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Unwilling and Unable: Israel’s Whitewashed Investigations of the Great March of Return Protests

In 2018-19, Israel met a Palestinian nonviolent movement with violence week after week – causing 13,000 Palestinian injuries and 234 deaths – then went through the motions of “investigating” its military’s wrongdoing. The Israeli organization B’Tselem and the Palestine Center for Human Rights combined to produce a detailed report deconstructing the Israeli investigation…

Facts & latest news on Gaza Great March of Return (periodically updated)

Since March 30, 2018 Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip–including families, women, and children–have gathered along the Israeli border to highlight their dispossession in 1948 and protest the growing humanitarian catastrophe. From that time through December 16th, 2019, Israeli forces have killed 364 Gazans and injured over 35,000, including women, children, disabled individuals, medics, and journalists. Many have been shot in the back, nearly all were unarmed and posed no risk to the heavily armed Israeli soldiers. During the same period, Gazan resistance forces killed 9 Israelis.

Haidar Eid: Contextualizing the Great March of Return

 In the past 10 years, Israel has launched three massive genocidal wars of aggression on occupied Gaza… this came after years of a deadly medieval Israeli siege of Gaza… this followed Israel’s ethnic cleansing of multitudes Palestinians… It is time for the world to stand up to the only remaining apartheid regime in the world 

Thursday was deadliest day in Gaza (and Israeli prisons) since March – War on Gaza Day 587

Israeli forces kill over 140 in Gaza, order mass evacuation; 3 Palestinian prisoners confirmed dead; Hamas reiterates readiness to release all hostages for end to Gaza war; Sky News exposes Israeli lie; Trump has forgotten Gaza, Netanyahu is relieved; Trump talks of turning Gaza into ‘freedom zone’

Israeli army admits: 80% of Gaza deaths since March were civilians – War on Gaza Day 586

Bunker buster bombs kill 84; shady “aid group” to start food distribution within weeks – as food spoils outside Gaza; US court hits Israeli spyware firm NSO with $167m fine; GOP works to crush dissent speech; France makes Netanyahu furious; more.

Aid workers risk their lives to deliver food in Gaza: the need is “so great” – Day 189

Risking life to feed the hungry in Gaza; journalists reportedly targeted; Khan Younis in ruins; Hamas apparently running out of living hostages, as Netanyahu continues to delay deal; Biden stands with Israel against Iran as Israel tries to drag the US into a war with Iran; rash of attacks in West Bank by illegal Israeli settlers; Germany “silences a witness to genocide”; France, Germany face legal action over arming Israel