by Sally Ibrahim, reposted from The New Arab Darkness hung over the operating room at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in central Gaza as surgeon Issam Abu Ajwa focused all his energy on saving a patient, the sounds of medical equipment mixing with the groans of the wounded man. As the doctor fought desperately to save his life, the…
The city of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank is now a ghost town. Life has come to a standstill in the usually bustling city after Israeli ground troops, fighter jets, helicopters, tanks, bulldozers and drones have ravaged residential neighborhoods, the destruction resembling that in Gaza.
Israel has increasingly employed sexual, reproductive & other forms of gender-based violence against Palestinians as part of an effort to undermine their right to self-determination, & carried out genocidal acts through the systematic destruction of sexual & reproductive healthcare facilities, according to a new UN report
Medo Halimy, who showed day-to-day life in Gaza, was reported killed as a bystander to an airstrike. Doctors say he may have been shot in the head.
Israel accused of starvation, genocidal acts, sexual violence, use of human shields in Gaza; Trump admin blamed for intimidation, waffling, hijacking civil rights
Jewish Insider says that the prospect that kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie may run for US Senate “is already generating fierce opposition from the local and national Jewish community.”
No clean water, no electricity in Gaza; West Bank: raids, theft; another Israeli minister supports ethnic cleansing; latest on Mahmoud Khalil; 60 universities threatened with federal funding cuts
Ruth Marcus, longtime Washington Post editor & columnist, identifies herself ideologically and politically as a liberal and as a Zionist. In her latest oped she referred to herself as a “proud Jew” and repeated virtually every Israeli talking point.
When No Other Land won this year’s Academy Award for best documentary feature, corporate media outlets didn’t exactly roll out the red carpet.
More than a third of Palestinian child prisoners – over 100 – are administrative detainees, held in Israeli prisons without charge or trial.