Amid an ongoing assault on its neighbors, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) is attempting to improve its image by posting highly sexually suggestive content featuring its soldiers—many accounts with hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of followers. These accounts are quietly sanctioned by the Israeli government, in an attempt, in its own words, to “appeal” to a young male demographic.
MintPress News explores the phenomenon of Israel using sex to whitewash its actions.
Threats of mistreatment from one of the architects of Israeli genocide will not deter those who are fed up with the Israeli murder of Palestinians and the physical destruction of Gaza.
Under international law, including Article 37(d) of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, every child has the right to prompt access to legal assistance and to challenge the legality of their detention before a court. Israel consistently deprives Palestinian kids of this right.
Israeli forces kill at least 112 Palestinians in Gaza on Tuesday, including at least 33 aid seekers; 367 have died of starvation; 1 killed in West Bank; record number of Palestinian children imprisoned, without charges, by Israel; Israeli drones already harassing Gaza Flotilla
Israeli forces kill at least 85 Palestinians in Gaza on Saturday, including at least 30 aid seekers; 339 dead from starvation; full warehouses, empty stomachs in Gaza; “Nakba all over again” in West Bank; US’ shameful gatekeeping at UN; ‘Gaza Riviera’; new Gaza freedom flotilla sets sail
More than 100 organizations advocate for the freedom of a 16-year-old dual Palestinian-American citizen detained by Israel for more than six months.
The Israeli army carried out a ‘double-tap’ strike on the Nasser Hospital in Gaza, killing at least 20 people, including five journalists who worked for Al Jazeera, Reuters, and the Associated Press.
“Let us pray that all our hearts may be converted, so that we may walk in the paths of justice and life, for Gaza and for the whole Holy Land. ”
Palestinian teenagers kidnapped and imprisoned by Israeli occupation forces during the genocidal war on Gaza accused their jailers of torturing and sexually assaulting them in a report.
US and Israeli sources describe a pattern of obstruction by Israeli leadership, even as Hamas accepted key terms for a ceasefire in the region.