no water, no cleaning products, nothing," she says. "We don't want much, just to live a decent life. We need food. We need goods to come in and be distributed fairly. That's all we’re asking for."
Umm Ahmed
Umm Ahmed says her children are going hungry every day
The US has been pressing for Israel to allow more aid lorries into Gaza. However, Israeli officials say that the main reason that their goal of 350 a day has not been reached is the inability of the UN and other international aid agencies to bring enough lorries to the crossings. Aid workers reject that. They are urgently calling for many entry restrictions imposed by the Israeli authorities to be lifted, and for more crossing points to be opened and secured so they can collect and distribute supplies. They say the breakdown in public order needs to be addressed and that Israel, as an occupying power, is obliged to provide protection and security. The BBC was told that thefts often happen in clear sight of Israeli soldiers or surveillance drones - but that the army fails to intervene. Stolen goods are apparently being stored outside or in warehouses in areas under Israeli military control. The IDF did not respond to BBC requests for comment on how it combats organised looting and smuggling. It has previously insisted that it takes countermeasures and works to facilitate the entry of aid. Early in the war, as food became increasingly scarce, desperate Gazans were sometimes seen stealing from incoming aid lorries. Soon, cigarette smuggling became a huge business with gangs holding up convoys at gunpoint after they arrived from Egypt's Rafah crossing and, after this shut in May, Kerem Shalom. A cigarette packet can sell for exorbitant amounts in Gaza: while a packet of 20 cost about 20 shekels ($5.40) before the war, now a single cigarette can cost 180 shekels ($48.60). Cigarettes are being found within the frames of wooden aid pallets and inside closed food cans, indicating that there is a regional racket involved in smuggling. For the past six weeks, the Israeli authorities have banned commercial imports, arguing that these benefit Hamas. This has added to the decrease in the supply of food, which is in turn driving the rise in armed looting. Stolen goods, from flour to winter shelters, sent as international donations and meant to be given as free handouts to needy people can only be bought at extortionate prices on Gaza's black market. Meanwhile, months’ worth of donated supplies are being held back in Egypt due to hold-ups in aid delivery. In recent days, local media reports are suggesting that Israel is now studying the option of delivering aid to Gaza by means of a private, armed American security contractor. While nothing has yet been officially announced, aid workers are worried. Georgios Petropoulos of Ocha questions which donor countries would want supplies distributed this way.
"How safe is it really going to be?" he asks: "I think it will be a vector for more bloodshed and violence." >>
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93qevdpzvqo


The Gazaian Thinker

"When the world,
at the brink of an WW3 outbreak,
is so troubled
you can/have/are
(to be) the solution."

and

"I was 'not' a child
I only wanted
a little bit dead,
just short,
to then wake-up again
on the banks
of the river to the sea
and a free Palestine"
Gino d'Artali
ghost-poet/writer of The Thinker - Gaza

 


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