The Western media’s double standards when it comes to Israel and Palestine are hardly new. The discourse around “human shields” — or the failure to use the term — is an example of hypocrisy pushed to the extreme, by letting Israel deflect the blame for mass civilian deaths.
Israel regularly uses Palestinians as human shields; Gaza, Lebanon under attack; Biden sends stealth fighters to bomb Yemen w/o Congress’ ok; Biden envoy: Israel gets whatever it wants; Palestinian kids under admin detention way up; German politicians who support genocide; Israeli conference on resettling Gaza
Humanitarian catastrophe in northern Gaza amid violent ethnic cleansing and ecocide; update on little Hind Rajab; Israel is using human shields (again); US has spent nearly $23 billion on Israel’s genocide; US considers attacking Iran in tandem with Israel; more.
Dozens of Palestinians dead across West Bank, especially Jenin; extensive damage to infrastructure, healthcare facilities; Israel uses young girl as human shield; father of seven dies in Israeli custody; Hebron heating up; hostage corpses recovered; State of Palestine gets a seat at UN General Assembly
Fuel shortage plunges hospital into darkness; Deir al Balah, last “intact” city, faces mass evacuation; Israeli soldiers film themselves destroying mosque, burning Qurans; displacement leads to missing food aid distribution; little chance of polio vaccinations without ceasefire; Israeli forces use Palestinian as human shield; DNC banned speech – in full; Squad warns of AIPAC’s power; more
Israel’s inhumane practices toward Gazan prisoners & civilians; hospitals about to shut down for lack of fuel; such Israeli restrictions long predate Oct. 7- see this 2006 video; Ben-Gvir calls for Palestinian prisoners to be starved, then shot in the head; new racist bill making its way through Israeli legislature; female prisoners mistreated; West Bank assassination; more.
Israel rejects permanent ceasefire; war to go on, but “intense fighting” is ending; Israeli strikes kill 25 more Gazan civilians; Israeli soldier posed naked in Gaza; update on Israeli soldiers’ killing of Hind Rajab, 5; US military members say they can no longer be complicit in Israeli war crimes; children with disabilities suffer from Israeli targeting; Israel has arrested so many Palestinians there’s no room for more; US, Netanyahu disagree on level of US loyalty to Israel; EU leaders: crisis in Gaza has reached a breaking point; Hezbollah video shows Israeli security targets; more.
Another child dies of malnutrition; dozens killed by Israeli airstrikes; US-built pier malfunctions; West Bank youth dies after soldiers shot him in stomach; Palestinian used as human shield; 2 US servicemen seek CO status over support of Israel; Military expert says US seen as taking orders from Netanyahu: Hind Rajab investigation; Cuba joins ICJ genocide case, more.
Gaza deaths by airstrike, lack of medical supplies, hunger, torture; what is happening in Gaza is a ‘turkey shoot’; Nobel laureate denounces Gaza invasion at Vatican; Gaza prisoners endure ‘barbaric treatment’ by Israeli forces; 226 buildings in West Bank destroyed or damaged by Israeli army in April; Israeli forces use children as human shields;
Colombia President: Netanyahu will go down in history as ‘genocide perpetrator’
Israeli attacks from all directions, evacuation orders – but where to go?; hospitals in crisis; Israel uses children as human shields; West Bank death; US offers Israel intel, supplies in exchange for holding off on Rafah invasion; Doctors Without Borders slams Biden report; Greta Thunberg arrested at Gaza protest, more