Advocates say Israel is using the conflict in Gaza to distract from its accelerated drive for full annexation of the West Bank.
Israel has turbocharged West Bank housing demolitions under the cover of war
Tags: collective punishment
What we are seeing in Gaza is a ‘repeat of Auschwitz,’ says genocide expert
What Israel is doing in Gaza is ‘simply mass extermination without the gas chambers,’ says human rights activist and genocide scholar Maung Zarni
‘Come out, you animals’: how the massacre at al-Shifa Hospital happened
During the massacre at al-Shifa Hospital, the Israeli army shot patients in their beds and doctors who refused to abandon the sick, separated people into groups with differently-colored bracelets, and executed hundreds of civil government employees.
When Israel’s Supreme Court Acts as a Military Court
Gideon Levy: Israel’s Supreme Court is just as cruel as its military court when dealing with Palestinians: it is a rubber stamp of injustice and apartheid. (Also see recent interview with Levy.)
Israeli bulldozers demolish Palestinian kindergarten
Just as a new school year is getting underway, Israeli forces demolish a brand-new Palestinian kindergarten, citing, as usual, “lack of permit” in the context of an occupation that only rarely dispenses permits to non-Jews.
Israeli airstrikes on Gaza continue, hundreds now homeless
Israel’s ongoing attacks on Gaza on are the worst the enclave has seen since 2014, when Israeli forces killed 2,200 Palestinians, and Palestinian resistance fighters killed 72 Israelis. One recent Israeli strike alone made about 80 families homeless. As the deaths, injuries, and damage climb, Palestinian resistance groups launch rockets into Israel.
This is Mays Abu Ghosh, one of 10,000 Palestinian women arrested by Israel
Mays Abu Ghosh and her family have suffered for years at the hands of Israel. Here she tells the story of her baseless arrest, imprisonment, and torture.
Headlines from Palestine that Israel doesn’t want you to read
Israel and its military trample Palestinian human rights on a daily basis. Here are just a few headlines from the last week that U.S. media ignored.
The bizarre case of Mohammad El-Halabi displays Israeli “justice”
Mohammed El-Halabi’s experience as a Palestinian prisoner in Israel is unique only in its magnitude of injustice – its essence is common to thousands of Palestinians, including numerous practices that contravene international law.
Israeli forces kill 24-year-old, injure, abduct Palestinians, uproot 1,000 trees, Jan. 4-6
News reports about Israeli actions in the Palestinian Territories January 4-6, 2021… Israeli forces shoot teenagers, abduct civilians, destroy property, etc