I am camped out on the rubble of my home as the Israeli army gets closer every day. What drives many people here to stay and refuse displacement is the feeling that if they leave this city, they will be expelled from the Gaza Strip forever.
An investigation by +972 Magazine and Local Call — based on conversations with five Israeli security sources, testimonies from Palestinian eyewitnesses and rescue personnel, and an examination of dozens of cases similar to the Arafat family bombing — reveals that the army has adopted the practice known as “double tap” strikes as standard procedure in Gaza.
American surgeon Feroze Sidhwa has volunteered in war zones around the world. But nothing prepared him for the moment when Israel bombed his hospital in Gaza – or the carnage he saw there.
Innocent Palestinians are regularly forced by soldiers to enter houses in Gaza to make sure there are no terrorists or explosives. So why is the IDF’s Military Police Criminal Investigation Division opening only six investigations into the use of human shields?
Multiple human rights reports show that Palestinian armed groups do not use human shields, but Israel does. Israel’s false claims about Palestinian human shields are just attempts to justify its own targeting of civilians.
Israel offers a hi-tech cartoon in defense of targeting civilians in Lebanon; Israel ironically demands that Hezbollah stop launching rockets; US drags its feet on filling Israel’s latest weapons demand; new testimonies of torture in Israeli prison camps; Biden’s final UN speech absolves Israel; more.
Buried under rubble, lost in the chaos, decomposed beyond recognition: the desperate struggle to find thousands amid Israel’s ongoing war.
Longtime journalist Chris Hedges offers a partial inventory of Israel’s documented human rights abuses of Palestinians – massive abuses that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. chooses to ignore: the crimes of apartheid, and the targeting and torturing of civilians, to name a few. As Hedges reminds us, to support this Israel is to “justify the unjustifiable”; and to protest Israeli policy is “a political death wish.” (part 3)