A coalition of seven major unions, representing millions of U.S. workers, sent a joint letter to Biden calling on him to “immediately halt all military aid to Israel” ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s visit to Washington. The coalition said the move is needed “as part of the work to secure an immediate and permanent […]
The United Nations’ highest court issued an advisory opinion arguing that Israel’s large-scale expansion of settlements amounts to annexation, a crime under international law. By Jake Johnson Jul 19, 2024 The International Court of Justice said Friday that Israel’s decades long occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, is unlawful and must […]
“Why do they target us when we are innocent people?” said a Palestinian woman sheltering at a school attacked Tuesday. “We do not carry weapons but are just sitting and trying to find safety for ourselves and our children.” By Edward Carver, Jul 17, 2024 Israeli attacks have killed 81 Palestinians over roughly the last […]
I returned to occupied Palestine, from where I had reported for The New York Times, after two decades. I experienced once more the visceral evil of Israel’s occupation. CHRIS HEDGES July 12, 2024 RAMALLAH, Occupied Palestine: It comes back in a rush, the stench of raw sewage, the groan of the diesel, sloth-like […]
Detailed accounts by former Israeli soldiers describe how they fired their weapons out of “boredom,” designated any Palestinians in sight as a threat, and routinely burned homes down. By JULIA CONLEY Jul 08, 2024 Disputing the repeated claims of Israeli officials and their vehement supporters in the Biden administration, who have scoffed at concerns that the Israel Defense […]
“It’s a nightmare at Al-Aqsa,” said Samuel Johann, MSF coordinator in Gaza. “How many more men, women, and children have to be killed before world leaders decide to put an end to this massacre?” By JESSICA CORBETT Jun 08, 2024 Palestinian officials said at least 210 people were killed and more than 400 injured […]
“This is not war, it is destruction that words are unable to express,” said the father of two children killed in the Israeli strike. JAKE JOHNSON Jun 06, 2024 Israeli forces on Thursday bombed a Gaza school run by the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, killing dozens of people including women and children. […]
“It took a genocide that killed 15,000 children and maimed and scarred thousands more but the U.N. has finally and rightly added Israel to its List of Shame,” said one Palestinian observer. By Brett Wilkins June 07, 2024 United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres informed Israel on Friday that, for the first time, it is being added […]
President Biden remains culpable for deaths in Gaza, whether the human toll is now 35,000 or 200,000. Joshua Frank May 31, 2024 As Amal Nassar lay in pain on a bed at the Al-Awda Hospital in the Nuseirat refugee camp in northern Gaza, the echoes of explosions and artillery fire could be heard all […]
“There is no mistake, just total disregard for humanity, decency, international law,” said human rights experts at the United Nations of Israel’s bombing of an encampment. By Julia Conley May 30, 2024 A coalition of United Nations experts on Wednesday vehemently rejected Israel’s claim that its bombing of a tent encampment in a supposed “humanitarian […]
“How many more charred corpses does he have to see before the president considers a change in policy?” a CBS News reporter asked a White House official following the massacre. By Edward Carver Israel used U.S.-made bombs in its attack on a camp of displaced Palestinians outside Rafah that killed dozens on Sunday night, according to analyses […]
Pro-Israel forces in the U.S. are trying their best to throw sand in the wheels of justice with threats of new sanctions against the International Criminal Court after it requested Israeli and Hamas arrest warrants. By Medea Benjamin Senator Lindsay Graham was bursting with contempt for the International Criminal Court when he grilled Secretary of […]
“What needs to be ordered is a permanent cease-fire and an end to the siege and occupation,” said a Palestinian forced to flee Gaza. By Jessica Corbett May 24, 2024 Civilians and journalists in the southern Gaza Strip reported Friday that Israel responded to an order by the International Court of Justice to halt military operations in Rafah by […]
“Israel must immediately halt its military offensive or any other action in the Rafah governorate which may inflict on the Palestinian group in Gaza conditions of life that could bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part,” said Judge Nawaf Salam, president of the ICJ. By Julia Conley May 24, 2024 […]
Karim Khan, chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, accuses Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant of numerous crimes including “starvation as a method of war” and “deliberately targeting civilians.” Groundxero | May 20, 2024 The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on May 20 announced that he […]