{"id":295744,"date":"2025-05-26T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=295744"},"modified":"2025-05-22T04:43:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T03:43:42","slug":"absolutely-genocidal-mouin-rabbani-on-israels-latest-escalation-of-gazas-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/05\/absolutely-genocidal-mouin-rabbani-on-israels-latest-escalation-of-gazas-invasion\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Absolutely Genocidal&#8221;: Mouin Rabbani on Israel&#8217;s Latest Escalation of Gaza&#8217;s Invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>19 May 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">Palestinians in Gaza are fleeing Khan Younis after the Israeli military issued expulsion orders for the besieged territory&#8217;s second-largest city. This comes as Israel&#8217;s bombardment of Gaza intensifies, killing hundreds of Palestinians over the weekend, including at least five journalists. Health facilities have been under constant attack. Israel on Sunday announced the start of a renewed ground invasion it calls Operation Gideon&#8217;s Chariots. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also said Sunday that Israel would allow limited food supplies into Gaza as the population of more than 2 million faces famine after 11 weeks of a total Israeli blockade, but there are few details about when such aid shipments could arrive. Gaza&#8217;s Health Ministry confirms Israel has killed at least 53,300 Palestinians in Gaza since October 2023, a death toll believed to be a vast undercount. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">&#8220;The situation, as anyone who&#8217;s following the news can see, is thoroughly apocalyptic,&#8221; says Middle East analyst Mouin Rabbani. &#8220;There is not only an unprecedented siege, but also an unprecedented intensification of Israel&#8217;s genocidal military campaign in the Gaza Strip.&#8221; Rabbani also stresses that any progress on aid, lifting the siege or reaching a ceasefire is dependent on the Trump administration using its leverage over Israel. &#8220;It will take no more than a phone call from Washington,&#8221; he says. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Absolutely Genocidal&quot;: Mouin Rabbani on Israel&#039;s Latest Escalation of War on Gaza\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zg980P9uO6c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19 May 2025 &#8211; &#8220;The situation, as anyone who&#8217;s following the news can see, is thoroughly apocalyptic,&#8221; says the Middle East analyst. &#8220;There is not only an unprecedented siege, but also an unprecedented intensification of Israel&#8217;s genocidal military campaign in the Gaza Strip.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1854,1199,2242,87,865,1966,88,715,427,965],"class_list":["post-295744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips","tag-crimes-against-humanity","tag-ethnic-cleansing","tag-famine","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-hunger","tag-israel","tag-massacre","tag-palestine","tag-war-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295744"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295749,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295744\/revisions\/295749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}