On Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Israeli military oversaw and orchestrated the obliteration of over 10,000 trees in Occupied Palestine… Israel has been uprooting olive Palestinian orchards since 1948, including over one million trees since 1967 alone… Kamala Harris needs to know that Israel’s vaunted ‘tree planting’ is a fraud…
Israeli occupation forces have just killed another Palestinian youth. The heavily armed Israeli combat soldiers say the boy tried to attack them with a knife (not independently confirmed). Afterward, Israeli forces stormed the teen’s village (which Israeli soldiers & settlers have periodically attacked through the years), launched tear gas, fired rubber bullets, ransacked his home & interrogated his parents….
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.
Amer Snobar’s friend, who was at the scene, says he was beaten to death by officers wielding clubs. The army denies killing him
Israeli conscientious objector, Hallel Rabin, is serving a prison term for refusing to serve in the IDF based on her reasons of conscience and pacifisim.
Palestinian media have posted a video reportedly showing Israeli soldiers beating Palestinian workers on their way to work in Israel earlier this week. According to a 21-year-old victim, the video only shows a little of the beating, which went on for an hour. The coronavirus outbreak had worsened the already bad economic situation, forcing many young people to go to work inside Israel. The Israeli soldiers also stole the workers’ money…
A 2-minute video about Israel training US police. Israel is enforcing a military occupation of a subject population. US police are charged with protecting citizens…
Israeli forces killed 200 Palestinians and injured almost 8,000 during almost two years of weekly Palestinian protests at the Israel-Gaza border. Israeli army snipers tell their stories…
An If Americans Knew video report by Chris Smiley on the Israeli killing and mutilation of an unarmed 27-year-old Palestinian man in Gaza on Feb. 23.
Alison Weir reports: The Post says there had been “weeks of relative quiet,” even though Israeli soldiers had shot over 100 Palestinian civilians, killing four of them; conducted 400+ invasions of the Palestinian Territories; abducted dozens of Palestinians; perpetrated air strikes on Gaza; shot at fishermen and farmers; demolished Palestinian homes; tortured a Palestinian mother; and shot a small boy in the eye… Are Post Editor Marty Baron and reporter Ruth Eglash too close to Israel to report the full, unfiltered news?