(Jerusalem, March 1, 2017, Human Rights Watch) – Israel has been detaining Palestinian residents of Gaza under an obscure law that strips away meaningful judicial review and due process rights, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights and Human Rights Watch said today. Israel has detained 18 Palestinian residents of Gaza under the Internment of Unlawful Combatants…
Evictions, demolitions, and UXO are constant risks for Palestinian children living in areas of the Jordan Valley that Israel has declared as “firing zones,” where Israeli battalions regularly assemble to hone their combat skills. “During 2016, we were forced to evacuate our houses around 30 times…”
Over the past six decades, Israeli leaders have refined their strategies for taking advantage of their staunchest ally, the United States. Israeli leaders have frequently manipulated and misled American presidents out of a confidence that U.S. politicians deeply fear the political fallout from any public battle with Israel…
Eroding the status quo at Al-Aqsa, backing settler pogroms, ignoring violent crime: If there is an eruption, it will have been engineered by Israel alone.
As Israeli Prison Service serves settlers lunch in its facility, Palestinian prisoner rights groups warn of ongoing starvation amid Ramadan.
Israel is spending millions targeting the evangelical right, allegedly “to fight antisemitism.” But the effort is actually part of a bid to revive Israel’s standing among Christians who are no longer among the country’s most staunch supporters.
The Trump administration is planning to build a 5,000-person military base in Gaza, sprawling more than 350 acres, according to Board of Peace contracting records reviewed by the Guardian.
NYT calls concern about Israel’s attack on a US Navy ship an “obsession,” signaling that Americans shouldn’t care about Israel’s attempt to sink the ship with all men aboard … just as it published David Brooks dismissively calling concern about Jeffrey Epstein’s Israel connections an “obsession,” not mentioning Brooks’ ties to Israel and to Epstein…
The glaring absences in the latest dump of Epstein files from the US Department of Justice reveal more about the federal investigation and its cover-up than the 3 million-plus pages released.
Across the Occupied Territories, threats to Palestinian life – including Palestinian-Americans – are numerous. US citizenship offers no protection from violence at the hands of the Israeli state and no guarantee of accountability for its perpetrators.