The hope is that Abu Safiya will not suffer the fate of his colleague, the former head of orthopaedics at Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital. After four months of abuse at Ofer prison, Bursh was dumped by guards in its yard, naked from the waist down, bleeding and unable to stand. He died a short time later.
Deliberately creating “hell” on earth for Gaza’s civilian population is exactly what Daniella Weiss, director of the Israeli settler organization Nachala, condoned in an interview with BBC News’ in April 2024
Aid groups are running out of options; Israel blocks probe into Hamas rape allegations to avoid investigation of Israeli sexual crimes; ceasefire, or no ceasefire?; “Generals Plan” mastermind says military efforts won’t work; Israel kills 3 Palestinians in West Bank; Israel destroys Araqeeb village for 234th time; Amnesty Int’l suspends Israel branch; Ireland joins ICJ genocide case against Israel; Michael Moore on Gaza and pro-Israel propaganda
![“Thank you, US [taxpayers], for enabling us to wage war” with another $8B – Day 456](https://israelpalestinenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/1-5-t-610x410.jpg "“Thank you, US [taxpayers], for enabling us to wage war” with another $8B – Day 456")
Biden adds $8 billion worth of fuel to the fire burning in Gaza, West Bank; Hamas offers Israel a hostage deal; Israeli hypocrisy on display
Israel is a chronic liability that squanders billions of American dollars, drags the US into wars and whose genocidal treatment of the Palestinians is destroying America’s moral pretensions in most of the world. Once this is understood, support for Israel will collapse, and voters may apply enough pressure to reorient U.S. policy in line with genuine national interests.
In 2024, death, destruction, demolitions, settler violence, and land theft plagued Palestinians; expatriation and suicide haunted Israel.
The Geographic and Demographic Imperatives of the Palestinian Refugees’ Return, by Salman H. Abu Sitta
As Palestine mourns the passing of Jimmy Carter, Gazan babies freeze to death, hospital patients are arrested; Israel permanently shutters hospital, desecrates Al Aqsa mosque, continues rampage in Lebanon.
Israeli Minister of Diaspora and Combating Antisemitism Amichai Chikli attacked and threatened the American nonprofit organization, which has defended Americans of all faiths.
Gazans freezing, homeless, sexually assaulted, gaslit; West Bankers face down Israeli and Palestinian Authority forces; a BDS win.