It is journalistic malpractice for the media to still be repeating so credulously the Israeli military’s account of that day, including alleged Hamas atrocities that turned out to be fiction…
What media reports fail to tell you about October 7
Category: Articles about the situation
‘We are minutes away from death’: al Shifa Hospital is surrounded, Israeli snipers shoot at anything that moves
The situation at al Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza is horrific – no power, no medicine, and no way to escape Israeli bombardment.
More Palestinians killed in past 34 days than in the past 22 years combined
Since 2000, Israeli forces have killed Palestinians nearly every week. Israel launched major attacks on Gaza in 2008, 2012, 2014, 2021, & 2022, as well as invasions of the West Bank. Now, in a little over a month, Israel has killed more Palestinian men, women & children than in the previous 22 years combined.
Phones ringing off the hooks for a ceasefire, but Congress members aren’t listening
Staffers are saying, “I’ve never seen such a disconnect between where voters and constituents are and where Congress is, and that’s saying something because there’s always a disconnect,” and “This is the most I’ve ever seen people unified behind an issue and actively calling.”
US media say Israel is retaliating. The facts show the opposite
Time after time, US news coverage of the issue begins when Palestinians have committed violence, without noting that this violence was preceded by lethal Israeli violence… including against thousands of nonviolent protesters gathering week after week inside the Gaza ghetto…
U.S. diplomats slam Biden’s Israel policy in leaked memo
The document offers a window into internal fury at the State Department over President Joe Biden’s Israel policy – and his administration’s unwillingness to listen to dissent.
US poised to give Israel $18 billion in aid this year
A bill before Congress could potentially hand over an unprecedented amount of “emergency” military aid to Israel, a serial human rights abuser. Clauses in the bill would green-light secret arms deals – and kill civilians.
Genocide Unfolding
“The population of Gaza are simply defenseless. Only international intervention can stop Israel from doing whatever it wishes, and those countries which have influence with Israel are actively abetting and encouraging the genocide.”
Israeli media: Palestinians recount settler, army torture amid surge in West Bank expulsions
Under the shadow of the Gaza war, Israel is displacing rural Palestinian communities en masse. In Wadi al-Siq, the ordeal was particularly horrifying.
Israeli communities near Gaza are on stolen land, former owners consigned to the Gaza ghetto
The Israeli kibbutz settlements surrounding Gaza are built on stolen land. 80% of Gaza’s population are families Israel violently expelled, caged in one small corner of their original lands for 75 years. Residents of these Israeli towns have been able to prosper, swim in pools, dance, sing & celebrate “unity and love” just a few kilometers away from where over 2.1 million people live, usurped from their lands, subjugated to daily humiliation, purposely impoverished and caged in, unable to move, live, fish in the sea, and certainly unable to celebrate “unity and love.”