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Month: July 2014

War on Gaza: Video Diary
UNRWA Christopher Gunness Breaks Down In Tears On Live TV After Attacks On Schools In Gaza https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu3lYK6OmMI The Shujaiyya Market Massacre Palestinian Journalist Mohammed Omer: Lifting the Blockade Isn’t a Hamas Demand—It’s a Human Right Is […]

Inscribing Palestine – A Poem
By Ramona Wadi International abandonment a horizon exploding in hideous light beneath the massacred canopy echoes of footsteps, voices, laments the tapestry unravels, threads suffocating street corners, pavements, rubble and sand melting faces dissipating in […]

Video: Palestinian Resistance Fighters behind Israeli Army Lines
Palestinian resistance fighters had recently carried out several operations behind Israeli army lines, some stationed in reoccupied Gaza neighborhoods and others near the Gaza-Israeli border. In this video, Hamas’ military arm, Izz al-Din al-Qassam says […]

Gaza Death Toll Hits 1380, US Resupplies Israel with Weapons
The United States confirmed it had restocked Israel’s supplies of ammunition, hours after finally sharpening its tone to condemn an attack on a United Nations school in Gaza that killed 16 people sheltering there. Israeli […]

16,000 Reserves Called up in Israel as US Provides More Arms for Gaza Offensive
Israel called up 16,000 additional reserve soldiers on Thursday, boosting army numbers amid their deepening military offensive in Gaza. The move comes after the US revealed on Wednesday they have restocked the Israeli army with […]

20 Bodies Found in Gaza Rubble as Wednesday Death Toll Hits 130
The bodies of 20 Palestinians were recovered from the rubble of destroyed buildings in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday evening, as Gazans took stock of a 23-day Israeli assault that has killed 1,360 people […]

When BBC Calls, Don’t Expect Love
By Richard Falk When BBC Calls, Should you Answer? That is, don’t expect love, if you are a certified critic of Israeli policies and practices, and prepare yourself for rejection. The siren lure of big […]

Gaza Ministry Calls on UNRWA to Condemn Attacks on Its Shelters
Gaza’s Ministry of Interior Wednesday called upon the UN agency for Palestinian refugees to condemn the latest deadly shelling of a UN school. “Many UNRWA schools have been targeted on the heads of people taking […]

67 Palestinians Killed in Israeli Attacks since Midnight
At least 67 Palestinians have been killed and 110 injured in Israeli attacks since midnight Wednesday on the 23rd day of the Gaza offensive, according to the Ministry of Health. In the most devastating attack, […]

Recruiting to Kill – It Is Not Just an Israeli War on Gaza
By Ramzy Baroud To some, US secretary of state John Kerry may have appeared to be a genuine peacemaker as he floated around ideas during a Cairo visit on 25 July about a ceasefire between […]

Gaza Power Plant Shut Down, 40 Dead in Israeli Shelling Tuesday
The Gaza Strip’s sole power plant shut down due to a large fire caused by Israeli shelling on Tuesday morning, after at least 40 were killed in a series of Israeli strikes from land, air, […]

Israeli Shrike Kills 10 Children in Gaza Refugee Camp
At least 10 Palestinian children were killed and others injured on Monday by an Israeli strike on the western Gaza City Al-Shati Camp, a Palestinian Health Ministry official said. The source, who asked not to […]

Jewish Poem of Contrition
By Darren Stein There is no hiding from the screams of a child, Baby forms shredded by shrapnel, Little bodies broken by bricks; It makes me sick to look upon, ashamed as both a human […]

Children of Gaza – Jon Snow’s Experience in the Middle East – Channel 4 News
Jon Snow recounts the scene in Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital, where doctors struggle to treat adults and children wounded by Israeli attacks.

