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Israel has injured 24,000 Gaza protesters By Maureen Clare
Palestinians have paid a great price for their call for life with dignity during mass protests held along Gaza’s boundary with Israel over the past eight months. Continue reading
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The Short War With Gaza Exposed Israel’s Weakness By Moon of Alabama – Updated
On Sunday night Israeli special forces broke the ceasefire by invading Gaza under disguise. Such incursions happen quite often but are usually left unreported. The invaders wore civilian clothing and some were cloaked as women. Their cars arrived at the house of a local Qassam commander but suspicious guards held them up. A firefight ensued… Continue reading
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Gaza Conflict Report – November 13, 2018: Gaza Is On Edge Of Israeli Ground Invasion
The current round of escalation started on November 11 when a covert unit of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) opened fire at a patrol of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the Hamas military wing, in the town of Khan Yunis inside the Gaza Strip. Continue reading
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ICC Prosecutor: The Demolition of Khan al-Ahmar Bedouin Community Is a War Crime Committed by Israel By Ali Salam
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, released a statement on Wednesday, with regard to Palestine. She refers to the Bedouin community of Khan al-Ahmar, stating that “extensive destruction of property without military necessity, as well as population transfers in an occupied territory constitute war crimes under the Rome Statute.” Continue reading
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New Information Reveals How Israel Covered-Up the Killing of Four Boys in Gaza
Shir Hever discusses the Intercept report, revealing that the Israeli military used an armed drone to kill four children playing football and injure four others. The Israeli investigation of the killing is exposed as a sham Inc. transcript) Continue reading
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NYT Carries IDF Attack on Murdered Medic–Reveals It’s a Smear in 20th Paragraph
Journalism how-not-to: New York Times (6/7/18) puts the attack in the headline, reveals it’s a smear in paragraph 20. A reporter at the most influential paper in English-language media appears to not know the difference between a government “tightly editing” and selectively editing video. Continue reading
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‘Killing Gaza’: A New Documentary on Palestinians Under Siege
In their new film “Killing Gaza,” journalists Dan Cohen and Max Blumenthal capture the harrowing stories of Palestinians who survived the 2014 Israeli assault, and their struggles to recover and persist under a crippling blockade. Continue reading
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‘Killing Gaza’: A New Documentary on Palestinians Under Siege
In their new film “Killing Gaza,” journalists Dan Cohen and Max Blumenthal capture the harrowing stories of Palestinians who survived the 2014 Israeli assault, and their struggles to recover and persist under a crippling blockade. Continue reading
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PCHR: Accountability Guarantees End of International Law Violations Against Peaceful Demonstrators
Recently, violations of international law have escalated in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (oPt), particularly after several political developments that have threatened of ending Palestinians’ right to self-determination and return along with tightening the closure on the Gaza Strip which is on the blink to collapse. These developments led to a popular march started on 30… Continue reading
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The West’s pampering of Israel will lead to the next Gaza massacre By Jonathan Cook
Faced with protests at the perimeter fence in Gaza, Israeli snipers killed dozens of unarmed Palestinians and wounded more than 2,000 others, including children, women, journalists and paramedics, in a hail of live fire. Amnesty, the international human rights organisation, rightly called it a “horror show”. Continue reading
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Not Only Against Demonstrators but also Journalists: Israeli forces Practice Murder in Cold Blood
On Saturday, 07 April 2018, Israeli forces killed photojournalist Yasser Murtaja. Murtaja succumbed to wounds he sustained after being hit with a live bullet that was shot by an Israeli sniper to the abdomen. Since the beginning of the incidents, 9 journalists sustained live bullets wounds. Continue reading
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Israel admits, then deletes, responsibility for Gaza killings By Ali Abunimah
The Israeli army posted a statement on Twitter on Saturday apparently accepting full responsibility for the killings a day earlier of 15 Palestinians as thousands took part in the Great March of Return in Gaza. Continue reading
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Portraits from Gaza
15 September 2014 — The Electronic Intifada See the complete series here 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 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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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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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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The End of Israel? By Gilad Atzmon
In his speech to the nation Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged yesterday that the war on Gaza is a battle for the existence of the Jewish State. Netanyahu is correct. And Israel cannot win this battle; it cannot even define what a victory might entail. Surely the battle is not about the tunnels or the… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 