The Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely worried about the safety of Al Jazeera Arabic’s Gaza correspondent Anas Al-Sharif, who is being targeted by an Israeli military smear campaign, which he believes is a precursor to his assassination.
I take my final exams on an empty stomach, with a fogged mind and a weakened body, as prices skyrocket and Gaza is starved to death while the world watches in silence
No foreign military, no matter how close the alliance, should receive blank checks from the U.S. government when there is credible evidence they are violating international humanitarian norms and committing war crimes.
The New York Times has helped to enable and sustain Israel’s ongoing genocide. A new dossier reveals the close ties of 20 top editors, executives, and journalists at the Times who have covered Gaza and their connection to Israel and Zionism.
A live feed from Handala was taken offline shortly after the IDF boarded the vessel. In the final seconds of the broadcast, an Israeli soldier can be seen grabbing the live camera. According to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, the ship’s crew includes lawyers, activists, volunteer medics and journalists, & two French lawmakers.
The Israeli-backed and U.S.-run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said that its distribution on Thursday would only be for Palestinian women. Eyewitnesses say that GHF staff pepper-sprayed them and beat them with batons, while two women were killed.
An internal U.S. government analysis found no evidence of systematic theft by the Palestinian militant group Hamas of U.S.-funded humanitarian supplies, challenging the main rationale that Israel and the U.S. give for backing a new armed private aid operation.
“There is no prior experience in my five decades of humanitarian experience that can come close to comparison to the horror we are all seeing in Gaza…. My grandchildren will be learning in school about who did what in the worst crime of the 21st century”… Israeli Heritage Minister said that Israel “is racing ahead for Gaza to be wiped out… All of Gaza will be Jewish,” he vowed.
The situation in Gaza is critical: many children and adults are in grave danger. Doctors, aid workers, & parents are too weak to care for those counting on them
‘The precision, the minute control that Israel has over this is something without precedent in modern times,’ says Alex de Waal