Yair Lapid’s brazen demand for impunity for the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh is a disturbing reflection of the US-Israeli relationship.
Israel demands full impunity for killing Shireen Abu Akleh – and the Biden administration agrees
Category: Israeli governmental policies
Israeli forces raid, shut down Defense for Children & 5 other agencies in West Bank
As a continuation of its targeting of 6 major Palestinian human rights organizations, Israeli forces ransacked their offices, confiscated materials, and welded shut their office doors…
Flashback: Israel offered to sell South Africa nuclear warheads
British newspaper reveals documents from 1970’s recording a meeting in which Israel makes deal to sell nuclear weapons to apartheid regime. The documents were the first official evidence of Israel’s possession of nuclear weapons
Israeli soldier: ‘We killed a little boy, but it was within the rules’
Former IDF soldiers reveal how the army authorizes strikes in Gaza knowing civilians will be killed, so long as the number is deemed low enough.
Flashback: The Night of the Broken Clubs
The Israeli soldiers carried out the orders they’d been given: To break both arms and both legs by clubbing the Arabs; To avoid clubbing them on the heads; To remove their bonds after breaking their arms & legs, to leave them at the site; & To leave one local with broken arms but without broken legs so he could make it back to the village…
Palestinian youth survived Israeli bullet in 2017, survives assassination attempt in 2022
Invading Israeli forces first shot 20-year-old Mohammad Tamimi in the head when he was 15 – and that was just the beginning of their attacks on him… including, most recently, another bullet to the head…
After 15 years of blockade, 4 of 5 children in Gaza struggle with depression, grief & fear
A detailed report by Save the Children found Gazan children living in a perpetual state of fear, worry, sadness & grief, waiting for the next Israeli invasion…
Gaza: Israel’s ‘Open-Air Prison’ at 15
Human Rights Watch offers a scathing report on Israel’s treatment of Palestinians in Gaza – on the 15-year anniversary of Israel’s brutal blockade.
Israeli NGO refers Israel to Int’l Criminal Court for torture of Palestinians
Public Committee Against Torture in Israel says that after 30 years of fighting torture, it had “reached the unfortunate conclusion” that Israel has no wish to end torture, honestly investigate victims’ complaints and prosecute those responsible.
Int’l medical community must call out Israel’s medical cruelty & war crimes
Israel has destroyed Palestinian hospitals, attacked patients, denied medical travel permits & targeted healthcare workers…The American Medical Association has issued press releases calling the targeting of healthcare workers in Ukraine “unconscionable.” They must also do this for Palestinians…