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.
Death statistics in Gaza; Israel kills another journalist; Israel must be hiding sexual crimes; “defeat Hamas before Trump’s inauguration”; calls to expand attacks on West Bank; many captives are now missing; more.
Israeli army sets fire to north Gaza’s last functioning hospital; Biden admin’s Jack Lew got US-funded famine identification org to rescind its famine announcement for Gaza; Israel will withdraw from Lebanon when it’s good and ready
N. Gaza hospital under Israeli attack, aid trucks blocked; 5 Palestinians killed in West Bank; calls for Biden to do the right thing for Gaza; what it’s like to take a propaganda tour in Israel
Famine and death in Gaza, as multiple scandals come to light in Israel; Trump anoints new Israel-first ambassador to UN.
Urgent call for doctors in northern Gaza; Israel votes strongly in favor of UNRWA ban, US is disappointed; Marwan Barghouti beaten severely in prison; South Africa adds thousands more pages of evidence to Int’l Court of Justice genocide case against Israel; UN official calls for total weapons embargo on Israel; massive cultural boycott against Israel; more.
Multiple human rights reports show that Palestinian armed groups do not use human shields, but Israel does. Israel’s false claims about Palestinian human shields are just attempts to justify its own targeting of civilians.
In the past, Israel’s moral debate about its military actions may have been narrow and hypocritical, but at least it existed. Not this time.
An American self-immolates outside Israeli consulate in Boston; US students protest for Gaza in spite of restrictions; US shelling out big bucks for goodies for Israel and aid for Egypt; State Dept spox prefers Israeli whitewashing over Washington Post investigation; EU leader called antisemitic for talking about two-state solution; Pope declares Israel’s actions in Gaza “ugly”; more.
Shocking even by Israeli standards, the horrifying truth of the occupation’s systematic torture, rape, and degradation of Palestinian detainees reveals a brutality buried in silence.