Channel 4 News: “WARNING – this report contains graphic images some viewers may find distressing. Paul Mason reports on the end of the proposed 72-hour ceasefire and violent attacks on Gaza which followed.” Channel 4 News: “The harrowing effects of the broken Gaza ceasefire” The leveling of the entire neighborhood of Khuzaa and the many […]
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War Crimes
Is Israel Committing a Genocide against the Palestinians of Gaza?
By Luke Peterson Yes, Israel is committing genocide. What we are witnessing now is the extension of the program of national erasure against the Palestinians that the Zionist project has always entailed, at times overtly, but more often covertly. As defined by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Article […]
Gaza: Israel has Left 1.7 mn. with no Clean Water, Little Electricity
By Luisa Gandolfo, University of Aberdeen When Operation Protective Edge commenced on July 8, Israel pledged to draw on lessons learned from previous conflicts to ensure that this operation would not near the duration of the 2008-2009 Gaza War. But it’s been three weeks and one day since the conflict began, bringing it in line […]
About a Girl: To ‘Liesel’ in Gaza…
Girl in Gaza. (origin of photos unknown) by ROBIN KIRK for ISLAMiCommentary Of all of the images of the destruction being visited upon Gaza and Israel, why did the picture of a girl retrieving her books from the rubble stop me cold? The image was originally posted, as far as I can tell, by the […]
Wiping another Country off the Map: Israel does it to Palestine
By Juan Cole Back when the warmongers had hopes of ginning up a war between the United States and Iran during the Bush administration, one of their propaganda talking points was the Iran had “threatened to wipe Israel off the map.” When we look at Gaza’s before and after pictures (below) it becomes clear that […]
UN Official Breaks Down on Camera; another says: “Children Killed in their Sleep – a Source of Universal Shame”
‘After a United Nations-run school sheltering more than 3,000 Palestinians was shelled early Wednesday, UN official Chris Gunness could not contain his grief while on camera with Al Jazeera Arabic. “The rights of Palestinians, and even their children, are wholesale denied… and its appalling,” Gunness, spokesman for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), told […]
Gaza’s Schools on the Battlefield (HRW)
By Bede Sheppard via Human Rights Watch Follow @BedeOnKidRights On July 30 a school in the Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) came under attack. At least 15 people died and scores more were wounded, including women and children who were sheltering there. It was the […]
Washington Condemns Israeli Shelling of UN School w/out Mentioning Israel
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — … [O]n Wednesday, another 16 people were killed when at least two Israeli tank shells slammed into a UN school in Jabaliya refugee camp in the north, in an attack angrily denounced by the UN chief and the world body’s agency for Palestinian refugees. The attack was also denounced by the White […]
Gaza and Soweto
By Juan Cole On June 16, 1976, some 20,000 students rose up to protest in the slum of Soweto on the outskirts of Johannesburg. Here is a summary of the June 18 NYT article on the repression of the protests: “Rioting continues for 3d day in Soweto, black township outside Johannesburg, with rioters, mostly young, […]
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