Obama Tells Bibi a Ceasefire is a ‘Strategic Imperative’
Pressure is increasing on Israel to agree on a ceasefire and end their three-week-long assault on the Gaza strip. On Monday, the UN Security Council released a statement urging an immediate ceasefire, while US President […]

Gaza Bodies Pulled from Rubble during Truce as Toll Tops 950
The bodies of 85 of Palestinians were recovered from rubble across Gaza on Saturday, raising to over 950 the overall death toll of Israel’s onslaught on the territory since July 8, medics said. Emergency services […]

6 Palestinians Killed in West Bank amid Protests against Gaza Assault
Six Palestinians were killed on Friday as protests erupted across the West Bank in solidarity with the Gaza Strip, which has been under Israeli assault for the last 18 days. The deaths come after a […]

Hamas Says 10 Israeli Soldiers Killed in Beit Hanoun Ambush
he Hamas-affiliated al-Qassam Brigades claimed responsibility on Friday for killing “at least” 10 Israeli soldiers after targeting an Israeli infantry unit with explosives in eastern Beit Hanoun. Al-Qassam said in a statement that its fighters […]

Palestinian Death Toll at 843 as Israel Announces Death of Soldier
The Israeli army said on Friday that one of its soldiers had been killed in Gaza earlier in the day, bringing the total number of soldiers dead in the fighting to at least 33 as […]

16 Palestinians Dead since Midnight on 18th Day of Gaza Offensive
Some 16 Palestinians have died as a result of Israeli attacks on Gaza since midnight, as reports of a new ceasefire proposal surfaced on the 18th day of the offensive on the Strip. Ashraf al-Qidra, […]

Israel’s Genocide in Gaza will Achieve No Goal
By Ahmed Meiloud For over two weeks, the Gaza strip (already besieged for the past 7 years) has been subjected to continuous bombardment from air and sea. This is the third war to be waged […]

Gaza, Israel and ‘Human Shields’
By Sarah Gillespie What does it mean to use human shields? Employed by the Germans and Japanese in the second word war, the tactic is premised on an underlying trust in your enemy’s humanity. It […]

Dozens Feared Dead as Israel Shells UN Shelter in Beit Hanoun
A spokesman for the UN’s Palestine refugee agency UNRWA in Gaza Adnan Abu Hasana said on Thursday that they had received no warning before Israeli forces shelled a Beit Hanoun school that was serving as […]

Palestinian Leaders, Civil Society, Demand End to Blockade as Death Toll Passes 745
The leader of Hamas has declared they will not accept a ceasefire in Gaza until there is an agreement to end Israel’s punishing eight-year long blockade on the Palestinian coastal enclave. “We will not accept […]

73 Palestinians Killed on Wednesday in Gaza, Total Death Toll at 695
Unceasing Israeli attacks on Gaza left 73 Palestinians dead on Wednesday, bringing the death toll since the beginning of Israel’s offensive on the Strip to 695. A Palestinian health ministry spokesman said that 13 people […]

Mashaal: No One Can Disarm Palestinian Resistance
Khaled Mashaal, head of Hamas’ political bureau, said Wednesday that Palestinian militant groups in Gaza refuse to disarm. “No can disarm the resistance,” Mashaal said in a televised speech from Doha. Twenty-eight foreign ministers of […]

Israeli Forces Bomb al-Wafa Hospital in Gaza City
Israeli warplanes on Wednesday bombed a central Gaza City hospital after the army claimed militants opened fire from the premises, while a UN human rights chief warned that abuses by Hamas did not justify possible […]

US Plays Decisive Role in Israel’s Attack on Gaza
By Jonathan Cook Two reporters for major US TV channels were summarily “removed” last week from covering Israel’s attack on Gaza, moments before Israel launched a ground invasion. NBC pulled out Ayman Mohyeldin, who has […]

Complicity in Ethnic Cleansing
By Ron Forthofer Israel’s current attack on a basically defenseless population in Gaza is a repeat of its massacres of Palestinians in November 2012, December 2008-January 2009 and June-July 2006. This time Israeli forces have […]

Gaza Death Toll ‘Rises above 600’
The death toll in Gaza rose above 600 on Tuesday as emergency teams pulled dead bodies from the rubble of homes destroyed by Israeli strikes on the 15th day of the assault. Palestinian medical sources […]