Amnesty: Israel committed war crimes during Rafah ‘carnage’
In what the global human rights NGO has described as a "cutting edge investigation", the Israeli army was found to have conducted "disproportionate, or otherwise indiscriminate, attacks which killed...
View ArticlePower in the service of Power
It’s been a bad month for the angst-ridden US ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power. Last week, she was “outraged” by Russia’s veto at the UN Security Council of an international criminal court into the...
View ArticleGaza’s Christians and Muslims grow closer in defiance of Israeli attacks
At the memorial service a sad young man surrounded by attendees dressed in black gave a speech on behalf of the Greek Orthodox community and questioned the position of the international community in...
View ArticleWhy Israel Is So Concerned About Jeremy Corbyn
Disinformation and propaganda can take the form of omission just as much as straight forward lies and deception. There is no doubt that that all political parties, one way or another, in the past have...
View ArticleGazans March for Dignity as UN Funds Dwindle and Schools Shutter
Alongside Palestinian children and their family members on Monday, several hundred employees of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in the Gaza Strip rallied against announced cuts to the agency's...
View ArticleIsraeli jets attack central Gaza Strip
Israeli fighter jets have conducted airstrikes against an area in the besieged Gaza Strip following a claim by the Israeli military that a rocket was fired from the Palestinian enclave toward Israel.
View ArticleUN envoy warns a new war in Gaza will be devastating and cruel
The United Nations Middle East peace envoy Nikolay Mladenov warned that any new war between Israel and the Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip will be devastating and cruel and will force donor...
View ArticleUK government: 700 Israeli attacks on Gaza since 2014 ceasefire
Israel has opened fire on the Gaza Strip on “at least 696 occasions” since the August 2014 ceasefire, the UK government has told Parliament. These incidents are in addition to 29 strikes on Gaza...
View ArticleIsraeli jets launch new raids on Gaza Strip
Israeli fighter jets have launched airstrikes on an area in the central Gaza Strip while another Palestinian is shot to death by Israeli troops. The early Monday attacks, which hit two sites belonging...
View ArticleNetanyahu’s Sirens of Apartheid
Critics have labeled the current Israeli Likudnik government that is comprised of right-wing as well as religious parties, as the most extreme in that nation’s history. It features a Justice Minister...
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