On 5 June, Palestinians mark Naksa Day, commemorating the forced displacement of about 300,000 Palestinians during the June 1967 war. The Naksa is still going.
Amnesty accuses Israel of violating the UN Genocide Convention, and US President Donald Trump of committing a ‘multiplicity of assaults’ on human rights.
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
More apparent prisoner torture, death; Biden admin in denial about genocide; US-made bomb “incinerates” children; the world’s silence about Israel imprisoning its youngest Palestinian child yet; Tom Cotton introduces bill to ban calling occupied West Bank by its name; more.
Israel carries out massacres, ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza; burns sleeping children to death in southern Gaza; kills several in West Bank; a look at IDF “revenge videos”; more.
Amnesty International postures about all sorts of trendy human rights everywhere in the world, but then doesn’t cover genocide and spring into effective action… One thing is certain: Amnesty is not part of the solution, it is part of the problem. – Paul De Rooij
US averages over one planeload of weapons per day to Israel; another evacuation order, another disruption in aid for Gazans; new statements from Amnesty, Human Rights Watch on Israeli atrocities; Hezbollah ready to stop trading attacks with Israel, while Israel mulls escalation; another journalist killed in Gaza, as global press groups protest; Israel kills six Palestinians in West Bank; Israel to fund Israeli settlers’ illegal intrusions into Al Aqsa mosque compound; anti-Zionism = antisemitism policy at NYU is worrying; Columbia SJP disappeared; more.
Polio risk added to long list of crises in Gaza; Amnesty speaks out on Israeli torture, Oxfam speaks out on Israeli water weaponization; LA may hire ex-IDF soldiers to patrol streets; 1,000+ attacks on Palestinian healthcare; Ben Gvir’s provocative prayer visit to Al Aqsa; Netanyahu nixes children’s hospital for Gaza kids; ICC arrest warrants expected soon; Republican and Democratic parties scramble to ingratiate with Israel; much more.
Months after allegations, no proof from Israel that UNRWA employees were part of October 7th attacks; baby girl delivered after mom killed in Rafah; mass grave in Khan Younis contains at least 283 bodies; thousands of Gazans missing following Israeli military withdrawal; bread and baby formula at last in northern Gaza; increased drone activity worries Rafah residents; new report from Amnesty; West Bank devastation, death; Netzah Yehuda battalion’s very bad reputation; campuses across US show solidarity with Columbia’s pro-Palestine students, more
Israel engages in these attacks every four or five years; it calls them “mowing the lawn operations”. Amnesty issues press releases & reports, then blames “both sides”…. A blatant double standard covers up Israel’s crimes against humanity… Amnesty was founded by an Israel partisan…