In the occupied Gaza Strip, Palestinian healthcare workers have been facing unprecedented dangers, with many detained under conditions that violate international humanitarian law. Dr. Ahmad Mhanna, former director of Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza, shares with Amnesty International his harrowing testimony of survival.
According to Israel’s ambassador to the UN Danny Danon, Israel is now on the blacklist alongside Hamas and ISIS. Danon also said Israel had transferred evidence to the UN in an attempt to refute its claims, describing the addition as a ‘blood libel’
Isabel Kershner, a longtime correspondent for The New York Times whose sons served in the Israeli military, is facing growing scrutiny over her latest reporting on alleged October 7 sexual violence claims — particularly after a recent report by Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times detailing severe abuse against Palestinian prisoners
Genocide does not require mass graves; it also includes efforts to destroy a people’s capacity to bring the next generation into being.
Israel’s systematic use of torture and sexual violence against Palestinians meets that definition.
By dropping all charges against the soldiers filmed abusing a Palestinian detainee, Israel has abandoned the whole masquerade of accountability.
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Western media amplified Israel’s unverified claims of Hamas “mass rape” while downplaying documented Israeli sexual crimes against Palestinians.
There’s outrage in Israel over the leaked video of Israeli soldiers gang-raping a Palestinian prisoner. However, the outrage isn’t about the rape itself but the fact that the video was leaked in the first place.
A video exposing horrific abuse at Sde Teiman has shaken the country more than the crime itself. Meaning, the fury of the civilians was directed at the leak.
Booby-trapped toys; “Do not leave Sudan alone as Gaza was left alone”; 1 killed in West Bank; on the rape of a Palestinian detainee; “no such thing as Jewish terrorist”; more.