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Mass graves in Gaza reveal mass executions – Day 192

[email protected] April 16, 2024 al-Shifa, beit lahiya, contamination, famine, Gaza, genocide, humanitarian aid, international law, israeli settler, mass grave, tent city rafah, torture, West Bank

Mass graves containing Palestinian bodies found in multiple Gaza locations; released Gazan prisoners report abuse by Israeli forces; humanitarians face “hostile” environment, Israel breaking promise to increase aid; “unprecedented” levels of contamination in northern Gaza; Israel announces tents to be built ahead of attack on Rafah; Israel obstructing UN probe, Israelis obstructing aid; Israel and Iran violated int’l law; West Bank deaths as Israeli settlers and military team up, more

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Land Day commemorates land lost to Israeli confiscation – Day 176

[email protected] March 31, 2024 famine, flour massacre, Gaza, gaza hospital siege, genocide, intelligence sharing, international law, Israel, land day, land expropriation, massacre, war crimes

On Land Day, Palestinians control less of their land than ever; 400 Palestinians reportedly dead in hospital siege; US-Israel intel sharing may be contributing to civilian deaths in Gaza; Israel comes clean on 2 (out of 33,000) Gazan deaths; yet another flour massacre; UK playing fast and loose with int’l law; more

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Reports: executions of children, unarmed men by Israel – Day 173

[email protected] March 28, 2024 annelle sheline, Biden, childhood in Gaza, execution, Gaza, genocide, humanitarian aid, international law, Israel, temporary pier

Euro-Med reports 13 children executed in last week; footage of Israeli forces executing, burying unarmed men; the horror of childhood in Gaza; aid sites, hospitals are death traps; Biden admin’s self-contradiction on the world stage; poll says Americans disapprove of Israel’s actions in Gaza; Israel prepares to censor Al Jazeera; Palestinians suspicious of US temporary pier; State Dept officer’s public resignation; German citizenship test; Netanyahu reaches out, more

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“Gaza has shattered humanity’s records for its darkest chapters” – Day 172

[email protected] March 27, 2024 air drops, Gaza, genocide, Hezbollah, humanitarian aid, icj, international law, military aid, military industrial complex, un resolution, unicef, West Bank

“Hellish’ conditions throughout Gaza; 3 Palestinians killed in West Bank; Hezbollah’s promise to leave Israel alone; US may take till May to decide whether Israel is in compliance with int’l law; Israel: “UN resolution means nothing”; post-UN resolution, post-ICJ decision, Israel has made no changes; US refuses to stop aid airdrops after 18 deaths; “there could have been milk”; UN confirms genocide charge; who is arming Israel?

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Questions, controversies, tempers swirl around UNSC ceasefire resolution – Day 171

[email protected] March 26, 2024 air drop deaths, ceasefire resolution, genocide, hospitals gaza, international law, military aid, security council, unrwa, unsc

Egos, assumptions, denialism accompany passage of UN Security Council resolution; meanwhile, another confirmation of genocide by Israel; German support for UNRWA; air drop deaths; hospitals under siege; Israel’s “compliance” with int’l law, more

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Learn something new about Palestine and Israel this week – recommended reading

[email protected] March 12, 2024 Gideon Levy, holocaust, human shield, humanitarian aid, international law, natural gas exploration, natural resources, palestinian prisoners, torture

These eight recent articles will help you get better acquainted with the methods and motives of Israel, America’s “closest ally”

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Gaza’s children will likely lose at least a full year of education – Day 120

[email protected] February 4, 2024 desecrating cemeteries, healthcare gaza, houthis, international law, marwan bargghouti, Rafah, settler violence

Bill introduced to give Israel $17.6 billion; Israel continues violating international law in the week since ICJ ruling; death, hunger, disease without medicine, Israeli forces fire at fleeing civilians; Hamas demands Israel release Marwan Barghouti, the “Palestinian Nelson Mandela”; fears of a bloodbath in Rafah, Israel’s next target; Israel’s explanation for desecrating cemeteries; settler violence in West Bank; US vs. the Middle East;

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What’s standing in the way of an Israel-Gaza ceasefire? Israel wants to keep breaking int’l law

[email protected] May 11, 2023 assassination, extrajudicial killing, international humanitarian law, international law, israel supreme court, withholding remains

Israel’s attack on Gaza should never have started – and now it won’t end because Israel clings to its desire to violate international law indefinitely.

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Gaza: Israel’s ‘Open-Air Prison’ at 15

[email protected] June 14, 2022 apartheid, freedom of movement, Gaza, gaza blockade, international law, occupation, open air prison

Human Rights Watch offers a scathing report on Israel’s treatment of Palestinians in Gaza – on the 15-year anniversary of Israel’s brutal blockade.

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Israeli forces use Palestinian girl as a human shield in Jenin

[email protected] May 20, 2022 Ahed Mohammad Rida Mereb, DCI, dcip, defense for children international palestine, human shield, international law

Israeli forces told 16-year-old Ahed, “Stay where you are and don’t move. You’re a terrorist.” For two hours, they used her as a human shield in a gun battle – then they bombed her family’s home with rocket-propelled grenades.

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