
Tim Goedemé
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Tim Goedemé
@TimGoedeme
Poverty & social policy; inequality & climate change. Head of research at Centre of Expertise on Budget and Financial Well-Being, Thomas More | Personal views






Israeli settlers have increasingly used violence against Palestinians in a bid to drive them from their homes in the occupied West Bank. But sexual assault appears to be a new weapon in these settlers’ arsenal of intimidation, pointing to a troubling new level of violence. cnn.it/4du8vj6

In the only Sde Teiman case investigated, with video evidence and a Palestinian detainee left with severe injuries, including rectal damage, the charges were dropped. It’s only that Sde Teiman is a torture camp. We know this from the soldier testimonies we have collected 🧵





🧵 After their home was bombed, they tried to crawl towards a hospital to save their wounded brother. Israeli soldiers shot them one by one, then shot their mother as she tried to call for help. A new investigation by Euro-Med Monitor documents the killing of siblings from the Al-Awaini family in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip. Full story ⬇️

From Haaretz in Israel. A description of an IDF commander murdering a 4 year old. For fun. It's beyond demonic. haaretz.com/opinion/2024-1…



Famine is no longer a warning in Gaza. It has begun. This morning, meat and frozen foods vanished from the markets as if swept away by an invisible hand. The shelves that once carried even the humblest necessities now stand bare, like silent witnesses to a growing calamity. What little food remains has become painfully expensive. Vegetable prices have risen within a matter of hours. A kilogram of potatoes, which yesterday could be bought for 4 shekels, now costs 18. Tomatoes, once sold for 5 shekels, now demand 23. Such numbers, simple as they may seem, tell a tragic story. They measure not commerce but suffering. At the same time, families approach the final days of Ramadan under a weight that grows heavier with each passing hour. Men and women move through the markets in quiet circles, searching, calculating, hoping to stretch what little remains in their pockets. They think of their children. They think of the coming days of Eid. And in their hearts they ask the same silent question: how will we endure? For parents here, even the smallest things have become a cause for worry. A piece of bread. A tomato. A meal that must somehow be shared. These are not ordinary price increases. They are the first clear signs of a society being pushed, slowly and relentlessly, toward hunger. And hunger, when it spreads through a people, is never merely a lack of food. It is the shadow that falls over dignity, hope, and the fragile peace of the human home. #WoundedGaza




