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<article data-history-node-id="427482" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/why-gaza-genocide-risks-becoming-model-targeting-muslims-worldwide" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/why-gaza-genocide-risks-becoming-model-targeting-muslims-worldwide" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Why the Gaza genocide risks becoming a model for targeting Muslims worldwide</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Crowds&nbsp;<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/3/22/gaza-is-being-starved-and-bombed-again-why-are-we-allowing-it" target="_blank">waiting</a>&nbsp;for food, empty pots in hand. Children&nbsp;<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/3/15/gazas-silent-epidemic" target="_blank">missing</a>&nbsp;an arm, a leg, sometimes both. Emergency workers&nbsp;<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/21/israeli-report-on-killing-of-palestinian-medics-in-gaza-what-to-know" target="_blank">killed</a>&nbsp;and buried in a mass grave beside their crushed ambulances.</p> <p><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinians</a>&nbsp;gunned down at aid distribution sites. Families facing mass&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/we-are-alone-gaza-city-residents-brace-worst-israeli-assaults-intensify" target="_blank">displacement</a>&nbsp;from Gaza City. Journalists like Anas al-Sharif&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEeYQAbB5iY" target="_blank">assassinated</a>&nbsp;for bearing witness.</p> <p>As many have&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKCf3Wj0pNw" target="_blank">pointed out</a>, these are not scenes of death. They are scenes of elimination -&nbsp;the systematic destruction of life through relentless&nbsp;<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-hamas-war-in-maps-and-charts-live-tracker" target="_blank">bombing</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/3/22/gaza-is-being-starved-and-bombed-again-why-are-we-allowing-it" target="_blank">starvation</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/program/people-power/2025/3/20/thirst-among-the-ruins" target="_blank">thirst</a>, life-altering&nbsp;<a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/09/1154241" target="_blank">injury</a>, untreated&nbsp;<a href="https://www.msf.org/palestine-people-gaza-serious-risk-preventable-deaths-healthcare-crumbles" target="_blank">illness</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.savethechildren.net/news/complete-psychological-destruction-children-gaza-have-suffered-relentless-mental-harm-during" target="_blank">trauma</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/4/2/exhaustion-and-despair-as-gaza-faces-new-wave-of-displacements#:~:text=As%20Israel%20issues%20wide%20new,in%20the%20war%2Dtorn%20enclave." target="_blank">exhaustion</a>, and the deprivation of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/12/gaza-winter-disease-hardship-airstrikes-hunger" target="_blank">shelter</a>&nbsp;from&nbsp;<a href="https://www.savethechildren.net/stories/why-are-children-gaza-dying-hypothermia" target="_blank">cold</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/1/1/heavy-rains-continue-to-compound-misery-of-displaced-palestinians-in-gaza" target="_blank">floods</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.climatecentre.org/13781/gaza-heatwave-adds-extra-layer-of-suffering-to-an-already-catastrophic-humanitarian-situation/" target="_blank">heat</a>.</p> <p>In the occupied&nbsp;<a href="https://www.un.org/unispal/document/humanitarian-situation-update-312-west-bank/" target="_blank">West Bank</a>, Palestinians have also faced deadly&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli</a>&nbsp;raids and settler attacks, with hundreds killed since the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/israel-genocide-gaza" target="_blank">Gaza war</a>&nbsp;began.</p> <p>Such genocidal killing is made possible by decades of western dehumanisation of Palestinians, reducing them to "<a href="https://www.un.org/unispal/document/israel-pm-remarks-un-ga-79-27sep24/" target="_blank">terrorists</a>" and "<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-war-fighting-human-animals-defence-minister" target="_blank">human animals</a>".</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-genocide-risks-becoming-model-muslims-targeted-globally">Why the Gaza genocide risks becoming a model for targeting Muslims worldwide</a></h3> <p><img alt="An Israeli soldier aims his weapon during a raid at the Balata refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, where at least 968 Palestinians have been killed since the Gaza war began, on 11 August 2025 (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)" src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/max_2600x2600/public/images-story/000_69983TK%281%29.jpg.jpg?itok=F1_MpY2K"></p> <section>&nbsp;</section> </div> </div> </article>

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<article data-history-node-id="421174" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/red-crescent-report-paramedic-held-israeli-authorities" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/red-crescent-report-paramedic-held-israeli-authorities" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Red Crescent reports paramedic held by Israeli authorities</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) announced that a staff member is being held by Israeli authorities.&nbsp;</p> <p>PRCS medic&nbsp;Assad al-Nsasrah&nbsp;was targeted along with other colleagues during a&nbsp;humanitarian mission in Rafah, southern Gaza.</p> <p>At the end of March, the PRCS reported that eight paramedics were killed while attempting to rescue victims following an earlier Israeli strike. Nsasrah’s fate had remained unknown since the targeted attack on the medical team.</p> <p>"We call on the international community to pressure the occupation authorities to immediately release our colleague, medic Asaad, who was forcibly abducted while carrying out his humanitarian duties," PRCS said in a post on X.</p> <p>"He and his colleagues came under heavy gunfire, which led to the killing of eight of them -&nbsp;a grave violation of international humanitarian law."</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">🚨Urgent: We have been informed by the International Committee of the Red Cross that PRCS medic Assad Al-Nsasrah is being held by the Israeli occupation authorities. His fate had remained unknown since he was targeted along with other PRCS medics in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Rafah?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Rafah</a>.<br> 📢We call on the… <a href="https://t.co/l0oOxujS8G">pic.twitter.com/l0oOxujS8G</a></p> — PRCS (@PalestineRCS) <a href="https://twitter.com/PalestineRCS/status/1911354918893465820?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> </div> </div> </article>

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