Gaza
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This time it’s different
As I write, the building I live in here in Gaza is shaking continuously. Above us, Israeli F-16 warplanes pummel us with a seemingly endless barrage of bombs. I am writing amid a rapid flow of developing events, so it is certain that by the time this is published, many things may have changed, but… Continue reading
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Fifteen Thoughts On Palestine
13 May 2021 — Caitlin Johnson by Caitlin Johnstone Listen to this article: 1 You don’t get to drop an entire colony on top of an inhabited country, grind those inhabitants into the dirt for generations, and then claim self defense every time they retaliate. That’s not a thing. The US-centralized power alliance in general is Continue reading
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Palestine/Gaza News Links 14 April – 12 May 2021
12 May 2021 18:49 — The New Dark Age Enough is Enough: It is Time for Apartheid to End, by Kenn Orphan I have anxiety in my heart tonight. I have friends in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel, Palestinians and Israeli Jews, and I am truly fearing for them. Several of them have reported Continue reading
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Faced with ICC Investigation, Apartheid Israel Asserts Moral Superiority Over The Victims of Its Terror
Having created enemies by its own criminal behavior, Israel then claims the right to protect itself from the very people it alienated through these criminal acts. Continue reading
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The Lancet censors Gaza health letter after pro-Israel pressure
The letter – “Structural violence in the era of a new pandemic: the case of the Gaza Strip” – was duly published in the The Lancet online on 27 March. Just three days later, however, in a move unusual if not unprecedented for The Lancet, the letter was taken down without comment. Continue reading
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Sadistic Facebook shuts down Gaza health ministry page
26 August 2020 — The Electronic Intifada Ali Abunimah Update After The Electronic Intifada reported on the removal of the Gaza health ministry’s page, Facebook restored it. Continue reading
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Watch: ‘Steal Of The Century’: Trump’s Palestine-Israel Catastrophe (Documentary) | Episode 1/2
The ‘Steal Of The Century’ (Part 1) is a documentary, by Robert Inlakesh, filmed on the ground in occupied Palestine, investigating the peace process, Donald Trump’s proposed ‘Deal of the Century’ and why the Palestinian people have unanimously rejected it. It also seeks to show the occupation faced by the Palestinian people, as well as… Continue reading
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Parallels between Minneapolis and Jerusalem are more than skin deep
It is hard to ignore the striking parallels between the recent scenes of police brutality in cities across the United States and decades of violence from Israel’s security forces against Palestinians. Continue reading
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No letup in Israeli attacks on Gaza fishers
The coronavirus pandemic has derailed a lot of activities, but not Israel’s attacks on Palestinian fishers. Israeli warships have increased their assaults in recent months, causing injuries to fishers and damage to boats. Continue reading
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If coronavirus overwhelms Gaza, Israel alone will be to blame
The Palestinians of Gaza know all about lockdowns. For the past 13 years, some two million of them have endured a closure by Israel more extreme than anything experienced by almost any other society – including even now, as the world hunkers down to try to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. Continue reading
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Coronavirus would see “collapse” of Gaza health system
The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, in the occupied West Bank has increased to 25, the World Health Organization reported on Monday. Continue reading
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Israel bans Palestinian exports in cruel and merciless ‘final nail’ policy
It appears that for Israel, that cutting off the supply of clean drinking water is not enough. It is not enough that water-borne diseases are spiking or that health and emergency services are breaking down. It is not enough that fresh food is unavailable because of a lack of refrigeration as electricity is only available… Continue reading
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The day Gaza becomes uninhabitable
In 2012, the United Nations published research suggesting that by 2016, the main aquifer supplying water to about two million Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip would be “unusable” and that by 2020, the aquifer would have been damaged irreversibly. This would make Gaza uninhabitable by 2020. Continue reading
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Israel Is Killing Children Asleep In Their Homes. Humans. Not Numbers.
The reign of terror, which we help fund, goes on. In the last two days of airstrikes over the open-air prison that is Gaza, where two million beleaguered people, almost half of them children, are packed and trapped, Israel has killed at least 34 Palestinians and injured more than 111. Many of the victims were… Continue reading
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Uninhabitable: Gaza faces the moment of truth
Israel has ignored warnings by the United Nations that Gaza is about to become uninhabitable, acting as if Palestinians there can be caged, starved and abused indefinitely. Now crises are unfolding on all fronts – social, economic, political and humanitarian – and Israel is running out of time to find solutions Continue reading
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Stockholm Syndrome – Julian Assange And The Limits Of Guardian Dissent
Nothing happened on September 2 in central London. Roger Waters, co-founder of Pink Floyd, did not initiate a protest outside the Home Office. He did not sing and play the Floyd classic ‘Wish You Were Here’, or say: ‘Julian Assange, we are with you. Free Julian Assange!’ Continue reading
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The truth about the UK’s special relationship with Israel
By TruePublica: Britain does not have a special relationship with the USA. It is, and has been since the end of the World War, a subservient inferior ‘partner’ doing what it is told. Britain stands next to the schoolyard thug and tries not to be a victim of it. Likewise, Britain acquiesces to Israel –… Continue reading
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Gaza protester dies as Israel admits to unjustified killings
Last week it was revealed that the Israeli military has decided to change its open-fire regulations, acknowledging it killed dozens of protesters without justification. Continue reading
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Sur Baher home demolitions illustrate a vicious spiral of oppression in Palestine By Jonathan Cook
Recent events have shone a spotlight not only on how Israel is intensifying its abuse of Palestinians under its rule, but the utterly depraved complicity of western governments in its actions. Continue reading
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When Israel bombed disabled Palestinians By Sarah Algherbawi
The fact that Israel had caused immense damage to a charity working for people with disabilities was omitted from most, if not all, reports by mainstream media on the May offensive. Continue reading
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