war crimes
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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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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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U.S. Holds the World Record of Killings of Innocent Civilians By Prof. John McMurtry and Kourosh Ziabari
Prof. John McMurtry says that the U.S. government is a gigantic mass-murdering machine which earns profit through waging wars, and is never held accountable over its unspeakable war crimes and crimes against humanity. He also believes that the U.S. has become a police state, which treats its citizens in the most derogatory manner. 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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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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PCHR_e 22 July 2014: On the 15th Day of the Israeli Offensive: Dozens of Palestinian Civilians Killed or Wounded as Israeli Forces Attack Apartment Buildings, Mosques, Hospitals and Schools; White Phosphorous Bombs and Flechette Shells Fired by Israeli Forces in Border Areas
22 July 2014 — Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Press Releases Ref: 93/2014 Date: 22 July 2014 Time: 07:00 GMT On the 15th Day of the Israeli Offensive: Dozens of Palestinian Civilians Killed or Wounded as Israeli Forces Attack Apartment Buildings, Mosques, Hospitals and Schools; White Phosphorous Bombs and Flechette Shells Fired by Israeli Forces Continue reading
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Netanyahu’s “telegenically dead” comment is grotesque but not original, Goebbels beat him to it By Glenn Greenwald
One suddenly has the impression that the Berlin Jewish population consists only of little babies whose childish helplessness might move us, or else fragile old ladies. The Jews send out the pitiable. They may confuse some harmless souls for a while, but not us. We know exactly what the situation is. – Joseph Goebbels 16… 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
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Hamas wants to pile up ‘telegenically-dead Palestinians for their cause’ — Netanyahu, on television By Alex Kane and Phil Weiss
Netanyahu: “All civilian casualties are unintended by us but actually intended by Hamas. They want to pile up as many civilian dead as they can because somebody said, and I mean, it’s gruesome, but they use telegenically-dead Palestinians for their cause. They want– the more dead the better.” Continue reading
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[PCHR_e] Interview with Raji Sourani in Gaza: “We are just soft targets: we are very cheap”
Raji Sourani is a human rights lawyer and founder of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, which documents and investigates human rights violations in the Occupied Territories. Jailed on six occasions for his work, Sourani is staying put in Gaza at the moment, and continuing to work under siege. He tells Roma Rajpal Weiss that… Continue reading
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Gaza Friends: Israel Attacks Gaza Hospital
Last night, Israel’s army fired five warning missiles at El-Wafa geriatric hospital in Gaza City, Gaza. International volunteers now staying in the hospital in solidarity, have said they, “can hear missiles falling close by”. The volunteers are citizens of USA, Spain, Sweden, Venezuela, France, UK, Australia, and New Zealand. The first barrage of missiles hit… Continue reading
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