John Kiriakou, ex-CIA and whistleblower who exposed U.S. torture tactics, & served prison time for it, speaks on Palestine, Israel, and covert CIA operations.
Israeli forces killed at least 102 Palestinians in Gaza, including 27 aid-seekers; Israeli drones to terrorize Gazans; US firm quits Gaza humanitarian aid effort; Gaza Humanitarian Foundation names US evangelical leader as new chair; espionage at aid sites?; West Bank annexation update; Leqaa Kordia; statehood; flotilla update
Israeli forces killed at least 54 people on Sunday, dozens gunned down while trying to reach food aid site; “unprecedented” water crisis in Gaza City; Israel destroys Gaza dialysis hospital; ceasefire news; as Gazans starve, Israeli forces to expand ‘ground operation’; Freedom Flotilla update; harassing Ms Rachel
Israeli forces kill at least 72 Gazans, including at least 1 aid seeker; UN special rapporteur on the right to food declares famine; MSF says US-Israeli effort for Gaza aid feigns compliance with int’l law; Israel forcibly displaces 250,000 from Jabaliya; West Bank news; Macron and Katz’s war of words; horrific carbon footprint of Israel’s war on Gaza; more.
Secular and state-funded religious schools in Israel will soon begin teaching compulsory courses on Jewish and Zionist identity, including religious ceremonies and Bible. Bottom line: the state will decide what it means to be a Jew in Israel.
Gaza shelter becomes inferno; GHF aid distribution begins?; available cropland in Gaza >5%; Israel set to increase reserve force by 50,000 in Gaza; Israel threatens retaliatory annexation of West Bank settlements; yearly provocative Israeli flag march doesn’t disappoint; former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert op-ed: Enough Is Enough; US politicians pay homage to Netanyahu
At least 38 Gazans killed; bakeries in Gaza halt again after only 3 days of operation; ‘killer’ robots; chief of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation resigns, as NGOs distance themselves; Israeli settler violence; Netanyahu’s “siege politics”; CAIR: US bombs killed Red Cross workers; Spain: Gaza is “a gaping wound on humanity”; more.
International law provides special protection for children in armed conflicts. Countless Palestinian children have been killed, yet no law is protecting them.
Amid widespread starvation and clear indications of a genocide occurring in Gaza, governments that are parties to the Genocide Convention should be acting – but they are not.
May 15 marks the 77th anniversary of the Nakba, or the Catastrophe — the destruction of historic Palestine, the catastrophe of dispossession, and the mass ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population in 1948, which continues to this day.