Gaza
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Shoot protesters while they rest — Israel’s new rules By Maureen Clare Murphy
Shooting “key instigators” during unarmed protests in Gaza when they’re resting. Opening fire on teenagers attempting to make their way to pray in Jerusalem when they pose no danger. This is the routine, unjustified and criminal use of live fire against Palestinians by Israeli occupation forces. Continue reading
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Stripped of Their Rights: Understanding the Gaza Strip By Rima Najjar
Many wonder why Israel continues to persecute the Palestinians in Gaza with such brutal repression. The answer is simple; Palestinians in Gaza pose a demographic and, indeed, an existential threat to the Jewish state, which created the inferno that is Gaza today in order “to exist” as such. Continue reading
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Reporters Without Borders accepts prize from journalist-killing regime By Ali Abunimah
Reporters Without Borders is facing sharp criticism for accepting a prize from a regime that murders journalists. Continue reading
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Israel’s War Criminals in Their Own Words By Philip Giraldi
Israel’s public face, sustained and propagated by a wealthy and powerful diaspora that has significant control over the media, insists that the country is the Middle East’s only true democracy, that is operates under a rule of law for all its citizens and that its army is the “most moral in the world.” All of… Continue reading
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During Protests in Commemoration of 71st Anniversary of Palestinian Nakbah: Israeli Forces Wound 144 Civilians
On Wednesday, 15 May 2019, Israeli forces wounded 144 Palestinian civilians, including 49 children, 4 women, and 1 paramedic, in excessive use of force against the peaceful participants in the protests organized in commemoration of the 71st anniversary of the Palestinian Nakbah. Continue reading
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Is leaked document Trump’s ‘deal of the century’? By Jonathan Cook
A report published this week by the Israel Hayom newspaper apparently leaking details of Donald Trump’s “deal of the century” reads like the kind of peace plan that might be put together by an estate agent or car salesman. Continue reading
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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Gaza’ by Norman G Finklestein By Frank Lee
So, the ultimate question is, do Palestinians have the right to symbolically resist slow death punctuated by periodic massacres, or is it incumbent on them to lie down and die? Continue reading
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MSM Blackout: Colluding in war crimes: Britain’s unreported military alliance with Israel
It is now sadly a fact that more children than Palestinian fighters are being killed in the offensive on Gaza by the state of Israel. This in itself should be shocking until you see the numbers. 28 per cent killed are five years and under, 92 per cent are sixteen and under with 8 per… Continue reading
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A Peek into the Horrific Findings of the UN Report on Israel’s Massacre of Gaza Protesters
The commission found serious human rights violations that may constitute crimes against humanity and called on Israel to “Lift the blockade on Gaza with immediate effect. Continue reading
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The UN Screened this Video at a Meeting on Israel’s Murder of Unarmed Protesters in Gaza by Alison Weir
An independent investigation concluded that ‘nations have a duty to ‘arrest persons alleged to have committed, or who ordered to have committed, the international crimes described in the present report’ Continue reading
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UN Commission Report Accuses Israel of War Crimes in Gaza
International law professor Kevin Jon Heller discusses the report of the UN Human Rights Council, which says Israel must be held accountable for war crimes committed against unarmed civilians and that Israeli courts do not hold them accountable (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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UN investigators call for arrests over Gaza war crimes By Maureen Clare Murphy
Israeli forces may have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity by using lethal military force against unarmed protesters in Gaza, a United Nations independent commission of inquiry has found. Continue reading
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Time for a reality check Omar Karmi
The resignation of a government and dismissal of parliament – all to bolster the position of a president – doesn’t inspire confidence. Continue reading
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Israeli election ad boasts Gaza bombed back to “stone ages” By Ali Abunimah
Benny Gantz, the former Israeli army chief, is bragging about how much killing and slaughter he committed in Gaza in a series of campaign videos for his new political party posted on YouTube and social media over the weekend. Continue reading
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Israeli forces continue systematic crimes in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) (10-16 January 2019)
Israeli forces continued to use excessive force against the peaceful protestors in the Gaza Strip Continue reading
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Israeli Naval Forces Arrest 2 Fishermen and Detain Fishing Boat Off Beit Lahia Shore
Israeli gunboats chased and opened fire at Palestinian fishing boats. They then arrested 2 fishermen and detained a fishing boat. This is part of the Israeli ongoing attacks against Palestinian fishermen and preventing them from sailing and fishing freely and accessing the fish-breeding areas in Gaza Sea. Continue reading
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PCHR Fact Sheet December 2018
The term “buffer zone” in land and at sea is used for land and sea areas, which were unilaterally and illegally declared by Israeli forces as areas with no access along the eastern and northern borders and in the sea of the Gaza Strip following the Israeli Disengagement Plan in 2005. In violation of the… Continue reading
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Something Really Bad Is Being Prepared for the Palestinians in Gaza By Motasem A DALLOUL
A senior member of the Hamas Political Bureau said on Monday that “the worst is still to come” as far as the Gaza Strip is concerned. Mousa Abu Marzook’s remarks followed the announcement by the Palestinian Authority that it will withdraw its security officers from the Rafah Border Crossing, the only route between Gaza and… Continue reading
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Unseen Enemy: Doctors in Gaza Battling Superbug Epidemic By Madlen Davies and Ben Stockton
Doctors in Gaza and the West Bank warn they are battling an epidemic of antibiotic-resistant superbugs, a growing problem in the world’s conflict zones and one that risks spilling over borders and diminishing the global medical arsenal against serious illness. Continue reading
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EXCLUSIVE: 4 Year Old Killed By Israel | Interview With Family
Following the death of a 4 year old child in Gaza, at the hands of Israeli snipers, not one mainstream corporate media organization bothered to go and interview the family and find out what happened, in fact, most didn’t cover the story at all. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 