Displaced and Refugees

By Edward Hunt ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Over the past several months, officials in Washington have acknowledged that one of the fundamental issues at stake in Israel’s military campaign in Gaza is its effect on the people of Gaza. Even as the United States has continued helping Israel wage its military campaign, […]

Gaza: The uncertain Fate of Patients needing Life-Saving Dialysis Treatment

The Conversation

By Ali Iqbal, McMaster University; Aliya Khan, McMaster University; and Ben Thomson, Johns Hopkins University | – More than 100 days into the brutal assault on Gaza, over 27,000 Palestinians have been killed — of whom 60 per cent have been children and women — and 66,000 injured, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). […]

Displaced and Refugees

Gaza: Weaponisation of Food has been used in Conflicts for Centuries – but it hasn’t always resulted in Victory

The Conversation

By Greg Kennedy, King’s College London | – (The Conversation) – More than half a million Gazans are currently facing “catastrophic hunger”, according to UN agencies. Reducing access to food is being used as a weapon in Gaza by the Israeli government. Denying food to a civilian population is a tactic that has been used […]

Displaced and Refugees

Freezing Aid to Gaza: Israel’s International War against the UN Relief and Works Agency

Middle East Monitor

by Dr Binoy Kampmark Imperilled, tormented Palestinians in Gaza had little time to celebrate the January 26 order of the International Court of Justice. In a case brought by South Africa intended to facilitate a ceasefire and ease the suffering of the Gaza populace, Israel received the unwanted news that it had to, among other […]

Apartheid

Most Palestinians in Gaza are now Displaced at least Twice Over. They have a Right to Choose where to Return

Human Rights Watch

By Sari Bashi Program Director @saribashi | – ( Human Rights Watch ) – It has been almost four months since Israel began its strikes on Gaza, following the massacre of hundreds of civilians by Hamas-led gunmen in the country’s south. Roughly 80 percent of the Strip’s 2.2 million residents have been internally displaced, more […]

Displaced and Refugees

Israel’s Reputation forever Besmirched by UN Court Injunction to Cease Genociding Palestinians

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The International Court of Justice’s ruling on “provisional measures” regarding the allegation of genocide against Israel for its behavior in Gaza is what in the US we would call a “preliminary injunction.” That is, it finds that South Africa in its complaint has made a plausible case that Israel is […]

Displaced and Refugees

Catastrophic Displacement Crisis in Gaza is a New Phase in More than a Century of Expulsions by Israel

Jared Keyel

Glassboro, NJ (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – As a scholar of war, migration, and refugee resettlement—but more importantly as a human being—I have watched the death and mass displacement caused by the Israeli assault on Gaza with mounting horror. Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed more than 25,000 people and injured another 61,000, […]

Displaced and Refugees

Netanyahu says Israel must Control from the River to the Sea, but it won’t cost him his Job as it does Palestinians

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports on the press conference in Tel Aviv on Thursday evening of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. He vowed to continue the war on Gaza and vowed to attack Iran. “Who says we won’t attack Iran? We will attack it.” At one point Netanyahu insisted that […]

Displaced and Refugees

Nowhere to Run – The world’s Refugees say, ‘Gimme Shelter’

Rebecca Gordon

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Think of Donald Trump as, in his own fashion, a creature of climate change. After all, in 2015, he descended that escalator into the election race denouncing immigrants at the southern border (those “Mexican rapists”) and calling for a “big, fat, beautiful wall” to be built along those very lands. As […]