Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is peddling a fanciful narrative of Israel’s history that bears no resemblance to the truth. We provide the real facts here, comprehensively annotated and easily verifiable.
Haroun Abu Aram, 27, had been shot in the neck by an Israeli soldier trying to confiscate a family’s generator; Haroun had been a quadriplegic ever since. Mahmoud Al-Ayedi, 17, was shot in the head during an Israeli military invasion of his refugee camp…
Five more tragic deaths in Israel-Palestine. As Palestinian anger grows against Israeli forces that have killed 45 people so far this year, demolished 34 Palestinian homes, conducted over 1,500 raids on Palestinian spaces, arrested 638 Palestinians, destroyed olive trees, shot at fishermen, and continue to hold 4,700 political prisoners – today one Palestinian was killed after an alleged stabbing attempt (according to the Israeli military – this is unconfirmed), another died in prison of medical neglect, and a third was killed after taking 2 Israeli lives in a car ramming incident. The Palestinian death toll in 2023 stands at 45; 9 Israelis have also been killed (all by lone Palestinian attackers.)
It is shocking that this happened in Palestine just a few years after the Nazi regime was defeated and its concentration camp prisoners (many of them Jews) were freed.
Israeli violence made January 2023 the bloodiest month for West Bank Palestinians in 8 years – including murders, injuries, land theft, building demolitions, and more. 7 Israelis have also been killed.
Israel’s efforts to control and destroy the lives of Palestinians is visible in the thousands of big and small incidents that happen every day. Below are summaries of just a handful of shocking (but unsurprising) stories from the past few days that you may not have heard about.
In the first 26 days of 2023, Israeli forces killed 29 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank (plus another child in Gaza died from wounds inflicted by Israeli forces last year). In response, Palestinian resistance fighters in Gaza fired two rockets into Israel. Today, Israel fired dozens of missiles into the besieged Gaza Strip, causing major damage
After the Israeli military killed nine Palestinians in Jenin on Thursday, they attacked a group of Palestinians protesting the killings, and killed yet another Palestinian, Yousef Mheisin, age 22. The death toll for Palestinians in 2023 is now 30.
The content of AIPAC’s recent Political Leadership Forum was largely concealed from the public, but here is what we do know about it.
On Wednesday and Thursday Israeli troops invading Palestinian towns killed three teens, a 25-year-old, and a father trying to defend his son, bringing Palestinian deaths in the first 12 days of 2023 to 9.