War Crimes

Biden’s $270 mn Gaza Aid Pier to be Mothballed, but “Famine has spread across the Entire Gaza Strip”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Navy Times reports that the US aid pier at Gaza will be permanently decommissioned. The $270 million pier could not be reattached this week because of heavy seas. President Joe Biden announced the pier in his State of the Union address, pledging that “massive amounts” of humanitarian aid would […]

Displaced and Refugees

Sudan is now Confronting its most severe Food Security Crisis on Record

The Conversation

By Rob Vos, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Khalid Siddig, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) | – (The Conversation) – After 14 months of escalating internal conflict, Sudan is now confronting its most severe food security crisis on record. The latest situation report, released on 27 June, reveals a grim picture: more […]

Displaced and Refugees

Gazans’ extreme Hunger could leave its Mark on subsequent Generations

The Conversation

Hasan Khatib, University of Wisconsin-Madison | – As Israel’s offensive in Gaza rages on, people across the entire Gaza Strip find themselves in increasingly dire circumstances, with nearly the entire population experiencing high levels of food insecurity, including malnutrition, hunger and starvation. A famine review analysis from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification reported on […]

Children

Israeli Forces have killed or Separated from their Families 35,000 Palestinian Children in Gaza

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Save the Children said Monday that in addition to the some 14,000 children killed by the Israeli military according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, another 4,000 are estimated dead under rubble, and 17,000 are wandering around on their own, unaccompanied and separated from their parents (who may have been […]

Featured

UN: Israel Flattened Civilian Housing Complexes with 2000-lb. Bombs in absence of Specific Military Target

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights issued a report this week on “Indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks during the conflict in Gaza” during the first three months of the Israeli campaign against Gaza. The UN is painfully polite, so you may not be able to tell that the […]

Featured

UN Commission of Inquiry: Israel guilty of Crimes against Humanity, Hamas Guilty of War Crimes

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel issued a report on Wednesday in which it charged both Hamas and Israel with war crimes. The IICIOPTI made an extensive investigation into the October 7 massacre in Israel staged by the Hamas paramilitary and its […]

Israel

Lebanon: Israel’s White Phosphorus Use risks Civilian Harm

Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – Israel’s widespread use of white phosphorus in south Lebanon is putting civilians at grave risk and contributing to civilian displacement, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch verified the use of white phosphorus munitions by Israeli forces in at least 17 municipalities across south Lebanon since October 2023, including 5 […]

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Bernie Sanders is right to Boycott “War Criminal” Netanyahu’s address to Congress, but the PM isn’t the first War Criminal to be Invited

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Sen. Bernie Sanders has been scathing about the invitation issued by Congressional leaders to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address them. Sanders blasts Netanyahu as a “war criminal” and says he will boycott the appearance. The Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in the Hague has requested arrest […]

Apartheid

Israel’s Experiments in Gaza are the new Face of America’s imperial Laboratory

Yoav Litvin

( The New Arab ) – On Saturday, October 7 2023, a significant shift occurred in the Palestinian-Israeli narrative. A normalised, gradual genocide over 76 years of Zionist colonialism, peppered by savage episodes of “mowing the lawn”, obscured by liberal Zionist propaganda and backed by imperial Washington, became an unapologetic, even gleeful mass murder of […]