Gaza
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Breaking the last taboo – Gaza and the threat of world war By John Pilger
For many people, the truth is out now. At last, they know. Those once intimidated into silence can’t look away now. Staring at them from their TV, laptop, phone, is proof of the barbarism of the Israeli state and the great destructive force of its mentor and provider, the United States, the cowardice of European… Continue reading
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Gaza victims fund – please help
In cooperation with the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights in Gaza we have set up a legal fund which to help victims achieve justice in the courts but it needs your support. Continue reading
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Israeli army uses Gaza children as human shields By Rania Khalek
Since the assault on Gaza began, Israeli leaders and their supporters have repeatedly accused Hamas of using Palestinian civilians as human shields in an attempt to absolve Israel of responsibility for deliberatelykilling more than 1,600 Palestinian civilians in the besieged Gaza Strip. Continue reading
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Wikileaks: Ban Ki-Moon Worked with Israel to Undermine UN Report
The General Secretary of United Nations (UN) Ban Ki-Moon collaborated in secret with Israel and the United States to weaken the effects of a Board of Inquiry’s report accusing Israel of human rights violations in Gaza in Dec. 2008 – Jan. 2009. Continue reading
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Poem from Gaza: You have 58 seconds to run
8 August 2014 — Jonathon Cook Running Orders Lena Khalaf Tuffaha Continue reading
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Israeli army summarily executed fleeing civilians in southern Gaza
Even before a short-lived ceasefire allowed journalists to enter the besieged southern Gaza Strip town of Khuzaa on 1 August, desperate reports of an Israeli massacre — including execution-style shootings — had emerged from survivors who had escaped to nearby Khan Younis. Continue reading
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Crimes against Humanity. Israel’s “Own Words”: “We Must Expel Arabs…We Struck Civilians Because They Deserved It” By Steve Chovanec
[After Israel won the Six Day War in June 1967] We enthusiastically chose to become a colonial society, ignoring international treaties, expropriating lands, transferring settlers from Israel to the occupied territories, engaging in theft and finding justification for all these activities. Passionately desiring to keep the occupied territories, we developed two judicial systems: one ?… Continue reading
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Statistics: Victims of the Israeli Offensive on Gaza Since 08 July 2014
5 August 2014 — Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Press Releases Last updated: 07:00 GMT, 05 August 2014 Continue reading
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Israel’s Military Strategy:”Obliterate Them Completely”. Overwhelming Evidence of Genocide, Precise Data on Death and Destruction in Gaza By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Implementing a policy of genocide against terrorists including innocent civilians is permissible to ”achieve responsible goals” as formulated by the Netanyahu government. Continue reading
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Clash Of Civilizations By Gilad Atzmon
The Israeli army confirmed today that up to 130 Palestinian civilians were slaughtered in Rafah last Friday following the triggering of the Hannibal protocol – an IDF directive that is designed to thwart the capture of Israeli combatants. Israel unleashed its full firepower and flattened an entire neighbourhood using tanks, artillery and gunships murdering130 Palestinians… Continue reading
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On the Times of Israel article “When Genocide is Permissible”
The English-language Israeli publication Times of Israel today published, and then quickly deleted, a blog post by the writer Yochanan Gordon with the extremely inflammatory headline “When Genocide is Permissible.” The post does not explicitly endorse the genocide of Palestinians, but it asks if doing so would be morally justified after building up the case… Continue reading
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Statistics: Victims of the Israeli Offensive on Gaza since 08 July 2014
30 July 2014 — Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Last updated: 07:00 GMT, 30 July 2014 Statistics: Victims of the Israeli Offensive on Gaza since 08 July 2014 Wounded Killed Percentage No. Category Percentage No. Category 100% 5924 Total 100% 1324 Total Mostly Civilians Civilians 85.3% 1130 Civilians 27.5% 1634 Children 24.7% … Continue reading
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Media Coverup: US Played A Decisive “Behind the Scenes Role” in Israel’s Attack on Gaza By Jonathan Cook
Two reporters for major US TV channels were summarily “removed” last week from covering Israel’s attack on Gaza, moments before Israel launched a ground invasion. Continue reading
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Gaza, Israel and ‘Human Shields’ By Sarah Gillespie
Netanyahu, pro Israeli media and Zionist supporters can’t resist endlessly recycling their trope that the Hamas use civilians to guard their rockets. They are clearly flummoxed as to why this assertion does nothing to quell the snowballing international outrage at the massacres they are committing. Their argument attempts to plant in our minds the notion… Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘Disgustingly Biased’ – The Corporate Media On The Gaza Massacre
The bias in failing to report the brutalisation of a trapped, impoverished people under occupation is staggering. Many might wonder why journalists fail to speak out. But several journalists who have exposed Israeli actions, and media bias favouring Israel, have been punished. Continue reading
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Another Massacre in Gaza, This Time in Khan Younis
Another massacre is underway in Khan Younis, where relentless Israeli shelling and sniper fire are wreaking death and destruction on all that moves in the zone east of Khan Younis city. Continue reading
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How Britain profits from the attack on Gaza By Ian Dunt
The video emerged on Monday. It appears to show a man searching for his family amid the rubble of Gaza, apparently during a ceasefire. He is shot by a sniper. For a while he lies there, moving awkwardly. Then he is shot again. The component parts of the sniper rifle may have been made in… Continue reading
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PCHR_e 23 July 2014: Statistics: Victims of the Israeli Offensive on Gaza since 08 July 2014
Statistics: Victims of the Israeli Offensive on Gaza since 08 July 2014 Continue reading
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Calls for genocide enter Israeli mainstream
As we watch the horrifying slaughter unfold in Gaza, bear in mind the Israeli psychosis that fuels and justifies it. Here are comments from three rightwing Israelis – two leading politicians and a professor – who very much reflect a strain of mainstream thinking in Israel, one that the international media largely avoids noting. Continue reading
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Video: "We Are Going Through Hell" – Report from Gaza
Yousef Al-Helou is a Palestinian journalist and correspondent for The Real News Network based in Gaza-Palestine. His work has been featured in a variety of media outlets including BBC, GRN, CBC Radio Canada, TV New Zealand, UN Observer, Reuters Institute, Middle East Monitor, Press TV, Al-Etejah TV, Maan News Network, Electronic Intifada, Palestine Chronicle, PNN… Continue reading
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