Each month, numerous NGOs produce reports on the humanitarian situation in Israel-Palestine, but US media rarely report on them. See this compilation of reports by Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, National Lawyers Guild, Red Cross, Christian Aid, B’Tselem, Defense for Children International, and others…
Just a few months after Israeli human rights org B’Tselem released its bombshell report calling Israel an apartheid state, another major group reaches the same conclusion – adding “persecution” to the charge of apartheid. A 200+ page report details Human Rights Watch’s findings.
The UN published its biweekly report on the humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territories. As usual, Israeli soldiers and settlers carried out numerous attacks, and property damage, including uprooting hundreds of Palestinian farmers’ trees.
N. Gaza hospital under Israeli attack, aid trucks blocked; 5 Palestinians killed in West Bank; calls for Biden to do the right thing for Gaza; what it’s like to take a propaganda tour in Israel
Famine and death in Gaza, as multiple scandals come to light in Israel; Trump anoints new Israel-first ambassador to UN.
Urgent call for doctors in northern Gaza; Israel votes strongly in favor of UNRWA ban, US is disappointed; Marwan Barghouti beaten severely in prison; South Africa adds thousands more pages of evidence to Int’l Court of Justice genocide case against Israel; UN official calls for total weapons embargo on Israel; massive cultural boycott against Israel; more.
Multiple human rights reports show that Palestinian armed groups do not use human shields, but Israel does. Israel’s false claims about Palestinian human shields are just attempts to justify its own targeting of civilians.
In the past, Israel’s moral debate about its military actions may have been narrow and hypocritical, but at least it existed. Not this time.
An American self-immolates outside Israeli consulate in Boston; US students protest for Gaza in spite of restrictions; US shelling out big bucks for goodies for Israel and aid for Egypt; State Dept spox prefers Israeli whitewashing over Washington Post investigation; EU leader called antisemitic for talking about two-state solution; Pope declares Israel’s actions in Gaza “ugly”; more.
Shocking even by Israeli standards, the horrifying truth of the occupation’s systematic torture, rape, and degradation of Palestinian detainees reveals a brutality buried in silence.